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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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Aristobulus An Alexandrian writer, and an obscure philosopher. A Jew who tried to prove that Aristotle explained ...
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Arithmomancy The science of correspondences between gods, men, and numbers, as taught by Pythagoras. [w.w.w.] [[C ...
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Arjuna Lit., the “white”. The third of the five Brothers Pandu or the reputed Sons of Indra (esoterically t ...
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Ark of Isis At the great Egyptian annual ceremony, which took place in the month of Athyr, the boat of Isis was ...
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Ark of the Covenant Every ark‐shrine, whether with the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans or Mexicans, was a phallic shrine, t ...
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Arka The Sun<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; fon ...
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Arkites The ancient priests who were attached to the Ark, whether of Isis, or the Hindu Argua, and who w ...
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Aroueris The god Harsiesi, who was the elder Horus. He had a temple at Ambos. if we bear in mind the definiti ...
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Artephius A great Hermetic philosopher, whose true name was never known and whose works are without dates, tho ...
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Artes The Earth; the Egyptian god Mars<span style="color: ...
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Artufas A generic name in South America and the islands for temples of nagalism or serpent worship [[Cat ...
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Arundhati The “Morning Star”; Lucifer‐Venus<span style="color: ...
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Arupa “Bodiless”, formless, as opposed to rûpa, “body”, or form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Arvaksrotas The seventh creation, that of man, in the Vishnu Purâna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (C ...
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Arwaker Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the Eddas ...
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Arya Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) an ...
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Aryahata The “Path of Arhatship”, or of holiness<span style=" ...
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Aryasangha The Founder of the first Yogâchârya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha ...
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Aryasatyani The four truths or the four dogmas, which are (1) Dukha, or that misery and pain are the unavoid ...
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Aryavarta The “land of the Aryas”, or India. The ancient name for Northern India. The Brahmanical invaders (“ ...
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Arya‐Bhata The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author o ...
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Arya‐Dasa Lit., “Holy Teacher”. A great sage and Arhat of the Mahâsamghika school [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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Ar‐Abu Nasr‐al‐Farabi Called in Latin Alpharabius, a Persian, and the greatest Aristotelian philosopher of the age. He was ...
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Asakrit Samadhi A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in Samâdhi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossar ...
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Asana The third stage of Hatha Yoga, one of the prescribed postures of meditation [[Category: Theosoph ...
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Asat A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather non‐be‐ness. The “incomprehensible nothingne ...
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Asathor The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miölnir, the “storm‐ hammer”, f ...
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Asava Samkhaya The “finality of the stream”, one of the six “Abhijnâs” (q.v.). A phenomenal knowledge of the fi ...
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Asburj One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which ...
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Asch Metzareph The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals ...
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Ases The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the prog ...
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Asgard The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated “higher than the ...
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Ash Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as As, Aish and E ...
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Ash Yggdrasil The “Mundane Tree”, the Symbol of the World with the old Norsemen, the “tree of the universe, of tim ...
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Ashen and Langhan Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in u ...
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