Results for “Day of Atonement”

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Samhain

The Gaelic beginning-of-winter festival, Irish customs of food and divination, and its place in modern Pagan practice.

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

A late nineteenth-century British initiatory order that shaped modern ceremonial magic, Tarot, and Hermetic Qabalah.

Global Order of Satan

A nontheistic Satanic organization whose public principles emphasize self-determination, compassion, and responsibility.

Lesser Key of Solomon

The grimoire compilation known as the Lemegeton, including the Goetia and several angelic arts.

Book of Abramelin

A grimoire built around religious preparation, the guardian angel, and subsequent work with spirits and magical squares.

Gospel of Judas

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

Folk magic

Protective charms, witch bottles, and everyday materials in local magical traditions, with documented British museum examples.

Asmodeus

Asmodeus appears in the narrative of Tobit and in later magical and demonological literature. His different roles reflect the purposes of those texts.

Modern Paganism

An introduction to contemporary Pagan traditions, including Wicca, Druidry, and Heathenry, and their different uses of older sources.

Ars Goetia

The Ars Goetia is the first section of the Lemegeton or Lesser Key of Solomon, an early modern English compilation of ceremonial magic. It is famous for a catalogue of seventy-two spirits, each described by name, rank, appearance, abilities, and a seal or character. In modern occultism the term “Goetia” is often used loosely for demon-summoning or work with these spirits, but historically the Ars Goetia…

Alchemy

Alchemy concerns historical approaches to material transformation and the interpretation of nature. Spiritual readings form part of its reception but should not replace the material history.

Ceremonial magic

Ceremonial magic uses formally organized ritual actions. Its historical systems combine preparation, symbols, instruments, and accounts of spiritual authority in different ways.

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.

The Devil

The Devil is the principal personification of evil in much of Christian tradition and a major source for later Western images of Satan. The term is not identical with every historical use of Satan, nor does it describe one unchanging character across the Bible, theology, folklore, literature, art, and modern religion. In contemporary speech “the Devil” often functions as a proper name for Satan, but…

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.

Picatrix

Picatrix is the Latin title associated with an influential Arabic work of astral magic. Its cosmological and ritual framework differs from a catalogue of Goetic spirits.

Raziel

Raziel is an angel associated with the revelation of divine secrets, especially the legendary book given to Adam. His name appears in Jewish interpretive and magical literature and later Western esotericism, where Agrippa connects him with Chokmah, or Wisdom.

Satan in 1 Chronicles

In 1 Chronicles 21, Satan or an adversary incites David to count Israel. Comparison with 2 Samuel 24 raises questions about divine agency, translation, and the development of the adversary figure.