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  2. List of occult terms - Wikipedia

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    The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". [1] In common usage, occult refers to "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", [2] usually referred to as science.

  3. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Akashic Records: (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life ...

  4. Al-Masih ad-Dajjal - Wikipedia

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    The characteristical one-eye is believed to symbolize spiritual blindness. [citation needed] Thus, the Dajjal, blind to the immanent aspect of God, could only comprehend the transcendent aspect of God's wrath. Hadiths describe the Dajjal as twisting paradise and hell, as he would bring his own paradise and hell with him, but his hell would be ...

  5. Cultural depictions of blindness - Wikipedia

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    One well-known example is the prophet Tiresias, whose blindness is ascribed to various causes. According to one story, it was a punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods; according to another, he was struck blind after accidentally witnessing Athena bathing; in a third, he was blinded by Hera after taking Zeus 's side in a dispute. [ 3 ]

  6. Satan - Wikipedia

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    The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan lacking the article ha-as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries. [56] Nonetheless, the word satan has occasionally been metaphorically applied to evil influences, [57] such as the Jewish exegesis of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5.

  7. Spirit possession - Wikipedia

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    External physical pain caused by Satan or demons. Infestation, which affects houses, objects/things, or animals; and; Subjection, in which a person voluntarily submits to Satan or demons. In the Roman Ritual, true demonic or Satanic possession has been characterized since the Middle Ages, by the following four typical characteristics: [16] [17]

  8. Satanic Verses - Wikipedia

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    Discerning the precise meaning of the word gharāniq has proven difficult, as it is a hapax legomenon (i.e. used only once in the text). Commentators wrote that it meant "the cranes ". The Arabic word does generally mean a "crane" – appearing in the singular as ghirnīq, ghurnūq, ghirnawq and ghurnayq , and the word has cousin forms in other ...

  9. Satanism - Wikipedia

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    Theistic Satanism (also known as traditional Satanism, spiritual Satanism or Devil worship) is a form of Satanism with the primary belief that Satan is an actual deity or force to revere or worship. [ 11 ] [ 253 ] Other characteristics of theistic Satanism may include a belief in magic , which is manipulated through ritual , although that is ...