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Bhava Being, or state of being; the world, a birth, and also a name of Siva [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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Bhikshu In Pâli Bihkhu. The name given to the first followers of Sâkyamuni Buddha. Lit., “mendicant scho ...
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Bhons The followers of the old religion of the Aborigines of Tibet; of pre‐buddhistic temples and ritualis ...
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Bhrantidarsanatah Lit., “false comprehension or apprehension”; something conceived of on false appearances as a maya ...
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Bhrigu One of the great Vedic Rishis. He is called “Son” by Manu, who confides to him his Institutes. H ...
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Bhuhta‐vidya The art of exorcising, of treating and curing demoniac possession. Literally, “Demon” or “Ghost‐know ...
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Bhumi The earth, called also Prithivî<span style="colo ...
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Bhuranyu “The rapid” or the swift. Used of a missile— an equivalent also of the Greek Phoroneus. [[Catego ...
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Bhur‐Bhuva A mystic incantation, as Om, Bhur, Bhuva, Swar, meaning “Om, earth, sky, heaven, This is the exo ...
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Bhur‐loka One of the 14, lokas or worlds in Hindu Pantheism; our Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ...
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Bhutadi Elementary substances, the origin and the germinal essence of the elements [[Category: Theosophical ...
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Bhutan A country of heretical Buddhists and Lamaists beyond Sikkhim, where rules the Dharma Raja, a nominal ...
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Bhuta‐sarga Elemental or incipient Creation, i.e., when matter was several degrees less material than it is now ...
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Bhutesa • Bhûteswara lit., “Lord of beings or of existent lives”. A name applied to Vishnu, to Brahmâ and Krishna [[Categ ...
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Bhuts Bhûta.: Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if o ...
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Bhuvana A name of Rudra or Siva, one of the Indian Trimurti (Trinity) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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Bhuya‐loka One of the 14 worlds<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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Bifrost A bridge built by the gods to protect Asgard. On it “the third Sword‐god, known as Heimdal or Riger” ...
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Bihar Gyalpo A king deified by the Dugpas. A patron over all their religious buildings [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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Binah Understanding. The third of the 10 Sephiroth, the third of the Supernal Triad; a female potency, cor ...
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Birs Nimrud Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is ...
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Black Dwarfs The name of the Elves of Darkness, who creep about in the dark caverns of the earth and fabricate we ...
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Black Fire A Kabbalistic term for Absolute Light and Wisdom; “black” because it is incomprehensible to our fini ...
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Black Magic Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This a ...
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky • HPB She was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in man ...
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Nikifor Vladimirovich Blavatsky Vice Governor (1849-1861) of Erivan Province (now Armenia) of Russian Empire; husband of [[Blavatsky ...
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Yuri Blavatsky • Youry Blavatsky Infant-ward of H. P. Blavatsky and N. V. Blavatsky.
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Boat of the Sun This sacred solar boat was called Sekti, and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the ...
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Boaz The great‐grandfather of David. The word is from B, meaning “in”, and oz “strength”, a symbolic ...
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Bodha‐Bodhi Wisdom‐knowledge<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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Bodhi • Sambodhi Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to Buddhi, which is the potentiality of intelligenc ...
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Bodhi Druma The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the Pippala or ficus religiosa in botany. It is ...
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Bodhidharma Wisdom‐religion; or the wisdom contained in Dharma (ethics). Also the name of a great Arhat Ks ...
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Bodhisattva Lit., “he, whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)”; those who need but one m ...
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Bodhyanga Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the Bodhi pakc ...
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Boehme A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the mediæval ages. He was born ...
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Bonati Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astr ...
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Bona‐Oma • Bona Dea A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her fathe ...
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Bono Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy ...
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Boodhasp An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the ...
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Book of the Dead An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of a ...
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Book of the Keys An ancient Kabbalistic work<span style="color: grey; ...
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Borj The Mundane Mountain, a volcano or fire‐ mountain; the same as the Indian Meru [[Category: Theosophi ...
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Borri Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an ...
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Borsippa The planet‐tower, wherein Bel was worshipped in the days when astrolaters were the greatest astr ...
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Both‐al The Both‐al of the Irish is the descendant and copy of the Greek Batylos and the Beth‐el of Canaan, ...
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Bragadini Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was deca ...
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Bragi The god of New Life, of the re‐incarnation of nature and man. He is called “the divine singer” witho ...
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Brahma The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian P ...
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