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Title associated in the bibliography with a Coptic copy; Zirkoff records it as untraced. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings' compiled by B. de Zirkoff">BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#389|7:389]][[SMW::on]]</span>)</span>. +
Undifferentiated substance, called elsewhere and in other schools — Akâsa; and Mulaprakriti or Root of Matter by the Vedantins. In short, Primeval Matter. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Depicts an afternoon reception at the Arundales attended by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], O. Lodge and O. A. Novikov. Published in two volumes in London in 1885. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxiii|BCW 6:xxxiii,xlv]]</span>)</span> +
Roman senator of distinguished ability and uncorrupted morals, proconsul of Achaia in the reign of Julian, and praefectus urbi under Valentinian I; died while in this last office, when he was consul elect <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings' compiled by B. de Zirkoff">BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#586|11:586]][[SMW::on]]</span>)</span>. +
Or ''Prajna''. A synonym of ''Mahat'' the Universal Mind. The capacity for perception. (''S. D.'', I. 139) Consciousness. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
The son of Hiranyakashipu, the King of the Asuras. As Prahlâda was devoted to Vishnu, of whom his father was the greatest enemy, he became subjected in consequence to a variety of tortures and punishments. In order to save his devotee from these, Vishnu assumed the form of ''Nri‐Sinha'' (man‐lion, his fourth ''avatar'') and killed the father. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Progenitors; the givers of life to all on this Earth. They are seven and then ten — corresponding to the seven and ten Kabbalistic Sephiroth; to the Mazdean Amesha‐Spentas, &c. Brahmâ the creator, is called Prajâpati as the synthesis of the Lords of Being. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
One of the provincial dialects of Sanskrit — “the language of the gods”, and therefore, its materialisation. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Nature in general, nature as opposed to Purusha — spiritual nature and Spirit, which together are the “two primeval aspects of the One Unknown Deity”. (''Secret Doctrine,'' I. 51.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
The Pralaya succeeding to the Age of Brahmâ, when everything that exists is resolved into its primordial essence (or Prakriti). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
A period of obscuration or repose — planetary, cosmic or universal — the opposite of Manvantara ''(S. D.'', I. 370.). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
An accessory to producing the sacred fire by friction. The sticks used by Brahmins to kindle fire by friction. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Things to be proved; objects of ''Pramâna'' or proof. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
A female'' Apsaras'' — a water‐nymph who beguiled Kandu. (See [[Kandu]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Lit., “Master of all”, a deity‐ title. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
Indian Theosophist and administrator in the State of Gwalior. He served as minister of education in Gwalior and president of the Satya Marga Theosophical Society in Lucknow, and received a letter from the Mahatma Koot Hoomi. +
Life‐Principle ; the breath of Life. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
The vehicle of ''Prâna'', life, or the ''Linga Sarîra'' a Vedantic term. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
The same as ''Sutrâtmâ'', the eternal germ‐ thread on which are strung, like beads, the personal lives of the EGO. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +
A sacred word, equivalent to'' Aum''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. +