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Chhaya “Shade” or “ Shadow”. The name of a creature produced by Sanjnâ, the wife of Surya, from herself (as ...
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Chhaya loka The world of Shades; like Hades, the world of the Eidola and Umbræ. We call it Kâmaloka ...
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Chiah Life; Vita, Revivificatio. In the Kabbala, the second highest essence of the human soul, corresp ...
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Chichhakti Chih‐Sakti; the power which generates thought<sp ...
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Chidagnikundum Lit., “the fire‐hearth in the heart”; the seat of the force which extinguishes all individual desire ...
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Chidakasam The field, or basis of consciousness<span style="col ...
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Chiffilet A Canon‐Kabbalist of the XVIIth century, reputed to have learned a key to the Gnostic works from Cop ...
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Chiim A plural noun—“lives”; found in compound names Elohim Chum, the gods of lives, Parkhurst translates ...
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China One of the oldest known Chinese books is the Yih King, or Book of Changes. It is reported to hav ...
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Chit Abstract Consciousness<span style="color: grey; font ...
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Chitanuth our Chitons, a priestly garb; the coats of skin given by Java Aleim to Adam and Eve after their ...
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Chitkala In Esoteric philosophy, identical with the Kumâras those who first incarnated into the men of the Th ...
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Chitra Gupta The deva (or god) who is the recorder of Yâma (the god of death), and who is supposed to read the ac ...
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Chitra Sikkandinas The constellation of the great Bear; the habitat of the seven Rishis (Sapta Riksha). Lit., “ bri ...
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Chnoumis The same as Chnouphis and Kneph. A symbol of creative force ; Chnoumis or Kneph is “the unmade and e ...
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Chnouphis Nouf in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power in ...
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Chohan “Lord” or “Master” ; a chief; thus Dhyan‐ Chohan would answer to “Chief of the Dhyanis”, o ...
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Chokmah Wisdom; the second of the ten Sephiroth, and the second of the supernal Triad. A masculine potency c ...
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Chrestos The early Gnostic form of Christ. It was used in the fifth century B.C. by Æschylus, Herodotus, and ...
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Christian Scientist A newly‐coined term for denoting the practitioners of an art of healing by will. The name is a misno ...
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Chuang A great Chinese philosopher<span style="color: grey; ...
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Chubilgan • Khubilkhan The same as Chutuktu<span style="color: gr ...
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Frederick Stuart Church American artist.
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Chutuktu An incarnation of Buddha or of some Bodhisattva, as believed in Tibet, where there are generally fiv ...
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Chyuta Means, “the fallen” into generation, as a Kabbalist would say; the opposite of achyuta, somethin ...
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Circle There are several “Circles” with mystic adjectives attached to them. Thus we have: (1) the “Decussat ...
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Clairaudience The faculty, whether innate or acquired by occult training, of hearing all that is said at whatever ...
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Clairvoyance The faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight. As now used it is a loose and flippant ...
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Clemens Alexandrinus A Church Father and a voluminous writer, who had been a Neo‐Platonist and a disciple of Ammonius Sac ...
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Cock A very occult bird, much appreciated in ancient augury and symbolism. According to the Zohar, th ...
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Codex Nazaraeus The “Book of Adam”—the latter name meaning anthropos, Man or Humanity. The Nazarene faith is cal ...
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Coeur, Jacques A famous Treasurer of France, born in 1408, who obtained the office by black magic. He was reputed a ...
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Coffin‐Rite • Pastos This was the final rite of Initiation in the Mysteries in Egypt, Greece and elsewhere. The last and ...
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Collanges, Gabriel de Born in 1524. The best astrologer in the XVlth century and a still better Kabbalist. He spent a fort ...
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College of Rabbis A college at Babylon; most famous during the early centuries of Christianity. Its glory, however, wa ...
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Collemann, Jean An Alsatian, born at Orleans, according to K. Mackenzie; other accounts say he was a Jew, who found ...
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Collyridians A sect of Gnostics who, in the ear]y centuries of Christianity, transferred their worship and revere ...
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Continents In the Buddhist cosmogony, according to Gautama Buddha’s exoteric doctrine, there are numberless sys ...
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Corybantes, Mysteries of the These were held in Phrygia in honour of Atys, the youth beloved by Cybele. The rites were very elabo ...
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Cosmic Gods Inferior gods, those connected with the formation of matter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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Cosmic ideation Eternal thought, impressed on substance or spirit‐matter, in the eternity ; thought which becomes ac ...
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Cosmocratores “Builders of the Universe”, the “world architects”, or the Creative Forces personified [[Category: T ...
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Cow‐worship The idea of any such “worship” is as erroneous as it is unjust. No Egyptian worshipped the cow, nor ...
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Cremer, John An eminent scholar who for over thirty years studied Hermetic philosophy in pursuance of its practic ...
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Crescent Sin was the Assyrian name for the moon, and Sin‐ai the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of ...
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Criocephale Ram‐headed, applied to several deities and emblematic figures, notably those of ancient Egypt, which ...
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Crocodile “The great reptile of Typhon.” The seat of its “worship” was Crocodilopolis and it was sacred to Set ...
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Cross Mariette Bey has shown its antiquity in Egypt by proving that in all the primitive sepulchres “the p ...
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Crux Ansata The handled cross,T; whereas the tau is T, in this form, and the oldest Egyptian cross o ...
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Crypt A secret subterranean vault, some for the purpose of initiation, others for burial purposes. There w ...
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