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Cox, Edward William +

English Serjeant-at-Law. Founded the ''Law Times'' in 1843. On Feb. 22, 1875, founded in London the Psychological Society of Great Britain for the systematic investigation of mediumistic and related phenomena; its membership included W. Stainton Moses, C. C. Massey and Hensleigh Wedgwood, all of whom later served on the first Council of the Society for Psychical Research. Suggested the term "Psychic Force" to designate the origin of mediumistic and related phenomena. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#454|1:454]][[SMW::on]]). His The Mechanism of Man: an Answer to the Question: What Am I? appeared in London in 1876, with a third edition in 1879. The bibliography refers to BCW I, 453-454 for a biographical sketch. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#526|2:526]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cox, Ross +

Author of ''Adventures on the Columbia River'' (London, 1831, two volumes), whose third edition appeared as ''The Columbia River'' in 1832. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#372|5:372]][[SMW::on]]). +

Coyaji, B. S. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Crawford, Francis Marion +

American novelist who studied Sanskrit and edited the ''Indian Herald'' in Allahabad; his first novel, ''Mr. Isaacs'' (1882), drew on Anglo-Indian life. He settled in Italy in 1883. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#640|4:640]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Mr. Isaacs, a Tale of Modern India. London: Macmillan & Co. 1882. 8vo. 316 pp. Zoroaster. London: ibid. 1885. 8vo (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#434|8:434]][[SMW::on]]). Author of Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India, published by Macmillan in London in 1882 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#416|10:416]][[SMW::on]]). +

Crawford, J. F. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol9|vol. 9]] (1887–1888). +

Crawford, John Martin +

Translated the Kalevala into English verse; the translation appeared in two volumes in New York in 1888 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#416|10:416]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: The Kalevala, the Epic Poem of Finland. Translated into English verse. New York; J. B. Alden, 1888, 2 vols. 8vo (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#571|11:571]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cremer, John +

An eminent scholar who for over thirty years studied Hermetic philosophy in pursuance of its practical secrets, while he was at the same time Abbot of Westminster While on a voyage to Italy, he met the famous Raymond Lully whom he induced to return with him to England. Lully divulged to Cremer the secrets of the stone, for which service the monastery offered daily prayers for him. Cremer, says the ''Royal Masonic Cyclopedia'', “having obtained a profound knowledge of the secrets of Alchemy, became a most celebrated and learned adept in occult philosophy . . . lived to a good old age, and died in the reign of King Edward III.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Crescent +

''Sin ''was the Assyrian name for the moon, and ''Sin‐ai ''the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of Dionysos, Bacchus and several other gods. According to Rawlinson, the moon was held in higher esteem than the sun at Babylon, ''because darkness preceded light. ''The crescent was, therefore, a sacred symbol with almost every nation, before it became the ‘standard of the Turks. Says the author of ''Egyptian Belief, ''“ The crescent is not essentially a Mahometan ensign. On the contrary, it was a Christian one, derived through Asia from the Babylonian Astarte, Queen of Heaven, or from the Egyptian Isis . . . . whose emblem was the crescent. The Greek Christian Empire of Constantinople held it as their palladium. Upon the conquest of the Turks, the Mahometan Sultan adopted it for the symbol of his power. Since that time the ''crescent ''has been made to oppose the idea of the cross.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Criocephale +

Ram‐headed, applied to several deities and emblematic figures, notably those of ancient Egypt, which were designed about the period when the Sun passed, at the Vernal Equinox, from the sign Taurus to the sign Aries. Previously to this period, bull‐headed and horned deities prevailed. Apis was the type of the Bull deity, Ammon that of the ram‐headed type: Isis, too, had a Cow’s head allotted to her. Porphyry writes that the Greeks united the Ram to Jupiter and the Bull to Bacchus. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cripps, T. N. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Crocodile +

“The great reptile of Typhon.” The seat of its “worship” was Crocodilopolis and it was sacred to Set and Sebak — its alleged creators. The primitive Rishis in India, the ''Manus'', and Sons of Brahmâ, are each the progenitors of some animal species, of which he is the alleged “father”; in Egypt, each god was credited with the formation or creation of certain animals which were sacred to him. Crocodiles must have been numerous in Egypt during the early dynasties, if one has to judge by the almost incalculable number of their mummies. Thousands upon thousands have been excavated from the grottoes of Moabdeh, and many a vast ''necropolis ''of that Typhonic animal is still left untouched. But the Crocodile was only worshipped where his god and “father” received honours. Typhon (''q.v.'') had once received such honours and, as Bunsen shows, had been considered a great god. His words are, “ Down to the time of Ramses B.C. 1300, Typhon was one of the most venerated and powerful gods, a god who pours blessings and life on the rulers of Egypt.” As explained elsewhere, Typhon is the material aspect of Osiris. When Typhon, the Quaternary, ''kills ''Osiris, the triad or divine Light, and cuts it metaphorically into 14 pieces, and separates himself from the “god”, he incurs the execration of the masses; he becomes the evil god, the storm and hurricane god, the burning sand of the Desert, the constant enemy of the Nile, and the “slayer of the evening beneficent dew”, because Osiris is the ideal Universe, Siva the great Regenerative Force, and Typhon the material portion of it, the evil side of the god, or the Destroying Siva. This is why the crocodile is also partly venerated and partly execrated. The appearance of the crocodile in the Desert, far from the water, prognosticated the happy event of the coming inundation — hence its adoration at Thebes and Ombos. But he destroyed thousands of human and animal beings yearly — hence also the hatred and persecution of the Crocodile at Elephantine and Tentyra [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Crookes, William +

