Hermetic Qabalah

Western esoteric tradition

This article is about traditional Hermetic Qabalah. For other Kabbalistic traditions see Kabbalah, Practical Kabbalah, Christian Cabala, and English Qaballa.

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Hermes Trismegistus

Hermetic writings

* Liber Hermetis (astrological)
* Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus
* Corpus Hermeticum
* Poimandres
* Asclepius
* Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
* Prayer of Thanksgiving
* Korē kosmou
* Cyranides
* The Book of the Secrets of the Stars
* The Secret of Creation
* Emerald Tablet
* Kitāb al-Isṭamākhīs
* Liber Hermetis de alchemia

Historical figures

Ancient and medieval

* Zosimos of Panopolis
* Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (may be legendary)
* Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
* Ibn Umayl
* Maslama al-Qurṭubī
* Aḥmad al-Būnī

Early modern

* Marsilio Ficino
* Lodovico Lazzarelli
* Giovanni da Correggio
* Pico della Mirandola
* Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
* Paracelsus
* John Dee
* Giordano Bruno
* Jakob Böhme
* Robert Fludd
* Christian Rosenkreuz (legendary, see Rosicrucianism)

Modern offshoots

* As above, so below
* Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Hermetic Qabalah
* Rosicrucianism
* The Kybalion
* Hermetism and other religions

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* Four Worlds
* Seder hishtalshelut
* Tree of Life
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* Merkavah
* Jewish angelic hierarchy
* Shekhinah
* Partzufim
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* Sparks of holiness
* Messianic rectification
* Gilgul
* Kabbalistic astrology
* Gematria
* Notarikon
* Temurah
* Names of God in Judaism
* Shemhamphorasch
* Tzadik
* Tzadikim Nistarim
* Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah
* Panentheism

History

|  Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism

* Tannaim
* Heichalot
* Sefer Yetzirah
* Chassidei Ashkenaz

Medieval

* Bahir
* Toledano tradition
* Prophetic Kabbalah
* Zohar

Kabbalistic commentaries
on the Bible

Mainstream displacement of
rationalism with Kabbalah

Renaissance

Selective influence on
Western thought

* Hermetic Qabalah

Mysticism after
Spanish expulsion

Mystics of
16th-century Safed

* Cordoveran Kabbalah
* Lurianic Kabbalah
* Maharal's thought

Popular Kabbalistic
Mussar

Early modern

* Baal Shem-Nistarim
* Sabbatean mystical heresies
* Emden–Eybeschutz controversy
* Immigration to the Land of Israel
* Traditional Oriental Kabbalists
* Beit El Synagogue
* Eastern European Judaism
* Hasidic Judaism / philosophy
* Lithuanian Jews
* Hasidic-Mitnagdic schism

Modern

* Hasidic dynasties

Mysticism in
religious Zionism

Academic interest in
Jewish mysticism

Non-Orthodox interest in
Jewish mysticism

* English
* James Lees'

Practices

* Torah study
* Mystical exegesis
* Mitzvot
* Minhag
* Customary immersion in mikveh
* Meditation
* Kavanot
* Teshuvah
* Deveikut
* Prayer
* Nusach
* Tikkun Chatzot
* Tikkun Leil Shavuot
* Pilgrimage to Tzadik
* Pilgrimage to holy grave
* Lag BaOmer at Meron
* Asceticism
* Rosicrucianism
* Practical Kabbalah

People

|  100s

* Four Who Entered the Pardes
* Simeon bar Yochai

1100s

* Isaac the Blind
* Azriel

1200s

* Nahmanides
* Abraham Abulafia
* Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
* Moses de Leon
* Menahem Recanati

1300s

* Bahya ben Asher

1400s
1500s

* Meir ibn Gabbai
* Joseph Karo
* Shlomo Alkabetz
* Moshe Alshich
* Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
* Isaac Luria
* Chaim Vital
* Judah Loew ben Bezalel

1600s

* Isaiah Horowitz
* Abraham Azulai

1700s

* Chaim ibn Attar
* Baal Shem Tov
* Dov Ber of Mezeritch
* Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
* Shalom Sharabi
* Vilna Gaon
* Chaim Joseph David Azulai
* Nathan Adler
* Schneur Zalman of Liadi
* Chaim Volozhin

1800s

* Nachman of Breslov
* Ben Ish Chai
* Shlomo Eliyashiv

1900s

* Abraham Isaac Kook
* Yehuda Ashlag
* Baba Sali

* Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Role

|  History

* Torah
* Tanakh
* Prophecy
* Ruach HaKodesh
* Pardes exegesis
* Talmudical hermeneutics
* Midrash

Jewish commentaries
on the Bible

* Oral Torah
* Eras of Rabbinic Judaism
* Generational descent in Halacha
* Generational ascent in Kabbalah
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* Talmudic theology
* Halakha
* Aggadah
* Hakira
* Classic Mussar literature
* Ashkenazi Judaism
* Sephardi Judaism
* Modern Jewish philosophies
* Jewish studies

Topics

* God in Judaism
* Divine transcendence
* Divine immanence
* Free will
* Divine providence

Kabbalistic reasons
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* Jewish principles of faith
* Jewish eschatology
* Primary texts

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Hermetic Qabalah (from Hebrew קַבָּלָה (qabalah) 'reception, accounting') is a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden Dawn, has inspired esoteric Masonic organizations such as the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, is a key element within the Thelemic orders, and is important to mystical-religious societies such as the Builders of the Adytum and the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross.

Hermetic Qabalah arose alongside and united with the Christian Cabalistic involvement in the European Renaissance, becoming variously Esoteric Christian, non-Christian, or anti-Christian across its different schools in the modern era.[citation needed] It draws on a great many influences, most notably: Jewish Kabbalah, Western astrology, Alchemy, Pagan religions, especially Egyptian and Greco-Roman, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and the symbolism of the tarot. Hermetic Qabalah differs from the Jewish form in being a more admittedly syncretic system; however, it shares many concepts with Jewish Kabbalah.

## Teachings[edit]

### Conception of Divinity[edit]

Syncretism of Cabala, Alchemy, Astrology and other esoteric Hermetic disciplines in Stephan Michelspacher's Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia (1615)

A primary concern of Hermetic Qabalah is the nature of divinity, its conception of which is quite markedly different from that presented in monotheistic religions; in particular there is not the strict separation between divinity and humankind which is seen in classical monotheism.[1] Hermetic Qabalah adheres to the Neoplatonic conception that the manifest universe, of which material creation is a part, arose as a series of "emanations" from the "godhead".[2]

These emanations arise out of three preliminary states that are considered to precede manifestation. The first is a state of complete nullity, known as Ain (אין "nothing"); the second state, considered a "concentration" of Ain, is Ain Suph (אין סוף "without limit, infinite"); the third state, caused by a "movement" of Ain Suph, is Ain Suph Aur (אין סוף אור "limitless light"), and it is from this initial brilliance that the first emanation of creation originates.[3]

### The Sephiroth in Hermetic Qabalah[edit]

Main article: Tree of life (Kabbalah)

The Sephirothic tree showing the lightning flash and the paths The Qabalistic Tree of Life in the Servants of the Light organisation's Hermetic theory

The emanations of creation arising from Ain Suph Aur are ten in number, and are called Sephiroth (סְפִירוֹת, singular Sephirah סְפִירָה, "enumeration"). These are conceptualised somewhat differently in Hermetic Qabalah to the way they are in Jewish Kabbalah.[4]

From Ain Suph Aur crystallises Kether, the first sephirah of the Hermetic Qabalistic tree of life. From Kether emanate the rest of the sephirot in turn, viz. Kether (1), Chokhmah (2), Binah (3), Daath, Chesed (4), Geburah (5), Tiphareth (6), Netzach (7), Hod (8), Yesod (9), Malkuth (10). Daath is not assigned a number as it is considered part of Binah or a hidden sephirah.[5]

Each sephirah is considered to be an emanation of the divine energy (often described as 'the divine light') which ever flows from the unmanifest, through Kether into manifestation.[6] This flow of light is indicated by the lightning flash shown on diagrams of the sephirotic tree which passes through each sephirah in turn according to their enumerations.

Each sephirah is a nexus of divine energy, and each has a number of attributions. These attributions enable the Qabalist to form a comprehension of each particular sephirah's characteristics. This manner of applying many attributions to each sephirah is an exemplar of the diverse nature of Hermetic Qabalah. For example, the sephirah Hod has the attributions of: Glory, perfect intelligence, the eights of the tarot deck, the planet Mercury, the Egyptian god Thoth, the archangel Michael, the Roman god Mercury and the alchemical element Mercury.[7][8] The general principle involved is that the Qabalist will meditate on all these attributions and by this means to acquire an understanding of the character of the sephirah including all its correspondences.

### Tarot and the Tree of Life[edit]

Main article: Tarot card reading

Hermetic Qabalists see the cards of the tarot as keys to the Tree of Life. The 22 cards including the 21 Trumps plus the Fool or Zero card are often called the "Major Arcana" or "Greater Mysteries" and are seen as corresponding to the 22 Hebrew letters and the 22 paths of the Tree; the ace to ten in each suit correspond to the ten Sephiroth in the four Qabalistic worlds; and the sixteen court cards relate to the classical elements in the four worlds.[9][10] While the sephiroth describe the nature of divinity, the paths between them describe ways of knowing the Divine.[11]

### Orders of angels[edit]

According to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's interpretation of the Kabbalah, there are ten archangels, each commanding one of the choirs of angels and corresponding to one of the Sephirot.[12] It is similar to the Jewish angelic hierarchy.

Rank  | Choir of Angels  | Translation  | Archangel  | Sephirah

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1  | Hayot Ha Kodesh | Holy Living Ones  | Metatron | Keter
2  | Ophanim | Wheels  | Raziel | Chokmah
3  | Erelim | Brave ones[13] | Tzaphkiel | Binah
4  | Hashmallim | Glowing ones, Amber ones[14] | Tzadkiel | Chesed
5  | Seraphim | Burning Ones  | Khamael | Geburah
6  | Malakim | Messengers, angels  | Raphael | Tipheret
7  | Elohim | Godly Beings  | Haniel | Netzach
8  | Bene Elohim | Sons of Elohim  | Michael | Hod
9  | Cherubim | [15] | Gabriel | Yesod
10  | Ishim | Men (man-like beings, phonetically similar to "fires")  | Sandalphon | Malkuth

## History[edit]

The "Kircher Tree": Athanasius Kircher's 1652 depiction of the Tree of Life, based on a 1625 version by Philippe d'Aquin. This is the most common arrangement of Sephiroth and Paths on the Tree in Hermetic Qabalah.

### Hermetic views of Qabalah origins[edit]

Further information: Hermetism and other religions

Both Jewish tradition and mainstream academic scholarship understand Kabbalah to have originated within Judaism, developing concepts and ideas from earlier Medieval Jewish neoplatonism. In the mid-twentieth century, Gershom Scholem hypothesized that Medieval Kabbalah had its roots in an earlier Jewish version of Gnosticism; however, contemporary scholarship of Jewish mysticism has largely rejected this idea.[16] Moshe Idel instead has posited a historical continuity of development from early Jewish mysticism.[17] In contrast, some Hermeticists see the origins of Qabalah in a western tradition originating in classical Greece with Indo-European cultural roots, later adopted by Jewish mystics.[18]

### Renaissance occultism[edit]

See also: Christian Kabbalah and Renaissance magic

Jewish Kabbalah was absorbed into the Hermetic tradition at least as early as the 15th century when Giovanni Pico della Mirandola promoted a syncretic worldview combining Platonism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, Hermeticism and Kabbalah.[19] Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist, wrote the influential Three Books of Occult Philosophy, incorporating Kabbalah in its theory and practice of Western magic. It contributed strongly to the Renaissance view of ritual magic's relationship with Christianity. Pico's Hermetic syncretism was further developed by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, hermeticist and polymath, who wrote extensively on the subject in 1652, bringing further elements such as Orphism and Egyptian mythology to the mix.[20]

### Enlightenment era esoteric societies[edit]

Rosicrucianism and esoteric branches of Freemasonry, such as Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, taught religious philosophies, Qabalah, and divine magic in progressive steps of initiation. Their esoteric teachings, and secret society structure of an outer body governed by a restricted inner level of adepts, laid the format for modern esoteric organisations.[citation needed]

### Nineteenth-century magical revival[edit]

See also: Magical organizations

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Leading figures

* Allan Bennett
* Florence Farr
* Samuel MacGregor-Mathers
* Henry B. Pullen Burry
* A. E. Waite
* William Wynn Westcott
* William Robert Woodman

Teachings

* Astrology
* Body of light
* Esoteric Christianity
* Ceremonial magic
* incl. Enochian magic
* Clairvoyance
* Egyptian mythology
* Geomancy
* Hermetic alchemy
* Hermetic Qabalah
* Neoplatonism
* Rosicrucianism
* Tarot
* Theurgy

Texts

* Cipher Manuscripts

Organizations

* Alpha et Omega
* Isis-Urania Temple
* The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.
* Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn

Related topics

* Enochian chess
* Great Work
* Holy Guardian Angel
* Lesser ritual of the pentagram
* Magic circle
* Opening by Watchtower
* Secret Chiefs
* Table of magical correspondences
* Tattva vision
* Thelema

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Post-Enlightenment Romanticism encouraged societal interest in occultism, of which Hermetic Qabalistic writing was a feature. Francis Barrett's The Magus (1801) handbook of ceremonial magic gained little notice until it influenced the French magical enthusiast Eliphas Levi (1810–1875). Levi presented Qabalism as synonymous with both white and black magic. Levi's innovations included attributing the Hebrew letters to the Tarot cards,[citation needed] thus formulating a link between Western magic and Jewish esotericism which has remained fundamental ever since in Western magic. Levi had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Through the occultists inspired by him (including Aleister Crowley, who considered himself Levi's reincarnation) Levi is remembered as one of the key founders of the 20th-century revival of magic.[citation needed]

### Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn[edit]

Hermetic Qabalah was developed extensively by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,[21] Within the Golden Dawn, the fusing of Qabalistic principles such as the ten Sephiroth with Greek and Egyptian deities was made more cohesive and was extended to encompass other systems such as the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee and certain Eastern (particularly Hindu and Buddhist) concepts, all within the structure of a Masonic or Rosicrucian style esoteric order.

Aleister Crowley passed through the Golden Dawn before going on to form his own magical orders. Crowley's book Liber 777[22] is a good illustration of the wider Hermetic approach. It is a set of tables of correspondences relating various parts of ceremonial magic and Eastern and Western religion to the thirty-two numbers representing the ten spheres (Sephiroth) plus the twenty-two paths of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The panentheistic nature of Hermetic Qabalists is plainly evident here, as one may simply check the table to see that Chesed (חסד "Mercy") corresponds to Jupiter, Isis, the colour blue (on the Queen Scale), Poseidon, Brahma, and amethyst.

### After the Golden Dawn[edit]

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Unicursal hexagram

Holy Books and Stele

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Key figures

* Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
* François Rabelais

* Aleister Crowley
* Jane Wolfe

* Karl Germer
* Wilfred Talbot Smith

* Helen Parsons Smith
* Jack Parsons
* Phyllis Seckler
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* Kenneth Anger
* Marcelo Ramos Motta
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* Nema Andahadna
* Christopher Hyatt

Core concepts

* Abrahadabra

* Great Work
* True Will

* The Abyss

* Magick
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* Thoth Tarot
* Yoga

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* Mass of the Phoenix

* Night of Pan
* Sex magic

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Thelemic texts

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* Marcelo Motta bibliography
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Organizations

* A∴A∴

* O∴A∴A∴

* Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC)

* Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)

* Society Ordo Templi Orientis (SOTO)

* Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn

* Typhonian Order (TOTO)

Deities

* Nuit
* Hadit
* Heru-ra-ha

* Aiwass
* Therion
* Babalon

* Baphomet
* Chaos
* Ma'at

Related topics

* Abbey of Thelema
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* Dianism
* Eroto-comatose lucidity
* Magical formulae
* Number of the beast
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Many of the Golden Dawn's rituals were published by Crowley, altered in various ways to align them with his own New Aeon magickal approach. Israel Regardie eventually compiled the more traditional forms of these rituals and published them in book form.[23]

Dion Fortune, an initiate of Alpha et Omega (an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), who went on to found the Fraternity of the Inner Light wrote The Mystical Qabalah, considered by her biographers to be one of the best general introductions to modern Hermetic Qabalah.[24][25]

## English Qabalah[edit]

Further information: Numerology § English systems

There are various systems of English numerology, sometimes referred to as English Qabalah,[26] that are related to Hermetic Qabalah. These systems interpret the letters of the Roman script or English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances.[27][28] The spelling "English Qaballa", on the other hand, refers specifically to a Qabalah supported by a system of arithmancy discovered by James Lees in 1976.[29]

## See also[edit]

* Christian mysticism
* Goetia
* Magick
* Thaumaturgy
* Theurgy
* Western esotericism

## References[edit]

1. ^ Fortune 1987, p. 44.
2. ^ Fortune 1987, pp. 37–42.
3. ^ Fortune 1987, pp. 29–36.
4. ^ Fortune 1987.
5. ^ Regardie 2000, p. 51.
6. ^ Fortune 1987, p. 1.
7. ^ Regardie 2000, pp. 20–21.
8. ^ Fortune 1987, pp. 238–251.
9. ^ Regardie 2000, pp. 540–593.
10. ^ Fortune 1987, p. 107.
11. ^ Fortune 1987, p. 102.
12. ^ Regardie 2000, p. 69.
13. ^ "Strong's Hebrew: 691. אֶרְאֵל (erel) - perhaps a hero". Biblesuite.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
14. ^ "Strong's Hebrew: 2830. חַשְׁמַל (chashmal) - perhaps amber". Biblesuite.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
15. ^ "Strong's Hebrew: 3742. כְּרוּב (kerub) - probably an order of angelic beings". Biblesuite.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
16. ^ Dan 2007, chapter on early Jewish mysticism discusses contemporary views that Gnosticism did not form a distinct religion.
17. ^ Idel 1988.
18. ^ Barry 1999, p. [page needed].
19. ^ Farmer 1999.
20. ^ Schmidt 2001–2002.
21. ^ Howe 1972, p. ix.
22. ^ Crowley 1973.
23. ^ Cicero & Cicero 1998, p. xix.
24. ^ Fielding & Collins 1998, p. 151.
25. ^ Richardson 1991, p. 137.
26. ^ Nema 1995, p. 24–25.
27. ^ Hulse 2000.
28. ^ Rabinovitch & Lewis 2004, p. 269.
29. ^ Thompson 2016.

### Works cited[edit]

Primary sources

* Crowley, Aleister (1973). 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser. ISBN 0-87728-222-6.
* Fortune, Dion (1987). The Mystical Qabalah. Aquarian Press. ISBN 978-0-85030-335-3.
* Idel, Moshe (1988). Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
* Regardie, Israel (2000). The Golden Dawn. Llewellyn. ISBN 978-0-87542-663-1.

Secondary sources

* Barry, Kieren (1999). The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient World. Samuel Weiser. ISBN 1-57863-110-6.
* Cicero, Chic; Cicero, Sandra (1998). Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition. Llewellyn. ISBN 978-1-56718-136-4.
* Dan, Joseph (2007). Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. ISBN 978-0195327052.
* Farmer, S. A. (1999). Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 Theses (1486). Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. ISBN 978-0-86698-209-2.
* Fielding, Charles; Collins, Carr (1998). The Story of Dion Fortune. Thoth Books. ISBN 978-1-870450-33-1.
* Howe, E. (1972). The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923. Routledge and K. Paul. ISBN 978-0710073396.
* Hulse, David Allen (2000). The Western Mysteries: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages and Magickal Systems of the World. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 1-56718-429-4.
* Nema (1995). Maat Magick: A Guide to Self-Initiation. York Beach, Maine: Weiser. ISBN 0-87728-827-5.
* Rabinovitch, Shelley; Lewis, James (2004). The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-2407-3.
* Richardson, Alan (1991). The Magical Life of Dion Fortune. Aquarian Press. ISBN 978-1-85538-051-6.
* Schmidt, Edward W. (Winter 2001–2002). "The Last Renaissance Man: Athanasius Kircher, SJ". The World of Jesuits and Their Friends. Vol. 19, no. 2.
* Thompson, Cath (2016). The Magickal Language of the Book of the Law: An English Qaballa Primer. Hadean Press Limited. ISBN 978-1-907881-68-8.

