Results for “Religious experience and discernment”

Decarabia

A Goetic marquis appearing as a star, associated with plants, stones, and bird-like apparitions.

Seere

A Goetic prince riding a winged horse, associated with rapid movement and the recovery of hidden things.

Dantalion

A many-faced Goetic duke carrying a book, associated with thoughts, knowledge, and visions of other people.

Dragon Rouge

An initiatory order whose Draconian system brings together Qliphoth, Goetic magic, alchemy, and other esoteric traditions.

Ars Theurgia-Goetia

The second part of the Lemegeton, arranging aerial spirits through princes, directions, and wandering hierarchies.

Ars Paulina

The Pauline Art in the Lemegeton, concerning angels of the hours and the degrees of the zodiac.

Grimorium Verum

A grimoire with a hierarchy centered on Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Astaroth, followed by spirit operations and practical recipes.

Second Enoch

The Slavonic Enochic work also known as the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, describing ascent, creation, and instruction.

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum is a spirit catalogue associated with Johann Weyer. Its transmission helps explain similarities and differences in the later Ars Goetia.

Satanic Panic

The Satanic Panic refers to a wave of allegations concerning organized Satanic abuse, especially in the late twentieth century. Actual evidence of harm must be distinguished from expansive conspiracy claims.

The Satanic Rituals

Anton LaVey’s collection of ceremonial material, published as a companion to The Satanic Bible.

Gnostic Mass

The central public liturgy of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, written by Aleister Crowley as Liber XV.

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

A Renaissance author whose Three Books of Occult Philosophy became a major source for Western magical systems.

John Dee

An English scholar whose records of spirit conversations became a major source for later angelic magic.

The Book of the Law

The three-chapter revelatory text at the center of Thelema, also titled Liber AL vel Legis.

Gospel of Judas

An early Christian revelation dialogue preserved in Coptic, known from the manuscript called Codex Tchacos.

Bael

Bael is a ranked spirit in early modern magical catalogues. The Goetic figure should be distinguished from the wider use of the ancient title Baal.

Tiamat

The primordial sea figure in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, defeated by Marduk in its account of cosmic ordering.

Abaddon

A biblical name associated with destruction, used in Revelation for the angel of the abyss.