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G erald Gardner
Gerald Gardner was the British civil servant, folklorist, and protege of Aleister Crowley who founded the Wiccan religion
in 1954. Gardner blended elements of Ritual magick, traditional European Paganism, and his own personal philosophy into a
new religion he called "Wicca," or "wise."
G eburah
In Kabbalah, the fifth Sphere (sephira) of divine emanation. The word Geburah means severity, and is
paired with Chesed, mercy, on the Tree of Life.
G ehenna
From Jewish history, a place of suffering or torment. Often compared to the Catholic idea of purgatory, a place for the
purification of souls.
G emini
Astrological glyph for Gemini. The third sign of the Zodiac, Gemini is an air sign, and means twins. (Those born under the dates 5/21-6/21 are under
the birth sign of Gemini)
G eomancy
A complex type of divination process using holes poked into fresh earth or sand.
G hedes/Guedes/Gedes
The Ghedes (ancestors) are one of three classifications of Loas in Vodou. They are representatives of the dead and dying, guardians of the threshold
of life and death, cemetaries, and the gateways of rebirth. Their symbols are coffins, phalluses, and crosses. The ghedes
take the appearance of skeletons, and prefer to wear sunglasses while visiting the world of the living. The Ghedes are celebrated
during the Fet Ghede (feast of the ancestors), which marks the New Year.
G nomes
In Alchemical tradition, gnomes are the elemental spirits of earth. They have the appearance of small, mishapen usually
brown men.
G inza
The sacred text of the Mandeans, written in Aramaic. Ginza means "treasure" in that language.
G nosticism
Gnosticism was an early form of Christianity that believed the creation of matter to be flawed, and the creator to be an
evil force. Jesus is equated to the serpent of Eden, and one of the Archons.
G olden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a nineteenth century Masonic-styled initiatory group dedicated to "Hermetic"
magical practice- that is, occult theurgical magick. The group consisted of two orders, patterned after the Kabbalistic Tree
of Life- one outer "occult society" represented by the lower sephiroth, and an inner order of adepts, represented by the upper. The magick of the Golden
Dawn was based on the work of medieval and Elizabethan era kabbalah, ritual magic, and spiritual alchemy, with an emphasis
on the Enochian workings of John Dee and Edward Kelly. The initial teachings of the order were based on a document
known as the "Cipher Manuscript," a coded series of lectures on magick, Tarot, and Kabbalistic gematria. Members of the Golden
Dawn included founders Wynn Westcott, MacGregor Mathers, and William Woodman, as well as Poet WB Yeats, actress Florence Farr,
author Arthur Machen, as well as prominent occultists Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Edward Waite, and Israel Regardie.
G orgon
The Gorgon were legendary monsters of Greek myth, the three fearsome sisters Medusa, Euryale, and Sthenno,
the daughters of sea monsters with fearsome teeth and hair of serpents. It was said that a gorgon could turn a person or living
creature to stone of they looked him or her in the eyes.
G oetia
Goetia (from the Greek, sorcery) most commonly refers to the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of
Solomon (Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis), an anonymous seventeenth century manual on demon invocation popular with eighteenth
century occultists, most notably Aleister Crowley and AE Waite.
The book, cobbled together from a variety of medieval and Renaissance sources, purports to be the magical
manual of the biblical King Solomon, whose legend has long included tales of servant demons conjured by the king to do his
bidding.
The book is divided into five parts: the Ars Goetia (Art of Goetia), the Ars Theurgia Goetia, (art
of theurgic goetia) the Ars Paulina (Art of Paul the apostle), Ars Almadel (Art of the
talisman; an almadel is a magical diagram of the cosmos), and Ars Notoria (The notary art; a previously existing work).
G olem
A golem is a kind of “life size” puppet made out of sand or earth without any strings. It is a very complex
magic and many who try can never learn to create an actual golem. Golems usually take a crude shape or form of a person, sometimes
made to look like the physical appearance of a actual person or creature, normally they can not talk and the creator of the
golem manipulates this sand likeness or figure to make it become animated. They do not think or act of their own free will,
having no soul, they are simply like a very realistic life-like puppet animated by a very skill full person. Golems are very
rare, and well made ones can’t easily be detected as a golem, only a very, very powerful and skillful person could make
one.
G reen Man
The Green Man is known as the Wiccan and or neo-pagan God. Often depicted as a man’s face made
of vines and leaves he is the god of nature, fertility, and all things. It is sometimes thought the Green Man is actually
another form of the Pagan god Cernunnos who takes the shape of half human man, and half stag.
G rimoire
A book also commonly referred to as a Book of Shadows (B.O.S.) a Grimoire is a book or type of diary kept by a witch and
filled with spells, rituals, and their own personal magical journey and experiences.
G rove
A Druid grove is exactly that- a grove of sacred trees, where rituals and religious ceremonies were
performed.
In the modern Druid tradition, Grove refers to a ritual group, or to the setting where rituals are
performed.
G ris-Gris Bags
Gris gris, or "Mojo bags" are small folk magick charms used in the folk practice of Hoodoo. Gris-gris are small cloth bags
or pouches filled with herbs or other ingredients, used as charms for a variety of purposes including protection, attracting
love or money, etc.
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