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Kalagni +

The flame of time. A divine Being created by Siva, a monster with 1,000 heads. A title of Siva meaning “the fire of fate” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalahansa +

A mystic title given to Brahma (or Parabrahman); means “the swan '''in '''and '''out '''of time”. Brahmâ (male) is called Hansa‐Vahan, the vehicle of the “Swan” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalavingka +

“The sweet‐ voiced bird of immortality “. Eitel identifies it with ''cuculus melanoleicus'', though the bird itself is allegorical and non‐existent. Its voice is heard at a certain stage of Dhyana in Yoga practice. It is said to have awakened King Bimbisara and thus saved him from the sting of a cobra. In its esoteric meaning this sweet‐voiced bird is our Higher Ego [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalevala +

The Finnish Epic of Creation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kali +

The “black”, now the name of Parvati, the consort of Siva, but originally that of one of the seven tongues of Agni, the god of fire — “the black, fiery tongue”. Evil and wickedness [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalidasa +

The greatest poet and dramatist of India [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kaliya +

The five‐headed serpent killed by Krishna in his childhood. A mystical monster symbolizing the passions of man — the river or water being a symbol of matter [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kaliyuga +

The fourth, the black or iron age, our present period, the duration of which us 432,000 years. The last of the ages into which the evolutionary period of man is divided by a series of such ages. It began 3,102 years B.C. at the moment of Krishna’s death, and the first cycle of 5,000 years will end between the years 1897 and 1898 [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalki Avatar +

The “White Horse Avatar”, which will be the last manvantaric incarnation of Vishnu, according to the Brahmins; of Maitreya Buddha, agreeably to Northern Buddhists; of Sosiosh, the last hero and Saviour of the Zoroastrians, as claimed by Parsis ; and of the “Faithful and True” on the white Horse (''Rev. ''xix.,2 ). In his future epiphany or tenth ''avatar, ''the heavens will open and Vishnu will appear “seated on a milk‐white steed, with a drawn sword blazing like a comet, for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of ‘creation’ and the ‘restoration of purity’”. (Compare ''Revelation.'') This will take place at the end of the Kaliyuga 427,000 years hence. The latter end of every Yuga is called “the destruction of the world”, as then the earth changes each time its outward form, submerging one set of continents and upheaving another set [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalluka Bhatta +

A commentator of the Hindu ''Manu Smriti ''Scriptures; a well‐known writer and historian [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalpa +

The period of a mundane revolution, generally a cycle of time, but usually, it represents a “day” and “night” of Brahmâ, a period of 4,320,000,000 years [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kama +

Evil desire, lust, volition; the cleaving to existence. Kama is generally identified with ''Mara ''the tempter [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kamadeva +

In the popular notions the god of love, a Visva‐deva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As the ''Eros ''of Hesiod, degraded into Cupid by exoteric law, and still more degraded by a later popular sense attributed to the term, so is Kama a most mysterious and metaphysical subject. The earlier Vedic description of Kama alone gives the key‐note to what he emblematizes. Kama is the first conscious, ''all embracing desire ''for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness, the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE Force, as soon as it came into life and being as a ray from the ABSOLUTE. Says the ''Rig Veda'', “Desire first arose in IT, which was the primal germ of mind, and which Sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects Entity with non‐ Entity”, or ''Manas ''with pur''e Atma‐Buddhi''. There is no idea of sexual love in the conception. Kama is pre‐eminently the divine desire of creating happiness and love; and it is only ages later, as mankind began to materialize by anthropomorphization its grandest ideals into cut and dried dogmas, that Kama became the power that gratifies desire on the animal plane. This is shown by what every ''Veda ''and some ''Brahmanas ''say. In the ''Atharva Veda, ''Kama is represented as the Supreme Deity and Creator. In the Taitarîya Brahmana, he is the child of Dharma, the god of Law and Justice, of Sraddha and faith. In another account he springs from the heart of Brahmâ. Others show him born from water, i.e., from primordial chaos, or the “Deep”. Hence one of his many names, ''Irâ‐ja, ''“the water‐ born”; and ''Aja, ''“unborn” ; and ''Atmabhu ''or “Self‐ existent”. Because of the sign of ''Makara ''(Capricornus) on his banner, he is also called “ Makara Ketu”. The allegory about Siva, the “Great Yogin ”, reducing Kama to ashes by the fire from his ''central ''(or third) ''Eye'', for inspiring the Mahadeva with thoughts of his wife, while he was at his devotions — is very suggestive, as it is said that he thereby reduced Kama to his primeval spiritual form [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Kamadhatu +

Called also Kamâvatchara, a region including Kâmalôka. In exoteric ideas it is the first of the Trailâkya — or three regions (applied also to celestial beings) or seven planes or degrees, each broadly represented by one of the three chief characteristics; namely, ''Kama, Rupa ''and ''Arupa, ''or those of desire, form and formlessness. The first of the Trailokyas, '''''Kamadhâtu, '''''is thus composed of the earth and the six inferior Devalokas, the earth being followed by ''Kamaloka ''(q.v.). These taken together constitute the seven degrees of the material world of form and sensuous gratification. The second of the Trailôkya (or Trilôkya) is called Rupadhâtu or “material form” and is also composed of seven Lokas (or localities). The third is Arupadhâtu or “immaterial lokas”. “Locality”, however, is an incorrect word to use in translating the term dhâtu, which does not mean in some of its special applications a “place” at all. For instance, ''Arupadhâtu ''is a purely subjective world, a “state” rather than a place. But as the European tongues have no adequate metaphysical terms to express certain ideas, we can only point out the difficulty [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kamaloka +

The ''semi''‐material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied “personalities”, the astral forms, called ''Kamarupa ''remain, until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires; (See [[Kamarupa]].) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows; a division of the first group of the ''Trailôkya. ''(See [[Kamadhatu|Kamadhâtu]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kamarupa +

Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies. After that death three of the seven “principles” — or let us say planes of senses and consciousness on which the human instincts and ideation act in turn — viz., the body, its astral prototype and physical vitality, — being of no further use, remain on earth; the three higher principles, grouped into one, merge into the state of Devachan (''q.v''.), in which state the Higher Ego will remain until the hour for a new reincarnation arrives; and the ''eidolon ''of the ex‐Personality is left alone in its new abode. Here, the pale copy of the man that was, vegetates for a period of time, the duration of which is variable and according to the element of materiality which is left in it, and which is determined by the past life of the defunct. Bereft as it is of its higher mind, spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will gradually fade out and disintegrate. But, if forcibly drawn back into the terrestrial sphere whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices — one of the most pernicious of which is medium‐ ship — the “spook” may prevail for a period greatly exceeding the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kamarupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire, feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. In India these ''eidolons ''are called ''Pisâchas, ''and are much dreaded, as already explained elsewhere [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Kamea +

An amulet, generally a magic square [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kandu +

A holy sage of the second root‐race, a yogi, whom Pramlôcha, a “nymph” sent by Indra for that purpose, beguiled, and lived with for several centuries. Finally, the Sage returning to his senses, repudiated and chased her away. Whereupon she gave birth to a daughter, Mârishâ. The story is in an allegorical fable from the ''Purânas''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kanishka +

A King of the Tochari, who flourished when the third Buddhist Synod met in Kashmir, i.e., about the middle of the last century B.C., a great patron of Buddhism, he built the finest ''stûpas ''or dagobas in Northern India and Kabulistan [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kanishthas +

A class of gods which will manifest in the fourteenth or last manvantara of our world — according to the Hindus [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +