Murry Hope
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New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
Wouter J. Hanegraaff , New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (Studies in the History of Religions), 1996. Brill Academic Publishers; pp. 89-93, 308. ISBN 9004106960. and also performing as Wicca
Wicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
priestess.Stephen S. Mehler, The Land of Osiris, 2002; pp. 8, 11, 29, 116, 178-182, 216, 223, 229. ISBN 0932813585. Her more than twenty books encompass branches of studies such as psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft and singular subjects like the Sirius
Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...
star system,Karen Tate, Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, 2006. CCC Publishing; p. 336. ISBN 9781888729115. its inhabitants and their influence over the Earth, especially at ancient times in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and in the mythological city of Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
.
Biography
Murry Hope's mother deserted her daughter shortly after her birth and her father died of throat cancer few days later. Hence, she was raised by her nurse Rhoda Adams, according to Hope a person of very JungianJung
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.Jung may also refer to:* Jung * JUNG, Java Universal Network/Graph Framework-See also:...
character. Hope was a talented child learning to read at four years old and emotionally affected by Russian subjects she assimilated Tolstoy
Tolstoy
Tolstoy, or Tolstoi is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy who served under Vasily II of Moscow...
when was around six. As laid down by her that feeling was due to genetic memories of her bodily cells. Adams and her family tried to adopt Hope but were refused for not comprising all the formal regulation. Lasting the Second War
Second War
-Other wars:* Second Sacred War * Second Samnite War , part of the Samnite Wars* Second Punic War * Second Macedonian War * Second Servile War * Second Mithridatic War...
a bombing in 1945 killed her nanny leaving her in the care of Adams’s husband and niece then staying in a safe country zone.
At nineteen years old Hope had been incorporated as a member of the Women's Royal Air Force
Women's Royal Air Force
The Women's Royal Air Force was a women's branch of the Royal Air Force which existed in two separate incarnations.The first WRAF was an auxiliary organization of the Royal Air Force which was founded in 1918. The original intent of the WRAF was to provide female mechanics in order to free up men...
finishing up, after two years of service, as integrant Senior Officer’s delegation for the Crown
The Crown
The Crown is a corporation sole that in the Commonwealth realms and any provincial or state sub-divisions thereof represents the legal embodiment of governance, whether executive, legislative, or judicial...
in WRAF, who on that occasion was represented by Duchess of Gloucester. In 1951 she was working for the Officer's Association of the British Legion treating, by means of her knowledge of psychology, traumas of war, rehabilitation and other issues.
Hope studied voice lessons with a teacher from Paris Conservatoire and in London made a small part in West End production
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
during two years. Next she followed the dramaturgical career with works on television, concerts, two repertory companies, and others. Meanwhile she accomplished an opera scholarship at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
where she stayed for three years then passing to the English National Opera
English National Opera
English National Opera is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane. It is one of the two principal opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden...
. Her premiere was the mystical opera The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
and some months later she was soloist playing “Papagena”, one of the main personages.
In 1957 she co-founded with Tony Neate the Atlanteans Society, a healing and spiritual group at Malvern Hills
Malvern Hills
The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern...
, England, aiming treat issues like exorcism and mental cases. By that time Hope had a seasonal column for Prediction magazine, a periodical oriented to mystical editorials, where she used to sign the pseudonym Athene Williams. In 1975 the predominant Christian layout installed amidst Atlanteans weighed as much to Murry that she decided to leave the association. She could not stay there because Hope expressed her personal Pagan belief as something at a great distance of any anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s...
; according to her all beings are part of Gaia
Gaia (mythology)
Gaia was the primordial Earth-goddess in ancient Greek religion. Gaia was the great mother of all: the heavenly gods and Titans were descended from her union with Uranus , the sea-gods from her union with Pontus , the Giants from her mating with Tartarus and mortal creatures were sprung or born...
, all are one organism.
In 1977 Murry had her alleged psychic abilities tested by a doctor from Cambridge University under the supervision of the broadcaster BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and obtained good results. Hope, among her occult powers, also affirms to remember her past lives as being not human, she would have been belonging to the devic kingdom.
In her esoteric essays Hope still created the method Cartouche
Cartouche
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an ellipse with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name, coming into use during the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu, replacing the earlier serekh...
, a way of divination with cards allegedly for attaining heightened levels of awareness based on symbols of energies on the monuments and walls of various Egyptian temples
Egyptian temple
Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and commemoration of pharaohs in Ancient Egypt and in regions under Egyptian control. These temples were seen as houses for the gods or kings to whom they were dedicated...
. She contracted Martin Jones in 1983 to develop the artwork for the deck of cards with symbols. That year Hope and Jed Collard founded the company Ostaris Publications which produced three thousands collections of playing cards each joined by a small guidance book. The decks sold very well drawing a business transaction between Jed Collard and the American book publisher St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
. From that, oversized cards and a larger guidance book were printed by St. Martins, under license from Ostaris, intending global distribution rights. At long last concluding that enterprise she published her book The Way of Cartouche in 1985.
In 1988 Hope founded the Institute of Transpersonal Sensitivity in America, which intends establishing a relation between the transpersonal
Transpersonal
The term transpersonal is often used to refer to psychological categories that transcend the normal features of ordinary ego-functioning. That is, stages of psychological growth, or stages of consciousness, that move beyond the rational andprecede the mystical...
experience and the approved schools of psychology. While establishing definitively like a writer, in her personal life she had four unfortunate marriages and no children by impossibilities of pregnancy. Thereafter she kicked off its book publishing and eventually making lectures.
Considering Hope's literally themes a frequent subject such as “the roots of ancient Egyptian civilization
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
”, is explored through books like Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection of 1991, The Paschats and the Crystal People of 1992 and others. There she calls attention for the unusual knowledge possessed by North African tribes, namely the Dogons
Dogon people
The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000 The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and...
, and conducts the reader on a trip across an alien legacy descended from “tri-star system of Sirius”. She claims that beryl stone represents the Sirius star system and emerald the “Sirius C star”, which create a cosmic link between initiates from Egyptian mysteries and the stellar energies. Later on she examines the nature of leonine entities from Sirius called “Paschats” which, conjectures Hope, through the lion goddess Bastet were worshipped in Egypt.
Besides the right mystical issues, particularly in The Gaia Dialogues (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting the Earth (Gaia) as a highly conscious being, a living entity who was shifting its magnetic poles as part of a consequent plan to defend itself from desolation caused by its human children.
Books
- Practical Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, 1984, ISBN 0850303613; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Egypt, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535820.
- The Way of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic, St. Martin's PressSt. Martin's PressSt. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
, 1985. ISBN 031285823X. - Practical Techniques of Psychic Self-Defense, St. Martin's Press, 1986, ISBN 0312635524.
- Practical Greek Magic: A Complete Manual of a Unique Magical System Based on the Classical Legends of Ancient Greece, Aquarian Press, 1987, ISBN 085030430X.
- Practical Celtic Magic: A Working Guide to the Magical Heritage of the Celtic Races, Aquarian Press, 1988, ISBN 0850306248.
- The Lion People: Intercosmic Messages from the Future, 1989; republished by Thoth Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-1870450010.
- Essential Woman: Her Mystery, Her Power, Thoth Publications, 1990, ISBN 1852740973.
- The Nine Lives of Tyo, Thoth Publications, 1990, ISBN 1870450124.
- The Psychology of Healing, Element Books, 1990, ISBN 1852301074; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1843336587.
- Time: The Ultimate Energy, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852302372; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1843332619.
- Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection, Element Books, 1991. ISBN 1852301775; republished as The Sirius Connection: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt, Element Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1852308186 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1862041028 (paperback).
- Atlantis: Myth or Reality?, Penguin, 1991, ISBN 0140192328.
- The Elements of the Greek Tradition, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852301120.
- Olympus: An Experience of Self-Discovery, Aquarian Press, 1991, ISBN 1855381281.
- The Psychology of Ritual, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852300434.
- Practical Atlantean Magic: A Study of the Science, Mysticism and Theurgy of Ancient Atlantis, Aquarian Press, 1992, ISBN 1855380692; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535851.
- The Paschats and the Crystal People, Thoth Publications, 1992, ISBN 1870450132.
- The Gaia Dialogues, Thoth Publications, 1995, ISBN 1870450183.
- Cosmic Connections, Thoth Publications, 1996, ISBN 1870450205.
- The Changeling: The Autobiography of Murry Hope, The College of Psychic Studies, 1999, ISBN 978-0903336314.
- The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535868.
- The World of Psychism: An Authoritative Study of Mysticism and Magic, Thoth Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-1870450447.
See also
- Ceremonial magicCeremonial magicCeremonial magic, also referred to as high magic and as learned magic, is a broad term used in the context of Hermeticism or Western esotericism to encompass a wide variety of long, elaborate, and complex rituals of magic. It is named as such because the works included are characterized by...
- Dogon peopleDogon peopleThe Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000 The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and...
- Drawing Down the Moon
- Earth Mother
- Gaia philosophyGaia philosophyGaia philosophy is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life. This set of theories holds that all organisms on an extraterrestrial life-giving planet regulate...
- Judy HarrowJudy Harrow- Biography :Judy Harrow was born in the Bronx also known as Judith Harrow and has lived the majority of her life in New York City.- Education :Harrow graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1962. She then received a B.A. in American Government from Western College for Women in 1966. In...
- List of occultists
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- Maggie ShayneMaggie ShayneMaggie Shayne is an American author of more than 50 romance and paranormal novels. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award...
- NeopaganismNeopaganismNeopaganism is an umbrella term used to identify a wide variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe...
- NommoNommoThe Nommo are ancestral spirits worshipped by the Dogon tribe of Mali. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning, "to make one drink," The Nommos are usually described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures...
- The Sirius MysteryThe Sirius MysteryThe Sirius Mystery is a book by Robert K. G. Temple first published by St. Martin's Press in 1975. It presents the hypothesis that the Dogon people of Mali in west Africa, preserve a tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system.These beings, who are...
- Zecharia SitchinZecharia SitchinZecharia Sitchin was an Azerbaijani-born American author of books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he states was a race of extra-terrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune...