Results for “satanic symbolism”

Valac

A Goetic president described as a winged boy on a two-headed dragon, associated with treasure and serpents.

Chaos magic

A modern approach to magic that treats techniques and belief systems as tools for practical experimentation.

Kenneth Grant

A British occult writer associated with the Typhonian current, Thelema, and the work of Austin Osman Spare.

Set

An ancient Egyptian deity associated with conflict and disorder, also reinterpreted in modern Setian religion.

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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

Religious Satanism

Religions that give Satan a central symbolic or divine role, with substantial differences in belief and practice.

Pentagram

A pentagram is a five-pointed star figure used in different religious and esoteric settings. Orientation and surrounding imagery matter, but do not establish one universal meaning.

The Devil (tarot card)

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.

Witchcraft

How witchcraft has meant an accusation, a magical practice, and a modern identity, with examples from museums and trial records.

Austin Osman Spare

An English artist and occult author whose treatment of desire and sigils influenced later magical practice.

Banishing rituals

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

Acausal (David Myatt)

Beelzebub

Beelzebub and related spellings appear in distinct biblical contexts. Later demonological interpretations should not be retroactively read into each earlier occurrence.

Hermeticism

Hermeticism names several related traditions associated with Hermes Trismegistus. Philosophical dialogues, alchemical texts, and later occult systems require separate historical treatment.

Tarot

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.

Dragon Rouge

An initiatory order whose Draconian system brings together Qliphoth, Goetic magic, alchemy, and other esoteric traditions.

Ordo Templi Orientis

An initiatory organization associated with Thelema and the public celebration of the Gnostic Mass.

Theosophical Society

A modern esoteric society with stated aims of fraternity, comparative study, and investigation of nature and human capacities.

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis

A modern Rosicrucian organization, usually called AMORC, that teaches through lessons and local study groups.

Thelema

The religious and philosophical tradition associated with Aleister Crowley and The Book of the Law.