Dictionary - Black Magic: Parapsychology Dictionary On Black Magic
Black Magic: Magical spells or rituals practiced with the intention of harming others.   (See also: Black Magic , Psychic, Ps...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Black Magic
Black Magic. See MAGIC   (See also: Black Magic , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Black Magic
Black Magic. (Vide Supra.)   (See also: Black Magic , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary,) &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Black Magic
black magic Sorcery which produces phenomena for abuse and self-gratification   (See also: Black magic , Body Mind and Soul) ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Black Magic
BLACK MAGIC Sorcery or Goetia. Eliphas Lévi said it was but the shadow of white magic and that, in greater wisdom, we can see t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Black Magic
Black Magic (Occult.). Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This abuse may be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Black Magic
Black Magic: A racist, sexist, creedist and classist term used to refer to magic being done for “evil” purposes or by peop...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Magic: Spiritual Dictionary On Black Magic
Black Magic: Black Magick's aim is to harm yourself or another either purposely or accidentally. Some magicians feel that it would not...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abhichara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Abhichara
abhichara: black magic.   (See also: abhichara , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul) &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Image Magick: Alternative Health Dictionary On Image Magick
image magick (image magic, sympathetic magic, sympathetic magick): Ancient form of magic whose basic principle is that like produces l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Parapsychology Dictionary On Magic
Magic: 1. Practices that aim to use paranormal or spiritual means to influence events. See also white magic, black magic. 2. The art ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Necromancy: Parapsychology Dictionary On Necromancy
Necromancy: Black magic practices involving communicating with the dead.   (See also: Necromancy , Psychic, Psychic Dictionar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gray Magic: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Gray Magic
Gray Magic: Magic that is neither “black” nor “white,” hence morally neutral, at least according to those who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jadoo: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jadoo
Jadoo (Hind.). Sorcery, black magic, enchantment.   (See also: Jadoo , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sorcerer, Sorceress: Magic Shamanism Dictionary On Sorcerer, Sorceress
traditionally a person who practices black magic, usually by aid of malevolent spirits; modern term used by some magic-users to diffe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sooniam: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sooniam
Sooniam. A magical ceremony for the purpose of removing a sickness from one person to another. Black magic, sorcery.   (See als...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On White Magic
White Magic, or "Beneficent Magic", so-called, is divine magic, devoid of selfishness, love of power, of ambition, or lucre,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantra: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tantra
Tantra (Sanskrit). Lit., "rule or ritual". Certain mystical and magical works, whose chief peculiarity is the worship of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Witchcraft: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Witchcraft
Witchcraft. Sorcery, enchantment, the art of throwing spells and using black magic.   (See also: Witchcraft , Theosophy, Spiri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mudra: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mudra
Mudra (Sanskrit). Called the mystic seal. A system of occult signs made with the fingers. These signs imitate ancient Sanskrit charact...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jadoo, Jadu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jadoo, Jadu
Jadoo jadu (Hindi) Sorcery, black magic, or the power of casting enchantments as practiced by the jadugars, wizards, or sorcerers in I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dan
Dan (Hebrew) Son of Jacob; Virgo-Scorpio in the zodiacal correspondences; will teach black magic. {SD 2:218; BCW 11:495-6}   (S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Goetia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Goetia
Goetia (Greek) (from goes enchanter, sorcerer)   Also goety. One who uses incantations by song or speech, one who holds others un...   » Read the article

Dictionary - God-wisdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On God-wisdom
Goetia (Greek) (from goes enchanter, sorcerer)   Also goety. One who uses incantations by song or speech, one who holds others un...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kuku-ma, Kukarmadesa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kuku-ma, Kukarmadesa
Kuku-ma The black magic of Bhutan (BCW 14:105) also Kukarmadesa (Caves & Jungles 618)   (See also: Kuku-ma, Kukarmadesa , ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grimoires: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Grimoires
Grimoires: So-called “Black Books” of (usually Goetic) magic, consisting of recipe collections, scrapbooks of magical cust...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Athame: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Athame
ATHAME Consecrated, black-handled knife, used for drawing circles to invoke spiritual entities. Implements for performing M/magic(k)al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Baal Shem Tov: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Baal Shem Tov
BAAL SHEM TOV Lord of the Good Name. This phrase is involved in the Hebrew banishing and exorcism of the demons of black magic.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sooniam: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sooniam
Sooniam (Eastern Indian) Used by certain tribes or racelets of the Indian peninsula to describe a specific form of black magical pract...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Schools Of Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Schools Of Magic
SCHOOLS OF MAGIC There are, traditionally, three schools of magic in the world: Black, White and Yellow. These colors, however, have n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Witchcraft: Alternative Health Dictionary On Witchcraft
witchcraft (the Old Religion): Generally, the use of amulets (or talismans), magical potions, magical rituals, and/or spells. For exam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Witchcraf Immigrant: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Witchcraf Immigrant, Imm-trad Witchcraf
Witchcraf Immigrant, “Imm-Trad Witchcraf" Refers to the customs and beliefs of Mesopagan peasants and supposed Fam-Trad mem...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sorcerers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sorcerers
Sorcerers [from Latin sors lot]   Those using occult powers and arcane knowledge for evil purposes. It covers various degrees of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - 13 Major Types Of Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On 13 Major Types Of Magic
13 MAJOR TYPES OF MAGIC:            Divination     The Occult &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vetala Siddhi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vetala Siddhi
Vetala Siddhi (Sanskrit). A practice of sorcery; means of obtaining power over the living by black magic, incantations, and ceremonies...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brothers Of The Shadow: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Brothers Of The Shadow
Brothers of the Shadow. A name given by the Occultists to Sorcerers, and especially to the Tibetan Dugpas, of whom there are many in t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bacon, Roger: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger (1214?-1294) English philosopher and natural scientists, Franciscan monk who experimented with alchemy and optics and was...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic, Magician: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Magic, Magician
Magic, Magician (from Persian magus a wise man, great; cf magi)   The great art; a knowledge of the mysteries of nature and the p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vodun, Voudoun: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Vodun, Voudoun
Vodun or Voudoun: (1) A West African word meaning “deity” or “power.” (2) General term for a variety of eclec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vetala-siddhi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vetala-siddhi
Vetala-siddhi (Sanskrit) One of the practices of sorcery; a "means of obtaining power over the living by black magic, incantation...   » Read the article

Dictionary - 13 Major Types Of Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On 13 Major Types Of Magic
13 MAJOR TYPES OF MAGIC:            Divination     The Occult &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rohanee, Ruhani: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rohanee, Ruhani
Rohanee ruhani (Arabic) Used by the modern Sufis, in some senses equivalent to the Sanskrit gupta-vidya (secret knowledge); "the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Necromancy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Necromancy
Necromancy (Ancient Greek). The raising of the images of the dead, considered in antiquity and by modern Occultists as a practice of b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jacques Coeur: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jacques Coeur
Jacques Coeur. A famous Treasurer of France, born in 1408, who obtained the office by black magic. He was reputed as a great alchemist...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Athame: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Athame
ATHAME: "a-THAY-me" the Witch's traditional magical tool, the consecrated, black-handled dagger. It is never used to cut, bu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rowhanee: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rowhanee
Rowhanee (Egypt, Egyptian) or Er-Roohanee. is the Magic of modern Egypt, supposed to proceed from Angels and Spirits, that is Genii, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiate: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Initiate
INITIATE One who has been "initiated" into the mysteries, an official Epopt, a magus. For such a one, initiation is an ongoi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tantras
Tantras (Sanskrit) Loom, the warp or threads in a loom; a rule or ritual for ceremonial rites. Religious treatises teaching mystical a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dudaim: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dudaim
Dudaim (Hebrew, Jewish). Mandrakes. The Atropa Mandragova plant is mentioned in Genesis, XXX., 14, and in Canticles: the name is relat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypnotism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hypnotism
Hypnotism (Ancient Greek). A name given by Dr. Braid to various processes by which one person of strong will-power plunges another of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pentacle: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Pentacle
PENTACLE In a general sense it stands for all magical symbols and talismans. Specifically, as the pentagram, or five-pointed star, it ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occult Sciences: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Occult Sciences
Occult Sciences The whole range of the sciences of the secrets of nature -- physical, psychic, mental, and spiritual; also   &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Magic
Magic. The great "Science". According to Deveria and other Orientalists, "magic was considered as a sacred science inse...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asita: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asita
Asita (Sanskrit) Dark in color, hence often used of dark blue and even black; krishna has more or less the same reference to darkness ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White
White Regarded as the source whence the seven prismatic colors diverge, it stands for the Logos of a hierarchy. Nearly all the archaic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Great Work: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Great Work
GREAT WORK, THE In the Hermetic sciences it refers to the  hieros gamos or divine marriage. In alchemical practice, the  phi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Evocation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Evocation
Evocation (from Latin evocare to call forth)   The calling forth of simulacra of the departed by magical processes; or the callin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gyan
Gyan (Persian) Also Gian-ben-Gian, Gyan-ben-Gian. According to the Persian legend, Gyan was king of the peris or sylphs. He had a wond...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gyalugpas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gyalugpas
Gyan (Persian) Also Gian-ben-Gian, Gyan-ben-Gian. According to the Persian legend, Gyan was king of the peris or sylphs. He had a wond...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abhichara: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Abhichara
Abhichara: Abhichara. Black magic.   (See also: Abhichara , Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Athame: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Athame
ATHAME: A Wiccan ritual knife. Generally double edged with a black handle, but not always. This knife is seldom used for physical cutt...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osiris: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Osiris
OSIRIS  King, judge and reincarnator of the dead (via the metamorphosis of earth). That he is a "Dark God" is one of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magic
MAGIC From Latin magi, pl. (Greek magoi, pl. of magos, a Magian, one of the Median tribe; also an enchanter, properly a wise-man who i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ri-thlen: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ri-thlen
Ri-thlen. Lit., "snake-keeping". It is a terrible kind of sorcery practised at Cherrapoonjee in the Khasi-Hills. The former ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ceremonies, Ceremonials: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ceremonies, Ceremonials
Ceremonies, Ceremonials Originally and essentially acts of magic, designed to bring about particular and definite results, but now alm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lemminkainen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Lemminkainen
Lemminkainen (Finnish) A hero of the Kalevala, the son of Lempi. He does battle with the serpent of Tuoni (death) in the Finnish versi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Babel, Babah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Babel, Babah
Babel babah (Hebrew) The inner meaning of the Tower of Babel, by which it was hoped that divinity might be reached or attained, is a h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychopomp: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychopomp
Psychopomp (Greek) A conductor of souls; applied to Charon, Apollo, and especially to Hermes, who was the conductor of souls to Hades ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tulku, Sprul Sku: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tulku, Sprul Sku
Tulku sprul sku (Tibetan) [short for sprul pa'i sku (tul-pe-ku) from sprul pa phantom, disembodied spirit; cf Sanskrit nirmanakaya bod...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sod: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sod
Sod (Hebrew) Originally to appoint, place, or found; later an assembly, people placed or appointed or founded to do some duty or work;...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bön, Bönpa: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Bön, Bönpa
BÖN or BÖNPA The aboriginal magicians of Tibet, prior to Buddhism, at first much opposed to the Lamas, but eventually joinin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yogacharya, Yogacarya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yogacharya, Yogacarya
Yogacharya yogacarya (Sanskrit) [from yoga union + acharya teacher]   A teacher of yoga; a mystic and highly esoteric school foun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Repercussion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Repercussion
Repercussion Striking back, as when a wave rebounds from a surface.   In theosophical literature, applied to the phenomenon in w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ri-thlen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ri-thlen
Ri-thlen (East Indian) Snake-keeping; "a terrible kind of sorcery practised at Cherrapoonjee in the Khasi-Hills. . . . As the leg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occult Arts: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Occult Arts
Occult Arts Blavatsky in "Occultism versus the Occult Arts" (Studies in Occultism), distinguishes between occultism (gupta-v...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yogacharya: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Yogacharya
Yogacharya (Sanskrit). (1) A mystic school. (2) Lit., a teacher (acharya) of Yoga, one who has mastered the doctrines and practices ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Niantiel: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Niantiel
