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Cain • Kayn In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapte ...
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Calvary Cross This form of cross does not date from Christianity. It was known and used for mystical purposes, tho ...
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Campanella Tomaso A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up dur ...
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Canarese The language of the Karnatic, originally called Kanara, one of the divisions of South India [[Catego ...
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Capricornus The 10th sign of the Zodiac (Makâra in Sanskrit), considered, on account of its hidden meaning, ...
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Cardan Jerome An astrologer, alchemist, kabbalist and mystic, well known in literature. He was born at Pavia in 15 ...
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Carnac A very ancient site in Brittany (France) of a temple of cyclopean structure, sacred to the Sun and t ...
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Caste Originally the system of the four hereditary classes into which the Indian population was divided: B ...
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Causal Body This “body”, which is no body either objective or subjective, but Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, is ...
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Cazotte Jacques The wonderful Seer, who predicted the beheading of several royal personages and his own decapitation ...
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Cecco d’Ascoli Surnamed “Francesco Stabili.” He lived in the thirteenth century, and was considered the most famous ...
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Cerberus Cerberus, the three‐headed canine monster, which was supposed to watch at the threshold of Hades, ca ...
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Ceres In Greek Demeter. As the female aspect of Pater Æther, Jupiter, she is esoterically the producti ...
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Chabrat Zereh Aur Bokher An Order of the Rosicrucian stock, whose members study the Kabbalah and Hermetic sciences; it admits ...
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Chadayatana Lit., the six dwellings or gates in man for the reception of sensations; thus, on the physical p ...
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Chaitanya The founder of a mystical sect in India. A rather modern sage, believed to be an avatar of Krish ...
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Chakna‐padma‐karpo “He who holds the lotus”, used of Chenresi, the Bodhisattva. It is not a genuine Tibetan word, b ...
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Chakra A wheel, a disk, or the circle of Vishnu generally. Used also of a cycle of time, and with other mea ...
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Chakshub The “eye ”. Loka‐chakshub or “the eye of the world” is a title of the Sun [[Category: Theosophic ...
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Chaldean Book of Numbers A work which contains all that is found in the Zohar of Simeon Ben‐Jochai, and much more. It mus ...
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Chaldeans • Kasdim At first a tribe, then a caste of learned Kabbalists. They were the savants, the magians of Baby ...
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Chandra The Moon; also a deity. The terms Chandra and Soma are synonyms [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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Chandragupta The first Buddhist King in India, the grand‐sire of Asoka ; the Sandracottus of the all‐bungling ...
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Chandramanam The method of calculating time by the Moon<span styl ...
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Chandrayana The lunar year chronology<span style="color: grey; f ...
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Chandra‐kanta “The moon‐stone”, a gem that is claimed to be formed and developed under the moon‐ beams, which give ...
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Chandra‐vansa The “Lunar Race”, in contradistinction to Suryavansa, the “Solar Race”. Some Orientalists think ...
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Chantong “He of the 1,000 Eyes”, a name of Padmapani or Chenresi (Avalokitesvara) [[Category: Theosophical Gl ...
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Chaos The Abyss, the “Great Deep”. It was personified in Egypt by the Goddess Neїth, anterior to all gods. ...
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Charaka A writer on Medicine who lived in Vedic times. He is believed to have been an incarnation (Avatara ...
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Charnook Thomas A great alchemist of the sixteenth century; a surgeon who lived and practiced near Salisbury, studyi ...
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Charon The Egyptian Khu‐en‐ua, the hawk‐headed Steersman of the boat conveying the Souls across the bla ...
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Charyaka There were two famous beings of this name. One a Rakshasa (demon) who disguised himself as a Brâ ...
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Chastanier Benedict A French mason who established in London in 1767 a Lodge called “The Illuminated Theosophists” [[Cat ...
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Chatur mukha The “four‐faced one”, a title of Brahmâ<span style=" ...
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Chatur varna The four castes (lit., colours)<span style="colo ...
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Chaturdasa Bhuvanam The fourteen lokas or planes of existence. Esoterically, the dual seven states [[Category: Theosophi ...
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Chaturyoni Written also tchatur‐yoni. The same as Karmaya or “the four modes of birth”—four ways of ent ...
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Chava The same as Eve: “the Mother of all that lives” ʺLifeʺ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms) ...
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Chavigny A disciple of the world‐famous Nostradamus, an astrologer and an alchemist of the sixteenth century. ...
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Chela A disciple, the pupil of a Guru or Sage, the follower of some adept of a school of philosophy (lit ...
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Chemi The ancient name of Egypt<span style="color: grey; f ...
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Chenresi The Tibetan Avalokitesvara. The Bodhisattva Padmâpani, a divine Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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Cheru • Heru A magic sword, a weapon of the “sword god” Heru. In the Edda, the Saga describes it as destroyin ...
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Cherubim According to the Kabbalists, a group of angels, which they specially associated with the Sephira Jes ...
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Chesed “Mercy ”, also named Gedulah, the fourth of the ten Sephiroth; a masculine or active potency. [ ...
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Chhandoga A Samhitâ collection of Sama Veda; also a priest, a chanter of the Sama Veda [[Category: Theosop ...
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Chhanmuka A great Bodhisattva with the Northern Buddhists, famous for his ardent love of Humanity; regarded in ...
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Chhannagarikah Lit., the school of six cities. A famous philosophical school where Chelas are prepared before enter ...
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Chhassidi • Chasdim In the Septuagint Assidai, and in English Assideans. They are also mentioned in Maccabees ...
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