Great Work Great Work The term Great Work (magnum opus) is a term used in Hermeticism and in certain occult traditions and religions such as Thelema. The Great Work signifies the spiritual path towards self-transcendence in its entirety. This is the process of bringing unconscious complexes into the conscious awareness, in order to integrate them back into oneself. Accomplishing the Great Work, symbolized as the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, represents the culmination of the spiritual path, the attainment of enlightenment, or the rescue of the human soul from the unconscious forces which bind it. Eliphas Levi (1810–1875), one of the first
Catamite was "Catmite", from an alternative Greek form of the name, "Gadymedes". In its modern usage the term catamite refers to a boy as the passive or receiving partner in anal intercourse with a man. Catamite In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin "catamitus") was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of a young man, usually in a pederastic relationship – in the broadest sense. It was usually a term of affection and literally means "Ganymede" in Latin, and was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. The word derives from the