Occult Encyclopedia: A Reference to Angels, Demons, Djinn, Grimoires, Alchemy, Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Enochian, Rosicrucianism, Thelema, Ceremonial Magick, and Gnosticism

THE OCCULT ENCYCLOPEDIA
A Reference to Angels, Demons, Djinn, Grimoires, Alchemy, Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Enochian, Rosicrucianism, Thelema, Ceremonial Magick, Gnosticism, Sacred Geometry, and Symbolism

By John P. Egan, MBA

A single-volume reference to the Western esoteric tradition — built for readers who want sources, not just summaries.

The occult is vast, contradictory, and often poorly served by reference works that repeat popular claims without checking them. The Occult Encyclopedia takes a different approach: 378 alphabetically organized entries spanning fifteen major traditions, each one cross-referenced against primary and scholarly sources rather than assembled from secondhand summary.

This isn't a sampler. Several of the Western tradition's best-known closed sets are covered in full:

All 72 spirits of the Ars Goetia, with production seals in a dedicated appendix

All 30 Aethyrs of Enochian magic, drawn from Dee's original diaries and Crowley's The Vision and the Voice

All 72 angels of the Shem HaMephorash, cross-referenced against their traditional Goetic pairings

The complete 22-card Major Arcana

All 10 sefirot and their archangels on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life

The seven classical planets and their full correspondences

Beyond these, the encyclopedia covers grimoires from the Key of Solomon to the Ars Notoria, the core texts and cosmology of Thelema, the Gnostic mythos of Sophia and the Demiurge, the geometry underlying sacred architecture, and the angels, djinn, and adversarial figures that recur across traditions, including honest treatment of where those traditions borrow from, distort, or demonize one another.

What sets this reference apart is its discipline: entries distinguish primary-source fact from later popular elaboration, flag genuine manuscript discrepancies instead of silently picking a version, and note when a claim is well-attested versus merely widely repeated. A correspondence table appendix consolidates planetary, zodiacal, sefirotic, and Enochian associations cited throughout, so you're not hunting across a dozen entries to find them.

Whether you're a practitioner, a researcher, a writer looking for grounded detail, or simply curious about how these traditions actually fit together, The Occult Encyclopedia is built to be the reference you reach for first.