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Dictionary - Norse Magic: Alternative Health Dictionary On Norse Magic
Norse magic: Western European magical tradition. It is a form of ritual magic that enlists: (a)      &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alfheim, Alfhem: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alfheim, Alfhem
Alfheim, Alfhem (Icelandic, Swedish) (alf elf (cf Icelandic elfrom river, channel) + heim, hem home)   The home of elves in Norse...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nature Spirits: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Nature Spirits
Nature Spirits Various types of beings that are said to be the "soul" of natural forms. Belief in the existence of nature sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gnomes: Spiritual Dictionary On Gnomes
Gnomes: gnome - one of a fabled race of diminutive beings supposed to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardians of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orpheus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Orpheus
Orpheus (Ancient Greek). Lit., the "tawny one". Mythology makes him the son of Eager and the muse Calliope. Esoteric traditi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental (elementals): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Elemental (elementals)
A Theosophical definition of Elemental (Elementals) :   Elemental (Elementals) Nature-spirits or sprites. The theosophical usag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha Of Compassion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Buddha Of Compassion
Buddha of Compassion One who, having gained the right to nirvana, renounces it to return to help all living beings. "They are men...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Depossession: Alternative Health Dictionary On Depossession
depossession (releasement, release therapy): Outgrowth of past-life therapy. Depossession is a variation of exorcism that involves det...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dervish: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dervish
Dervish (Persian) Driyosh (Pahlavi) Drighu (Avestan) (from Pers darvish seeking doors from dar a door; i.e., those who seek from door ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fairy: Spiritual Dictionary On Fairy
Fairy: An imaginary [sic] supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elohim: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Elohim
Elohim 'elohim (Hebrew) (from 'eloah goddess + im masculine plural ending)   The monotheistic proclivities, not only of the Jews ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Drawing Down The Moon: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Drawing Down The Moon
DRAWING DOWN THE MOON: A ritual performed during the Full Moon by witches to empower themselves and unite their essence with a particu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Premise: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Premise
PREMISE This is the flawing point of logic. Premises are the bedrock upon which logic is based. They are not themselves subject to log...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Esir: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Esir
Esir (Scandianvian Norse). The same as Ases, the creative Forces personified. The gods who created the black dwarfs or the Elves of Da...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Visvakarman: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Visvakarman
Visvakarman (Sanskrit) The omnificent, the all-worker; in the Rig-Veda, the highest and oldest of the cosmic architects, and hence the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jupiter: Spiritual Dictionary On Jupiter
Jupiter: Jupiter is in its rulership in Sagittarius. Jupiter is the planet that can tell you about processes in your life. On the phys...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kumara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kumara
Kumara (Sanskrit) (from ku with difficulty + mara mortal)   Mortal with difficulty; often used for child or youth, but philosophi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Black Dwarfs: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Black Dwarfs
Black Dwarfs. The name of the Elves of Darkness, who creep about in the dark caverns of the earth and fabricate weapons and utensils f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Huldu: Witch Witchcraft Dictionary On Huldu
HULDU:  Norse/Icelandic term for Elves and Faerie Folk. Also Hulda-Folk, Alfa-Folk - the Hidden or Vanishing People.   (S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qelippoth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Qelippoth
Qelippoth (Hebrew) Shells, rinds, the outer covering or body of any entity. Because beings in the lowest world of the Qabbalah are con...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jul: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jul
Jul (Scandianvian Norse). The wheel of the Sun from whence Yuletide, which was sacred to Freyer, or Pro, the Sun-god, the ripener of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Holistic Health Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION Meditation is at least a three-step process that leads to a state of consciousness that brings serenity, clarity, and bliss...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sakti
Sakti (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root sak to be powerful, energetic, have force]   Universal energy, the feminine aspect of foha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grihastha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Grihastha
Group-souls The idea that there are entities which express themselves through the collectivity of the individuals of a race or nation,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nature Spirits: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Nature Spirits
