Alchemy
Alchemy concerns historical approaches to material transformation and the interpretation of nature. Spiritual readings form part of its reception but should not replace the material history.
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Amon
A Goetic marquis with a wolf-like appearance, associated with knowledge and the making or resolution of disputes.
Gnosticism
A modern umbrella term for several ancient religious movements and texts concerned with saving knowledge and divine origins.
Hekate
A Greek goddess with broad early powers and later associations with crossroads, spirits, and magic.
Polytheism
Polytheism involves belief in multiple deities. The existence of several gods does not by itself settle their relationships, moral authority, or the forms of devotion directed toward them.
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.
Set
An ancient Egyptian deity associated with conflict and disorder, also reinterpreted in modern Setian religion.
Theosophical Society
A modern esoteric society with stated aims of fraternity, comparative study, and investigation of nature and human capacities.