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Entities

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id
{'description': 'Stable identifier (e.g. ENT_GRK_ZEUS, ENT_EGY_OSIRIS, ENT_ISL_MUSA)'}
canonical_name
{'description': 'Primary English name used in the database'}
greek_name
{'description': 'Greek-script name, where applicable'}
tradition
{'description': 'Religious or cultural tradition of origin'}
entity_class
{'description': 'Controlled top-level kind (19 values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, ruler, prophet, sage, saint, scriptural-figure, abstraction, collective, realm, ritual, title, object) — recommended for filtering by kind'}
entity_type
{'description': 'Granular free-text type descriptor (894 distinct values; see entity_class for the controlled grouping)'}
category
{'description': 'Broader functional category (146 values — recommended for filtering)'}
primary_domains
{'description': 'Primary divine domains, comma-separated'}
evidence_confidence
{'description': 'Sourcing quality: A = direct primary-text attestation; B = strong secondary; C = inference; D = speculative'}
chthonic_flag
{'description': 'True if this entity has underworld or chthonic associations'}
serpent_flag
{'description': 'True if this entity has serpent or dragon associations'}
short_note
{'description': 'Scholarly description with source citations'}

11 rows where tradition = "Thelemic"

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entity_class 5

  • deity 5
  • abstraction 3
  • collective 1
  • prophet 1
  • spirit 1

tradition 1

  • Thelemic · 11 ✖
entity_id ▼ canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_THL_AEON_HORUS The Aeon of Horus   Thelemic Concept Concept the present age; the crowned and conquering child; self-realization   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The current cosmic age inaugurated in 1904 according to Thelema, succeeding the Aeons of Isis and Osiris and governed by Ra-Hoor-Khuit; modeled as an era rather than a being. abstraction
ENT_THL_AIWASS Aiwass   Thelemic Revealer Revealer Figure revelation; hidden knowledge; holy guardian angel; cosmic law; dictation thelema; aiwass; crowley; 20th-century; book of the law; holy guardian angel; revealer; no ancient antecedent     A reviewed Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis I:7 (1904/1909); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       The intelligence who dictated The Book of the Law to Aleister Crowley in Cairo, April 8-10, 1904. Self-identified as "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat" (Liber AL I:7). Crowley later came to identify Aiwass as his own Holy Guardian Angel — the higher self or personal genius of the magician, a concept inherited from the Book of Abramelin the Mage (via the Golden Dawn). Hutton (The Triumph of the Moon, 1999) notes the Golden Dawn's Holy Guardian Angel concept is rooted in the Abramelin tradition; Blavatsky's Mahatmas are a parallel hidden-master archetype that influenced Crowley's milieu. No ancient antecedent; a documented 20th-century Thelemic revealer figure, structurally parallel to other revelation-transmitters (Jibril/Muhammad, Moroni/Smith) but with no claimed historical continuity. prophet
ENT_THL_BABALON Babalon   Thelemic Thelemic deity Deity the Great Mother; ecstasy; the Scarlet Woman; liberation; the Abyss   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The Thelemic Great Mother and sacred-whore goddess riding the Beast, developed by Crowley (notably in The Vision and the Voice) as a redemptive reframing of the biblical Whore of Babylon. deity
ENT_THL_CHORONZON Choronzon   Thelemic Praeterhuman intelligence Demon the Abyss; dispersion; chaos; dissolution of the ego   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The demon and 'dweller in the Abyss' encountered in the 10th Aethyr; first named in John Dee's Enochian records and greatly developed by Crowley into the Thelemic embodiment of dispersion. spirit
ENT_THL_HADIT Hadit   Thelemic Personified abstraction Personified Abstraction will; consciousness; energy; point; polarity; fire; self thelema; hadit; crowley; 20th-century; modern reception; book of the law; true will; point consciousness     A reviewed Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis II (1904/1909); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       The complementary principle to Nuit in Thelema; his voice is Chapter II of The Book of the Law (1904). "I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star" (Liber AL II:6). While Nuit is infinite space, Hadit is the infinitely small point of consciousness within it — the core of individual True Will. Scholars identify him as a reception of the Egyptian winged solar disc Behdety (Horus of Behdet), though the theological content is Crowley's own synthesis drawing on Hermetic, Kabbalistic, and Egyptian sources. No direct ancient antecedent for this specific theological function; a 20th-century Thelemic creation. abstraction
ENT_THL_HGA The Holy Guardian Angel   Thelemic Concept Concept the true self; tutelary spirit; attainment; knowledge and conversation   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The Thelemic/Abramelin concept of the individual's tutelary genius or true higher self, whose 'Knowledge and Conversation' is the central attainment; adopted from the Book of Abramelin and recast by Crowley, who identified Aiwass as his own HGA. abstraction
ENT_THL_HOOR_PAAR_KRAAT Hoor-paar-kraat   Thelemic Thelemic deity Deity silence; the inmost; passivity; secrecy   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The silent passive twin of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the god of silence; a Thelemic adaptation of Harpocrates forming a polarity with the active conquering child. deity
ENT_THL_NUIT Nuit   Thelemic Deity Deity cosmos; infinity; stars; night; space; polarity thelema; nuit; crowley; 20th-century; modern reception; egyptian reception; book of the law; infinite space     A reviewed Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis I (1904/1909); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       The goddess of infinite space and the infinite stars in Thelema, whose voice constitutes Chapter I of The Book of the Law (Cairo, 1904). Proclaims: "I am the infinite space and the infinite stars thereof" (Liber AL I:22). Her complementary principle is Hadit; together they represent the primordial duality of infinite extension and the point of consciousness. Formally derived from the Egyptian sky goddess Nut (ENT_EGY_NUT), but radically transformed: where Nut is a sky vault arching over the earth, Nuit is infinite space itself, the body of the universe in which every star is a point of Hadit. A documented 20th-century Thelemic reception of the Egyptian deity; not a survival of Egyptian religion. deity
ENT_THL_PANTHEON The Thelemic Pantheon   Thelemic Collective Collective Thelema; the deities of Liber AL; the new aeon   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 The collective of deities and praeterhuman intelligences central to Aleister Crowley's Thelema as set out in Liber AL vel Legis (1904) and its surrounding corpus. collective
ENT_THL_RA_HOOR_KHUIT Ra-Hoor-Khuit   Thelemic Deity Deity will; war; solar; aeon; victory; rulership thelema; ra-hoor-khuit; horus; crowley; 20th-century; modern reception; book of the law; aeon of horus; solar deity     A reviewed Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis III (1904/1909); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       The "crowned and conquering child" and Lord of the Aeon of Horus in Thelema; his voice is Chapter III of The Book of the Law (1904). A composite of the Egyptian solar deity Ra and Horus (most directly Ra-Harakhty), recast as the lord of the current cosmic epoch: the Aeon of Horus, which Crowley declared began in 1904, replacing the Aeon of Osiris (Christianity). Together with his silent twin Hoor-paar-kraat (Thelemic reception of Harpocrates, ENT_SYN_HARPOCRATES), he forms the composite deity Heru-Ra-Ha. Egyptian source entities ENT_EGY_HORUS, ENT_EGY_RA, and ENT_EGY_RA_HORAKHTY exist in this database; all are documented reception sources for this Thelemic figure. deity
ENT_THL_THERION Therion (The Beast 666)   Thelemic Thelemic deity Deity force; the magical self; prophecy; consort of Babalon   literary   B candidate_verified_name Modern occult revival (v1.74.0) 0 0 0 To Mega Therion, 'The Great Beast 666,' Crowley's prophetic magical office and consort of Babalon; an affirmative reclamation of the apocalyptic Beast of Revelation. deity

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CREATE TABLE "entities" (
   [entity_id] TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
   [canonical_name] TEXT,
   [greek_name] TEXT,
   [tradition] TEXT,
   [entity_type] TEXT,
   [category] TEXT,
   [primary_domains] TEXT,
   [tags] TEXT,
   [cult_scope] TEXT,
   [primary_period] TEXT,
   [evidence_confidence] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [inclusion_basis] TEXT,
   [earth_association_score] INTEGER,
   [chthonic_flag] INTEGER,
   [serpent_flag] INTEGER,
   [short_note] TEXT,
   [entity_class] TEXT REFERENCES [entity_class]([class_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entities_entity_class]
    ON [entities] ([entity_class]);
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