EARTH MAGICK: A practical form of magick wherein the powers and forces of Earth Mother are used to conduct magickal workings or celebrations. Usually items associated with the Earth and nature hold a particular significance in the ritual or spell.

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EARTH POWER: the manifested Divine Power found in natural things. Can be utilized by magick for needed change.

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EARTH RELIGION: Any religion which reveres the Earth, and Nature, as the manifestation of the Divine, and calls for harmony with Nature and all life and for ecology. Many pagan traditions are Earth religions.

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Earth Besides being our terrestrial globe, earth is a comprehensive symbol, meaning the matter or vehicular side of manifestation as well as one of the four, five, or seven elements.

It is primordial undifferentiated matter which, by the action of spirit, produces the manifested worlds of entities. The Western alchemists called this Adam's Earth; in Greek mythology it is the lower side of Rhea. The bringing forth of animate beings was due to the marriage of heaven and earth, so that our earth is an offspring of this cosmic union. Connected with this meaning are the numerous allusions to earth as the nether pole of manifestation, and it is often synonymous with the nether regions, as Pluto, Yama, etc.

In the zodiac it is occasionally symbolized by Taurus, the bull which in popular astrology is the first and fixed earthy sign. As the lowest of the several elements, earth denotes physicalization, what we call physical matter being a combination of all four elements with the earth-element predominating. The pure element, however, is not physical, its characteristic property or tattva in connection with the human organs is smell, and its name in the Hindu system is prithivi-tattva; it is characterized by square or cubical forms and by fixity; the nature spirits pertaining to it were said by medieval European mystics to be the gnomes.

Our own earth is one of a system of planetary chains belonging to the solar system. The earth planetary chain consists of a coadunation or chain of seven or twelve globes, though the name earth is usually applied to the grossest globe, which alone is in direct rapport with our physical senses. The earth actually is an animate being, as are all the celestial globes.

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EARTH SPHERES - geosphere - core rock; hydrosphere-water; atmosphere-air; biosphere-life; naosphere-mind, consciousness. (NAD)

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EARTH RELIGION - A religion wherein the wroshipper strives to be in harmony with the Earth & with all life forms. These religions are opposed to the Christian view that the world is a resource to be subdued & exploited or the humans have the right to dominate and/or subjugate other life-forms.

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EARTH FAIRIES: four main types which reside on the surface and underground. Surface fairies are tree spirits and garden fairies. Underground fairies are gnomes and rock fairies.

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Adamic Earth or Adam's Earth The "original matter" of alchemy; undifferentiated matter on our plane. Called the true oil of gold or the primal element in alchemy, "it is but one remove from the pure homogeneous element" (TG 6). It is the "next-door neighbor to the alkahest, and one of the most important secrets of the alchemists. . . . 'it would explain the eagles of the alchemists, and how the eagles' wings are clipped,' a secret that it took Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes) twenty years to learn" (IU 1:51).

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EARTH DEITIES - Asasaya (Ashanti), Bhumi (Sanskrit), Coatlicue (Nahuatl), Estanatlehi (Navajo), Gaia (Greek), Geb (Egypt), Geo (Greek), Jord (Norse), NuWa (Chinese), Tara (Tibetan). (NAD)

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Navel of Earth {SD} of human being {BCW 12:695, 699}

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Uriel

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Adamic Earth (Alch.). Called the "true oil of gold" or the "primal element" in Alchemy. It is but one remove from the pure homogeneous element.

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EARTH MAGICK - Practical form of magick whereas the powers and forces of Mother Earth are used to conduct magickal workings or celebrations.

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Viscid Earth Applied principally to the semi-astral material of our earth globe during the third round, and likewise to our earth during the first part of the present fourth round and during the first, second, and early third root-races of mankind when the earth, although quasi-astral and nearly compact, was nevertheless more concrete and solid than were the earliest root-races of mankind. Because the first and second root-races were far more ethereal or astral than the earth was, it is almost hopeless to expect to find fossils of these earliest humanities at the present time; they were too ethereal in their earliest portions to leave fossil remains in the earth which was more solid in consistency than they.

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Translucid Earth The material of which the earth is composed is subject to evolution, like everything else; and it has reached its present condition only after a series of changes. There was a time when the earth, as also the beings upon it, were semi-ethereal and translucent (translucid); later it became opaque, and later still cooled and hardened by stages to its present condition (cf SD 2:312).

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Earth-Mother:

Female personification of the Life force, fertility of the Earth and its inhabitants. One of the most widespread deity concepts in the world (though far from universal); She is now worshiped in the West as Mother Nature.

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Earth-chain Our planet, like every visible cosmic body, is one of a composite chain or coadunated group formed of seven or twelve energies and substances, the ones on our plane alone visible to our physical senses.

These septenary or duodenary groups are called planetary chains, and the earth-chain is the one whose visible component is what we call the planet earth. The words and diagrams describing the idea are merely representations, not photographic. The components are distinctly separate spheres in each chain, but nevertheless form a coadunated unit, but no two globes are of the same substance.

See also PLANETARY CHAIN

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Earth-spirit The psychic as opposed to the heavenly nature of man or of any celestial body, and therefore the astral light, the lower and lowest portions of the anima mundi.

With the Gnostics and Nazarenes it was feminine; in Jewish mystical thought it is Samael, also in a sense Jehovah -- in other senses Satan. It builds the physical body of terrestrial beings. In some systems it stands for the entire matter-side of manifestation; in others it is the last of a series of spirits pertaining to a hierarchy of beings and planes.

In the plural, and in a more restricted sense, applied to the gnomes or earth elementals of medieval European thought.

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Definition and meaning of Earth Movement :

Earth Movement: A peril including landslide, mud flow, earth sinking, rising or shifting, and earthquake. Usually excluded on homeowners' and commercial property policies. (PR)

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Definition and meaning of Earth-Sun Relationships

Earth-Sun Relationships - [World Geography]

The Sun is the source of all energy on Earth. Earth is tilted on its axis 23 1/2 degrees and rotates once every 24 hours producing day and night. It revolves around the Sun in a yearly movement. This combination of tilt and revolution produces seasonal variation in the amount of energy different parts of Earth receive. This variation, along with other factors, produces global patterns of temperature and precipitation, the two key components of climate. The Sun's rays are most intense north of the equator (23 1/2 degrees N -- the Tropic of Cancer) in June and south of the equator (23 1/2 degrees S -- the Tropic of Capricorn) in December. About half of the energy from the sun is distributed away from the equator by wind and ocean currents. The other half is reradiated back into space to maintain an energy balance. 

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Definition and meaning of Earth-Sun Relationships

Earth-Sun Relationships - [World Geography]

The Sun is the source of all energy on Earth. Earth is tilted on its axis 23 1/2 degrees and rotates once every 24 hours producing day and night. It revolves around the Sun in a yearly movement. This combination of tilt and revolution produces seasonal variation in the amount of energy different parts of Earth receive. This variation, along with other factors, produces global patterns of temperature and precipitation, the two key components of climate. The Sun's rays are most intense north of the equator (23 1/2 degrees N -- the Tropic of Cancer) in June and south of the equator (23 1/2 degrees S -- the Tropic of Capricorn) in December. About half of the energy from the sun is distributed away from the equator by wind and ocean currents. The other half is reradiated back into space to maintain an energy balance. 

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