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A

Asat +

A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather ''non‐be‐ness. ''The “incomprehensible nothingness”. ''Sat'', the immutable, eternal, ever‐present, and the one real “Be‐ness” (not Being) is spoken of as being “ Born of Asat, and Asat begotten by Sat”. The unreal, or Prakriti, objective nature regarded as an illusion. Nature, or the illusive shadow of its one true essence [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Denis, Angoras +

A physician of Paris, astrologer and alchemist in the XIVth century” (R.M.C.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Azareksh +

A place celebrated for a fire‐temple of the Zoroastrians and Magi during the time of Alexander the Great [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Baresma +

A plant used by Mobeds (''Parsi priests'') in the fire‐ temples, wherein consecrated bundles of it are kept [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mandragora +

A plant whose root has the human form. In Occultism it is used by ''black ''magicians for various illicit objects, and some of the “left‐hand” Occultists make ''homunculi ''with it. It is commonly called ''mandrake'', and is supposed to cry out when pulled out of the ground [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chiim +

A plural noun—“lives”; found in compound names Elohim Chum, the gods of lives, Parkhurst translates “the living God” and Ruach Chiim, Spirit of lives or of life. [ w.w. w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Harivansa +

A portion of the ''Mahâbhârata'', a poem on the genealogy of Vishnu, or Hari [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

P

Padma Asana +

A posture prescribed to and practised by some Yogis for developing concentration [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Berosus +

A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as taught in the Temples, from the astronomical and chronological records preserved in that temple. The fragments we have in the ''soi‐disant ''translations of Eusebius are certainly as untrustworthy as the biographer of the Emperor Constantine—of whom he made a saint (!!)—could make them. The only guide to this Cosmogony may now be found in the fragments of the Assyrian tablets, evidently copied almost bodily from the earlier Babylonian records; which, say what the Orientalists may, are undeniably the originals of the Mosaic Genesis, of the Flood, the tower of Babel, of baby Moses set afloat on the waters, and of other events. For, if the fragments from the Cosmogony of Berosus, so carefully re‐edited and probably mutilated and added to by Eusebius, are no great proof of the antiquity of these records in Babylonia—seeing that this priest of Belus lived three hundred years after the Jews were carried captive to Babylon, and they may have been borrowed by the Assyrians from them—later discoveries have made such a consoling hypothesis impossible. It is now fully ascertained by Oriental scholars that not only “Assyria borrowed its civilization and written characters from Babylonia,” but the Assyrians copied their literature from Babylonian sources. Moreover, in his first Hibbert lecture, Professor Sayce shows the culture both of Babylonia itself and of the city of Eridu to have been of ''foreign importation''; and, according to this scholar, the city of Eridu stood already “6,000 years ago on the shores of the Persian gulf,” i.e., about the very time when Genesis shows the Elohim creating the world, sun, and stars out of nothing [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

H

Hotri +

A priest who recites the hymns from the ''Rig Veda'', and makes oblations to the fire [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asita +

A proper name; a son of Bharata; a Rishi and a Sage [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Ecstasis +

A psycho‐spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing on visions [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lebanon +

A range of mountains in Syria, with a few remnants of the gigantic cedar trees, a forest of which once crowned its summit. Tradition says that it is here, that the timber for King Solomon’s temple was obtained. (See “Druzes”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ilavriti +

A region in the centre of which is placed Mount Meru, the habitat of the gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Loka +

A region or circumscribed place. In metaphysics, a world or sphere or plane. The Purânas in India speak incessantly of seven and fourteen Lokas, above, and below our earth; of heavens and hells [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mahar Loka +

A region wherein dwell the ''Munis ''or “Saints” during Pralaya; according to the Purânic accounts. It is the usual abode of Bhrigâ, a Prajâpati (Progenitor) and a Rishi, one of the seven who are said to be co‐existent with Brahmâ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gangi +

A renowned Sorcerer in the time of Kâsyapa Buddha (a predecessor of Gautama). Gangi was regarded as an incarnation of Apalâla, the Nâga (Serpent), the guardian Spirit of the Sources of Subhavastu, a river in Udyâna. Apalâla is said to have been converted by Gautama Buddha, to the good Law, and become an Arhat. The allegory of the name is comprehensible : all the Adepts and Initiates were called ''nâgas, ''“ Serpents of Wisdom” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hwergelmir +

A roaring cauldron wherein the souls of the evil doers perish [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Laena +

A robe worn by the Roman Augurs with which they covered their heads while sitting in contemplation on the flight of birds [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Druids +

A sacerdotal caste which flourished in Britain and Gaul. They were Initiates who admitted females into their sacred order, and initiated them into the mysteries of their religion. They never entrusted their sacred verses and scriptures to writing, but, like the Brahmans of old, committed them to memory; a feat which, according to the statement of Cæsar took twenty years to accomplish. Like the Parsis they had no images or statues of their gods. The Celtic religion considered it blasphemy to represent any god, even of a minor character, under a human figure. It would have been well if the Greek and Roman Christians had learnt this lesson from the “pagan” Druids. The three chief commandments of their religion were:—“Obedience to divine laws; concern for the welfare of mankind; suffering with fortitude all the evils of life” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +