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Egyptian soul concept The Egyptians believed that the human soul was made up of five main parts: the ka, ba, akh, name and shadow. They saw each of them as essential to a person’s survival in the living world and the afterlife. Table of Contents Ka The ka was a person’s double, an exact copy…

Pisces The Zodiac Pisces (♓) The Planets Other components Qualities Motion Pisces (♓, Latin for *fish* (plural)) is a which lies between to the west and to the east. Mythology The constellation resembles two roundish objects each of which is tied to the same point by a long length of string. Generally the objects have…

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis The Rosicrucian Order, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), is a worldwide mystical, , educational, humanitarian and fraternal organisation founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis. Its common name in Latin is *Antiquus Mysticusque Ordo Rosae Crucis*. The traditional and authentic Latin name is: *Antiquus Arcanus Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis*…

Cathar Catharism was a movement with elements that originated around the middle of the 10th century, branded by the contemporary Roman Catholic Church as . It existed throughout much of Western Europe, but its home was in Languedoc and surrounding areas in southern France. The name *Cathar* most likely originated from Greek *catharos*, “the pure…

Turan In Etruscan mythology, Turan was the goddess of love and vitality and patroness of Vulci. In art, she was usually depicted as a young winged girl. Pigeons and black swans were her sacred animals. Her retinue was called Lasas. She was equivalent to the Roman and the Greek . References Wikipedia. (2004). *[Turan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turan) (*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turan*)*.…

Pan OLYMPIANS OTHERS Pan TITANS Astraeus Atlas Clymene Coeus Crius Dione Epimetheus Iapetus Leto Mnemosyne Oceanus Phoebe Prometheus Tethys Theia *One of the listed in Liber XV, * Pan (Greek Παν, genitive Πανος) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in…

Ptolemaic system The Ptolemaic system was a model to explain the motions of the heavens, espoused by Claudius Ptolemaeus in his work, the Almagest some time around the 2nd century , and accepted for over 1,000 years by the vast majority of Europeans to be the correct cosmological model. It may be also called the…

Ishtar Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess . Anunit and Atarsamain are alternate names for Ishtar. The goddess represents the planet Venus. The double aspect of the goddess may correspond to the strikingly different phases of Venus in the summer and winter seasons. The meaning…

Amoun *One of the listed in Liber XV, * Amoun was the Hellenicized name of a major , in the native language *Amun*, “the hidden one” (alternative spelling “Amon”). He was one of the Ogdoad and was married to Ipet. He was also a Berber god, but there were differences between the Berber Ammon and…

Tree of Life:Geomantic Intelligences *Part of the series* T H E   T R E E   O F   L I F E *The includes* Columns from *Liber 777:* CLXXVII—”Geomantic Intelligences” Within the western magical tradition, the is used as a kind of conceptual filing cabinet within the larger system of the , the…