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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 (Vide Supra.)<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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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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| Bona‐Oma • Bona Dea A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her fathe ...
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| Bonati Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astr ...
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| Bono Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy ...
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| Boodhasp An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the ...
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| Sepher Jetzirah • Book of the Creation The most occult of all the Kabalistic works now in the possession of modern mystics. Its alleged ori ...
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| Book of the Dead An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of a ...
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| Book of the Keys An ancient Kabbalistic work<span style="color: grey; ...
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Boris de Zirkoff was an American Theosophist, editor and writer; a relative of H. P. Blavatsky, his mother was Lydia ...
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| Borj The Mundane Mountain, a volcano or fire‐ mountain; the same as the Indian Meru [[Category: Theosophi ...
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| Borri Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an ...
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| Borsippa The planet‐tower, wherein Bel was worshipped in the days when astrolaters were the greatest astr ...
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| Both‐al The Both‐al of the Irish is the descendant and copy of the Greek Batylos and the Beth‐el of Canaan, ...
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| Bragadini Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was deca ...
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| Bragi The god of New Life, of the re‐incarnation of nature and man. He is called “the divine singer” witho ...
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| Brahma The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian P ...
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| Brahma Prajapati “Brahmâ the Progenitor”, literally the “Lord of Creatures”. In this aspect Brahmâ is the synthesis o ...
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| Brahma Vach Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, lite ...
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| Brahma Vidya The knowledge, the esoteric science, about the two Brahmas and their true nature [[Category: Theosop ...
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| Brahma Viraj The same: Brahmâ separating his body into two halves, male and female, creates in them Vâch and Virâ ...
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| Brahmachari A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: Theo ...
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| Brahmajnani One possessed of complete Knowledge; an Illuminatus in esoteric parlance [[Category: Theosophica ...
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| Brahman The highest of the four castes in India, one supposed or rather fancying himself, as high among men, ...
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| Brahmana period One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided by Orientalists [[Category: The ...
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| Brahmanas Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas ...
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| Brahmanaspati The planet Jupiter; a deity in the Rig ‐Veda, known in the exoteric works as Brihaspati, who ...
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| Brahmapuri Lit., “the City of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Brahmaputras The Sons of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; font-siz ...
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| Brahmarandhra A spot on the crown of the head connected by Sushumna, a cord in the spinal column, with the hea ...
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| Brahmarshis The Brahminical Rishis<span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Brahma’s Day A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahmâ having emerged out of his golden egg (Hiranyag ...
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| Brahma’s Night A period of equal duration, during which Brahmâ. is said to be asleep. Upon awakening he recommences ...
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| Bread and Wine Baptism and the Eucharist have their direct origin in pagan Egypt. There the “waters of purification ...
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| Briatic World • Briah This world is the second of the Four worlds of the Kabbalists and referred to the highest created “A ...
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| Briareus A famous giant in the Theogony of Hesiod. The son of Cœlus and Terra, a monster with 50 heads and 10 ...
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| Bride The tenth Sephira, Malkuth, is called by the Kabbalists the Bride of Microprosopus; she is the final ...
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| Brihadaranyaka The name of a Upanishad. One of the sacred and secret books of the Brahmins; an Aranyaka ' ...
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| Brihaspati The name of a Deity, also of a Rishi. It is like wise the name of the planet Jupiter. He is the ...
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| Briseus A name given to the god Bacchus from his nurse, Briso. He had also a temple at Brisa, a promontory o ...
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| Brotherhood of Luxor A certain Brotherhood of mystics. Its name had far better never have been divulged, as it led a grea ...
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| Brothers of Light This is what the great authority on secret societies, Brother Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie IX., says of t ...
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| Brothers of the Shadow A name given by the Occultists to Sorcerers, and especially to the Tibetan Dugpas, of whom there ...
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| Bubaste A city in Egypt which was sacred to the cats, and where was their principal shrine. Many hundreds of ...
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| Buddha Lit., “The Enlightened”. The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break throug ...
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| Buddha Siddharta Error: String exceeds 5,000 character limit. ...
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| Buddhachhaya Lit., “the shadow of Buddha”. It is said to become visible at certain great events, and during some ...
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| Buddhaphala Lit., “the fruit of Buddha”, the fruition of Arahattvaphalla'', or Arhatship [[Category: ...
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| Buddhi Universal Soul or Mind. Mahâbuddhi is a name of Mahat (see “Alaya”); also the spiritual Soul in ...
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| Buddhism Buddhism is now split into two distinct Churches : the Southern and the Northern Church. The former ...
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| Buddhochinga The name of a great Indian Arhat who went to China in the 4th century to propagate Buddhism and conv ...
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| Budha “The Wise and Intelligent”, the Son of Soma, the Moon, and of Rokini or Taraka, wife of Brihaspati c ...
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| Bull‐Worship The worship of the Bull and the Ram was addressed to one and the same power, that of generative crea ...
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| Bumapa A school of men, usually a college of mystic students [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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| Bunda‐hish An old Eastern work in which among other things anthropology is treated in an allegorical fashion [[ ...
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| Burham‐i‐Kati A Hermetic Eastern work<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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| Buri “The producer”, the Son of Bestla, in Norse legends< ...
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| Buru Bonga The “Spirit of the Hills”. This Dryadic deity is worshipped by the Kolarian tribes of Central India ...
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| Busardier A Hermetic philosopher born in Bohemia who is credited with having made a genuine powder of projecti ...
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| Butler An English name assumed by an adept, a disciple of some Eastern Sages, of whom many fanciful stories ...
