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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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Arasa Maram The Hindu sacred tree of knowledge. In occult philosophy a mystic word [[Category: Theosophical Glos ...
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Arba‐il The Four Great Gods. Arba is Aramaic for four, and il is the same as Al or El. Three male de ...
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Archaeus “The Ancient.” Used of the oldest manifested deity; a term employed in the Kabalah ; “archaic ”, ...
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Archangel Highest supreme angel. From the Greek arch, “chief” or “primordial”, and angelos, “messenger ...
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Archetypal Universe The ideal universe upon which the objective world was built. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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Archobiosis Primeval beginning of life<span style="color: grey; ...
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Archons In profane and biblical language “rulers” and princes; in Occultism, primordial planetary spirits [[ ...
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Archontes The archangels after becoming Ferouers (q.v.) or their own shadows, having mission on earth; a m ...
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Ardath This word occurs in the Second Book of Esdras, ix., 26. The name has been given to one of the recent ...
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Ardhanariswara Lit., “the bi‐sexual lord”. Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the ...
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Ardha‐Nari Lit., “half‐woman”. Siva represented as Androgynous, as half male and half female, a type of male an ...
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Ares The Greek name for Mars, god of war; also a term used by Paracelsus, the differentiated Force in Cos ...
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Argha The ark, the womb of Nature; the crescent moon, and a life‐saving ship ; also a cup for offerings, a ...
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Arghyanath Lit., “lord of libations”<span style="color: grey; f ...
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Arian A follower of Arius, a presbyter of the Church in Alexandria in the fourth century. One who holds th ...
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