Anathema
This is a Christian term for a person who has been officially cast out or excommunicated. It supposedly was derived from 1 Corinthians 16:22 "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
The Anathema of the Gospel, &c., for all pains and sicknesses
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The Anathema of Mar George .... for fear and trembling ...
Subject: Anathema of Zos, Austin Spare Lines: 450 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 93 09:10:26 PDT ~ANATHEMA OF ZOS~ THE SERMON TO THE HYPOCRITE~ An Automatic Writing By Austin Osman Spare *PREFACE* Do Thy Will l Magickal currents pass as the Great Wheel swings ...
Borrowing from the notorious Anabaptists, whose implication in social and political revolution decades earlier had rendered their name anathema in all respectable circles, Pucci's scheme envisaged "Colleges" being established, ...
You do not need threats, curses, anathemas. It is said that pleasure is easy and that good is difficult. That depends in what part of yourself you are living. Where is the centre of your consciousness?
This very serious form of excommunication was called "anathema" and found ("apostasy, heresy, or schism,") in the Roman Pontifical canon of 1364. So what was Bell, Book and Candle?
This references a person who is actively cultivating spiritual powers (practices which the Roman church strictly anathematized).
Ignoring all the others, and cursing them as false, every special colored ray claims not only priority, but to be that white ray itself, and anathematizes even its own tints from light to dark, as heresies.
Tyagi is one of the great eclectics, and his essays are worth reading for their antinomian perspectives. Anathema Books: Occult Books and Occult Resources I don't normally carry links to commercial sites, but I made this an exception.
The fact that it anathematizes the Scotch Templars, if it is genuine, would indicate a separate organisation of the survivors in Scotland, and therefore explain whence Scotch and English Templary derive.
With the rise of Christianity, Egyptian lore became anathema and many hermetic-magic texts were burned. In 391 the Christian emperor Theodosius forbid the practice of "all pagan cults" and the Serapium in Alexandria was closed.
 See also: Spirit, Christ, World, Light, Sacred
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