| A The first letter in all the world‐alphabets save a few, such for instance as the Mongolian, the Japa ...
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| A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes and Vandals An English translation of Olaus Magnus’s work on the northern peoples, published at London in 1653. ...
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| A General History of Free-masonry in Europe English translation by J. Fletcher of E. Rebold's Histoire générale de la Francmaçonnerie (Paris ...
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| A Greek-English Lexicon Greek-English dictionary by H. G. Liddell and Robert Scott, listed in Oxford editions <span style="c ...
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| A Historical Retrospect of The Theosophical Society, 1875-1896 H. S. Olcott’s historical survey, published at Madras in 1896. <span style=" ...
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A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature B. de Zirkoff checks numerous quotations against the 1859 London edition publishe ...
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| A Lecture on the Peculiarities of Hindu Literature A lecture attributed in the appendix to C. T. Winfred. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fon ...
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| Elliott Coues • A Psychic Researcher Bibliographical references include: Kuthumi, etc. See p. 315, footnote for data <span style="color: ...
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| A Satana G. Carducci’s hymn is the source of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsk ...
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| A Short History of The Theosophical Society A history compiled by J. Ransom, with a preface by G. S. Arundale; Adyar: Theosophical Publishing Ho ...
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| A Treatise on Sufism A paper on Muslim mysticism written in 1811. Its assertion that the Sufi has no religion was comment ...
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| A Treatise on the Yoga Philosophy N. C. Paul’s medical treatise on yogic practices, reissued at Calcutta in 1883 and Bombay in 1888. [ ...
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| A. B. Silva | |
| A. Carroll General secretary of the Australasian Section of the Theosophical Society in 1891.
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| A. Constantine | |
| A. D. Ezekiel | |
| A. Demjanenkowa | |
| A. G. Hari Rao | |
| A. Govinda Charlu Indian engineer employed on the Mysore State Railway and writer on Vishishtadvaita philosophy. He tr ...
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| A. J. Riko Dutch spiritualist correspondent based in The Hague, who reported on alleged physical phenomena in E ...
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| A. J. Smart | |
| A. L. Hatch | |
| A. Mahadeva Aiyar Corresponding secretary of the Vellore Theosophical Society in 1884.
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| A. Mittra | |
| A. Mueller | |
| A. Nangundappa | |
| A. Narainsawmy President of the Vellore Theosophical Society in 1884.
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| A. Narasimma Iyengar | |
| A. Nilakanta Sastri Indian theosophical writer on Hindu symbolism and the zodiac; associated with the Kumbakonam and Man ...
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| A. O. Ghosh | |
| A. P. D. Gunawardene | |
| A. Raju | |
| A. Rama Row | |
| A. Ramakristnan | |
| A. S. Rombotti Member of the Ionian Theosophical Society who investigated animal magnetism and reported experiments ...
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| A. Sabapathi Gurukkal | |
| A. Sabapathy Mudaliar | |
| A. Sankariah Indian Theosophist and founder-president of the Hindu Sabha. He edited its journal and wrote on Hind ...
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| A. Singaravelu | |
| A. Sreenivasa Charlur | |
| A. Srinivasa Iyer | |
| A. Srinivasaiyangar | |
| A. T. Fraser | |
| A. Thanakoty Moodaliar | |
| A. Theyaga Rajier Indian Theosophist and assistant secretary of the Madras Theosophical Society in 1882.
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| A. Tournier • A. Toornier | |
| A. Tzeretelef | |
| A. Vythialingam Chettiar | |
| A. Yalpanam | |
| A. de Bourbon | |
| A. Åkerberg Secretary of the Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society, named among the signatories of its repo ...
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| George William Russell • Æ • AE • Aeon Irish poet, painter, essayist and Theosophist, known by the pen name Æ. A prominent participant in t ...
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| Aahla | |
| Aanroo | |
| 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: CTD info from Theosophical Glossa ...
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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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| Abdul Ghafur Religious leader of Swat (<span ...
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| Abdul Rahman Khan Physician at Lucknow who supplied an eyewitness account of the performances of Hassan Khan Djinni.
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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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| John Abercrombie Scottish physician who combined medical research with metaphysical interests; author of Inquiries ...
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| P. Perera Abeywardan | |
| Abhamsi A mystic name of the “four orders of beings” which are, Gods, Demons, Pitris and Men. Orientalists s ...
