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Thelemapedia:Really Simple Tutorial (tidbits) | | | | TidbitsHere are a few final items to get you on your way… Write something in your user page Let others know who you are, or at least what you are like and what interests you have. Just click on your name in the top right box, and…

Esotericism Esotericism refers to knowledge suitable only for the advanced, privileged, or initiated, as opposed to exoteric knowledge, which is public. It is used especially of spiritual viewpoints. Table of Contents Etymology Esotericism is from the Greek *esoterikos*, from *esotero*, the comparative form of *eso*, “within”. It is a word meaning anything that is occult,…

Kauket The Ennead The Ogdoad / / /Kauket / Other Egyptian Gods In , Kauket is an ancient goddess and one of the , along with her husband, . They both represented the original, primordial chaos out of which the entire universe was formed, and they also helped create light. References Wikipedia. (2005). *[Hauhet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauhet) (*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauhet*)*.…

Frater QVIF Frater QVIF (aka Marcos Pagani), a Brazilian occultist, was a Probationer under instruction of (*http://www./index.php/Marcelo_Ramos_Motta*) in the 1980s. Today QVIF promulgates (*http://www./index.php/Thelema*) in Brazil. See [http://www.astrumargentum.org](http://www.astrumargentum.org/). Criticism This link, [http://www.astrumargentum.org](http://www.astrumargentum.org/), contains information that has been credibly reported as being unreliable. First, the timeline biography of Euclides Lacerda (Frater Thor) contains a huge amount…

Veils of Negative Existence *Part of the series* Within the mystical system of the , the three Veils of Negative Existence are called: *Ain* (“Light”) *Ain Soph* (“Without Limit”), and *Ain Soph Aur* (“Limitless Light”) Within, or beyond, these Veils is everything that is not. In a sense, they represent pre-existence, the state of all…

Aleister Crowley This article is incomplete. You can help Thelemapedia by adding to it (*http://www./index.php?title=Aleister_Crowley&action=edit*). *One of the listed in Liber XV, * Aleister Crowley (Oct. 12, 1875-Dec. 1, ) — however one judges him — was a fascinating man who lived an amazing life. He is best known as being an infamous and the…

Death (tarot) — *Part of the series.* Death is the fourteenth card of the in the deck, created by and . Name: Death Atu: XIII Hebrew Letter: *nun* ן נ Element: Scorpio Tree of Life: (joining and ) From *Instruction for ALEISTER CROWLEY’S THOTH TAROT DECK*: “Transformation. Change, voluntary or involuntary, perhaps sudden and unexpected.…

Tree of Life:Lineal Figures & Geomancy *Part of the series* T H E   T R E E   O F   L I F E *The includes* Columns from *Liber 777:* XLIX—”Lineal Figures of the Planets, etc, and Geomancy” Within the western magical tradition, the is used as a kind of conceptual filing cabinet…

Agape — | | | | — Agape Agape (*AH-gah-pay*), sometimes rendered as Agapé, is the English transliteration of the Greek word Αγαπη, meaning “love”. Specifically, Agape refers to spiritual or “higher” love as opposed to Eros, the “lower” or sexual love. In the original Greek text, I Corinthians chapter 13 concerns *agape*. In later…

Sahaja The Sanskrit term Sahaja means natural joy, amoral, elevating all worldly things to a divine status, to dissolve natural senses into divine expression. In The Pathless Path to Immortality, wrote: “Man is born with an instinct for naturalness. He has never forgotten the days of his primordial perfection, except insomuch as the memory became…