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Gabriel (Judeo-Christian - Archangel): Also known as Abruel, Jibril, Jiburili, Serafili.Gabriel's name means 'God is my stength'.Gabreil - who is said to be female - is the famous angel who told Elizabeth and Mary of the impending births of their sons, John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth, respectively.The archangel Gabriel also dictated the spiritual text of Islam 'The Koran', to Mohammed.As a result Gabriel became known as 'he messenger' angel. Gabriel's role continues in the world, helping both parents & human messengers

In the first role, Gabriel guides hopeful parents toward child conception or through the process of adopting a child. Gabriel gives strength and courage to these parents, and helping moms-to-be, stay centered in blissful faith to create the best atmosphere for their baby In the second role, the Archangel helps anyone whose life purpose involves art or communication. Ask Gabriel for help, guidance and agenting if you are an actor, artist, author, dancer journalist, model, musician, reporter, singer songwriter, teachere or do anything involving delivering spiritual messates.Gabriel will open doors to help you express your talent in a big way.The archangel also acts as a coach, inspiring and motivating artists and communicators and helping them to overcome fear and procrastination

Gabriel has long been known as a powerful and strong archangel and those who call upon her will find themselves pushed into action that leads to beneficial results.Gabriel is definitely an archangel of action.She helps with Adopting a child.Artists and art-related projects,Child conception and fertility, Journalism and writing, Television and radio work

Galgal: A modern form of divination based on a combination of methods found in the Kabbalah: the Tree of Life and the Hebrew alphabet

Gaia: It was postulated by Professor James Lovelock that stability of our atmosphere could only be explained by the assumption that it was somehow linked to the biosphere, the collective name for every living plant and creaturer on the planet.He went futher to propose that the lithosphere - the solid portion of the planet, combined with biosphere and atmosphere to form a single integrated system. Such a system would necessarily be the gigantic body of a living entity, the largest being in the solar system.Lovelock did not retreat form the implications of his theory.He named the entity Gaia , after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth

Gamalei: Certain natural stones or gems, which because of some powerful astrological influence, were said by medieval occultists to be magically efficacious.Artificial gamalei are those engraved with astrological, Hermetic or magical symbols, for use as Talismans

Ganesh (Hindu, India- Deity): Also known as Ganesh.Ganesh is and elephant-headed deity who removes obstacles for anyone who asks for his help.He is the Hindu god of prosperity and wisdom, who also assists with writing and art projects.Many different stories abound that explain why Ganesh has an elephanet's head.In most stories,Ganesh lost his head - and his mother took the first head that she could find, a baby elephant's and placed it on her son's neck

In Hindiusm, Ganesh is the first deity contacted during prayers.It is recommended that you invoke Ganesh prior to conducting a ceremony, engaging in writing, or before any endeavor in which you want to succeed.Ganesh is said to be extremely loving, sweet, polite and gentle, yet also very strong.He's large enough to blaze trails ahead of you so that your path is clear,but he's also so filled with love and sweetness that you don't have to worry that his brute strength could turn against you.He's analogous to Archangel Michael, in that he is a loving and loyal protective force

Garnesh is called 'the Remover of Obstacles' because he mows down any blocks that could stand in his path.Think of a tame elephant walking ahead of you on a trail, trampling brush so that your way is clear.He helps with Abundance, Artiscit projects, Household peace and harmony and removing and avoiding of obstacles

Ganzelf Stimulation: An experimental technique used in Parapsychology since in 1970's to create an enviroment of Sensory Deprivation to Stimulate the Receptivity of ESP. Ganzfeld means 'whole field' in German and refers to the blank field of vision that confronts a test subject. In a Ganzfeld test a receiver attempts to perceive thoughts and impressions transmitted by a sender. The receiver is placed in a soundproof room, wears eye cups to remove visual distractions - the eyes remain open throughout the procedure and earphones to mask sounds. The sender is seated in a similar soundproof room and given an image to focus on and transmit, selected at random by a computer. At the end of the session, the receiver is shown a selecton of images and asked to pick the target. The removal of extraneous sensory data creates a sense of disorientation in the receiver, and the subject may have periods of 'blank out' similar to a hypnotic or meditative state. According to the research results, it is during these periods that subjects are most receptive, with success rates of up to 50 per cent, compared to the expected chance rate of 5 per cent

Gardner, Gerald (1884-1964): Born in 1884.He was an expert on folklore and spent a good deal of time investigating Far Eastern Occulitsm.He joined a magical society in Christchurch, Hampshire in 1940 and discovered it was a front organization for a witch cult.He published a novel about medieval witchcraft called High Magic's Aid in which he dropped several important hints about the real nature of the Craft.In 1954, having meantime joined the Council of the Folklore Society he published his second book, Witchcraft Today

This was a factual work restating in very readable form Margaret Murray's thesis about the Stone Age origins of witch craft as a fertility religion.Dr Murray herself wrote an introduction to the book, but Gardner added the startling information that this religion had survived and was being practised secretly to the present day.The book was a best seller, attracting a flood of disciples to its author.Whatever the truth of his allegation that witchcraft already flourished in secret, new covens began to spring up like mushrooms. Almost single-handedly, Gerald Gardner had created a witchcraft revival which continues to gather impeetus to the present day. He was the acknowledged leader of the movement until his death in 1964

Garrett Eileen (1893-1970): One of the most remarkable mediums of the 20the century. Born in Ireland in 1893. Shereceived four years Spiritualistic training at the British college of Psychic Science under James H. McKenzie- the Scot was instrumental in establishing the Parapsychology Foundation - an institution devoted to encouraging scientific study of PSI abilities.She was unusual in that she was never prepared to take her Psychical abilities at face value, but sought instead to give them a strictly scientific validation. To this end she cooperated closely with several well-known parapsychologists, including J.B.Rhine of Duke University in North Carolina, Hereward Carrington and Nandor Fodor who tested her across a spectrum of ESP talents ranging from telepathy to automatic writing.She died in 1970

Gatekeeper: A strong and powerful Guide who acts as your protector

Geller, Uri: An Israeli Psychic renowned for his abilities to bend metal objects e.g forks,spoons keys etc.. by stroking or looking at them, and to stop watches or make them run faster .Such feats of Psychokinesis (PK) are called by some the 'Geller effect' . During the peak of his public career in the 1970's, Geller worked full-time as a professional performer who demonstrated his metal-bending and mind-reading abilities for television audiences worldwide . Geller dropped out of the limelight to re-emerged a millionaire, hving successfully used his unusual abilities to dowse for copper and gold

Gematria: A Kabbalistic/Qabalistic system for discovering the hidden meaning of letters, words and sentences, using numbers and lettters of the alphabet.The system is based on the fact that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet have been accorded numerical equivalents, in which the numerical value of letters in words are added together to give specific values.Words of similar numerical values are regarded as having correspondences or analogies in accordance with a complex mystical sytem, which is used to determine the precise meaning and significance of the scriptures, or of a sacred building or holy object

Gemini: The third sign of the Zodiac. 22 May - 21 June.Origin and glyph: two children, from Castor & Pollux of Classical Mythology, which are bright stars. Ruling planet and groupings: Mercury, masculine, mutable and air.Colour-yellow, although most are liked. Flowers - Lavender, Lily of the Valley, Gemstone-Agate, Trees-any tree producing nuts, Food-salads and fruit & fish

Genii: In the Gnostic Hierarchies, the Genii are the ranks of Angels.In Arabic lore the Genii are the jinx

Genius: In Assyro-Babylonian demonology the genii or jinn were demons who participated closely in the everyday life of human beings, although they themselves were invisible and superhuman. Good jinn, were called shedu or lamassu and would act as guardians - although they required propitiatory rites. Evil jinn, called edimmu , were said to be the souls of the dead who had not been properly buried

