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Djin Elementals ; Nature Sprites; Genii. The Djins or Jins are much dreaded in Egypt, Persia and ...
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Djnana • Jnâna Lit., Knowledge; esoterically, “supernal or divine knowledge acquired by Yoga”. Written also Gnyan ...
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Docetae Lit.,“The Illusionists”. The name given by orthodox Christians to those Gnostics who held that Chris ...
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Dodecahedron According to Plato, the Universe is built by “the first begotten” on the geometrical figure of the D ...
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Dodona An ancient city in Thessaly, famous for its Temple of Jupiter and its oracles. According to ancient ...
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Donar • Thunar • Thor In the North the God of Thunder. He was the Jupiter Tonans of Scandinavia. Like as the oak was devot ...
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Dondam‐pai‐den‐pa The same as the Sanskrit term Paramarthasatya or “absolute truth”, the highest spiritual self‐co ...
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Doppelganger A synonym of the “Double” and of the “Astral body” in occult parlance [[Category: Theosophical Gloss ...
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Dorjesempa The “Diamond Soul”, a name of the celestial Buddha<s ...
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Dorjeshang A title of Buddha in his highest aspect; a name of the supreme Buddha; also Dorje [[Category: Th ...
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Double The same as the “Astral body” or “Doppelgänger”<span ...
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Double Image The name among the Jewish Kabbalists for the Dual Ego, called respectively: the Higher, Metatr ...
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Dracontia Temples dedicated to the Dragon, the emblem of the Sun, the symbol of Deity, of Life and Wisdom. The ...
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Drakon • Dragon Now considered a “mythical” monster, perpetuated in the West only on seals,. &c., as a heraldic grif ...
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Draupnir The golden armlet of Wodan or Odin, the companion of the spear Gungnir which he holds in his right h ...
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Dravidians A group of tribes inhabiting Southern India; the aborigines [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD t ...
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Dravya Substance (metaphysically)<span style="color: grey; ...
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Drishti Scepticism; unbelief<span style="color: grey; font-s ...
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Druids A sacerdotal caste which flourished in Britain and Gaul. They were Initiates who admitted females in ...
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Druzes A large sect, numbering about 100,000 adherents, living on Mount Lebanon in Syria. Their rites are v ...
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Dudaim The Atropa Mandragova plant is mentioned in Genesis, XXX., 14, and in Canticles: the nam ...
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Dugpas Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of Tsong‐ka‐pa in the fourteenth century, t ...
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Dukkha Sorrow, pain<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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Dumah The Angel of Silence (Death) in the Kabbala<span sty ...
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Durga Lit., “inaccessible”. The female potency of a god; the name of Kali, the wife of Siva, the Mahesva ...
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Dustcharitra The “ten evil acts”; namely, three acts of the body viz., taking life, theft and adultery; four evil ...
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Dwapara Yuga The third of the “Four Ages” in Hindu Philosophy ; or the second age counted from below [[Category: ...
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Dwarf of Death In the Edda of the Norsemen, Iwaldi, the Dwarf of Death, hides Life in the depths of the great o ...
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Dwellers A term invented by Bulwer Lytton in Zanoni; but in Occultism the word “Dweller” is an occult ter ...
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Dwesa Anger. One of the three principal states of mind (of which 63 are enumerated), which are Râga— p ...
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Dwija Brahman The investure with the sacred thread that now constitutes the “second birth”. Even a Sudra who choos ...
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Dwija “Twice‐born”. In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahmans; but now it is applie ...
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Dwipa An island or a continent. The Hindus have seven (Sapta dwipa ); the Buddhists only four. This is ...
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Dynasties In India there are two, the Lunar and the Solar, or the Somavansa and the Suryavansa. In Cha ...
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Dyookna The shadow of eternal Light. The “Angels of the Presence” or archangels. The same as the Ferouer ' ...
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Dzyn • Dzyan Written also Dzen. A corruption of the Sanskrit Dhyan and jnâna (or gnyâna phonetically) ...
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Dagoba Lit: a sacred mound or tower for Buddhist holy relics. These are pyramidal‐looking mounds scattered ...
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E The fifth letter of the English alphabet. The he (soft) of the Hebrew alphabet becomes in the Ehevi ...
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Ea • Hea The second god of the original Babylonian trinity composed of Anu, Hea and Bel. Hea was the “Maker o ...
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Eagle [1] This symbol is one of the most ancient. With the Greeks and Persians it was sacred to the Sun; w ...
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Easter The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the ...
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Ebionites Lit., “the poor”; the earliest sect of Jewish Christians, the other being the Nazarenes. They existe ...
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Ecbatana A famous city in Media worthy of a place among the seven wonders of the world. It is thus described ...
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Echath The same as the following—the “One”, but feminine<sp ...
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Echod “One”, masculine, applied to Jehovah<span style="col ...
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Eclectic Philosophy One of the names given to the Neo‐ Platonic school of Alexandria [[Category: Theosophical Glossary ( ...
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Ecstasis A psycho‐spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing ...
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Edda Lit., “great‐grandmother”of the Scandinavian Lays. It was Bishop Brynjϋld Sveinsson, who collected t ...
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Eden “Delight”, pleasure. In Genesis the “Garden of Delight” built by God ; in the Kabbala the “Garde ...
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Edom Edomite Kings. A deeply concealed mystery is to he found in the allegory of the seven Kings of Edorn ...
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