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Tertullian - De carne Christi +

Chapter V contains the phrase “Certum est quia impossibile est” (“It is certain because it is impossible”), differing from a frequently repeated paraphrase. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Reponse aux Fausses conceptions de M. lAbbe Roca Relatives a mes Observations sur lEsoterisme Chretien#195|BCW 9:195]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Reply to the mistaken conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my observations on Christian Esotericism#217|BCW 9:217]]) +

Terunnanse, P. T. +

A Buddhist contributor to ''The Theosophist'', credited with “Real Buddhism — Kamma” in May 1880. The volume’s contributor index prefixes his name with Rev. Neither the initials nor the precise identity behind this form of address are expanded here. +

Tetragrammaton +

The four‐lettered name of God, its Greek title: the four letters are in Hebrew “ yod, hé vau, hé ” ,or in English capitals, IHVH. The true ancient pronunciation is now unknown; the sincere Hebrew considered this name too sacred for speech, and in reading the sacred writings he substituted the title “ Adonai ”, meaning Lord. In the ''Kabbalah'', '''I''' is associated with Chokmah, '''H''' with Binah, '''V''' with Tiphereth, and '''H''' final with Malkuth. Christians in general call IHVH Jehovah, and many modern Biblical scholars write it Yahveh. In the ''Secret Doctrine'', the name Jehovah is assigned to Sephira Binah alone, but this attribution is not recognised by the Rosicrucian school of Kabbalists, nor by Mathers in his translation of Knorr Von Rbsenroth’s ''Kabbalah Denudata'': certain Kabbalistic authorities have referred Binah alone to IHVH, but only in reference to the Jehovah of the exoteric Judaism. The IHVH of the ''Kabbalah'' has but a faint resemblance to the God of the Old Testament. [w.w.w.] The ''Kabbalah'' of Knorr von Rosenroth is no authority to the Eastern Kabbalists; because it is well known that in writing his ''Kabbalah Denudata'' he followed the modern rather than the ancient (Chaldean) MSS.; and it is equally well known that those MSS. and writings of the ''Zohar ''that are classified as “ancient”, mention, and some even use, the Hebrew vowel or Massoretic points. This alone would make these would‐be Zoharic books spurious, as there are no direct traces of the Massorah scheme before the tenth century of our era, nor any remote trace of it before the seventh. (See [[Tetraktys]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tetraktys +

Or the ''Tetrad''. The sacred “Four” by which the Pythagoreans swore, this being their most binding oath. It has a very mystic and varied signification, being the same as the Tetragrammaton. First of all it is Unity, or the “ One” under four different aspects; then it is the fundamental number Four, the Tetrad containing the Decad, or Ten, the number of perfection; finally it signifies the primeval Triad (or Triangle) merged in the divine Monad. Kircher, the learned Kabbalist. Jesuit, in his ''Œdipus'' ‐''Ægvpticus ''(II p. 267), gives the Ineffable Name IHVH — one of the Kabbalistic formulæ of the 72 names — arranged in the shape of the Pythagorean Tetrad. Mr. I. Myer gives it in this wise: . . . . . . . . . . . y = The Ineffable hy = Name thus w hy = hw hy = . He also shows that “the sacred Tetrad of the Pythagoreans appears to have been known to the ancient Chinese”. As explained in ''Isis Unveiled ''(I, xvi.): The mystic Decad, the resultant of the Tetraktys, or the 1+2+3+4=10, is a way of expressing this idea. The One is the impersonal principle ‘God’; the Two, matter; the Three, combining Monad and Duad and partaking of the nature of both, is the phenomenal world; the Tetrad, or form of perfection, expresses the emptiness of all; and the Decad, or sum of all, involves the entire Kosmos. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tevijja-Sutta +

The appendix locates this discourse in the ''Digha Nikaya'' of the ''Sutta Pitaka'' and cites a Pali Text Society edition. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#666|4:666]][[SMW::on]]). +

Textes et documents pour l’étude historique du Christianisme +

Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du Christianisme. Paris: Picard, 1911-14. 2 vols (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#458|8:458]][[SMW::on]]). +

Textor de Ravisi, Baron Anatole-Arthur +

French Catholic Orientalist. Was involved in the colonial administration of Réunion in the late 1840s, then developed maritime trade at Karikal in French India during the 1850s and early 1860s, serving for a time as its governor before retiring into financial affairs. Wrote on Hindu architecture and on the relationship of soul and body in Egyptian theology. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#528|1:528-529]][[SMW::on]]). +

Thackersey, Mooljee +

Early Indian member of the Theosophical Society and friend of H. P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. He helped welcome the founders to Bombay in 1879 and served as a councillor of the Bombay branch. The Founders’ arrival in Bombay was on 16 February 1879. He helped engage Babula and accompanied them on journeys in India. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxvi-xxvii]]) +

Thalassa +

The sea. (See [[Thallath]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thales +

The Greek philosopher of Miletus (circa 600 years B.c.) who taught that the whole universe was produced from water, while Heraclitus of Ephesus maintained that it was produced by fire, and Anaximenes by air. Thales, whose real name is unknown, took his name from Thallath, in accordance with the philosophy he taught. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thallath +

The same as Thalassa. The goddess personifying the sea, identical with Tiamat and connected with Tamti and Belita. The goddess who gave birth to every variety of primordial monster in Berosus’ account of cosmogony. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thandavaraya Swamigal +

Tamil Vedanta author of ''Kaivalya Navaneetam'', published in English translation in ''The Theosophist''. +

Tharana +

“Mesmerism”, or rather self.induced trance or self‐hypnotisation ; an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., “to brush or sweep away” (evil influences, thârnhan meaning a broom, and ''thârnhan,'' a duster); driving away the bad bhûts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser’s beneficent will. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thaumaturgy +

Wonder or “miracle‐working”; the power of working wonders with the help of gods. From the Greek words'' thauma'', “wonder”, and ''theurgia'', “divine work”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thayer, Mary Baker +

A Boston medium whose phenomena [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] investigated for about five weeks in the summer of 1875; his account appears in Old Diary Leaves, volume I, pages 88-100. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Transcendental Physics|BCW 3:15]]) [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] reported observing roses appear in a closed room and a ring within a bud at her séances; [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] cites her as an example of involuntary psychic power. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Some Scientific Questions Answered#124|BCW 6:124-125]]) +

The American Bibliopolist +

A journal issued by the New York booksellers Sabin & Sons, with which [[Sotheran, Charles|C. Sotheran]], a member of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s literary circle, was associated ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky#434|BCW 1:434]]). +

The Antiquities of Orissa +

The statement by R. L. Mitra derives from this work (Calcutta, 1875), quoted through note 321a on p. 274 of A. Weber’s History of Indian Literature. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#274|BCW 5:274]]) +

The Book of Life (Siddharta) +

The Book of Life is listed under the name Siddharta, also Vonisa; the compiler supplies no further information about the work (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#474|8:474]][[SMW::on]]). +

The Brothers Karamazov +

An English translation of passages from “The Grand Inquisitor” (Book V, chapter 5), apparently made by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], appeared in The Theosophist in November and December 1881. K. H. claimed the suggestion to translate it in a letter to [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Grand Inquisitor|BCW 3:324-325]]) +

The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism +

A study by L. A. Waddell, published in London in 1895. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#670|4:670]][[SMW::on]]). +