Heretics book 3 - The Apocryphile Press

394 :: GLOSSARY
you’re just listening, but powerful if you are engaging your
imagination with what is really happening.
Magick: Aleister Crowley began the practice of adding a “k”
to the end of this word to distinguish ceremonial (“serious”)
magick from stage (“play”) magic. Lots of other people now
do likewise (including, obviously, moi).
Melungeon: A unique, distinctive ethnic group consisting of
a mixture of European, sub-Saharan African, and Native
American ascestry, found in the Southeastern United States.
Maori: The native peoples of New Zealand.
Modal Monarchian: The belief that the three persons of the
Trinity aren’t distinct “persons” at all, but one person who
interacts with humanity in three forms. Modalism was
declared a heresy by the early, church, but lots of people
nowadays think it’s just splitting hairs, since the Trinity is a
mysterious, incomprehensible doctrine anyway.
Monks: Men who are vowed to a dedicated religious life,
who live removed from the world in monasteries.
Monstrance: A liturgical “device” that houses a consecrated
host in such a way that it is viewable and may be adored. A
monstrance can be anywhere from six inches to several feet
tall, containing near its top a container designed to hold the
host in a respectful container. One side of this is usually glass
so that the host is visible. A monstrance is usually placed on
an altar so that people may kneel and reverence it, although
it is sometimes also carried in procession.
Nephilim: A race of giants, mentioned in two places in the
Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis 6:1-4 and Numbers 13:32-33),
said to be the offspring of angels (or demons) and human
women.
Oil stock: A small, cylindrical liturgical device, about the size
of a large man’s thumb. Usually made of metal, it has a twist-