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	A The first letter in all the world‐alphabets save a few, such for instance as the Mongolian, the Japa ...
	Aahla One of the divisions of the Kerneter or infernal regions, or Amenti ; the word means the “Fi ...
	Aanroo The second division of Amenti. The celestial field of Aanroo is encircled by an iron wall. The f ...
	Aaron The elder brother of Moses and the first Initiate of the Hebrew Lawgiver. The name means the I ...
	Ab The eleventh month of the Hebrew civil year; the fifth of the sacred year beginning in July. [w.w.w. ...
	Abaddon An angel of Hell, corresponding to the Greek Apollyon. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
	Abatur In the Nazarene system the “Ancient of Days”, Antiquus Altus, the Father of the Demiurgus of the ...
	Abba Amona Lit., “Father‐Mother”; the occult names of the two higher Sephiroth, Chokmah and Binah, ...
	Abei‐Zivo The Metatron or anointed spirit with the Nazarene Gnostics; the same as the angel Gabriel. [[Categor ...
	Abhamsi • Abhâmsi IAST A mystic name of the “four orders of beings” which are, Gods, Demons, Pitris and Men. Orientalists s ...
	Abhasvaras The Devas or “Gods” of Light and Sound, the highest of the upper three celestial regions (planes ...
	Abhava Negation, or non‐being of individual objects; the noumenal substance, or abstract objectivity. [ ...
	Abhaya • Abhaya SD A son of Dharma; and also a religious life of duty. As an adjective, “Fearless,” Abhaya is an epithe ...
	Abhayagiri Lit., “Mount Fearless” in Ceylon. It has an ancient Vihâra or Monastery in which the well‐known ...
	Abhidharma The metaphysical (third) part of Tripitaka, a very philosophical Buddhist work by Kâtyâyana. [[C ...
	Abhijna • Abhijñâ SD • abhijnā IAST • abhijnA HK Six phenomenal (or “supernatural”) gifts which Sâkyamuni Buddha acquired in the night on which he re ...
	Abhimanim The name of Agni (fire) the “eldest son of Brahmâ”, in other words, the first element or Force produ ...
	Abhimanyu A son of Arjuna. He killed Lakshmana,in the great battle of the Mahâbhârata on its second day, but w ...
	Abhutarajasas A class of gods or Devas, during the period of the fifth Manvantara. [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
	Abib The first Jewish sacred month, begins in March; is also called Nisan. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
	Abiegnus Mons A mystic name, from whence as from a certain mountain, Rosicrucian documents are often found to be i ...
	Abiri See Kabiri, also written Kabeiri, the Mighty Ones, celestials, sons of Zedec the just one, a group o ...
	Ablanathanalba A term similar to “Abracadabra”. It is said by C. W. King to have meant “thou art a father to us”; i ...
	Abracadabra This symbolic word first occurs in a medical treatise in verse by Samonicus, who flourished in the r ...
	Abraxas • Abrasax Mystic words which have been traced as far back as Basilides, the Pythagorean, of Alexandria, AD. 90 ...
	Absoluteness When predicated of the UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE, it denotes an abstract noun, which is more correct and l ...
	Ab‐Soo The mystic name for Space, meaning the dwelling of Ab the “Father”, or the head of the sou ...
	Ab‐i‐hayat Water of immortality. Supposed to give eternal youth and sempiternal life to him who drinks of it. [ ...
	Acacia Innocence; and also a plant used in Freemasonry as a symbol of initiation, immortality, and purity; ...
	Achamoth The name of the second, the inferior Sophia. Esoterically and with the Gnostics, the elder Sophia wa ...
	Achar The Gods over whom (according to the Jews) Jehovah is the God. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
	Achara Personal and social (religious) obligations.<span st ...
	Acharya Spiritual teacher, Guru; as Sankar‐âchârya, lit., a “teacher of ethics”. A name generally given ...
	Achath The one, the first, feminine; achad being masculine. A Talmudic word applied to Jehovah. It ...
	Acher The Talmudic name of the Apostle Paul. The Talmud narrates the story of the four Tanaim, who ent ...
	Acheron One of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology.<span ...
	Achit Absolute non‐intelligence; as Chit is—in contrast— absolute intelligence. [[Category: Theosophic ...
	Achyuta That which is not subject to change or fall; the opposite to Chyuta, “fallen”. A title of Vishnu ...
	Acosmism The precreative period, when there was no Kosmos but Chaos alone. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
	Ad Ad, “the Father”. In Aramean ad means one, and ad‐ad “the only one”. [[Category: Theosop ...
	Adah Borrowed by the Hebrews for the name of their Adah, father of Jubal, etc. But Adah meaning the first ...
	Adam In the Kabalah Adam is the “only‐begotten”, and means also “red earth”. (See “Adam‐Adami” in the ...
	Adam Kadmon Archetypal Man; Humanity. The “Heavenly Man” not fallen into sin; Kabalists refer it to the Ten Seph ...
	Adamic Earth Called the “true oil of gold” or the “primal element” in Alchemy. It is but one remove from the pure ...
	Adbhuta Is a title of Vishnu, the “first Element” containing all elements, “the unfathomable deity”. [[C ...
	Adbhuta Brahmana The Brâhmana of miracles; treats of marvels, auguries, and various phenomena. [[Category: Theosophic ...
	Adbhuta Dharma The “law” of things never heard before. A class of Buddhist works on miraculous or phenomenal events ...
	Adept Adeptus, “He who has obtained.” In Occultism one who has reached the stage of Initiation, and be ...
	Adharma Unrighteousness, vice, the opposite of Dharma.<span ...
	Adhi Supreme, paramount.<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
	Adhishtanam Basis; a principle in which some other principle inheres. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
	Adhi‐bhautika duhkha The second of the three kinds of pain; lit., “Evil proceeding from external things or beings”. [ ...
	Adhi‐daivika duhkha The third of the three kinds of pain. “Evil proceeding from divine causes, or a just Karmic punishme ...
	Adhyatma Vidya Lit., “the esoteric luminary”. One of the Pancha Vidyâ Sastras, or the Scriptures of the Five Scienc ...
