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.
Protective charms, witch bottles, and everyday materials in local magical traditions, with documented British museum examples.
A Goetic marquis with a wolf-like appearance, associated with knowledge and the making or resolution of disputes.
A German magical fraternity whose teaching gives Saturn a central symbolic and initiatory role.
A modern approach to magic that treats techniques and belief systems as tools for practical experimentation.
Anton LaVey’s collection of ceremonial material, published as a companion to The Satanic Bible.
Semjaza is a leading figure in the Enochic account of the Watchers’ oath and descent. His role differs from the teaching and punishment associated with Azazel.
A late nineteenth-century British initiatory order that shaped modern ceremonial magic, Tarot, and Hermetic Qabalah.
Western esoteric systems that adapt Kabbalistic ideas through ritual, correspondence tables, and symbolic interpretation.
The three-chapter revelatory text at the center of Thelema, also titled Liber AL vel Legis.
The grimoire compilation known as the Lemegeton, including the Goetia and several angelic arts.
A medieval art of prayer and contemplation intended to confer learning, memory, and eloquence.
The medieval Liber Juratus, a work of sacred magic concerned with divine vision, angels, and ritual authority.
The Hebrew Enochic work associated with heavenly palaces and Enoch’s transformation into Metatron.
A Mesopotamian harmful female power represented on amulets and plaques intended to repel her.
A Mesopotamian queen of the underworld, known through myths of descent and traditions concerning Nergal.
Objects prepared or used for a particular effect through inscriptions, images, materials, and ritual meaning.
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum is a spirit catalogue associated with Johann Weyer. Its transmission helps explain similarities and differences in the later Ars Goetia.
Astrology has supplied language and organizing systems to Western esoteric texts. Its historical role should be distinguished from demonstrated predictive effectiveness.
Raziel is an angel associated with the revelation of divine secrets, especially the legendary book given to Adam. His name appears in Jewish interpretive and magical literature and later Western esotericism, where Agrippa connects him with Chokmah, or Wisdom.