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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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Ashta Siddhis The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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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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Asiras Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: Theo ...
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Asita A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage< ...
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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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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: Theosoph ...
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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 style ...
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Aster’t Astarte, the Syrian goddess the consort of Adon, or Adonai [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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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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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 e ...
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Aswamedha The Horse‐sacrifice; an ancient Brahmanical ceremony ...
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Aswattha The Bo‐tree, the tree of knowledge, ficus religiosa [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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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: Theosophical ...
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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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Athamaz The same as Adonis with the Greeks, the Jews having borrowed all their gods [[Category: Theosophical ...
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Athanor The “astral” fluid of the Alchemists, their Archimedean lever; exoterically, the furnace of the ...
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Atharva Veda The fourth Veda; lit., magic incantation containing aphorisms, incantations and magic formula On ...
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Athenagoras A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addresse ...
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Athor “Mother Night.” Primeval Chaos, in the Egyptian cosmogony. The goddess of night [[Category: Theosoph ...
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Ativahikas With the Visishtadwaitees, these are the Pitris, or Devas, who help the disembodied soul or Ji ...
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Atlantidae • Atlantidæ The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Es ...
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Atlantis The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teac ...
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Atma • Atman The Universal Spirit, the divine Monad, the 7th Principle, so‐called, in the septenary constitution ...
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Atma Vidya The highest form of spiritual knowledge; lit., “Soul‐knowledge” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
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Atmabodha Lit., “Self‐knowledge”; the title of a Vedantic treatise by Sankârachârya [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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Atma‐bhu Soul‐existence, or existing as soul. (See “Alaya”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Atma‐jnani The Knower of the World‐Soul, or Soul in general<spa ...
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