Results for “spiritual practice”

Folk magic

Protective charms, witch bottles, and everyday materials in local magical traditions, with documented British museum examples.

Lilith

Lilith is a figure whose history spans ancient Near Eastern demonology, Jewish folklore, medieval protective magic, Kabbalah, literature, feminist reinterpretation, modern occultism, and contemporary Satanic or Luciferian religion. She is often introduced today as “Adam’s first wife,” but that familiar story is medieval rather than biblical. Earlier sources describe beings called lilith or lilin in…

Theosophical Society

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

Gnosticism

A modern umbrella term for several ancient religious movements and texts concerned with saving knowledge and divine origins.

Talismans

Objects prepared or used for a particular effect through inscriptions, images, materials, and ritual meaning.

Leviathan

Leviathan appears in biblical poetry and later religious symbolism. The vivid descriptions belong to different literary contexts and should be interpreted accordingly.

Witch trials and Devil worship accusations

Witch trials produced records of accusations about harmful magic and the Devil. Those records require attention to how testimony was obtained and to the purposes of judges and writers.

The Satanic Temple

The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religious organization whose public principles and activism differ from those of the Church of Satan and from theistic Satanist devotion.

Occult diaries and record keeping

An occult diary records religious or magical work as it occurs. Separating observations from interpretations makes reflection and comparison more reliable.

Malleus Maleficarum

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.

Iblis

Iblis is the figure who refuses God’s command to bow to Adam in the Qur’an. Islamic commentary and Sufi literature explore his pride, his relationship to the jinn, his role as a tempter, and the meaning of his disobedience.

Religious freedom

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

Temple of Set

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.

Builders of the Adytum

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

Gnostic Mass

The central public liturgy of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, written by Aleister Crowley as Liber XV.

Planetary magic

Magical systems using the seven traditional planets through timing, correspondences, images, and invocations.

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Hermetic Qabalah

Western esoteric systems that adapt Kabbalistic ideas through ritual, correspondence tables, and symbolic interpretation.

Satanic symbolism

The images, names, and gestures used by Satanic traditions, whose meanings depend on their religious and historical setting.

Magical circle

A marked ritual space whose names, divisions, and purpose differ among magical texts and modern traditions.