Results for “Temple of Set”

Builders of the Adytum

A school of the Western mysteries associated with Paul Foster Case, Ann Davies, Tarot, and Qabalistic study.

Modern theistic Satanism

Modern theistic Satanism refers to contemporary religious currents in which Satan is understood as an independently real deity, spirit, intelligence, or metaphysical presence and is approached through devotion, ritual, prayer, magic, contemplation, or other religious practices. It is part of the wider field of modern Satanism but differs from explicitly non-theistic movements that use Satan primarily as…

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Agrippa’s Renaissance synthesis of natural, celestial, and religious magic.

Sworn Book of Honorius

The medieval Liber Juratus, a work of sacred magic concerned with divine vision, angels, and ritual authority.

Salem witch trials

The Massachusetts prosecutions of 1692-1693, the spread of accusations, spectral evidence, and the surviving court archive.

Altar

An altar is a designated place or surface used for religious devotion, ritual, offerings, sacred objects, or symbolic focus. Altars occur in many religious traditions, but their forms and meanings vary widely. In modern theistic Satanism an altar may function as a place for Prayer, Ritual, Offerings, meditation, spirit work, or the display of symbols connected with Satan and other beings.

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Polytheism

Polytheism involves belief in multiple deities. The existence of several gods does not by itself settle their relationships, moral authority, or the forms of devotion directed toward them.

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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

Lesser Key of Solomon

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

Banishing rituals

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

Theistic Satanism

Theistic Satanism is a family of religious positions in which Satan is understood as an actually existing spiritual being, deity, intelligence, or metaphysical presence, rather than only a literary symbol or political metaphor. It is not a single church or creed. The term is best used as an umbrella for practitioners and groups whose beliefs differ on the nature of Satan, the status of other spirits,…

Satan

Satan is a figure whose meaning has changed substantially across Jewish, Christian, Islamic, literary, esoteric, and modern Satanic contexts. In contemporary theistic Satanism, Satan may be understood as a real deity, spirit, adversary, initiator, or metaphysical intelligence. Those modern interpretations draw on, but are not identical with, the much older history of the word and character.

Meditation and contemplation

Meditation in theistic Satanism refers to contemplative practices used to focus attention, examine experience, cultivate devotional awareness, or create a deliberate setting for approaching Satan and other spirits. There is no single Satanic meditation method. Practices range from silent sitting and breath awareness to visualization, repetitive prayer, sigil contemplation, journaling, and extended…

Global Order of Satan

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

Gospel of Judas

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

Religious freedom

Freedom of religion and belief in international human rights texts, including minority religions, nonbelief, and religious expression.

The Satanic Rituals

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

Book of Abramelin

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

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…