Festschrift
A volume of essays published in honour of a scholar, usually by colleagues and former students.
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Glossary
A guide to the words used across this site and in the texts behind it. Definitions describe historical usage, not proven supernatural effects. A term may mean different things in different traditions; the tradition label tells you which sense is meant here.
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Filtration
Separating solids from liquid through a porous medium, one of the practical operations found in alchemical laboratories.
Fire Wand
A ritual tool in Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn's dedicated Fire implement: a scarlet, magnet-cored wand marked in yellow and emerald green and used for work the order classifies as fiery.
Fixation
An operation meant to make a volatile substance stable under heat, described in historical alchemical procedures.
Floruit
Flourished. The period someone is known to have been active, used where birth and death dates are not known.
Fumigation
The use of smoke or fragrant vapor in a rite, sometimes with material selected for an asserted planetary correspondence.