Faust is the scholar or magician at the center of a European legend about bargaining with the Devil. The 1587 Faust book, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and Goethe’s Faust give the story different treatments of knowledge, desire, damnation, and human striving.
A Goetic president described as a winged boy on a two-headed dragon, associated with treasure and serpents.
A German magical fraternity whose teaching gives Saturn a central symbolic and initiatory role.
A school of the Western mysteries associated with Paul Foster Case, Ann Davies, Tarot, and Qabalistic study.
An English artist and occult author whose treatment of desire and sigils influenced later magical practice.
An ancient Egyptian deity associated with conflict and disorder, also reinterpreted in modern Setian religion.
Ceremonies intended to clear, delimit, or reorder a ritual setting, with methods that vary by tradition.
Beelzebub and related spellings appear in distinct biblical contexts. Later demonological interpretations should not be retroactively read into each earlier occurrence.
Hermeticism names several related traditions associated with Hermes Trismegistus. Philosophical dialogues, alchemical texts, and later occult systems require separate historical treatment.
Tarot developed as playing cards before becoming an influential tool of occult interpretation. The history of the cards differs from later claims about their hidden origins.
An initiatory order whose Draconian system brings together Qliphoth, Goetic magic, alchemy, and other esoteric traditions.
An initiatory organization associated with Thelema and the public celebration of the Gnostic Mass.
A late nineteenth-century British initiatory order that shaped modern ceremonial magic, Tarot, and Hermetic Qabalah.
A modern esoteric society with stated aims of fraternity, comparative study, and investigation of nature and human capacities.
A modern Rosicrucian organization, usually called AMORC, that teaches through lessons and local study groups.
The religious and philosophical tradition associated with Aleister Crowley and The Book of the Law.
The grimoire compilation known as the Lemegeton, including the Goetia and several angelic arts.
An early Christian revelation dialogue preserved in Coptic, known from the manuscript called Codex Tchacos.
An English scholar whose records of spirit conversations became a major source for later angelic magic.
A founder and major author of the Temple of Set, associated with the modern Setian interpretation of Xeper.