Results for “Lesser Key of Solomon”

Caim

A Goetic president associated with animal voices, disputation, and answers given through burning ashes.

Orobas

A Goetic prince portrayed as a horse and then a human, noted for the fidelity attributed to him.

Gremory

A Goetic duke depicted as a woman on a camel, associated with hidden knowledge, treasure, and attraction.

Valac

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

Haures

A Goetic duke, also called Flauros, associated with fiery destruction and answers about divine matters.

Amdusias

A unicorn-shaped Goetic duke associated with unseen music, bending trees, and familiars.

Fraternitas Saturni

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

Chaos magic

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

Johann Weyer

The physician and author whose Pseudomonarchia daemonum supplied an important source for later spirit catalogues.

Set

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

Planetary magic

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

Meditation and contemplation

Meditation in theistic Satanism refers to contemplative practices used to focus attention, examine experience, cultivate devotional awareness, or create a deliberate setting for approaching Satan and other spirits. There is no single Satanic meditation method. Practices range from silent sitting and breath awareness to visualization, repetitive prayer, sigil contemplation, journaling, and extended…

Symbolic and theistic Satanism

Symbolic and theistic Satanism are broad labels used to distinguish Satanist traditions according to how they understand Satan’s reality. In theistic Satanism, Satan is ordinarily regarded as a real deity, spirit, intelligence, or independently existing being. In symbolic or non-theistic Satanism, Satan is understood primarily as a symbol, literary figure, archetype, cultural adversary, or name for a…

Acausal (David Myatt)

Watchers

The Watchers are heavenly beings whose descent, teachings, and punishment are narrated in 1 Enoch. Their literary identity must be distinguished from later religious interpretations.

Nephilim

The Nephilim appear in brief biblical passages and in later traditions about giants. Different texts should be distinguished before their accounts are combined.

Belial

Belial appears in biblical religious language and later spirit catalogues. These uses should be distinguished rather than treated as one unchanged biography.

Hermeticism

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

Demonolatry

Demonolatry refers to devotion to demons or daemonic beings. Modern accounts vary in theology, authority, and their relationship with historical grimoires.

Myth and literal belief

A religious myth can organize meaning while also receiving literal belief. Literary form, personal interpretation, and historical evidence should be discussed as related but distinct questions.