Appendix

Word List

This list gives the house form of terms the field uses constantly, as they are written in the writer’s own prose, and for these terms it overrides the dictionary. Quoted matter and the titles of works keep the forms of their sources. A term not listed follows the work’s dictionary and chapter 3 (see 3.2).

Numerals and Symbols

∴ the three-dot mark, U+2234; not a period; not ∵ (U+2235), ⁖ (U+2056), or three periods (2.5, 3.16, 4.51, 8.8)
5°=6□ grade notation, closed up, with the degree sign and the white square, the square raised as a superscript in typeset work; not 5° = 6□, 5=6, V°=VI□, 5º=6☐ (2.5, 3.31, 4.55)
93 in numerals in every position; not ninety-three; the salutation 93 93/93 keeps its slash (3.21, 3.54)
156 in numerals in every position (3.54)
418 in numerals in every position; never a siglum: VV, not 418, for The Vision and the Voice (3.54, 8.14)
666 in numerals in every position; not DCLXVI (3.54)
777 the siglum of Liber 777, italic, in references only, and the one siglum that is a numeral alone: 777 col. 14, row 6, p. 4; in running text the title, Liber 777 (3.49, 6.37, 8.9, 8.14, 8.34)

A

A∴A∴ the only form, closed up, never divided at a line end; possessive A∴A∴’s; with or without the, used consistently; files as though written AA; not A.A., AA, A.'.A.'. (2.5, 3.8, 3.15, 3.16, 3.30, 7.15, 8.8, 8.9)
Abrahadabra received form; not Abracadabra (2.27, 3.4)
Abramelin italic for the book; Mathers’s Abramelin (1898) and the translations from German manuscripts are different texts (6.51)
Abyss the Abyss, capitalized; lowercase in ordinary senses: an abyss of doubt (3.40)
Achad, Frater Frater Achad, the motto of Charles Stansfeld Jones; in a note or text citation Frater Achad, not Achad; in a bibliography or reference list Achad, Frater (3.28, 5.8, 5.16, 5.56)
AD, BC only in quoted matter (3.59)
Adeptus Minor grade name, roman; with its notation at first mention: Adeptus Minor (5°=6□); not Ad. Min. (3.31, 8.28)
Adjustment Atu VIII in the Thoth deck; trump VIII in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck is Strength (3.39, 6.45)
Adonai received form, roman; a title that prints it in Hebrew keeps the Hebrew (3.37, 4.16, 4.17)
Aeon, aeon received Greek form; capitalized in the name of an aeon: the Aeon of Horus, the New Aeon; lowercase in general use: the formula of each aeon; adj. aeonic; not eon in any Thelemic sense; eon for geological and ordinary time (3.4, 3.41, 4.21)
Aethyr capitalized; pl. Aethyrs; the name in the source’s capitals: the tenth Aethyr, ZAX; not Zax (4.36, 6.31)
Agape received Greek form, roman, without a macron; ΑΓΑΠΗ in an argument from its value (4.8, 4.21)
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius thereafter Agrippa; author of De Occulta Philosophia (1533) (3.23, 4.40, 5.20)
Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur the three veils, received forms; Ein Sof in writing on Jewish sources (4.12)
Aiwass the house form; Aiwaz only in quotation, or where a work treats the two spellings as distinct (3.4, 3.35, 7.26)
AL siglum for Liber AL vel Legis, roman, with a locus: AL 2:9; not AL II:9, AL 2.9 (6.13, 6.29, 8.13, 8.29)
alchemy, astrology lowercase (3.42)
Aleph the Hebrew letter א, romanized ʾ (4.13)
ALM siglum for the manuscript of Liber AL, Liber XXXI; only where a statement rests on the manuscript (6.21, 8.30)
Alpha et Omega a body distinct from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Stella Matutina (2.42, 6.48)
Angel the Angel, for the Holy Guardian Angel; angels and spirits lowercase (3.35, 3.40, 3.85)
Angelical Dee’s name for the language; usable for Dee’s own material where the distinction matters, said at first use (4.35)
Ankh-af-na-khonsu the figure of the Thelemic texts; Ankhefenkhonsu for the historical priest; the Tunis Comment is signed Ankh-f-n-khonsu (4.26, 6.33, 6.42)
Anno in full, closed up to its numerals: Anno IVxxi; a zero as 0: Anno V0; not Anno IV xxi, An. IVxxi (3.61, 3.63)
antinomian, transgressive cautioned: name the law or norm in question; antinomian closed (3.7, 3.93)
ARARITA the notariqon, in capitals beside its Hebrew; the book is Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita (4.8, 8.29)
Arbatel italic; cited by aphorism: Arbatel, aphorism 7 (6.51)
archetype cautioned: say whose, Jungian, Platonic, or a general typology (3.93)
Art Atu XIV in the Thoth deck; trump XIV in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck is Temperance (3.39, 6.18, 6.45)
asana roman, without diacritics (4.31)
Asclepius italic; no siglum, the title in full; cited by section: Asclepius 41 (6.49, 8.37)
Atbash a cipher of temurah, capitalized; named at the first use of the operation: by Atbash, ששך (Sheshach) yields בבל (Babel) (6.67)
Atu before a trump’s roman number in a Thelemic context: Atu XIV; trump elsewhere; not Atu 14 (3.39, 3.52, 6.45)
Ayin the Hebrew letter ע, romanized ʿ (4.13)

B

Babalon received form; not Babylon for the Thelemic figure (3.4, 3.36)
barbarous name a name of power in no language a reader could consult; roman, exactly as the source prints it; never divided at a line end (2.27, 3.8, 3.11)
Beast the Beast, capitalized as an epithet (3.35)
Beth the Hebrew letter ב, romanized b or v (4.13)
Binah the same form in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.3, 4.11)
Blue Equinox the Blue Equinox, capitalized and roman, the popular name of the 1919 number; cited by volume and number, never by the name alone: The Equinox, vol. 3, no. 1 (6.35, 6.36)
The Book of Lies cited by page, with the chapter in arabic before it: The Book of Lies, ch. 25, p. 60; after a possessive, Crowley’s Book of Lies (3.48, 6.19, 6.38)
Book of the Dead roman; BD, by spell number, with the papyrus and the translation named: BD 125, in the Papyrus of Ani (6.18, 6.55, 8.37)
Book of the Law the English title of Liber AL vel Legis, without the article: the Book of the Law, with The capitalized only at the start of a sentence; not The Book of the Law within a sentence, except as the title of a printing so published; roman within a feast’s name (3.49, 3.66, 6.29)
Boulaq Museum the form of the name; the Stèle of Revealing bore its catalog number 666 (6.42)
Brother in full; the Masonic Bro. only in quoted matter and in titles (8.25)

C

Cabala, Cabalistic the Christian Cabala of the Renaissance and early modern period; indexed as Cabala (Christian) where the work also discusses Kabbalah or Qabalah (3.5, 7.2)
Call capitalized: the First Call, the Calls; cited by number, naming the numbering followed (4.37, 6.52)
Casaubon, Meric his printing of Dee’s later records, A True & Faithful Relation (1659), is cited as Casaubon’s text (4.50, 6.52, 8.38)
CE, BCE full capitals, no periods, after the year; no expansion needed at first use; EV in place of CE in a work that gives Anno dates (3.59, 8.4, 8.8)
Chesed in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Ḥesed (simplified Hesed) in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.11)
Cheth the Hebrew letter ח, romanized ḥ (4.13)
Chokmah in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Ḥokhmah (simplified Hokhmah) in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.3, 4.11)
Choronzon Coronzon in Dee’s records; give the form of the source used and name the source (4.35)
chthonic cautioned: the underworld or the earth, not darkness in general (3.93)
Class A Class and a capital letter, roman, no period; Class AB as printed; never the letter alone, except in a table column headed Class (3.40, 6.8, 8.6)
Comment, Comments never the Comment alone: name the Old, New, Djeridensis, or Tunis Comment; the Comments collectively (6.33, 8.31)
Corpus Hermeticum roman, without an author; CH, treatise and section in arabic: CH 13.1; not CH XIII.1 (6.49, 8.37)
court cards Knight, Queen, Prince, Princess in the Thoth deck; King, Queen, Knight, Page in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck (6.45)
Crowley, Aleister thereafter Crowley; possessive Crowley’s; not AC (3.15, 3.22, 8.26)
Crowned and Conquering Child capitalized as an epithet (3.35)
cult never of a living community in the writer’s own voice (3.86)

D

Daath received form, not counted among the ten; Daʿat (simplified Daat or Da‘at) in writing on Jewish Kabbalah; not Da'at (4.11, 4.52)
Daleth the Hebrew letter ד, romanized d (4.13)
Daodejing roman, in Pinyin; older romanizations only in quotation and titles: Crowley’s Tao Teh King (4.32)
degree O.T.O. degrees in capital roman numerals: IX°, not 9° or IX; Masonic degrees in arabic: 3°; no comma after a name; the body named wherever Masonic, O.T.O., and A∴A∴ degrees or grades are in view together (3.14, 3.33, 3.34, 3.52, 6.53)
dharana roman, without diacritics (4.31)
dhyana roman, without diacritics (4.31)
Disks the Thoth deck’s suit, where the Rider–Waite–Smith deck has Pentacles: the Princess of Disks (3.39, 6.45)
Djeridensis Comment DjC; cited by the verse commented on: DjC on AL 1:40 (6.33, 8.31)
docosade lowercase; a period of twenty-two Thelemic years, numbered from 0 (3.9, 3.61)

E

Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica roman; E.G.C., with periods, after first mention (3.10, 3.30, 8.8, 8.27)
egregore cautioned: say that the term is modern and its history contested (3.93)
Eheieh received form; AHIH only in quotation or beside the Hebrew as a key to its spelling (3.37, 4.16)
Ein Sof in writing on Jewish sources; Ain Soph for the Hermetic and Thelemic veil (4.12)
El received form, roman (3.37, 4.16)
elements lowercase: fire, water, air, and earth (3.38)
Elohim received form, roman (3.37, 4.16)
emphasis italics, sparingly; never bold type or capitals in running prose; emphasis added to a quotation is marked (emphasis added), and none is added to a received text (3.9, 3.74)
energy, energetic cautioned: say whether the sense is literal, figurative, or a practitioner’s report (3.93)
English Qabalah pl. English Qabalahs; name the system meant, never the English Qabalah alone; the English Qaballa (EQ) is one such system, in its own spelling (3.5, 6.63)
English Qaballa the system of English letter values first worked out by James Lees in 1976; two l’s and no final h; with EQ at first use: the English Qaballa (EQ); not English Qabalah where EQ is meant (3.5, 6.63)
Enochian the language, script, and magical system of Dee’s and Kelley’s records and their later development; a word in running text italic, a name roman; the script never set in type (4.35, 4.36, 4.39)
Enochian letters capitalized, roman, as table 4.4 names them, with the Latin value at first mention: Gisg (T); the letterforms never set in type (4.38, 4.39)
Eq italic, no period: Eq 3.10; a page after a comma: Eq 1.1, 25; not Eq. 3.10, Eq III.10; The Equinox in running text and bibliographies (6.35, 8.32)
The Equinox with its italic article; volume and number in arabic: The Equinox, vol. 3, no. 10; a passage located by the page of that number, given after the year and a colon: in The Equinox, vol. 1, no. 1 (1909): 25 (3.48, 3.51, 6.19, 6.35)
Equinox of the Gods the name Thelemites give to the opening of the New Aeon in 1904, capitalized; The Equinox of the Gods for Crowley’s book (3.41)
esoteric cautioned: not interchangeable with occult or mystical; say which is meant (3.93)
EV the common era in a work that gives Anno dates, after the year; expanded once as era vulgaris; not e.v., E.V. outside quotation; never EV for English version (3.59, 8.21)

F

feast the name capitalized in title case, taken from AL 2:36–43 and never shortened in formal prose: the Feast for the Equinox of the Gods (3.66)
Flying Roll cited by its number as printed: Flying Roll No. V (3.52, 6.48)
formula pl. formulas; not formulae (3.4)
Fortune, Dion Dion Fortune, the pen name of Violet Mary Firth, in prose and in citation; thereafter Fortune; The Mystical Qabalah, not The Mystical Kabbalah (2.6, 3.22, 3.24, 5.15)
Frater capitalized, roman, before a motto, with no comma: Frater Achad; Fra. only where space requires, as in tables and lists, not Fr.; lowercase used generically (3.14, 3.26, 8.25)
Frater Superior capitalized as the title of an office, before a name or standing for its holder; lowercase for a role in general (3.29)
Fratres, Sorores the plurals, never abbreviated (8.25)

G

Geburah in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Gevurah in writing on Jewish Kabbalah; ve-Geburah as a ritual prints it (3.5, 3.78, 4.11)
gematria lowercase, roman; values in arabic numerals; the system named at the first value: Hebrew gematria (3.55, 6.58)
Ghāyat al-ḥakīm the Arabic text, distinct from the Latin Picatrix; cited by book and chapter; the title given once where the Picatrix is cited; not Ghāyah al-ḥakīm (4.30, 6.51)
Gimel the Hebrew letter ג, romanized g (4.13)
gnosis lowercase, roman; Gnosticism capitalized; cautioned: say which sense (3.42, 3.93, 4.21)
Gnostic Mass capitalized, roman; its text is Liber XV (3.45)
god-form lowercase, hyphenated: the god-form of Harpocrates (3.7, 3.35)
Goetia italic; a spirit by number and name together: Goetia, spirit 1, Bael (6.18, 6.51)
Golden Dawn the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn at first mention, then the Golden Dawn; not GD or HOGD; G∴D∴ or G.D. only as a source prints it; Golden Dawn–derived (3.16, 3.17, 3.30, 8.27)
Governor capitalized, of the Enochian Governors; a Governor’s name roman, in the capitalization of the source edition (4.36)
grade name and notation at first mention; the system named wherever both the Golden Dawn and the A∴A∴ are in view; the name never abbreviated (3.31, 3.32, 8.28)
Great Work the Great Work, capitalized; lowercase in ordinary senses: the work of the lodge (3.40)
Greek Magical Papyri capitalized; PGM, the papyrus in roman and the lines in arabic: PGM IV.475–829 (3.52, 6.56, 8.37)
grimoire roman, lowercase; pl. grimoires; a grimoire has no siglum and is cited by manuscript or named edition, never by its title alone (3.4, 3.10, 6.51, 8.38)

H

Hadit received theonym (3.35, 3.36)
Harpocrates the Egyptian god; Hoor-paar-kraat for the Thelemic deity (3.36, 4.26)
Hebrew letters the house names, capitalized and roman, in all writing on the Hermetic and Thelemic systems; one set of names throughout a work (3.39, 4.13)
Heh the Hebrew letter ה, romanized h (4.13)
Hermetic, Hermeticism capitalized; hermetically sealed, lowercase (3.42)
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn the full name at first mention; never abbreviated; a body distinct from its Second Order, the Stella Matutina, and the Alpha et Omega; files under the full name (2.42, 3.30, 6.48, 7.20, 8.27)
Heru-ra-ha received theonym (3.36)
Hierophant the card, Atu V, capitalized; the title of an office capitalized where it stands for the holder in a particular body: the Hierophant opened the temple; lowercase for a role in general (3.29, 3.39)
Hod the same form in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.11)
Holy Books capitalized and roman as the body of texts; The Holy Books of Thelema, in italics, is the subtitle of both controlling editions (3.40, 6.6, 6.10)
Holy Guardian Angel capitalized; the Angel for short; no gendered pronoun; indexed uninverted, not Angel, Holy Guardian (3.40, 3.85, 7.2)
Hoor-paar-kraat received theonym; Harpocrates for the Egyptian god; Hoor-pa-kraat only in quoting AL 3:35 (3.36, 4.26)
Hymenaeus Alpha, Hymenaeus Beta office-names, whole at every mention; not Hymenaeus, nor Beta; files uninverted, on Hymenaeus (3.29, 5.16, 7.18)

I

IAO roman, never italic (3.37)
Iehi Aour, Frater Frater Iehi Aour, Allan Bennett’s motto; not Yehi Or (2.27, 2.39)
IHVH only in quotation; YHVH or YHWH by subject (4.16)
initiatory cautioned: name the initiation in question (3.93)
isopsephy lowercase, roman: Greek isopsephy (3.55, 6.58)

J

Jehovah only in quotation; YHVH or YHWH by subject (4.16)
Justice trump XI in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck; Atu XI in the Thoth deck is Lust (6.45)

K

Kabbalah, Kabbalistic the Jewish tradition and its texts; indexed as Kabbalah (Jewish) where the work also discusses Qabalah or Cabala (3.5, 7.2)
Kaph the Hebrew letter כ, final ך, romanized k or kh (4.13)
Kether in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Keter in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.3, 4.11)
Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel capitalized (3.40)
The Kybalion cited under its byline, Three Initiates, which files under Three; short title Kybalion; an attribution to a person goes in the text, not the citation (5.17)

L

Lamed the Hebrew letter ל, romanized l (4.13)
Laozi in Pinyin; not Lao Tzu, except in quotation and titles (4.32)
Law of Thelema capitalized (3.40)
LBRP the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, expanded at first use; with the article: after the LBRP (3.45, 6.44, 8.11, 8.33)
left-hand path the noun; before a noun, a left-hand-path initiation (3.7)
Lemegeton italic; its parts, such as the Ars Goetia, are separate works and cited separately (6.51)
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram capitalized, roman; LBRP after first use (3.45, 6.44, 8.33)
Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram capitalized, roman; LIRP after first use (3.45, 6.44, 8.33)
Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram capitalized, roman; named in full, or by a siglum the work defines (3.45, 8.14, 8.33)
Lévi, Éliphas Éliphas Lévi, with both accents, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant; files as Levi (3.24, 7.24)
Liber pl. Libri; italic as part of a title and never abbreviated: Liber AL; the manuscript of Liber AL is Liber XXXI (3.46, 6.21, 8.24)
Liber 49 received by John Whiteside Parsons in 1946; a received text, cited with no author; not Liber XLIX (3.49, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4)
Liber LXV short title of Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente vel LXV sub figurâ אדני, the Hebrew kept in its script; siglum Cor; not Liber 65 (3.49, 4.17, 8.29)
Liber 777 siglum 777, italic, in references only; cited by page, with column and row before it: 777 col. 14, row 6, p. 4; in running text the title, never 777 alone (3.49, 6.19, 6.37, 8.9, 8.14, 8.34)
Liber A’ash in full Liber A’ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici sub figurâ CCCLXX; English title The Book of Creation or of the Goat of the Spirit; Aash, with chapter 1 supplied: Aash 1:0 to Aash 1:39 (6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber ABA Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four; part 3 is Magick in Theory and Practice; cited by page, with part and chapter before it: Liber ABA, pt. 3, ch. 4, p. 155 (6.19, 6.34)
Liber AL vel Legis in full Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX; short titles Liber AL, Liber Legis, Liber CCXX; early printings Liber L. vel Legis; no article (3.46, 3.48, 3.49, 6.22, 6.29)
Liber Aleph short title of Liber Aleph vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly; cited by page, with the section number before it and the section’s heading at first mention: Liber Aleph, section 5, p. 5 (5.19, 6.19, 6.39)
Liber Arcanorum in full Liber Arcanorum τῶν ATU τοῦ TAHUTI QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI sub figurâ CCXXXI Liber Carcerorum τῶν QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum; one book that is both Liber CCXXXI and Liber XXII; ARC, with chapter 1 supplied: ARC 1:0 to ARC 1:21 (6.14, 8.29, 8.34)
Liber B vel Magi in full Liber B vel Magi sub figurâ I; English title The Book of the Magus; Magi, with chapter 1 supplied; its first verse is numbered 00 and its second 0: Magi 1:00, Magi 1:0, in that order; not Magi 1:0 for the first verse (6.14, 8.29)
Liber Carcerorum the second title of Liber Arcanorum, under which it is Liber XXII; cited as ARC (8.29, 8.34)
Liber Cheth in full Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni sub figurâ CLVI; English title The Wall of Abiegnus; Chet, with chapter 1 supplied: Chet 1:1 to Chet 1:22 (6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente in full Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente vel LXV sub figurâ אדני, the Hebrew upright and in its own script, not ADNI, Adonai; English title The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent; short title Liber LXV; Cor, cited by chapter and verse: Cor 3:12 (3.46, 3.49, 4.17, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber HAD Liber DLV; siglum HAD, roman (8.13, 8.34)
Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli in full Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, Adumbratio Kabbalæ Ægyptiorum sub figurâ VII, with its ligatures; not Kabbalae Aegyptiorum; English title The Book of Lapis Lazuli; LLL, cited by chapter and verse: LLL 1:5; a verse of the Prologue of the Unborn with P in place of the chapter: LLL P:3, not LLL Prologue 3 or LLL 0:3 (3.47, 4.51, 6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber Libræ Liber XXX; The Vision and the Voice, though its title begins Liber XXX Ærum, is Liber CCCCXVIII (8.34)
Liber NU Liber XI; siglum NU, roman (8.13, 8.34)
Liber OZ Liber LXXVII; siglum OZ, roman (8.13, 8.34)
Liber Porta Lucis in full Liber Porta Lucis sub figurâ X; English title The Gate of Light; Por, with chapter 1 supplied: Por 1:1 to Por 1:22 (6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber Resh short title of Liber Resh vel Helios sub figurâ CC; as a generic description, the adorations it prescribes are lowercase: the daily adorations (3.44, 3.45, 3.49, 8.34)
Liber Samekh cited by its own title, with its place in Liber ABA (appendix 4) added where it helps; for the ancient rite it is based on, cite PGM V.96–172 (6.34, 6.56)
Liber Stellæ Rubeæ in full Liber Stellæ Rubeæ sub figurâ LXVI, with its ligatures; English title The Book of the Ruby Star; Stel, with chapter 1 supplied: Stel 1:1 to Stel 1:66; the four stanzas printed after Stel 1:14 belong to that verse (3.47, 6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber Tau in full Liber Tau vel Kabbalæ Trium Literarum sub figurâ CD; Tau, a single plate, cited as a whole: (Tau); not Tau 1:2 for a line of it (6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
Liber Trigrammaton in full Liber Trigrammaton sub figurâ XXVII; English title The Book of the Trigrams of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang; Tri, with chapter 1 supplied and its twenty-seven verses numbered from 0 in the order printed: Tri 1:0, the verse beneath three points, to Tri 1:26; not Tri 1:1 for the first verse; neither Crowley’s letters for the trigrams nor a trigram’s numerical value is a reference; a trigram is reproduced as an image, never as a character such as ☰ (4.41, 6.14, 6.30, 6.58, 8.29)
Liber Tzaddi in full Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus sub figurâ XC; English title The Book of the Hermetic Fish-Hook; Tza, with chapter 1 supplied: Tza 1:44, not Tza 44; a verse numbered 0 is cited as 0: Tza 1:0 (6.14, 6.30, 8.29)
liminal cautioned: name the threshold and the states on either side of it (3.93)
LIRP the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram, expanded at first use; with the article: after the LIRP (6.44, 8.11, 8.33)
lodge lowercase unless part of a name or title or used as a proper noun: the Black Lodge (3.30)
Logos received Greek form, roman; logos for the romanized Greek word (4.20, 4.21)
Lust Atu XI in the Thoth deck; trump XI in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck is Justice (3.39, 6.45)
lwa the spirits of Haitian Vodou; lowercase, roman; loa only in quotation (2.45, 3.87)

M

magic the phenomenon in other traditions and in historical or anthropological discussion, the magic of the Golden Dawn and of Crowley’s other sources included (3.6)
magical the adjective in every sense; not magickal, except in quotations and titles (3.6)
magical alphabets Enochian, Theban, Malachim, Celestial, and Passing the River, capitalized; never set in type; name which of Malachim, Celestial, and Passing the River is meant (4.39, 4.40)
magick lowercase, for the practice as Crowley and Thelemic writers name it; Magick only where a title or quotation has it (3.6)
Magick Without Tears cited by page, with the number the named edition gives the letter before it: Magick Without Tears, letter 5, p. 52; no standing siglum, MWT only where a work defines it (6.19, 6.40, 8.13, 8.14)
Magister Templi grade name: Magister Templi (8°=3□) (3.31)
Malkuth in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Malkhut in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.11)
The Master Therion the name under which Crowley published Magick in Theory and Practice; in a bibliography, Crowley, Aleister [The Master Therion]; in an index, Master Therion, The. See Crowley, Aleister (3.24, 5.15, 7.19)
Mathers, S. L. MacGregor initials spaced; possessive Mathers’s; beside Moina Mathers, a fuller form for each at every mention (3.15, 3.22, 8.9)
Mem the Hebrew letter מ, final ם, romanized m (4.13)
Minerval the O.T.O. degree 0° (3.33)
motto set in roman, without italics or quotation marks, as its bearer wrote it (3.25)
mystical cautioned: not interchangeable with occult or esoteric; say which is meant (3.93)

N

Nag Hammadi Codices NHC, without periods; the codex in roman and the tractate in arabic, joined by a comma with no space: NHC II,3; not N.H.C. (3.52, 8.8, 8.9, 8.13, 8.37)
neo-Thelemic hyphenated; likewise post-Thelemic (3.7)
Neophyte grade name: Golden Dawn 0°=0□, A∴A∴ 1°=10□; name the system (3.32, 7.9)
Neoplatonism closed and capitalized, as the dictionary has it; not neo-Platonism (3.7, 3.42)
Netzach in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Netsaḥ (simplified Netsah) in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.11)
New Comment NC; cited by the verse commented on: NC on AL 2:9 (6.33, 8.31)
niyama italic at first use, then roman (4.31)
notariqon lowercase, roman; named at first use, with the working shown in script (4.8, 6.67)
Nuit received theonym, the goddess of Liber AL; Nut for the Egyptian goddess (2.44, 3.35, 3.36, 7.26)
numinous cautioned: say whether Rudolf Otto’s sense is meant (3.93)
Nun the Hebrew letter נ, final ן, romanized n (4.13)
Nut the Egyptian sky goddess; Nuit for the goddess of Liber AL (2.44, 3.36, 4.26, 7.26)

O

oath-bound hyphenated; nothing of such material is quoted, and its content is never disclosed by paraphrase, summary, or allusion (2.34, 6.72, 6.74)
occult cautioned: not interchangeable with esoteric or mystical; say which is meant; the occult revival, lowercase (3.42, 3.93)
office-name hyphenated; written whole and set in roman (3.29)
Old Comment OC; cited by the verse commented on: OC on AL 1:40 (6.33, 8.31)
order lowercase unless part of a name or title or used as a proper noun, as are lodge, temple, and church: the order’s first lodges; the Order of the Golden Dawn (3.30)
Ordo Templi Orientis roman; O.T.O. after first mention (3.10, 3.30, 8.27)
O.T.O. with periods, closed up; possessive O.T.O.’s; with or without the, used consistently; not OTO, O. T. O. (3.15, 3.30, 8.8, 8.9)
Outer Head of the Order capitalized as the title of an office; lowercase for a role in general: the heads of several orders (3.29)

