The left-hand path is a modern esoteric category used for religious and magical currents that emphasize themes such as individual self-direction, antinomianism, self-deification, initiatory transformation, or deliberate engagement with symbols rejected by dominant religious culture. It overlaps with some forms of Satanism, Luciferianism, Setianism, and modern occultism, but the terms are not synonymous.
The Nephilim appear in brief biblical passages and in later traditions about giants. Different texts should be distinguished before their accounts are combined.
A religious myth can organize meaning while also receiving literal belief. Literary form, personal interpretation, and historical evidence should be discussed as related but distinct questions.
A Goetic marquis, also called Gamigin, associated with liberal studies and accounts of deceased souls.
A Goetic president associated with learned subjects and transformations that alter a person's understanding of identity.
A Goetic president initially appearing as flame, associated with astrology, learning, familiars, and protected treasure.
A Goetic spirit with a winged bull form, associated with wit and transformations of liquids and metals.
A peacock-shaped Goetic marquis associated with geometry, measurement, astronomy, and bird transformation.
A Goetic marquis appearing as a star, associated with plants, stones, and bird-like apparitions.
A modern umbrella term for several ancient religious movements and texts concerned with saving knowledge and divine origins.
The Hebrew Enochic work associated with heavenly palaces and Enoch’s transformation into Metatron.
Job 1–2 presents Satan in a heavenly assembly and in a dispute about Job’s righteousness. The passage should be read before later accounts of Satan’s origins are supplied.
The Book of Giants names a fragmentary Jewish Enochic work represented at Qumran and a related Manichaean adaptation. Its surviving witnesses concern the offspring of the Watchers, ominous dreams, Enoch, and impending judgment.
The temptation of Jesus is an encounter with Satan in the wilderness narrated by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Its differing forms connect hunger, divine sonship, scriptural argument, worldly rule, and worship.
The Malleus Maleficarum is a Latin treatise associated with the inquisitor Heinrich Kramer. It combined demonological argument with proposals for prosecuting alleged witches. Its allegations, treatment of women, and influence require critical historical reading.
The Devil is a tarot trump commonly numbered XV. Its imagery and interpretation vary between decks and writers. Waite and Papus connect it with material constraint, fatality, and occult forces, while tarot’s history begins in the world of playing cards.
The Temple of Set is an initiatory organization whose identity centers on Set and Xeper. Its relationship with Satanism requires attention to both historical origins and later self-description.
A Goetic marquis with a winged wolf form, described as a fighter who hopes to return to a heavenly throne.
A Goetic prince associated with astronomy, herbs, and precious stones, with changing bird imagery in later reception.