Ill-dignified
Also: Well-dignified
Of a planet placed where it is held to act badly or weakly. The opposite is well-dignified.
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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.
Looking for a sign rather than a word? Symbols draws the signs of astrology, alchemy and geomancy and links each to what this study says about it.
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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.
John Dee
An English mathematician, scholar and royal adviser whose diaries record the angelic sessions behind what later came to be called Enochian material.
Judge
The final main figure of a geomantic shield, formed from the two Witnesses according to the art's parity rule.
Jupiter
A classical astrology planet. Jupiter enlarges and gives direction: confidence, law, belief, generosity and the larger ideas by which a life finds its bearings.
Kabbalah
Also: kabbalistic, kabbalist, kabbalists
A tradition of Jewish mystical interpretation and theology with many historical schools. It is not interchangeable with later Western occult Qabalah.
Key of Solomon
A manuscript family of ritual magic attributed to Solomon; its surviving forms are much later than the biblical king.
Knave
Also: Page, Jack
The lowest court card of a suit, more often called the Page. Book T's renaming makes this the Princess, which is why the four ranks do not line up between decks.
Lamen
A ritual emblem worn by the operator, often bearing names or signs specified by a particular grimoire.
Late antiquity
Also: Late antique
Roughly the third to seventh centuries, between the classical world and the early medieval one. Much of this material is formed here.
Legion
A numbered company of spirits said to be under a Goetic spirit's command. The figures are part of the catalogue's description.
Lemegeton
A compilation commonly called the Lesser Key of Solomon, made of several distinct books including the Ars Goetia.