## Further reading[edit]

* Clark, Paul A. (2012). The Hermetic Qabalah. Fraternity of the Hidden Light. ISBN 978-0971046917.
* Gray, W. G. (1997). Qabalistic Concepts: Living the Tree. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 978-1578630004.
* Greer, John Michael (2007). Paths of Wisdom: A Guide to the Magical Cabala. Thoth Publications.
* Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (1998). New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0791438541.
* Knight, G. (2001). A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism. Weiser Books. ISBN 978-1578632473.
* Low, Colin (2015). The Hermetic Kabbalah. Digital Brilliance. ISBN 978-0993303401.
* Mistele, W. R. (2024). The Hermetic Tree of Life: Elemental Magic and Spiritual Initiation. Inner Traditions/Bear. ISBN 978-1644117453.
* Parfitt, W. (1995). The New Living Qabalah: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Tree of Life. Element. ISBN 978-1852306823.
* Regardie, Israel (1972). The Tree of Life. Samuel Weiser, Inc. ISBN 978-0877281498.
* Regardie, Israel (1995). A Garden of Pomegranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life. Llewellyn Publications.
* Wang, Robert (2017). The Qabalistic Tarot: A Textbook Of Mystical Philosophy. U.S. Games Systems, Inc. ISBN 978-1572819108.

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* Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
* Ordo Templi Orientis
* Society Ordo Templi Orientis
* Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Typhonian Order

Personalities|

* List of Thelemites
* Ankh-af-na-khonsu
* Aleister Crowley
* Kenneth Anger
* Allan Bennett
* William Breeze
* Mary Butts
* Marjorie Cameron
* Lon Milo DuQuette
* Jeanne Robert Foster
* J. F. C. Fuller
* Karl Germer
* Kenneth Grant
* Lady Frieda Harris
* Leah Hirsig
* Christopher Hyatt
* Charles Stansfeld Jones
* George Cecil Jones
* Richard Kaczynski
* Rose Edith Kelly
* James Lees
* Grady Louis McMurtry
* Mogg Morgan
* Marcelo Ramos Motta
* Nema Andahadna
* Victor Neuburg
* Sara Northrup
* Jack Parsons
* Helen Parsons Smith
* Theodor Reuss
* C. F. Russell
* Phyllis Seckler
* Wilfred Talbot Smith
* Leila Waddell
* James Wasserman
* Sam Webster
* Jane Wolfe

Thelemic texts|

* Aleister Crowley bibliography
* The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)
* The Equinox
* Liber 777
* Magick (Book 4)
* Confessions
* The Book of Lies
* "Liber OZ (Liber 77)"
* The Equinox of the Gods
* The Law is for All
* Konx Om Pax
* The Book of Thoth
* The Vision and the Voice
* Little Essays Toward Truth
* Eight Lectures on Yoga
* Magick Without Tears
* The Blue Equinox
* Liber Aleph
* Moonchild
* The Diary of a Drug Fiend
* White Stains
* Clouds without Water
* Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
* The Stratagem and other Stories
* The Holy Books of Thelema
* Thoth Tarot

Concepts and ideas|

* 93
* Abyss
* Aeon
* Agape
* Astral projection
* Body of light
* English Qaballa
* Great Work
* Hermetic Qabalah
* Holy Guardian Angel
* Magical formula
* Night of Pan
* Stele of Revealing
* Stellar wisdom
* True Will

Magick|

* Abrahadabra
* Ceremonial magic
* Enochian magic
* Eroto-comatose lucidity
* Goetia
* Obeah and wanga
* Sex magic

Ceremony and ritual|

* Lesser ritual of the pentagram
* Bornless Ritual
* Gnostic Mass
* Mass of the Phoenix
* Rites of Eleusis

Godforms|

* Nuit
* Hadit
* Heru-ra-ha
* Aiwass
* Therion
* Babalon
* Chaos
* Ma'at
* Harpocrates

Symbolism|

* Number of the beast
* Pentagram
* Rose Cross
* Tree of Life
* Unicursal hexagram

Related topics|

* Abbey of Thelema
* Abramelin oil
* Agape Lodge
* Boleskine House
* Cake of Light
* Choronzon
* Dianism
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* IPSOS
* Magical organization
* Solar Lodge
* The Beast
* Whore of Babylon

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