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Andrea Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586-1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Andrea, was a German theologian and author of *The Chymical Wedding of *–one of the three founding works of the . Table of Contents Life Andrea was the son of Johannes Andreae, the superintendent of Herrenberg and later the abbot of Königsbrunn. His mother, Maria…

Symbol A symbol, in its basic sense, is a representational token for a concept or quantity; i.e. an idea, object, concept, quality, etc. In more psychological and philosophical terms, all concepts are symbolic in nature and representations for these concepts are simply token artifacts that are allegorical to (but do not directly codify) a symbolic…

Theosophy *Part of the series* This article is incomplete. You can help Thelemapedia by adding to it (*http://www./index.php?title=Theosophy&action=edit*). Theosophy is a term which has been applied to various schools of Western mysticism. Its earliest prominent use is to designate the work of and those who embraced his ideas. In 1783, a group of English Behmenists…

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Adinath The Sanskrit term Adinath means first or original Lord, and is therefore a synonym for , Mahadeva, or Maheshvara, and beyond these mental concepts, the Supreme Absolute Reality as the originator of all things. The Adinath Sampradaya was a sub-sect of the greater . Followers of this tradition were given Diksha, thus renouncing householder…

Shi’a — Shi’a Islam (Template:Lang-ar or *follower*. English has traditionally used *Shiite* or *Shi’ite*) is the second largest Islamic denomination. *Shi’a* is short for *Shi’áte Ali* (Template:Lang-ar), a follower of Ali ibn Abu Talib who was the ‘s cousin, his son-in-law, and the father of Prophet Muhammad’s only descendants. He was the male head of…

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Abramelin Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, is the claimed eponym of the author of a famous grimoire, which calls itself *The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage*. The grimoire itself is found in a manuscript in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris. It is framed as a sort of epistolary novel in which Abramelin,…

Francis Barrett — Francis Barrett (born c. 1770) was a British writer and magician best known for his 1801 book *The Magus*. He also seems to have organized a magical school of sorts.

Adjustment (tarot) — *Part of the series.* Adjustment is the ninth card of the in the deck, created by and . Name: Adjustment Atu: VIII Hebrew Letter: Lamed ל Element: Libra Tree of Life: (joining and ) From *A Brief Description of the Cards of the Tarot*: “Eternal justice. Strength and force, but arrested as…