	Adhyatmika duhkha The first of the three kinds of pain; lit., “Evil proceeding from Self ”, an induced or a generated ...
	Adi The First, the primeval.<span style="color: grey; fo ...
	Adi Varsha The first land; the primordial country in which dwelt the first races. [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
	Adikrit Lit., the “first produced” or made. The creative Force eternal and uncreate, but manifesting periodi ...
	Aditi The Vedic name for the Mûlaprakriti of the Vedantists; the abstract aspect of Parabrahman, thoug ...
	Aditi‐Gaea A compound term, Sanskrit and Latin, meaning dual, nature in theosophical writings—spiritual and phy ...
	Aditya A name of the Sun; as Mârttânda he is the Son of Aditi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms ...
	Adityas The seven sons of Âditi; the seven planetary gods.<s ...
	Adi‐Buddha The First and Supreme Buddha—not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light. [[Category: T ...
	Adi‐Sakti Primeval, divine Force; the female creative power, and aspect in and of every male god. The Sakti ...
	Adi‐Sanat Lit., “First Ancient”. The term corresponds to the Kabalistic “ancient of days”, since it is a title ...
	Adi‐bhuta The first Being; also primordial element.<span style ...
	Adi‐budhi Primeval Intelligence or Wisdom; the eternal Budhi or Universal Mind. Used of Divine Ideation, “ ...
	Adi‐natha The “first” Lord”—Âdi “first” (masc.), nâtha “Lord”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Adi‐nidana First and Supreme Causality, from Âdi, the first, and Nidâna the principal cause (or the con ...
	Adonai The same as Adonis. Commonly translated “Lord”. Astronomically—the Sun. When a Hebrew in reading cam ...
	Adonim‐Adonai • Adon The ancient Chaldeo‐Hebrew names for the Elohim or creative terrestrial forces, synthesized by Jehov ...
	Adwaita A Vedânta sect. The non‐dualistic (A‐ dwaita) school of Vedântic philosophy founded by Sankarâchârya ...
	Adwaitin A follower of the said school.<span style="color: gr ...
	Adytum The Holy of Holies in the pagan temples. A name for the secret and sacred precincts or the inner cha ...
	Aeolus The god who, according to Hesiod, binds and looses the winds; the king of storms and winds. A king o ...
	Aeon • Aeons Periods of time; emanations proceeding from the divine essence, and celestial beings; genii and ange ...
	Aesir The same as Ases, the creative Forces personified. The gods who created the black dwarfs or the ...
	Aether With the ancients the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe, the “garment” ...
	Aethrobacy Lit., walking on, or being lifted into the air with no visible agent at work; “levitation”. It may b ...
	Afrits A name for native spirits regarded as devils by Mussulmen. Elementals much dreaded in Egypt. [[Categ ...
	Agapae Love Feasts; the early Christians kept such festivals in token of sympathy, love and mutual benevole ...
	Agapae Love Feasts These banquets of charity held by the earliest Christians were founded at Rome by Clemens, in the re ...
	Agastya The name of a great Rishi, much revered in Southern India; the reputed author of hymns in the Rig ...
	Agathodaemon The beneficent, good Spirit as contrasted with the bad one, Kakodæmon. The “Brazen Serpent” of the B ...
	Agathon Plato’s Supreme Deity. Lit., “The Good”, our ALAYA, or “Universal Soul”. [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
	Aged One of the Kabbalistic names for Sephira, called also the Crown, or Kether. [[Category: Theosoph ...
	Agla This Kabbalistic word is a talisman composed of the initals of the four words “Ateh Gibor Leolam Ado ...
	Agneyastra The fiery missiles or weapons used by the Gods in the exoteric Purânas and the Mahâbhârata t ...
	Agni The God of Fire in the Veda; the oldest and the most revered of Gods in India. He is one of the thre ...
	Agni Bahu An ascetic son of Manu Swâyambhuva, the “Self‐born”. ...
	Agni Bhuvah Lit., “born of fire”, the term is applied to the four races of Kshatriyas (the second or warrior ...
	Agni Dhatu Samadhi A kind of contemplation in Yoga practice, when Kundalini is raised to the extreme and the infinitude ...
	Agni Hotri The priests who served the Fire‐God in Aryan antiquity. The term Agni Hotri is one that denotes obla ...
	Agnishwattas A class of Pitris, the creators of the first ethereal race of men. Our solar ancestors as contrasted ...
	Agni‐ratha A “Fiery Vehicle” literally. A kind of flying machine. Spoken of in ancient works of magic in India ...
	Agnoia “Divested of reason”, lit., “irrationality”, when speaking of the animal Soul. According to Plutarch ...
	Agnostic A word claimed by Mr. Huxley to have been coined by him to indicate one who believes nothing which c ...
	Agra‐Sandhani The “Assessors” or Recorders who read at the judgment of a disembodied Soul the record of its li ...
	Agruerus A very ancient Phœnician god. The same as Saturn.<sp ...
	Aham “I”—the basis of Ahankâra, Self‐hood.<span style ...
	Ahan “Day”;the Body of Brahmâ, in the Purânas.<span s ...
	Ahankara The conception of “I”, Self‐consciousness or Self‐ identity; the “I”, the egotistical and mâyâvic ...
	Aheie Existence. He who exists; corresponds to Kether and Macroprosopus. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
	Ahi A serpent. A name of Vritra, the Vedic demon of drought. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD term ...
	Ahti The “Dragon” in the Eddas.
	Ahu “One” and the First.<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
	Ahum The first three principles of septenary man in the Avesta ; the gross living man and his vital a ...
	Ahura The same as Asura, the holy, the Breath‐ like. Ahura Mazda, the Ormuzd of the Zoroastrians or Pa ...
	Ahura Mazda The personified deity, the Principle of Universal Divine Light of the Parsis. From Ahura or Asura' ...
	Ah‐hi Ahi (Sk.), or Serpents. Dhyân Chohans. “Wise Serpents” or Dragons of Wisdom. [[Category: T ...
	Aidoneus The God and King of the Nether World; Pluto or Dionysos Chthonios (subterranean). Nameless, and ther ...
	Aij Talon The supreme deity of the Yakoot, a tribe in Northern Siberia. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
	Ain The negatively existent; deity in repose, and absolutely passive. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical ...
	Ain Soph The “Boundless” or Limitless; Deity emanating and extending. [w.w.w.] Ain Soph is also written E ...
	Ain Soph Aur The Boundless Light which concentrates into the First and highest Sephira or Kether, the Crown. [w. ...
	Aindri Wife of Indra.<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
	Aindriya Or Indrânî, Indriya; Sakti. The female aspect or “wife” of Indra. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
	Ain‐Aior The only “Self‐existent” a mystic name for divine substance. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
	Airyamen Yaego Or Airyana Vaêgo; the primeval land of bliss referred to in the Vendîdâd, where Ahura Mazda ...
	Airyana‐ishejo The name of a prayer to the “holy Airyamen”, the divine aspect of Ahriman before the latter became a ...
	Aish The word for “Manʺ.<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
	Aisvarikas A theistic school of Nepaul, which sets up Âdi Buddha as a supreme god ( Îsvara ), instead of seeing ...
	Aitareya The name of an Aranyaka (Brâhmana) and a Upanishad of the Rig Veda. Some of its portions are pur ...
	Aith‐ur Solar fire, divine Æther.<span style="color: grey; f ...
	Aize • Liber De Lapide Philosophico. An alchemic treatise by an unknown German author; dated 1677. It is to be fo ...
	Aja Aja (Sk.). “Unborn”, uncreated; an epithet belonging to many of the primordial gods, but e ...
	Ajitas One of the Occult names of the twelve great gods incarnating in each Manvantara. The Occultists iden ...
	Ajnana • Agyana Non‐knowledge; absence of knowledge rather than “ignorance” as generally translated. An Ajnâni m ...
	Akar The proper name of that division of the Ker‐ neter infernal regions, which may be called Hell. [w. w ...
	Akasa The subtle, supersensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space; the primordial substance erron ...
	Akbar The great Mogul Emperor of India, the famous patron of religions, arts, and sciences, the most liber ...
	Akiba The only one of the four Tanaim (initiated prophets) who entering the Garden of Delight (of ...
	Akshara Supreme Deity; lit., “indestructible”, ever perfect. ...
	Akta Anointed: a title of Twashtri or Visvakarman, the highest “Creator” and Logos in the Rig ‐Veda. ...
	Akupara The Tortoise, the symbolical turtle on which the earth is said to rest. [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
	Al • El This deity‐name is commonly translated “God’, meaning mighty, supreme. The plural is Elohim, also tr ...
	Alaparus The second divine king of Babylonia who reigned.. “three Sari”. The first king of the divine Dyn ...
	Alaya The Universal Soul (See Secret Doctrine Vol. I. pp. 47 et seq.). The name belongs to the Tib ...
	Alba Petra The white stone of Initiation. The “white cornelian” mentioned in St. John’s Revelation. [[Categ ...
	Alchemists From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of E ...
	Alchemy ...
	Alcyone Or Halcyone, daughter of Æolus, and wife of Ceyx, who was drowned as he was journeying to consult th ...
	Alectromancy Divination by means of a cock, or other bird; a circle was drawn and divided into spaces, each one a ...
	Alethae “Fire worshippers” from Al‐alt, the God of Fire. The same as the Kabiri or divine Titans. As ...
	Aletheia Truth; also Alethia, one of Apollo’s nurses.<span st ...
	Alexadrian School • Philosophers This famous school arose in Alexandria (Egypt) which was for several centuries the great seat of lea ...
	Alexander Nikolaevich Aksakoff • Alexandr Aksakov Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor.
	Alhim See “Elohim”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
	Alkahest The universal solvent in Alchemy (see ʺAlchemy ʺ); but in mysticism, the Higher Self, the union with ...
	Almadel The Book. A treatise on Theurgia or White Magic by an unknown mediæval European author; it is not in ...
	Almeh Dancing girls; the same as the Indian nautchies, the temple and public dancers. [[Category: Theo ...
	Alpha Polaris The same as Dhruva, the pole‐star of 31,105 years ago. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
	Alswider ‘‘ All‐swift’’, the name of the horse of the moon, in the Eddas. [[Category: Theosophical Glossa ...
	Altruism From alter = other. A quality opposed to egoism. Actions tending to do good to others, regardless of ...
	Al‐Chazari A Prince‐Philosopher and Occultist. (See Book Al‐Chazari.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
	Al‐ait The God of Fire, an ancient and very mystic name in Koptic Occultism. [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
	Ama Amia, (Chald.). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who i ...
	Amanasa The “ Mindless”, the early races of this planet; also certain Hindu gods. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
	Amara‐Kosha The “immortal vocabulary”. The oldest dictionary known in the world and the most perfect vocabulary ...
	Amba The name of the eldest of the seven Pleiades, the heavenly sisters married each to a Rishi belon ...
	Ambhamsi A name of the chief of the Kumâras Sanat‐Sujâta, signifying the “waters”. This epithet will become m ...
	Amdo A sacred locality, the birthplace of Tson‐kha‐ pa, the great Tibetan reformer and the founder of the ...
	Amen In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of “Jehovah Adonai”=10, ...
	Amenti Esoterically and literally, the dwelling of the God Amen, or Amoun, or the “hidden”, secret god. Exo ...
	Amesha Spentas Amshaspends. The six angels or divine Forces personified as gods who attend upon Ahura Mazda, of whi ...
	Amitabha The Chinese perversion of the Sanskrit Amrita Buddha, or the “Immortal Enlightened”, a name of G ...
	Ammon One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun‐Ra, and is identified with Ba ...
	Ammonius Saccas A great and good philosopher who lived in Alexandria between the second and third centuries of our e ...
	Amrita The ambrosial drink or food of the gods; the food giving immortality. The elixir of life churned out ...
	Amulam Mulam Lit., the “rootless root” ; Mulâprakriti of the Vedantins the spiritual “root of nature” [[Category: ...
	Amun The Egyptian god of wisdom, who had only Initiates or Hierophants to serve him as priests [[Category ...
	Ana The “invisible heaven”or Astral Light ; the heavenly mother of the terrestrial sea, Mar, whence ...
	Anacalypsis Or an “Attempt to withdraw the veil of the Saitic Isis”, by Godfrey Higgins. This is a very valuable ...
	Anagamin Anagam. One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Ar ...
	Anahata Chakram The seat or “wheel” of life; the heart, according to some commentators [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
	Anahata Shabda The mystic voices and sounds heard by the Yogi at the incipient stage of his meditation, The third o ...
	Anaitia A derivation from Anâ (q.v.), a goddess identical with the Hindu Annapurna, one of the names ...
	Analogeticists The disciples of Ammonius Saccas (q.v.), so called because of their practice of interpreting all sac ...
	Ananda Bliss, joy, felicity, happiness. A name of the favourite disciple of Gautama, the Lord Buddha [[Cate ...
	Anandamaya‐Kosha “The illusive Sheath of Bliss”, i.e., the mâyâvic or illusory form, the appearance of that which is ...
	Ananda‐Lahari “The wave of joy”; a beautiful poem written by Sankarâchârya, a hymn to Pârvati, very mystical and o ...
	Ananga The “Bodiless”. An epithet of Kâma, god of love<span ...
	Ananta‐Sesha The Serpent of Eternity—the couch of Vishnu during Pralaya (lit., endless remain) [[Category: Theoso ...
	Anastasis The continued existence of the soul<span style="colo ...
	Anatu The female aspect of Anu (q.v.). She represents the Earth and Depth, while her consort represents th ...
	Anaxagoras A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and ...
	Ancients The. A name given by Occultists to the seven creative Rays, born of Chaos, or the “Deep” [[Category ...
	Anda‐Kataha The outer covering, or the “shell” of Brahmâ’s egg; the area within which our manifested universe is ...
	Androgyne Goat Androgyne Goat of Mendes. See "Baphomet"<span st ...
	Androgyne Ray The first differentiated ray; the Second Logos; Adam Kadmon in the Kabalah; the “male and female ...
	Angaraka Fire Star; the planet Mars; in Tibetan, Mig‐mar< ...
	Angirasas The generic name of several Purânic individuals and things; a class of Pitris, the ancestors of ...
	Angra Mainyus The Zoroastrian name for Ahriman; the evil spirit of destruction and opposition who (in the Vendid ...
	Anima Mundi The “Soul of the World”, the same as the Alaya of the Northern Buddhists; the divine essence whi ...
	Animal Magnetism While official science calls it a “supposed” agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming m ...
	Anjala One of the personified powers which spring from Brahmâ’s body—the Prajâpatis [[Category: Theosophica ...
	Anjana A serpent, a son of Kasyapa Rishi<span style="color: ...
	Annamaya Kosha A Vedantic term. The same as Sthûla Sharîra or the physical body. It is the first “sheath” of th ...
	Annapura See “Anâ”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; f ...
	Annedotus The generic name for the Dragons or Men‐Fishes, of which there were five. The historian Berosus narr ...
	Anoia “Want of understanding”, “folly”. Anoia is the name given by Plato and others to the lower Manas ...
	Anouki A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew Ank, life. (See “Anuki.”) [[Cate ...
	Ansumat A Purânic personage, the “nephew of 60,000 uncles” King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes by ...
	Antahkarana • Antaskarana The term has various meanings, which differ with every school of philosophy and sect. Thus Sankârach ...
	Anthesteria The feast of Flowers (Floralia): during this festival the rite of Baptism or purification was pe ...
	Anthropology The Science of man; it embraces among other things :—Physiology, or that branch of natural scien ...
	Anthropomorphism From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes ...
	Anu [1] (Sk.)An “atom”, a title of Brahmâ, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe. A ...
	Anubis The dog ‐headed god, identical, in a certain aspect, with Horus. He is pre‐eminently the god who dea ...
	Anugita One of the Upanishads. A very occult treatise. (See The sacred Books of the East.) [[Categor ...
	Anugraha The eighth creation in the Vishnu Purâna.<span s ...
	Anuki “See Anouki” supra. “The word Ank in Hebrew, means ‘my life’, my being, which is the persona ...
	Anumati The moon at the full; when from a god— Soma—she becomes a goddess [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
	Anumitis Inference, deduction in philosophy<span style="color ...
	Anunit The goddess of Akkad ; Lucifer, the morning star. Venus as the evening star as Ishtar of Erech [[Cat ...
	Anunnaki Angels or Spirits of the Earth; terrestrial Elementals also [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
	Anupadaka Anupapâdaka, also Aupapâduka; means parentless”, “self‐existing”, born without any parents or progen ...
	Anuttara Unrivalled, peerless. Thus Anuttara Bodhi means unexcelled or unrivalled intelligence”, Anutta ...
	Anyamsam Aniyasam A no‐ranîyânsam (in Bhagavad gîtâ). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of th ...
	Aour The synthesis of the two aspects of astro‐ etheric light; and the od—the life‐giving, and th ...
	Apam Napat A mysterious being, corresponding to the Fohat of the Occultists. It is both a Vedic and an Avestian ...
	Apana “Inspirational breath”; a practice in Yoga. Prana and apâna are the “expirational” and the “ ...
	Apap • Apophis The symbolical Serpent of Evil. The Solar Boat and the Sun are the great Slayers of Apap in the Bo ...
	Aparinamin The Immutable and the Unchangeable, the reverse of Parinâmin, that which is subject to modification, ...
	Aparoksha Direct perception.<span style="color: grey; font ...
	Apava Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for ...
	Apavarga Emancipation from repeated births<span style="color: ...
	Apis • Hapi‐ankh The “living deceased one” or Osiris incarnate in the sacred white Bull. Apis was the bull‐god that, ...
	Apocrypha Very erroneously explained and adopted as doubtful, or spurious. The word means simply secret, eso ...
	Apollo Belvidere Of all the ancient statues of Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, called Phœbus, Helios, the radi ...
	Apollonius of Tyana A wonderful philosopher born in Cappadocia about the beginning of the first century; an ardent Pytha ...
	Aporrheta Secret instructions upon esoteric subjects given during the Egyptian and Grecian Mysteries [[Categor ...
