Vocab F-J

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Vocab F-J

Familiar

An animal with whom the Witch has a psychic link

Familiar Spirit

An artificial elemental created for a particular function or purpose, a natural entity whose order of being is similar to that of the Elemental, and who agrees to perform a specific immediate or long-term service, and they must also benefit from the relationship, for humanity is the Initiator-not the enslaver-of the lower order of beings

Fascination

The process of creating a reaction in someone using only a projection of personal power or charm

Fetch

A thought form sent to bring something or someone, sometimes used for the summoner or Guardian

Fell

Banefull

Fetish

An object imbued with magical power, an object consecrated to a particular deity

Fumigate

To fill with or expose to incense smoke

Gnomes

The Elemental Order of Earth. The Elemental spirits of the Earth Element

Goetia

Pertaining to non-religious magical methods or systems, hence many forms of spell craft

Great Rite

The Crafts ritual of the Hieros Gamos, or Sacred Marriage of the Goddess and the God. The Marriage of the Divine Polarities, wether symbolic(in the presence of others) or actual(in private and only between established lovers and working partners) it is an essential part of the traditional Wiccan rite of the Third Degree Initiation

Grimoire

Grammar, learning, writings, the book containing one's personal spells , rites, recipes ect, as distinguished from the Book Of Shadows of the Coven or Tradition, the medieval books of magical procedures written by, or ascribed to, famous magicians

Handfasting

A betrothal, a trial marriage of a year and a Day, a Wiccan marriage rite, which should embody the understanding that the union is for as long as love lasts

Hephaestic Transferance

The process of transferring the power or properties of an object to another object by burning the object and rubbing the ashes on the receiving object, traditionally, a way of transferring the power of Signs and Symbols to an object without having to actually write or inscribe those symbols on the object itself and there by risk discovery

Hexagram

Six pointed star formed of conjoined upright and reversed triangles, representing the union of Fire Water and of Male and female the Star of the Macrocosm

High Priest

The male Coven leader and Second or Third degree male witch

High Priestess

The female Coven leader, and second or third degree female witch

Hiving off

When someone of sufficient rank leaves the mother Coven to form there own daughter Coven

Incantation

The embodiment of an entity in a physical form

Incubus

Male wraith form or demon, for the purpose of sexual intercourse

Individuality

The immortal Self, the Higher Self, developed over the course of all ones incantations by the he actualizing of the potential of the Divine Spark, as distinct from the Personality built up in a single incantation

Initiation

A beginning, entrance to

secret ritual by which a Postulant is admitted into membership in the Craft and consecrated as a Priest or priestess, and Witch, involving a symbolic death and rebirth, it is a spiritual rebirth into the Craft, and adoption into the spiritual family of the Coven and of the tradition, as such, initiation links the Initiate to the group mind of the Coven and into the Initiator Current, and Magical Contacts of that particular tradition

Secret ritual by which an initiate is elevated to a higher grade or degree recognizing a level of knowledge, competence and experience, hence often called an Elevation an Inner planes experience which alters one's consciousness and spiritual understanding

Inner Planes

Levels of being or consciousness other than the ordinary, physical or mundane consciousness

Invocation

The Calling in or down, the summoning or invitation of a non-material force or entity of a higher order of being than oneself