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| 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 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 | |
| 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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| Adharma Unrighteousness, vice, the opposite of Dharma.<spa ...
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| Ballaji Khanderav Adhav | |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Ahura Mazda The personified deity, the Principle of Universal Divine Light of the Parsis. From Ahura or Asura' ...
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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.]
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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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| 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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| 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 Gallatin Mackey
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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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Albrecht von Wallenstein Military commander and statesman (1583-1634), Duke of Friedland, Sagan and Mecklenburg, prominent in ...
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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 Bain Zirkoff lists The Correlations of Nervous and Mental Forces as unidentified and refers to BCW VI ...
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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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| 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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| Mansaih Ali | |
| Omrah Ali | |
| 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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| 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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| Ammianus Marcellinus Zirkoff's bibliography cites his History in the Loeb Classical Library. <span style="color: grey ...
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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 Lal Bisvas | |
| Amritalal De Indian Theosophist elected vice-president of the Jeypore Theosophical Society at its establishment i ...
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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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| 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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| Anandagiri Commentator on Samkaracharya and author of Samkaravijaya, also known as Anandajnana. Zirkoff des ...
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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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| 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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| 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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| E. Andrew | |
| Andrey Mihailovich Fadeyev Russian public official: manager of the office for foreign settlers in Ekaterinoslav (1817-1834); me ...
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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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| Angudram Shastri | |
| Animal Magnetism While official science calls it a “supposed” agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming m ...
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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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| 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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Annie Besant British writer, lecturer and social reformer; second president of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, ...
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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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| Charles Anthon American classical scholar. Grad. of Columbia Univ. 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar, 1819 ...
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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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| Aphorisms (Buddha) No information available (<span ...
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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. The Philosopher of the First Century A.D. G. R. S. Mead’s work, published at London and Benares in 1901. The University Books reissue (New Yor ...
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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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| 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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| Aratus Greek didactic poet of the third century b.c. contemporary with Aristarchus of Samos and Theocritus ...
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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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Archibald Forbes British war correspondent (1838-1900) who reported on the Franco-Prussian, Russo-Turkish, Afghan and ...
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| Archibald Henry Sayce British orientalist and Oxford professor of Assyriology. His works cover Assyrian grammar, comparati ...
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| Archibald Keightley English physician and Theosophist, a member of H. P. Blavatsky’s Inner Group in London. Married the ...
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| Archibald Meston Scottish-born Australian journalist, explorer and politician who wrote extensively about Queensland ...
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| Arcot Hanumuntha Charry | |
| Rustamji Ardisher | |
| Ariamnes II King of Cappadocia, son and successor of Ariarathes II; shared his royal power with his son, the fut ...
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| P. Aelius Aristides Greek rhetorician of the second century, surnamed Theodorus; travelled widely and lived for many yea ...
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| Aristophanes His comedy The Frogs is cited through Benjamin Bickley Rogers’s edition and translation of The ...
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Aristotle The bibliography refers to the treatise on the generation of animals through Philoponus’s commentary ...
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| Thomas Augustine Arne English composer associated with Drury Lane and Covent Garden; his music for Alfred (1740) inclu ...
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| Arnobius the Elder Bibliographical references include: Adversus Gentes. In Migne, Patr. C. Compl. Ser. Lat. IV, 349. Al ...
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| Sir Edwin Arnold Author (1832-1904) of The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana), an accou ...
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| Arrest du Parlement du 5 mars, 1762 Pertinent information will be found on pp. 309-10 of BCW volume 9 <span style="color: grey; font-siz ...
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| Arrian Greek historian from Nicomedia, active in the second century under Hadrian and the Antonines; a pupi ...
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| Ars Poetica Horace’s Latin epistle on poetry.  ...
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| Arthur Christopher Benson English poet and essayist, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. Served as Maste ...
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| Arthur Conan Doyle British physician and writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Took an interest in psychical research, Sp ...
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| Arthur Edward Waite The bibliography lists The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (London, 1902) and The Secre ...
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| Arthur Gebhard German-American manufacturer and Theosophist, son of Gustav and Mary Gebhard. Assisted William Q. Ju ...
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| Arthur Lillie Author of Buddha and Early Buddhism, an illustrated work published in New York by Putnam's Sons ...
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| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley English divine, dean of Westminster. Educ. at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. Took orders, 1839 < ...
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Arthur Schopenhauer The bibliography cites Über das Sehn und die Farben (1816). <span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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| Arthur Woollgar Verrall The bibliography refers to the entry on Euripides <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-sty ...
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| D. S. C. Arty | |
| Francesca Eliza Arundale English Theosophist and educator, a close associate of H. P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant. Worked in e ...
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| Arya, The Lahore monthly devoted to Aryan philosophy, arts, literature, science and religions, together with m ...
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| Aryasatyani The four truths or the four dogmas, which are (1) Dukha, or that misery and pain are the unavoid ...
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| Aryavarta The “land of the Aryas”, or India. The ancient name for Northern India. The Brahmanical invaders (“ ...
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| Asakrit Samadhi A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in Samâdhi. [[Category: CTD info from Theoso ...
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| Asana The third stage of Hatha Yoga, one of the prescribed postures of meditation [[Category: CTD info ...
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| Asat A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather non‐be‐ness. The “incomprehensible nothingne ...
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| Asathor The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miölnir, the “storm‐ hammer”, f ...
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| Asava Samkhaya The “finality of the stream”, one of the six “Abhijnâs” (q.v.). A phenomenal knowledge of the fi ...
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| Asburj One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which ...
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| Asch Metzareph The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals ...
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| Ases The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the prog ...
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| Asgard The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated “higher than the ...
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| Ask • Ash The “tree of Knowledge”. Together with the Embla (alder) the Ask was the tree from which the god ...
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| Ash Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as As, Aish and E ...
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| Ash Yggdrasil The “Mundane Tree”, the Symbol of the World with the old Norsemen, the “tree of the universe, of tim ...
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| John Ashburner Zirkoff suggests that Blavatsky's unspecific reference may concern Facts in Clairvoyance (1848) ...
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| Ashen and Langhan Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in u ...
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| Asherah A word, which occurs in the Old Testament, and is commonly translated “groves” referring to idolatro ...
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| Ashmog The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the Avesta; a kind of allegorical Satan, ...
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| Elias Ashmole English antiquary with interests in heraldry, astrology and alchemy. His collection, presented to Ox ...
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| Ashta Siddhis The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossar ...
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| Ashtadhyayi Panini’s grammatical work. Zirkoff lists W. Goonetilleke’s edition with a partial English translatio ...
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| Ashtadisa The eight‐faced space. An imaginary division of space represented as an octagon and at other tim ...
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| Ashtar Vidya The most ancient of the Hindu works on Magic. Though there is a claim that the entire work is in the ...
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| Asvaghosha • Aśvaghoṣa • Ashvaghosha Sanskrit poet and Buddhist philosopher, traditionally credited with the biography of the Buddha, the ...
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| Asiatick Researches Transactions of the society founded in Bengal to study Asian history, antiquities, arts, sciences an ...
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| Asiras Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: CTD ...
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| Asita A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary] ...
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| Aski‐kataski‐haix‐tetrax‐damnameneus‐aision These mystic words, which Athanasius Kircher tells us meant “ Darkness, Light, Earth, Sun, and Truth ...
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| Asmodeus The Persian Aêshma‐dev, the Esham‐dev of the Parsis, “the evil Spirit of Concupiscence”, acc ...
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| Asmoneans Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon ...
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| Asoka A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in rea ...
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| Asomatous Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: CTD info ...
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| Asrama A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in India has its Ashr ...
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| Assassins A masonic and mystic order founded by Hassan Sabah in Persia, in the eleventh century. The word is a ...
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| Assorus The third group of progeny (Kissan and Assorus) from the Babylonian Duad, Tauthe and Apason, accordi ...
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| Assur A city in Assyria ; the ancient seat of a library from which George Smith excavated the earliest kno ...
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| Assurbanipal The Sardanapalus of the Greeks, “the greatest of the Assyrian Sovereigns, far more memorable on acco ...
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| Assyrian Holy Scriptures. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpreta ...
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| Asta‐dasha Perfect, Supreme Wisdom; a title of Deity<span sty ...
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| Aster’t Astarte, the Syrian goddess the consort of Adon, or Adonai [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Gl ...
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| Astraea The ancient goddess of justice, whom the wickedness of men drove away from earth to heaven, wherein ...
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| Astral Body The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The Linga Sharira, the “Doppelgäinger ...
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| Astral Light The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the seco ...
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| Astrology The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretel ...
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| Astronomische Nachrichten Astronomical periodical founded by H. C. Schumacher. Zirkoff lists publication at Altona in 1823-73 ...
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| Astronomos The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of ...
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| Asura Mazda In the Zend, Ahura Mazda. The same as Ormuzd or Mazdeô; the god of Zoroaster and the Parsis [[Ca ...
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| Asuramaya Known also as Mayâsura. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, we ...
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| Asuras Exoterically, elementals and evil, gods — considered maleficent; demons, and no gods. But ...
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| Aswamedha The Horse‐sacrifice; an ancient Brahmanical ceremony [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary ...
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| Aswattha The Bo‐tree, the tree of knowledge, ficus religiosa [[Category: CTD info from Th ...
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| Aswins • Aswinau • Aswinî‐Kumârau Are the most mysterious and occult deities of all; who have “puzzled the oldest commentators”. Liter ...
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| Atala One of the regions in the Hindu lokas, and one of the seven mountains; but esoterically Atala is on ...
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| Atalanta Fugiens A famous treatise by the eminent Rosicrucian Michael Maier; it has many beautiful engravings of Alch ...
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| Atarpi • Atarpi‐nisi A personage who was “pious to the gods”; and who prayed the god Hea to remove the evil of drought an ...
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| Atash Behram The sacred fire of the Parsis, preserved perpetually in their fire‐temples [[Category: CTD info from ...
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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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