Ialdabaoth
Also: Yaldabaoth, Jaldabaoth
A name used for the lower creator or ruler in some Gnostic narratives; spellings and narrative roles vary.
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Glossary
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Idra di-Tzeniuta
Also: Sifra di-Tzeniuta
The Book of Concealment. A short and famously difficult section of the Zohar.
Ill-dignified
Also: Well-dignified
Of a planet placed where it is held to act badly or weakly. The opposite is well-dignified.
Illuminationism
Also: Illuminationist, Ishraqi
Suhrawardi's philosophy of light, in which reality is graded by degrees of illumination rather than by substance. A Neoplatonic current that reached Europe through Arabic.
Immanent
Also: Immanence
Present and active within the created order rather than outside it.
Imum Coeli
Also: IC
The lower angle opposite the Midheaven, often abbreviated IC; house systems differ in how it relates to a cusp.
Incantation
Also: Incantations
Words spoken to effect something, as distinct from a prayer that asks.
Incense
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. Prepared aromatic material used to perfume instruments and space, offered in the censer after blessing and sprinkling.
Ingress
A planet's entry into a new sign. The Sun's ingress into Aries begins the astrological year.
Initiatory
Of a rite admitting somebody to a grade or a body, and of a structure organised around such grades.
Invocation
Also: invocations
A rite that calls upon or appeals to a named power, deity or spirit; not every text uses the word in exactly the same way.
Iron pen
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. A metal stylus for incising the names, characters, and candle marks required by Book II.