	Apsaras An Undine or Water‐Nymph, from the Paradise or Heaven of Indra. The Apsarases are in popular belief ...
	Arahat Also pronounced and written Arhat, Arhan, Rahat, &c., “the worthy one”, lit., “deserving divine hono ...
	Arani The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). Arani is ...
	Aranyaka Holy hermits, sages who dwelt in ancient India in forests. Also a portion of the Vedas containing Up ...
	Araritha A very famous seven‐lettered Kabbalistic wonder‐word ; its numeration is 813 ; its letters are colle ...
	Arasa Maram The Hindu sacred tree of knowledge. In occult philosophy a mystic word [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
	Arba‐il The Four Great Gods. Arba is Aramaic for four, and il is the same as Al or El. Three male de ...
	Archaeus “The Ancient.” Used of the oldest manifested deity; a term employed in the Kabalah ; “archaic ”, ...
	Archangel Highest supreme angel. From the Greek arch, “chief” or “primordial”, and angelos, “messenger ...
	Archetypal Universe The ideal universe upon which the objective world was built. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
	Archobiosis Primeval beginning of life<span style="color: grey; ...
	Archons In profane and biblical language “rulers” and princes; in Occultism, primordial planetary spirits [[ ...
	Archontes The archangels after becoming Ferouers (q.v.) or their own shadows, having mission on earth; a m ...
	Ardath This word occurs in the Second Book of Esdras, ix., 26. The name has been given to one of the recent ...
	Ardhanariswara Lit., “the bi‐sexual lord”. Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the ...
	Ardha‐Nari Lit., “half‐woman”. Siva represented as Androgynous, as half male and half female, a type of male an ...
	Ares The Greek name for Mars, god of war; also a term used by Paracelsus, the differentiated Force in Cos ...
	Argha The ark, the womb of Nature; the crescent moon, and a life‐saving ship ; also a cup for offerings, a ...
	Arghyanath Lit., “lord of libations”<span style="color: grey; f ...
	Arian A follower of Arius, a presbyter of the Church in Alexandria in the fourth century. One who holds th ...
	Aristobulus An Alexandrian writer, and an obscure philosopher. A Jew who tried to prove that Aristotle explained ...
	Arithmomancy The science of correspondences between gods, men, and numbers, as taught by Pythagoras. [w.w.w.] [[C ...
	Arjuna Lit., the “white”. The third of the five Brothers Pandu or the reputed Sons of Indra (esoterically t ...
	Ark of Isis At the great Egyptian annual ceremony, which took place in the month of Athyr, the boat of Isis was ...
	Ark of the Covenant Every ark‐shrine, whether with the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans or Mexicans, was a phallic shrine, t ...
	Arka The Sun<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fon ...
	Arkites The ancient priests who were attached to the Ark, whether of Isis, or the Hindu Argua, and who w ...
	Aroueris The god Harsiesi, who was the elder Horus. He had a temple at Ambos. if we bear in mind the definiti ...
	Artephius A great Hermetic philosopher, whose true name was never known and whose works are without dates, tho ...
	Artes The Earth; the Egyptian god Mars<span style="color: ...
	Artufas A generic name in South America and the islands for temples of nagalism or serpent worship [[Cat ...
	Arundhati The “Morning Star”; Lucifer‐Venus<span style="color: ...
	Arupa “Bodiless”, formless, as opposed to rûpa, “body”, or form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Arvaksrotas The seventh creation, that of man, in the Vishnu Purâna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
	Arwaker Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the Eddas ...
	Arya Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) an ...
	Aryahata The “Path of Arhatship”, or of holiness<span style=" ...
	Aryasangha The Founder of the first Yogâchârya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha ...
	Aryasatyani The four truths or the four dogmas, which are (1) Dukha, or that misery and pain are the unavoid ...
	Aryavarta The “land of the Aryas”, or India. The ancient name for Northern India. The Brahmanical invaders (“ ...
	Arya‐Bhata The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author o ...
	Arya‐Dasa Lit., “Holy Teacher”. A great sage and Arhat of the Mahâsamghika school [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
	Ar‐Abu Nasr‐al‐Farabi Called in Latin Alpharabius, a Persian, and the greatest Aristotelian philosopher of the age. He was ...
	Asakrit Samadhi A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in Samâdhi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
	Asana The third stage of Hatha Yoga, one of the prescribed postures of meditation [[Category: Theosoph ...
	Asat A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather non‐be‐ness. The “incomprehensible nothingne ...
	Asathor The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miölnir, the “storm‐ hammer”, f ...
	Asava Samkhaya The “finality of the stream”, one of the six “Abhijnâs” (q.v.). A phenomenal knowledge of the fi ...
	Asburj One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which ...
	Asch Metzareph The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals ...
	Ases The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the prog ...
	Asgard The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated “higher than the ...
	Ash Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as As, Aish and E ...
	Ash Yggdrasil The “Mundane Tree”, the Symbol of the World with the old Norsemen, the “tree of the universe, of tim ...
	Ashen and Langhan Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in u ...
	Asherah A word, which occurs in the Old Testament, and is commonly translated “groves” referring to idolatro ...
	Ashmog The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the Avesta; a kind of allegorical Satan, ...
	Ashta Siddhis The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
	Ashtadisa The eight‐faced space. An imaginary division of space represented as an octagon and at other tim ...
	Ashtar Vidya The most ancient of the Hindu works on Magic. Though there is a claim that the entire work is in the ...
	Asiras Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: Theo ...
	Asita A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage< ...
	Ask • Ash The “tree of Knowledge”. Together with the Embla (alder) the Ask was the tree from which the god ...
	Aski‐kataski‐haix‐tetrax‐damnameneus‐aision These mystic words, which Athanasius Kircher tells us meant “ Darkness, Light, Earth, Sun, and Truth ...
	Asmodeus The Persian Aêshma‐dev, the Esham‐dev of the Parsis, “the evil Spirit of Concupiscence”, acc ...
	Asmoneans Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon ...
	Asoka A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in rea ...
	Asomatous Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: Theosoph ...
	Asrama A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in India has its Ashr ...
	Assassins A masonic and mystic order founded by Hassan Sabah in Persia, in the eleventh century. The word is a ...
