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| Adhishtanam Basis; a principle in which some other principle inheres. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
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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; fo ...
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| Adi Varsha The first land; the primordial country in which dwelt the first races. [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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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 phy ...
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| Aditya A name of the Sun; as Mârttânda he is the Son of Aditi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms ...
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| Adityas The seven sons of Âditi; the seven planetary gods.<s ...
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| Adi‐Buddha The First and Supreme Buddha—not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light. [[Category: T ...
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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 style ...
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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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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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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| Adonai The same as Adonis. Commonly translated “Lord”. Astronomically—the Sun. When a Hebrew in reading cam ...
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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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| 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: gr ...
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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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| 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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| Agastya The name of a great Rishi, much revered in Southern India; the reputed author of hymns in the Rig ...
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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: Theosophical Gl ...
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| Aged One of the Kabbalistic names for Sephira, called also the Crown, or Kether. [[Category: Theosoph ...
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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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| 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”. ...
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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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| 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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| Agra‐Sandhani The “Assessors” or Recorders who read at the judgment of a disembodied Soul the record of its li ...
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| Agruerus A very ancient Phœnician god. The same as Saturn.<sp ...
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| Aham “I”—the basis of Ahankâra, Self‐hood.<span style ...
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| Ahan “Day”;the Body of Brahmâ, in the Purânas.<span s ...
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