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Deona Mati In the Kolarian dialect, one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms ...
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Dervish A Mussulman—Turkish or Persian—ascetic. A nomadic and wandering monk. Dervishes, however, sometimes ...
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Desatir A very ancient Persian work called the Book of Shet. It speaks of the thirteen Zoroasters, a ...
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Deva A god, a “resplendent” deity. Deva‐Deus, from the root div “to shine”. A Deva is a celestial bei ...
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Deva Sarga Creation: the origin of the principles, said to be Intelligence born of the qualities or the attribu ...
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Devachan The “dwelling of the gods”. A state intermediate between two earth‐lives, into which the EGO (Atmâ‐B ...
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Devajnanas • Daivajna The higher classes of celestial beings, those who possess divine knowledge [[Category: Theosophical ...
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Devaki The mother of Krishna. She was shut up in a dungeon by her brother, King Kansa, for fear of the fulf ...
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Devamatri Lit., “the mother of the gods”. A title of Aditi, Mystic Space [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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DevanagarI Lit., “the language or letters of the dêvas” or gods. The characters of the Sanskrit language. The a ...
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Devapi A Sanskrit Sage of the race of Kuru, who, together with another Sage (Moru), is supposed to live thr ...
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Devarshis • Deva‐rishi Lit., “gods rishis” ; the divine or god like saints, those sages who attain a fully divine nature on ...
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Devasarman A very ancient author who died about a century after Gautama Buddha. He wrote two famous works, in w ...
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Deva‐laya “The shrine of a Deva”. The name given to all Brahmanical temples [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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Deva‐lokas The abodes of the Gods or Devas in superior spheres. The seven celestial worlds above Meru [[Categor ...
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Dharana That state in Yoga practice when the mind has to be fixed unflinchingly on some object of meditation ...
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Dharani In Buddhism—both Southern and Northern—and also in Hinduism, it means simply a mantra or mantr ...
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Dharma The sacred Law; the Buddhist Canon<span style="color ...
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Dharmachakra Lit., The turning of the “wheel of the Law”. The emblem of Buddhism as a system of cycles and rebirt ...
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Dharmakaya Lit., “the glorified spiritual body” called the “Vesture of Bliss”. The third, or highest of the T ...
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Dharmaprabhasa The name of the Buddha who will appear during the seventh Root‐race. (See “Ratnâvabhâsa Kalpa”, when ...
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Dharmasmriti Upasthana A very long compound word containing a very mystical warning. “Remember, the constituents (of human ...
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Dharmasoka The name given to the first Asoka after his conversion to Buddhism,—King Chandragupta, who served al ...
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Dhatu Relics of Buddha’s body collected after his cremation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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Dhruva An Aryan Sage, now the Pole Star. A Kshatriya (one of the warrior caste) who became through reli ...
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Dhyan Chohans Lit., “The Lords of Light”. The highest gods, answering to the Roman Catholic Archangels. The divine ...
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Dhyana In Buddhism one of the six Paramitas of perfection, a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic ...
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Dhyani Bodhisattyas In Buddhism, the five sons of the Dhyani‐Buddhas. They have a mystic meaning in Esoteric Philosophy ...
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Dhyani Buddhas They “of the Merciful Heart”; worshipped especially in Nepaul. These have again a secret meaning [[C ...
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Dhyani Pasa “The rope of the Dhyanis” or Spirits; the Ring “Pass not” (See Sec.Doct., Stanza V., Vol. I., p. ...
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Diakka Called by Occultists and Theosophists “spooks” and “shells”, i.e., phantoms from Kâma Loka. A wo ...
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Dianoia The same as the Logos. The eternal source of thought, “divine ideation”, which is the root of all th ...
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Dido • Elissa Astarte; the Virgin of the Sea—who crushes the Dragon under her foot; The patroness of the Phoænicia ...
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Digambara A naked mendicant. Lit., “clothed with Space”. A name of Siva in his character of Rudra, the Yogi [[ ...
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Dii Minores The inferior or “reflected group of the twelve gods ” or Dii Majores, described by Cicero in his ...
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Dik Space, Vacuity<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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Diksha Initiation. Dikshit, an Initiate<span style="col ...
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Diktamnon • Dictemnus A curious plant possessing very occult and mystical properties and well‐ known from ancient times. I ...
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Dingir • Mul‐lil The Creative Gods<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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Dinur The River of Fire whose flame burns the Souls of the guilty in the Kabbalistic allegory [[Category: ...
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Dionysos The Demiurgos, who, like Osiris, was killed by the Titans and dismembered into fourteen parts. He wa ...
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Dioscuri The name of Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda. Their festival, the Dioscuria, was ...
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Dipamkara Lit., “the Buddha of fixed light”; a predecessor of Gautama, the Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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Diploteratology Production of mixed Monsters; in abbreviation teratology [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Dis In the Theogony of Damascius, the same as Protogonos, the “first born light”, called by that aut ...
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Dises The later name for the divine women called Walky‐rics, Norns, &c., in the Edda [[Category: Theos ...
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Disk ‐ worship. This was very common in Egypt but not till later times, as it began with Amenoph III., a ...
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Divyachakchus Lit., “celestial Eye” or divine seeing, perception. It is the first of the six “Abhijnas” (q.v.) ; t ...
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Divyasrotra Lit., “celestial Ear” Or divine hearing. The second “Abhijna”, or the faculty of understanding the l ...
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Djati One of the twelve “Nidanas” (q.v.); the cause and the effect in the mode of birth taking place accor ...
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