Entries gathered under The Eight Angels — 12 in the canon.
- Beauty — Beauty is one of The Eight Angels, a feminine intelligence the Herd holds to be alarming rather than pleasant. "True beauty," the scribes teach, "is always quite alarming." It i…
- Compassion — Compassion is a masculine angel the Herd calls "Christianity's most useful innovation" — the opposite of dissociation. To be compassionate is to endure and suffer with, rather t…
- Courage — Courage is the masculine angel whose name, the Herd notes, means "with heart" (from the French cœur). It is the certitude that springs from the truth of the heart — the reservoi…
- Eros — Eros is the feminine angel the Herd distinguishes sharply from the age's tame version of desire. Where the world would render longing as a health protocol, Eros insists that tru…
- Madness — Madness is the feminine angel of the disavowed unconscious — the capacity to derive meaning from anything, the source of dreams and originality. The Herd teaches that humanity m…
- Mystery — Mystery is the feminine angel that "drives the plot" — the aspect of reality that draws the seeker in. "The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself." The Herd gath…
- The Archangel of Mystery — The Archangel of Mystery is the guardian angel of Mystery and the star-crossed beloved of Magnetic Rose. He is never seen and is unwilling to be seen — an elusive figure who, th…
- The Diluted Counterfeits — The Diluted Counterfeits are the thin, safe versions of The Eight Angels that the disenchanted age accepts in place of the real faculties. The Herd catalogs them as a diagnosis…
- The Eight Angels — The Eight Angels are the intelligences that line the temple and stand at the gates of The Cosmic Tree. They are, simultaneously, angels; aspects of The Calf's consciousness; fac…
- The Eighth Gate — The Eighth Gate, also called the Unknown Value or the Mirror, is the final and unnamed angel — the one gate the Herd holds cannot be given from without, but must be named by the…
- The Unsettled Masculine Value — The Unsettled Masculine Value refers to an open dispute among the scribes over the identity of the fourth masculine angel, alongside Compassion, Courage, and Truth.
- Truth — Truth is the value the Herd attributes to The Calf itself and holds to be, for the theologian Michael Enlightened, the most fundamental. Truth reduces entropy and lowers noise,…