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.
Historical talisman traditions
SourceAnnwn
A shadow realm reached through fairy lakes and ruled in different tales by named kings.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
SourceAnnwvyn in Pwyll’s Tale
The otherworld kingdom entered through an exchange of royal appearance and duty.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Antaeus, Bearer of the Travellers
The unfettered giant who lowers Dante and Virgil toward Cocytus.
Dante, Inferno
Antenora, the Second Frozen Round
The part of the ice where the encounter with Bocca leads to accusations of betrayal.
Dante, InfernoSourceAnubis
Guardian of the mummy and guide into the judgment hall.
Egyptian funerary religionSourceApparitions at the Time of Death
Reports of a dying person’s presence interpreted as a visit or a thought-form.
Theosophical astral cosmology
SourceAquarius in Baughan’s astrology
Baughan associates Aquarius with the legs and ankles and the colour sky blue.
Baughan’s historical astrologySourceArawn
The crowned king of Annwn whose white hounds meet Pwyll in the forest.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceArawn
The king of Annwvyn who exchanges kingdoms and appearances with Pwyll.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 editionSourceArianrod
The mother who places conditions on Llew’s name, arms and marriage.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 editionSourceAries in Baughan’s astrology
Baughan associates Aries with the head and face and the colour white.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Arjuna
The Pandava archer whose skill and moral hesitation make him central to the Mahabharata.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Art as Talisman in Yeats
The comparison between symbolic art and a talisman in Yeats’s introduction to A Book of Images.
W. B. Yeats’s introduction to W. T. Horton, A Book of Images (1898)SourceArthur in the Mabinogion
The courtly ruler whose household gathers the companions and quests of Guest’s Welsh romances.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 editionSourceAshvins
The twin divine physicians whose gift of youth earns a place in the gods’ offerings.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Aspiration to Enfold All
The meditation on embracing all humanity and drawing it toward an ideal described in Thought-Forms.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
SourceAstral Body in Thought-Forms
The subtle desire-body through which the authors explain emotional forms and habits.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
SourceAstral Light in Lévi
The image-bearing medium through which Lévi explains visions and magical influence.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental MagicSourceAstral Plane
Theosophy’s intermediate world, divided by states of consciousness and matter.
Theosophical astral cosmologySourceAstral Vision
Claimed perception that sees an object’s interior and several sides at once.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Atalanta Fugiens
Maier’s alchemical emblem book brings engraved images, epigrams, prose and three-voice music into a single sequence.
Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1618)SourceAtomic Sensation
Chemical response is interpreted as rudimentary feeling and inclination in the supplied Raja Yoga text.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga expositionSourceAtum
The self-emerging creator called Tum by Tirard, rising from primordial water in the Heliopolitan creation account.
Egyptian funerary religion
Aubrey Beardsley
The Modern Poster reproduces Beardsley’s Bodley Head design and his Avenue Theatre announcement.
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