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Al • El This deity‐name is commonly translated “God’, meaning mighty, supreme. The plural is Elohim, also tr ...
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Alaparus The second divine king of Babylonia who reigned.. “three Sari”. The first king of the divine Dyn ...
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Alaya The Universal Soul (See Secret Doctrine Vol. I. pp. 47 et seq.). The name belongs to the Tib ...
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Alba Petra The white stone of Initiation. The “white cornelian” mentioned in St. John’s Revelation. [[Categ ...
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Alchemists From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of E ...
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Alcyone Or Halcyone, daughter of Æolus, and wife of Ceyx, who was drowned as he was journeying to consult th ...
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Alectromancy Divination by means of a cock, or other bird; a circle was drawn and divided into spaces, each one a ...
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Alethae “Fire worshippers” from Al‐alt, the God of Fire. The same as the Kabiri or divine Titans. As ...
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Aletheia Truth; also Alethia, one of Apollo’s nurses.<span st ...
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Alexadrian School • Philosophers This famous school arose in Alexandria (Egypt) which was for several centuries the great seat of lea ...
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Alhim See “Elohim”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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Alkahest The universal solvent in Alchemy (see ʺAlchemy ʺ); but in mysticism, the Higher Self, the union with ...
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Almadel The Book. A treatise on Theurgia or White Magic by an unknown mediæval European author; it is not in ...
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Almeh Dancing girls; the same as the Indian nautchies, the temple and public dancers. [[Category: Theo ...
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Alpha Polaris The same as Dhruva, the pole‐star of 31,105 years ago. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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Alswider ‘‘ All‐swift’’, the name of the horse of the moon, in the Eddas. [[Category: Theosophical Glossa ...
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Altruism From alter = other. A quality opposed to egoism. Actions tending to do good to others, regardless of ...
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Al‐Chazari A Prince‐Philosopher and Occultist. (See Book Al‐Chazari.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CT ...
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Al‐ait The God of Fire, an ancient and very mystic name in Koptic Occultism. [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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Ama Amia, (Chald.). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who i ...
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Amanasa The “ Mindless”, the early races of this planet; also certain Hindu gods. [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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Amara‐Kosha The “immortal vocabulary”. The oldest dictionary known in the world and the most perfect vocabulary ...
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Amba The name of the eldest of the seven Pleiades, the heavenly sisters married each to a Rishi belon ...
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Ambhamsi A name of the chief of the Kumâras Sanat‐Sujâta, signifying the “waters”. This epithet will become m ...
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Amdo A sacred locality, the birthplace of Tson‐kha‐ pa, the great Tibetan reformer and the founder of the ...
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Amen In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of “Jehovah Adonai”=10, ...
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Amenti Esoterically and literally, the dwelling of the God Amen, or Amoun, or the “hidden”, secret god. Exo ...
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Amesha Spentas Amshaspends. The six angels or divine Forces personified as gods who attend upon Ahura Mazda, of whi ...
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Amitabha The Chinese perversion of the Sanskrit Amrita Buddha, or the “Immortal Enlightened”, a name of G ...
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Ammon One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun‐Ra, and is identified with Ba ...
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Ammonius Saccas A great and good philosopher who lived in Alexandria between the second and third centuries of our e ...
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Amrita The ambrosial drink or food of the gods; the food giving immortality. The elixir of life churned out ...
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Amulam Mulam Lit., the “rootless root” ; Mulâprakriti of the Vedantins the spiritual “root of nature” [[Category: ...
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Amun The Egyptian god of wisdom, who had only Initiates or Hierophants to serve him as priests [[Category ...
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Ana The “invisible heaven”or Astral Light ; the heavenly mother of the terrestrial sea, Mar, whence ...
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Anacalypsis Or an “Attempt to withdraw the veil of the Saitic Isis”, by Godfrey Higgins. This is a very valuable ...
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Anagamin Anagam. One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Ar ...
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Anahata Chakram The seat or “wheel” of life; the heart, according to some commentators [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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Anahata Shabda The mystic voices and sounds heard by the Yogi at the incipient stage of his meditation, The third o ...
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Anaitia A derivation from Anâ (q.v.), a goddess identical with the Hindu Annapurna, one of the names ...
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Analogeticists The disciples of Ammonius Saccas (q.v.), so called because of their practice of interpreting all sac ...
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Ananda Bliss, joy, felicity, happiness. A name of the favourite disciple of Gautama, the Lord Buddha [[Cate ...
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Anandamaya‐Kosha “The illusive Sheath of Bliss”, i.e., the mâyâvic or illusory form, the appearance of that which is ...
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Ananda‐Lahari “The wave of joy”; a beautiful poem written by Sankarâchârya, a hymn to Pârvati, very mystical and o ...
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Ananga The “Bodiless”. An epithet of Kâma, god of love<span ...
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Ananta‐Sesha The Serpent of Eternity—the couch of Vishnu during Pralaya (lit., endless remain) [[Category: Theoso ...
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Anastasis The continued existence of the soul<span style="colo ...
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Anatu The female aspect of Anu (q.v.). She represents the Earth and Depth, while her consort represents th ...
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Anaxagoras A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and ...
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