Mater (Latin) Mother; used in the categories of alchemy as one of the triad flamma, natura, mater; corresponding to sulphur, mercury, salt; or to spirit, water, and blood. Also used in conjunction with other names, meaning mother.

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Ching Lo (meridian therapy): external stimulation of Qi (chi) and Blood in diverse ways, including acupressure, acupuncture, cupping, moxabustion, scraping, and application of acu-powder, electricity, herbs, or magnets.

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ATHAME: A Wiccan ritual knife. Generally double edged with a black handle, but not always. This knife is seldom used for physical cutting, if at all, and need not be sharp. It is *never* used to draw blood and Wicca do not draw blood or use blood in ritual. Its primary use is as an energy directing device, much like the wand, though with different common uses. compare: Boline, Wand. Principally used to cast and dissolve the circle, for which purposes it is interchangeable with the magic sword. A tool of the "Element" of Fire in the Georgian Tradition and some others.

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VAMPIRE

A demon, succubus, incubus, bat, zombie or night-thing between being and non-being who lives off the stolen "blood" of the living. Such blood can be literal blood, divine "Ambrosia," soma, physical energy, menses, semen, life itself or merely the mind or psyche. In languages around the world, words for "cruelty", "red" and "blood" have similar roots: Ainu fure ("red"); Latin burrus ("reddish"); Albanian vras ("hurt"; "kill"); Finnish verta ("blood"); Serbian vampir (vampire); Turkish uber ("witch"); Hungarian vé'r ("blood") and so on.

In his novel, Bat Wing, Sax Rohmer describes a particularly intelligent and horrible Central American vampire bat that has learned how to crawl under the mosquito netting of its sleeping donor.

Vampires, along with other automata and hell-beings created by the sick fantasies of human invention, swell in the qliphotic regions of the nightside of the Tree of Life. The magician crossing the qliphotic path of Characith (whose kala is cunnilingus) is warned to avoid lingering here too long lest he become an addict and vampire. In some black magic practices, the priestess is sacrificed and her soul turned into a familiar for the magician. Here the line between vampire and zombie has been almost deliberately blurred.

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AMBROSIA

The Greeks confused nectar with ambrosia exactly as we do. Originally it was thought that this "drink (not food!) of the gods" derived from some such word as ambrotos, that is "immortal", similar to Hindu amrita, "deathless". We now know that the source is the Greek word for "blood" or "gore," brotos (a cognate of our word "blood") referring to the blood sprinkled upon altars and idols in ancient times - as our word, "to bless", derives from Anglo-Saxon bletsian "to sprinkle with blood."

This, combined with haoma > AM (Gk. hemo), formed the bloody "unguent" of religious ritual.

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Rohitaka Stupa (Sanskrit). The "red stupa", or dagoba, built by King Asoka, and on which Maitribala-raja fed starving Yakshas with his blood. The Yakshas are inoffensive demons (Elementaries) called pynya-janas or "good people".

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Dakini (Sanskrit) Female demons, vampires and blood-drinkers (asra-pas). In the Puranas they attend upon the goddess Kali and feed on human flesh. A species of evil "Elementals" (q.v.).

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Lodur (Scandianvian Norse). The second personage in the trinity of gods in the Eddas of the Norsemen; and the father of the twelve great gods. It is Lodur who endows the first man - made of the ash-tree (Ask), with blood and colour.

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Definition and meaning of efferent:

efferent - moving or carrying outward or away from a central part. Refers to blood vessels, nerves, etc. For example, blood vessels carrying blood away from the heart or nerve fibers conducting impulses from the brain or nerve cord

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Definition and meaning of immune system:

immune system - a system that provides the organism with a defense against infection. In higher organisms it is afforded by the presence of circulating antibodies and white blood cells. Antibodies are manufactured specifically to deal with the antigens associated with different diseases as they are encountered. White blood cells attack and destroy foreign particles in the blood and other tissues

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Definition and meaning of open circulatory system:

open circulatory system - a circulatory system, characteristic of some invertebrates, e.g., arthropods, in which blood flows through an interconnected system of open sinuses rather than blood vessels. The tissues and cells are directly bathed by the blood for gaseous exchange and nutrient uptake. The circulatory fluid is called the hemolymph

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Definition and meaning of hypereosinophilia:

hypereosinophilia - a disease characterised by a marked increase in the eosinophil (a type of white blood cell) count in the blood

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CHRISTOS

(Greek: "anointed"). This is a direct translation of the Hebrew meshiach, "annointed, "which designates a king or venerated person. The Jews were looking for such a "king" who would lead them out of servitude. The practice of smearing kings and priests with fat, oil and blood goes far back into deepest Africa, where conquering warriors painted themselves with blood and witch-doctors ritually smeared themselves with semen.

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RED THREAD: A subtle reference relating to the idea and concept of the Witch Blood that is passed from generation to generation in a physical sense or in reference to those who have had it awakened spiritually through some form of initiation.

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DAYS OF POWER: Although usually referred to as Sabbats, these are other days throughout the year that can be considered days of power. These days can be triggered by astrological occurrences, your birthday, a woman's menstrual cycle (also know as the Blood of the Moon), or your dedication/initiation anniversary.

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PELICAN

Alchemical symbol for the stage known as mortificatio, the breaking open of the outer shell to reveal the inner man. As the mother pelican was believed to feed her young from blood pecked from her own breast, she is also sometimes used as a general symbol of self- sacrifice.

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NAGRIKSHAMISH

A "Forgotten One." The Dog of Sirius, Orthrus. Grant refers to this as "The red passage of Samadhi, Blood-Vision." It is not necessary to invoke it, for it is living in us all.

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AARON

Brother of Moses and the "Adept of the Adepts". The first high priest and magician (through Jehovah's power). Introducer of the "golden calf." HPB explains Aaron's rod, which turned the water to blood, as a magnetic pole acting upon red lichen in fusoria.

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La and Laeti (Icelandic) (from la high water mark on the shore, used symbolically for blood, bloodline; laeti manner, including both appearance and sound)

Skill and manner, also translated as blood and keen senses; the two qualities in human beings, bloodline, or in modern terms genetic heredity, and personality with the appearance and sound it presents, which are the gifts of Lodur (fire, vitality), the third member of the creative trinity which endowed humanity with its human and divine potential. The other two creative agents were Odin (air, spirit), and Honer (water, intelligence). The early humans were by them endowed with the properties of these three aspects of divine nature.

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Chhinnamasta Tantrika Chinnamasta tantrika (Sanskrit) (from chhinna severed + masta head)

Buddhist tantric sect named for the goddess Chhinnamasta, represented with a decapitated head. In their highest initiation, the adept "must 'cut off his own head with the right hand, holding it in the left.' Three streams of blood gush out from the headless trunk.

One of these is directed into the mouth of the decapitated head . . .; the other is directed toward the earth as an offering of the pure, sinless blood to mother Earth; and the third gushes toward heaven, as a witness for the sacrifice of 'self-immolation.' Now, this had a profound Occult significance which is known only to the initiated . . ." (BCW 4:266).

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raw juice therapy: Natural therapy expounded by John B. Lust.

It centers on ingestion of juice extracted fresh, with electric juicers, from fruits and vegetables. Its design is to correct colloidal cell chemical composition that has become unbalanced because of unnatural habits. Unpleasant reactions to raw juice therapy indicate that the juices do not harmonize with an unhealthy gastrointestinal condition or with an acid condition of the blood; , such reactions are thus signs of improvement.

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