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Raumasa +

A class of devas (gods) said to have originated from the pores of Verabhadra’s skin. An allusion to the ''pre‐Adamic ''race called the “sweat‐born”. (''Secret Doctrine'', Vol. II.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ravail +

The true name of the Founder of modern Spiritism in France, who is better known under the pseudonym of'' Allan Kardec''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ravaison-Mollien, Félix +

Bibliographical references include: La Philosophie en France au xixme siècle. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1868 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#588|11:588]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ravana +

The King‐Demon (the Râkshasas), the Sovereign of Lankâ (Ceylon), who carried away Sîta, Râma’s wife, which led to the great war described in the'' '' ''Râmâyana.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ravi +

A name of the Sun. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ravignan, Le Père Gustave-François-Xavier de Lacroix +

Bibliographical references include: Clément XIII et Clément XIV, Paris, 1854 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#449|9:449]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ra’hmin Seth +

According to the ''Kabala'' (or ''Qabbalah)'', the “soul‐sparks”, contained in Adam (Kadmon), went into three sources, the heads of which were his three sons. Thus, while the “soul spark” (or ''Ego'') called Chesed went into Habel, and Geboor‐ah into Qai‐ yin (Cain) — Ra’hmin went into Seth, and these three sons were divided into seventy human species, called “the principal roots of the human race”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Reade, W. Winwood +

*''The Veil of Isis''. London: Chas. J. Skeet, 1861. 250 pp. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#523|1:523]][[SMW::on]]). +

Rebus +

St Petersburg weekly edited by Victor Pribitkov. Initially a paper of riddles, it became an organ of Spiritualism and mediumism in Russia; de Zirkoff notes important holdings in the New York Public Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). In January 1886 it published a Russian version of “The Cave of the Echoes” which differs from the English text. Attribution of the translation to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] is tentative, not established ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Cave of the Echoes#338|BCW 1:338]]). Published [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s letter to its editor V. Pribitkov in no. 37 of 1885. An English translation appeared in Theosophia in November–December 1948. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Letter from H.P. Blavatsky to the Editor of Rebus#406|BCW 6:406-407]]) +

Rechaka +

A practice in Hatha Yoga, during the performance of Prânâyâma or the regulation of breath : namely, that of opening one nostril and emitting breath therefrom, and keeping the other closed; one of the three operations respectively called Pûraka, Kumbhaka and Rechaka — operations very pernicious to health. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Recognitions +

The bibliography refers the reader to pp. 221-22 of BCW volume 8 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#473|8:473]][[SMW::on]]). +

Red Colour +

This has always been associated with male characteristics, especially by the Etruscans and Hindoos. In Hebrew it is Adam, the same as the word for “earth” and “the first man”. It seems that nearly all myths represent the first perfect man as white. The same word without the initial A is Dam or Dem, which means Blood, also of red colour. [w.w.w.] The colour of the fourth Principle in man — ''Kâma'', the seat of desires is represented red. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Reddiar, S. Nayana +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Redlich, Anne +

Helped establish several obscure dates for the index to volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi-xxii]]) +

Reflexes of the Brain +

[[Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich|I. M. Sechenov]]’s work, published in Russian in 1863 and 1866, cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in discussing L. Gambetta’s brain. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Gambettas Eye and Brain#510|BCW 4:510]]) +

Regnaud, Paul +

French philologist (1838-1910), professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar at Lyon. His writings include studies of the principal Upanishads and ''Matériaux pour servir à l’histoire de la philosophie de l’Inde'' (1876-1878). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#444|6:444]][[SMW::on]]). +

Reichenbach, Baron Karl von +

German chemist and industrialist (1788-1869), discoverer of paraffin and creosote. He investigated a supposed force he called Od, publishing numerous studies; William Gregory translated his major Researches on Magnetism into English in 1850. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#541|2:541]][[SMW::on]]). His two-volume research on magnetism, electricity, heat and light in relation to vital force appeared at Braunschweig in 1850; William Gregory's English translation, ''Researches on Magnetism'', was published in London the same year. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#523|3:523]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites his researches on magnetism and related phenomena in William Gregory's English translation (1850). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#664|4:664]][[SMW::on]]). +

Reigle D. - The Books of Kiu-te, or the Tibetan Buddhist Tantras +

A study by D. Reigle published by Wizards Bookshelf in San Diego in 1983 and recommended for clarifying [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s references to the Books of Kiu-te. ([[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Reincarnations of Buddha#402|BCW 14:402]]) The full title is confirmed by [https://theosophy.world/articles/blavatskysecret-doctrine/what-are-books-kiu-te-david-reigle the author]. +

Reigle, David +

Assisted with Sanskrit and Tibetan terminology in volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings and provided resources from his Eastern School Reference Library. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi-xxii]]) +

Reincarnation +

The doctrine of rebirth, believed in by Jesus and the Apostles, as by all men in those days, but denied now by the Christians. All the Egyptian converts to Christianity, Church Fathers and others, believed in this doctrine, as shown by the writings of several. In the still existing symbols, the human‐headed bird flying towards a mummy, a body, or “the soul uniting itself with its ''sahou'' (glorified body of the Ego, and also the ''kâmalokic shell'') proves this belief. “The song of the Resurrection” chanted by Isis to recall her dead husband to life, might be translated “Song of Rebirth”, as Osiris is collective Humanity. “Oh! Osiris [here follows the name of the Osirified mummy, or the departed], rise again in holy earth (matter), august mummy in the coffin, under thy corporeal substances”, was the funeral prayer of the priest over the deceased. “Resurrection” with the Egyptians never meant the resurrection of the mutilated mummy, but of the ''Soul'' that informed it, the Ego in a new body. The putting on of flesh periodically by the Soul or the Ego, was a universal belief; nor can anything be more consonant with justice and Karmic law. (See [[Pre‐existence]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +