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I Ching:

 A chinese system of divination involving sixty-four 'hexagrams' or six-line combinations of unbroken (yang) and broken (yin) lines. It is one of the few categories of Eastern esoteric learning which transfer wholly satisfactorily to the West, without risk of cross-cultural confusion, and it is widely used here.

Imbolg, Imbolc, Oimelc:

 The early Spring Great Sabbat, celebrated on the 2nd of February. It is often known by the name of its Christian equivalent, Candlemas. The name in Gaelic means 'in the belly' - the first stirrings in the womb of Mother Earth.

Incarnation:

 The manifestations of a living entity into physical form; specifically, any one of the earthly lives of an immortal human Individuality in the continuing Reincarnation process.

Individuality:

 The immortal, reincarnating part of a human being, consisting of the Upper Spiritual, Lower Spiritual and Upper Mental levels; contrasted with the Personality, which consists of the Lower Mental, Upper Astral, Lower Astral, Etheric and Physical levels, and which only persists for one Incarnation, a new Personality being built up around th immortal Individuality for each Incarnation. (see also Reincarnation)

Initiate:

1. Someone possessed of a secret or interior knowledge gained through experience.
2. Someone who has approached the occult through systematic training, usually through a lodge or other organization.

(see also Adept)

Initiation:

1. An intense personal experience resulting in an integration or validation of previous personal development.
2. A ritual used to signify entrance or progression in a magical or religious organization, frequently intended to bring about such an intense personal experience.

Used informally to mean the knowledge or access to secret or occult information. Also used to refer to any rite of passage.

Invocation:

 The summoning (or more properly, invitation) of a non-material entity of a higher order of being than oneself. (see Evocation).

Updated August 27th, 1998