
Religious experience and discernment
Religious discernment concerns how experiences are interpreted and assessed. An immediate event, a theological explanation, and a claim about another person require different kinds of evidence.

Religious discernment concerns how experiences are interpreted and assessed. An immediate event, a theological explanation, and a claim about another person require different kinds of evidence.

Unverified personal gnosis identifies a spiritual claim or interpretation whose source is personal experience rather than established textual or communal authority.

A Goetic prince associated with finding lost things and knowledge of past and future events.

A Goetic duke whose description combines a lion-like form with a warning about theft and familiar spirits.

A Goetic king riding a bear, with offices concerning hidden knowledge, treasure, and cosmology.

A Goetic president associated with logic, ethics, plants, stones, longevity, and lost things.

A Goetic marquis in phoenix form, associated with poetry, learning, and a hope of heavenly restoration.

A Goetic duke with griffin wings, associated with winds, the sea, and shipwreck.

A Goetic president with a winged bull form, associated with wisdom and the transformation of substances.

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 mounted Goetic marquis whose office includes the stars, planetary mansions, and social dignities.

A winged lion-shaped Goetic duke associated with crafts, philosophy, and learned subjects.

A Goetic spirit with a winged bull form, associated with wit and transformations of liquids and metals.

A Goetic marquis appearing as a star, associated with plants, stones, and bird-like apparitions.

A Goetic prince riding a winged horse, associated with rapid movement and the recovery of hidden things.

A many-faced Goetic duke carrying a book, associated with thoughts, knowledge, and visions of other people.

The final Goetic spirit, associated with stolen goods, concealed wrongdoing, and hidden treasure.

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

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