Geomancy: Associated with Feng Shui, Lei lines,dowsing, Ch'i and Megalithic sites. The term geomancy points clearly to its meaning as Earth magic, but like so many terms, this one had undergone a metamorphosis since the dawning of the New Age. In Napoleonic times, e.g geomancy was a system of divination by means of dots, taped in random lines with a pencil on a piece of paper.Today, however the term is used very differently,although perhaps not wquite so precisely.It is associated with Chinese Feng Shui, with Ley Lines, Dowsing, Ch'i and meglithic sites.Sometimes though more rarely, those interested will even postualte a linkage with the mystery of UFO's

Broadly speaking, modern theories of geomancy suggest the ancients knew a great deal more about earth currents than we do today. The planet is seen as something analogous to the human body and is criss-crossed by the planetary equivalent of acupuncture meridians

Ghost: The supernatural manifestation of people,animals,objects or spirits.An apparition of a dead person is also called a ghost / spirit.Since the late 19 th century,there have been many studies of the phenomena.The existence of appartions usually involve stange smells,extreme cold and the displacement of objects.Some apparitions apprear corporeal,others luminous or transparent.Most apparitions appear for a specific reason,such as to deliver a warning, or to offer comfort for grieving relatives, or to impart essential information

Ghoul: A word said to come from the Arabian ghul (to seize) and used to denote an evil spirit, reputed to haunt graveyards and to feed on corpses

Gibran, Kahil: Author & Poet from the Lebanon best known for his work 'The Prophet- first published in 1923, and reprinted countless times. It has been said of him, His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own

Gift of Tongues: Glossolalia. A Christian religious phenomenon in which the believer, in an ecstatic state, speaks in a foreign language or utters unintelligible sounds that are taken to contain a divine message.Many Christians believe the genuine gift of tongues to have been confined to earliest Christianity and first came to the apostels at Pentecost, or the celebratrion seven weeks after Passover. Classical Pentecostal Christians see speaking in tongues as a definite sign of Baptism by the Holy Spirit.Other groups that advocate glossolalia are the Shakers, Quakers and Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. Early Methodists spoke in tongues, as did some Presbyterians during the 1830's. During the Shaker's wave of spirits. Since these languages were unintelligible to mortals, the songs were learned phonetically. Modern charismatics, such as the Pentacostalists and charismatics, maintain that the worshipper may or may not speak in tongues following the conversion experience.Like the gifts of healing, wisdom, Prophecy, miracles and Spirit Divination, the ability to speak in tongues is not given to everyone.Many psychologists explain the phenomenon as a hypnotic trance that results from religious excitement

Gilda: The Spirit entity who has communicated with Ruth White, a practising counsellor and healer, since 1960's.The story of the development of this contact and Gilda's teachings are contained in her books Gildas Communicates -Spearman 1971, The Healing Spectrum-Spearmen 1979 and A Question of Guidance-C.W.Daniel-1989

Glastonbury: While on the surface no more than a smallish market town in Somerset, Glastonbury, with its overlooking Tor, has long been known as the magical capital of Britian and is today the focus of many a New Age pilgrimage

Glastonbury Zodiac (1878-1961): The sculptress Katherine Emma Maltwood was researching traditional sites associated with Arthurian Legend when, while tracing out the route of the Grail Qust on an Ordnance Survey map, she noticed that the River Cary between Somerton and Charlton Mackerell seemed to form the underside of a lion.She followed the figure and to her considrabel surprise, traced out the complete animal.She begaa map and field search for other figures.Soon the original lion had turned into a complete Zodiac of animal and human forms.Mrs Maltwood did not, however assume she had discovered an astrological connecton. Steeped in Arthurian lore, she believed the Glastonbury Zodiac to be the enshirinement of certain archetyal myths, originally pre-Christian, from which the tales of King Arthur and his Round Table were subsequently derived

There was some historical support for this theory. The Norman word, La Queste de Sangraal, clearly suggests the Round Table was not a table at all, but rather a massive earthwork laid out on the direction of Merlin.Essentially the same thought is echoed by Geoffrey of Monluth, whose High History of the Holy Grail equates the Round Table with the Twelve Hides of Glaston, that area of land believed to have been granted by King Arvirgus to Joseph of Arimathea

