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Bahak‐Zivo The “father of the Genii” in the Codex Nazarœus. The Nazarenes were an early semi‐Christian sect [[C ...
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Jules Baissac French theologist, who viewed Satan as a 'Centrifugal Energy of the Universe’ in a cosmic sense [[Ca ...
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Bakhour R. M. [Cyclop.]<span style="color: grey; font-si ...
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Bal Commonly translated “Lord”, but also Bel, the Chaldean god, and Baal, an ʺidolʺ [[Category: Theosoph ...
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Bala • Panchabalâni The “five powers” to be acquired in Yoga practice; full trust or faith; energy ; memory; meditation ...
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Baldur The “Giver of all Good”. The bright God who is “the best and all mankind are loud in his praise; so ...
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Bal‐ilu One of the many titles of the Sun<span style="color: ...
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Bamboo Books Most ancient and certainly pre‐historic works in Chinese containing the antediluvian records of the ...
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Bandha Bondage; life on this earth; from the same root as Baddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ter ...
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Baphomet The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See Secret Doctrine, I. 253). According to the Western, and espec ...
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Baptism The rite of purification performed during the ceremony of initiation in the sacred tanks of India, a ...
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Bardesanes • Bardaisan A Syrian Gnostic, erroneously regarded as a Christian theologian, born at Edessa (Edessene Chronic ...
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Bardesanian The “Codex of the Nazarenes”, a system worked out by one Bardesanes. It is called by some a Kabala w ...
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Baresma A plant used by Mobeds (Parsi priests) in the fire‐ temples, wherein consecrated bundles of it a ...
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Barhishad A class of the “lunar” Pitris or “Ancestors”, Fathers, who are believed in popular superstition to h ...
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Basileus The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter ...
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Basilidean Named after Basilides; the Founder of one of the most philosophical gnostic sects. Clement the Alexa ...
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Bassantin James. A Scotch astrologer. He lived in the 16th century and is said to have predicted to Sir Robert ...
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Bath Daughter<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fo ...
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Bath Kol Daughter of the Voice: the Divine afflatus, or inspiration, by which the prophets of Israel were ins ...
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Batoo The first man in Egyptian folk‐lore. Noum, the heavenly artist, creates a beautiful girl—the ori ...
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Batria According to tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh and the teacher of Moses [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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Beel‐Zebub The disfigured Baal of the Temples. and more correctly Beel‐Zebul. Beel‐Zebub means ‐ literally ...
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Bel The oldest and mightiest god of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities,—Anu (q.v.) ; Bel, “Lor ...
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Bela‐Shemesh “The Lord of the Sun”, the name of the Moon during that period when the Jews became in turn solar an ...
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Bembo Tablet of; or Mensa Isiaca. A brazen tablet inlaid with designs in Mosaic (now in the Museum at ...
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Ben A son; a common prefix in proper names to denote the son of so‐and‐so, e.g., Ben Solomon, Ben Ishmae ...
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Ben Shamesh The children or the “Sons of the Sun”. The term belongs to the period when the Jews were divided int ...
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Benoo A word applied to two symbols, both taken The only English work on the Isiac Tablet is by Dr. W. Wyn ...
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Berasit The first word of the book of Genesis. The English established version translates this as “In the be ...
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Bergelmir The one giant who escaped in a boat the general slaughter of his brothers, the giant Ymir’s children ...
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Berosus A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as t ...
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Bes A phallic god, the god of concupiscence and pleasure. He is represented standing on a lotus ready to ...
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Bestla The daughter of the “Frost giants”, the sons of Ymir; married to Bun, and the mother of Odin and his ...
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Michael C. Betanelly was a Georgian immigrant engaged in export-import business. He married Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ...
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Beth House, dwelling<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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Beth Elohim A Kabbalistic treatise treating of the angels, souls of men, and demons. The name means “House of th ...
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Betyles Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in a ...
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Be‐ness A term coined by Theosophists to render more accurately the essential meaning of the untranslatable ...
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Bhadra Vihara Lit., “the Monastery of the Sages or Bodhisattvas”. A certain Vihara or Matham in Kanyâkubdj ...
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Bhadrakalpa Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching make ...
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Bhadrasena A Buddhist king of Magadha<span style="color: grey; ...
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Bhagats Also called Sokha and Sivnath by the Hindus; one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theo ...
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Bhagavad‐gita Lit., “the Lord’s Song”. A portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a d ...
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Bhagavat A title of the Buddha and of Krishna. “The Lord” literally [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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Bhao A ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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Bharata Varsha The land of Bharata, an ancient name of India<span s ...
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Bhargavas An ancient race in India; from the name of Bhrigu, the Rishi [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Bhashya A commentary<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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Bhaskara One of the titles of Surya, the Sun; meaning “life‐ giver” and “light‐maker” [[Category: Theosophica ...
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