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This word is one that, as far as I know, seems to have started with, or has become associated with, Spiritualism and, to lesser extent, New Age practice. As I understand the word, in the context of magick/psychism/religion/metaphysics, it means "a group of people meeting for a psychic or spiritual purpose – probably most commonly to develop psychic abilities, for healing, or for discussion of spiritual matters."

Note that Spiritualist religious 'dogma' (some branches of Spiritualism are 'registered as churches - e.g., in Australia, which, as I understand it, requires seven 'congregations' following a prescribed set of rules) or practice is based around mediumship and/or psychism to contact nonphysical realms - or, more specifically, the wiser or more skilled entities currently living there.

As of the time this definition was written, I’ve touched on this idea in the following posts:

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