Several critics of Mrs Maltwood have suggested her Zodiac exists largely in the eye of the beholder, pointing out that some at least of her figures are constructed with the aid of modern landscape features.But, despite their best effort, the mystery remains.Other similar, terrestrial zodiacs definitely exist, in Britain and elsewhere, and even the Glastonbury Zodiac cannot be all that modern in its important elements, since it is mentioned in the writings of the Elizabethan magus, Dr John Dee, who was aware of its existence centuries before Mrs Maltwood

Glossolalia: Gift of Tongues. *see above*

Glyph: In Astrology, a partricular graphical representation allocated to each sign of the zodiac and to the planets, which relates to an animal or something similar. These symbols are used, with others in constructing an Astrological chart

ARIES-The Ram-Representation - the ram's horns

TAURUS-The Bull-representing-the bull's head

GEMINI-The Twins-representing two childen

CANCER-The Crab-representing the breasts

LEO-The Lion-representing the heart,or the lion's tail

VIRGO-The Virgin-representing the female genitalia

LIBRA-The Balance-representing a pair of scales

SCORPIO-The Scorpion-representing the male genitalia

SAGITTARIUS-The Archer-representing the Centuar's arrow

CAPRICORN-The Goat-representing the goat's head and fish's tail

AQUARIUS-The Water-bearer-representing the waves of water or air

PISCES-The Fishes-representing two fish

These glyphs of the planet are all made up of essentially the same elements, the cross, half-circle and circle, all in different combinations.These pictorial representations are linked with the very early days of human beings, when communication was achieved using such graphical methods. As such,these elements each have a particular significance

THE CIRCLE-represents eternity, something without end- the Spirit

A DOT INSIDE A CIRCLE-represents the Spirit or Power beginning to come out

THE CROSS-represents the Material World

THE SEMI-CIRCLE-stands for the Soul

In some civilisations,the signs were attributed to parts of the body.The likeliest race to have adopted this were the Greeks, who also linked the signs to various plants

Gnomes: A class of Nature Spirits linked with the Earth. They have many different names in popular lore and are said to be visible to Clairvoyants as dwarfish humans who live in caves and the mountains

Gnostics & Gnosticism: A loosely-defined movement rather than a religion or even a cult.Gnosticism is the term applied to a number of sects which emerged during the formative years of Christianity, all engaged in a search for hidden spiritual knowledge, by which they believed man was saved, rather than by faith or conduct. The sects themselves varied considerably in their approach to esoteric, truth, some emphasizing practical techniques like Astrology, others concentrating on secret doctrines of Jesus.All seem to have been influenced by Zoroastrianism in that they tended towards a dualism of Spirit and matter, the former equated with good and the latter evil.

Gnosticism derived from a Greek word 'Gnosis' meaning 'knowledge' - is applied to a movement that influenced the Mediterranean world from the first century BC to the third century AD. It expresed itself in a variety of pagan, Jewish and Christian forms.Its name is derived from the fact that it pormised salvation through a secret knowledge or understanding of reality possessed by its devotees. Previously known mostly from the writings of its Christian opponents, Gnosticism can now be studied in a collection of original documents found near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945 - also known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Despite the complex diversity of Gnostic groups and their teachings, the basic doctrines of Gnosticism formed an identifiable pattern of belief and practice. A pervasive dualism underlay much of Gnostic thought

Good and evil, light and darkness, truth and falsehood, spirit and matter were opposed to one another in human experiences as being and non-being.The created Universe and human experiences were characterised by a radical disjunction between the Spiritual, which was real, and the physical, which was illusory. This disjunction resulted form a Cosmic tragedy, described in a variety of ways by Gnostic mythology, as a consequence of which sparks of deity became entrapped in the physical world. These could be freed only by saving knowledge that was revealed to a spiritual elite by a transcendent messenger from the Spirit world, variously identified as Seth (one of the sons of Adam), Jesus, or some other figure.Renunciation of physical desires and strict asceticism, combined with mystical rites of initiation and purification, were thought to librate the immortal souls of believers from the prison of physical existence. Reunion with divine reality was accomplished after a journey of the soul through intricate systems of hostile powers

Associated in legend with Simon Magus, a Samaritan sorcerer mentioned in the Bible in Acts 8:9-24, gnosticism probably originated in the Near East as a synthesis of Eastern and Greek ideas before the advent of Christianiy.It reached the height of its influence as a Christian sect in the middle of the second century AD, when it was represented by the Egyptian teachers Basilides and Valentinus

As Christian orthodoxy was defined in the period that followed, Gnosticism began to decline and gradually was pushed to the periphery of the Christian world or driven underground by the persecution of church leaders. Orthodox Christianity firmly rejected Gnostic doctrines as heretical. Indeed the burning of the great library at Alexandria was the delibrate attempt to destroy the evidence for religions opposing the orthodox religion of the Western World.The movement, however never lost its influence, it survived particularly in Qabalism. Some Gnostic tendencies found their way into later Christian monasticism, while others survived among the Mandaeans and adherents of Manichaeism

The ill-fated Cathars drew much of their inspiration from the ancient Gnostics and Gnosticism surfaced again in the fifteenth century when the ancient Hermetic writings were rediscoverd and translated. It also survived in secret societies such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons .Interest in the Gnostics was revived in the 20th century with the discovery of Gnostic manuscripts, previously though to be lost, in Turkestan between 1902-1914 and near Nag Hammadi in upper Egypt in 1945 an 1946 and in 1948

The latter are usually called the Dead Sea Scrolls and have provided the basis of new interpretations of Gnostic beliefs and influence. Another major factor in the re-examination of Gnosticism, is the work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Between 1912 & 1926, Jung delved into a study of Gnosticism and early Christianity. He found in Gnosticism an early, prototypical depth psychology. He believed that Christianity, and as a result Western Culture, had suffered because of the repression of Gnostic concepts. In looking for ways to reintroduce Gnostic ideas to modern culture, Jung found them in alchemy. The first codex of the Nag Hammadi library found in 1945, was purchased and given to Jung on his eightieth birthday.It is called the Codex Jung

Goddess: When Archbishop Ussher calculated the date of the Creation at 4004 BC, he may have been closer to the truth than his scientific detractors have since claimed. Many historians now believe that while the Creation must certainly have predated Ussher's calculation (substantially), he may not have been too far wrong in pinpointing the creation of the world a we know it, a planetary culture dedicated to masculine values and ideals

There is substantial evidence to suggest it was around 4000 BC that the religious concept of a supreme male God really began to take root in the human psyche. Prior to that time, while there had certainly been male gods aplenty, the dominating force in religious though was the figure of the Great Goddess

While most Western thinkers have little trouble with the realization that many ancient pantheons contained goddesses as well as gods, the idea of Goddess as the single, unitary all-pervading divine principle remains as alien to many as teh far side of the Moon.Centuries of habit have been invested in the unthinking assumption that the ultimate dvinity must be male It was no always so

One of the most common archaelogical finds throughout Europe is the so-called 'Venus Figurine', a stylized female figure with exaggerated belly an breasts almost certainly symbolic of the Great Goddess.So widespread have been these finds, that they clearly suggest Goddess worship in prehistory must have been near universal.The Goddess appears frequently in various guises in recorded history throughtout the world. She is seen as the Sumerian Ishtar, The Phoenician Astarte, the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Dementer, The Roman Venus, the Indian Kali, the Chinese Kuan-yin, the African Oshun, the Japanese Amaterasu.Even the change in psychic dominance which led to the establishment of the more masculine Judaeo-Christian, and Islamic religions could not banish her altoghether, as witness the Marians cult of Christianity (Black Madonna). In the late 20th century there has been resurgence of interest in the Goddess, in particular amongst neo-pagan,feminist , psychologists and ecological activists

Goetic: Pertaining to that magic involving the evocation and binding of evil spirits to the service of humans

Gog & Magog: Identified in the Book Of Revelation as the future enemies of the Kingdom of God, and identified generally with the forces of darkness and Antichrist

Golden Dawn: One day in 1886, Dr. William Wynn Westcott was rummage through the contents of a bookstall in Farringdon Street when he came a cross a number of manuscripts which excited him enormously. They were in code, but he surmised that they referred to something magical and bought them on the instant

There are, in fact, several versions of the story. One states that Westcott found the manuscripts in the library of the Society as Rosicruciana and that they came originally from Freemason's Hall. Another version has him finding them in the library of the English clairvoyant Frederick Hockley. Francis King, the historian of ritual magic, accepts this latter version, but says the manuscripts reached Westcott from Hockley's library via a clergyman named Woodford.Wherever they came from, Westcott needed someone to help him break the manuscript code. He selected for this task a colourful character name S.L.MacGregor Mathers, who was later to become curator of the Horniman Museum. Together they discovered the manuscripts contained the skeleton of a fascinating system of technical magic - together with the address of an adept, Fraulen Anna Sprengler of Nuremberg in Germany.She revealed many sevrets of practical magic, to him and in 1888 granted him permission to establish his own magical lodge in England.This he did in conjunction with Mathers and a third Freemason, William R.Woodman.They called the new organization the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The Golden Dawn turned out to be something better than just another pseudo-Masonic secret society.Although its impressive sounding Isis-Urania Temple was a smallish set of rooms in a dingy back street, it soon attracted some of thebest minds of its day.The Astronomer Royal of Scotland became a member.So did Florence Farr, the acress, W.B.Yeats, the Irish poet and the writers Sax Rohmer, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker and Algernon Blackwood

The attraction for individuals of this calibre almost certainly lay in the fact that the magical methods it used, were a far cry from, e.g. the lunatic collection of naive spells which go to make up the average medieval 'grimoire'.Rather what Westcott and his colleagues put together was a system of Occidntal Yoga aied at developing human consciousness and , ultimately, provoking mystical experiences.The system was based on the Jewish Qabalah, but with considerable Christian and some Oriental overlay.It was to set a standard for ritual magical organizations which is followed to the present day

Internally, the Golden Dawn was organized as a hierach.Mathers led it under the guidance of mysterious and largely invisible Secret Chiefs.Structully, it was divided into outer and inner Orders, which were in turn subdivided into ten grades, each related to a sphere of the Qabalistic Tree of LIfe. Entry into each grade involved a course of study, a successful examination and a ritual initiation. The Golden Dawn flourished for a time and even expanded modestly.But while there are branches of the orgainzation still operational today in New Zealand, and America claiming direct descent from the parent, there seems little argument that the original Order crumbled under the impact of the political machinations of its most notorious memlber Aleister Crowley

Grand Grimoire: The name given to a Collection of Invocations, Spells and Elementary Magic, supposedly from the pen of King Solomon, but almost certainly no older than the sixteenth century

Grant, Joan: The British author of Winged Pharaoh- Ariel Publications 1989 and several othr historical novels, Joan Grant claims she has incorporated into her fictional works recollections of her own past incarnations - not only in Egypt, but in Palestine and pre-Columbian America

Great Pyramid: The Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu in Egyptian) covers a base area of 13 acres on the Giza Plateau some 10 miles from Cairo. It contains an estimated 2,300,00 stone blocks each weighing of 70 tons. The original limestone casing has all but disappeared, as has a (possibly metallic) cap. Neverteless, the structure still contains enough masonry to duplicate every church every built in England from the dawn of history to the present day. New Age thought accepts two major mysteries surrounding the Great Pyramid, how was it built and what was it used for?

