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With help from the people on the Golden Section Forum, a list of abbreviations used on Ecosophia on Dreamwidth. Corrections and suggestions welcome!

Abbreviation	Meaning	Type	Years	System	Remarks
ADF	Ar nDraiocht Fein	Order		Druid	The the largest American Druid organization around 2004. JMG was a member between his time in OBOD and AODA
ADR	Arch Druid Report	Blog	2006-2017	-	JMG's original blog. Authorized copy with comments
AFA	Asatru Folk Assembly	Order		-	US based neopagan group with a website here
AMORC	Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis	Order		-	The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) of “California, U.S.A” placed its eyecatching ads on the back cover of every issue of Fate from 1963
AODA	Ancient Order of Druids in America	Order	2003-2015	Druid	One of the UGC traditions that JMG led, see the AODO website
APG	Art and Practice of Geomancy	Book	2009	Geomancy	Covers the same material as EDEM. Published by Red Wheel Weiser
AS	Academy of the Sword	Book	2006	-	A complete training course in rapier fencing based on Renaissance sacred geometry. It's the longest and most elaborate treatise on swordsmanship ever written, and one of the strangest, but I have it on good authority that the techniques work exceptionally well in practice -- yes, there are people who still practice old-fashioned rapier fencing.
BOL	Bridge of Love	Ritual		UGC	Introduced in The Modern Order of Essenes: Master Healer Grade Lessons 1
CC	Cabalistic Cross	Ritual		Golden Dawn	An opening and closing practice used at the beginning and end of many rituals. Meant to balance and energize the subtle body. Covered in Circles of Power
CGD	Celtic Golden Dawn	Book	2013	DOGD	Basic Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn book. Combines the symbolism and teachings of the Druid Revival with the magical techniques of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
CoP	Circles of Power	Book	1997	Golden Dawn	More advanced book on Golden Dawn operative magic
CosDoc	Cosmic Doctrine	Book	1949	-	Book by Dion Fortune
DA	Dolmen Arch	Book	2022	Druid	A fairly advanced two-volume reconstruction of a Druid correspondence course from the 1920s. Adapted and expanded with AODA-compatible materials. JMG taught the course privately to students before it was published
DF	Dione Fortune	Author		-	Author of The Doctrine of High Magic discussed in the book club, born Violet Mary Firth
DGH	Druid Grove Handbook	Book	2011	Druid	A guide to the ritual work of a grove (that's what you call a group of Druids) in AODA
DH	Druidry Handbook	Book	2006	Druid	Druidry handbook aimed at beginners. In order of difficulty: DP > DH > DMH. This book communicates the basic ideas of the Druid Revival. It was originally written to gain new members for AODA. First JMG book to hit the big time in terms of sales.
DIY	Do It Yourself	Shorthand		-	Information that helps you do things yourself
DMH	Druid Magic Handbook	Book	2008	Druid	Intermediate Druidry handbook. Its purpose is to help people make sense of Druid nature spirituality, which can be related to magic but doesn't have to be. JMG's first book on ritual magic that isn't basically a rehash of Golden Dawn practitice. In order of difficulty: DP > DH > DMH
DOGD	Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn	Order		DOGD	Golden Dawn and Druid fusion. The organization maintains a website
DP	Druid Path	Book	2022	Druid	Introduction to Druidry for total beginners. Part 11 of the publisher's "Modern Day Witch" series (although Druidry has nothing to do with Witches)
DRHM	Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic	Book	2017	Translation	Joint translation with Mark Mikitu of Lévi's masterpiece. Each chapter is discussed in a monthly post on Ecosophia
EDEM	Earth Divination, Earth Magic	Book	1999	Geomancy	Geomancy is an intriguing form of divination using sixteen four-digit binary numbers. They're combinations of one and two dots, but the mathematics are binary. It was one of the most common methods of divination in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Covers the same material as AGP. Published by AEON books
ENM	Encyclopedia of Natural Magic	Book	2005	-	About herbs, stones, incenses, oils and the philosophy behind them. Published by Llewellyn
EOTCR	Exercise of the Central Ray	Ritual		Celtic Golden Dawn	A further expansion and development of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. Mentioned in the book CGD.
FHR	Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose	Order		FHR	Not formal, descended from the formal Magickal Order of the Golden Dawn, material here
GBRP	Greater Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Described in the book CoP
GCC	Gnostic Celtic Church	Book	2013	Druid	A discussion of the Gnostic Celtic Church, its origins, and its training program, together with complete texts of its liturgies. GCC is AODA's religious branch (not to be mistaken for the UGC.)
