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Arthur Edward Waite Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite deck. Born in America, and raised in England, A.E. Waite joined the in 1891 and also entered the *Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia* in 1902. When he became Grand Master of the Order in 1903, changing its name to the Holy…

Judaism *Part of the series* Judaism affirms a number of basic *principles of faith* that one is expected to uphold in order to be said to be in consonance with the Jewish faith. However, unlike most Christian denominations, the Jewish community has never developed any one binding catechism. A number of formulations of Jewish beliefs…

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…

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

Kenneth Arnold Kenneth Arnold (-1984) was a pilot operating out of Boise, Idaho. It was his sighting of a number of Unidentified Flying Objects on the 24th of June, , that would start a flap of similar reports.

Tree of Life:Alchemy *Part of the series* T H E   T R E E   O F   L I F E *The includes* Columns from *Liber 777:* LXIX—”The Alchemical Elements” CXIII—”Alchemical Metals” CXII—”Alchemical Tree of Life” Within the western magical tradition, the is used as a kind of conceptual filing cabinet within the…

Paganism Paganism (or “Heathenism“) is a catch-all term which has come to bundle together (by extension from its original classical meaning of a non-Christian ) a very broad set of not necessarily compatible religious beliefs and practices that are usually, but not necessarily, characterized by and, less commonly, . Table of Contents Origins and meanings…

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Ludovicus Rex Bavariae Ludovicus Rex Bavariae, (Ludwig II of Bavaria, “Mad Ludwig,”). (1845 – 1886) King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886. He was best known for being a patron of , for being the builder of several fairy-tale castles in the Bavarian Alps (including the beautiful Neuschwanstein), and for his mysterious death in the…

Solstice *Solstice* is an astronomical term regarding the position of the Sun in relation to the celestial equator. The name is derived from Latin Solstitium (from sol: “sun” and sistere: “stand still”). During the year, the position of the sun seen from earth moves North and South. When it changes direction it stands still momentarily.…