The mystery of construction is not entirely related to size, even though the Pyramid remains the largest building, ancient or modern, in the world. The real puzzle is how the Egyptians achieved the precision they did. Engineers long ago discoverred the base on which the structure rests was leveld to within a fraction of an inch, an amazing feat over 13 acres. The casing stones are finished and laid to a tolerance of one hundredth of an inch .Orthodox archaeology has it that the Pyramid was built as a sort of winter relief work by peasants without construction experience, who quarried the blocks, floated them by raft down the Nile, then hauled them into position without benefit of wheels or pulleys, both of which were unknown in the culture Some New Age authors insist that the Pyramids were constucted by a distorted recollection of a largely forgotten science based on sonics- a rod was used as a precision instrument analogous to a tuning -fork, manufactured to the exact vibration of the stone block it was supposed to move.They point to travellers' tales of a similar operation in pre-Communist Tibet, where sonorously chanting monks were reputed to levitate massive boulders

The sugggestion is not quite so outlandish as it may appear, given the remarkable powers of sound now being discovered by New Age Scientists.The knowledge of ultrasound is also not a new phenomenon.A British Zoologist, noted in 1972 a powerful high-frequency signal on ths ultrasonic detector .It came from a standing stone on a megalithic site.The Institute of Archaelogy at Oxford followed up the observation and found the phenomenon duplicated at several other sites. The sound was generally strongest at dawn on any day, but reached a peak on the mornings of the equinoxes. Some of Europe's megalithic sites are contemporary with the Great Pyramid - many predate it

But the mystery of how the Great Pyramid was built is superseded by the mystery of why. Orthodox archaelogy still insists the massive structure was a tomb, but there have always been serious doubts about this theory. Most of them date back to AD 820 when Caliph Abdullah al-Mamun's men broke through several seals and plugs - only to discover an empty sarcophagus in the King's Chamber. Althjough he had certainly heard rumours of treasure and fabulous artifacts - concealed in the Pyramid, the Caliph's vandalism was not entirely casued by lust for gold.What actually happended was that he had a vison, in which Aristotle appeared to him and suggested he commission scholars to prepare accurate terrestrial and stellar maps.Al-Mamun had a considerable personal interest in cartography.When he hear rumours that the Pyramid contained accurate maps of great antiquity, it convinced him he should force an entry. The Caliph was not the last man to suspect the Pyramid might contain accurate planetary and celestial measurements .But those who followed him looked more successfully at the structure itself than in secret chambers

Grof,Stanislav: Dr Stanislav Grof, a Czechoslovakian by birth is an acknowledged authority of LSD who believes that psychedelics, carefully and intelligently used, and give access to mythic levels of consciousness. In recent years he has shifted away from LSD psychotherapy, to work with what he calls' Holotropic Breath Therapy' - which has some similarities with rebirthing

Grey Man: A phenomenon seen by mountain climbers, especially on certain mountains, like Ben Macdhui in Scotland,and usually associated with misty conditions.A grey looming figure appears to be accompanying the climbers.The probable explanation is a visual trick of mist and light.Polar explorers have reported a similar experience,not visual in origin, however, in which a small group of two or three trudging walkers felt the presence of an extra member walking with them

Grimoires: A general name given to a variety of texts setting out the names of demons,along with instructions for raising them to do the bidding of the magician or 'operator'. The Grimorium Serum lists 17 of the names and characters of such spirits, each with its own particular field of interest e.g Glauneck -who has power over riches an hidden treasures, Bechard , who has power over winds and tempests. The Lesser Key of Solomon, gives the names and symbols for 72 spirits e.g. Agares is a duke who rides a crocodile and carries a goshawk on his wrists, his main function is to stop runaways, teach languages, destroy spiritual & temporal dignities, and to cause earthquakes. Behemoth is a demon concerned with the pleasures of the belly. Sytry is a great prince with a leopard's head- his function is to produce sex or love for the magician. Buns is a powerful duke with the heads of dog,griffin andman-his function is to change the place of burials and to answer all questions put to him by the magician. Astaroth is a powerful duke, appearing in ghe guise of an Angel or a dragon, with a viper in his right hand.He must protect himself with a special magical ring. He will answer truthfully about all manner of past,present and future questions.Similar grimoires are the Grand Grimorium Verum, the Grimoire of Honorius and the Key of Solomon

Groupings: In Astrology, the 12 signs of the Zodiac aresubdivided into a number of groups, themembers of each group sharing certain characteristics that provide additional information rather than primary details

The first grouping is the triplicities, or Elements:

ARIES,LEO,SAGITTARIUS - Fire triplicity

TAURUS,VIRGO,CAPRICORN - Earth triplicity

CANCER, SCORPIO,PISCES - Water triplicity

GEMINI,LIBRA,AQUARIUS - Air triplicity

The quadruplicities or qualities are:

CARDINAL-Aries,Libra, Cancer,Capricorn

MUTABLE-Gemini,Sagittarius,Virgo,Pisces

Another grouping is into positive and negative

or musculine and feminine

and equates to being extrovert (posituve) on the one hand or introvert on the other

Guardian Angel: The medieval Christian notion that each individual is born with an accompanying Guardian Angel who stands by his/her right shoulder and provides the voice of conscience, has been dramatically extended by New Age occultists, many of whom believe it is actually possible to communicate with this Entity and derive from it assistance & substantial magical powers

Guidance System: The guidance system has two parts, internal and extern. Your internal guidance system is the connection to and advice from whatever it is you believe in - God, Angels, Guides or other beings. Your external guidance system is made up of the elements that go with you to help you on your soul's journey

Guided Imagery: Pathworking. The foremost modern exponent of the art, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, has defined pathworking as a journey between this side of the mental worlds and the other side - which offers a path, a map through the landscapes of the mind. Pathworking are doorwalys between the known and the physical and the unknown and the non-corporeal. They accomplish their work through the medium of the creative imagination.It can and do casue actual physical effects in the everyday world

Although the term 'pathworking' is derived from Qabalistic practice, the technique itself is not specifically Qabalistic and appears under a variety of names, ancient and modern, including 'guided meditation' / active imagination / thought building / and even fantasy role play- FRP . When used as esoteric tools, such workings serve a variety of puposes, from initiation to the channelling of power. Some make use of visual symbols, others rely on detailed verbal instructions to paint pictures in the mind

Pathworking are not new.They were used in early Egypt and Sumer, the first known human civilization, and are believed to have formed an important part of Chaldean star magic.But while hints and aspects of pathworking leaked out to some degree from age to age, a full esoteric exposition remained the exclusive progative of initiate occultists until the early 1980's when Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki decided to go public with the technique

Her first book on the subject was The Shining Paths-The Aquarian Press 1983, a collection of verbal parthworkings centred on the Qabalistic Tree of LIfe. Four years later, she was in print again with Highways of the Mind-The Aquarian Press 1987, an even more detailed exposition of the art and one which contains a fascinating history of its development

Guinevere (United Kingdom - Deity): Also known as Gwenhwyfar.Guinevere, whose name means 'white one' is a goddess of love relationships,fertility and motherhood and she also works with the flower fairies.She is a Celtic triple goddess behind the story of King Arthur, Camelot and the Round Table.At Glastonbury Abbey in southern England, two graves are marked with placards indicating that King Arthur and Guinevere may be buried there.The Abbey is magical, sacred and filled with white doves.She helps with Romantic love, enhancing and finding & women's issues

Gwyn Ap Nudd: A figure Welsh mythology - the lord of Annwn,land of the dead.He is also linked with ''Gwyn' - king of the fairies, said to hold court on the summit of Glastonbury Tor

Guru: Literally, one who dispels darkness, from the Sanskrit 'gu' meaning darkness and 'ru' meaning light. A guru is a spiritual teacher, who by example helps the devotee to attain enlightement

Gyromancy: Said to be a method of divination in which the diviner walks around a circle of letters until he/ she is too giddy to continue.The letters against which he stumbles are supposed to spell a prophetic message