Emanationism
A view in which lower levels of reality proceed from a higher source; the sequence and metaphysical claims differ among schools.
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Glossary
A guide to the words used across this site and in the texts behind it. Definitions describe historical usage, not proven supernatural effects. A term may mean different things in different traditions; the tradition label tells you which sense is meant here.
Looking for a sign rather than a word? Symbols draws the signs of astrology, alchemy and geomancy and links each to what this study says about it.
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Enochian
The later name for the angelic language and ritual material recorded in John Dee's and Edward Kelley's sessions. It is not a synonym for all Christian angel magic.
Enochian call
A formal utterance in Dee's angelic material, often called a 'key' in later practice; its words and translations require a named textual source.
Esotericism
A scholarly umbrella for traditions that claim hidden or specialized knowledge; it names a field of study rather than one shared doctrine.
Evocation
A rite intended to summon a spirit to appear or respond, often distinguished by practitioners from invocation.
Filtration
Separating solids from liquid through a porous medium, one of the practical operations found in alchemical laboratories.
Fire Wand
A ritual tool in Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn's dedicated Fire implement: a scarlet, magnet-cored wand marked in yellow and emerald green and used for work the order classifies as fiery.
Fixation
An operation meant to make a volatile substance stable under heat, described in historical alchemical procedures.
Fumigation
The use of smoke or fragrant vapor in a rite, sometimes with material selected for an asserted planetary correspondence.
Gematria
A method of attending to the numerical values of Hebrew letters and words. A shared value can invite interpretation but does not establish that two words mean the same thing.
Gemini
The Gemini sign of the zodiac. Gemini is mutable air: quick exchange, comparison, language, and the lively traffic between one mind, place, or version of a story and another.
Geomancy
A divinatory art in which an initial set of four-line figures is cast and the rest of a chart is derived by rules. This site's method follows Turner's 1655 English text.
Geomantic figure
One of sixteen four-line patterns, each line containing one or two marks. A figure's interpretation depends on the source and its position in a chart.
Geomantic shield
The full chart built from four Mothers, four Daughters, four Nieces, two Witnesses and a Judge by the method's arithmetic.
Gnosis
Greek for knowledge; in many texts called Gnostic it means transformative knowledge of divine origin and the human condition, not just information.
Gnosticism
A modern umbrella name for several late-antique movements whose surviving texts value revelatory knowledge. Their mythologies and views of the world differ, so this is not one uniform religion.
Goetia
A word used historically for spirit-working or sorcery, and also shorthand for the Ars Goetia book; the two senses should not be collapsed.
Goetic circle
A ritual tool in Ars Goetia. The operator's inscribed enclosure in the Ars Goetia, paired spatially with the external Triangle of Art.
Goetic lamen
A ritual tool in Ars Goetia. A spirit's individual character worn on the operator's breast as a lamen during that spirit's calling.
Goetic seal
A ritual tool in Ars Goetia. The individual graphic character attached to one spirit in the catalogue and used to identify that spirit in the ritual apparatus.