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  • Bifrons

    Bifrons — King Duke Prince Marquis President Duke Marquis Duke King President Duke Prince King Marquis Duke Duke Count/President Duke Duke King Count/President Count Duke Marquis Count/President Duke Marquis/Count Duke Duke Marquis President King Prince/President Count Marquis Prince Marquis Count President Count Duke Duke Marquis Marquis King/Count Count Bifrons Duke President Duke Knight King Duke…

  • Wanga

    Obeah and Wanga The terms Obeah and Wanga come from the following line in : *Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach.* (AL I:37). In his *Commentaries*, Crowley explains: The obeah is the of the…

  • William Of Schyren

    William of Schyren William of Schyren, a listed in , is essentially a mystery. , the author of Liber XV, did not reveal his exact identity, and no historical record speaks of this name. However, there have been many educated guesses over the years. Sabazius X° has listed some of the more creative possibilities on…

  • Athena

    Athena OLYMPIANS Athena OTHERS TITANS Astraeus Atlas Clymene Coeus Crius Dione Epimetheus Iapetus Leto Mnemosyne Oceanus Phoebe Prometheus Tethys Theia Athena, (Phoenician Onga) also transliterated as Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Romans with their Etruscan goddess Minerva, is attended by an owl, carried the goatskin shield given to…

  • Θελημα

    Thelema Thelema — | | | | — Thelema, (*http://www./index.php/Word_of_the_Law*) in Greek, means *will*. Table of Contents A brief summary of Thelema Thelema is the name of the philosophical school and religious matrix established in 1904 with the writing of () by (1875-1947) and stands on the central axiom, the . The Law is summed…

  • Freemasonry

    Freemasonry Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. Its members are joined together by high ideals, of both a moral and metaphysical nature (and, in the majority of branches, by a common belief in a Supreme Being). Freemasonry is an “esoteric art,” in that certain aspects of its internal work are not generally revealed to the…

  • Ramsey Dukes

    Ramsey Dukes Ramsey Dukes is a writer on and the . Table of Contents Overview Ramsey Dukes is the main pseudonym used by Lionel Snell when writing books and articles and giving talks on magick and the occult. He has also used other names including Lemuel Johnstone, Liz Angerford, Ambrose Lea, Adamai Philotunus and the…

  • Tree Of Life Pentagram & Hexagram

    Tree of Life:Pentagram & Hexagram *Part of the series* T H E   T R E E   O F   L I F E *The includes* Columns from *Liber 777:* LXX—”Attribution of Pentagram” LXXXIII—”The Attribution of the Hexagram” CXXIV—”The Heavenly Hexagram” Within the western magical tradition, the is used as a kind of conceptual…

  • Thelemapedia Article Basics

    Thelemapedia:Article Basics Thelemapedia Article Basics is an annotated, working example of some of the basics of laying out an article. Table of Contents Introductory material The subject of the article should be mentioned in bold text at a natural place in the first sentence, or at least the first paragraph. The name of the subject…

  • Philosophy

    Philosophy The term Philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. What philosophy is, or should be, is itself a philosophical question that philosophers have understood and treated differently through the ages. Philosophy can mean the academic exploration of various questions raised by philosophers; or to the…