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Asgard +

The kingdom and the habitat of the Norse gods, the Scandinavian Olympus ; situated “higher than the Home of the Light‐Elves”, but on the same plane as Jotunheim, the home of the Jotuns, the wicked giants versed in magic, with whom the gods are at eternal war. It is evident that the gods of Asgard are the same as the Indian ''Suras ''(gods) and the Jotuns as the ''Asuras'', both representing the conflicting powers of nature — beneficent and maleficent. They are the prototypes also of the Greek gods and the Titans [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ash +

Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as ''As'', ''Aish ''and ''Esch'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ash Yggdrasil +

The “Mundane Tree”, the Symbol of the World with the old Norsemen, the “tree of the universe, of time and of life”. It is ever green, for the Norns of Fate sprinkle It daily with the water of life from the fountain of Urd, which flows in Midgard. The dragon Nidhogg gnaws its roots incessantly, the dragon of Evil and Sin; but the Ash Yggdrasil cannot wither, until the Last Battle (the Seventh Race in the Seventh Round) is fought, when life, time, and the world will all vanish and disappear [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ashburner, John +

Zirkoff suggests that Blavatsky's unspecific reference may concern ''Facts in Clairvoyance'' (1848) or ''Notes and Studies in the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and Spiritualism'' (1867). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#620|4:620]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ashen and Langhan +

Certain ceremonies for casting out evil spirits, akin to those of exorcism with the Christians, in use with the Kolarian tribes in India [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asherah +

A word, which occurs in the Old Testament, and is commonly translated “groves” referring to idolatrous worship, but it is probable that it really referred to ceremonies of sexual depravity; it is a feminine noun. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ashmog +

The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the ''Avesta''; a kind of allegorical Satan, who after the Fall, “lost its nature and its name”. Called in the old Hebrew (Kabbalistic) texts the “flying camel”; evidently a reminiscence or tradition in both cases of the prehistoric or antediluvian monsters, half bird, half reptile [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ashmole, Elias +

English antiquary with interests in heraldry, astrology and alchemy. His collection, presented to Oxford in 1677, formed the basis of the Ashmolean Museum; he also published Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#565|11:565-566]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ashta Siddhis +

The eight consummations in the practice of Hatha Yoga [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ashtadhyayi +

Panini’s grammatical work. Zirkoff lists W. Goonetilleke’s edition with a partial English translation (Bombay, 1882), S. C. Vasu’s translation (Allahabad, 1891-98), and Otto Böhtlingk’s German translation (Leipzig, 1887). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#362|5:362]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ashtadisa +

The eight‐faced space. An imaginary division of space represented as an ''octagon ''and at other times as a ''dodecahedron'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ashtar Vidya +

The most ancient of the Hindu works on Magic. Though there is a claim that the entire work is in the hands of some Occultists, yet the Orientalists deem it lost. A very few fragments of it are now extant, and even these are very much disfigured [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asiatick Researches +

Transactions of the society founded in Bengal to study Asian history, antiquities, arts, sciences and literature; published in Calcutta in twenty volumes (1788-1839), with other editions and an index to the first eighteen volumes. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#620|4:620]][[SMW::on]]). Transactions of the society founded in Bengal to study the history, antiquities, arts, sciences and literature of Asia. Zirkoff lists twenty Calcutta volumes (1788-1839), eleven London volumes (1801-12), and a new Calcutta edition (1875). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#370|5:370]][[SMW::on]]). Transactions of the society founded in Bengal for the study of Asian history, antiquities, arts, sciences and literature; the bibliography lists twenty Calcutta volumes, 1788-1839 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#405|9:405]][[SMW::on]]). +

Asiras +

Elementals without heads; lit., “headless” ; used also of the first two human races [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asita +

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

Ask +

The “tree of Knowledge”. Together with the ''Embla ''(alder) the Ask was the tree from which the gods of Asgard created the first man [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aski‐kataski‐haix‐tetrax‐damnameneus‐aision +

These mystic words, which Athanasius Kircher tells us meant “ Darkness, Light, Earth, Sun, and Truth”, were, says Hesychius, engraved upon the zone or belt of the Diana of Ephesus. Plutarch says that the priests used to recite these words over persons who were possessed by devils. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asmodeus +

The Persian ''Aêshma‐dev, ''the ''Esham‐dev ''of the Parsis, “the evil Spirit of Concupiscence”, according to Bréal, whom the Jews appropriated under the name of ''Ashmedai'', “the Destroyer ”, the ''Talmud ''identifying the creature with Beelzebub and Azrael (Angel of Death), and calling him the “ King of the Devils ” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asmoneans +

Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon of the Mosaic Testament in contradistinction to the “Apocrypha” (q.v.) or Secret Books of the Alexandrian Jews, the Kabbalists, and maintained the dead‐letter meaning of the former. Till the time of John Hyrcanus, they were Ascedeans ''(Chasidim'') and Pharisees; but later they became Sadducees or Zadokites, asserters of Sacerdotal rule as contradistinguished from Rabbinical [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asoka +

A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in reality, according to the chronicles of Northern Buddhism, though the first Asoka — the grand father of the second, named by Prof. Max Muller the “Constantine of India”, was better known by his name of Chandragupta. It is the former who was called, ''Piadasi ''(Pali) “the beautiful”, and ''Devânam‐piya ''“the beloved of the gods”, and also ''Kâlâsoka; ''while the name of his grandson was ''Dharmâsôká'' — the Asoka of the good law‐ — on account of his devotion to Buddhism. Moreover, according to the same source, the second Asoka had never followed the Brahmanical faith, but was a Buddhist born. It was his grandsire who had been first converted to the new faith, after which he had a number of edicts inscribed on pillars and rocks, a custom followed also by his grandson. But it was the second Asoka who was the most zealous supporter of Buddhism; he, who maintained in his palace from 60 to 70,000 monks and priests, who erected 84,000 ''totes ''and ''stupas ''throughout India, reigned 36 years, and sent missions to Ceylon, and throughout the world. The inscriptions of various edicts published by him display most noble ethical sentiments, especially the edict at Allahahad, on the so‐called “Asoka’s column ”, in the Fort. The sentiments are lofty and poetical, breathing tenderness for animals as well as men, and a lofty view of a king’s mission with regard to his people, that might be followed with great success in the present age of cruel wars and barbarous vivisection [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +