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Curetes The Priest‐Initiates of ancient Crete, in the service of Cybele. Initiation in their temples was ver ...
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Cutha An ancient city in Babylonia after which a tablet giving an account of “creation” is named. The “Cut ...
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Cuvier, Georges was a French naturalist and zoologist.
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Cycle From the Greek Kuklos. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all ...
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Cynocephalus The Egyptian Hapi. There was a notable difference between the ape‐headed gods and the “Cynocepha ...
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D Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbo ...
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Daath Knowledge; “the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah, Wisdom and Understanding”: sometimes, in error, ca ...
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Dabar D (a) B (a) R (im), meaning the “Word”, and the “Words” in the Chaldean Kabbala, Dabar and Log ...
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Dabistan The land of Iran; ancient Persia<span style="color: ...
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Dache‐Dachus The dual emanation of Moymis, the progeny of the dual or androgynous World‐Principle, the male Apaso ...
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Dactyli From daktulos, “a finger”. The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regard ...
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Dadouchos The torch‐hearer, one of the four celebrants in the Eleusinian mysteries. There were several attache ...
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Daemon In the original Hermetic works and ancient classics it has a meaning identical with that of “god”, “ ...
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Daenam Lit., “Knowledge”, the principle of understanding in man, rational Soul, or Manas, according to ...
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Dag, Dagon “Fish” and also “Messiah”. Dagon was the Chaldean man‐fish Oannes, the mysterious being who arose da ...
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Daitya Guru The instructor of the giants, called Daityas (q.v.) Allegorically, it is the title given to the ...
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Daityas Giants, Titans, and exoterically demons, but in truth identical with certain Asuras, the intellectua ...
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Daivi‐prakriti Primordial, homogeneous light, called by some Indian Occultists “the Light of the Logos” (see Note ...
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Dakini Female demons, vampires and blood‐ drinkers (asra‐pas). In the Purânas they attend upon the ...
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Daksha A form of Brahmâ and his son in the Purânas But the Rig Veda states that “Daksha sprang from Adi ...
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Dalada A very precious relic of Gautama the Buddha; viz., his supposed left canine tooth preserved at the g ...
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Dama Restraint of the senses<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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Dambulla The name of a huge rock in Ceylon. It is about 400 feet above the level of the sea. Its upper portio ...
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Dammapadan A Buddhist work containing moral precepts<span style ...
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Dana Almsgiving to mendicants, lit., “charity”, the first of the six Paramitas in Buddhism [[Category: Th ...
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Danavas Almost the same as Daityas; giants and demons, the opponents of the ritualistic gods [[Category: ...
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Dangma In Esotericism a purified Soul. A Seer and an Initiate; one who has attained full wisdom [[Category: ...
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Daos The seventh King (Shepherd) of the divine Dynasty, who reigned over the Babylonians for the space of ...
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Darasta Ceremonial magic practised by the central Indian tribes, especially among the Kolarians [[Category: ...
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Dardanus The Son of Jupiter and Electra, who received the Kabeiri gods as a dowry, and took them to Samothrac ...
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Darha The ancestral spirits of the Kolarians<span style="c ...
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Darsanas The Schools of Indian philosophy, of which there are six; Shad‐darsanas or six demonstrations [[ ...
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Dasa‐sil The ten obligations or commandments taken by and binding upon the priests of Buddha; the five obliga ...
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Dava The moon, in Tibetan astrology<span style="color: gr ...
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Davkina The wife of Hea, “the goddess of the lower regions, the consort of the Deep”, the mother of Meroda ...
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Day of Brahma See “Brahmâʹs Day” etc.<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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Dayanisi The god worshipped by the Jews along with other Semites, as the “Ruler of men”; Dionysos—the Sun; wh ...
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Dayus • Dyaus A Vedic term. The unrevealed Deity, or that which reveals Itself only as light and the bright day—me ...
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Death, Kiss of According to the Kabbalah, the earnest follower does not die by the power of the Evil Spirit, Yetzer ...
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Dei termini The name for pillars with human heads representing Hermes, placed at cross‐roads by the ancient Gree ...
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Deist One who admits the existence of a god or gods, but claims to know nothing of either and denies revel ...
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Demerit In Occult and Buddhistic parlance, a constituent of Karma. It is through avidya or ignorance of ...
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Demeter The Hellenic name for the Latin Ceres, the goddess of corn and tillage. The astronomical sign, Virgo ...
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Demiurgic Mind The same as “Universal Mind”. Mahat, the first “product” of Brahmâ, or himself [[Category: Theosophi ...
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Demiurgos The Demiurge or Artificer; the Supernal Power which built the universe. Freemasons derive from this ...
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Demon est Deus inversus A Kabbalistic axiom; lit., “the devil is god reversed”; which means that there is neither evil nor g ...
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Demonologia Treatises or Discourses upon Demons, or Gods in their dark aspects [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ...
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Demons According to the Kabbalah, the demons dwell in the world of Assiah, the world of matter and of the “ ...
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Demrusch A Giant in the mythology of ancient Iran<span style= ...
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Denis, Angoras A physician of Paris, astrologer and alchemist in the XIVth century” (R.M.C.) [[Category: Theosophic ...
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