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Cullavagga +

Second Section of the Khandhakas, or second main division of the Vinaya-Pitaka. SBE, Vols. XVII and XX (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#571|11:571]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cumberland, Stuart +

English mentalist known for demonstrations of “thought reading”. He explained his performances by the detection of involuntary muscular movements and disputed claims of paranormal mind-reading. +

Cunningham, Alexander +

British military engineer and archaeologist, director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India and editor of its reports. Investigated Indian antiquities, coins and Buddhist architecture; his works include ''Bhilsa Topes'' and ''Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#372|5:372-373]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cunningham, Ernest +

Assisted with the early volumes of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] included the name in his collective acknowledgment for research, reference checking, manuscript copying and technical assistance. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|BCW 4:xix]]) +

Curetes +

The Priest‐Initiates of ancient Crete, in the service of Cybele. Initiation in their temples was very severe ; it lasted twenty‐seven days, during which time the aspirant was left by himself in a crypt, undergoing terrible trials. Pythagoras was initiated into these rites and came out victorious [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Curtius G. - Grundzüge der griechischen Etymologie +

A work by [[Curtius, Georg|G. Curtius]] (Leipzig, 1858–1862), translated into English by A. S. Wilkins and E. B. England. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] points to p. 204 of the fifth German edition of 1879 and notes that the English pagination differs from [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s reference. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Notes on Abbe Rocas Esotericism of Christian Dogma#375|BCW 8:375]]) +

Curtius, Georg +

German classical philologist. Held philological appointments at Prague, Kiel and Leipzig, between the years 1849 and 1862 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#434|8:434-435]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cutha +

An ancient city in Babylonia after which a tablet giving an account of “creation” is named. The “Cutha tablet” speaks of a temple of Sittam”, in the sanctuary of Nergal, the “giant king of war, lord of the city of Cutha”, and is purely esoteric, it has to be read symbolically, if at all [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cuvier, Frédéric +

The bibliography cites his account of Buffon’s life in ''Biographie universelle'' and refers also to the entry on Flourens. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#366|7:366]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cuvier, Georges +

was a French naturalist and zoologist. +

Cycle +

From the Greek ''Kuklos''. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical. There were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great Orphic cycle, referring to the ethnological change of races, lasting 120,000 years, and the cycle of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary influences and their correlations between men and gods — a fact entirely lost sight of by modern astrologers [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cynocephalus +

The Egyptian ''Hapi. ''There was a notable difference between the ape‐headed gods and the “Cynocephalus” (''Simia hamadryas''), a dog‐headed baboon from upper Egypt. The latter, whose sacred city was Hermopolis, was sacred to the lunar deities and Thoth Hermes, hence an emblem of secret wisdom — as was Hanuman, the monkey‐god of India, and later, the elephant‐headed Ganesha. The mission of the Cynocephalus was to show the way for the Dead to the Seat of Judgment and Osiris, whereas the ape‐gods were all phallic. They are almost invariably found in a crouching posture, holding on one hand the ''outa ''(the eye of Horus), and in the other the sexual cross. Isis is seen sometimes riding on an ape, to designate the fall of divine nature into generation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde +

An illustrated collective work on the religious rites and customs of the world's peoples, edited by J.-F. Bernard and others, with drawings by Bernard Picart. Published in Amsterdam in eleven folio volumes, 1723-1743; a twelve-volume Paris edition followed in 1807-1809. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#500|3:500]][[SMW::on]]). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to Cosmogony and Anthropology#64|3:64]][[SMW::on]]) +

D

D +

Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbolical signification in the ''Kabbala ''of the ''Daleth ''is “door”. It is the Greek ''delta ''D, through which the world (whose symbol is the ''tetrad ''or number four,) issued, producing the divine seven. The name of the Tetrad was Harmony with the Pythagoreans, “because it is a diatessaron in sesquitertia”. With the Kabbalists, the divine name associated with Daleth was Daghoul [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Daath +

Knowledge; “the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah, Wisdom and Understanding”: sometimes, in error, called a Sephira. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dabar +

D (a) B (a) R (im), meaning the “Word”, and the “Words” in the Chaldean Kabbala, ''Dabar ''and ''Logoi. ''(See ''Sec.Doct. ''I. p. 350, and “[[Logos]]”, or “Word”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dabistan +

The land of Iran; ancient Persia [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Zirkoff cites the three-volume translation by David Shea and Anthony Troyer (Paris, 1843) and its inclusion in the ''Universal Classics Library'' (1901). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#364|5:364]][[SMW::on]]). +

Dache‐Dachus +

The dual emanation of Moymis, the progeny of the dual or androgynous World‐Principle, the male Apason and female Tauthe. Like all theocratic nations possessing Temple mysteries, the Babylonians never mentioned the “One” Principle of the Universe, nor did they give it a name. This made Damascious (''Theogonies'') remark that like the rest of “ barbarians” the Babylonians passed it over in silence. Tauthe was the mother of the gods, while Apason was her self‐generating male power, Moymis, the ideal universe, being her only‐ begotten son, and ''emanating ''in his turn Dache‐Dachus, and at last Belus, the Demiurge of the objective Universe [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dactyli +

From ''daktulos, ''“a finger”. The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regarded as the greatest magicians and exorcists. They were five or ten in number because of the five fingers on one hand that blessed, and the ten on both hands which evoke the gods. They also healed by manipulation or mesmerism [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dadoba Pandurang +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). Author of “Kaliya Mardana”, interpreting the Bhagavata Purana’s account of Krishna and Kaliya. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] appended an editorial footnote to his conclusion. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to Kaliya Mardana|BCW 2:382]]) +