Editing Lilith (section)

==In Western esotericism==
[[File:Sigil of Lilith.svg|thumb|The [[sigil]] of Lilith]]
The depiction of Lilith in Romanticism continues to be popular among [[Wicca]]ns and in other modern [[occult]]ism.<ref name=feminism>{{cite web |url=http://feminism.eserver.org/theory/papers/lilith/ |last=Amy Scerba |title=Changing Literary Representations of Lilith and the Evolution of a Mythical Heroine |access-date=9 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221221147/http://feminism.eserver.org/theory/papers/lilith |archive-date=21 December 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A few [[Magick (Aleister Crowley)|magical]] orders dedicated to the undercurrent of Lilith, featuring initiations specifically related to the arcana of the "first mother", exist. Two organisations that use initiations and magic associated with Lilith are the Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati and the Order of Phosphorus. Lilith appears as a [[succubus]] in [[Aleister Crowley]]'s ''De Arte Magica.'' Lilith was also one of the middle names of Crowley's first child, Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith Crowley (1904–1906), and Lilith is sometimes identified with [[Babalon]] in [[Thelema|Thelemic]] writings. Many early occult writers who contributed to modern day [[Wicca]] expressed special reverence for Lilith. [[Charles Leland]] associated [[Aradia (goddess)|Aradia]] with Lilith: Aradia, says Leland, is [[Herodias]], who was regarded in [[stregheria]] folklore as being associated with [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] as chief of the witches. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith.<ref>Grimassi, Raven.[http://www.stregheria.com/Marguerite.htm Stregheria: La Vecchia Religione] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020020258/http://www.stregheria.com/Marguerite.htm |date=20 October 2018 }}</ref><ref>Leland, Charles.[http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/aradia/ara18.htm Aradia, Gospel of the Witches-Appendix]</ref>

[[Gerald Gardner]] asserted that there was continuous historical worship of Lilith to present day, and that her name is sometimes given to the [[goddess]] being personified in the coven by the priestess. This idea was further attested by [[Doreen Valiente]], who cited her as a presiding goddess of the Craft: "the personification of erotic dreams, the suppressed desire for delights".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/lillith.htm |title=Lilith-The First Eve |publisher=Imbolc |year=2002 |access-date=23 January 2007 |archive-date=26 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070226191328/http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/lillith.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In some contemporary concepts, ''Lilith'' is viewed as the embodiment of [[Goddess movement|the Goddess]], a designation that is thought to be shared with what these faiths believe to be her counterparts: [[Inanna]], [[Ishtar]], [[Asherah]], [[Anath]], [[Anahita]] and [[Isis]].<ref>Grenn, Deborah J.[http://www.lilithinstitute.com/history.htm History of Lilith Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121062930/http://www.lilithinstitute.com/history.htm |date=21 January 2007 }}</ref> According to one view, Lilith was originally a Sumerian, Babylonian, or Hebrew mother goddess of childbirth, children, women, and sexuality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.daimon.ch/385630522X_2E.htm |title=Excerpts from Lilith-The first Eve |last=Hurwitz |first=Siegmund |access-date=30 July 2007 |archive-date=4 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704074005/http://www.daimon.ch/385630522X_2E.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Lilith.htm |publisher=Goddess |title=Lilith |access-date=30 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504094448/http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Lilith.htm |archive-date=4 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Raymond Buckland]] holds that Lilith is a dark moon goddess on par with the Hindu [[Kali]].<ref>[[Raymond Buckland]], ''The Witch Book'', Visible Ink Press, 1 November 2001.</ref>{{Page needed|date=March 2020}}

Many [[Theistic Satanism|theistic Satanists]] consider Lilith a goddess, with some recognizing her as the patron of strong women and women's rights.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Faxneld |first=Per |date=April 2, 2013 |title=Intuitive, Receptive, Dark": Negotiations of Femininity in the Contemporary Satanic and Left-hand Path Milieu |journal=International Journal for the Study of New Religions |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=216 |via=Equinox Publishing Ltd.}}</ref>  Lilith is popular among theistic Satanists because of her association with Satan and is most often worshipped by women, but not exclusively.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ruah |first=Marianna |title=The Temptation of Legitimacy: Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality and Their Meanings |journal=Modern Judaism |volume=39 |issue=2}}</ref> Some Satanists believe that she is married to Satan and thus think of her as a mother figure.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clay |first=Simon |title=Lilith, a Monster Feminist Icon: Four Genealogies of a Divine Jewish Demon |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2024}}</ref> Others base their reverence for her on her history as a succubus and praise her as a sex goddess.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theisticsatanism.com/rituals/standard/Lilith.html|author=Bailobiginki, Margi|title=Lilith and the modern Western world|website=Theistic Satanism|access-date=29 May 2020|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224232321/http://theisticsatanism.com/rituals/standard/Lilith.html|url-status=usurped}}</ref> A different approach to a Satanic Lilith holds that she was once a fertility and agricultural goddess.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetry.charlesmoffat.com/#SumerianLilith|author=Moffat, Charles|title=The Sumerian legend of Lilith|access-date=29 May 2020|archive-date=7 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707231632/http://poetry.charlesmoffat.com/#SumerianLilith|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Western mystery tradition]] associates Lilith with the [[qlippoth]] of Kabbalah. [[Dion Fortune]] writes, "The Virgin Mary is reflected in Lilith",<ref name="fortune">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EucEChcyoq4C&q=dion+fortune+virgin+mary+lilith&pg=PA126 |title= Psychic Self-Defence |first= Dion |last= Fortune |pages= 126–128 |isbn=9781609254643 |year= 1963 |publisher= Weiser Books }}</ref> and that Lilith is the source of "lustful dreams".<ref name="fortune" />