egregore

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An angelic being from the Book of Enoch. obsolete
    — When men multiplied, says the author, they had daughters of an exquisite beauty, so amiable that the Egregores, or the guardian Angels, conceived a violent passion for them.
  2. An autonomous psychic entity that is composed of, and influences, the thoughts of a group of people.
    — In magical esoteric circles an egregore is commonly understood to be a magical psychic entity consciously or unconsciously created by a couple or a group as an encapsulation and merger of their collective aspirations and ideals.

词形变化

egregores plural egregor alternative

词源

From French égrégore (“spirit of a group”), from the Ancient Greek substantive of ἐγρήγορος (egrḗgoros, “wakeful”) meaning watcher, angel in the Book of Enoch.
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