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| Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Series of Oriental studies published by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft at Leipzig from 18 ...
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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 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 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: CTD info from T ...
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| Abib The first Jewish sacred month, begins in March; is also called Nisan. [[Category: CTD info from ...
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Otto Hermann Wilhelm von Abich German geologist (1806-1886), known for his scientific work in the Caucasus. He held the chair of ge ...
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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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| Abodah Zarah A treatise of the Talmud in the order Nezikin, concerning Jewish conduct toward idolatry and idolate ...
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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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| Peter de Abrew Ceylonese Buddhist philanthropist and supporter of Buddhist education, particularly Musaeus College ...
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| William de Abrew Ceylonese Buddhist Theosophist and interpreter who accompanied Henry Olcott’s delegation from Colomb ...
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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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| Abu'l-Faraj Syriac and Arabic author (1226-1286) and senior prelate of the Jacobite Church. His Syriac Chronic ...
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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: CTD info from Theosophica ...
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| Achara Personal and social (religious) obligations.<span ...
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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.<spa ...
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| Achit Absolute non‐intelligence; as Chit is — in contrast — absolute intelligence. [[Category: CTD inf ...
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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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| Acilius Glabrio Roman magistrate and consul in 191 BC, who commanded the successful campaign against Antiochus III i ...
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| Acosmism The precreative period, when there was no Kosmos but Chaos alone. [[Category: CTD info from Theosoph ...
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| Acta Sanctorum Collection of saints’ lives compiled by Jean Bolland with Godefroid Henschen. De Zirkoff lists the A ...
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| Acts, clerical and lay, from the Chronicles of Baronius, collected in old monasteries A compilation of ecclesiastical and civil acts drawn from the chronicles of Baronius and translated ...
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| Ad Ad, “the Father”. In Aramean ad means one, and ad‐ad “the only one”. [[Category: CTD inf ...
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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: CTD info from Theosophica ...
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| Adam Kadmon The Heavenly or Celestial Man, the Microcosm (q.v.), He is the manifested Logos; the third L ...
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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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| Charles Frederick Adams Lawyer and member of the Hiraf group associated with an early controversy involving [[Blavatsky, Hel ...
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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: CTD info f ...
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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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Joseph Addison English essayist, poet and politician, particularly known for his contributions to the daily Spectat ...
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| Adelberth de Bourbon Dutch Spiritualist and corresponding secretary of the Post Nubila Lux Theosophical Society at The Ha ...
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| Adelma von Vay Mystical writer also known as Adelheid von Vay; author of Geist, Kraft, Stoff (1870) and Studi ...
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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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| Bezonji Aderji | |
| Adharma Unrighteousness, vice, the opposite of Dharma.<spa ...
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| Ballaji Khanderav Adhav | |
| Adhemar, Marguerite Josephine H. P. Blavatsky visited her at an estate near Enghien, outside Paris. ...
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| Adhi Supreme, paramount.<span style="color: grey; font- ...
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| Adhikarana-ratna-mala Also listed as Jaiminiya-nyaya-mala-vistara or Bhattasara. Zirkoff cites an edition by T. Go ...
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| Adhishtanam Basis; a principle in which some other principle inheres. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glo ...
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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; ...
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| Shankaracharya • Shankara • Sankaracharya • Adi Shankara Indian religious teacher and exponent of Advaita Vedanta, traditionally credited with philosophical ...
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| Adi Varsha The first land; the primordial country in which dwelt the first races. [[Category: CTD info from The ...
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| Adi-Granth The sacred book of the Sikh Gurus, a compilation of the utterances of the early Vaishnava saints ( ...
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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 p ...
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| Aditya A name of the Sun; as Mârttânda he is the Son of Aditi. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Adityas The seven sons of Âditi; the seven planetary gods. ...
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| Adi‐Buddha The First and Supreme Buddha — not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light. [[Category: ...
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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 sty ...
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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: CTD info from Theosophica ...
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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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Adolf Bastian German ethnologist (1826-1905) whose extensive travels supplied material for studies of cultures wor ...
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| Adolf Hilgenfeld German Protestant theologian of the Tübingen school (1823-1907), a professor at Jena. He edited the ...
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| Adolf Jellinek Author of a historical-critical study of Moses de Leon and the origin of the Zohar, published at ...
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| Adolph Friedrich Stenzler Prepared Yajnavalkya’s Gesetzbuch, containing the Sanskrit text and a German translation of Yajn ...
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| Adolphe Franck Author of La Kabbale, published at Paris in 1843. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font ...
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| Adolphe de Castro Author of a late recollection of meeting H. P. Blavatsky in Berlin ar ...
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| Adolphe d’ Assier French scientist, philosopher and student of language, born in 1828. His Essai sur l’Humanité Post ...
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| Adolphus Fellger A well-known and respected physician in Philadelphia <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font- ...
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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 c ...
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| Adriaan Adriaanszoon Metius Dutch astronomer and mathematician (1571-1635), professor at Franeker. He studied with Tycho Brahe a ...
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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: ...
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| Adyar Huddlestone’s Gardens was selected for the Theosophical Society’s headquarters on 31 May 1882; the f ...
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| Adyar Library H. S. Olcott began work on the library and museum on 1 January 1886 and brou ...
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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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Aeschylus Bibliographical references include: Choëphoroe (The Libation-Bearers). Also an un-identified referen ...
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| Aesh Metzareph Chemico-kabalistic treatise translated in 1714 by “A Lover of Philalethes.” Published as No. 4 of th ...
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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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| Agardi Mitrovich Singer, an acquaintance of the Fadeyev family and a friend of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Bla ...
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Louis Agassiz Co-author with Augustus A. Gould of Principles of Zoology (Boston, 1848), subsequently reissued ...
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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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| Agathe Haemmerle Member of the Theosophical Society in Odessa. Henry S. Olcott described her as a cultured linguist w ...
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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: CTD info from T ...
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| Aged One of the Kabbalistic names for Sephira, called also the Crown, or Kether. [[Category: CTD info ...
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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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Agostino Aglio Italian painter, engraver and lithographer (1777-1857), resident in England from 1803. He collaborat ...
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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”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary ...
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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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| Agnipurāna The bibliography lists the three-volume Calcutta edition edited by Rajendralala Mitra and published ...
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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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| Agnostic Annual and Ethical Review London, 1884-1907 (<span style=" ...
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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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| Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim German writer, soldier, physician and magician, in the service of Emperor Maximilian I and later of ...
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| Agruerus A very ancient Phœnician god. The same as Saturn.< ...
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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 s ...
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| Ahan “Day”;the Body of Brahmâ, in the Purânas.<span ...
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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: CTD info from Theosop ...
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| Ahi A serpent. A name of Vritra, the Vedic demon of drought. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glos ...
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| Ahti The “Dragon” in the Eddas.
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| Ahu “One” and the First.<span style="color: grey; font ...
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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: C ...
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| Aidoneus The God and King of the Nether World; Pluto or Dionysos Chthonios (subterranean) [[Category: CTD inf ...
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| Aij Talon The supreme deity of the Yakoot, a tribe in Northern Siberia. [[Category: CTD info from Theosoph ...
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| Ain The negatively existent; deity in repose, and absolutely passive. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from ...
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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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| En Soph • Ain Soph The endless, limitless and boundless. The absolute deific Principle, impersonal and unknowable. It m ...
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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: ...
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| Aindriya Or Indrânî, Indriya; Sakti. The female aspect or “wife” of Indra. [[Category: CTD info from ...
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| Ain‐Aior The only “Self‐existent” a mystic name for divine substance. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theo ...
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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- ...
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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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| Aitareya-Brahmana See Haug. (<span style="font-sty ...
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| Aitareyaranyaka Zirkoff lists R. Mitra’s edition with Sayana’s commentary (Calcutta, 1876) and A. B. Keith’s text an ...
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| Aith‐ur Solar fire, divine Æther.<span style="color: grey; ...
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| C. Kuppuswami Aiyar | |
| N. Soondram Aiyar | |
| P. Sesha Aiyar | |
| S. A. Saminada Aiyar • S. A. Saminada Aier Secretary of the Negapatam Theosophical Society in 1883.
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| T. R. Venkatarama Aiyar Secretary of the Pollachi Theosophical Society; signed the report of its founding meeting in June 18 ...
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| C. Narayanasawmi Aiyer | |
| 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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| Akshay Kumar Datta • Akshay Kumar Dutta • Akkhaya Kumar Datta Bengali writer and intellectual associated with the Bengal Renaissance. He promoted rational inquiry ...
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| Alexander Nikolaevich Aksakoff • Alexandr Aksakov Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Aksakov Russian author, philosopher and a leading figure among writers on Spiritualism. Introduced to Sweden ...
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| Akshara Supreme Deity; lit., “indestructible”, ever perfect. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary ...
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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: CTD info from Th ...
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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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| Pietro Alagona Sicilian Jesuit theologian versed in canon law; taught philosophy and theology at Palermo and Messin ...
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| William Frederick Allen • William Frederick Allan • Allan, William Frederick • Alan Leo British astrologer and writer, known as Alan Leo; born in Westminster, London, on 7 August 1860, die ...
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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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| Alban Butler English Catholic priest and hagiographer; The Lives of the Saints was the result of thirty years ...
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| Albert Gayet Bibliographical references include: Le Temple de Luxor. As part of Mémoires publiés par les membres ...
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| Alberto de Das | |
| Albius Tibullus Roman elegiac poet associated with Messalla and Horace. His verse is described as simple and tender, ...
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| Francesco Albizzi Italian cardinal and jurist who opposed Jansenism and wrote legal works. He became a cardinal in 165 ...
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| Albrecht Weber The Appendix refers readers to BCW V, 383-384 for biographical information. <span style="color: grey ...
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| Albrecht von Haller Swiss physician, physiologist and botanist, professor at Göttingen from 1736 to 1753; wrote on Swiss ...
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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 Occult science which deals with the finer forces of nature and the various conditions in which they ...
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Alcide Dessalines d’ Orbigny French palaeontologist (1802-1857), who studied South American natural history and ethnology and bec ...
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| Nathaniel Alcock Surgeon-major in the Army Medical Department.
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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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| William Livingston Alden American author and journalist. Leader-writer for New York newspapers (World, Times, Graph ...
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| Ulysse Aldrovandi Italian naturalist and physician (1522-1605), professor at Bologna and organizer of botanical and na ...
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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 ...
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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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| Alexander Cruden The quotation attributed to him remains untraced in Zirkoff’s bibliography; no specific work is iden ...
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| Alexander Csoma de Kőrös For his biography, de Zirkoff refers readers to the appendix of Collected Writings, volume I, pa ...
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| Alexander Cunningham British military engineer and archaeologist, director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India ...
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| Alexander Fullerton American Theosophist and former Episcopal clergyman. Assisted William Q. Judge in the administration ...
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| Alexander I B. de Zirkoff discusses the theory identifying Alexander I with the elder Feodor ...
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| Alexander II The assassination of Alexander II on 1/13 March 1881 deeply shocked [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. ...
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Alexander Mihaylovich Butlerov Renowned Russian chemist, founder of the so-called "Butlerov School." Took great interest in Spiritu ...
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| Alexander Mikhailovich Dondukov-Korsakov Russian general and administrator (1820-1893), imperial commissioner in Bulgaria in 1878 and command ...
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| Alexander Petrovich Leino Helped obtain Russian original sources for H. P. Blavatsky’s collecte ...
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| Alexander Pope His Essay on Man is cited with the original publication date of 1733. <span style="color: grey; ...
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| Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Author of the romantic epic Ruslan and Ludmila, completed in 1820 <span style="color: grey; font-siz ...
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| Alexander Trallianus Physician from Tralles active in the sixth century. His twelve-book medical treatise drew on extensi ...
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Alexander Wilder An American physician and scholar of Neoplatonism. He was an early member of the Theosophical Societ ...
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| Alexander Winchell American geologist (1824-1891), professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Michigan ...
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| Alexander Yulyevich de Witte A cousin of H. P. Blavatsky, son of [[Witte, Yuliy Feodorovich de|Y. ...
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| Alexander de Vorborth Russian diplomat, full state Councilor, who in 1887-1898 served as Consul General in London.
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| Otho Alexander Theosophist based in Corfu and corresponding secretary of the Ionian Theosophical Society.
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| Alexandra Tenbigh | |
| Alexandre (fils) Dumas Works listed include La Dame aux camélias (1848), Le Demi-Monde and La Dame aux perles (1855), and L ...
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| Alexandre (père) Dumas The bibliography cannot determine which of his three works on the Caucasus is meant by “Travels in t ...
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| Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre Vide Bio-Bibliographical Index of Volume IX in the present Series, for information concerning him <s ...
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| Charles Alexandre Editor of Oracula Sibyllina, cited in several Paris editions <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90 ...
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| Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont French physician specializing in mental disorders (1798-1881). His work on hallucinations examined v ...
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| Alexei Nikolayevich Tseretelev Russian diplomat and prince of Georgian descent (1848–1883). He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1 ...
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| Alexey Fyodorovich von Hahn Russian major-general and commandant of Kamenets-Podolsk; [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavats ...
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| Alexis de Guignard, de Saint-Priest Bibliographical references include: Histoire de la chute des jésuites, Paris, 1846 <span style="colo ...
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| Alfonsine Tables Astronomical tables compiled at Toledo under the patronage of Alfonso X. <span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Alfred Comyn Lyall British administrator in India and writer (1835-1911), later a member of the India Council in London ...
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| Alfred Ernest Buultjens Ceylonese Buddhist educator and principal of Ananda College in Colombo from 1890 to 1898.
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| Alfred Grandidier French explorer, geographer and naturalist. Received classical educ. in his family; studied at Collè ...
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| Alfred John Cooper-Oakley English Theosophist who accompanied H. P. Blavatsky to India with his wife Isabel in 1884. Served as ...
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Alfred Joseph Naquet French physician, scientist and politician (1834-1916), deputy and senator for Vaucluse and a suppor ...
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Alfred Marshall Mayer
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Alfred Russel Wallace British naturalist, explorer and biogeographer. He developed the theory of evolution by natural sele ...
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| Alfred Tennyson Bibliographical references include: No More, a poem in The Gem, a Literary Annual, 1831. Vide pp. 31 ...
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Alfred Trevor Barker English Theosophist who deciphered, edited and published The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1 ...
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| Alfredo Pioda Swiss philosopher, writer and politician from Locarno. Wrote on history, literature, Theosophy and S ...
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| Algya-Pap, Zoltan de An associate of the Adyar Archives who assisted with the preparation of the second volume of [[Blava ...
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| Alhim See “Elohim”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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| Mansaih Ali | |
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| Omrao Ali Secretary of the Dumraon Theosophical Society in 1891.
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| Alice Gordon An early member of the Theosophical Society in India. She and her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Willia ...
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| Alice Leighton Cleather English Theosophist, a member of H. P. Blavatsky’s Inner Group. Wrote the series “Theosophy in Weste ...
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| Alienist and Neurologist Periodical listed among the sources quoted or referred to in BCW volume 5. Zirkoff states that no bi ...
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| Alighieri Dante Bibliographical references include: La Divina Comedia <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font ...
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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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| All the Year Round London journal conducted by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman Hall, 1859-1895. <span style="c ...
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| Allan Kardec Pen name of Hippolyte-Léon-Denizard Rivail, a French writer whose work helped spread Spiritism. His ...
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Allan Octavian Hume A civil servant in British India, ornithologist and political reformer. He participated in the early ...
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| Allen Griffiths Theosophical lecturer active on the Pacific Coast in the early 1890s; a member of the Universal Brot ...
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| Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen Canadian novelist and popular scientific writer, known for explaining Darwinian ideas. His works inc ...
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| G. W. Allen Clergyman associated with the Christo-Theosophical Society in London, formed to study Theosophy alon ...
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| Thomas Richard Allinson British physician, writer and dietary reformer who advocated vegetarianism and wholemeal bread.
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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: CTD ...
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| Alonzo Eliot Newton Author of The Modern Bethesda; or, The Gift of Healing Restored (1879). <span style="color: grey ...
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| Alpha Polaris The same as Dhruva, the pole‐star of 31,105 years ago. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Gl ...
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| Alphonse Milne-Edwards French naturalist and physician, son of Henri Milne-Edwards; received his medical degree in Paris in ...
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| Alphonso X King of Castile and León (1252-1284), patron of vernacular historiography, law, poetry and astronomy ...
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| Alswider ‘‘ All‐swift’’, the name of the horse of the moon, in the Eddas. [[Category: CTD info from Theos ...
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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: CTD info from Theosophica ...
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| Al‐ait The God of Fire, an ancient and very mystic name in Koptic Occultism. [[Category: CTD info from Theo ...
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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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| Amadeus of Portugal Portuguese Franciscan reformer, also known as João Mendes de Silva. He founded convents in Italy and ...
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| Amagandha Sutta A sutta of the Sutta-Nipata in which moral impurity is distinguished from the eating of fish and mea ...
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| Amanasa The “ Mindless”, the early races of this planet; also certain Hindu gods. [[Category: CTD info from ...
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| Amarasinha Sanskrit lexicographer, also called Amara, associated with Buddhism. His Amarakosa, a dictionary ...
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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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| Ambroise-Auguste Liébault French physician. His great interest in mesmerism, and later in Braidism (Hypnotism), and his practi ...
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| Saint Ambrosius Author of De fide ad Gratianum Augustum libri quinque, included in volume 30 of Hurter's Sanctorum P ...
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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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| Francesco Amico Italian Jesuit theologian. Began his novitiate, 1596. At first taught philosophy for some years, the ...
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| Joseph-Maria Amiot French Jesuit missionary in China (1718-1793), a student of Chinese music, languages and culture. Mu ...
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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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| Ammianus Marcellinus Zirkoff's bibliography cites his History in the Loeb Classical Library. <span style="color: grey ...
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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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| André Marie Ampère French physicist and professor at the École Polytechnique; developed a mathematical account of elect ...
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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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| Amrita Lal Bisvas | |
| Amritalal De Indian Theosophist elected vice-president of the Jeypore Theosophical Society at its establishment i ...
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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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| Amélie Cederschiöld Corresponding secretary of the Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society, named among the signatori ...
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| An Autobiography of A. P. Sinnett A typescript dated 3 June 1912, with additions of May 1916 and 2 January 1920, preserved in the Lond ...
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| An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time A compilation from original authors, issued in London in twenty-one volumes, 1747-1754. De Zirkoff a ...
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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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| Anagarika Dharmapala • Don David Hewavitharane Sri Lankan Buddhist reformer and founder of the Maha Bodhi Society. Born Don David Hewavitharane, he ...
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| Anahata Chakram The seat or “wheel” of life; the heart, according to some commentators [[Category: CTD info from The ...
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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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| T. Vijayaraghava Charlu • T. Vijiaraghava Charlu • Ananda Babu Indian Theosophist who served as private secretary to Henry Steel Olcott, Recording Secretary and Tr ...
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| Anandagiri Commentator on Samkaracharya and author of Samkaravijaya, also known as Anandajnana. Zirkoff des ...
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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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| Anandasrama Sanskrit Series Sanskrit publication series issued at Poona, abbreviated AnSS in Zirkoff’s bibliography. <span style ...
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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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| Anandibai Joshi • Anandibai Joshee • Anandi Bai Joshi • Anandbay Joshi Indian physician educated at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Travelled to America for m ...
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| Ananga The “Bodiless”. An epithet of Kâma, god of love<sp ...
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| Ananta‐Sesha The Serpent of Eternity — the couch of Vishnu during Pralaya (lit., endless remain) [[Category: CTD ...
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| Anastasis The continued existence of the soul<span style="co ...
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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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| James Anderson Bibliographical references include: The Book of Constitutions for Freemasons, London, 1723 <span sty ...
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| Jerome A. Anderson American physician and theosophical writer active in San Francisco. Joined the Theosophical Society ...
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| Johann Valentin Andreae German theologian and writer, educated at Tübingen and associated with the Rosicrucian literature di ...
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| Andrew Barberi Bibliographical references include: Bullarii Romani Continuatio, Rome, 1835-57. 19 vols. fol. Extend ...
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Andrew Jackson Davis American Spiritualist and Seer, known as "the Poughkeepsie Seer." While in trance, 1845-47, he deliv ...
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| Andrew Paladin | |
| Andrew Perera Ceylonese Buddhist and president of the Colombo Buddhist Theosophical Society in 1881.
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| Andrew T Sibbald Bibliographical references include: “The Śraddha,” Lucifer, Vol. II, May-August, 1888 <span style="c ...
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| Andrey Mihailovich Fadeyev Russian public official: manager of the office for foreign settlers in Ekaterinoslav (1817-1834); me ...
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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 [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary] ...
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| Angelo Secchi Italian Jesuit astronomer (1818-1878), director of the observatory of the Collegio Romano. He studie ...
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| Angelo de Gubernatis Italian Orientalist and man of letters (1840-1913), professor of Sanskrit at Florence and later Rome ...
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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: CTD info f ...
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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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| Angudram Shastri | |
| 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: CTD info ...
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| Anjana A serpent, a son of Kasyapa Rishi<span style="colo ...
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| Anna Ballard American journalist and member of the Theosophical Society. As a reporter for the [[Sun, The|New Y ...
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| Anna Kingsford English physician, anti-vivisectionist, vegetarian campaigner and women's rights advocate; one of th ...
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| Anna Kingsford. Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work E. Maitland’s illustrated two-volume biography of [[Kingsford, Anna|A. Kingsfor ...
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| Annalen der Physik und Chemie Leipzig scientific periodical associated with J. C. Poggendorff’s editorship (1824-77). Zirkoff list ...
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| Annales d'oculistique Periodical published at Paris and Brussels from 1838, listed among the sources cited in the volume. ...
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| Annales de la propagation de la foi A Lyon periodical publishing letters from bishops and missionaries and documents concerning missions ...
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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%; ...
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| Anne-Joseph Eusebe Baconniere de Salverte French politician and writer who was born and died in Paris. *Des Sciences Occultes; ou, Essai s ...
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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|Anuki.] ...
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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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| Ante-Nicene Fathers English translations of the writings of the Church Fathers down to AD 325, edited by Alexander Rober ...
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| Antetypion A proposed device discussed by H. P. Blavatsky and [[Olcott, Henry St ...
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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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| Charles Anthon American classical scholar. Grad. of Columbia Univ. 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar, 1819 ...
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| Anthropology The Science of man; it embraces among other things : — Physiology, or that branch of natural sci ...
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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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| Antiquities of Mexico An illustrated multi-volume collection of Mexican antiquities associated with E. King, Viscount King ...
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| Antoine Fabre d’Olivet French writer, mystic and philologist (1767-1825). His major works include La langue hébraïque res ...
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| Antonio Del Duca Sicilian priest instrumental in establishing the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome. His c ...
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| Antonio Rosmini-Serbati Italian mystical philosopher and ecclesiastic. Ordained, 1825; served as priest in his native town, ...
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| Antonio de Escobar y Mendoza Spanish theologian. In his sixteenth year, entered the Society of Jesus. Talented and untiring labou ...
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Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneíra Spanish poet and historian (1610-1686), court secretary and historiographer of the Indies. His Histo ...
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Antonio de Ulloa Spanish naval officer, traveller and scholar (1716-1795), author of Relación histórica del viaje a A ...
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| Antonya Christianovna Kuhlwein Governess in the Hahn family during their residence in military garrisons in 1837-1838 <span style=" ...
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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 ...
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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: CTD info from Theos ...
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| Anumitis Inference, deduction in philosophy<span style="col ...
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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: CTD info from Theosophical G ...
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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 ...
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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; fo ...
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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="colo ...
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| Aphorisms (Buddha) No information available (<span ...
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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 Rhodius Greek epic poet and grammarian of Alexandria, pupil of Callimachus and author of the Argonautica, an ...
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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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| Apostolic Constitutions The bibliography refers the reader to pp. 221-22 of BCW volume 8 <span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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| Appleton Cyclopaedia of Biography An American biographical reference work, listed by Zirkoff among the works quoted or referred to by ...
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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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| Lucius Apuleius The bibliography cites De Deo Socratis in a Latin-French collection published by Firmin-Didot in ...
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| Arabian Nights Entertainments Zirkoff cites E. William Lane's three-volume translation (1838-1840), whose notes and illustrations ...
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| Arabic Gospel of the Infancy Apocryphal gospel of 55 chapters describing Jesus’ childhood up to his twelfth year, with many stori ...
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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: CTD info from The ...
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| Aratus Greek didactic poet of the third century b.c. contemporary with Aristarchus of Samos and Theocritus ...
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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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| Archaeological Survey of India: Four Reports Volume I of the Four Reports for 1862–1865 (Simla, 1871), p. 1, appends Bapu Deva Sastri’s calculati ...
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