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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Arani}}'''. The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). ''Arani ''is a ''Swastika'', a disc‐like wooden vehicle, in which the Brahmins generated fire by friction with ''pramantha'', a stick, the symbol of the male generator. A mystic ceremony with a world of secret meaning in it and very sacred, perverted into phallic significance by the materialism of the age. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Arani}}'''. The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). ''Arani ''is a ''Swastika'', a disc‐like wooden vehicle, in which the Brahmins generated fire by friction with ''pramantha'', a stick, the symbol of the male generator. A mystic ceremony with a world of secret meaning in it and very sacred, perverted into phallic significance by the materialism of the age. | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:32, 10 October 2026
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Arani. The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). Arani is a Swastika, a disc‐like wooden vehicle, in which the Brahmins generated fire by friction with pramantha, a stick, the symbol of the male generator. A mystic ceremony with a world of secret meaning in it and very sacred, perverted into phallic significance by the materialism of the age.
Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Arani