P

Pagan, pagan Pagan for the modern religious identity; pagan in historical and descriptive senses (3.86)
Paraphrase capitalized: Crowley’s verse Paraphrase of the inscriptions of the Stèle of Revealing, cited by the page of a named printing, with the line before it (6.19, 6.42)
path lowercase; in prose, the ordinal spelled out: the twenty-fifth path; in references and tables, numbered 11 to 32 in arabic: path 28 (Tzaddi); the attribution named where systems differ (3.39, 6.46)
Peh the Hebrew letter פ, final ף, romanized p or f (4.13)
Pentacles the Rider–Waite–Smith deck’s suit, where the Thoth deck has Disks (6.45)
Perdurabo, Frater Frater Perdurabo (“I will endure to the end”), Crowley’s motto; roman, not italic or in quotation marks (3.19, 3.25)
Philosophus grade name, 4°=7□ in both the Golden Dawn and the A∴A∴ (3.32)
Picatrix the Latin text, distinct from the Arabic Ghāyat al-ḥakīm; cited by book and chapter (4.30, 6.51)
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni thereafter Pico (3.23)
Practicus grade name, 3°=8□ in both the Golden Dawn and the A∴A∴ (3.32)
practitioner voice lowercase; a sentence that speaks from within a tradition, on its terms; a work in it says so (2.32, 2.33)
praeterhuman closed (3.7)
pranayama roman, without diacritics (4.31)
pratyahara italic at first use, then roman; pratyāhāra in full romanization (4.5, 4.31)
Probationer the A∴A∴ grade 0°=0□ (3.32)
profane, cowan, uninitiated not in the writer’s own voice: a reader new to the practice, not the uninitiated reader (3.90)
Prophet the Prophet, for Crowley, only in quotation or with attribution in the scholarly voice (3.91)
pseudo- lowercase and hyphenated, before the name a work circulated under where scholarship distinguishes the later author: pseudo-Geber (3.7, 6.50)
psychology, theology cautioned: make clear that the claim is of that kind (3.93)

Q

Qabalah, Qabalistic the Hermetic and Thelemic tradition; indexed as Qabalah (Hermetic and Thelemic) where the work also discusses Kabbalah or Cabala (3.5, 7.2)
Qliphoth received form, capitalized; qelipot, lowercase, in writing on Jewish sources; not Qliphot (3.4, 4.12)
Qoph the Hebrew letter ק, romanized q (4.13)

R

Ra-Hoor-Khuit received theonym; Ra-Horakhty for the Egyptian god; variant spellings in Liber AL, such as Ra-Hoor-Khu (AL 3:11) and Ra-Hoor-Khut (AL 3:35), only in quotation (2.27, 3.35, 3.36)
Ra-Horakhty the Egyptian god; Ra-Hoor-Khuit for the deity of Liber AL (3.36, 4.26)
received text lowercase; a text its tradition presents as received; it takes no author in a citation (6.2, 6.3)
Resh the Hebrew letter ר, romanized r (4.13)
Rider–Waite–Smith with en dashes, not hyphens; the deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith (2.17, 3.17, 6.45)

S

samadhi roman, without diacritics (4.31)
Samekh the Hebrew letter ס, romanized s (4.13)
Scarlet Woman the Scarlet Woman, capitalized as an epithet (3.35)
scholarly voice lowercase; reports a tradition’s claims as claims, attributed to those who hold them (2.32, 3.88)
Sefer Yetzirah roman; SY, by chapter and mishnah with the recension named: SY 1:1 (short recension); Westcott’s translation is Sepher Yetzirah (4.3, 4.14, 6.54, 8.37)
sefirah, sefirot lowercase, in writing on Jewish Kabbalah; not sefiroth (4.12)
self-initiation hyphenated, as compounds with self- are (3.7)
Sepher Sephiroth Crowley’s lexicon of values; a value taken from it is cited to it (6.64)
Sephirah, Sephiroth capitalized, in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; not Sephirot (3.4, 4.12)
Shaddai El Chai received form; ShDI AL ChI only in quotation or beside the Hebrew as a key (3.37, 4.16)
shadow cautioned: say whether the sense is Jungian (3.93)
Shekhinah roman, capitalized: the Shekhinah (3.37, 4.7)
Shin the Hebrew letter ש, romanized sh, or ś for sin (4.13)
sigil lowercase; reproduced as an image, never as font text (2.10, 4.41)
Sol, Luna names, capitalized; in an astrological date, Sol and Luna or Sun and Moon, one choice throughout a work (3.38, 3.65)
Soror capitalized, roman, before a motto, with no comma: Soror Virakam; Sor. only where space requires, as in tables and lists, not Sr. (3.26, 8.25)
S.R.M.D. Mathers’s motto, every point kept; expanded once: S.R.M.D. (’S Rioghail Mo Dhream); not SRMD (3.25, 3.27, 7.17, 8.8, 8.26)
Star Ruby capitalized, roman, as a ritual; its text is Liber XXV (3.45)
Star Sapphire capitalized, roman, as a ritual; its text is Liber XXXVI (3.45, 8.34)
Stèle of Revealing capitalized, roman, with the grave accent; not the Stele of Revealing; stélé only in quotation; catalog number 666 of the Boulaq Museum (6.42)
Stella Matutina a body distinct from the Golden Dawn (2.42, 6.48)
Strength trump VIII in the Rider–Waite–Smith deck; Atu VIII in the Thoth deck is Adjustment (3.39, 6.45)
sub figurâ lowercase, with the circumflex, italic within a Liber title; never abbreviated; not Sub Figura, s.f. (3.46, 8.24)
Sun, Moon capitalized as astrological bodies, or as astronomical bodies named with the planets; the sun rose, in ordinary senses (3.38)
Supernal Triad capitalized: Kether, Chokmah, and Binah (4.3)

T

Tao, Taoism the dictionary’s forms; not Dao, Daoism; titles and names in Pinyin: the Daodejing, Laozi (4.32)
Tau the Hebrew letter ת, romanized t (4.13)
temurah lowercase, roman; the cipher named: Atbash, Albam, or Aiq Bekar (6.67)
Teth the Hebrew letter ט, romanized ṭ (4.13)
Tetragrammaton capitalized; YHVH or YHWH by subject; its letters spelled Yod Heh Vau Heh (4.16)
Thelema capitalized, roman, without a macron; thelēma for the romanized Greek word (3.40, 4.21)
Thelemic capitalized (3.40)
Thelemite capitalized; never applied to a person who did not use the word of themselves (3.40, 3.89)
Theoricus the Golden Dawn grade 2°=9□ (3.32)
Theosophy, theosophy Theosophy, of the Theosophical Society; theosophy in general, as Jacob Böhme’s (3.42)
Therion received form, roman, without a macron (3.36, 4.21)
Thoth the Egyptian god; the Thoth deck, or Thoth tarot, painted by Frieda Harris; The Book of Thoth is a separate work (2.17, 4.26, 6.45)
Tiphareth in Hermetic and Thelemic contexts; Tifʾeret (simplified Tiferet) in writing on Jewish Kabbalah; not Tiphereth (3.4, 3.5, 4.11)
To Mega Therion Crowley’s motto, without a macron; files under T, on its article (4.21, 7.16)
The Treasure-House of Images Liber ΘΕΣΑΥΡΟΥ ἘΙΔΩΛΩΝ, Liber DCCCCLXIII; siglum THI, italic, as a book’s siglum is (8.13, 8.34)
Tree of Life capitalized; its paths numbered from 11 to 32 (6.46)
True Will capitalized; every other will lowercase; where the True Will is meant, write True Will, not Will; indexed uninverted, not Will, True (3.40, 7.2)
trump lowercase; before the roman number outside Thelemic contexts: trump XIV, Temperance (3.39, 6.45)
TRV, OTOV TRV (textus receptus version), the text of Liber AL without the O.T.O.’s 2013 emendation, as the controlling editions print it; OTOV (Ordo Templi Orientis Version), the emended version; added only where the cited verse differs: AL 3:37 TRV (6.23, 8.30)
Tunis Comment Tun; the short comment printed under the heading “The Comment”; cited as a whole (6.33, 8.31)
Tzaddi the Hebrew letter צ, final ץ, romanized ts (4.13)

V

Vau the Hebrew letter ו, romanized v, or o or u as a vowel (4.13)
vel lowercase, italic within a Liber title; never abbreviated (3.46, 8.24)
The Vision and the Voice the English title of Liber XXX Ærum vel Sæculi sub figurâ CCCCXVIII; VV, cited by Aethyr: VV 10 (ZAX); Liber XXX is Liber Libræ (3.47, 3.48, 6.31, 8.34)
Vodou Haitian Vodou; West African Vodun is a distinct tradition; Voodoo only in quotation or of the word itself (2.45, 3.86)
vox magica pl. voces magicae, or voces; a barbarous name, set in roman (3.11)
V.V.V.V.V. Crowley’s motto, every point kept; expanded once: V.V.V.V.V. (Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici); possessive V.V.V.V.V.’s; files as VVVVV (3.15, 3.27, 7.17, 8.8)

W

Western esotericism Western capitalized where it names a cultural tradition (3.42)
will lowercase outside True Will: pure will (AL 1:44), the divine will, God’s will, an act of will; a capital Will only in quotation (3.40)

Y

Yah received form (4.16)
Yahweh only for the god of ancient Israel as historians describe him (4.16)
yama italic at first use, then roman (4.31)
Yesod the same form in writing on Jewish Kabbalah (3.5, 4.11)
YHVH the Tetragrammaton where the subject is the Hermetic or Thelemic tradition; IHVH and Jehovah only in quotation (4.16)
YHWH where the subject is the Hebrew Bible or Jewish tradition (4.16)
Yijing roman, in Pinyin; older romanizations only in quotation and titles: Crowley’s Yi King (4.6, 4.32)
Yod the Hebrew letter י, romanized y, or i as a vowel (4.13)
Yogasūtra roman: Patañjali’s Yogasūtra; Patanjali’s Yogasutra in simplified romanization (4.5, 4.31)

Z

Zain the Hebrew letter ז, romanized z (4.13)
Zelator grade name: Golden Dawn 1°=10□, A∴A∴ 2°=9□; name the system (3.32, 7.9)
Zohar roman; cited by volume, folio, and side of the Mantua edition: Zohar 1:15a (6.54, 8.37)