SourceA. E. in the Fairy-Faith
The poet A. E. supplies a visionary language for the Otherworld.
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Abdiel
The solitary seraph who refuses the rebellion and returns through hostile scorn.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
SourceAbraxas on Gnostic Gems
A cock-headed, serpent-legged figure interpreted through divine emanations.
Historical talisman traditions
Ace of Cups
A cloud-borne cup, water and a descending sacramental emblem give this Ace several symbolic layers.
Western Tarot symbolism
Ace of Pentacles
A cloud-borne pentacle raises a distinction between material prosperity and its benefit.
Western Tarot symbolism
Ace of Swords
A crowned sword represents force whose outcome is not uniformly favourable.
Western Tarot symbolism
Ace of Wands
A hand from a cloud presents the suit's single stout wand.
Western Tarot symbolism
Acheron in Dante’s Journey
The river where the arriving dead assemble for Charon’s crossing.
Dante, Inferno
Adam in Paradise Lost
The human host and questioner whose garden life receives angelic instruction.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Adolphe Willette
Willette’s cover for Paul Delmet’s Nouvelles Chansons appears among the book’s French designs.
Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)SourceAengus Óg
The youthful god associated with the enchanted palace of the Boyne.
Celtic fairy traditions
SourceAffirmation in Raja Yoga
Lesson-ending first-person statements restate the book's teachings as declarations of intention and identity.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Agnello’s Merged Form
A man and serpent lose their distinct outlines in the thieves’ ditch.
Dante, Inferno
SourceAlberigo and the Frozen Tears
The speaker who requests relief from the ice over his eyes but does not receive it.
Dante, Inferno
Albertus Magnus
The scholar whom Redgrove places in his alchemical history while questioning the authenticity of attributed alchemical works.
Medieval learning, Redgrove's historical account
Alchemy
The combination of philosophy, material experiment and spiritual interpretation discussed in Redgrove's Alchemy: Ancient and Modern.
Alchemy, H. Stanley Redgrove's historical account
Alessio of Lucca among the Flatterers
The recognised speaker who attributes his place in the second ditch to excessive flattery.
Dante, Inferno
Alichino and Calcabrina’s Quarrel
The failed pursuit that sends two guardians into their own sticky pool.
Dante, Inferno
Ama-terasu
The Sun Goddess whose presence illuminates the world in Davis's retelling of Japanese mythology.
Japanese mythology, Davis retellingAma-terasu's Retreat into the Cave
The mythic episode in which the Sun Goddess withdraws and an assembly of gods draws her back into the light.
Japanese mythology, Davis retelling
SourceAmenta
The Hidden Land divided into domains of posthumous life.
Egyptian funerary religion
SourceAnanda
The disciple who pleads for women’s admission and grieves at Buddha’s final departure.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
SourceAnimal Life on the Astral Plane
Leadbeater’s account of a short animal afterlife and gradual individualization.
Theosophical astral cosmologySourceAnkh
Egyptian sign of life interpreted as a talisman of creative continuity.
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