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Chons The Ennead The Ogdoad / / / / Other Egyptian Gods In , Chons (alternately Khensu, Khons, Khonsu or Khonshu) is a lunar deity, and a son of and Mut. His name means “The Wanderer,” probably because as a moon god, Khons constantly moved across the night sky. Consequently, he was thought to watch…

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Hexagram While the represents the microcosm, the hexagram can be said to represent the macrocosm. Its six points are accorded to the planetary bodies of , , , , , , and . These in turn are related to six of the , as can be seen when aligning the Hexagram with the Central Pillar.…

Rajas Originating in philosophy, rajas is one of the three of . The gunas are a means of categorizing behavior and natural phenomena in . It has been translated to mean “too active” and refers to one of three possible qualities (or *gunas*) of a person’s mental state. A *rajas* quality implies that a person’s…

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

Sephiroth This page is slated for deletion. If there is good cause to keep it, please discuss on the Talk page. — Plural form of Sephira, a word meaning “Number”, “Word”, or “Emanation”. There are 10 Sephiroth, and they constitute the emanations of power of the .

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

Shri Gurudev Mahendranath Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (April 29, 1911–August 30, 1991) was a British , , writer, poet, , , , and . He was introduced to by and espoused the philosophy of which he considered the Sanskrit equivalent of . Biography Born Lawrence Miles in London, England on April 29, 1911, his interests in…

I Ching The I Ching (易經 pinyin *yì jīng*) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. Alternative romanizations of the name include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King. Translations of its name into English include the “Book of Changes” or more accurately “Classic of Change”. It describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy,…

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…