Results for “Solomon in magical literature”

Sigils

Sigils are graphic signs used in particular magical systems. Historical spirit seals, ceremonial figures, and modern personal signs should be distinguished.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

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

Astrology in Western esotericism

Astrology has supplied language and organizing systems to Western esoteric texts. Its historical role should be distinguished from demonstrated predictive effectiveness.

Banishing rituals

Ceremonies intended to clear, delimit, or reorder a ritual setting, with methods that vary by tradition.

Ethics in theistic Satanism

Ethics in theistic Satanism concerns the moral principles, responsibilities, virtues, prohibitions, and methods of judgement developed by Satanists who regard Satan or related beings as real rather than purely symbolic. There is no universal Satanic ethical code. Theistic Satanism is decentralized, and its practitioners may draw on personal conscience, religious devotion, philosophical individualism,…

Samigina

A Goetic marquis, also called Gamigin, associated with liberal studies and accounts of deceased souls.

Vine

A Goetic spirit with royal and comital rank, associated with hidden things, walls, and stormy waters.

Scrying

A divinatory or visionary practice involving a reflective surface, crystal, or other focus for reported images and messages.

Samael

Samael appears in Jewish interpretive literature in roles that vary between texts. His relationship with Satan, the serpent, and other figures should be described source by source.

Divination

Divination consists of practices that interpret signs as answers, indications, or guidance. Methods differ in their religious assumptions and in the kinds of claims they make.

Reading religious primary sources

Primary sources provide direct evidence for a text, community, or historical setting. Reading them well requires context, precise citations, and comparison with other evidence.

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.

Serpent in Genesis

The serpent in Genesis 3 persuades the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge. The chapter does not name Satan. Later texts and interpretations connect the serpent with the Devil, adding to the history of the Eden story.

Samhain

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

Occultism and Western esotericism

Occultism and Western esotericism provide an important historical and intellectual background for many forms of modern Satanism, but neither term is a synonym for Satanism. Western esotericism is an academic field encompassing currents such as Renaissance Hermetism, alchemy, astrology, Christian theosophy, Kabbalistic reception, Rosicrucianism, ceremonial magic, spiritualism, occultism, and later…

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Satan in Paradise Lost

Milton’s Paradise Lost gives Satan an influential literary characterization. His persuasive speeches must be read alongside the narrator’s account and the consequences of his actions.

Michael Aquino

A founder and major author of the Temple of Set, associated with the modern Setian interpretation of Xeper.

Initiation

Entry into a religious or esoteric path through ceremony, instruction, recognition, and lived development.

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…