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L

Laya +

From the root ''Li ''“to dissolve, to disintegrate” a point of equilibrium (''zero‐point'') in physics and chemistry. In occultism, that point where substance becomes homogeneous and is unable to act or differentiate [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jupiter +

From the same root as the Greek Zeus, the greatest god of the ancient Greeks and Romans, adopted also by other nations. His names are among others: (1) Jupiter‐Aërios; (2) Jupiter‐Ammon of Egypt ; (3) Jupiter Bel‐Moloch, the Chaldean; (4) Jupiter‐Mundus, Deus Mundus, “God of the World”; (5) Jupiter‐Fulgur, “the Fulgurant”, etc.,etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Initiation +

From the same root as the Latin ''initia, ''which means the basic or first principles of any Science. The practice of initiation or admission into the sacred Mysteries, taught by the Hierophants and learned priests of the Temples, is one of the most ancient customs. This was practised in every old national religion. In Europe it was abolished with the fall of the last pagan temple. There exists at present but one kind of initiation known to the public, namely that into the Masonic rites. Masonry, however, has no more secrets to give out or conceal. In the palmy days of old, the Mysteries, according to the greatest Greek and Roman philosophers, were the most sacred of all solemnities as well as the most beneficent, and greatly promoted virtue. The Mysteries represented the passage from mortal life into finite death, and the experiences of the disembodied Spirit and Soul in the world of subjectivity. In our own day, as the secret is lost, the candidate passes through sundry meaningless ceremonies and is initiated into the solar allegory of Hiram Abiff, the “Widow’s Son” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Anthropomorphism +

From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

GARF +

GARF is a large Russian state archive, which houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian authority. +

F

Fludd +

Generally known as Robertus de Fluctibus, the chief of the “Philosophers by Fire”. A celebrated English Hermetist of the sixteenth century, and a voluminous writer. He wrote on the essence of gold and other mystic and occult subjects.[[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daityas +

Giants, Titans, and exoterically demons, but in truth identical with certain Asuras, the intellectual gods, the opponents of the useless gods of ritualism and the enemies of ''puja ''sacrifices [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nephilim +

Giants, Titans, the Fallen Ones [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Merodach +

God of Babylon, the Bel of later times. He is the son of Davkina, goddess of the lower regions, or the earth, and of Hea, God of the Seas and Hades with the Orientalists; but esoterically and with the Akkadians, the Great God of Wisdom, “he who resurrects the dead”. Hea, Ea, Dagon or Oannes and Merodach are one [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kuvera +

God of the Hades, and of wealth like Pluto. The king of the evil demons in the Hindu Pantheon [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mysteries +

Greek ''teletai'', or finishings, celebrations of initiation or the Mysteries. They were observances, generally kept secret from the profane and uninitiated, in which were taught by dramatic representation and other methods, the origin of things, the nature of the human spirit, its relation to the body, and the method of its purification and restoration to higher life. Physical science, medicine, the laws of music, divination, were all taught in the same manner. The Hippocratic oath was but a mystic obligation. Hippocrates was a priest of Asklepios, some of whose writings chanced to become public. But the Asklepiades were initiates of the Æsculapian serpent‐worship, as the Bacchantes were of the Dionysia; and both rites were eventually incorporated with the Eleusinia. The Sacred Mysteries were enacted in the ancient Temples by the initiated Hierophants for the benefit and instruction of the candidates. The most solemn and occult Mysteries were certainly those which were performed in Egypt by “the band of secret‐keepers”, as Mr. Bonwick calls the Hierophants. Maurice describes their nature very graphically in a few lines. Speaking of the Mysteries performed in Philæ (the Nile‐island), he says that “it was in these gloomy caverns that the grand and mystic arcana of the goddess (Isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses”. The word “mysteries” is derived from the Greek ''muô, ''“to close the mouth”, and every symbol connected with them had, a hidden meaning. As Plato and many other sages of antiquity affirm, the Mysteries were highly religious, moral and beneficent as a school of ethics. The Grecian mysteries, those of Ceres and Bacchus, were only imitations of the Egyptian; and the author of ''Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought'', informs us that our own “word ''chapel ''or ''capella ''is said to be the ''Caph‐El ''or college of ''El, ''the Solar divinity”. The well‐known ''Kabiri ''are associated with the Mysteries. In short, the Mysteries were in every country a series of dramatic performances, in which the mysteries of cosmogony and nature, in general, were personified by the priests and neophytes, who enacted the part of various gods and goddesses, repeating supposed scenes (allegories) from their respective lives. These were explained in their hidden meaning to the candidates for initiation, and incorporated into philosophical doctrines [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Mahabhutas +

Gross elementary principles of matter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bonati +

Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astrologer and alchemist, but failed as a Rosicrucian adept. He returned after this to his monastery [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Harper's New Monthly Magazine +

Harper's Magazine began as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in New York City in June 1850, by publisher Harper & Brothers. The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Brontë sisters. The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

N

New, John Chalfant +

He was a United States banker and lawyer who held a variety of government positions. He was Treasurer of the United States from 1875 to 1876 and served as U.S. consul general in London from 1889 to 1893. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP). +

M

Mathadhipatis +

Heads of various religious Brotherhoods in India, High Priests in Monasteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Eros +

Hesiod makes of the god Eros the third personage of the Hellenic primordial Trinity composed of Ouranos, Gæa and Eros. It is the personified procreative Force in nature in its abstract sense, the propeller to “creation” and procreation. Exoterically, mythology makes of Eros the god of lustful, animal desire, whence the term ''erotic ''esoterically, it is different. (See “ Kâma”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Esoteric +

Hidden, secret. From the Greek ''esotericos'', “inner” concealed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Archangel +

Highest supreme angel. From the Greek ''arch'', “chief” or “primordial”, and ''angelos, ''“messenger ” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmanas +

Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas which were intended for the ritualistic use and guidance of the “twice‐born (Dwija) or Brahmans [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +