A
Aalacho
Meanings: The "eleventh hour" is a figure of speech referring to a decisive
moment at hand.
Origins: Aalacho is a name that appears in the Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis
or The Lesser Key of Solomon (17th century). It means the eleventh hour of the
night.
Ab
Origins: Ab is a divine name associated with Saturn. It appears in Heinrich
Cornelius Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (15 ).
Abab
Origins: Abab is a divine name associated with Jupiter. It appears in Heinrich
Cornelius Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (15 ).
Ababaloy
Origins: Ababaloy is an angelic name discussed in the Grimorium Verum
(1880).
Facts: Ababaloy is part of an incantation to dispell "all illusion" from a
conjuror's quill pen.
Ababra Abrakakraka
(see also abracadabra)
Origins: "Sound poetry began with the dawning of language itself," explains
Peter Finch. "Tribal chantings, group wailings, rhythmic mumblings
in celebration of gods and victories. These were the pre-literate verbalisings
that are actually claimed as a common source by all poetries. Through the
centuries they became mantras, meditational repetitions, sonic meaninglessness:
Try this -- Om Amkhara om om. Or this -- ababra abrakakraka abrakal abrakal
abrakal abraka abra abrabcadarrab era abaracadabara. Recognise them? Of course
you do. In Babylonian times spells like these were installed in the corners of
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Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic (1898)