	Assorus The third group of progeny (Kissan and Assorus) from the Babylonian Duad, Tauthe and Apason, accordi ...
	Assur A city in Assyria ; the ancient seat of a library from which George Smith excavated the earliest kno ...
	Assurbanipal The Sardanapalus of the Greeks, “the greatest of the Assyrian Sovereigns, far more memorable on acco ...
	Assyrian Holy Scriptures. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpreta ...
	Asta‐dasha Perfect, Supreme Wisdom; a title of Deity<span style ...
	Aster’t Astarte, the Syrian goddess the consort of Adon, or Adonai [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
	Astraea The ancient goddess of justice, whom the wickedness of men drove away from earth to heaven, wherein ...
	Astral Body The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The Linga Sharira, the “Doppelgäinger ...
	Astral Light The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the seco ...
	Astrology The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretel ...
	Astronomos The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of ...
	Asura Mazda In the Zend, Ahura Mazda. The same as Ormuzd or Mazdeô; the god of Zoroaster and the Parsis [[Ca ...
	Asuramaya Known also as Mayâsura. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, we ...
	Asuras Exoterically, elementals and evil, gods— considered maleficent; demons, and no gods. But e ...
	Aswamedha The Horse‐sacrifice; an ancient Brahmanical ceremony ...
	Aswattha The Bo‐tree, the tree of knowledge, ficus religiosa [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
	Aswins • Aswinau • Aswinî‐Kumârau Are the most mysterious and occult deities of all; who have “puzzled the oldest commentators”. Liter ...
	Atala One of the regions in the Hindu lokas, and one of the seven mountains; but esoterically Atala is on ...
	Atalanta Fugiens A famous treatise by the eminent Rosicrucian Michael Maier; it has many beautiful engravings of Alch ...
	Atarpi • Atarpi‐nisi A personage who was “pious to the gods”; and who prayed the god Hea to remove the evil of drought an ...
	Atash Behram The sacred fire of the Parsis, preserved perpetually in their fire‐temples [[Category: Theosophical ...
	Atef • Crown of Horus It consisted of a tall white cap with ram’s horns, and the urœus in front. Its two feathers repr ...
	Athamaz The same as Adonis with the Greeks, the Jews having borrowed all their gods [[Category: Theosophical ...
	Athanor The “astral” fluid of the Alchemists, their Archimedean lever; exoterically, the furnace of the ...
	Atharva Veda The fourth Veda; lit., magic incantation containing aphorisms, incantations and magic formula On ...
	Athenagoras A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addresse ...
	Athor “Mother Night.” Primeval Chaos, in the Egyptian cosmogony. The goddess of night [[Category: Theosoph ...
	Ativahikas With the Visishtadwaitees, these are the Pitris, or Devas, who help the disembodied soul or Ji ...
	Atlantidae • Atlantidæ The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Es ...
	Atlantis The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teac ...
	Atma • Atman The Universal Spirit, the divine Monad, the 7th Principle, so‐called, in the septenary constitution ...
	Atma Vidya The highest form of spiritual knowledge; lit., “Soul‐knowledge” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
	Atmabodha Lit., “Self‐knowledge”; the title of a Vedantic treatise by Sankârachârya [[Category: Theosophical G ...
	Atma‐bhu Soul‐existence, or existing as soul. (See “Alaya”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Atma‐jnani The Knower of the World‐Soul, or Soul in general<spa ...
	Atma‐matrasu To enter into the elements of the “One‐Self”. (See S. D. I.,334 ''Atmamâtra is the spiri ...
	Atri A class of Pitris, the “ancestors of man”, or the so‐called Prâjapâti, “progenitors”; one of the sev ...
	Attavada The sin of personality<span style="color: grey; font ...
	Atyantika One of the four kinds of pralaya or dissolution. The “absolute” pralaya [[Category: Theoso ...
	Atziluth The highest of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah referred only to the pure Spirit of God. [w. w. w.] S ...
	Audlang The second heaven made by Deity above the field of Ida, in the Norse legends [[Category: Theosophica ...
	Audumla The Cow of Creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the giant Ymi ...
	Augiras One of the Prajâpatis. A son of Daksha ; a lawyer, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Augoeides Bulwer Lytton calls it the “Luminous Self ”, or our Higher Ego. But Occultism makes of it something ...
	Aum The sacred syllable; the triple‐lettered unit; hence the trinity in One [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
	Aura A subtle invisible essence or fluid that emanates from human and animal bodies and even things. It i ...
	Aurnavabha An ancient Sanskrit commentator<span style="color: g ...
	Aurva The Sage who is credited with the invention of the “fiery weapon” called Agneyâstra [[Category: ...
	Avaivartika An epithet of every Buddha: lit., one who turns no more back; who goes straight to Nirvâna [[Categor ...
	Avalokiteswara “The on‐looking Lord” In the exoteric interpretation, he is Padmapâni (the lotus bearer and the lotu ...
	Avarasaila Sangharama Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihâra (monastery) in Dhana‐k ...
	Avastan An ancient name for Arabia<span style="color: grey; ...
	Avasthas States, conditions, positions<span style="color: gre ...
	Avatara Divine incarnation. The descent of a god or some exalted Being, who has progressed beyond the necess ...
	Ava‐bodha “Mother of Knowledge.” A title of Aditi<span style=" ...
	Avebury • Abury In Wiltshire are the remains of an ancient megalithic Serpent temple: according to the eminent antiq ...
	Avesta Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian Âbastâ, “the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastria ...
	Avicenna The latinized name of Abu‐Ali al Hoséen ben Abdallah Ibn Sina; a Persian philosopher, born 980 AD)., ...
	Avidya Opposed to Vidyâ, Knowledge. Ignorance which proceeds from, and is produced by the illusion of t ...
	Avikara Free from degeneration; changeless—used of Deity<spa ...
	Avitchi A state: not necessarily after death only or between two births, for it can take place on earth as w ...
	Avyakta The unrevealed cause; indiscrete or undifferentiated; the opposite of Vyakta, the differentiated ...
