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Ah‐hi +

'''Ahi '''(''Sk''.), or Serpents. Dhyân Chohans. “Wise Serpents” or Dragons of Wisdom. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aja +

'''Aja '''(''Sk''.). “Unborn”, uncreated; an epithet belonging to many of the primordial gods, but especially to the first ''Logos''—a radiation of the Absolute on the plane of illusion. Performance, and it had its own appointed Hotri (priest) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ama +

'''Amia''', (''Chald.''). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who is called “Supernal Mother”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Anyamsam Aniyasam +

''A no‐ranîyânsam ''(in ''Bhagavad'' ''gîtâ''). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of the small ”. Applied to the universal deity, whose essence is everywhere [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ad +

''Ad, ''“the Father”. In Aramean ''ad ''means one, and ''ad‐ad ''“the only one”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adept +

''Adeptus'', “He who has obtained.” In Occultism one who has reached the stage of Initiation, and become a Master in the science of Esoteric philosophy. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Anagamin +

''Anagam. ''One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Arhat and ready for Nirvâna. The ''third ''of the four grades of holiness on the way to final Initiation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Bhuts +

''Bhûta.'': Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if on the one hand, a Bhûta is “a malignant spirit which haunts cemeteries, lurks in trees, animates dead bodies, and deludes and devours human beings”, in popular fancy, in India in Tibet and China, by Bhûtas are also meant “heretics” who besmear their bodies with ashes, or Shaiva ascetics (Siva being held in India for the King of Bhûtas) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Chichhakti +

''Chih‐Sakti''; the power which generates thought [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Chitanuth our +

''Chitons'', a priestly garb; the coats of skin given by ''Java Aleim ''to Adam and Eve after their fall [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Aparoksha +

''Direct perception.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ilda Baoth +

''Lit''., “the child from the Egg”, a Gnostic term. He is the creator of our physical globe (the earth) according to the Gnostic teaching in the ''Codex Nazaræus ''(the Evangel of the Nazarenes and the Ebionites). The latter identifies him with Jehovah the God of the Jews. Ildabaoth is “the Son of Darkness” in a bad sense and the father of the six terrestrial “ Stellar”, dark spirits, the antithesis of the bright Stellar spirits. Their respective abodes are the seven spheres, the upper of which begins in the “middle space”, the region of their mother Sophia Achamôth, and the lower ending on this earth—the seventh region (See ''Isis Unveiled, ''Vol. II., 183.) Ilda‐Baoth is the genius of Saturn, the planet; or rather the evil spirit of its ruler [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Abba Amona +

''Lit.'', “Father‐Mother”; the occult names of the two higher Sephiroth, ''Chokmah ''and ''Binah'', of the upper triad, the apex of which is Sephira or Kether. From this triad issues the lower septenary of the Sephirothal Tree. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mahoraga +

''Mahâ uraga'', “great serpent”——Sesha or any others [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Neith +

''Neithes''. The Queen of Heaven; the moon‐ goddess in Egypt. She is variously called ''Nout'', ''Nepte, Nur''. (For symbolism, see “Nout”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Chnouphis +

''Nouf ''in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power ''in actu'', as Kneph is of the same in ''potentia''. He is also ram‐ headed. If in his aspect as Kneph he is the Holy Spirit with the creative ideation brooding in him, as Chnouphis, he is the angel who “comes in” into the Virgin soil and flesh. A prayer on a papyrus, translated by the French Egyptologist Chabas, says; ‘ O Sepui, Cause of being, who hast formed thine own body! O only Lord, proceeding from Noum ! O divine substance, created from itself! O God, who hast made the substance which is in him! O God, who has made his own father and impregnated his own mother.” This shows the origin of the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and immaculate conception. He is seen on a monument seated near a potter’s wheel, and forming men out of clay. The fig‐leaf is sacred to him, which is alone sufficient to prove him a phallic god—an idea which is carried out by the inscription: “he who made that which is, the creator of beings, the first existing, he who made to exist all that exists.” Some see in him the incarnation of Ammon‐Ra, but he is the latter himself in his phallic aspect, for, like Ammon, he is “ his mother’s husband”, i.e., the male or impregnating side of Nature. His names vary, as Cnouphis, Noum, Khem, and Khnum or Chnoumis. As he represents the Demiurgos (or Logos) from the material, lower aspect of the Soul of the World, he is the Agathodæmon, symbolized sometimes by a Serpent ; and his wife Athor or Maut (Môt mother), or Sate, “the daughter of the Sun”, carrying an arrow on a sunbeam (the ray of conception), stretches “mistress over the lower portions of the atmosphere”. below the constellations, as Neїth expands over the starry heavens. (See “Chaos”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Crescent +

''Sin ''was the Assyrian name for the moon, and ''Sin‐ai ''the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of Dionysos, Bacchus and several other gods. According to Rawlinson, the moon was held in higher esteem than the sun at Babylon, ''because darkness preceded light. ''The crescent was, therefore, a sacred symbol with almost every nation, before it became the ‘standard of the Turks. Says the author of ''Egyptian Belief, ''“ The crescent is not essentially a Mahometan ensign. On the contrary, it was a Christian one, derived through Asia from the Babylonian Astarte, Queen of Heaven, or from the Egyptian Isis . . . . whose emblem was the crescent. The Greek Christian Empire of Constantinople held it as their palladium. Upon the conquest of the Turks, the Mahometan Sultan adopted it for the symbol of his power. Since that time the ''crescent ''has been made to oppose the idea of the cross.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ibn Gebirol +

''Solomon Ben Yehudah'': a great philosopher and scholar, a Jew by birth, who lived in the eleventh century in Spain. The same as Avicenna (''q.v''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Davkina +

''The wife of Hea, “the goddess of the lower regions, the consort of the Deep”, the mother of Merodach, the Bel of later times, and mother to many river‐gods, Hea being the god of the lower regions, the “lord of the Sea or abyss”, and also the lord of Wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Madhava +

(1) A name of Vishnu or Krishna; (2) The month of April ; (3) A title of Lakshmi when written ''Madhavi.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +