RELIGION (from religare, to bind book, Latin) 1. way or ways that people orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extraordinary powers, meaning and values. (Catherine Albanese)

2. institution whose function is to protect us from an experience of God. (Jung) (NAD)

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AIR - One of the four creative elements, associated with the east & with the ritual wand. (WOTS)

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Chalice - The chalice, or cup represents water and the west. Also a representation of the femenine.

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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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PAGAN, OCCULT, WITCHCRAFT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MENSA: A special interest group (SIG) of Mensa, the organization for persons scoring in the top two percentile on IQ testing. Only Mensa members can be full members of the SIG but non-Mensans may join as associate members. Their newsletter, Pagana, is considered to be one of the best Pagan journals.

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Dowsing:

See Rhabdomancy.

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Reality:

(1) The result of consensus opinion.

(2) That which is most comfortable and convenient to believe.

(3) My universe.

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PAGAN - One who is not Christian, Islamic or Jewish. From the latin,

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CONTROL - discarnate spirit that seems to take physical control of a medium. Some celebrated psychic control and the mediums through whom they communicate. (NAD)

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MANIFESTATION - the appearance to an observer's consciousnedd of any non human entity or force.

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Aka - Cord between the physical and astral bodies.

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Maya:

(1) Sanscrit for “illusion.”

(2) A tribe of Central American Indians.

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MAGICK -

1. the art and science of focusing your will and emotions to effect change in the world around and within you. It’s neither good or evil, positive nor negative. You determine the power and path it will take. (TRASB)

2. spelled with a “k” to differentiate it from the magic of stage illusion. The best definition of magick was probably invented by infamous ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley; “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity to will.” Magick is work and work is forbidden of the Sabbats. (CMM)

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ASPECT - The particular principle or part of the Creative Life force being worked with or acknowledged at any one time. For example. Brid is a Mother aspect of one Goddess, Lugh is one aspect of the God and both are merely single aspects of the Creative Life Force (CMM)

Measured relationship between planets, or planets and the ascendant or mid heaven (NAD)

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Call - Invoking divine forces.

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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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Altar - A sacred space. Often a small table or shelf for sacred objects which vary by tradition

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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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LILITH - the moon goddess Lilith is the archetypal seductress, the personification of the dangerous feminine glamour of the moon. She is also known in Jewish legends as the first wife of Adam. (ABC)

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NEW AGE -

1. mixing metaphysical practices with a structured religion. (TRASB)

2. movement of emerging planetary consciousness devoted to making Earth a healthier, happen and more peaceful place to live based on respect for humanity’s diverse traditional way of life in harmony with the environment.

3. holistic community in general, including practitioners of yoga, meditation, natural foods, spiritual development, humanistic psychology, environmental and peace activism, psychic arts and sciences and many other approaches and disciplines.

4. Aquarius Age, coming era of peace and spiritual understanding.

5. age of group interplay, group idealism and group consciousness (Bailey)

6. an added dimension to our daily, ordinary living, a sense of empowerment and enthusiasm arising from the presence of the unexpected in our lives. (David Spangler).

7. waking up from our somnambulistic existence, turning the lights an ‘inside’ and letting live fill its place. (Swami Virato)

8. a major and unprecendened cultural transformation. (Diane Eisler) (NAD)

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Akasha - The all-pervading spiritual *ether*.

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Elements, The:

A classification system based upon the division of all phenomena into four or five categories; in Western occultism there are Earth, Water, Air, Fire and sometimes Spirit or Ether (or in India, Akasha); in Chinese occultism these are Earth, Water, Metal, Fire and Wood.

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