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| Bythos A Gnostic term meaning “Depth” or the “great Deep”, Chaos. It is equivalent to space, before anythin ...
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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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| Cabar Zio “The mighty Lord of Splendour” (Codex Nazaraeus), they who procreate seven beneficent lives, ' ...
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| Cabeiri • Kabiri Deities, held in the highest veneration at Thebes, in Lemnos, Phrygia, Macedonia, and especially at ...
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| Cabletow A Masonic term for a certain object used in the Lodges. Its origin lies in the thread of the Brahman ...
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| Cadmus The supposed inventor of the letters of the alphabet. He may have been their originator and teacher ...
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| Caduceus The Greek poets and mythologists took C—The third letter of the English alphabet, which has no ...
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| Caesar A far‐famed astrologer and “professor of magic,” i.e., an Occultist, during the reign of Henry IV of ...
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| Cagliostro A famous Adept, whose real name is claimed (by his enemies) to have been Joseph Balsamo. He was a na ...
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| Cain • Kayn In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapte ...
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| Calvary Cross This form of cross does not date from Christianity. It was known and used for mystical purposes, tho ...
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| Campanella Tomaso A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up dur ...
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| Canarese The language of the Karnatic, originally called Kanara, one of the divisions of South India [[Catego ...
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| Capricornus The 10th sign of the Zodiac (Makâra in Sanskrit), considered, on account of its hidden meaning, ...
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| Cardan Jerome An astrologer, alchemist, kabbalist and mystic, well known in literature. He was born at Pavia in 15 ...
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| Carnac A very ancient site in Brittany (France) of a temple of cyclopean structure, sacred to the Sun and t ...
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| Caste Originally the system of the four hereditary classes into which the Indian population was divided: B ...
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| Causal Body This “body”, which is no body either objective or subjective, but Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, is ...
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| Cazotte Jacques The wonderful Seer, who predicted the beheading of several royal personages and his own decapitation ...
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| Cecco d’Ascoli Surnamed “Francesco Stabili.” He lived in the thirteenth century, and was considered the most famous ...
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| Cerberus Cerberus, the three‐headed canine monster, which was supposed to watch at the threshold of Hades, ca ...
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| Ceres In Greek Demeter. As the female aspect of Pater Æther, Jupiter, she is esoterically the producti ...
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| Chabrat Zereh Aur Bokher An Order of the Rosicrucian stock, whose members study the Kabbalah and Hermetic sciences; it admits ...
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| Chadayatana Lit., the six dwellings or gates in man for the reception of sensations; thus, on the physical p ...
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| Chaitanya The founder of a mystical sect in India. A rather modern sage, believed to be an avatar of Krish ...
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| Chakna‐padma‐karpo “He who holds the lotus”, used of Chenresi, the Bodhisattva. It is not a genuine Tibetan word, b ...
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| Chakra A wheel, a disk, or the circle of Vishnu generally. Used also of a cycle of time, and with other mea ...
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| Chakshub The “eye ”. Loka‐chakshub or “the eye of the world” is a title of the Sun [[Category: Theosophic ...
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| Chaldean Book of Numbers A work which contains all that is found in the Zohar of Simeon Ben‐Jochai, and much more. It mus ...
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| Chaldeans • Kasdim At first a tribe, then a caste of learned Kabbalists. They were the savants, the magians of Baby ...
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| Chandra The Moon; also a deity. The terms Chandra and Soma are synonyms [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Chandragupta The first Buddhist King in India, the grand‐sire of Asoka ; the Sandracottus of the all‐bungling ...
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| Chandramanam The method of calculating time by the Moon<span styl ...
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| Chandrayana The lunar year chronology<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Chandra‐kanta “The moon‐stone”, a gem that is claimed to be formed and developed under the moon‐ beams, which give ...
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| Chandra‐vansa The “Lunar Race”, in contradistinction to Suryavansa, the “Solar Race”. Some Orientalists think ...
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| Chantong “He of the 1,000 Eyes”, a name of Padmapani or Chenresi (Avalokitesvara) [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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| Chaos The Abyss, the “Great Deep”. It was personified in Egypt by the Goddess Neїth, anterior to all gods. ...
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| Charaka A writer on Medicine who lived in Vedic times. He is believed to have been an incarnation (Avatara ...
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| Charnook Thomas A great alchemist of the sixteenth century; a surgeon who lived and practiced near Salisbury, studyi ...
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| Charon The Egyptian Khu‐en‐ua, the hawk‐headed Steersman of the boat conveying the Souls across the bla ...
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| Charyaka There were two famous beings of this name. One a Rakshasa (demon) who disguised himself as a Brâ ...
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| Chhassidi • Chasdim In the Septuagint Assidai, and in English Assideans. They are also mentioned in Maccabees ...
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| Chastanier Benedict A French mason who established in London in 1767 a Lodge called “The Illuminated Theosophists” [[Cat ...
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| Chatur mukha The “four‐faced one”, a title of Brahmâ<span style=" ...
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| Chatur varna The four castes (lit., colours)<span style="colo ...
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| Chaturdasa Bhuvanam The fourteen lokas or planes of existence. Esoterically, the dual seven states [[Category: Theosophi ...
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| Chaturyoni Written also tchatur‐yoni. The same as Karmaya or “the four modes of birth”—four ways of ent ...
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| Chava The same as Eve: “the Mother of all that lives” ʺLifeʺ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
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| Chavigny A disciple of the world‐famous Nostradamus, an astrologer and an alchemist of the sixteenth century. ...
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| Chela A disciple, the pupil of a Guru or Sage, the follower of some adept of a school of philosophy (lit ...
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| Chemi The ancient name of Egypt<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Chenresi The Tibetan Avalokitesvara. The Bodhisattva Padmâpani, a divine Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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| Cheru • Heru A magic sword, a weapon of the “sword god” Heru. In the Edda, the Saga describes it as destroyin ...
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| Cherubim According to the Kabbalists, a group of angels, which they specially associated with the Sephira Jes ...
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| Chesed “Mercy ”, also named Gedulah, the fourth of the ten Sephiroth; a masculine or active potency. [ ...
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| Chhandoga A Samhitâ collection of Sama Veda; also a priest, a chanter of the Sama Veda [[Category: Theosop ...
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| Chhanmuka A great Bodhisattva with the Northern Buddhists, famous for his ardent love of Humanity; regarded in ...
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| Chhannagarikah Lit., the school of six cities. A famous philosophical school where Chelas are prepared before enter ...
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| Chhaya “Shade” or “ Shadow”. The name of a creature produced by Sanjnâ, the wife of Surya, from herself (as ...
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| Chhaya loka The world of Shades; like Hades, the world of the Eidola and Umbræ. We call it Kâmaloka ...
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| Chiah Life; Vita, Revivificatio. In the Kabbala, the second highest essence of the human soul, corresp ...
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| Chichhakti Chih‐Sakti; the power which generates thought<sp ...
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| Chidagnikundum Lit., “the fire‐hearth in the heart”; the seat of the force which extinguishes all individual desire ...
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| Chidakasam The field, or basis of consciousness<span style="col ...
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| Chiffilet A Canon‐Kabbalist of the XVIIth century, reputed to have learned a key to the Gnostic works from Cop ...
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| Chiim A plural noun—“lives”; found in compound names Elohim Chum, the gods of lives, Parkhurst translates ...
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| China One of the oldest known Chinese books is the Yih King, or Book of Changes. It is reported to hav ...
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| Chit Abstract Consciousness<span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Chitanuth our Chitons, a priestly garb; the coats of skin given by Java Aleim to Adam and Eve after their ...
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| Chitkala In Esoteric philosophy, identical with the Kumâras those who first incarnated into the men of the Th ...
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| Chitra Gupta The deva (or god) who is the recorder of Yâma (the god of death), and who is supposed to read the ac ...
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| Chitra Sikkandinas The constellation of the great Bear; the habitat of the seven Rishis (Sapta Riksha). Lit., “ bri ...
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| Hivim • Chivim Whence the Hivites who, according to some Roman Catholic commentators, descend from Heth, son of Can ...
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| Chnoumis The same as Chnouphis and Kneph. A symbol of creative force ; Chnoumis or Kneph is “the unmade and e ...
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| Chnouphis Nouf in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power in ...
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| Chohan “Lord” or “Master” ; a chief; thus Dhyan‐ Chohan would answer to “Chief of the Dhyanis”, o ...
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| Chokmah Wisdom; the second of the ten Sephiroth, and the second of the supernal Triad. A masculine potency c ...
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| Khons • Chonso The Son of Maut and Ammon, the personification of morning. He is the Theban Harpocrates, according t ...
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| Chrestos The early Gnostic form of Christ. It was used in the fifth century B.C. by Æschylus, Herodotus, and ...
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| Christian Scientist A newly‐coined term for denoting the practitioners of an art of healing by will. The name is a misno ...
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| Chuang A great Chinese philosopher<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Chubilgan • Khubilkhan The same as Chutuktu<span style="color: gr ...
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| Frederick Stuart Church American artist.
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| Chutuktu An incarnation of Buddha or of some Bodhisattva, as believed in Tibet, where there are generally fiv ...
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| Chyuta Means, “the fallen” into generation, as a Kabbalist would say; the opposite of achyuta, somethin ...
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| Circle There are several “Circles” with mystic adjectives attached to them. Thus we have: (1) the “Decussat ...
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| Clairaudience The faculty, whether innate or acquired by occult training, of hearing all that is said at whatever ...
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| Clairvoyance The faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight. As now used it is a loose and flippant ...
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| Clemens Alexandrinus A Church Father and a voluminous writer, who had been a Neo‐Platonist and a disciple of Ammonius Sac ...
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| Cock A very occult bird, much appreciated in ancient augury and symbolism. According to the Zohar, th ...
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| Codex Nazaraeus The “Book of Adam”—the latter name meaning anthropos, Man or Humanity. The Nazarene faith is cal ...
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| Coeur, Jacques A famous Treasurer of France, born in 1408, who obtained the office by black magic. He was reputed a ...
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| Coffin‐Rite • Pastos This was the final rite of Initiation in the Mysteries in Egypt, Greece and elsewhere. The last and ...
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| Collanges, Gabriel de Born in 1524. The best astrologer in the XVlth century and a still better Kabbalist. He spent a fort ...
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| College of Rabbis A college at Babylon; most famous during the early centuries of Christianity. Its glory, however, wa ...
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| Collemann, Jean An Alsatian, born at Orleans, according to K. Mackenzie; other accounts say he was a Jew, who found ...
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| Collyridians A sect of Gnostics who, in the ear]y centuries of Christianity, transferred their worship and revere ...
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| Constance Wachtmeister was the companion and coworker of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (H.P.B.) from 1885 until Blavatsky's dea ...
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| Continents In the Buddhist cosmogony, according to Gautama Buddha’s exoteric doctrine, there are numberless sys ...
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| Corybantes, Mysteries of the These were held in Phrygia in honour of Atys, the youth beloved by Cybele. The rites were very elabo ...
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| Cosmic Gods Inferior gods, those connected with the formation of matter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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| Cosmic ideation Eternal thought, impressed on substance or spirit‐matter, in the eternity ; thought which becomes ac ...
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| Cosmocratores “Builders of the Universe”, the “world architects”, or the Creative Forces personified [[Category: T ...
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| Cow‐worship The idea of any such “worship” is as erroneous as it is unjust. No Egyptian worshipped the cow, nor ...
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| Cremer, John An eminent scholar who for over thirty years studied Hermetic philosophy in pursuance of its practic ...
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| Crescent Sin was the Assyrian name for the moon, and Sin‐ai the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of ...
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| Criocephale Ram‐headed, applied to several deities and emblematic figures, notably those of ancient Egypt, which ...
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| Crocodile “The great reptile of Typhon.” The seat of its “worship” was Crocodilopolis and it was sacred to Set ...
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| Cross Mariette Bey has shown its antiquity in Egypt by proving that in all the primitive sepulchres “the p ...
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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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| Crux Ansata The handled cross,T; whereas the tau is T, in this form, and the oldest Egyptian cross o ...
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| Crypt A secret subterranean vault, some for the purpose of initiation, others for burial purposes. There w ...
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| Curetes The Priest‐Initiates of ancient Crete, in the service of Cybele. Initiation in their temples was ver ...
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| Cutha An ancient city in Babylonia after which a tablet giving an account of “creation” is named. The “Cut ...
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| Cuvier, Georges was a French naturalist and zoologist.
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| Cycle From the Greek Kuklos. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all ...
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| Cynocephalus The Egyptian Hapi. There was a notable difference between the ape‐headed gods and the “Cynocepha ...
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| D Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbo ...
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| Daath Knowledge; “the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah, Wisdom and Understanding”: sometimes, in error, ca ...
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| Dabar D (a) B (a) R (im), meaning the “Word”, and the “Words” in the Chaldean Kabbala, Dabar and Log ...
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| Dabistan The land of Iran; ancient Persia<span style="color: ...
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| Dache‐Dachus The dual emanation of Moymis, the progeny of the dual or androgynous World‐Principle, the male Apaso ...
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| Dactyli From daktulos, “a finger”. The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regard ...
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| Dadouchos The torch‐hearer, one of the four celebrants in the Eleusinian mysteries. There were several attache ...
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| Daemon In the original Hermetic works and ancient classics it has a meaning identical with that of “god”, “ ...
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| Daenam Lit., “Knowledge”, the principle of understanding in man, rational Soul, or Manas, according to ...
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| Dag, Dagon “Fish” and also “Messiah”. Dagon was the Chaldean man‐fish Oannes, the mysterious being who arose da ...
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| Dagoba Lit: a sacred mound or tower for Buddhist holy relics. These are pyramidal‐looking mounds scattered ...
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| Daitya Guru The instructor of the giants, called Daityas (q.v.) Allegorically, it is the title given to the ...
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| Daityas Giants, Titans, and exoterically demons, but in truth identical with certain Asuras, the intellectua ...
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| Devajnanas • Daivajna The higher classes of celestial beings, those who possess divine knowledge [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Daivi‐prakriti Primordial, homogeneous light, called by some Indian Occultists “the Light of the Logos” (see Note ...
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| Dakini Female demons, vampires and blood‐ drinkers (asra‐pas). In the Purânas they attend upon the ...
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| Daksha A form of Brahmâ and his son in the Purânas But the Rig Veda states that “Daksha sprang from Adi ...
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| Dalada A very precious relic of Gautama the Buddha; viz., his supposed left canine tooth preserved at the g ...
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| Dama Restraint of the senses<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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| Dambulla The name of a huge rock in Ceylon. It is about 400 feet above the level of the sea. Its upper portio ...
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| Dammapadan A Buddhist work containing moral precepts<span style ...
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| Dana Almsgiving to mendicants, lit., “charity”, the first of the six Paramitas in Buddhism [[Category: Th ...
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| Danavas Almost the same as Daityas; giants and demons, the opponents of the ritualistic gods [[Category: ...
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| Dangma In Esotericism a purified Soul. A Seer and an Initiate; one who has attained full wisdom [[Category: ...
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| Daos The seventh King (Shepherd) of the divine Dynasty, who reigned over the Babylonians for the space of ...
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| Darasta Ceremonial magic practised by the central Indian tribes, especially among the Kolarians [[Category: ...
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| Dardanus The Son of Jupiter and Electra, who received the Kabeiri gods as a dowry, and took them to Samothrac ...
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| Darha The ancestral spirits of the Kolarians<span style="c ...
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| Darsanas The Schools of Indian philosophy, of which there are six; Shad‐darsanas or six demonstrations [[ ...
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| Dasa‐sil The ten obligations or commandments taken by and binding upon the priests of Buddha; the five obliga ...
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| Dava The moon, in Tibetan astrology<span style="color: gr ...
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| Davkina The wife of Hea, “the goddess of the lower regions, the consort of the Deep”, the mother of Meroda ...
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| Day of Brahma See “Brahmâʹs Day” etc.<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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| Dayanisi The god worshipped by the Jews along with other Semites, as the “Ruler of men”; Dionysos—the Sun; wh ...
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| Dayus • Dyaus A Vedic term. The unrevealed Deity, or that which reveals Itself only as light and the bright day—me ...
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| Death, Kiss of According to the Kabbalah, the earnest follower does not die by the power of the Evil Spirit, Yetzer ...
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| Indriya • Deha Sanyama The control of the senses in Yoga practice. These are the ten external agents; the five senses which ...
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| Dei termini The name for pillars with human heads representing Hermes, placed at cross‐roads by the ancient Gree ...
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| Deist One who admits the existence of a god or gods, but claims to know nothing of either and denies revel ...
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| Demerit In Occult and Buddhistic parlance, a constituent of Karma. It is through avidya or ignorance of ...
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| Demeter The Hellenic name for the Latin Ceres, the goddess of corn and tillage. The astronomical sign, Virgo ...
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| Demiurgic Mind The same as “Universal Mind”. Mahat, the first “product” of Brahmâ, or himself [[Category: Theosophi ...
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| Demiurgos The Demiurge or Artificer; the Supernal Power which built the universe. Freemasons derive from this ...
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| Demon est Deus inversus A Kabbalistic axiom; lit., “the devil is god reversed”; which means that there is neither evil nor g ...
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| Demonologia Treatises or Discourses upon Demons, or Gods in their dark aspects [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Demons According to the Kabbalah, the demons dwell in the world of Assiah, the world of matter and of the “ ...
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| Demrusch A Giant in the mythology of ancient Iran<span style= ...
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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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| Deona Mati In the Kolarian dialect, one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms ...
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| Dervish A Mussulman—Turkish or Persian—ascetic. A nomadic and wandering monk. Dervishes, however, sometimes ...
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| Desatir A very ancient Persian work called the Book of Shet. It speaks of the thirteen Zoroasters, a ...
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| Deva A god, a “resplendent” deity. Deva‐Deus, from the root div “to shine”. A Deva is a celestial bei ...
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| Deva Sarga Creation: the origin of the principles, said to be Intelligence born of the qualities or the attribu ...
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| Devachan The “dwelling of the gods”. A state intermediate between two earth‐lives, into which the EGO (Atmâ‐B ...
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| Devaki The mother of Krishna. She was shut up in a dungeon by her brother, King Kansa, for fear of the fulf ...
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| Devamatri Lit., “the mother of the gods”. A title of Aditi, Mystic Space [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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| DevanagarI Lit., “the language or letters of the dêvas” or gods. The characters of the Sanskrit language. The a ...
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| Devapi A Sanskrit Sage of the race of Kuru, who, together with another Sage (Moru), is supposed to live thr ...
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| Devarshis • Deva‐rishi Lit., “gods rishis” ; the divine or god like saints, those sages who attain a fully divine nature on ...
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| Devasarman A very ancient author who died about a century after Gautama Buddha. He wrote two famous works, in w ...
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| Deva‐laya “The shrine of a Deva”. The name given to all Brahmanical temples [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Deva‐lokas The abodes of the Gods or Devas in superior spheres. The seven celestial worlds above Meru [[Categor ...
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| Dharana That state in Yoga practice when the mind has to be fixed unflinchingly on some object of meditation ...
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| Dharani In Buddhism—both Southern and Northern—and also in Hinduism, it means simply a mantra or mantr ...
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| Dharma The sacred Law; the Buddhist Canon<span style="color ...
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| Dharmachakra Lit., The turning of the “wheel of the Law”. The emblem of Buddhism as a system of cycles and rebirt ...
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| Dharmakaya Lit., “the glorified spiritual body” called the “Vesture of Bliss”. The third, or highest of the T ...
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| Dharmaprabhasa The name of the Buddha who will appear during the seventh Root‐race. (See “Ratnâvabhâsa Kalpa”, when ...
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| Dharmasmriti Upasthana A very long compound word containing a very mystical warning. “Remember, the constituents (of human ...
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| Dharmasoka The name given to the first Asoka after his conversion to Buddhism,—King Chandragupta, who served al ...
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| Dhatu Relics of Buddha’s body collected after his cremation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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| Dhruva An Aryan Sage, now the Pole Star. A Kshatriya (one of the warrior caste) who became through reli ...
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| Dhyan Chohans Lit., “The Lords of Light”. The highest gods, answering to the Roman Catholic Archangels. The divine ...
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| Dhyana In Buddhism one of the six Paramitas of perfection, a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic ...
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| Dhyani Bodhisattyas In Buddhism, the five sons of the Dhyani‐Buddhas. They have a mystic meaning in Esoteric Philosophy ...
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| Dhyani Buddhas They “of the Merciful Heart”; worshipped especially in Nepaul. These have again a secret meaning [[C ...
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| Dhyani Pasa “The rope of the Dhyanis” or Spirits; the Ring “Pass not” (See Sec.Doct., Stanza V., Vol. I., p. ...
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| Diakka Called by Occultists and Theosophists “spooks” and “shells”, i.e., phantoms from Kâma Loka. A wo ...
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| Dianoia The same as the Logos. The eternal source of thought, “divine ideation”, which is the root of all th ...
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| Diktamnon • Dictemnus A curious plant possessing very occult and mystical properties and well‐ known from ancient times. I ...
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| Dido • Elissa Astarte; the Virgin of the Sea—who crushes the Dragon under her foot; The patroness of the Phoænicia ...
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| Digambara A naked mendicant. Lit., “clothed with Space”. A name of Siva in his character of Rudra, the Yogi [[ ...
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| Dii Minores The inferior or “reflected group of the twelve gods ” or Dii Majores, described by Cicero in his ...
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| Dik Space, Vacuity<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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| Diksha Initiation. Dikshit, an Initiate<span style="col ...
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| Dingir • Mul‐lil The Creative Gods<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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| Dinur The River of Fire whose flame burns the Souls of the guilty in the Kabbalistic allegory [[Category: ...
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| Dionysos The Demiurgos, who, like Osiris, was killed by the Titans and dismembered into fourteen parts. He wa ...
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| Dioscuri The name of Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda. Their festival, the Dioscuria, was ...
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| Dipamkara Lit., “the Buddha of fixed light”; a predecessor of Gautama, the Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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| Diploteratology Production of mixed Monsters; in abbreviation teratology [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Dis In the Theogony of Damascius, the same as Protogonos, the “first born light”, called by that aut ...
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| Dises The later name for the divine women called Walky‐rics, Norns, &c., in the Edda [[Category: Theos ...
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| Disk ‐ worship. This was very common in Egypt but not till later times, as it began with Amenoph III., a ...
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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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| Divyachakchus Lit., “celestial Eye” or divine seeing, perception. It is the first of the six “Abhijnas” (q.v.) ; t ...
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| Divyasrotra Lit., “celestial Ear” Or divine hearing. The second “Abhijna”, or the faculty of understanding the l ...
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| Djati One of the twelve “Nidanas” (q.v.); the cause and the effect in the mode of birth taking place accor ...
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| Djin Elementals ; Nature Sprites; Genii. The Djins or Jins are much dreaded in Egypt, Persia and ...
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| Djnana • Jnâna Lit., Knowledge; esoterically, “supernal or divine knowledge acquired by Yoga”. Written also Gnyan ...
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| Ovsyanikov-Kulikovsky, Dmitry Nikolayevich literary scholar, linguist, critic, publicist; he studied at the historical-philological department ...
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| Docetae Lit.,“The Illusionists”. The name given by orthodox Christians to those Gnostics who held that Chris ...
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| Dodecahedron According to Plato, the Universe is built by “the first begotten” on the geometrical figure of the D ...
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| Dodona An ancient city in Thessaly, famous for its Temple of Jupiter and its oracles. According to ancient ...
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| Donar • Thunar • Thor In the North the God of Thunder. He was the Jupiter Tonans of Scandinavia. Like as the oak was devot ...
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| Dondam‐pai‐den‐pa The same as the Sanskrit term Paramarthasatya or “absolute truth”, the highest spiritual self‐co ...
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| Doppelganger A synonym of the “Double” and of the “Astral body” in occult parlance [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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| Dorjesempa The “Diamond Soul”, a name of the celestial Buddha<s ...
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| Dorjeshang A title of Buddha in his highest aspect; a name of the supreme Buddha; also Dorje [[Category: Th ...
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| Double The same as the “Astral body” or “Doppelgänger”<span ...
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| Double Image The name among the Jewish Kabbalists for the Dual Ego, called respectively: the Higher, Metatr ...
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| Dracontia Temples dedicated to the Dragon, the emblem of the Sun, the symbol of Deity, of Life and Wisdom. The ...
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| Drakon • Dragon Now considered a “mythical” monster, perpetuated in the West only on seals,. &c., as a heraldic grif ...
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| Draupnir The golden armlet of Wodan or Odin, the companion of the spear Gungnir which he holds in his right h ...
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| Dravidians A group of tribes inhabiting Southern India; the aborigines [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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| Dravya Substance (metaphysically)<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Drishti Scepticism; unbelief<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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| Druids A sacerdotal caste which flourished in Britain and Gaul. They were Initiates who admitted females in ...
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| Druzes A large sect, numbering about 100,000 adherents, living on Mount Lebanon in Syria. Their rites are v ...
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| Dudaim The Atropa Mandragova plant is mentioned in Genesis, XXX., 14, and in Canticles: the nam ...
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| Dugpas Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of Tsong‐ka‐pa in the fourteenth century, t ...
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| Dukkha Sorrow, pain<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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| Dumah The Angel of Silence (Death) in the Kabbala<span sty ...
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| Durga Lit., “inaccessible”. The female potency of a god; the name of Kali, the wife of Siva, the Mahesva ...
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| Dustcharitra The “ten evil acts”; namely, three acts of the body viz., taking life, theft and adultery; four evil ...
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| Dwapara Yuga The third of the “Four Ages” in Hindu Philosophy ; or the second age counted from below [[Category: ...
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| Dwarf of Death In the Edda of the Norsemen, Iwaldi, the Dwarf of Death, hides Life in the depths of the great o ...
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| Dwellers A term invented by Bulwer Lytton in Zanoni; but in Occultism the word “Dweller” is an occult ter ...
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| Dwesa Anger. One of the three principal states of mind (of which 63 are enumerated), which are Râga— p ...
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| Dwija “Twice‐born”. In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahmans; but now it is applie ...
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| Dwija Brahman The investure with the sacred thread that now constitutes the “second birth”. Even a Sudra who choos ...
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| Dwipa An island or a continent. The Hindus have seven (Sapta dwipa ); the Buddhists only four. This is ...
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| Dynasties In India there are two, the Lunar and the Solar, or the Somavansa and the Suryavansa. In Cha ...
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| Dyookna The shadow of eternal Light. The “Angels of the Presence” or archangels. The same as the Ferouer ' ...
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| Dzyn • Dzyan Written also Dzen. A corruption of the Sanskrit Dhyan and jnâna (or gnyâna phonetically) ...
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| E The fifth letter of the English alphabet. The he (soft) of the Hebrew alphabet becomes in the Ehevi ...
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| Ea • Hea The second god of the original Babylonian trinity composed of Anu, Hea and Bel. Hea was the “Maker o ...
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| Eagle [1] This symbol is one of the most ancient. With the Greeks and Persians it was sacred to the Sun; w ...
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| Easter The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the ...
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| Ebionites Lit., “the poor”; the earliest sect of Jewish Christians, the other being the Nazarenes. They existe ...
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| Ecbatana A famous city in Media worthy of a place among the seven wonders of the world. It is thus described ...
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| Echath The same as the following—the “One”, but feminine<sp ...
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| Echod “One”, masculine, applied to Jehovah<span style="col ...
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| Eclectic Philosophy One of the names given to the Neo‐ Platonic school of Alexandria [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ( ...
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| Ecstasis A psycho‐spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing ...
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| Edda Lit., “great‐grandmother”of the Scandinavian Lays. It was Bishop Brynjϋld Sveinsson, who collected t ...
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| Eden “Delight”, pleasure. In Genesis the “Garden of Delight” built by God ; in the Kabbala the “Garde ...
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| Edom Edomite Kings. A deeply concealed mystery is to he found in the allegory of the seven Kings of Edorn ...
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| Edris • Idris Meaning “the learned One”, an epithet applied by the Arabs to Enoch [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Eggs Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the “Mundane Egg”, in which Brahmâ gestated, with ...
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| Egkosmioi “The intercosmic gods, each of which presides over a great number of daemons to whom they impart the ...
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| Ego “ Self” ; the consciousness in man “I am I”—or the feeling of “I‐am‐ship”. Esoteric philosophy teach ...
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| Egregores Eliphas Lévi calls them “the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action” ; whateve ...
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| Eheyeh “I am”, according to Ibn Gebirol, but not in the sense of “I am that I am” [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Eidolon The same as that which we term the human phantom, the astral form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Eka “One”; also a synonym of Mahat, the Universal Mind, as the principle of Intelligence [[Cat ...
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| Ekana‐rupa The One (and the Many) bodies or forms; a term applied by the Purânas to Deity [[Category: Theosophi ...
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| Ekasloka Shastra A work on the Shastras (Scriptures) by Nagarjuna; a mystic work translated into Chinese [[Catego ...
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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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| Elementals Spirits of the Elements. The creatures evolved in the four Kingdoms or Elements—earth, air, fire, an ...
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| Elementaries Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls having at some time prior to death sepa ...
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| Eloi The genius or ruler of Jupiter; its Planetary Spirit. (See Origen, Contra Celsum.) [[Category: T ...
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| Elu An ancient dialect used in Ceylon<span style="color: ...
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| El‐Elion A name of the Deity borrowed by the Jews from the Phœnician Elon, a name of the Sun [[Catego ...
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| Emanation, the Doctrine of In its metaphysical meaning, it is opposed to Evolution, yet one with it. Science teaches that evolu ...
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| Empusa A ghoul, a vampire, an evil demon taking various forms [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
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| En A negative particle, like a in Greek and Sanskrit. The first syllable of “En‐Soph” (q.v.), or no ...
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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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| Enoichion Lit., the inner Eye” ; the “Seer”, a reference to the third inner, or Spiritual Eye, the tru ...
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| Ens The same as the Greek To On “Being”, or the real Presence in Nature [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Ephesus Famous for its great metaphysical College where Occultism (Gnosis) and Platonic philosophy were taug ...
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| Epimetheus Lit., “He who takes counsel after” the event. A brother of Prometheus in Greek Mythology [[Categ ...
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| Epinoia Thought, invention, design. A name adopted by the Gnostics for the first passive Æon [[Category: The ...
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| Episcopal Crook One of the insignia of Bishops, derived from the sacerdotal sceptre of the Etruscan Augurs. it is al ...
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| Epoptes An Initiate. One who has passed his last degree of initiation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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| Eridanus Ardan, the Greek name for the river Jordan<span st ...
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| Eros Hesiod makes of the god Eros the third personage of the Hellenic primordial Trinity composed of Oura ...
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| Eshmim The Heavens, the Firmament in which are the Sun, Planets and Stars; from the root Sm, meaning ...
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| Esoteric Hidden, secret. From the Greek esotericos, “inner” concealed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ( ...
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| Esoteric Bodhism Secret wisdom or intelligence from the Greek esotericos “inner”, and the Sanskrit Bodhi, “kn ...
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| Essasua The African and Asiatic sorcerers and serpent charmers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
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| Essenes A hellenized word, from the Hebrew Asa, a “healer”. A mysterious sect of Jews said by Pliny to h ...
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| Ether Students are but too apt to confuse this with Akâsa and with Astral Light. It is neither, in the sen ...
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| Eurasians An abbreviation of “European‐Asians”. The mixed coloured races: the children of the white fathers an ...
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| Evapto Initiation; the same as Epopteia<span style="col ...
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| Evolution The development of higher orders of animals from lower. As said in Isis Unveiled: “Modern Scienc ...
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| Exoteric Outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden< ...
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| Extra‐Cosmic Outside of Kosmos or Nature; a nonsensical word invented to assert the existence of a personal g ...
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| Eye of Horus A very sacred symbol in ancient Egypt. It was called the outa the right eye represented the sun, ...
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| Eyes The “eyes” the Lord Buddha developed in him at the twentieth hour of his vigil when sitting under th ...
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| Ezra [1] The Jewish priest and scribe, who, circa 450 B.c., compiled the Pentateuch if indeed he was not ...
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| F The sixth letter of the English alphabet, for which there is no equivalent in Hebrew. It is the doub ...
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| Faces • Partzupheem The word usually refers to Areekh Anpeen or Long Face, and Zeir‐Anpeen, or Short Face, and ' ...
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| Fadeeva, Nadezhda Andreevna was H.P. Blavatsky’s aunt. Lived in Odessa. The head of the first Theosophical Society in Russia.
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| Fafnir The Dragon of Wisdom<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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| Fahian A Chinese traveller and writer in the early centuries of Christianity, who wrote on Buddhism [[Categ ...
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| Faizi Literally the “heart”. A writer on occult and mystic subjects. Mussulman ascetics are entitled to it ...
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| Fakir A Mussulman ascetic in India, a Mahometan “Yogi”. The name is often applied, though erroneously. to ...
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| Falk A Kabbalistic Jew, reputed to have worked “miracles”. Kenneth Mackenzie quotes in regard to him from ...
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| Farbauti A giant in the Edda; lit., “the oarsman”; the father of Loki, whose mother was the giantess Lauf ...
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| Fargard A section or chapter of verses in the Vendidad of the Parsis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ( ...
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| Farvarshi The same as Ferouer, or the opposite (as contrasted) double. The spiritual counterpart of the st ...
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| Fa‐Hwa‐King A Chinese work on Cosmogony<span style="color: grey; ...
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| Ferho The highest and greatest creative power with the Nazarene Gnostics. (Codex Nazaræus.) [[Category ...
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| Fetahil The lower creator, in the same Codex.'<span style= ...
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| Fifty Gates of Wisdom The number is a blind, and there are really 49 gates, for Moses, than whom the Jewish world has ...
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| Fire A figure of speech to denote deity, the “One” life. A theurgic term, used later by the Rosicrucians. ...
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| Fire‐Philosophers The name given to the Hermetists and Alchemists of the Middle Ages, and also to the Rosicrucians. Th ...
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| First Point Metaphysically the first point of manifestation, the germ of primeval differentiation, or the point ...
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| Flagae A name given by Paracelsus to a particular kind of guardian angels or genii [[Category: Theosophical ...
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| Flame, Holy The “ Holy Flame” is the name given by the Eastern Asiatic Kabbalists (Semites) to the Anima Mundi ...
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| Fludd, Robert Generally known as Robertus de Fluctibus, the chief of the “Philosophers by Fire”. A celebrated Engl ...
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| Fluvii Transitus Or crossing of the River (Chebar). Cornelius Agrippa gives this alphabet. In the Ars Quatuor Coron ...
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| Fohat A term used to represent the active (male) potency of the Sakti (female reproductive power) in natur ...
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| Foh‐tchou Lit., “Buddha’s Lord”, meaning, however, simply the teacher of the doctrines of Buddha. Foh means a ...
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| Fons Yitae A work of Ibn Gehirol, the Arabian Jewish philosopher of the Xlth century, who called it Me‐ gôr H ...
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| FourAnimals The symbolical animals of the vision of Ezekiel (the Mercabah). “ With the first Christians the ...
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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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| Fravasham Absolute spirit<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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| Freya In the Edda, Frigga is the mother of the gods like Aditi in the Vedas. She is identical with ...
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| Friedrich Anton Mesmer The famous physician who rediscovered and applied practically that magnetic fluid in man which was c ...
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| Frost Giants They are the great builders, the Cyclopes and Titans of the Norsemen, and play a prominent part in t ...
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| Fylfot A weapon of Thor, like the Swastika, or the Jaina, the four‐footed cross ; generally called “Thor’s ...
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| G The seventh letter in the English alphabet. “In Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, Hebrew, Assyrian, Samaritan ...
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| GARF GARF is a large Russian state archive, which houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian aut ...
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| Gabriel According to the Gnostics, the “Spirit” or Christos, the “messenger of life”, and Gabriel are one. T ...
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| Gaea Primordial Matter, in the Cosmogony of Hesiod; Earth, as some think; the wife of Ouranos, the sky or ...
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| Gaffarillus An Alchemist and philosopher who lived in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the first phi ...
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| Gaganeswara “Lord of the Sky”, a name of Garuda<span style="colo ...
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| Gal‐hinnom The name of Hell in the Talmud<span style="color: gr ...
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| Gambatrin The name of Hermodur’s “magic staff” in the Edda ...
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| Ganadevas A certain class of celestial Beings who are said to inhabit Maharloka. They are the rulers of ou ...
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| Gandapada A celebrated Brahman teacher, the author of the Commentaries on the Sankhya Karika, Mandukya Upani ...
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| Gandhara A musical note of great occult power in the Hindu gamut—the third of the diatonic scale [[Category: ...
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| Gandharva The celestial choristers and musicians of India. in the Vedas these deities reveal the secrets o ...
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| Ganesa The elephant‐headed God of Wisdom, the son of Siva. He is the same as the Egyptian Thoth‐Hermes, ...
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| Ganga The Ganges, the principal sacred river in India. There are two versions of its myth: one relates tha ...
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| Gangadwara “The gate or door of the Ganges”, literally; the name of a town now called Hardwar, at the foot of t ...
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| Gangi A renowned Sorcerer in the time of Kâsyapa Buddha (a predecessor of Gautama). Gangi was regarded as ...
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