Index
Concordance
A glossary of recurring occult and esoteric terms — concepts, symbols, programmes, and cases that appear across the tradition entries and the tracts. Each entry has its own page with a definition, a pointer to where the term is treated in context, and related concordance links.
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A
- Aeon of Horus The current astrological-magical age in Thelemic cosmology, opened by Crowley’s 1904 reception of The Book of the Law.
- Alter A distinct functional personality within a dissociative-identity system, characteristic of programmed-dissociation cases.
- Aradia Daughter of the Roman goddess Diana in Leland’s 1899 Italian-folklore text; the messianic teacher of witchcraft.
- Athame The black-handled ritual knife of Wiccan and traditional-witchcraft practice — tool of the practitioner’s will.
B
- Babalon Working Parsons & Hubbard’s 1946 Pasadena ritual sequence to manifest Babalon — the documented Thelemic / proto-security-state intersection.
- Baphomet The composite goat-headed figure popularised by Lévi in 1854; medieval roots in Templar accusations.
- Book of the Law, The Crowley’s 1904 Cairo reception; the founding doctrinal scripture of Thelema.
C
- Charge of the Goddess The central Wiccan liturgical text; Valiente’s 1950s adaptation of Leland’s Aradia material.
- Cipher Manuscripts The 1887 documents Westcott claimed founded the Golden Dawn; widely regarded today as a Westcott fabrication.
- Cremation of Care The annual Bohemian Grove ritual; filmed by Alex Jones in 2000.
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M
- Magick Crowley’s spelling of the operative-magical art, with terminal K to distinguish it from stage illusion.
- Magus The fifth-degree senior office of the Temple of Set; also used by Crowley’s A∴A∴ for its parallel grade.
- McMartin The 1983–90 Manhattan Beach preschool case; the longest and most expensive American criminal trial of its era; produced no convictions.
- MILAB Military Abduction — Carla Turner’s framework that a fraction of alien-abduction reports are screen memories of human intelligence operations.
- MindWar The 1980 Aquino & Vallely Army position paper proposing strategic information warfare as a primary domain of contest.
- MKULTRA The CIA’s 1953–73 umbrella program for behavioural-modification, mind-control, and trauma-based dissociation research.
P
- Paradigm shift The chaos-magic technique of temporarily adopting a religious or cultural belief system as a working tool.
- Pentagram (inverted) The five-pointed star with one point downward; multiple operative readings across Lévi, the Church of Satan, and modern left-hand-path use.
- Presidio case The 1986–89 Army CID and SFPD investigation into ritual abuse at the Presidio Army daycare; Aquino identified by 60+ children, never charged.
- Programmed dissociation A structured alter-system produced by deliberate trauma — distinct from ordinary post-traumatic dissociation by its internal architecture.
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S
- Sabbat One of the eight seasonal festivals of the Wheel of the Year in Wiccan and modern pagan practice.
- Satanic Panic The 1980–95 wave of allegations, prosecutions, and television coverage claiming a national network of Satan-worshipping abusers — rejected by the FBI in 1992.
- Screen memory A false or altered memory that covers a traumatic event by substituting a less-threatening narrative; the discrediting frame for MKULTRA-class trauma.
- Set The Egyptian god of separation and isolate consciousness; central deity of the Temple of Set.
- Sigil An abstract glyph constructed from a statement of intent; the central technique of chaos magick.
- Sigil of Baphomet The trademarked emblem of the Church of Satan: inverted pentagram, goat-head, Leviathan in Hebrew.
- Stang The forked staff of traditional witchcraft; spatial axis of the working space, equivalent to the Wiccan altar.
- Stargate (Project) The CIA / DIA remote-viewing program, 1972–95; SRI-housed; the documented intelligence-agency engagement with non-mainstream consciousness research.
