Results for “The Satanic Temple”

Satan in Zechariah

Zechariah 3 presents Satan accusing Joshua the high priest within a vision of judgment and restoration. The scene has a specific religious and literary purpose.

Reading religious primary sources

Primary sources provide direct evidence for a text, community, or historical setting. Reading them well requires context, precise citations, and comparison with other evidence.

David Myatt

The life and writings of David Myatt, covering his extremist activism, later philosophy, and disputed identification as Anton Long.

Chaos magic

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

Set

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

Religious Satanism

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

Fraternitas Saturni

A German magical fraternity whose teaching gives Saturn a central symbolic and initiatory role.

Banishing rituals

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

Beelzebub

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

Witchcraft

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

Valac

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

Austin Osman Spare

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

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Hermeticism

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

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis

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

John Dee

An English scholar whose records of spirit conversations became a major source for later angelic magic.

Hekate

A Greek goddess with broad early powers and later associations with crossroads, spirits, and magic.

Initiation

Entry into a religious or esoteric path through ceremony, instruction, recognition, and lived development.

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.

Wicca

Modern Pagan religious witchcraft, its Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions, ritual practice, and relationship to Satanism.