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  • djinn

    Djinn

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    In Arabic, a genie (also jinn, Djinn, from Arabic جني jinnī) is a supernatural creature which occupies a parallel world to that of mankind, and together with humans and angels makes up the three sentient creations of God (Allah). Possessing free will, a djinn can be either good or evil. The Djinn are mentioned...

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  • Gamayn

    Slavic mythology

    Posted on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
    As various Slavic populations were Christianised between the 7th and 12th centuries, Christianity was introduced as a religion of the elite, flourishing mostly in cities and amongst the nobility. Amongst the rural majority of the medieval Slavic population, old myths remained strong. Christian priests and...

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  • The names of the Watchers

    The names of the Watchers

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    According to the Book of Enoch, exactly 200 Watchers fell to Earth to take human wives. It names 20 of these, explaining that each one was a leader in a group of 10. In his book From the Ashes of Angels, Andrew Collins names a few...

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  • Alchemy

    Alchemy

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Alchemy became known as the spagyric art after Greek words meaning to separate and to join together in the 16th century, the word probably being coined by Paracelsus. Compare this with one of the dictums of Alchemy in Latin: SOLVE ET COAGULA — Separate, and...

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  • The sacred word YOD-HE-VAU-HE

    The sacred word YOD-HE-VAU-HE

    Posted on November 7, 2009 | No Comments
    The Kabbalah and the Sacred Word–The Yod–The He–The Vau–The second He–Synthesis of the Sacred Word. ACCORDING to the ancient oral tradition of the Hebrews, or Kabbalah, 1 a sacred word exists, which gives to the mortal who can discover the correct way of pronouncing it, the...

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  • Theosophy

    Theosophy

    Posted on November 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Formation Theosophical Society’s foundation act The Theosophical Society was founded in New York City, USA, in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others. Its initial objective was the investigation, study and explanation of mediumistic phenomena. After a few years Olcott...

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  • Watchers

    Watchers

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    The Watchers (from Greek egrḗgoroi (ἐγρήγοροι)) or Grigori are a group of fallen angels told of in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim, who are also mentioned in Genesis 6:4. The Watchers appear...

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  • Causality

    Causality

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Causality is the process of making something happen. Often it denotes a necessary relationship between one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the direct consequence of the first. This two event type of causality is known as accidental causality. Another variety,...

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  • Determinism

    Determinism

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Determinism necessarily entails that humanity or individual humans may not change the course of the future and its events (a position known as fatalism); however, some determinists believe that the level to which human beings have influence over their future is itself merely dependent on...

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  • Synchronicity

    Synchronicity

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance. The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion...

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