Egregor
Egregor (alternatively Eggregore , Egregora ) is in some occult teachings a term for metaphysical beings or illusions created by human thoughts or willpower in contrast to beings that are understood as created by God. The term egregor is used as the western equivalent of the Tibetan term tulpa .
A spiritual being is referred to within the magical tradition as an egregore or a force field. Egregor is a synonym for the individual characteristics of a group ( group soul ). Magical communities speak of the egregore of their group, which should also radiate to others. Magical groups consciously work to create their egregor. He is controlled by their leaders and is useful to them in magical operations.
Concept history
egregius means "excellent, honorable, glorious" in Latin. And in ancient Greek there is έγείρω ("awake, awakened").
In the modern language, the French writer Victor Hugo coined the term in his poem "La Légende des siècles" in 1857 . He used different spellings of the word (eggrégore or egrigor) and left the recipient in the dark about its meaning. It is a specially created French word creation, inspired by the word borrowed from the Greek.
In today's parlance, the term is mainly used by followers of magical societies in the vicinity of the Fraternitas Saturni and other magical lodges. In the English-speaking world of successor groups in the tradition of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn or the Servants of the Light School of Occult Science founded by Walter Ernest Butler . According to their imagination, each group of people who direct their willpower, thoughts and actions over a longer period of time towards a common goal creates a soul-emotional thought force field that spans the group members, which is fed by the emotional energy of the individual group members, but also on the individual group members should have an emotionally strengthening effect through synchronization of events.
literature
- Valentin Tomberg (under the pseudonym: Der Anonymus d'outre-tombe). The major arcana of the tarot. Meditations . Basel (Herder Verlag) 1993. (Pages 148 ff., 445 ff.)
- Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge . Gold man. 1993
Web links
- LS Bernstein: Egregor . Confraternity of the Rose Cross, 1998. (Eng.)