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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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Ansumat A Purânic personage, the “nephew of 60,000 uncles” King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes by ...
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Antahkarana • Antaskarana The term has various meanings, which differ with every school of philosophy and sect. Thus Sankârach ...
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Anthesteria The feast of Flowers (Floralia): during this festival the rite of Baptism or purification was pe ...
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Anthropology The Science of man; it embraces among other things :—Physiology, or that branch of natural scien ...
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Anthropomorphism From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes ...
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Anu [1] (Sk.)An “atom”, a title of Brahmâ, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe. A ...
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Anubis The dog ‐headed god, identical, in a certain aspect, with Horus. He is pre‐eminently the god who dea ...
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Anugita One of the Upanishads. A very occult treatise. (See The sacred Books of the East.) [[Categor ...
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Anugraha The eighth creation in the Vishnu Purâna.<span s ...
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Anuki “See Anouki” supra. “The word Ank in Hebrew, means ‘my life’, my being, which is the persona ...
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Anumati The moon at the full; when from a god— Soma—she becomes a goddess [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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Anumitis Inference, deduction in philosophy<span style="color ...
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Anunit The goddess of Akkad ; Lucifer, the morning star. Venus as the evening star as Ishtar of Erech [[Cat ...
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Anunnaki Angels or Spirits of the Earth; terrestrial Elementals also [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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Anupadaka Anupapâdaka, also Aupapâduka; means parentless”, “self‐existing”, born without any parents or progen ...
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Anuttara Unrivalled, peerless. Thus Anuttara Bodhi means unexcelled or unrivalled intelligence”, Anutta ...
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Anyamsam Aniyasam A no‐ranîyânsam (in Bhagavad gîtâ). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of th ...
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Aour The synthesis of the two aspects of astro‐ etheric light; and the od—the life‐giving, and th ...
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Apam Napat A mysterious being, corresponding to the Fohat of the Occultists. It is both a Vedic and an Avestian ...
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Apana “Inspirational breath”; a practice in Yoga. Prana and apâna are the “expirational” and the “ ...
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Apap • Apophis The symbolical Serpent of Evil. The Solar Boat and the Sun are the great Slayers of Apap in the Bo ...
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Aparinamin The Immutable and the Unchangeable, the reverse of Parinâmin, that which is subject to modification, ...
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Aparoksha Direct perception.<span style="color: grey; font ...
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Apava Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for ...
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Apavarga Emancipation from repeated births<span style="color: ...
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Apis • Hapi‐ankh The “living deceased one” or Osiris incarnate in the sacred white Bull. Apis was the bull‐god that, ...
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Apocrypha Very erroneously explained and adopted as doubtful, or spurious. The word means simply secret, eso ...
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Apollo Belvidere Of all the ancient statues of Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, called Phœbus, Helios, the radi ...
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Apollonius of Tyana A wonderful philosopher born in Cappadocia about the beginning of the first century; an ardent Pytha ...
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Aporrheta Secret instructions upon esoteric subjects given during the Egyptian and Grecian Mysteries [[Categor ...
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Apsaras An Undine or Water‐Nymph, from the Paradise or Heaven of Indra. The Apsarases are in popular belief ...
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Arahat Also pronounced and written Arhat, Arhan, Rahat, &c., “the worthy one”, lit., “deserving divine hono ...
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Arani The “female Arani” is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world). Arani is ...
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Aranyaka Holy hermits, sages who dwelt in ancient India in forests. Also a portion of the Vedas containing Up ...
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Araritha A very famous seven‐lettered Kabbalistic wonder‐word ; its numeration is 813 ; its letters are colle ...
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