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Maitreya Buddha +

The same as the ''Kalki Avatar ''of Vishnu (the “White Horse” Avatar), and of Sosiosh and other Messiahs. The only difference lies in the dates of their appearances. Thus, while Vishnu is expected to appear on his white horse at the end of the present ''Kali Yuga ''age “for the final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of creation and the restoration of purity”, Maitreya is expected earlier. Exoteric or popular teaching making slight variations on the esoteric doctrine states that Sakyamuni (Gautama Buddha) visited him in Tushita (a celestial abode) and commissioned him to issue thence on earth as his successor at the expiration of five thousand years after his (Buddha’s) death. This would be in less than 3,000 years hence. Esoteric philosophy teaches that the next Buddha will appear during the seventh (sub) race of this Round. The fact is that Maitreya was a follower of Buddha, a well‐known Arhat, though not his direct disciple, and that he was the founder of an esoteric philosophical school. As shown by Eitel (''Sanskrit‐Chinese Dict.''), “statues were erected in his honour as early as B.C. 350” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Majji +

An Indian female ascetic visited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] at Benares on 16 December 1879; she returned their visit. Olcott met her again in December 1880. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxix,xxxv]]) +

Majumdar, Barada Kanta +

Bengali Theosophist and writer on Tantric philosophy. In 1883 he was attempting to establish a Theosophical branch at Jessore. +

Makara +

“The Crocodile.” In Europe the same as Capricorn; the tenth sign of the Zodiac. Esoterically, a mystic class of devas. With the Hindus, the vehicle of Varuna, the water‐god [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Makara Ketu +

A name of Kâma, the Hindu god of love and desire [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Makaram +

In occult symbology a pentagon, the five‐pointed star, the five limbs, or extremities, of man. Very mystical [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Makaras +

The five M’s of the Tantrikas. (See “Tantra”) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Malachim +

The messengers or angels [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Malherbe F. - Consolation a Duperier +

A poem written about 1599, the source of the lines about a rose living only a morning quoted by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Beacon of the Unknown#268|BCW 11:268]]) +

Malherbe, François de +

Bibliographical references include: Consolation à Duperier, ca. 1599 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#580|11:580]][[SMW::on]]). +

Malkuth +

The Kingdom, the tenth Sephira, corresponding to the final H ''(hé) ''of the Tetragrammaton or IHVH. It is the Inferior Mother, the Bride of the Microprosopus ''(q.v.)''; also called the “Queen” It is, in one sense, the Shekinah. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mallery, Garrick +

An American ethnologist, formerly a lawyer and army officer. He joined the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879. His research focused on Indigenous North American sign languages and pictography, studied in comparison with other systems of communication. +

Malon, Benoît +

French socialist, journalist and participant in the Paris Commune. Founded and edited ''La Revue socialiste''. His account of Louis Dramard was translated for ''The Theosophist''. +

Malpas, Philip +

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]]) Prepared a manuscript translation of Pistis Sophia with the Lucifer notes and commentary and extracts from the Church Fathers. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] describes it as apparently a recension of Latin, German and French versions and quotes Malpas’s explanation of pistis as intuitional knowledge. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Introductory Notes to H.P.B.s Commentary on the Pistis Sophia#4|BCW 13:4-6]]) +

Mamitu +

The goddess of Fate. A kind of Nemesis [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manas +

Lit., “the mind”, the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of ''Mahat''. ''Esoterically, ''however, it means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists ''Buddhi‐ Manas ''or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection — ''Kâma‐Manas.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manas Sanyama +

Perfect concentration of the mind, and control over it, during Yoga practices [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manas Taijasi +

Lit., the “radiant” Manas; a state of the Higher Ego, which only high metaphysicians are able to realize and comprehend [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manas, Kama +

Lit., “the mind of desire.” With the Buddhists it is the ''sixth ''of the Chadâyatana ''(q.v.)'', or the six organs of knowledge, hence the highest of these, synthesized by the seventh called ''Klichta'', the spiritual perception of that which defiles this (lower) Manas, or the “Human‐animal Soul”, as the Occultists term it. While the Higher Manas or the Ego is directly related to ''Vijnâna ''(the 10th of the 12 Nidânas) — which is the perfect knowledge of all forms of knowledge, whether relating to object or subject in the nidânic concatenation of causes and effects; the lower, the Kâma Manas is but one of the ''Indriya ''or organs (roots) of Sense. Very little can be said of the dual Manas here, as the doctrine that treats of it, is correctly stated only in esoteric works. Its mention can thus be only very superficial [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manasa +

“The efflux of the ''divine ''mind,” and explained as meaning that this efflux signifies the ''manasa ''or divine sons of Brahmâ‐Virâj. Nilakantha who is the authority for this statement, further explains the term “manasa” by ''manomâtrasarira''. These Manasa are the ''Arupa ''or incorporeal sons of the Prajâpati Virâj, in another version. But as Arjuna Misra identifies Virâj with Brahmâ, and as Brahmâ is Mahat, the universal mind, the exoteric blind becomes plain. The Pitris are identical with the Kumâra, the Vairaja, the Manasa‐Putra (mind sons), and are finally identified with the human “Egos” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +