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Enochian (/ ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i ə n / ə-NOH-kee-ən) is an occult constructed language [3] —said by its originators to have been received from angels—recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. [4]
The Theban alphabet has not been found in any publications prior to that of Trithemius, [citation needed] and bears little visual resemblance to most other alphabets. [5] There is one-to-one correspondence between Theban and the letters in the old Latin alphabet. The modern characters J and U are not represented.
The right image is the same sigil in cuneiform from the Joy of Satan Ministries, a recreation of the sigil of Baphomet incorporated with cuneiform lettering instead of Hebrew to spell out "Satan", and made after Maxine Dietrich's reinterpretation of the ideology of spiritual Satanism. Sigillum Dei (Seal of God) Europe, late Middle Ages
The Latin version Ave Satanas (in its variant spelling Ave Sathanas), often appears in literature at least from the 1800s, notably in the popular 1895 faustian novel The Sorrows of Satan, [6] and earlier in an 1862 play St. Clement's Eve [7] (in reference to satanic undertakings supposed to take place at midnight in a district of Paris).
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter V.
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.
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Vade retro satana (Ecclesiastical Latin for "Begone, Satan", "Step back, Satan", or "Back off, Satan"; alternatively spelt vade retro satanas, or sathanas), is a medieval Western Christian formula for exorcism, recorded in a 1415 manuscript found in the Benedictine Metten Abbey in Bavaria; [1] [2] its origin is traditionally associated with the ...