GD	Golden Dawn	Order		Golden Dawn
GIRP	Greater Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Described in the book CoP
GIRH	Greater Invoking Ritual of the Hexagram	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Described in the book CoP
GSF	Golden Section Fellowship	Order		Golden Section	Not a formal organization, descended from the UGC traditions
GW	Green Wizardry	Book	2013	Peak Oil	The 1970s ecological scene attempted to craft advanced technologies that could work within the limits of sustainability. This book was JMG's attempt to bring those back to the attention. Most successful of my books from the peak oil era.
HGA	Holy Guardian Angel	Shorthand		-	The transcendent spiritual self that mediates between the Divine Self and the Lower Personality and serves as guardian and guide. That contact is the first step in the Great Work (also known as the Knowledge and Conversation) that leads to integration, and thus to Initiation. This is the discovery of one’s True Will.
HOGD	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn	Order		Golden Dawn	Founded in 1887, blew itself to smithereens in a series of pointless political quarrels between 1900 and 1902. One of multiple names for the Golden Dawn. HOGD was used by Yeats. Some info here.
IAO	Signs of Isis, Apophis and Osiris Risen	Ritual		-	Described in the book CoP
IIRC	If I Recall Correctly	Shorthand		-
INRI	Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm	Shorthand		-	Latin for "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". INRI is said in "The Analysis of the Keyword" step of the LBRH. INRI can be expanded to other occult meanings, like "Igne Natvra Renovatvr Integra" - "By Fire, Nature is Perfectly Renewed"
IR	Into the Ruins	Magazine	2016-2020	-	Quarterly journal of postindustrial fiction. Edited by Joel Caris. Succeeded by New Maps. Website here
J	Judge	Shorthand		Geomancy	Part of a divination, like the Left and Right Witness
JMG	John Michael Greer	Writer		-	Current blogs at ecosophia.net and dreamwidth, used to blog at ADR
LARP	Live Action Role Playing	Activity		-	A term that originated for games where players take on the role of a character and interact with each other within the terms of a fictional scenario. Similar to tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons, but 'acted out' by dressing up and moving around a physical space, rather than describing actions or representing them on a map. Sometimes used somewhat derisively to refer to actions seemingly taken in earnest that the speaker views as somehow fake or lacking substance.
LBRH	Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram	Banishing Ritual		Golden Dawn	Banishes any of the powers of the planets. Covered in Circles of Power
LBRP	Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram	Banishing Ritual		Golden Dawn	Banishes any of the powers of the elements. The Christian/Hermetic version is covered in Learning Ritual Magic; the Druid Revival version in the The Celtic Golden Dawn.
LIRP	Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram	Basic Invoking/Banishing		Golden Dawn	Invokes any of the powers of the elements. The Christian/Hermetic version is covered in Learning Ritual Magic; the Druid Revival version in the The Celtic Golden Dawn.
LLM	Large Language Model	Shorthand		-	The technology behind 2023 "arteficial intelligence"
LMP	Lesser Middle Pillar	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Described in the book CoP
LRM	Learning Ritual Magic	Book	2004	Golden Dawn	Solid introduction to Golden Dawn-style ritual magic for solo practitioners. Good first step before tackling Circles of Power. Written for a magical lodge in the Seattle area. Co-authored by two other senior lodge members, Clare Vaughn and Earl King Jr. Published by Red Wheel Weiser
LRP	Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram	Basic Invoking/Banishing		Golden Dawn
LSRP	Lesser Summoning Ritual of the Pentragram	Basic Invoking/Banishing		Golden Dawn	Another name for Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram (LIRP)
LVX	Fraternity of the Hidden Light	Order		-	Fraternitas L.V.X. Occulta is Latin for Fraternity of the Hidden Light. Website here
MM	Magic Monday	Blog		-	Weekly Q&A where JMG answers questions about magic
MOE	Modern Order of Essenes	Order		UGC	Has a series of optional attunements being transmitted but otherwise not formal. Links: blogs, PDFs, sounds, and forum
Monsters	Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings	Book	2001	-	JMG's experience investigating reports of monstrous entities near the Puget Sond area. This was for some years the one place in print you could find out that there's a very lively werewolf tradition among the native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington -- you know, near Forks.
MP	Middle Pillar	Ritual		Golden Dawn
MTLE	Mystery Teachings of the Living Earth	Book	2012	-	Inspried by The Kybalion, this book offers seven basic principles that are applicable to ecology and occultism equally: the laws of the Whole, Flow, Balance, Limits, Cause and Effect, Planes and Evolution
NM	New Maps	Magazine		-	Quarterly journal of realistic future fiction. Started January 2021. Edited by Nathanael Bonnell. Successor to Into the Ruins. Website here
OBOD	Order of Bards Ovates and Druids	Order		OBOD	A druid tration like AODA. info here
OCD	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	Shorthand		-	A disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both.
OP	Original Poster	Shorthand		-	The forum user who started the thread
OPO	Ordo Peregrini Orientem	Order		-	Imaginary order from another timeline where Carl Jung and Herman Hesse swap places with Violet Firth and Aleister Crowley. It's based on OTO and the name is Latin for "Order of Journeyers to the East". It would have been founded in 1921 by the influential Swiss occultists Carl Jung and Hermann Hesse. See this Ecosophia blog or reddit.
OPW	Occult Philosophy Workbook	Book	2022	Golden Section / Druid	GSF book (can be used on its own)
OSA	Order of Spiritual Alchemy	Order		OSA	Has a website, also contains copies of FHR and MOE materials
OTO	Ordo Templi Orientis	Order		-	An occult secret society and hermetic magical organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The origins of O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occultists Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Heinrich Klein, and Franz Hartmann. Mentioned here here
PGM	Papyri Graecae Magicae	Shorthand		-	"Papyri Graecae Magicae" is Latin for "Greek Magical Papyri", where papyri is ancient Egyptian paper. They contain magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals written between 100 BCE and 400 CE.
PoW	Paths of Wisdom	Book	1996	Golden Dawn	Instructional manual of the Cabala, a core philosophical system of Golden Dawn Western occult tradition. JMG's first published book. For beginners Learning Ritual Magic is more suitable.
QC	Qabalistic Cross	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Alternative spelling of Cabalistic Cross (see CC)
R+C	Rose Cross	Ritual		Golden Dawn	Specific, standalone ritual to call down specific positive energies into all the levels of the self as a form of blessing. Covered in Circles of Power. Mentioned on Magic Monday.
RO&C	Ritual of Opening and Closing	Ritual		-	Mentioned in Circles of Power, from a book by Gareth Knight, either Occult Exercises and Practices or The Practice of Ritual Magic
RW	Right Witness	Shorthand		Geomancy	Part of a divination, like the Judge and the Left Witness
SGO	Sacred Geometry Oracle	Book	2002	Golden Section	Set of divination cards. Greatly improved version released in 2022. Required for GSF work (can be used on its own)
SoP	Sphere of Protection	Invoking + Banishing		Golden Section / Druid	A version that works with any set of deitiies or impersonal powers is covered in The Druid Magic Handbook. The Golden Section variant is covered in The Way of the Golden Section
SP	Solar Plexus	Ritual		Golden Section	Book about SP mentioned here
SRIA	Societas Rosicrucianis in Anglia	Order		SRIA	One of the orders joined by Arthur Edward Waite, co-author of the Rider-Waite tarot deck
TADR	Arch Druid Report	Blog		-	See ADR
TCM	Traditional Chinese Medicine	Shorthand		-
TSW	This Stuff Works	Saying		-	The S has a stronger interpretation and is often said in shock. Seen here
UB	Universal Bond	Order		UB	One of the most active Druid organizations in Britain in 1954 (seen here)
UGC	Universal Gnostic Church	Order		UGC	currently dormant; not to be mistaken for the GCC
W4E	Way of the Four Elements	Book	2024	Golden Section	A one year course for students of the occult to expand their horizons through the study of fire, air, water, and earth.
WGS	Way of the Golden Section	Book	2021	Golden Section	Core GSF book, requires the SGO
WOG	Well of Galabes	Blog	2014-2017	-	Blog on magic. Archived under "Blogs, Essays, FAQs" on ecosophia.net
WON	Wealth of Nature	Book	2011	-	Book about why the "science" of economics yields such consistently wrong answers when tasked with questions about peak oil and the impending decline of industrial civilization. Partly assembled from posts on the Arch Druid report. Inspired by E.F. Schumacher's classic Small is Beautiful.

The source of the above table is a Google sheet.

Suggestions and new acronyms welcome!