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Thelema
Unicursal hexagram
Holy Books and Stele
The Book of the Law
The Holy Books of Thelema
The Stele of Revealing
Key figures
Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
François Rabelais
Aleister Crowley
Jane Wolfe
Karl Germer
Wilfred Talbot Smith
Helen Parsons Smith
Jack Parsons
Phyllis Seckler
Grady McMurtry
Marjorie Cameron
Sara Northrup
Kenneth Grant
Kenneth Anger
Marcelo Ramos Motta
James Lees
Nema Andahadna
Christopher Hyatt
Core concepts
Abrahadabra
Great Work
True Will
The Abyss
Magick
Qabalah
Holy Guardian Angel
Thoth Tarot
Yoga
Gnostic Mass
The Aeon
Methods
Banishing
Body of light
Bornless Ritual
Cake of Light
English Qaballa
Enochian magic
Goetia
Mass of the Phoenix
Night of Pan
Sex magic
Tree of life
Thelemic texts
Aleister Crowley bibliography
Kenneth Grant bibliography
Marcelo Motta bibliography
Thelemic texts
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
Abramelin oil
Agape Lodge
Boleskine House
Choronzon
Dianism
Eroto-comatose lucidity
Magical formulae
Number of the beast
Obeah and wanga
Solar Lodge
Stellar wisdom
Table of magical correspondences
Whore of Babylon
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The terms obeah and wanga are African diasporic words that occur in The Book of the Law (the sacred text of Thelema, written by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904):
Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. (AL I:37).[1]
Obeah is a folk religion and folk magic found among those of African descent in the West Indies. It is derived from West African Igbo sources and has a close North American parallel in African American conjure or hoodoo.
A wanga (sometimes spelled oanga or wanger) is a magical charm packet found in the folk magic practices of Haiti, and as such it is connected to the West African religion of Vodun, which in turn derives from the Fon people of what is now Benin.
terms obeahandwanga are African diasporic words that occur in The Book of the Law (the sacred text of Thelema, written by English author and occultist...
Obeah, also spelled Obiya or Obia, is a broad term for African diasporic religious, spell-casting, and healing traditions found primarily in the former...
of worshipping that subsequently became incorporated into various occult and Western esoteric traditions. The name Baphomet appeared in trial transcripts...
English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the...
that originated in writing with the 16th-century occultists Edward Kelley and John Dee within the latter's occult system of Enochian magic. In the 20th...
voice that the English occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley reported to have heard on April 8, 9, and 10 in 1904. Crowley reported that...
Heinrich Klein, and Franz Hartmann. In its first incarnation, O.T.O. was intended to be modelled after and associated with European Freemasonry and as such in...
commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament...
(Polynesian) Nominalism Nuit Numen (Latin) Numerology, see also Gematria ObeahandWanga Obsession (Spiritism), see also Spirit possession Occultism Odic force...
mystic, occultist, and ceremonial magician. Central to Thelema is the idea of discovering and following one's True Will, a unique purpose and calling that goes...
from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth, and also wrote a 1944 book of that title intended for use with the deck. Crowley...
October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology...
cake of light contains flour, honey, Abramelin oil, olive oil, beeswing, and bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix thereof...
Enochian magic is a system of Renaissance magic developed by John Dee and Edward Kelley and adopted by more modern practitioners. The origins of this esoteric...
manuscript. The three chapters of the book are spoken by the deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Through the reception of the Book, Crowley proclaimed the...
self and the entire universe. Thelemites in touch with their True Will are said to have eliminated or bypassed their false desires, conflicts, and habits...
a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden...
A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced...
characterized by ceremony and numerous requisite accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an extension of ritual magic, and in most cases synonymous...
professionally used the mononym Cameron, was an American artist, poet, actress and occultist. A follower of Thelema, the new religious movement established...
author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. It suffered significant fire damage in December 2015 and again...
author and occultist Aleister Crowley. The spelling of the name as "Babalon" was revealed to Crowley in The Vision and the Voice. Her name and imagery...