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1
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Something hidden, or only available to those who seek to use it

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Occult

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2
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power or energy in the world different than stage magic, unexplained phenomenon, casting spells, reading the future, astrology

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Magic(k)

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Not biological, we are not born with an innate understanding of cultural norms instead we learn these

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Culture

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4
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Belief in all gods regardless or origins

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Pantheism

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Colonial/ pejorative term for a traditional shaman or ceremonial leader

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Witch- doctor

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6
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Aryans are from which area?

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Persia

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7
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The death of sixteen members of the nazi party in the early 1930s became the basis of which of hitler’s basic quasi- religious practices?

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5 blood flag

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8
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What were some of the occult activities the nazis engaged in?

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Astrology and sun worship

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9
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Satan as a metaphor for self- indulgence and strength

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Temple of set

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10
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Satan as a metaphor for world- domination and self- empowerment

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The church of Satan

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11
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Symboled and signs are universal

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False

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12
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Academic term for plastic medicine men

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Neo- shamanism

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13
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Mesmer’s work is an example of the placebo effect or the power of suggestion

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True

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14
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World view
How do you understand the world
Built off of interpretations and sacred texts
Place of people in the world

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Cosmology

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15
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How we live, your values, what is good, bad or neutral, CORE

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Axiology

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16
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Belief in one divinity

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Monotheism

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17
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Belief in multiple divinities

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Polytheism

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18
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Specific grouping of divinities
Subset of polytheism
Ex. Greek gods and goddesses

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Pantheism

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19
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Accept the fact there is no spirit, soul, sentience in every living thing
Not worshiping

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Animism

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20
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Location/ perception of the divine
Ex. God lives in heaven

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Transcendence

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21
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Comes from the Latin world Magi
Classically seen as good

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Magician

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22
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Historical family lineage
Job is to a dive about fate and future and technology to uncover your possible future
Understood as evil

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Sorcerer

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23
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National days of mourning
Marked by not eating
Easter
You kippur

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Holy days

24
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Small old religion originating in Persia
Spiritual work extremely binary

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Zoroastrian

25
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Asking or begging
Prayer, sacrifice, humility
Adoration and expression of love

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Supplication

26
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Tungus
Medicine person
Healers
Not hierarchical

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Shamans

27
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Hammer against witches
Handbook on demonic witchcraft
Written by two lay brothers

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Malleus malefic arum

28
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Women hater

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Gynophobic

29
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Only system of foretelling that is in/ registers as the will of allah and a science to understand it
Arabic numerals only
Method used to decode religious text

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Gematria/ numerology

30
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Folk magic, little curses and spells and things that don’t require being a witch or wizard
Traditional practices

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Low magic

31
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Practitioners with large egos
Find the key to the universe

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High magic

32
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Transformations of matter

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Alchemy

33
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Children born within fountain of youth when nazi overran eastern European countries

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Lebensborn

34
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Original flag used to give “power” to all other nazi flags
Sacred blood

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Blood flag

35
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Predates WWII white supremacy
Anything with runes evacuated meant “true aryans” lived there… goal of freeing them

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Thule society

36
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Criminal act for a German to marry or have sex with a Jewish person

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Blood laws

37
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New pagan
Not exposed to Christianity
All lunar based

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Neo- paganism

38
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Religion of scandinavians before Christianity
Heathens
Follow gods and goddesses of non-Finnish Scandinavia

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Asatru(r)

39
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Reviving the pre- Christian practices of the British isles and other countries in Europe
Priestly section of the Celtic isles taught orally
Oriented in protecting and supporting nature
Interdependency of nature and humans

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Druid(ry)

40
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Biggest in modern neo-paganism
Those who practice oral teaching that survived the burning times
Male and female witches
Based on cycles of the moon
Matriarchy

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Wiccan

41
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Gardener(Ian)
Alexandrian
Eclectic

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Types of wiccans

42
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Baby sacrifices
Reborn/ new group
Mostly young men who are socially awkward or outcasts
Solitary
Sometimes cross over into criminal activity but not always
Most grow out of this phase in their life

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Neo- satanism

43
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When you are not unconscious but are not fully conscious either
Used in Religious rituals
Can be both positive or negative depending on situation

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Trance

44
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Not conscious
Sleepwalking
Daydreaming
Accepting without critical thinking

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ASC (altered state of consciousness)

45
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Hitters trusted advisor
Architect of Nazi religion
Wanted to prove master race theory

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Heinrich himmler

46
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Wizard figure
50 fake prophecies Into Germany

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Nostradamus

47
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First pagan in Ontario to stand for holy days

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Charles Arnold

48
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Alter set up
Earth, water, air, fire
Carve candles
Cover in oil
Burn —> never blowing light out

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Wiccan candle spell

49
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1st group of goddess worshipers
Greek and Roman goddesses
Gynocentric spirituality
Political
Egalitarian

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Dianic witches

50
Q

Women’s international terrorist conspiracy from hell

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Witch

51
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Women in constant creative action

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WICCA

52
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Leader of the church of Satan

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Anton LaVey

53
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Founder of temple of set

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Michael Aquino

54
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Medical doctor
Before anesthesia
Animal magnetism

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Mesmer

55
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Studied mezmerism as a medical technique and discovered that it doesn’t work on everyone
Some were very suggestible in this state —> hypnosis

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Dr. James braid

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