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Rings, Magic +

These existed as talismans in every folk‐ lore. In Scandinavia such rings are always connected with the elves and dwarfs who were alleged to be the possessors of talismans and who gave them occasionally to human beings whom they wished to protect. In the words of the chronicler: “These magic rings brought good luck to the owner so long as they were carefully preserved ; but their loss was attended with terrible misfortunes and unspeakable misery”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Riphaeus +

In mythology a mountain chain upon which slept the frozen‐hearted god of snows and hurricanes. In Esoteric philosophy a real prehistoric continent which from a tropical ever sunlit land has now become a desolate region beyond the Arctic Circle. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Rishabha +

A sage supposed to have been the first teacher of the Jain doctrines in India. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Rishabham +

The Zodiacal sign Taurus. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Rishis +

Adepts; the inspired ones. In Vedic literature the term is employed to denote those persons through whom the various Mantras were revealed. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Rishi‐Prajapati +

''Lit.'', “revealers”, holy sages in the religious history of Âryavarta. Esoterically the highest of them are the Hierarchies of “Builders” and Architects of the Universe and of living things on earth; they are generally called Dhyan Chohans, Devas and gods. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Rivett-Carnac, John Henry +

Bengal civil servant (1858-1894) and student of Indian antiquities, especially ancient rock markings. His Archaeological Notes on Ancient Sculpturings on Rocks in Kumaon was reprinted from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1870. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#542|2:542]][[SMW::on]]). +

Rivington, Luke +

Son of a publisher; educ. at Magdalen Coll. Oxford. Ordained as Anglican clergyman, 1862; noted as preacher at All Saints, Margaret St. London; became superior of the Cowley Fathers’s house in Bombay (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#451|9:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ri‐thlen +

''Lit.'', “snake‐keeping”. It is a terrible kind of sorcery practised at Cherrapoonjee in the Khasi‐Hills. The former is the ancient capital of the latter. As the legend tells us : ages ago a ''thlen'' (serpent‐dragon) which inhabited a cavern and devoured men and cattle was put to death by a local St. George, and cut to pieces, every piece being sent out to a different district to be burnt. But the piece received by the Khasis was preserved by them and became a kind of household god, and their descendants developed into ''Ri‐thlens ''or “snake keepers”, for the piece they preserved grew into a dragon ''(thlen)'' and ever since has obsessed certain Brahmin families of that district. To acquire the good grace of their ''thlen'' and save their own lives, these “keepers” have often to commit murders of women and children, from whose bodies they cut out the toe and finger nails, which they bring to their ''thlen'', and thus indulge in a number of black magic practices connected with sorcery and necromancy. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ro and Ru +

The gate or outlet, the spot in the heavens whence proceeded or was born primeval light; synonymous with “cosmic womb”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Robb, Richard +

Redrew several Coptic and Greek symbols and expanded the unfinished bibliography for volume XIII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) Wrote most of the bio-bibliographical appendix to volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings and completed [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s unfinished entries. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi-xxii]]) +

Robertson, Dr. William +

Scottish historian (1721-1793), principal of Edinburgh University from 1762 and royal historiographer of Scotland from 1764. His works include histories of Scotland, Charles V and America; the first eight books of the latter appeared in 1777. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#542|2:542]][[SMW::on]]). +

Robertson, Frederick William +

English divine, known as Robertson of Brighton. Studied at Edinburgh Univ. and at Oxford (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#451|9:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Roca +

Vide pp. 341-42 of BCW volume 8 for all pertinent information available (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#474|8:474]][[SMW::on]]). Vide Volume VIII, pp. 341-42, for all pertinent information that is available (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#451|9:451]][[SMW::on]]). All available information concerning him and his works will be found in Vol. VIII, pp. 341-42, of the present Series (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#588|11:588]][[SMW::on]]). Debated with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in Le Lotus from December 1887 to June 1888. After the decree of the Congregation of the Index of 19 September 1888, he refused to recant and was suspended from priestly functions. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbe Roca#341|BCW 8:341-342]]) +

Roca P. - Glorieux Centenaire-1889 +

A book by P. Roca subtitled Monde Nouveau, Nouveaux Cieux, Nouvelle Terre (Paris, 1889), written after the condemnation of his earlier works. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbe Roca#342|BCW 8:342]]) +

Roca P. - La Crise fatale et le salut de lEurope +

A work by Abbé Roca listed by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] among the works condemned by the Congregation of the Index in 1888. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbe Roca#341|BCW 8:341]]) +

Roca P. - La Fin de lancien Monde +

A work by Abbé P. Roca (Paris, 1886), listed by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] among his works condemned by the Congregation of the Index in 1888. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbe Roca#341|BCW 8:341]]) +

Roca P. - Le Christ, le Pape et la Démocratie +

A work by Abbé P. Roca (Paris, 1884), listed by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] among his works condemned by the Congregation of the Index in 1888. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbe Roca#341|BCW 8:341]]) +

Rochas d’Aiglun, Eugène-Auguste-Albert de +

French officer and writer who investigated hypnotism and mesmerism. His works include studies of deep hypnosis, levitation and successive lives; Blavatsky cited his 1885 articles on colour-sound phenomena in ''La Nature''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#390|7:390]][[SMW::on]]). +

Rock, The +

London, 1868-1905 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#462|9:462]][[SMW::on]]). +