Space:

A three-dimensional something that extends without bounds in all directions (this week) and is the field of physical objects and events and their order and relationships.

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Fire:

One of the main “elements” in occultism; associated in the West with flames, red, orange, wands or staves, activity, light, will, animals, energy, assertiveness, heat, dryness, etc.

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Alexandrian Witchcraft:

A variety of Gardnerian Witchcraft founded by British magician Alex Sanders.

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Maya:

(1) Sanscrit for “illusion.”

(2) A tribe of Central American Indians.

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Witchcraft, Gardnerian:

The originally Mesopagan source of what has now become Neopagan Witchcraft, founded by Gerald Gardner and friends in the late 1940s and 1950s, based upon his alleged contacts with British Fam-Trads. After he finished inventing, expanding and/or reconstructing the rites, laws and other materials, copies were stolen by numerous others who then claimed Fam-Trad status and started new religions of their own. (See Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon for all the messy details.) Though Gardnerians are sometimes called “the scourge of the Craft,” together with the Alexandrians and members of some other British Traditions, they may be considered simply the orthodox branch of Neopagan Witchcraft.

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Ritual:

Any ordered sequence of events, actions and/or directed thoughts, especially one that is repeated in the “same” manner each time, that is designed to produce a predictable altered state of consciousness within which certain magical or religious (or artistic or scientific?) results may be obtained.

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Anthropomancy:

Divination from human entrails.

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Witchcraft:

From “wiccecraeft,” the craft of being a witch. Notice that “craft” has no specifically religious connotation.

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Astral Projection:

An OOBE or Psi talent that may involve traveling GESP with the image of a body and/or the separation of a “less dense” body from the normal physical one.

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Mahayana, Greater Vehicle Buddhism

A later, “heterodox” version of Buddhism which incorporates many Paleopagan deities from throughout Asia as Buddhas or Saints.

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AMULET: A magically charged object which deflects specific, usually negative energies. A protective object.

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Anthropologic Witchcraft:

Anything called “witchcraft” by an anthropologist, usually referring to (a) the practices of independent (real or supposed) magic users who are suspected of at least sometimes using their magic outside of their society’s accepted cultural norms, and/or (b) a perceived state, often involuntary, of being a monster who can curse people with the “evil eye.” Definition (a) is what the word “wicce” probably originally referred to, annoying as that may be to modern Wiccans.

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MICROCOSM: The world within us.

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Water:

One of the main “elements” in occultism; associated in the West with emotions, intuition, blue, green, silver, cups, bowls, wisdom, passivity, cleansing, passive psychic arts, cold, dampness, etc.

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Deity:

(1) The most powerful sort of “supernatural” being.

(2) A powerful pattern in the Switchboard.

(3) The memory of a dead hero(ine) or magician.

(4) An ancient visitor from outer space.

(5) An ancient visitor from inner space.

(6) All of the above?

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Perception:

The process of classifying sensations.

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AKASHA SPIRIT: The fifth element, the omnipresent spiritual power that permeates the universe.

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Dualistic Polytheism:

A style of religion in which the Good Guys and Bad Guys include several major and minor deities (though they may not always be called that by the official theologians); what most so- called “monotheisms” really are. Examples would be Zoroastrianism, Catholicism, and Christian Fundamentalism.

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BALEFIRE: A fire lit for magickal purposes, usually outdoors. They are traditional on Yule, Beltane, and Midsummer.

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Anti-Psi or Antipsi:

A categorical term for several genuine psychic talents that (for the most part) serve to frustrate, avoid, confuse, destroy or otherwise interfere with the operation of normal psi; they can affect the power and/or information content and/or vector of psi fields within range.

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CIRCLE: Sacred space wherein all magick is to be worked and all ritual contained. It both holds ritual energy until the witch is ready to release it, and provides protection for the witch.

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Apopsi or Avoidance:

An antipsi power that appears to generate an energy field into which no external psi field can penetrate; may work through transmutation, retuning or aportation; may interfere with internal psi fields as well.

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