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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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Asherah A word, which occurs in the Old Testament, and is commonly translated “groves” referring to idolatro ...
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Ashmog The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the Avesta; a kind of allegorical Satan, ...
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Ashta Siddhis The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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Ashtadisa The eight‐faced space. An imaginary division of space represented as an octagon and at other tim ...
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Ashtar Vidya The most ancient of the Hindu works on Magic. Though there is a claim that the entire work is in the ...
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Asiras Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: Theo ...
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Asita A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage< ...
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Ask • Ash The “tree of Knowledge”. Together with the Embla (alder) the Ask was the tree from which the god ...
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Aski‐kataski‐haix‐tetrax‐damnameneus‐aision These mystic words, which Athanasius Kircher tells us meant “ Darkness, Light, Earth, Sun, and Truth ...
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Asmodeus The Persian Aêshma‐dev, the Esham‐dev of the Parsis, “the evil Spirit of Concupiscence”, acc ...
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Asmoneans Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon ...
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Asoka A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in rea ...
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Asomatous Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: Theosoph ...
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Asrama A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in India has its Ashr ...
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Assassins A masonic and mystic order founded by Hassan Sabah in Persia, in the eleventh century. The word is a ...
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