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Atma‐matrasu To enter into the elements of the “One‐Self”. (See S. D. I.,334 ''Atmamâtra is the spiri ...
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Atri A class of Pitris, the “ancestors of man”, or the so‐called Prâjapâti, “progenitors”; one of the sev ...
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Attavada The sin of personality<span style="color: grey; font ...
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Atyantika One of the four kinds of pralaya or dissolution. The “absolute” pralaya [[Category: Theoso ...
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Atziluth The highest of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah referred only to the pure Spirit of God. [w. w. w.] S ...
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Audlang The second heaven made by Deity above the field of Ida, in the Norse legends [[Category: Theosophica ...
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Audumla The Cow of Creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the giant Ymi ...
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Augiras One of the Prajâpatis. A son of Daksha ; a lawyer, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Augoeides Bulwer Lytton calls it the “Luminous Self ”, or our Higher Ego. But Occultism makes of it something ...
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Aum The sacred syllable; the triple‐lettered unit; hence the trinity in One [[Category: Theosophical Glo ...
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Aura A subtle invisible essence or fluid that emanates from human and animal bodies and even things. It i ...
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Aurnavabha An ancient Sanskrit commentator<span style="color: g ...
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Aurva The Sage who is credited with the invention of the “fiery weapon” called Agneyâstra [[Category: ...
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Avaivartika An epithet of every Buddha: lit., one who turns no more back; who goes straight to Nirvâna [[Categor ...
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Avalokiteswara “The on‐looking Lord” In the exoteric interpretation, he is Padmapâni (the lotus bearer and the lotu ...
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Avarasaila Sangharama Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihâra (monastery) in Dhana‐k ...
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Avastan An ancient name for Arabia<span style="color: grey; ...
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Avasthas States, conditions, positions<span style="color: gre ...
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Avatara Divine incarnation. The descent of a god or some exalted Being, who has progressed beyond the necess ...
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Divine Incarnations • Avatars The Immaculate Conception is as pre‐eminently Egyptian as it is Indian. As the author of Egyptian ...
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Ava‐bodha “Mother of Knowledge.” A title of Aditi<span style=" ...
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Avebury • Abury In Wiltshire are the remains of an ancient megalithic Serpent temple: according to the eminent antiq ...
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Avesta Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian Âbastâ, “the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastria ...
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Avicenna The latinized name of Abu‐Ali al Hoséen ben Abdallah Ibn Sina; a Persian philosopher, born 980 AD)., ...
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Avidya Opposed to Vidyâ, Knowledge. Ignorance which proceeds from, and is produced by the illusion of t ...
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Avikara Free from degeneration; changeless—used of Deity<spa ...
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Avitchi A state: not necessarily after death only or between two births, for it can take place on earth as w ...
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Avyakta The unrevealed cause; indiscrete or undifferentiated; the opposite of Vyakta, the differentiated ...
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Axieros One of the Kabiri<span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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Axiocersa ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
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Axiocersus ʺ ʺ<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-st ...
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Ayana A period of time; two Ayanas complete a year, one being the period of the Sun’s progress northward, ...
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Ayin Lit., “Nothing”, whence the name of Ain‐ Soph. (See“Ain”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD te ...
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Aymar Jacques. A famous Frenchman who had great success in the use of the Divining Rod about the end of th ...
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Ayur Veda Lit., “the Veda of Life”<span style="color: grey; fo ...
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Ayuta 100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000<span style ...
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Azareksh A place celebrated for a fire‐temple of the Zoroastrians and Magi during the time of Alexander the G ...
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Azazel “God of Victory”; the scape‐goat for the sins of Israel. He who comprehends the mystery of Azazel' ...
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Azhi‐Dahaka One of the Serpents or Dragons in the legends of Iran and the Avesta Scriptures, the allegorical des ...
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Aziluth The name for the world of the Sephiroth, called the world of Emanations Olam Aziluth. It is the ...
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Azoth The creative principle in Nature, the grosser portion of which is stored in the Astral Light. It is ...
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B The second letter in almost all the alphabets, also the second in the Hebrew. Its symbol is a hous ...
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Baal Baal or Adon (Adonai) was a phallic god. “Who shall ascend unto the hill (the high place) of the Lor ...
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Babil Mound The site of the Temple of Bel at Babylon<span style= ...
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Bacchus Exoterically and superficially the god of wine and the vintage, and of licentiousness and joy; but t ...
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Bacon Roger. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth cent ...
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Francis Bacon • Lord Verulam was an English philosopher, historian and statesman. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism ...
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Baddha Bound, conditioned; as is every mortal who has not made himself free through Nirvâna [[Category: The ...
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Bagavadam A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters<spa ...
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Bagh‐bog “God”; a Slavonian name for the Greek Bacchus, whose name became the prototype of the name God or ...
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