His ''Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism'', reprinted from the ''Quarterly Journal of Science'', appeared in London in 1874 and in Rochester, New York, in 1904. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#501|3:501]][[SMW::on]]). English physicist and chemist. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] connects the discussion of radiant matter with his Sheffield address of 22 August 1879 and his letter to G. G. Stokes of 29 April 1880, relating these investigations to the Replies to an English F.T.S. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#264|BCW 5:264-265]]) +

Cross +

Mariette Bey has shown its antiquity in Egypt by proving that in all the primitive sepulchres “the plan of the chamber has the form of a cross”. It is the symbol of the Brotherhood of races and men; and was laid on the breast of the corpses in Egypt, as it is now placed on the corpses of deceased Christians, and, in its ''Swastica ''form (''croix ''cramponnée) on the hearts of the Buddhist adepts and Buddhas. (See “[[Calvary Cross]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Crowe, Catherine +

English writer (1800-1876), best known for ''The Night Side of Nature, or Ghosts and Ghost Seers'' (1848). Her novels include ''Adventures of Susan Hopley'' (1841), ''The Story of Lilly Dawson'' (1847), and ''Linny Lockwood'' (1854). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#372|5:372]][[SMW::on]]). +

Crow’s Nest (Bombay) +

A house at Breach Candy, Bombay, to which the headquarters of the Theosophical Society moved on 15 November 1880, while [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] were away. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxxv]]) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (22)#32|4:32]][[SMW::on]]) +

Cruden, Alexander +

The quotation attributed to him remains untraced in Zirkoff’s bibliography; no specific work is identified. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#366|7:366]][[SMW::on]]). English Scholar. Educ. at Marischal College in native city. After a term of confinement for insanity, settled in London as a tutor, then as a bookseller, holding title of Bookseller to the Queen (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#411|9:411]][[SMW::on]]). +

Crux Ansata +

The handled cross,'''T; '''whereas the tau is '''T''', in this form, and the oldest Egyptian cross or the ''tat ''is thus +. The ''crux ansata ''was the symbol of immortality, but the ''tat''‐cross was that of spirit‐matter and had the significance of a sexual emblem. The ''crux ansata ''was the foremost symbol in the Egyptian Masonry instituted by Count Cagliostro; and Masons must have indeed forgotten the primitive significance of their highest symbols, if some of their authorities still insist that the ''crux ansata ''is only a combination of the ''cteis ''(or yoni) and ''phallus ''(or ''lingham''). Far from this. The handle or ''ansa ''had a double significance, but never a phallic one; as an attribute of Isis it was the mundane circle; as symbol of law on the breast of a mummy it was that of immortality, of an endless and beginningless eternity, that which descends upon and grows out of the plane of material nature, the horizontal feminine line, surmounting the vertical male line — the fructifying male principle in nature or spirit. Without the handle the ''crux ansata ''became the ''tau '''''T''', which, left by itself, is an androgyne symbol, and becomes purely phallic or sexual only when it takes the shape Ê [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Crypt +

A secret subterranean vault, some for the purpose of initiation, others for burial purposes. There were crypts under every temple in antiquity. There was one on the Mount of Olives, lined with red stucco, and built before the advent of the Jews [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Crétineau-Joly, Jacques +

Bibliographical references include: Clément XIV et les jésuites, Paris, 1847. Histoire religieuse, politique et littéraire de la Compagnie de Jésus, Paris, 1851. 6 vols.; 3rd ed. Paris: J. Lecoffre & Cie. 1859 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#411|9:411]][[SMW::on]]). +

Csoma de Kőrös, Alexander +

For his biography, de Zirkoff refers readers to the appendix of ''Collected Writings'', volume I, page 372. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#501|3:501]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix refers to his biography in volume V, page 372. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#640|4:640]][[SMW::on]]). Hungarian traveller and Tibetan scholar (1784-1842), whose search for the Asian origins of the Magyars led him to study Tibetan literature. Prepared a Tibetan grammar and a Tibetan-English dictionary, both published at Calcutta in 1834 for the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#372|5:372]][[SMW::on]]). +