	Axieros One of the Kabiri<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
	Axiocersa ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
	Axiocersus ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
	Ayana A period of time; two Ayanas complete a year, one being the period of the Sun’s progress northward, ...
	Ayin Lit., “Nothing”, whence the name of Ain‐ Soph. (See“Ain”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
	Aymar Jacques. A famous Frenchman who had great success in the use of the Divining Rod about the end of th ...
	Ayur Veda Lit., “the Veda of Life”<span style="color: grey; fo ...
	Ayuta 100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000<span style ...
	Azareksh A place celebrated for a fire‐temple of the Zoroastrians and Magi during the time of Alexander the G ...
	Azazel “God of Victory”; the scape‐goat for the sins of Israel. He who comprehends the mystery of Azazel' ...
	Azhi‐Dahaka One of the Serpents or Dragons in the legends of Iran and the Avesta Scriptures, the allegorical des ...
	Aziluth The name for the world of the Sephiroth, called the world of Emanations Olam Aziluth. It is the ...
	Azoth The creative principle in Nature, the grosser portion of which is stored in the Astral Light. It is ...
	B The second letter in almost all the alphabets, also the second in the Hebrew. Its symbol is a hous ...
	Baal Baal or Adon (Adonai) was a phallic god. “Who shall ascend unto the hill (the high place) of the Lor ...
	Babil Mound The site of the Temple of Bel at Babylon<span style= ...
	Bacchus Exoterically and superficially the god of wine and the vintage, and of licentiousness and joy; but t ...
	Bacon Roger. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth cent ...
	Baddha Bound, conditioned; as is every mortal who has not made himself free through Nirvâna [[Category: The ...
	Bagavadam A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters<spa ...
	Bagh‐bog “God”; a Slavonian name for the Greek Bacchus, whose name became the prototype of the name God or ...
	Bahak‐Zivo The “father of the Genii” in the Codex Nazarœus. The Nazarenes were an early semi‐Christian sect [[C ...
	Bakhour R. M. [Cyclop.]<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
	Bal Commonly translated “Lord”, but also Bel, the Chaldean god, and Baal, an ʺidolʺ [[Category: Theosoph ...
	Bala • Panchabalâni The “five powers” to be acquired in Yoga practice; full trust or faith; energy ; memory; meditation ...
	Baldur The “Giver of all Good”. The bright God who is “the best and all mankind are loud in his praise; so ...
	Bal‐ilu One of the many titles of the Sun<span style="color: ...
	Bamboo Books Most ancient and certainly pre‐historic works in Chinese containing the antediluvian records of the ...
	Bandha Bondage; life on this earth; from the same root as Baddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
	Baphomet The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See Secret Doctrine, I. 253). According to the Western, and espec ...
	Baptism The rite of purification performed during the ceremony of initiation in the sacred tanks of India, a ...
	Bardesanes • Bardaisan A Syrian Gnostic, erroneously regarded as a Christian theologian, born at Edessa (Edessene Chronic ...
	Bardesanian The “Codex of the Nazarenes”, a system worked out by one Bardesanes. It is called by some a Kabala w ...
	Baresma A plant used by Mobeds (Parsi priests) in the fire‐ temples, wherein consecrated bundles of it a ...
	Barhishad A class of the “lunar” Pitris or “Ancestors”, Fathers, who are believed in popular superstition to h ...
	Basileus The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter ...
	Basilidean Named after Basilides; the Founder of one of the most philosophical gnostic sects. Clement the Alexa ...
	Bassantin James. A Scotch astrologer. He lived in the 16th century and is said to have predicted to Sir Robert ...
	Bath Daughter<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fo ...
	Bath Kol Daughter of the Voice: the Divine afflatus, or inspiration, by which the prophets of Israel were ins ...
	Batoo The first man in Egyptian folk‐lore. Noum, the heavenly artist, creates a beautiful girl—the ori ...
	Batria According to tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh and the teacher of Moses [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
	Beel‐Zebub The disfigured Baal of the Temples. and more correctly Beel‐Zebul. Beel‐Zebub means ‐ literally ...
	Bel The oldest and mightiest god of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities,—Anu (q.v.) ; Bel, “Lor ...
	Bela‐Shemesh “The Lord of the Sun”, the name of the Moon during that period when the Jews became in turn solar an ...
	Bembo Tablet of; or Mensa Isiaca. A brazen tablet inlaid with designs in Mosaic (now in the Museum at ...
	Ben A son; a common prefix in proper names to denote the son of so‐and‐so, e.g., Ben Solomon, Ben Ishmae ...
	Ben Shamesh The children or the “Sons of the Sun”. The term belongs to the period when the Jews were divided int ...
	Benoo A word applied to two symbols, both taken The only English work on the Isiac Tablet is by Dr. W. Wyn ...
	Berasit The first word of the book of Genesis. The English established version translates this as “In the be ...
	Bergelmir The one giant who escaped in a boat the general slaughter of his brothers, the giant Ymir’s children ...
	Berosus A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as t ...
	Bes A phallic god, the god of concupiscence and pleasure. He is represented standing on a lotus ready to ...
	Bestla The daughter of the “Frost giants”, the sons of Ymir; married to Bun, and the mother of Odin and his ...
	Beth House, dwelling<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
	Beth Elohim A Kabbalistic treatise treating of the angels, souls of men, and demons. The name means “House of th ...
	Betyles Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in a ...
	Be‐ness A term coined by Theosophists to render more accurately the essential meaning of the untranslatable ...
	Bhadra Vihara Lit., “the Monastery of the Sages or Bodhisattvas”. A certain Vihara or Matham in Kanyâkubdj ...
	Bhadrakalpa Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching make ...
	Bhadrasena A Buddhist king of Magadha<span style="color: grey; ...
	Bhagats Also called Sokha and Sivnath by the Hindus; one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theo ...
	Bhagavad‐gita Lit., “the Lord’s Song”. A portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a d ...
	Bhagavat A title of the Buddha and of Krishna. “The Lord” literally [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
	Bhao A ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
	Bharata Varsha The land of Bharata, an ancient name of India<span s ...
	Bhargavas An ancient race in India; from the name of Bhrigu, the Rishi [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Bhashya A commentary<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
	Bhaskara One of the titles of Surya, the Sun; meaning “life‐ giver” and “light‐maker” [[Category: Theosophica ...
	Bhava Being, or state of being; the world, a birth, and also a name of Siva [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
	Bhikshu In Pâli Bihkhu. The name given to the first followers of Sâkyamuni Buddha. Lit., “mendicant scho ...
	Bhons The followers of the old religion of the Aborigines of Tibet; of pre‐buddhistic temples and ritualis ...
	Bhrantidarsanatah Lit., “false comprehension or apprehension”; something conceived of on false appearances as a maya ...
	Bhrigu One of the great Vedic Rishis. He is called “Son” by Manu, who confides to him his Institutes. H ...
	Bhuhta‐vidya The art of exorcising, of treating and curing demoniac possession. Literally, “Demon” or “Ghost‐know ...
	Bhumi The earth, called also Prithivî<span style="colo ...
	Bhuranyu “The rapid” or the swift. Used of a missile— an equivalent also of the Greek Phoroneus. [[Catego ...
	Bhur‐Bhuva A mystic incantation, as Om, Bhur, Bhuva, Swar, meaning “Om, earth, sky, heaven, This is the exo ...
	Bhur‐loka One of the 14, lokas or worlds in Hindu Pantheism; our Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
	Bhutadi Elementary substances, the origin and the germinal essence of the elements [[Category: Theosophical ...
	Bhutan A country of heretical Buddhists and Lamaists beyond Sikkhim, where rules the Dharma Raja, a nominal ...
	Bhuta‐sarga Elemental or incipient Creation, i.e., when matter was several degrees less material than it is now ...
	Bhutesa • Bhûteswara lit., “Lord of beings or of existent lives”. A name applied to Vishnu, to Brahmâ and Krishna [[Categ ...
	Bhuts Bhûta.: Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if o ...
	Bhuvana A name of Rudra or Siva, one of the Indian Trimurti (Trinity) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
	Bhuya‐loka One of the 14 worlds<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
	Bifrost A bridge built by the gods to protect Asgard. On it “the third Sword‐god, known as Heimdal or Riger” ...
	Bihar Gyalpo A king deified by the Dugpas. A patron over all their religious buildings [[Category: Theosophical G ...
	Binah Understanding. The third of the 10 Sephiroth, the third of the Supernal Triad; a female potency, cor ...
	Birs Nimrud Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is ...
	Black Dwarfs The name of the Elves of Darkness, who creep about in the dark caverns of the earth and fabricate we ...
	Black Fire A Kabbalistic term for Absolute Light and Wisdom; “black” because it is incomprehensible to our fini ...
	Black Magic Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This a ...
	Black Magic (Vide Supra.)<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
	Boat of the Sun This sacred solar boat was called Sekti, and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the ...
	Boaz The great‐grandfather of David. The word is from B, meaning “in”, and oz “strength”, a symbolic ...
	Bodha‐Bodhi Wisdom‐knowledge<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
	Bodhi • Sambodhi Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to Buddhi, which is the potentiality of intelligenc ...
	Bodhi Druma The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the Pippala or ficus religiosa in botany. It is ...
	Bodhidharma Wisdom‐religion; or the wisdom contained in Dharma (ethics). Also the name of a great Arhat Ks ...
	Bodhisattva Lit., “he, whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)”; those who need but one m ...
	Bodhyanga Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the Bodhi pakc ...
	Boehme A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the mediæval ages. He was born ...
	Bonati Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astr ...
	Bona‐Oma • Bona Dea A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her fathe ...
	Bono Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy ...
	Boodhasp An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the ...
	Book of the Dead An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of a ...
	Book of the Keys An ancient Kabbalistic work<span style="color: grey; ...
	Boris de Zirkoff was an American Theosophist, editor and writer; a relative of H. P. Blavatsky, his mother was Lydia ...
	Borj The Mundane Mountain, a volcano or fire‐ mountain; the same as the Indian Meru [[Category: Theosophi ...
	Borri Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an ...
	Borsippa The planet‐tower, wherein Bel was worshipped in the days when astrolaters were the greatest astr ...
	Both‐al The Both‐al of the Irish is the descendant and copy of the Greek Batylos and the Beth‐el of Canaan, ...
	Bragadini Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was deca ...
	Bragi The god of New Life, of the re‐incarnation of nature and man. He is called “the divine singer” witho ...
	Brahma The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian P ...
	Brahma Prajapati “Brahmâ the Progenitor”, literally the “Lord of Creatures”. In this aspect Brahmâ is the synthesis o ...
	Brahma Vach Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, lite ...
	Brahma Vidya The knowledge, the esoteric science, about the two Brahmas and their true nature [[Category: Theosop ...
	Brahma Viraj The same: Brahmâ separating his body into two halves, male and female, creates in them Vâch and Virâ ...
	Brahmachari A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: Theo ...
	Brahmajnani One possessed of complete Knowledge; an Illuminatus in esoteric parlance [[Category: Theosophica ...
	Brahman The highest of the four castes in India, one supposed or rather fancying himself, as high among men, ...
	Brahmana period One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided by Orientalists [[Category: The ...
	Brahmanas Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas ...
	Brahmanaspati The planet Jupiter; a deity in the Rig ‐Veda, known in the exoteric works as Brihaspati, who ...
	Brahmapuri Lit., “the City of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; f ...
	Brahmaputras The Sons of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; font-siz ...
	Brahmarandhra A spot on the crown of the head connected by Sushumna, a cord in the spinal column, with the hea ...
	Brahmarshis The Brahminical Rishis<span style="color: grey; font ...
	Brahma’s Day A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahmâ having emerged out of his golden egg (Hiranyag ...
	Brahma’s Night A period of equal duration, during which Brahmâ. is said to be asleep. Upon awakening he recommences ...
	Bread and Wine Baptism and the Eucharist have their direct origin in pagan Egypt. There the “waters of purification ...
	Briareus A famous giant in the Theogony of Hesiod. The son of Cœlus and Terra, a monster with 50 heads and 10 ...
	Briatic World • Briah This world is the second of the Four worlds of the Kabbalists and referred to the highest created “A ... ... further results