Hasidism
Also: Hasidic, Chasidism
The devotional movement that arose in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe and took up Lurianic Kabbalah in its own way.
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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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Hekhalot
Also: Heikhalot, Hekhaloth
Palaces or halls. The seven heavenly palaces a practitioner passes through in the chariot literature, and the name of that literature.
Henosis
Union. The culmination of the Neoplatonic ascent, in which the soul is united with the One.
Hermes Trismegistus
The legendary 'thrice-great' sage named as teacher or author in Hermetic writings; not a single historically identifiable writer of the whole corpus.
Hermetic Qabalah
Also: Occult Qabalah
The occult synthesis built on Christian Cabala from the nineteenth century, joining the Tree to tarot, astrology and ceremonial magic.
Hermeticism
A family of ancient and later writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The philosophical treatises of late antiquity are distinct from many later magical works bearing his name.
Hexagonal Figure of Solomon
A ritual tool in Ars Goetia. A parchment hexagram worn at the skirt of the white vestment and uncovered before an appearing spirit.
Historiography
The study of how history has been written, as distinct from the history itself. A source can be good historiography and bad description.
Holy Lamp
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. The unattainable light above the altar: a deliberately paradoxical lamp said to burn without wick or oil and to require no maker's approval.
Holy oil
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. A golden consecrating oil that Book 4 interprets as aspiration descending from above rather than personal ambition reaching upward.
Holy Table
A ritual table described in Dee's angelic sessions with specified letters and arrangement; later reproductions are not always identical to the diary directions.
Horary astrology
A practice of casting and judging a chart for the time a particular question is posed or understood.
Horoscope
Historically, a chart or judgment based on celestial positions; in modern speech, often a much shorter sign-based prediction.
House
One of the chart's divisions anchored to time and place. Houses describe areas of life in astrological reading; they are not identical to the twelve zodiac signs.
House cusp
The boundary or starting point of a chart house; its longitude depends on the house system and the chart's time and place.
Hylic
In some Gnostic schemes, a category described as material or matter-oriented. It is a claim within those systems, not a label to apply to people.
Hypostasis
Also: Hypostases
A distinct level of reality in Neoplatonic thought — the One, Intellect and Soul are three — rather than a quality or an aspect.
Hyssop and water
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. Consecrated spring water, salt, and an herbal sprinkler used throughout the Key's preparations.
Ialdabaoth
Also: Yaldabaoth, Jaldabaoth
A name used for the lower creator or ruler in some Gnostic narratives; spellings and narrative roles vary.
Idra di-Tzeniuta
Also: Sifra di-Tzeniuta
The Book of Concealment. A short and famously difficult section of the Zohar.