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8 published articles link to Religious experience and discernment.

Demonology & Spirits

Buer

Buer is a spirit associated in magical catalogues with learning and healing. The well-known radial illustration belongs to later printed demonology.

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Texts & Sources

Corpus Hermeticum

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of philosophical religious dialogues concerning mind, the divine, the cosmos, and human knowledge. It should be distinguished from later works marketed as Hermetic teaching.

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Devotional Practice

Divination

Divination consists of practices that interpret signs as answers, indications, or guidance. Methods differ in their religious assumptions and in the kinds of claims they make.

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Devotional Practice

Initiation

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

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Culture & Ethics

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.

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Devotional Practice

Occult diaries and record keeping

An occult diary records religious or magical work as it occurs. Separating observations from interpretations makes reflection and comparison more reliable.

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Demonology & Spirits

Ose

A Goetic president associated with learned subjects and transformations that alter a person's understanding of identity.

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Culture & Ethics

Unverified personal gnosis

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

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