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issue <strong>of</strong> accepting Crowley’s Book <strong>of</strong> the Law as<br />
authoritative. (Rudolf Steiner headed an OTO<br />
chapter early in this century, before he founded<br />
the <strong>An</strong>throposophical League.)<br />
Violet Firth was initiated in 1919 into the<br />
Alpha et Omega, the HOGD <strong>of</strong>fshoot presided<br />
over by Mathers’s widow, Moira Bergson Mathers.<br />
In 1922 Firth organized the Fraternity <strong>of</strong> the Inner<br />
Light as an “outer court” for the AEO. She <strong>and</strong><br />
Mrs. Mathers clashed more <strong>and</strong> more as Violet<br />
matured as a leader. When Mrs. Mathers expelled<br />
her in 1927, Firth, now using the name Dion<br />
Fortune, took the Fraternity <strong>of</strong> the Inner Light<br />
with her, <strong>and</strong> it became the parent or ancestor <strong>of</strong><br />
many other important magical organizations now<br />
functioning in Engl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
See also Crowley, Aleister; Levi, Eliphas; Hermetic<br />
Order <strong>of</strong> the Golden Dawn; Ordo Templi Orientis<br />
For Further Reading:<br />
Flowers, Stephen E., Lords <strong>of</strong> the Left H<strong>and</strong> Path.<br />
Smithville, TX: Runa-Raven Press, 1997.<br />
Green, Marian. The Elements <strong>of</strong> Ritual Magic.<br />
Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element,<br />
1990.<br />
Knight, Gareth. Magic <strong>and</strong> the Western Mind. St.<br />
Paul: Llewellyn, 1991.<br />
LaVey, <strong>An</strong>ton Sz<strong>and</strong>or. The Satanic Bible. New York:<br />
Avon, 1969.<br />
Malik<br />
Malik is the wicked angel who guards hell. This is<br />
according to the Koran, which states that Malik is<br />
aided by nineteen other angel guards (sbires or<br />
zabayniya). When the sinful residents <strong>of</strong> hell beg<br />
Malik for help, he tells them that they must stay in<br />
hell forever because they denied the truth when it<br />
was once showed to them. Malik makes life even<br />
worse for them by stoking the fires <strong>and</strong> making<br />
jokes. The only relief comes for the Muslim<br />
sinners in hell who can escape such treatment by<br />
reciting “Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.”<br />
Malik knows that these true believers will one day<br />
be freed from hell by Muhammad.<br />
See also Islam<br />
For Further Reading:<br />
The Encyclopaedia <strong>of</strong> Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978.<br />
Glassé, Cyril. The Concise <strong>Encyclopedia</strong> <strong>of</strong> Islam. San<br />
Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1989.<br />
Mammon<br />
In folklore, Mammon is a fallen angel, now residing<br />
in hell as the demon <strong>of</strong> avarice. He personifies<br />
greed <strong>and</strong> a lust for money. In John Milton’s<br />
Paradise Lost, Mammon is depicted as always<br />
looking downward, at heaven’s golden pavement,<br />
rather than up at God. After the war in heaven,<br />
when Mammon is relegated to hell, he is the one<br />
who finds underground precious metal that the<br />
devils use to build P<strong>and</strong>emonium, their capital city.<br />
In the Bible (Matt. 6:24 <strong>and</strong> Luke 16:13)<br />
Mammon is referred to as being hostile to God.<br />
<strong>An</strong>d in the Dictionnaire Infernal by De Plancy,<br />
Mammon is noted as hell’s ambassador to<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong>. He is equated with Lucifer, Satan,<br />
Beelzebub, <strong>and</strong> Nebuchadnezzar. Gregory <strong>of</strong><br />
Nyssa interpreted Mammon to be a name for<br />
Beelzebub. The word “mammon” comes originally<br />
from Jesus’s declaration in the Gospels: “No man<br />
can be a slave to two masters; he will hate one <strong>and</strong><br />
love the other; he will be loyal to one <strong>and</strong> despise<br />
the other. You cannot serve both God <strong>and</strong><br />
mammon (greed for worldly riches)” (Matt. 6:24).<br />
See also Fallen <strong>An</strong>gels; Milton, John<br />
For Further Reading:<br />
Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>An</strong>gels Including<br />
the Fallen <strong>An</strong>gels. 1967. New York: Free Press,<br />
1971.<br />
De Plancy, J. A. S. Collin. Dictionnaire Infernal.<br />
Paris: P. Mellier, 1844 [1818].<br />
Ronner, John. Know Your <strong>An</strong>gels: The <strong>An</strong>gel Almanac<br />
with Biographies <strong>of</strong> 100 Prominent <strong>An</strong>gels in<br />
Legend <strong>and</strong> <strong>Folklore</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Much More.<br />
Murfreesboro, TN: Mamre, 1993.<br />
Manichaeism<br />
Manichaeism refers primarily to a religious movement<br />
that arose in the third century <strong>and</strong> spread<br />
across the Mediterranean world. Like Zoroastrianism,<br />
it postulated an ongoing, more or less<br />
evenly matched war between a good god <strong>and</strong> an<br />
evil god. Founded by Mani, a Persian born into a<br />
Christian <strong>and</strong> Jewish community in Assyria in A.D.<br />
215, Manichaeism was a mixture <strong>of</strong> Gnosticism,<br />
Zoroastrianism, <strong>and</strong> Christianity that spread<br />
across the Western world <strong>and</strong> lasted for the better<br />
part <strong>of</strong> a thous<strong>and</strong> years. It may even have lasted<br />
until the twentieth century in China.