| A The first letter in all the world‐alphabets save a few, such for instance as the Mongolian, the Japa ...
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| Aaron The elder brother of Moses and the first Initiate of the Hebrew Lawgiver. The name means the I ...
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| Ab The eleventh month of the Hebrew civil year; the fifth of the sacred year beginning in July. [w.w.w. ...
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| Abaddon An angel of Hell, corresponding to the Greek Apollyon. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
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| Abatur In the Nazarene system the “Ancient of Days”, Antiquus Altus, the Father of the Demiurgus of the ...
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| Abba Amona Lit., “Father‐Mother”; the occult names of the two higher Sephiroth, Chokmah and Binah, ...
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| Abei‐Zivo The Metatron or anointed spirit with the Nazarene Gnostics; the same as the angel Gabriel. [[Categor ...
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| Abhamsi • Abhâmsi IAST A mystic name of the “four orders of beings” which are, Gods, Demons, Pitris and Men. Orientalists s ...
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| Abhasvaras The Devas or “Gods” of Light and Sound, the highest of the upper three celestial regions (planes ...
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| Abhava Negation, or non‐being of individual objects; the noumenal substance, or abstract objectivity. [ ...
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| Abhaya • Abhaya SD A son of Dharma; and also a religious life of duty. As an adjective, “Fearless,” Abhaya is an epithe ...
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| Abhayagiri Lit., “Mount Fearless” in Ceylon. It has an ancient Vihâra or Monastery in which the well‐known ...
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| Abhidharma The metaphysical (third) part of Tripitaka, a very philosophical Buddhist work by Kâtyâyana. [[C ...
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| Abhijna • Abhijñâ SD • abhijnā IAST • abhijnA HK Six phenomenal (or “supernatural”) gifts which Sâkyamuni Buddha acquired in the night on which he re ...
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| Abhimanim The name of Agni (fire) the “eldest son of Brahmâ”, in other words, the first element or Force produ ...
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| Abhimanyu A son of Arjuna. He killed Lakshmana,in the great battle of the Mahâbhârata on its second day, but w ...
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| Abhutarajasas A class of gods or Devas, during the period of the fifth Manvantara. [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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| Abib The first Jewish sacred month, begins in March; is also called Nisan. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Abiegnus Mons A mystic name, from whence as from a certain mountain, Rosicrucian documents are often found to be i ...
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| Abiri See Kabiri, also written Kabeiri, the Mighty Ones, celestials, sons of Zedec the just one, a group o ...
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| Ablanathanalba A term similar to “Abracadabra”. It is said by C. W. King to have meant “thou art a father to us”; i ...
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| Abracadabra This symbolic word first occurs in a medical treatise in verse by Samonicus, who flourished in the r ...
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| Abraxas • Abrasax Mystic words which have been traced as far back as Basilides, the Pythagorean, of Alexandria, AD. 90 ...
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| Absoluteness When predicated of the UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE, it denotes an abstract noun, which is more correct and l ...
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| Avebury • Abury In Wiltshire are the remains of an ancient megalithic Serpent temple: according to the eminent antiq ...
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| Ab‐Soo The mystic name for Space, meaning the dwelling of Ab the “Father”, or the head of the sou ...
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| Ab‐i‐hayat Water of immortality. Supposed to give eternal youth and sempiternal life to him who drinks of it. [ ...
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| Acacia Innocence; and also a plant used in Freemasonry as a symbol of initiation, immortality, and purity; ...
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| Achamoth The name of the second, the inferior Sophia. Esoterically and with the Gnostics, the elder Sophia wa ...
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| Achar The Gods over whom (according to the Jews) Jehovah is the God. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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| Achara Personal and social (religious) obligations.<span st ...
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| Acharya Spiritual teacher, Guru; as Sankar‐âchârya, lit., a “teacher of ethics”. A name generally given ...
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| Achath The one, the first, feminine; achad being masculine. A Talmudic word applied to Jehovah. It ...
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| Acher The Talmudic name of the Apostle Paul. The Talmud narrates the story of the four Tanaim, who ent ...
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| Acheron One of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology.<span ...
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| Achit Absolute non‐intelligence; as Chit is—in contrast— absolute intelligence. [[Category: Theosophic ...
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| Achyuta That which is not subject to change or fall; the opposite to Chyuta, “fallen”. A title of Vishnu ...
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| Acosmism The precreative period, when there was no Kosmos but Chaos alone. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Ad Ad, “the Father”. In Aramean ad means one, and ad‐ad “the only one”. [[Category: Theosop ...
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| Adah Borrowed by the Hebrews for the name of their Adah, father of Jubal, etc. But Adah meaning the first ...
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| Adam In the Kabalah Adam is the “only‐begotten”, and means also “red earth”. (See “Adam‐Adami” in the ...
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| Illa‐ah, Adam Adam Illa‐ah is the celestial, superior Adam, in the Zohar [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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| Adam Kadmon Archetypal Man; Humanity. The “Heavenly Man” not fallen into sin; Kabalists refer it to the Ten Seph ...
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| Adamic Earth Called the “true oil of gold” or the “primal element” in Alchemy. It is but one remove from the pure ...
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| Adbhuta Is a title of Vishnu, the “first Element” containing all elements, “the unfathomable deity”. [[C ...
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| Adbhuta Brahmana The Brâhmana of miracles; treats of marvels, auguries, and various phenomena. [[Category: Theosophic ...
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| Adbhuta Dharma The “law” of things never heard before. A class of Buddhist works on miraculous or phenomenal events ...
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| Adept Adeptus, “He who has obtained.” In Occultism one who has reached the stage of Initiation, and be ...
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| Adharma Unrighteousness, vice, the opposite of Dharma.<span ...
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| Adhi Supreme, paramount.<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
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| Adhishtanam Basis; a principle in which some other principle inheres. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
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| Adhi‐bhautika duhkha The second of the three kinds of pain; lit., “Evil proceeding from external things or beings”. [ ...
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| Adhi‐daivika duhkha The third of the three kinds of pain. “Evil proceeding from divine causes, or a just Karmic punishme ...
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| Adhyatma Vidya Lit., “the esoteric luminary”. One of the Pancha Vidyâ Sastras, or the Scriptures of the Five Scienc ...
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| Adhyatmika duhkha The first of the three kinds of pain; lit., “Evil proceeding from Self ”, an induced or a generated ...
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| Adi The First, the primeval.<span style="color: grey; fo ...
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| Adi Varsha The first land; the primordial country in which dwelt the first races. [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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| Adikrit Lit., the “first produced” or made. The creative Force eternal and uncreate, but manifesting periodi ...
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| Aditi The Vedic name for the Mûlaprakriti of the Vedantists; the abstract aspect of Parabrahman, thoug ...
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| Aditi‐Gaea A compound term, Sanskrit and Latin, meaning dual, nature in theosophical writings—spiritual and phy ...
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| Aditya A name of the Sun; as Mârttânda he is the Son of Aditi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms ...
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| Adityas The seven sons of Âditi; the seven planetary gods.<s ...
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| Adi‐Buddha The First and Supreme Buddha—not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light. [[Category: T ...
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| Adi‐Sakti Primeval, divine Force; the female creative power, and aspect in and of every male god. The Sakti ...
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| Adi‐Sanat Lit., “First Ancient”. The term corresponds to the Kabalistic “ancient of days”, since it is a title ...
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| Adi‐bhuta The first Being; also primordial element.<span style ...
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| Adi‐budhi Primeval Intelligence or Wisdom; the eternal Budhi or Universal Mind. Used of Divine Ideation, “ ...
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| Adi‐natha The “first” Lord”—Âdi “first” (masc.), nâtha “Lord”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Adi‐nidana First and Supreme Causality, from Âdi, the first, and Nidâna the principal cause (or the con ...
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| Odem • Adm A stone (the cornelian) on the breast‐plate of the Jewish High Priest. It is of red colour and posse ...
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| Adonim‐Adonai • Adon The ancient Chaldeo‐Hebrew names for the Elohim or creative terrestrial forces, synthesized by Jehov ...
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| Adonai The same as Adonis. Commonly translated “Lord”. Astronomically—the Sun. When a Hebrew in reading cam ...
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| Adwaita A Vedânta sect. The non‐dualistic (A‐ dwaita) school of Vedântic philosophy founded by Sankarâchârya ...
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| Adwaitin A follower of the said school.<span style="color: gr ...
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| Adytum The Holy of Holies in the pagan temples. A name for the secret and sacred precincts or the inner cha ...
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| Aeolus The god who, according to Hesiod, binds and looses the winds; the king of storms and winds. A king o ...
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| Aeon • Aeons Periods of time; emanations proceeding from the divine essence, and celestial beings; genii and ange ...
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| Aesir The same as Ases, the creative Forces personified. The gods who created the black dwarfs or the ...
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| Aether With the ancients the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe, the “garment” ...
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| Aethrobacy Lit., walking on, or being lifted into the air with no visible agent at work; “levitation”. It may b ...
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| Afrits A name for native spirits regarded as devils by Mussulmen. Elementals much dreaded in Egypt. [[Categ ...
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| Agapae Love Feasts; the early Christians kept such festivals in token of sympathy, love and mutual benevole ...
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| Agapae Love Feasts These banquets of charity held by the earliest Christians were founded at Rome by Clemens, in the re ...
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| Agastya The name of a great Rishi, much revered in Southern India; the reputed author of hymns in the Rig ...
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| Agathodaemon The beneficent, good Spirit as contrasted with the bad one, Kakodæmon. The “Brazen Serpent” of the B ...
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| Agathon Plato’s Supreme Deity. Lit., “The Good”, our ALAYA, or “Universal Soul”. [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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| Aged One of the Kabbalistic names for Sephira, called also the Crown, or Kether. [[Category: Theosoph ...
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| Agla This Kabbalistic word is a talisman composed of the initals of the four words “Ateh Gibor Leolam Ado ...
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| Agneyastra The fiery missiles or weapons used by the Gods in the exoteric Purânas and the Mahâbhârata t ...
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| Agni The God of Fire in the Veda; the oldest and the most revered of Gods in India. He is one of the thre ...
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| Agni Bahu An ascetic son of Manu Swâyambhuva, the “Self‐born”. ...
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| Agni Bhuvah Lit., “born of fire”, the term is applied to the four races of Kshatriyas (the second or warrior ...
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| Agni Dhatu Samadhi A kind of contemplation in Yoga practice, when Kundalini is raised to the extreme and the infinitude ...
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| Agni Hotri The priests who served the Fire‐God in Aryan antiquity. The term Agni Hotri is one that denotes obla ...
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| Agnishwattas A class of Pitris, the creators of the first ethereal race of men. Our solar ancestors as contrasted ...
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| Agni‐ratha A “Fiery Vehicle” literally. A kind of flying machine. Spoken of in ancient works of magic in India ...
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| Agnoia “Divested of reason”, lit., “irrationality”, when speaking of the animal Soul. According to Plutarch ...
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| Agnostic A word claimed by Mr. Huxley to have been coined by him to indicate one who believes nothing which c ...
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| Agra‐Sandhani The “Assessors” or Recorders who read at the judgment of a disembodied Soul the record of its li ...
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| Agruerus A very ancient Phœnician god. The same as Saturn.<sp ...
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| Ajnana • Agyana Non‐knowledge; absence of knowledge rather than “ignorance” as generally translated. An Ajnâni m ...
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| Aham “I”—the basis of Ahankâra, Self‐hood.<span style ...
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| Ahan “Day”;the Body of Brahmâ, in the Purânas.<span s ...
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| Ahankara The conception of “I”, Self‐consciousness or Self‐ identity; the “I”, the egotistical and mâyâvic ...
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| Aheie Existence. He who exists; corresponds to Kether and Macroprosopus. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Ahi A serpent. A name of Vritra, the Vedic demon of drought. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD term ...
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| Ahti The “Dragon” in the Eddas.
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| Ahu “One” and the First.<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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| Ahum The first three principles of septenary man in the Avesta ; the gross living man and his vital a ...
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| Ahura The same as Asura, the holy, the Breath‐ like. Ahura Mazda, the Ormuzd of the Zoroastrians or Pa ...
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| Ahura Mazda The personified deity, the Principle of Universal Divine Light of the Parsis. From Ahura or Asura' ...
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| Ormazd • Ahura Mazda The god of the Zoroastrians or the modern Parsis. He is symbolized by the sun, as being the Light of ...
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| Ah‐hi Ahi (Sk.), or Serpents. Dhyân Chohans. “Wise Serpents” or Dragons of Wisdom. [[Category: T ...
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| Aidoneus The God and King of the Nether World; Pluto or Dionysos Chthonios (subterranean). Nameless, and ther ...
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| Aij Talon The supreme deity of the Yakoot, a tribe in Northern Siberia. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Ain The negatively existent; deity in repose, and absolutely passive. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| En Soph • Ain Soph The endless, limitless and boundless. The absolute deific Principle, impersonal and unknowable. It m ...
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| Ain Soph The “Boundless” or Limitless; Deity emanating and extending. [w.w.w.]
Ain Soph is also written E ...
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| Ain Soph Aur The Boundless Light which concentrates into the First and highest Sephira or Kether, the Crown. [w. ...
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| Aindri Wife of Indra.<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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| Aindriya Or Indrânî, Indriya; Sakti. The female aspect or “wife” of Indra. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Ain‐Aior The only “Self‐existent” a mystic name for divine substance. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Airyamen Yaego Or Airyana Vaêgo; the primeval land of bliss referred to in the Vendîdâd, where Ahura Mazda ...
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| Airyana‐ishejo The name of a prayer to the “holy Airyamen”, the divine aspect of Ahriman before the latter became a ...
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| Aish The word for “Manʺ.<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
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| Aisvarikas A theistic school of Nepaul, which sets up Âdi Buddha as a supreme god ( Îsvara ), instead of seeing ...
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| Aitareya The name of an Aranyaka (Brâhmana) and a Upanishad of the Rig Veda. Some of its portions are pur ...
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| Aith‐ur Solar fire, divine Æther.<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Aize • Liber De Lapide Philosophico. An alchemic treatise by an unknown German author; dated 1677. It is to be fo ...
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| Aja Aja (Sk.). “Unborn”, uncreated; an epithet belonging to many of the primordial gods, but e ...
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| Ajitas One of the Occult names of the twelve great gods incarnating in each Manvantara. The Occultists iden ...
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| Akar The proper name of that division of the Ker‐ neter infernal regions, which may be called Hell. [w. w ...
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| Akasa The subtle, supersensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space; the primordial substance erron ...
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| Akbar The great Mogul Emperor of India, the famous patron of religions, arts, and sciences, the most liber ...
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| Akiba The only one of the four Tanaim (initiated prophets) who entering the Garden of Delight (of ...
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| Alexander Nikolaevich Aksakoff • Alexandr Aksakov Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor.
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| Akshara Supreme Deity; lit., “indestructible”, ever perfect. ...
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| Akta Anointed: a title of Twashtri or Visvakarman, the highest “Creator” and Logos in the Rig ‐Veda. ...
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| Akupara The Tortoise, the symbolical turtle on which the earth is said to rest. [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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| Al • El This deity‐name is commonly translated “God’, meaning mighty, supreme. The plural is Elohim, also tr ...
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| Alaparus The second divine king of Babylonia who reigned.. “three Sari”. The first king of the divine Dyn ...
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| Alaya The Universal Soul (See Secret Doctrine Vol. I. pp. 47 et seq.). The name belongs to the Tib ...
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| Alba Petra The white stone of Initiation. The “white cornelian” mentioned in St. John’s Revelation. [[Categ ...
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| Alchemists From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of E ...
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| Alchemy Error: String exceeds 5,000 character limit. ...
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| Alcyone Or Halcyone, daughter of Æolus, and wife of Ceyx, who was drowned as he was journeying to consult th ...
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| Alectromancy Divination by means of a cock, or other bird; a circle was drawn and divided into spaces, each one a ...
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| Alethae “Fire worshippers” from Al‐alt, the God of Fire. The same as the Kabiri or divine Titans. As ...
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| Aletheia Truth; also Alethia, one of Apollo’s nurses.<span st ...
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| Alexadrian School • Philosophers This famous school arose in Alexandria (Egypt) which was for several centuries the great seat of lea ...
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| Vorborth A.A. Russian diplomat, full state Councilor, who in 1887-1898 served as Consul General in London.
In 18 ...
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| Alhim See “Elohim”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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| Alkahest The universal solvent in Alchemy (see ʺAlchemy ʺ); but in mysticism, the Higher Self, the union with ...
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| Almadel The Book. A treatise on Theurgia or White Magic by an unknown mediæval European author; it is not in ...
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| Almeh Dancing girls; the same as the Indian nautchies, the temple and public dancers. [[Category: Theo ...
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| Alpha Polaris The same as Dhruva, the pole‐star of 31,105 years ago. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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| Alswider ‘‘ All‐swift’’, the name of the horse of the moon, in the Eddas. [[Category: Theosophical Glossa ...
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| Altruism From alter = other. A quality opposed to egoism. Actions tending to do good to others, regardless of ...
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| Al‐Chazari A Prince‐Philosopher and Occultist. (See Book Al‐Chazari.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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| Al‐ait The God of Fire, an ancient and very mystic name in Koptic Occultism. [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Ama Amia, (Chald.). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who i ...
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| Amanasa The “ Mindless”, the early races of this planet; also certain Hindu gods. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Amara‐Kosha The “immortal vocabulary”. The oldest dictionary known in the world and the most perfect vocabulary ...
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| Amba The name of the eldest of the seven Pleiades, the heavenly sisters married each to a Rishi belon ...
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| Ambhamsi A name of the chief of the Kumâras Sanat‐Sujâta, signifying the “waters”. This epithet will become m ...
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| Amdo A sacred locality, the birthplace of Tson‐kha‐ pa, the great Tibetan reformer and the founder of the ...
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| Amen In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of “Jehovah Adonai”=10, ...
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| Amenti Esoterically and literally, the dwelling of the God Amen, or Amoun, or the “hidden”, secret god. Exo ...
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| Amesha Spentas Amshaspends. The six angels or divine Forces personified as gods who attend upon Ahura Mazda, of whi ...
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| Amitabha The Chinese perversion of the Sanskrit Amrita Buddha, or the “Immortal Enlightened”, a name of G ...
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| Ammon One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun‐Ra, and is identified with Ba ...
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| Ammonius Saccas A great and good philosopher who lived in Alexandria between the second and third centuries of our e ...
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| Amrita The ambrosial drink or food of the gods; the food giving immortality. The elixir of life churned out ...
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| Amulam Mulam Lit., the “rootless root” ; Mulâprakriti of the Vedantins the spiritual “root of nature” [[Category: ...
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| Amun The Egyptian god of wisdom, who had only Initiates or Hierophants to serve him as priests [[Category ...
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| Ana The “invisible heaven”or Astral Light ; the heavenly mother of the terrestrial sea, Mar, whence ...
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| Anacalypsis Or an “Attempt to withdraw the veil of the Saitic Isis”, by Godfrey Higgins. This is a very valuable ...
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| Anagamin Anagam. One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Ar ...
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| Anahata Chakram The seat or “wheel” of life; the heart, according to some commentators [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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| Anahata Shabda The mystic voices and sounds heard by the Yogi at the incipient stage of his meditation, The third o ...
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| Anaitia A derivation from Anâ (q.v.), a goddess identical with the Hindu Annapurna, one of the names ...
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| Analogeticists The disciples of Ammonius Saccas (q.v.), so called because of their practice of interpreting all sac ...
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| Ananda Bliss, joy, felicity, happiness. A name of the favourite disciple of Gautama, the Lord Buddha [[Cate ...
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| Anandamaya‐Kosha “The illusive Sheath of Bliss”, i.e., the mâyâvic or illusory form, the appearance of that which is ...
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| Ananda‐Lahari “The wave of joy”; a beautiful poem written by Sankarâchârya, a hymn to Pârvati, very mystical and o ...
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| Ananga The “Bodiless”. An epithet of Kâma, god of love<span ...
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| Ananta‐Sesha The Serpent of Eternity—the couch of Vishnu during Pralaya (lit., endless remain) [[Category: Theoso ...
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| Anastasis The continued existence of the soul<span style="colo ...
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| Anatu The female aspect of Anu (q.v.). She represents the Earth and Depth, while her consort represents th ...
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| Anaxagoras A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and ...
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| Ancients The. A name given by Occultists to the seven creative Rays, born of Chaos, or the “Deep” [[Category ...
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| Anda‐Kataha The outer covering, or the “shell” of Brahmâ’s egg; the area within which our manifested universe is ...
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| Androgyne Goat | |
| Androgyne Ray The first differentiated ray; the Second Logos; Adam Kadmon in the Kabalah; the “male and female ...
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| Angaraka Fire Star; the planet Mars; in Tibetan, Mig‐mar< ...
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| Angirasas The generic name of several Purânic individuals and things; a class of Pitris, the ancestors of ...
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| Denis, Angoras A physician of Paris, astrologer and alchemist in the XIVth century” (R.M.C.) [[Category: Theosophic ...
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| Angra Mainyus The Zoroastrian name for Ahriman; the evil spirit of destruction and opposition who (in the Vendid ...
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| Anima Mundi The “Soul of the World”, the same as the Alaya of the Northern Buddhists; the divine essence whi ...
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| Animal Magnetism While official science calls it a “supposed” agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming m ...
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| Anjala One of the personified powers which spring from Brahmâ’s body—the Prajâpatis [[Category: Theosophica ...
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| Anjana A serpent, a son of Kasyapa Rishi<span style="color: ...
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| Annamaya Kosha A Vedantic term. The same as Sthûla Sharîra or the physical body. It is the first “sheath” of th ...
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| Annapura See “Anâ”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; f ...
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| Annedotus The generic name for the Dragons or Men‐Fishes, of which there were five. The historian Berosus narr ...
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| Anoia “Want of understanding”, “folly”. Anoia is the name given by Plato and others to the lower Manas ...
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| Anouki A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew Ank, life. (See “Anuki.”) [[Cate ...
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| Ansumat A Purânic personage, the “nephew of 60,000 uncles” King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes by ...
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| Antahkarana • Antaskarana The term has various meanings, which differ with every school of philosophy and sect. Thus Sankârach ...
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| Anthesteria The feast of Flowers (Floralia): during this festival the rite of Baptism or purification was pe ...
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| Anthropology The Science of man; it embraces among other things :—Physiology, or that branch of natural scien ...
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| Anthropomorphism From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes ...
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| Anu [1] (Sk.)An “atom”, a title of Brahmâ, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe. A ...
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| Anubis The dog ‐headed god, identical, in a certain aspect, with Horus. He is pre‐eminently the god who dea ...
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| Anugita One of the Upanishads. A very occult treatise. (See The sacred Books of the East.) [[Categor ...
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| Anugraha The eighth creation in the Vishnu Purâna.<span s ...
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| Anuki “See Anouki” supra. “The word Ank in Hebrew, means ‘my life’, my being, which is the persona ...
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| Anumati The moon at the full; when from a god— Soma—she becomes a goddess [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Anumitis Inference, deduction in philosophy<span style="color ...
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| Anunit The goddess of Akkad ; Lucifer, the morning star. Venus as the evening star as Ishtar of Erech [[Cat ...
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| Anunnaki Angels or Spirits of the Earth; terrestrial Elementals also [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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| Anupadaka Anupapâdaka, also Aupapâduka; means parentless”, “self‐existing”, born without any parents or progen ...
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| Anuttara Unrivalled, peerless. Thus Anuttara Bodhi means unexcelled or unrivalled intelligence”, Anutta ...
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| Anyamsam Aniyasam A no‐ranîyânsam (in Bhagavad gîtâ). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of th ...
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| Aour The synthesis of the two aspects of astro‐ etheric light; and the od—the life‐giving, and th ...
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| Apam Napat A mysterious being, corresponding to the Fohat of the Occultists. It is both a Vedic and an Avestian ...
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| Apana “Inspirational breath”; a practice in Yoga. Prana and apâna are the “expirational” and the “ ...
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| Apap • Apophis The symbolical Serpent of Evil. The Solar Boat and the Sun are the great Slayers of Apap in the Bo ...
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| Aparinamin The Immutable and the Unchangeable, the reverse of Parinâmin, that which is subject to modification, ...
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| Aparoksha Direct perception.<span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Apava Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for ...
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| Apavarga Emancipation from repeated births<span style="color: ...
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| Apis • Hapi‐ankh The “living deceased one” or Osiris incarnate in the sacred white Bull. Apis was the bull‐god that, ...
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| Apocrypha Very erroneously explained and adopted as doubtful, or spurious. The word means simply secret, eso ...
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| Apollo Belvidere Of all the ancient statues of Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, called Phœbus, Helios, the radi ...
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| Apollonius of Tyana A wonderful philosopher born in Cappadocia about the beginning of the first century; an ardent Pytha ...
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| Aporrheta Secret instructions upon esoteric subjects given during the Egyptian and Grecian Mysteries [[Categor ...
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| Apsaras An Undine or Water‐Nymph, from the Paradise or Heaven of Indra. The Apsarases are in popular belief ...
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| Arahat Also pronounced and written Arhat, Arhan, Rahat, &c., “the worthy one”, lit., “deserving divine hono ...
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| Arani The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). Arani is ...
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| Aranyaka Holy hermits, sages who dwelt in ancient India in forests. Also a portion of the Vedas containing Up ...
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| Araritha A very famous seven‐lettered Kabbalistic wonder‐word ; its numeration is 813 ; its letters are colle ...
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| Arasa Maram The Hindu sacred tree of knowledge. In occult philosophy a mystic word [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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| Arba‐il The Four Great Gods. Arba is Aramaic for four, and il is the same as Al or El. Three male de ...
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| Archaeus “The Ancient.” Used of the oldest manifested deity; a term employed in the Kabalah ; “archaic ”, ...
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| Archangel Highest supreme angel. From the Greek arch, “chief” or “primordial”, and angelos, “messenger ...
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| Archetypal Universe The ideal universe upon which the objective world was built. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Archobiosis Primeval beginning of life<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Archons In profane and biblical language “rulers” and princes; in Occultism, primordial planetary spirits [[ ...
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| Archontes The archangels after becoming Ferouers (q.v.) or their own shadows, having mission on earth; a m ...
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| Ardath This word occurs in the Second Book of Esdras, ix., 26. The name has been given to one of the recent ...
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| Ardhanariswara Lit., “the bi‐sexual lord”. Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the ...
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| Ardha‐Nari Lit., “half‐woman”. Siva represented as Androgynous, as half male and half female, a type of male an ...
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| Ares The Greek name for Mars, god of war; also a term used by Paracelsus, the differentiated Force in Cos ...
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| Argha The ark, the womb of Nature; the crescent moon, and a life‐saving ship ; also a cup for offerings, a ...
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| Arghyanath Lit., “lord of libations”<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Arian A follower of Arius, a presbyter of the Church in Alexandria in the fourth century. One who holds th ...
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| Aristobulus An Alexandrian writer, and an obscure philosopher. A Jew who tried to prove that Aristotle explained ...
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| Arithmomancy The science of correspondences between gods, men, and numbers, as taught by Pythagoras. [w.w.w.] [[C ...
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| Arjuna Lit., the “white”. The third of the five Brothers Pandu or the reputed Sons of Indra (esoterically t ...
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| Ark of Isis At the great Egyptian annual ceremony, which took place in the month of Athyr, the boat of Isis was ...
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| Ark of the Covenant Every ark‐shrine, whether with the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans or Mexicans, was a phallic shrine, t ...
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| Arka The Sun<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fon ...
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| Arkites The ancient priests who were attached to the Ark, whether of Isis, or the Hindu Argua, and who w ...
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| Aroueris The god Harsiesi, who was the elder Horus. He had a temple at Ambos. if we bear in mind the definiti ...
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| Artephius A great Hermetic philosopher, whose true name was never known and whose works are without dates, tho ...
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| Artes The Earth; the Egyptian god Mars<span style="color: ...
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| Artufas A generic name in South America and the islands for temples of nagalism or serpent worship [[Cat ...
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| Arundhati The “Morning Star”; Lucifer‐Venus<span style="color: ...
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| Arupa “Bodiless”, formless, as opposed to rûpa, “body”, or form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Arvaksrotas The seventh creation, that of man, in the Vishnu Purâna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
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| Arwaker Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the Eddas ...
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| Arya Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) an ...
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| Aryahata The “Path of Arhatship”, or of holiness<span style=" ...
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| Aryasangha The Founder of the first Yogâchârya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha ...
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| Aryasatyani The four truths or the four dogmas, which are (1) Dukha, or that misery and pain are the unavoid ...
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| Aryavarta The “land of the Aryas”, or India. The ancient name for Northern India. The Brahmanical invaders (“ ...
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| Arya‐Bhata The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author o ...
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| Arya‐Dasa Lit., “Holy Teacher”. A great sage and Arhat of the Mahâsamghika school [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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| Ar‐Abu Nasr‐al‐Farabi Called in Latin Alpharabius, a Persian, and the greatest Aristotelian philosopher of the age. He was ...
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| Asakrit Samadhi A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in Samâdhi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Asana The third stage of Hatha Yoga, one of the prescribed postures of meditation [[Category: Theosoph ...
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| Asat A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather non‐be‐ness. The “incomprehensible nothingne ...
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| Asathor The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miölnir, the “storm‐ hammer”, f ...
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| Asava Samkhaya The “finality of the stream”, one of the six “Abhijnâs” (q.v.). A phenomenal knowledge of the fi ...
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| Asburj One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which ...
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| Asch Metzareph The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals ...
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| Ases The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the prog ...
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| Asgard The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated “higher than the ...
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| Ash Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as As, Aish and E ...
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| Ask • Ash The “tree of Knowledge”. Together with the Embla (alder) the Ask was the tree from which the god ...
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| Ash Yggdrasil The “Mundane Tree”, the Symbol of the World with the old Norsemen, the “tree of the universe, of tim ...
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| Ashen and Langhan Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in u ...
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| Asherah A word, which occurs in the Old Testament, and is commonly translated “groves” referring to idolatro ...
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| Ashmog The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the Avesta; a kind of allegorical Satan, ...
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| Ashta Siddhis The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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| Ashtadisa The eight‐faced space. An imaginary division of space represented as an octagon and at other tim ...
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| Ashtar Vidya The most ancient of the Hindu works on Magic. Though there is a claim that the entire work is in the ...
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| Asiras Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: Theo ...
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| Asita A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage< ...
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| Aski‐kataski‐haix‐tetrax‐damnameneus‐aision These mystic words, which Athanasius Kircher tells us meant “ Darkness, Light, Earth, Sun, and Truth ...
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| Asmodeus The Persian Aêshma‐dev, the Esham‐dev of the Parsis, “the evil Spirit of Concupiscence”, acc ...
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| Asmoneans Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon ...
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| Asoka A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in rea ...
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| Asomatous Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: Theosoph ...
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| Asrama A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in India has its Ashr ...
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| Assassins A masonic and mystic order founded by Hassan Sabah in Persia, in the eleventh century. The word is a ...
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| Assorus The third group of progeny (Kissan and Assorus) from the Babylonian Duad, Tauthe and Apason, accordi ...
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| Assur A city in Assyria ; the ancient seat of a library from which George Smith excavated the earliest kno ...
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| Assurbanipal The Sardanapalus of the Greeks, “the greatest of the Assyrian Sovereigns, far more memorable on acco ...
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| Assyrian Holy Scriptures. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpreta ...
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| Asta‐dasha Perfect, Supreme Wisdom; a title of Deity<span style ...
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| Aster’t Astarte, the Syrian goddess the consort of Adon, or Adonai [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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| Astraea The ancient goddess of justice, whom the wickedness of men drove away from earth to heaven, wherein ...
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| Astral Body The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The Linga Sharira, the “Doppelgäinger ...
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| Astral Light The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the seco ...
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| Astrology The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretel ...
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| Astronomos The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of ...
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| Asura Mazda In the Zend, Ahura Mazda. The same as Ormuzd or Mazdeô; the god of Zoroaster and the Parsis [[Ca ...
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| Asuramaya Known also as Mayâsura. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, we ...
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| Asuras Exoterically, elementals and evil, gods— considered maleficent; demons, and no gods. But e ...
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| Aswamedha The Horse‐sacrifice; an ancient Brahmanical ceremony ...
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| Aswattha The Bo‐tree, the tree of knowledge, ficus religiosa [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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| Aswins • Aswinau • Aswinî‐Kumârau Are the most mysterious and occult deities of all; who have “puzzled the oldest commentators”. Liter ...
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| Atala One of the regions in the Hindu lokas, and one of the seven mountains; but esoterically Atala is on ...
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| Atalanta Fugiens A famous treatise by the eminent Rosicrucian Michael Maier; it has many beautiful engravings of Alch ...
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| Atarpi • Atarpi‐nisi A personage who was “pious to the gods”; and who prayed the god Hea to remove the evil of drought an ...
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| Atash Behram The sacred fire of the Parsis, preserved perpetually in their fire‐temples [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Atef • Crown of Horus It consisted of a tall white cap with ram’s horns, and the urœus in front. Its two feathers repr ...
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| Athamaz The same as Adonis with the Greeks, the Jews having borrowed all their gods [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Athanor The “astral” fluid of the Alchemists, their Archimedean lever; exoterically, the furnace of the ...
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| Atharva Veda The fourth Veda; lit., magic incantation containing aphorisms, incantations and magic formula On ...
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| Athenagoras A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addresse ...
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| Athor “Mother Night.” Primeval Chaos, in the Egyptian cosmogony. The goddess of night [[Category: Theosoph ...
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| Ativahikas With the Visishtadwaitees, these are the Pitris, or Devas, who help the disembodied soul or Ji ...
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| Atlantidae • Atlantidæ The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Es ...
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| Atlantis The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teac ...
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| Atma • Atman The Universal Spirit, the divine Monad, the 7th Principle, so‐called, in the septenary constitution ...
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| Atma Vidya The highest form of spiritual knowledge; lit., “Soul‐knowledge” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
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| Atmabodha Lit., “Self‐knowledge”; the title of a Vedantic treatise by Sankârachârya [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Atma‐bhu Soul‐existence, or existing as soul. (See “Alaya”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Atma‐jnani The Knower of the World‐Soul, or Soul in general<spa ...
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| Atma‐matrasu To enter into the elements of the “One‐Self”. (See S. D. I.,334 ''Atmamâtra is the spiri ...
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| Atri A class of Pitris, the “ancestors of man”, or the so‐called Prâjapâti, “progenitors”; one of the sev ...
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| Attavada The sin of personality<span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Atyantika One of the four kinds of pralaya or dissolution. The “absolute” pralaya [[Category: Theoso ...
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| Atziluth The highest of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah referred only to the pure Spirit of God. [w. w. w.] S ...
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| Audlang The second heaven made by Deity above the field of Ida, in the Norse legends [[Category: Theosophica ...
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| Audumla The Cow of Creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the giant Ymi ...
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| Augiras One of the Prajâpatis. A son of Daksha ; a lawyer, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Augoeides Bulwer Lytton calls it the “Luminous Self ”, or our Higher Ego. But Occultism makes of it something ...
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| Aum The sacred syllable; the triple‐lettered unit; hence the trinity in One [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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| Om • Aum A mystic syllable, the most solemn of all words in India. It is “an invocation, a benediction, an af ...
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| Aura A subtle invisible essence or fluid that emanates from human and animal bodies and even things. It i ...
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| Aurnavabha An ancient Sanskrit commentator<span style="color: g ...
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| Aurva The Sage who is credited with the invention of the “fiery weapon” called Agneyâstra [[Category: ...
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| Avaivartika An epithet of every Buddha: lit., one who turns no more back; who goes straight to Nirvâna [[Categor ...
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| Avalokiteswara “The on‐looking Lord” In the exoteric interpretation, he is Padmapâni (the lotus bearer and the lotu ...
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| Avarasaila Sangharama Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihâra (monastery) in Dhana‐k ...
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| Avastan An ancient name for Arabia<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Avasthas States, conditions, positions<span style="color: gre ...
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| Avatara Divine incarnation. The descent of a god or some exalted Being, who has progressed beyond the necess ...
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| Divine Incarnations • Avatars The Immaculate Conception is as pre‐eminently Egyptian as it is Indian. As the author of Egyptian ...
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| Ava‐bodha “Mother of Knowledge.” A title of Aditi<span style=" ...
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| Avesta Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian Âbastâ, “the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastria ...
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| Avicenna The latinized name of Abu‐Ali al Hoséen ben Abdallah Ibn Sina; a Persian philosopher, born 980 AD)., ...
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| Avidya Opposed to Vidyâ, Knowledge. Ignorance which proceeds from, and is produced by the illusion of t ...
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| Avikara Free from degeneration; changeless—used of Deity<spa ...
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| Avitchi A state: not necessarily after death only or between two births, for it can take place on earth as w ...
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| Avyakta The unrevealed cause; indiscrete or undifferentiated; the opposite of Vyakta, the differentiated ...
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| Axieros One of the Kabiri<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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| Axiocersa ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
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| Axiocersus ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
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| Ayana A period of time; two Ayanas complete a year, one being the period of the Sun’s progress northward, ...
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| Ayin Lit., “Nothing”, whence the name of Ain‐ Soph. (See“Ain”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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| Aymar Jacques. A famous Frenchman who had great success in the use of the Divining Rod about the end of th ...
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| Ayur Veda Lit., “the Veda of Life”<span style="color: grey; fo ...
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| Ayuta 100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000<span style ...
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| Azareksh A place celebrated for a fire‐temple of the Zoroastrians and Magi during the time of Alexander the G ...
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| Azazel “God of Victory”; the scape‐goat for the sins of Israel. He who comprehends the mystery of Azazel' ...
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| Azhi‐Dahaka One of the Serpents or Dragons in the legends of Iran and the Avesta Scriptures, the allegorical des ...
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| Aziluth The name for the world of the Sephiroth, called the world of Emanations Olam Aziluth. It is the ...
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| Azoth The creative principle in Nature, the grosser portion of which is stored in the Astral Light. It is ...
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| Hades • Aїdes The “invisible”, i.e., the land of the shadows, one of whose regions was Tartarus, a place of comple ...
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| B The second letter in almost all the alphabets, also the second in the Hebrew. Its symbol is a hous ...
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| Baal Baal or Adon (Adonai) was a phallic god. “Who shall ascend unto the hill (the high place) of the Lor ...
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| Babil Mound The site of the Temple of Bel at Babylon<span style= ...
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| Bacchus Exoterically and superficially the god of wine and the vintage, and of licentiousness and joy; but t ...
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| Bacon Roger. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth cent ...
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| Francis Bacon • Lord Verulam was an English philosopher, historian and statesman. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism ...
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| Baddha Bound, conditioned; as is every mortal who has not made himself free through Nirvâna [[Category: The ...
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| Bagavadam A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters<spa ...
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| Bagh‐bog “God”; a Slavonian name for the Greek Bacchus, whose name became the prototype of the name God or ...
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| Bahak‐Zivo The “father of the Genii” in the Codex Nazarœus. The Nazarenes were an early semi‐Christian sect [[C ...
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| Jules Baissac French theologist, who viewed Satan as a 'Centrifugal Energy of the Universe’ in a cosmic sense [[Ca ...
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| Bakhour R. M. [Cyclop.]<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
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| Bal Commonly translated “Lord”, but also Bel, the Chaldean god, and Baal, an ʺidolʺ [[Category: Theosoph ...
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| Bala • Panchabalâni The “five powers” to be acquired in Yoga practice; full trust or faith; energy ; memory; meditation ...
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| Baldur The “Giver of all Good”. The bright God who is “the best and all mankind are loud in his praise; so ...
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| Bal‐ilu One of the many titles of the Sun<span style="color: ...
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| Bamboo Books Most ancient and certainly pre‐historic works in Chinese containing the antediluvian records of the ...
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| Bandha Bondage; life on this earth; from the same root as Baddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
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| Baphomet The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See Secret Doctrine, I. 253). According to the Western, and espec ...
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| Baptism The rite of purification performed during the ceremony of initiation in the sacred tanks of India, a ...
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| Bardesanes • Bardaisan A Syrian Gnostic, erroneously regarded as a Christian theologian, born at Edessa (Edessene Chronic ...
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| Bardesanian The “Codex of the Nazarenes”, a system worked out by one Bardesanes. It is called by some a Kabala w ...
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| Baresma A plant used by Mobeds (Parsi priests) in the fire‐ temples, wherein consecrated bundles of it a ...
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| Barhishad A class of the “lunar” Pitris or “Ancestors”, Fathers, who are believed in popular superstition to h ...
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| Basileus The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter ...
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| Basilidean Named after Basilides; the Founder of one of the most philosophical gnostic sects. Clement the Alexa ...
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| Bassantin James. A Scotch astrologer. He lived in the 16th century and is said to have predicted to Sir Robert ...
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| Bath Daughter<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fo ...
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| Bath Kol Daughter of the Voice: the Divine afflatus, or inspiration, by which the prophets of Israel were ins ...
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| Batoo The first man in Egyptian folk‐lore. Noum, the heavenly artist, creates a beautiful girl—the ori ...
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| Batria According to tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh and the teacher of Moses [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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| Beel‐Zebub The disfigured Baal of the Temples. and more correctly Beel‐Zebul. Beel‐Zebub means ‐ literally ...
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| Bel The oldest and mightiest god of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities,—Anu (q.v.) ; Bel, “Lor ...
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| Bela‐Shemesh “The Lord of the Sun”, the name of the Moon during that period when the Jews became in turn solar an ...
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| Bembo Tablet of; or Mensa Isiaca. A brazen tablet inlaid with designs in Mosaic (now in the Museum at ...
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| Ben A son; a common prefix in proper names to denote the son of so‐and‐so, e.g., Ben Solomon, Ben Ishmae ...
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| Ben Shamesh The children or the “Sons of the Sun”. The term belongs to the period when the Jews were divided int ...
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| White Magic • Beneficent Magic So‐called, is divine magic, devoid of selfishness, love of power, of ambition, or lucre, and ben ...
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| B’ne Alhim • Beni Elohim “Sons of God ”, literally or more correctly “Sons of the gods”, as Elohim is the plural of Eloah. A ...
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| Benoo A word applied to two symbols, both taken The only English work on the Isiac Tablet is by Dr. W. Wyn ...
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| Berasit The first word of the book of Genesis. The English established version translates this as “In the be ...
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| Bergelmir The one giant who escaped in a boat the general slaughter of his brothers, the giant Ymir’s children ...
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| Berosus A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as t ...
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| Bes A phallic god, the god of concupiscence and pleasure. He is represented standing on a lotus ready to ...
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| Bestla The daughter of the “Frost giants”, the sons of Ymir; married to Bun, and the mother of Odin and his ...
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| Michael C. Betanelly was a Georgian immigrant engaged in export-import business. He married Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ...
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| Beth House, dwelling<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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| Beth Elohim A Kabbalistic treatise treating of the angels, souls of men, and demons. The name means “House of th ...
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| Betyles Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in a ...
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| Be‐ness A term coined by Theosophists to render more accurately the essential meaning of the untranslatable ...
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| Bhadra Vihara Lit., “the Monastery of the Sages or Bodhisattvas”. A certain Vihara or Matham in Kanyâkubdj ...
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| Bhadrakalpa Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching make ...
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| Bhadrasena A Buddhist king of Magadha<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Bhagats Also called Sokha and Sivnath by the Hindus; one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theo ...
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| Bhagavad‐gita Lit., “the Lord’s Song”. A portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a d ...
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| Bhagavat A title of the Buddha and of Krishna. “The Lord” literally [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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| Bhao A ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Bharata Varsha The land of Bharata, an ancient name of India<span s ...
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| Kirâtarjuniya • Bharavi A Sanskrit epic, celebrating the strife and prowess of Arjuna with the god Siva disguised as a fores ...
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| Bhargavas An ancient race in India; from the name of Bhrigu, the Rishi [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Bhashya A commentary<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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| Bhaskara One of the titles of Surya, the Sun; meaning “life‐ giver” and “light‐maker” [[Category: Theosophica ...
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| Bhava Being, or state of being; the world, a birth, and also a name of Siva [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Bhikshu In Pâli Bihkhu. The name given to the first followers of Sâkyamuni Buddha. Lit., “mendicant scho ...
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| Bhons The followers of the old religion of the Aborigines of Tibet; of pre‐buddhistic temples and ritualis ...
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| Bhrantidarsanatah Lit., “false comprehension or apprehension”; something conceived of on false appearances as a maya ...
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| Bhrigu One of the great Vedic Rishis. He is called “Son” by Manu, who confides to him his Institutes. H ...
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| Bhuhta‐vidya The art of exorcising, of treating and curing demoniac possession. Literally, “Demon” or “Ghost‐know ...
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| Bhumi The earth, called also Prithivî<span style="colo ...
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| Bhuranyu “The rapid” or the swift. Used of a missile— an equivalent also of the Greek Phoroneus. [[Catego ...
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| Bhur‐Bhuva A mystic incantation, as Om, Bhur, Bhuva, Swar, meaning “Om, earth, sky, heaven, This is the exo ...
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| Bhur‐loka One of the 14, lokas or worlds in Hindu Pantheism; our Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Bhutadi Elementary substances, the origin and the germinal essence of the elements [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Bhutan A country of heretical Buddhists and Lamaists beyond Sikkhim, where rules the Dharma Raja, a nominal ...
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| Bhuta‐sarga Elemental or incipient Creation, i.e., when matter was several degrees less material than it is now ...
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| Bhutesa • Bhûteswara lit., “Lord of beings or of existent lives”. A name applied to Vishnu, to Brahmâ and Krishna [[Categ ...
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| Bhuts Bhûta.: Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if o ...
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| Bhuvana A name of Rudra or Siva, one of the Indian Trimurti (Trinity) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Bhuya‐loka One of the 14 worlds<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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| Bifrost A bridge built by the gods to protect Asgard. On it “the third Sword‐god, known as Heimdal or Riger” ...
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| Bihar Gyalpo A king deified by the Dugpas. A patron over all their religious buildings [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Binah Understanding. The third of the 10 Sephiroth, the third of the Supernal Triad; a female potency, cor ...
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| Birs Nimrud Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is ...
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| Black Dwarfs The name of the Elves of Darkness, who creep about in the dark caverns of the earth and fabricate we ...
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| Black Fire A Kabbalistic term for Absolute Light and Wisdom; “black” because it is incomprehensible to our fini ...
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| Black Magic Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This a ...
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky • HPB She was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in man ...
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Nikifor Vladimirovich Blavatsky Vice Governor (1849-1861) of Erivan Province (now Armenia) of Russian Empire; husband of [[Blavatsky ...
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| Yuri Blavatsky • Youry Blavatsky Infant-ward of H. P. Blavatsky and N. V. Blavatsky.
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| Boat of the Sun This sacred solar boat was called Sekti, and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the ...
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| Boaz The great‐grandfather of David. The word is from B, meaning “in”, and oz “strength”, a symbolic ...
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| Bodha‐Bodhi Wisdom‐knowledge<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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| Bodhi • Sambodhi Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to Buddhi, which is the potentiality of intelligenc ...
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| Bodhi Druma The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the Pippala or ficus religiosa in botany. It is ...
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| Bodhidharma Wisdom‐religion; or the wisdom contained in Dharma (ethics). Also the name of a great Arhat Ks ...
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| Bodhisattva Lit., “he, whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)”; those who need but one m ...
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| Bodhyanga Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the Bodhi pakc ...
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| Boehme A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the mediæval ages. He was born ...
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