Familiars
According to English witchcraft handbooks of the early seventeenth century (familiars do not appear in Continental witchcraft trials and literature), the name given to spirits attendant upon witches or magicians.
Familiars
by James Dilworth
A familiar is a spirit or demonic attendant to a magician, sorcerer or witch that does their master's bidding, usually attracted to a person through magical skill, or incantation.
Familiar shapes of the Spirits of Venus.
THey do appear with a fair body, of middle stature, with an amiable and pleasant countenance, of colour white or green, the upper part golden. The motion of them is as it were a most clear Star.
Familiars
Animals supposedly used by Gothic Witches and others to help them with their magic; often believed to be incarnated spirits or the messengers of noncarnate ones.
Fam-Trad ...
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Notebook (1935)
Give a man a reputation as an early riser, and that man can sleep till noon.
Familiar with Judaeo/Christian/Muslim deity but not necessarily of any particular religion. Has some kind of belief in "the Divine".
Familiar Spirits.--Refers to the control of consciousness through the instrument of some invisible agency.
Father-mother God.--The Masculine and Feminine Principles of Being as included in the Androgynous One, or First Cause.
Familiar: Most commonly an animal, a familiar is a witch's working helper. Often advantageous to ritual, they can also become a liability and much thought should be given to taking a familiar.
the familiar Signs of the Zodiac; for the Zodiac is no modern fancy, but was given to the Fourth race of men by the mighty Teachers, and you may read in your own records the names of some of these teachers, one of whom, Asuramaya, ...
The familiar World image with female figure and the four beasts does not occur in the surviving early Tarot decks. However, this symbol appears in all of the Tarot decks in subsequent centuries.
Those familiar with the fundamental principles of Hermetic philosophy will recognize in the Mensa Isiaca the key to Chaldean, Egyptian, and Greek theology.
We are familiar with Hebrew kabala to such an extent, that we assume that this is the only kind of kabala there is. Not so.
* Ensure familiarisation with the surroundings that are being investigated. In order to do this walk around the area for at least 20 minutes ...
J.C. Are you familiar with the growing movement in the Catholic Church to revive the Latin Mass?
Ouroboros; This familiar image of the serpent biting it's own tail is meant to imply infinity. Or, possibly, eternally being stuck in the material cycle.
Paraklete; "Comforter". This is a familiar word used for the Holy Spirit or for the Logos.
We have returned to familiar territory - this is metaphysics bordering on mysticism. Principle. Form. Shape. Line. Separation.
Glenn Greenwald - Salon - "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern (complicity of Jay Rockefeller & Jane Harman)
Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog Peggy Noonan Admits GOP Is Controlled By Fundies, Idiots (from the crazy Jesus Lady) ...
Certainly, had he been familiar with Angels and Spirits, he had not troubled them with such a Question. These indeed are the slips of Philostratus, who had the Art of Lying, but wanted the Art of Memory.
Another factor that an adept has to consider, is whether there are in incarnation those chelas with whom a man has to work and who are karmically linked to him by ancient ties and old familiarity in similar work.
He was familiar with the Rosicrucian manifestos, possessed a copy of the Fama and even penned a request to join the fraternity.
One common form of this which people discuss is the dragon familiar. I don't know that I believe most instances of this, but I do know some occur. The way this works can be one of two possibilities.
He expressed more terror than seemed natural for one who was familiar with the war of elements, and began to look and talk so wildly that his companion became aware that something more than usual was the matter.
and may have built the Temple at Jerusalem; the Etruscans, from whom architecture was learned by the Romans, may, have been Hittites; at the downfall of Rome, the Roman Collegia may have settled in that island on Lake Como, which is familiar at the ...
One of these events was the first voyaging to a populated and barbarous coast where human beings were a familiar article of traffic; and the other the discovery of a new world, where mines of glittering wealth were open, ...
As a consequence, many practitioners as well as teachers of the Wisdom who have previously studied the Theosophical works of Alice Bailey, Madame Blavatsky and/ or Helena Roerich, and are therefore familiar with the terminology used by Lucille ...
This is very evident in the Dii Familiaris system. In this setting, every household had a guardian spirit. This spirit protected the family and was remembered during special occasions. A shrine was often set up for the spirit in the house.
Según los exploradores, los tibetanos estaban muy familiarizados con el festival, y viajaron desde todo el Tibet para la ocasión.
Spirit of Peace A potent Entity and not an abstract concept, wielding forces hitherto unfamiliar to our planet; a Being of tremendous cosmic potency; in a mysterious sense, the Spirit of Equilibrium; He works with the Law of Action and Reaction.
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Light
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