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Term: luminous arc
Luminous Arc: See "Ascending Arc."
Many if not most rituals in books were written for group performance, yet, most "seekers" today do not belong to a group and modern Americans more often prefer to be Solitaries.
Before offering suggestions on how to convert a group ritual to the ... Relevance: Vodou is a religion born in slavery, which blends together a number of traditional African beliefs with elements from other faiths, notably Catholicism, the religion of the slave-owners, with which it has always been an uncomfortable bed-fellow.
It ... Relevance:
A year was
called a bleidoni (twelve months, or thirteen in a leap year), and it
was divided into two main seasons: samon, "summer," and giamon,
"winter." A sonnocingos, "solar-march," was the term for a solar year of
365.5 days. A bleidoni ... Relevance: "There is more to the affinity between magic and existentialism than the celebration of a common hero (Satan). The very picture of self-discovery which is painted for us in books on Hermetic Philosophy and the Cabalah can also be found in the ... Relevance: The effectiveness of visualization as a method of dealing with psychological problems has long been recognized. Sigmund Freud believed that images were the "language" of the unconscious. "Thinking in pictures … approximates more closely unconscious ... Relevance: Introduction: The so-called "Black Mass" (possibly, at least initially, a literary invention) was to be performed by an ordained priest—Catholic, Anglican, or Episcopal—(in later descriptions he was supposed to a de-frocked priest). It ... Relevance: It isn’t until Christianity began to stamp out all remaining traces of pre-Christian practices that herb magic began to suffer a decline. Centuries-old practices were suddenly condemned by a Church that had grown frightened of persons with power. ... Relevance:
If you were to
ask a dozen "experts" to give a definition of hypnosis, they would give you a
dozen different answers. No matter what anyone says, there is no such thing as
an accepted definition of hypnosis. No one knows exactly what it is. ... Relevance: Many of the terms used in these subject areas do not actually describe "things" so much they do "functions." Similarly, a hand can be described as a fist, or an open palm, or a light hand or a heavy hand, and so forth—these describe functions of ... Relevance: Unlike the Darwinian concept that focuses primarily on the physical form, esotericism extends the concept of evolutionary change to every aspect of life and consciousness including the Soul, and sees a constant movement of growth and development ... Relevance: Thousands of Grade-Z horror movies and hack novels with occult themes—not to mention thousands of years of superstitious beliefs—have caused most human beings to think of the dead as a threat to the living and ghosts as entities up to no good. The ... Relevance: |
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