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Sinnett A.P. - United +

A two-volume novel by [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]], published by George Redway in London in 1886. In her letter of 10 January 1887, [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] told the author about her work on a review, which appeared in The Theosophist that May. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - United#306|BCW 7:306]]) +

Sinnett, Alfred Percy +

English journalist, author and prominent early Theosophist. Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press (1865–1868) and of the Anglo-Indian newspaper The Pioneer in Allahabad (1872–1883). He and his wife Patience met H. P. Blavatsky and H. S. Olcott at Allahabad in December 1879 and joined the Theosophical Society that same month. From 1880 he carried on an extensive correspondence with the Mahatmas Koot Hoomi and Morya, later published as ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (1923). His own books ''The Occult World'' (1881) and ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (1883) did much to popularize Theosophy in the West. He served for many years as president of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Contributed [[Sinnett AP - Theosophic Morals|"Theosophic Morals"]], a critique of Judge's "Living the Higher Life," to ''The Path'' (September 1886). The bibliography lists The Occult World (London, 1881; first American edition, 1885) and The “Occult World Phenomena” and the Society for Psychical Research (London: George Redway, 1886, 60 pages). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#544|2:544]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists ''The Occult World'' (1881) and the third revised edition of ''The Mahatma Letters'' (Adyar, 1962) under Sinnett's name. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#530|3:530]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''The Occult World'' (1881) and ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (1883). Zirkoff also lists the Mahatma letters and H. P. Blavatsky’s letters addressed to him, edited by A. T. Barker and published in 1923 and 1924 respectively. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#381|5:381-382]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff lists ''The Occult World'', ''Esoteric Buddhism'', ''Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky'', and ''The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe'', alongside the collections of letters addressed to Sinnett, compiled by A. T. Barker. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#445|6:445]][[SMW::on]]). His works include ''The Occult World'' (1881), ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (1883) and ''Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky'' (1886). The bibliography also lists collections of letters addressed to him by the Mahatmas and Blavatsky, edited by A. T. Barker. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#395|7:395]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Esoteric Buddhism. London: Trübner & Co. 1883; many subs. editions. Karma. A Novel. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. 2 vols.; 2nd ed. Chicago: Rand, McNally Co. 1886 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#475|8:475]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Esoteric Buddhism. London: Trübner & Co. 1883; many subs. editions (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#453|9:453]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Esoteric Buddhism. London: Trubner & Co. 1883; many subsequent editions. Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#590|11:590]][[SMW::on]]). Author of The Occult World and Esoteric Buddhism, and recipient of the letters compiled by A. T. Barker as The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#427|10:427]][[SMW::on]]). His correspondence with the Founders began with a letter to [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] dated 25 February 1879. He hosted [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and Olcott at Simla in September-October 1880. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxvi,xxix-xxx,xxxiii-xxxiv]])

Sinnett, Patience +

English Theosophist and wife of Alfred Percy Sinnett. She joined the Theosophical Society in December 1879 and was closely acquainted with H. P. Blavatsky. Her diaries provided material for her husband’s accounts of the early Theosophical movement. Her second child was stillborn in England on 14 July 1881. She returned to India on 10 January 1882, when [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]] travelled to Bombay to meet her. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxv,xxvii]]) +

Siphra Dtzeniouta +

The Book of Concealed Mystery; one division of the ''Zohar.'' (See Mathers’ ''Kabbalah '' ''Unveiled.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Also called the Book of Concealed Mystery; the bibliography refers to Mathers's edition of the Kabbalah (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#415|8:415]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sirius +

In Egyptian,'' Sothis.'' The dog‐star: the star worshipped in Egypt and reverenced by the Occultists; by the former because its heliacal rising with the Sun was a sign of the beneficent inundation of the Nile, and by the latter because it is mysteriously associated with Thoth‐ Hermes, god of wisdom, and Mercury, in another form. Thus Sothis‐Sirius had, and still has, a mystic and direct influence over the whole ''living'' heaven, and is connected with almost every god and goddess. It was “Isis in the heaven ” and called ''Isis‐Sothis'', for Isis was “in the constellation of the dog ”, as is declared on her monuments. “The soul of Osiris was believed to reside in a personage who walks with great steps in front of'' Sothis,'' sceptre in hand and a whip upon his shoulder.” Sirius is also Anuhis, and is directly connected with the ring “Pass me not” ; it is, moreover, identical with Mithra, the Persian Mystery god, and with Horus and even Hathor, called sometimes the goddess Sothis. Being connected with the Pyramid, Sirius was, therefore, connected with the initiations which took place in it. A temple to Sirius‐ Sothis once existed within the great temple of Denderah. To sum up, all religions are not, as Dufeu, the French Egyptologist, sought to prove, derived from Sirius, the dog‐star, but Sirius‐Sothis is certainly found in connection with every religion of antiquity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sirén, Osvald +

Assisted in preparing Volume V of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.5)#xxiii|BCW 5:xxiii]]) Swedish art historian and student of European and Chinese art, long associated with the Theosophical movement. ([https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/siren-osvald Theosophical Encyclopedia: Osvald Sirén]) +

Sishta +

The great elect or Sages, left after every minor ''Pralaya'' (that which is called “obscuration” in Mr. Sinnett’s ''Esoteric Buddhism''), when the globe goes into its night or rest, to become, on its re‐awakening, the seed of the next humanity. Lit. “remnant.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sisthrus +

According to Berosus, the last of the ten kings of the dynasty of the divine kings, and the “Noah” of Chaldea. Thus, as Vishnu foretells the coming deluge to Vaivasvata‐Manu, and, fore warning, commands him to build an ark, wherein he and seven Rishis are saved ; so the god Hea foretells the same to Sisithrus (or Xisuthrus) commanding him to prepare a vessel and save himself with a few elect. Following suit, almost 800,000 years later, the Lord God of Israel repeats the warning to Noah. Which is prior, therefore? The story of Xisuthrus, now deciphered from the Assyrian tablets, corroborates that which was said of the Chaldean deluge by Berosus, Apollodorus, Abydenus, etc., etc. (See eleventh tablet in G. Smith’s'' Chaldean Account of Genesis,'' page 263, ''et seq''.). This tablet xi. covers every point treated of in chapters six and seven of Genesis — the gods, the sins of men, the command to build an ark, the Flood, the destruction of men, the dove and the raven sent out of the ark, and finally the Mount of Salvation in Armenia (Nizi r‐Ararat); all is there. The words “the god Hea heard, and his liver was angry, because his men had corrupted his purity”, and the story of his destroying all his seed, were engraved on stone tablets many thousand years before the Assyrians reproduced them on their baked tiles, and even these most assuredly antedate the Pentateuch, “written from memory” by Ezra, hardly four centuries B.c. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sistrum +

Egyptian'' ssesh'' or ''kemken''. An instrument, usually made of bronze but sometimes of gold or silver, of an open circular form, with a handle, and four wires passed through holes, to the end of which jingling pieces of metal were attached; its top was ornamented with a figure of Isis, or of Hathor. It was a sacred instrument, used in temples for the purpose of producing, by means of its combination of ''metals, magnetic currents, and sounds.'' To this day it has survived in Christian Abyssinia, under the name of ''sanasel'', and the good priests use it to “drive devils from the premises”, an act quite comprehensible to the Occultist, even though it does provoke laughter in the sceptical Orientalist. The priestess usually held it in her right hand during the ceremony of ''purification of the air,'' or the “conjuration of the elements”, as E. Lévi would call it, while the priests held the Sistrurn in their left hand, using the right to manipulate the “key of life” — the handled cross or''' Tau'''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sisumara +

An imaginary rotating belt, upon which all the celestial bodies move. This host of stars and constellations is represented under the figure of ''Sisumara,'' a tortoise (some say a ''porpoise'' !), dragon, crocodile, and what not. But as it is a symbol of the Yoga‐meditation of holy Vasudeva or Krishna, it must be a crocodile, or rather, a dolphin, since it is identical with the zodiacal Makâra. Dhruva, the ancient pole‐star, is placed at the tip of the tail of this sidereal monster, whose head points southward and whose body bends in a ring. Higher along the tail are the Prajâpati Agni, etc., and at its root are placed Indra, Dharma, and the seven Rishis (the Great Bear), etc., etc. The meaning is of course mystical. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sita Rama +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +

Siva +

The third person of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimûrti). He is a god of the first order, and in his character of Destroyer higher than Vishnu, the Preserver, as he destroys only to regenerate on a higher plane. He is born as Rudra, the Kumâra, and is the patron of all the Yogis, being called, as such, Mahâdeva the great ascetic, His titles are significant ''Trilochana'', “the three‐eyed”, ''Mahâdeva'', “the great god ”, ''Sankara'', etc., etc., etc. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sivaramakrishniaya, P. +

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

Siva‐Rudra +

Rudra is the Vedic name of Siva, the latter being absent from the Veda. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sixtus IV, Pope +

Francesco della Rovere (21 July 1414-12 August 1484), elected pope on 9 August 1471 as successor to Paul II. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#21|BCW 10:21]]) +

Si‐dzang +

The Chinese name for Tibet; mentioned in the Imperial Library of the capital of Fo Kien, as the “great seat of Occult learning”, 2,207 years B.c. (''Secret '' ''Doctrine'', I., p. 271.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Skanda-purāna +

In MSS. form, ff. Bombay: Veṅkaṭeśvara Press, 1908-09 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#453|9:453]][[SMW::on]]). +

Skandha +

Lit., “bundles”, or groups of attributes; everything finite, inapplicable to the eternal and the absolute. There are five — esoterically, ''seven'' — attributes in every human living being, which are known as the ''Pancha Shandhas''. These are (1) form, ''rûpa;'' (2) perception, ''vidâna''; (3) consciousness, ''sanjnâ''; (4) action, ''sanskâra''; (5) knowledge, vidyâna. These unite at the birth of man and constitute his personality. After the maturity of these Skandhas, they begin to separate and weaken, and this is followed by ''jarâmarana'', or decrepitude and death. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Skinner J.R. - Hebrew Metrology +

[[Skinner, James Ralston|J. R. Skinner]]’s article in the Masonic Review, volume 63, July 1885. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies p. 323 as the source of one extract used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], while distinguishing it from the closing paragraph of Skinner’s other article, The Cabbalah. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#257|BCW 7:257,266]]) +

Skinner J.R. - The Source of Measures +

A manuscript preserved in the Adyar archives, described by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] as an apparent third part of the work, comprises 358 written pages and contains [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s annotations. Extracts were used in The Secret Doctrine, volume I, pp. 308–309. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#219|BCW 8:219-220,231]]) +