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Targum +

Lit., “Interpretation”, from the root'' '' ''targem'' to interpret. Paraphrases of Hebrew Scriptures. Some of the Targums are very mystical, the Aramaic (or Targumatic) language being used all through the ''Zohar '' and other Kabbalistic works. To distinguish this language from the Hebrew, called the “face ” of the sacred tongue, it is referred to as ''ahorayim'', the “ back part ”, the real meaning of which must be read between the lines, according to certain methods given to students. The Latin word ''tergum'', “back ”, is derived from the Hebrew or rather Aramaic and Chaldean ''targum''. The Book of ''Daniel '' begins in Hebrew, and is fully comprehensible till chap. ii., V. 4, when the Chaldees (the Magician‐Initiates) begin speaking to the king in Aramaic — not in Syriac, as mistranslated in the Protestant Bible. Daniel speaks in Hebrew before interpreting the king’s dream to him; but explains the dream itself (chap. vii.) in Aramaic. “ So in Ezra iv., v. and vi., the words of the kings being there literally quoted, all matters connected therewith are in Aramaic ”, says Isaac Myer in his Qabbalah. The Targumim are of different ages, the latest already showing signs of the Massoretic or vowel‐system, which made them still more full of intentional blinds. The precept of the'' Pirke Aboth'' (c. i., i), “ Make a fence to the Thorah ” (law), has indeed been faithfully followed in the Bible as in the Targumim ; and wise is he who would interpret either correctly, unless he is an old Occultist‐ Kabbalist. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). A Hebrew and Aramaic word meaning interpretation. It is used in connection with translations or paraphrases of some portion of the Old Testament in the Aramaic of Judea or Galilee, mostly dating in the present form from the Geonic period and later; in part they are based on oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian Roman period (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#591|11:591]][[SMW::on]]).

Tarkhanov, Ivan Romanovich +

A nineteenth-century Russian physiologist. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Armenians|BCW 2:265]]) I. R. Tarkhanov (1846-1908), also known as Ivan Ramazovich Tarkhnishvili, belonged to the Tarkhan-Mouravi family descended from Giorgi Saakadze. ([https://www.historymed.ru/encyclopedia/doctors/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=4977 Российский университет медицины: И.Р. Тарханов, род Тархан-Моурави]) +

Tartini, Giuseppe +

Italian violinist, composer and music theorist (1692-1770), founder of a violin school in Padua in 1728. He attributed the inspiration for Il trillo del diavolo to a dream and contributed to acoustics through the discovery of differential tones. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#545|2:545-546]][[SMW::on]]). For biographical information, de Zirkoff refers readers to ''Collected Writings'', volume II, pages 545-546. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#532|3:532]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tashilhumpa +

The great centre of monasteries and colleges, three hours’ walk from Tchigadze, the residence of the Teshu Lama for details of whom see [[Panchen Rimboche]]. It was built in 1445 by the order of Tson‐kha‐ pa. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tassissudun +

Lit., “the holy city of the doctrine” inhabited, nevertheless, by more Dugpas than Saints. It is the residential capital in Bhutan of the ecclesiastical Head of the Bhons — the Dharma Râjâ. The latter, though professedly a Northern Buddhist, is simply a worshipper of the old demon‐gods of the aborigines, the nature‐ sprites or elementals, worshipped in the land before the introduction of Buddhism. All strangers are prevented from penetrating into Eastern or Great Tibet, and the few scholars who venture on their travels into those forbidden regions, are permitted to penetrate no further than the border‐lands of the land of Bod. They journey about Bhutan, Sikkhim, and elsewhere on the frontiers of the country, but can learn or know nothing of true Tibet; hence, nothing of the true Northern Buddhism or Lamaism of Tsong‐kha‐pa. And yet, while describing no more than the rites and beliefs of the Bhons and the travelling Shamans, they assure the world they are giving it the pure Northern Buddhism, and comment on its great fall from its pristine purity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tat +

An Egyptian symbol: an upright round standard tapering toward the summit, with four cross‐ pieces placed on the top. It was used as an amulet. The top part is a regular equilateral cross. This, on its phallic basis, represented the two principles of creation, the male and the female, and related to nature and cosmos ; but when the tat stood by itself, crowned with the ''atf ('' or ''atef '' '')'', the triple crown of Horus — two feathers with the uræus in front — it represented the ''septenary'' man ; the cross, or the two cross‐pieces, standing for the lower quaternary, and the ''atf ''for the higher triad. As Dr. Birch well remarks: “The four horizontal bars . . . represent the four foundations of all things, the tat being an emblem of stability”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tate, Hector +

Redrew the geometrical figures accompanying Pistis Sophia in volume XIII of the Collected Writings according to the corrections [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] had wanted in Lucifer. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) Together with his wife assisted with proofreading 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]]) +

Tathagata +

“One who is like the coming”; he who is, like his predecessors (the Buddhas) and successors, the coming future Buddha or World‐Saviour. One of the titles of Gautama Buddha, and the highest epithet, since the'' '' ''first'' and the'' last'' Buddhas were the direct immediate avatars of the One Deity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tathagatagupta +

Secret or concealed Tathâgata, or the “guardian” protecting Buddhas: used of the Nirmânakayas. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tattvabodhini Patrika +

Monthly organ of the Tattvabodhini Sabha, associated with the Brahmo Samaj. Founded by Debendra Nath Tagore and edited for a time by Akshay Kumar Dutt. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). Monthly paper of the Tattvabodhini Sabha, associated with the Brahmo Samaj; founded by Debendra Nath Tagore and edited for a time by Akshay Kumar Dutt. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tattwa +

Eternally existing “ That ”; also, the different principles in Nature, in their occult meaning. ''Tattwa '' ''Samâsa'' is a work of Sânkhya philosophy attributed to Kapila himself. Also the abstract principles of existence or categories, physical and metaphysical. The subtle elements — five exoterically, seven in esoteric philosophy — — which are correlative to the five and the seven senses on the physical plane ; the last two senses are as yet latent in man, but will be developed in the two last root‐races. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tau +

That which has now become the square Hebrew letter '''tau''', but was ages before the invention of the Jewish alphabet, the Egyptian handled cross, the ''crux '' ''ansata'' of the Latins, and identical with the Egyptian'' ankh.'' This mark belonged exclusively, and still belongs, to the Adepts of every country. As Kenneth R. F. Mackenzie shows, “It was a symbol of salvation and consecration, and as such has been adopted as a Masonic symbol in the Royal Arch Degree ”. It is also called the astronomical cross, and was used by the ancient Mexicans — as its presence on one of the palaces at Palenque shows — as well as by the Hindus, who placed the '''tau''' as a mark on the brows of their Chelas. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taunton, Ethelred Luke +

Bibliographical references include: The History of the Jesuits in England, 1580-1773. London: Metheun & Co. 1901 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#456|9:456]][[SMW::on]]). +

Taurus +

A most mysterious constellation of the Zodiac, one connected with all the “First‐born” solar gods. Taurus is under the asterisk '''A''', which is its figure in the Hebrew alphabet, that of ''Aleph''; and therefore that constellation is called the “ One ”, the “ First ”, after the said letter. Hence, the “ First‐born” to all of whom it was made sacred. The Bull is the symbol of force and procreative power — the Logos ; hence, also, the horns on the head of Isis, the female aspect of Osiris and Horus. Ancient mystics saw the ansated cross, in the horns of Taurus (the upper portion of the Hebrew ''Aleph'') pushing away the Dragon, and Christians connected the sign and constellation with Christ. St. Augustine calls it “the great City of God ”, and the Egyptians called it the “interpreter of the divine voice ”, the ''Apis‐Pacis ''of Hermonthis. (See “ Zodiac”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taverne +

French Jesuit moral theologian who entered the order in 1640 and taught philosophy and theology at Douai for many years (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#456|9:456]][[SMW::on]]). +

Taygete +

One of the seven daughters of Atlas third, who became later one of the Pleiades. These seven daughters are said to typify the seven sub‐races of the fourth root‐race, that of the Atlanteans. [ ''Sanskrit words commencing with the letters'' '''Tch''' ''are, owing '' ''to faulty transliteration, misplaced, and'' ''should come under'' '''C'''.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taylor R. - Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion +

A work by [[Taylor, Robert|R. Taylor]] (London, 1828), about 128 pages. Its discussion of the name Chrest reached [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] through [[Higgins, Godfrey|G. Higgins]]’s Anacalypsis, volume I, p. 568. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#217|BCW 8:217-218]]) +

Taylor T. - The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries +

The third edition, annotated by [[Wilder, Alexander|A. Wilder]], was published by J. W. Bouton in New York in 1875. Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, reprinted it with additional notes in 1980. ([[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Peter, A Jewish Kabalist, Not an Initiate#125|BCW 14:125]]) +

Taylor, Canon Isaac +

Bibliographical references include: “Christianity and Mohammedanism,” an address delivered at the Wolverhampton Congress of the Church Missionary Society in England, October, 1887. Published in The Rock, October 14, 1887 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#456|9:456]][[SMW::on]]). An English philologist and Anglican clergyman (1829-1901), Canon of York from 1885. His paper on Islam was delivered at the Wolverhampton Church Congress in 1887; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s designation “New York” is erroneous. ([https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Taylor,_Isaac Dictionary of National Biography: Isaac Taylor, canon of York and Wolverhampton Church Congress]) +

Taylor, Charles E. +

Bookseller, Theosophist and practitioner of magnetic and homoeopathic healing at St Thomas in the Danish West Indies. In 1881 he faced prosecution for treating patients without a medical licence. +