Exorcism:

A religious or quasi-religious rite to drive out evil spirits.

See also Possession .

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EXORCISM:

1) traditionally, the process of driving out negativities or spirits (demons).

2) in herb magick, a powerful purification.

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Exorcism:

The severing or disruption of all unwanted psychic circuits and circuit potentials within a specific object, person or place; hence the dismissal of ghosts and spirits.

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exorcism: Any act or method whose purpose is to expel a spirit (particularly Satan, some other demon, or an offensive ghost) or multiple spirits from a person, place, or thing. The word exorcism also refers to any spell used in exorcism.

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Exorcism (from Greek exorkizein to bind by an oath)

In the Christian Church, the casting out of evil spirits by adjuring and commanding them. Under other names the rite has been practiced in all lands and times, with a great variety of ceremonies, and by the power of a person who is versed in the procedure and especially efficaciously by one whose life is holy. Jesus of the Gospels exercises the power and delegates it to his disciples.

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exorcism

A rite or process for delivering unenlightened spirits out of a presence or situation

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Exorcism: Any method to expel from an individual or place: 1. Satan, 2. some other demon, 3. multiple evil spirits, or 4. an offensive ghost (discarnate human). Exorcism may include commanding the alleged offender, attempts at persuasion, rituals, special prayers, spells, or symbolism.

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Exorcism

The act of ritual expulsion of demons or evil spirits or negative forces from an individual or place . In the New Testament, exorcisms are a central part of the public ministry of Jesus.

Christianity has utilized exorcisms in a variety of ways: as an integral part of baptismal liturgies in which prayers and rites are used to symbolize the person's departure from sin and entrance into the body of Christians; as blessings to separate material things from profane use in order to dedicate them to divine use (e. g. , the exorcism of water used in baptism); and as a rite to free persons from demonic possession. In the Roman Catholic Church this rite can only be done with episcopal authorization.

Fundamentalist and Pentecostal churches attempt to drive out the demonic with sessions of prayer, the laying on of hands, and the reading of scripture. In some forms of early Christianity there was a separate clerical office for the exorcist.

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Demonic Possession:

Possession by evil spirits.

See also Exorcism .

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Satya-vacana:

In Tantra, the solemn uttering of a Great Truth, used as a mantra for magical or religious effects such as exorcisms.

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Ashen and Langhan (Kolarian) Ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, similar to the Christian exorcism, used by the Kolarian tribes in India (TG 34).

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Ashen and Langhan (Kolarian). Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in use with the Kolarian tribes in India.

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BAAL SHEM TOV

Lord of the Good Name. This phrase is involved in the Hebrew banishing and exorcism of the demons of black magic.

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spirit releasement: A form of exorcism that removes negative energy from persons and property. causes of symptoms clearable with spirit releasement include curses, ghosts, and Ouija.

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Exorcist:

(1) One who performs exorcisms.

(2) A magician or psychic (often very religious) with strong talents for CPK, antipsi and the clair senses, who specializes in forcing or persuading unwanted psychic energies (including spirits) to depart from objects, persons or places.

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depossession (releasement, release therapy): Outgrowth of past-life therapy. Depossession is a variation of exorcism that involves detachment of human and nonhuman spirits from humans, usually by persuasion. nonhuman possessors include elementals: nature spirits such as elves, fairies, gnomes (e.g., trolls), nymphs, satyrs, and pixies.

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Tharana (Sanskrit). "Mesmerism", or rather self.induced trance or self-hypnotisation ; an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., "to brush or sweep away" (evil influences, tharnhan meaning a broom, and tharnhan, a duster); driving away the bad bhuts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser’s beneficent will.

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Tharana [probably Hindustani; cf Pali tharana strewing, spreading; Sanskrit starana from the verbal root stri to strew, scatter]

Self-induced trance or self-hypnosis; "an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., 'to brush or sweep away' (evil influences, tharhn meaning a broom, and tharnhan, a duster); driving away the bad bhuts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser's beneficent will" (TG 327).

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Salt Used in alchemy for a fundamental principle of nature, a member of the triad mercury, sulphur, and salt, corresponding to spirit, soul, and body; or to fire (or air), water, and earth. Paracelsus regarded these as the mystical elements of all compound bodies.

All forms of matter were reducible to one or other of them -- everything was either a sulphur, a mercury, a salt, or a compound. The philosopher's stone was said to be a compound of all three. Thus salt is the physical rudiment, as illustrated by the cubical crystals of common salt. Ancient thought regarded such elements as fundamental principles which manifest on various planes, nor did it make hard and fast distinctions between physical and nonphysical; but modern thought has given a fictitious reality to physical objects, and regards the ancient use of the terms as metaphorical.

The veneration shown for salt was not a mere deification of its physical virtues, but a recognition of the salt-principle in nature, of which ordinary salt is merely a physical emblem. The well-known stimulant, flavoring, and preservative qualities of salt prove it to be a physical manifestation of an important principle; such phrases as bread and salt, and salt of the earth are therefore theosophy, as concerns not merely figures of speech but a use of salt in its more radical sense. For the same reason it played an important part, along with other substances, in sacrificial ceremonies.

The word was also used to include other bodies besides sodium chloride or common salt, and is still used in chemistry in this generic sense. With some alchemists we find arsenic taking the place of salt in the fundamental triad, and this would be one of the salts of arsenic.

The Roman Catholic ritual of the exorcism of salt, promulgated in 1851 and 1852 under the sanction of Cardinal Engelbert, Archbishop of Malines, and of the Archbishop of Paris, runs: "The Priest blesses the salt and says: 'Creature of Salt, I exorcise thee in the name of the living God . . . become the health of the soul and of the body. Everywhere where thou art thrown may the unclean spirit be put to flight' " (IU 2:85). A Qabbalistic version is similar.

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