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Shastra +

A treatise or book; any work of divine or accepted authority, including law books. A Shâstri means to this day, in India, a man learned in divine and human law. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shcherbatov Family +

A Russian princely family that included the historian M. M. Shcherbatov, author of a multi-volume history of Russia. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Book|BCW 2:352]]) +

Shcherbatov, Prince Mihail Mihaylovich +

The bibliography lists his seven-volume Russian History from the Earliest Times (St Petersburg, 1774-1805). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#544|2:544]][[SMW::on]]). +

Shedim +

See “Siddim ”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shekinah +

A title applied to Malkuth, the tenth Sephira, by the Kabbalists; but by the Jews to the cloud of glory which rested on the Mercy‐seat in the Holy of Holies. As taught, however, by all the Rabbins of Asia Minor, its nature is of a more exalted kind, Shekinah being the veil of Ain‐Soph, the Endless and the Absolute; hence a kind of Kabbalistic Mûlaprakriti. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shelley, Percy Bysshe +

Bibliographical references include: Hellas. Prometheus Unbound. Queen Mab. The Necessity of Atheism, 1811 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#590|11:590]][[SMW::on]]). +

Shelley, William B. +

American Theosophist and a founder and president of the Rochester branch of the Theosophical Society. +

Shells +

A Kabbalistic name for the phantoms of the dead, the “spirits” of the Spiritualists, figuring in physical phenomena; so named on account of their being simply illusive forms, empty of their higher principles. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shemal +

Samâel, the spirit of the earth, its presiding ruler and genius. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shemhamphorash +

The separated name. The mirific name derived from the substance of deity and showing its self‐existent essence. Jesus was accused by the Jews of having stolen this name from the Temple by magic arts, and of using it in the production of his miracles. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sheol +

The hell of the Hebrew Pantheon; a region of stillness and inactivity as distinguished from Gehenna, (''q.v''.). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sherman, Edwin A +

His The Engineer Corps of Hell; or, Rome's Sappers and Miners was published in San Francisco in 1883; the bibliography describes it as including a secret manual of the Jesuits (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#453|9:453]][[SMW::on]]). +

Shien‐Sien +

A state of bliss and soul‐freedom, during which a man can travel in spirit where he likes. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shiites +

A sect of Mussulmen who place the prophet '''Ali''' higher than Mohammed, rejecting Sunnah or tradition. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shila +

The second virtue of the ten Pâramitâs of perfection. Perfect harmony in words and acts. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shimon ben Yohai +

See Vol. VII, pp. 269-70, for particulars about his life and work. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#524|1:524]][[SMW::on]]). For biographical information, de Zirkoff refers readers to ''Collected Writings'', volume VII, pages 269-270. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#530|3:530]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix refers readers to page 269 of the volume for information about him. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#395|7:395]][[SMW::on]]). Vide for biographical data Vol. VII, pp. 269-70 of the present Series (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#474|8:474]][[SMW::on]]). Vide Vol. VII, pp. 269-70, of the present Series for information concerning him (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#453|9:453]][[SMW::on]]). See Vol. VII, pp. 269-70, for biogr. inform (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#590|11:590]][[SMW::on]]). A pupil of Akiba at Bene-Berak. According to the tradition related by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], he spent thirteen years hiding in a cave, where he received instruction from the prophet Elijah; his disciples Eleazar and Abba recorded teachings later incorporated into the Zohar. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#269|BCW 7:269-270]])

Shing-Tao-ki +

Work attributed to Wang-Puh in de Zirkoff’s bibliography; no further information was available to the compiler. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#426|6:426]][[SMW::on]]). +

Shinto +

The ancient religion of Japan before Buddhism, based upon the worship of spirits and ancestors. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shoel‐ob +

A consulter with familiar “spirits”; a necromancer, a raiser of the dead, or of their phantoms. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Shoo +

A personification of the god Ra; represented as the “great cat of the Basin of Persea in Anu”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +