Results for “renaissance”

History

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

A Renaissance author whose Three Books of Occult Philosophy became a major source for Western magical systems.

Texts & Sources

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Agrippa’s Renaissance synthesis of natural, celestial, and religious magic.

History

Occultism and Western esotericism

Occultism and Western esotericism provide an important historical and intellectual background for many forms of modern Satanism, but neither term is a synonym for Satanism. Western esotericism is an academic field encompassing currents such as Renaissance Hermetism, alchemy, astrology, Christian theosophy, Kabbalistic reception, Rosicrucianism, ceremonial magic, spiritualism, occultism, and later…

Devotional Practice

Planetary magic

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

Demonology & Spirits

Demonology

Demonology is the study, classification, and interpretation of demons and related spirits. In Western religious history it has included theological arguments about the nature and powers of demons, lists of named spirits, explanations of possession and temptation, magical techniques for summoning or constraining spirits, and folklore about dangerous supernatural beings. Modern theistic Satanists and…

Theology & Cosmology

Hermetic Qabalah

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