NIANTIEL The watcher of the 24th Tunnel. This figure from The Nightside of Eden corresponds to death in the conventional Tarot In Kenn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hell-hound: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hell-hound
HELL-HOUND There have been many. Cerberus and Orthos, the guardians of the Gates of Hell are notorious enough, but there was also Garn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occult Sciences: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Occult Sciences
Occult Sciences. The science of the secrets of nature - physical and psychic, mental and spiritual; called Hermetic and Esoteric Scien...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dugpas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dugpas
Dugpas (Tibet, Tibetan). Lit., "Red Caps," a sect in Tibet.   Before the advent of Tsong-ka-pa in the fourteenth centu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Poseidon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Poseidon
Poseidon (Greek) One of the twelve great Olympian deities, a son of Ouranos and Gaia, brother of Zeus and Hades; represented by the La...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dorje Rdo Rje: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dorje Rdo Rje
Dorje rdo rje (Tibetan) Equivalent to the Sanskrit vajra, meaning both thunderbolt and diamond. As a thunderbolt, it is represented in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prayer: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Prayer
Prayer As usually understood in the West, prayer implies the existence -- whether actually so in nature or not -- of a divine entity, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Voodoo: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Voodoo
VOODOO (Or VOUDON; from Tovodun, the Dahomean gods.) The West African religion together with its transplanted form in Haiti and elsewh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vampire: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Vampire
VAMPIRE A demon, succubus, incubus, bat, zombie or night-thing between being and non-being who lives off the stolen "blood" ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fool: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Fool
FOOL, THE Arcanum number zero, lettered Aleph, the 11th Pathway between Kether and Chokmah. The designation is not so much one of foll...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chess: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Chess
CHESS Several metaphysicians (Crowley, Shallis, Carroll, etc.) have suggested that chess is really a medieval computer simulacrum, a m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hemlock Society: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hemlock Society
HEMLOCK SOCIETY There are those who believe that suicide is never an option and death "advice" is strictly black magic. But ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sin
Sin Evildoing, moral obliquity expressed in thought and act; in its relation to human evolution, it applies especially to the misuse o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ramayana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ramayana
Ramayana (Sanskrit) [from Rama an avatara of Vishnu + ayana goings, adventures]   One of the famous epic poems of India, relating...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Svara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Svara
Svara (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root svri to utter sound]   Sound, tone, voice, noise; tone in recitation, a note of the musica...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Divination: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Divination
Divination (from Latin divination a soothsayer from divus spiritual being, god)   The art of obtaining hidden knowledge by the ai...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yellow-faced: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yellow-faced
Yellow-faced Used in an archaic commentary on the Book of Dzyan (q SD 2:427-8), referring to people on Atlantis, the continent of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Plexus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Plexus
Plexus (Latin) A network, used anatomically for certain networks of nerves or blood vessels. The nerve plexuses forming part of the sy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychic Powers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychic Powers
Psychic Powers Powers pertaining to the lower intermediate human nature -- i.e, between the mental-emotional and the physical -- inclu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pentagram, Pentalpha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pentagram, Pentalpha
Pentagram, Pentalpha The five-pointed star, or star pentagon, called pentalpha by Pythagoreans because its corners are like five (pent...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lycanthropy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Lycanthropy
Lycanthropy (from Greek lykanthropos wolf-man)   In all times and places there has been prevalent the belief that human beings ca...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Voodoo, Voodooism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Voodoo, Voodooism
Voodoo or Voodooism [from Fongbe dialect vodunu from vodu moral and religious life of the Fons of Dahomey]   A definite system of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypnotism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hypnotism
Hypnotism (from Greek hypnos sleep)   One name for an artificially produced somnambulistic, entranced, or psychologized state. A ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Black: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Black
  Dream Interpretation Black Black is the colour of the unconscious, of sinking into the darkness, or mourning. Black is mascul...   » Read the article