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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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Ancients The. A name given by Occultists to the seven creative Rays, born of Chaos, or the “Deep” [[Category ...
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Anda‐Kataha The outer covering, or the “shell” of Brahmâ’s egg; the area within which our manifested universe is ...
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Androgyne Ray The first differentiated ray; the Second Logos; Adam Kadmon in the Kabalah; the “male and female ...
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Angaraka Fire Star; the planet Mars; in Tibetan, Mig‐mar< ...
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Angirasas The generic name of several Purânic individuals and things; a class of Pitris, the ancestors of ...
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Angra Mainyus The Zoroastrian name for Ahriman; the evil spirit of destruction and opposition who (in the Vendid ...
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Anima Mundi The “Soul of the World”, the same as the Alaya of the Northern Buddhists; the divine essence whi ...
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Anjala One of the personified powers which spring from Brahmâ’s body—the Prajâpatis [[Category: Theosophica ...
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Anjana A serpent, a son of Kasyapa Rishi<span style="color: ...
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Annamaya Kosha A Vedantic term. The same as Sthûla Sharîra or the physical body. It is the first “sheath” of th ...
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Annapura See “Anâ”<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; f ...
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Annedotus The generic name for the Dragons or Men‐Fishes, of which there were five. The historian Berosus narr ...
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Anoia “Want of understanding”, “folly”. Anoia is the name given by Plato and others to the lower Manas ...
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Anouki A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew Ank, life. (See “Anuki.”) [[Cate ...
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