Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07/Chapter 2

Characters

 * Accelerator
 * Qliphah Puzzle 545
 * Dion Fortune
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Index Librorum Prohibitorum
 * Othinus
 * Aradia
 * Sphynx


 * Alice Anotherbible
 * Good Old Mary
 * Yomikawa Aiho
 * Tessou Tsuzuri


 * Aleister Crowley
 * Anna Sprengel
 * Kihara Noukan
 * Anna Kingsford

New Characters

 * H. T. Trismegistus
 * Mut Thebes

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School District 7
 * Kamijou Residence
 * School District 10
 * Special Criminal Adult Correctional Facility
 * School District 12

New Locations

 * School District 12
 * Consulate

Cultural References

 * Numerous aspects of  are involved in the visit to the consulate, Alice Anotherbible's 'secret base'.
 * The consulate itself is partially based on the 's castle, with Trismegistus pointing out how it is considered a highlight of the story. Like in the story, there are roses in the garden which have been painted red.
 * The Shrink Drink spiritual items, intended for executing Anna Sprengel, are derived from the drink which shrinks the drinker in the story, with the bottle having the label 'drink me' - words engraved on the spears.
 * Mut Thebes's name is derived from the Egyptian deity and the ancient Egyptian capital city . Mut (meaning "mother" in ancient Egyptian) is a mother goddess and primal deity associated with the primordial waters of Nu, often said to have been the husband of the solar creator god  and mother of the lunar god . She was a patron deity of, which was also the site of the , where the three were worshipped as the.
 * In considering Hermes Thoth Trismegistus and his own system, Aleister mentions Thoth's links to Aiwass and how Hermes and Thoth are associated in his occult dictionary Liber 777. The relevant columns in Table I of Liber 777 are XIX, XX (Egyptian Gods), and XXXIV (Greek Gods). Hermes and Thoth correspond at rows 2, 8 and 12.
 * When teasingly suggesting and eliminating beings related to Magick that the Bologna Succubus and Good Old Mary could be linked to (along the same logic as Trismegistus and Aradia's links to it), Anna Kingsford mentions the sky goddess from Egyptian Mythology and the lady in red spoken of in the . The Egyptian sky goddess is, whom the Thelemic deity is based on, while the lady from Revelation is the , an origin for the Scarlet Woman  in Thelema.