Nature Spirits Various types of beings that are said to be the "soul" of natural forms. Belief in the existence of nature sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solipsism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Solipsism
SOLIPSISM The conviction that there is no external reality beyond oneself. This view is no longer considered illogical, insane or even...   » Read the article

Dictionary - New Age Movement: New Age Dictionary On New Age Movement
New Age Movement A loose organization of people, many of them "Yuppies," who believe the world has entered the Aquarian Age ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Group-souls: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Group-souls
Group-souls The idea that there are entities which express themselves through the collectivity of the individuals of a race or nation,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theocrasy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theocrasy
Theocrasy [from Greek theokrasia from theos god + krasia a mixing]   Used by Iamblichus, among other Greek philosophers, to denot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elementals: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Elementals
Elementals. Spirits of the Elements. The creatures evolved in the four Kingdoms or Elements - earth, air, fire, and water. They are ca...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rings, Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rings, Magic
Rings, Magic. These existed as talismans in every folk-lore. In Scandinavia such rings are always connected with the elves and dwarfs ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental, Elementals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Elemental, Elementals
Elemental (Elementals) Used by medieval European mystics, such as the Fire-philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Qabbalists, to signify th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elementals: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Elementals
elementals Creatures that evolved in the Four Elements - earth (gnomes), air (sylphs), water (undines), and fire (salamanders). These...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asgard: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Asgard
Asgard (Scandianvian Norse). The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated "higher than the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ifing: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ifing
Ifing (Scandianvian Norse). The broad river that divides Asgard, the home of the gods, from that of the Jotuns, the great and strong m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kachinas: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Kachinas
KACHINAS Semi-divine spirits in the Hopi religion. They are embodied in sacred dolls. Participants in donning the masks and enacting t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Edom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Edom
Edom 'Edom (Hebrew) The land and the Kings of Edom are mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 36) in allegorical manner, and treated in the Q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jah-veh, Yhvh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jah-veh, Yhvh
Jah-Veh YHVH (Hebrew) One transliteration of Jehovah, referring specifically to Genesis 4:26:   "then men began to call them...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neo-indian Religion: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Neo-indian Religion
neo-Indian religion: Navabharata Dharma.   A modern form of liberal Hinduism that carries forward basic Hindu cultural values - ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hekat, Heket: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hekat, Heket
Hel (Icelandic) (from helju hell, death)   The mythical regent of the Norse realm of the dead, depicted as half black or blue and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Society Of Friends: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Society Of Friends
Society of Friends Better known as Quakers, an Anglo-American pacifist sectarian movement originating in the religious confusion of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophia: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Theosophia
Theosophia (Ancient Greek). Wisdom-religion, or "Divine Wisdom". The substratum and basis of all the world-religions and phi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theophilanthropism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Theophilanthropism
Theophilanthropism (Ancient Greek). Love to God and man, or rather, in the philosophical sense, love of God through love of Humanity. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Moon
Moon The earth's relatively little satellite is but a partial representative of the aggregate of occult influences or powers, of polar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Uller: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Uller
Uller (Scandianvian Norse). The god of archery, who "journeys over the silvery ice-ways on skates". He is the patron of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ivaldi, Ivalde: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ivaldi, Ivalde
Ivaldi, Ivalde (Icelandic, Scandinavian) (from i in, into + valdi power, wielder)   Wielder of power, or entering into power; in ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bona-oma, Bona Dea: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bona-oma, Bona Dea
Bona-Oma, or Bona Dea. A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her father Faunus. S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ases: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ases
Ases (Scandianvian Norse). The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the progeny of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qliphoth, Qlippoth: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Qliphoth, Qlippoth
QLIPHOTH/QLIPPOTH Lit. "shells" (singular: qliphah). Shades of the dead whose names appear in the books of Dyzan or Thoth, o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thothori Nyan Tsan: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Thothori Nyan Tsan
Thothori Nyan Tsan (Tibet, Tibetan) A King of Tibet in the fourth century. It is narrated that during his reign he was visited by five...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Materializations: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Materializations
Materializations. In Spiritualism the word signifies the objective appearance of the so-called "Spirits" of the dead, who re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ethrobacy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ethrobacy
Ethrobacy (Ancient Greek). Lit., walking on, or being lifted into the air with no visible agent at work; "levitation". It ma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gnomes: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Gnomes
GNOMES As of this writing I have not yet begun preparation for the other initiations, so I know only the earth intelligences: the gnom...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taro, Tarot: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Taro, Tarot
TARO (TAROT) (See AZOTH.) The Great Wheel or "Book of Thoth." The letters form a magic square, thus:   ORAT ROTA ATOR T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Di-nur: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Di-nur
Di-nur (Hebrew) In the Qabbalah, part of a famous phrase which fully written is Nehar di-nur (the river or stream which is light or fi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vayu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vayu
Vayu (Sanskrit) Air; one of the five cosmic elements. Personified, the god and sovereign of the air and the king of the gandharvas. Ag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saturn: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Saturn
Saturn The sixth planet from the sun in our solar system, the last of the seven sacred planets of the ancients. In theosophy the regen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Imprint Vulnerability, Iv: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Imprint Vulnerability, Iv
IMPRINT VULNERABILITY (or IV) This is the state of the mind induced by shock, fear, psychedelic drugs, sensory deprivation, etc. R. A....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Martya Yoga: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Martya Yoga
MARTYA YOGA Not to be confused with Abhava, a yoga in which the yogin envisions himself as "non-existence". Martya yoga is a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Twin-souls: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Twin-souls
Twin-Souls To quote Blavatsky: "The star under which a human Entity is born . . . will remain for ever its star, throughout the w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanghai Dag-po: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sanghai Dag-po
Sanghai Dag-po (Tibet, Tibetan). The "concealed Lord"; a title of those who have merged into, and identified themselves with...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chréstos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Chréstos
Chréstos (Ancient Greek) The early Gnostic form of Christ. It was used in the fifth century B.C. by Eschylus, Herodotus, and ot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sthula-sarira: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Sthula-sarira
A Theosophical definition of Sthula-Sarira :   Sthula-Sarira (Sanskrit) Sthula means "coarse," "gross," not...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saint Martin, Louis Claude De: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Saint Martin, Louis Claude De
Saint Martin, Louis Claude de. Born in France (Amboise), in 1743. A great mystic and writer, who pursued his philosophical and theosop...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quetzocohuatl: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Quetzocohuatl
Quetzo-Cohuatl (Mex.). The serpent-god in the Mexican Scriptures and legends. His wand and other "land-marks" show him to be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tridasa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tridasa
Tridasa (Sanskrit) [from tri three + dasa ten]   Thirty; as used in ancient India, it refers in round numbers to the general cycl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rosicrucians: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rosicrucians
Rosicrucians (Mys.). The name was first given to the disciples of a learned Adept named Christian Rosenkreuz, who flourished in German...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aspecting: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Aspecting
ASPECTING: when a person during a ritual or magickal exercise, manifests ASPECTS of a God, dess, with, in themselves.   (See al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holomovement: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Holomovement
HOLOMOVEMENT Boehm's word for things being enfolded in themselves: all consciousness is "implied" by any mind, all time in o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantric, Tantrika: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tantric, Tantrika
Tantric, Tantrika The adjectival form of tantra; sometimes employed to signify one who is deeply versed in some study -- a scholar; bu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gravitation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gravitation
Gravitation Attraction, and hence gravitation, is a manifestation of cosmic desire, which draws together separate things into unities....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaldeans, Chaldees: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chaldeans, Chaldees
Chaldeans, Chaldees To the seventh subrace of the third root-race belong the far-distant predecessors of the Mystery school; and to no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anti-occult Strategies: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Anti-occult Strategies
ANTI-OCCULT STRATEGIES Because of Hitler's occult interests, anti-occultists have tried time and again to establish that all those fro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tetragrammaton: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tetragrammaton
Tetragrammaton [from Greek tetra four + gramma letter]   Used by Qabbalists to designate the four Hebrew characters  -- vari...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hubbard, L. Ron: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hubbard, L. Ron
HUBBARD, L. RON Founder of Scientology. Perhaps his most useful and important teaching was that we can extinguish things by focusing o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ancient Of The Ancient: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ancient Of The Ancient
Ancient of the Ancient (translation of Chaldean `Attiqa' de-`Attiqin)   Qabbalistic term referring to the primordial aspect of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gardnerian: Pagan Wicca Dictionary On Gardnerian
Gardnerian - Wiccan practices as laid down by Gerald Gardner in the 1950s, though many covens calling themselves Gardnerian today have...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karanopadhi: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Karanopadhi
A Theosophical definition of Karanopadhi :   Karanopadhi (Sanskrit) A compound meaning the "causal instrument" or &qu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rupa Gosvami: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Rupa Gosvami
Rupa Gosvami One of the six Goswamis of Vrindavana, principal followers of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Srila Rupa is the prime authority on ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Second Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Second Round
Second Round The evolutionary course of the life-waves once around the entire planetary chain is termed a round. A noteworthy differen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Livelihood: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Livelihood
Livelihood: The means by which we make a living, support ourselves.    (See also: Livelihood , Buddhism, Body Mind and So...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shamanism: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Shamanism
Shamanism: an ancient spiritual and medical tradition practiced in native cultures around the world. Using ritual, shamans often enter...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theopathy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theopathy
Theopathy [from Greek theos god + pathos experience, feeling]   The seventh stage of initiation in the Mysteries, where the candi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Integrated Awareness: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Integrated Awareness
Integrated Awareness (IA): IA is founded on the principle that movement at each level of consciousness-the mental, physical, energetic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pluralism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Pluralism
pluralism (pluralistic): Doctrine that holds existence to be composed of three or more distinct and irreducible components, such as Go...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pramantha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pramantha
Pramantha (Sanskrit) [from pra-math to stir about violently]   The upper stick used by the ancient Brahmins to kindle fire. By ru...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Suicide: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Suicide
Suicide As an inseparable part of the universe, whether considered as an organism or as a huge animated machine, we cannot violently r...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Powers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Powers
Spiritual Powers Generally used in contradistinction to psychic powers; for while psychic powers pertain to the intermediate, psychome...   » Read the article

Dictionary - T'ien-huang: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On T'ien-huang
T'ien-huang (Chinese) The aggregate of the heavenly hierarchies of the dhyanis, described in legends as twelve hierarchies of celestia...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Midheaven: Spiritual Dictionary On Midheaven
Midheaven: The Midheaven is the first point in the chart to be calculated. The Midheaven is the part of the zodiac that is the highest...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Will: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Will
Will The ensouling creative essence of abstract, eternal motion throughout the kosmos. As an eternal principle it is neither spirit no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Satanism: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Satanism
SATANISM: The worship of the Christian concept of the Anti-Christ. It is not a Pagan religion although some Satanists refer to themsel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrosophy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Astrosophy
ASTROSOPHY Astrology has frequently been criticized for offering proofs of its validity on single examples, as though it were some sor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inner Life: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Inner Life
inner life: The life we live inside ourselves, at the emotional, mental and spiritual levels, as distinguished from outer life. (See...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kuklos Anagkes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kuklos Anagkes
Kuklos Anagkes (Ancient Greek). Lit., "The Unavoidable Cycle" or the "Circle of Necessity"-. Of the numerous catac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prana: Spiritual Sanskrit Dictionary On Prana
Prana: means energy; the vital energy which we draw into ourselves from the surrounding universe; ‘breath’: vital force su...   » Read the article