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Three Degrees of Initiation +

Every nation had its exoteric and esoteric religion, the one for the masses, the other for the learned and elect. For example, the Hindus had three degrees with several sub‐ degrees. The Egyptians had also three preliminary degrees, personified under the “three guardians of the fire ” in the Mysteries. The Chinese had their most ancient ''Triad'' Society: and the Tibetans have to this day their “triple step ” ; which was symbolized in the ''Vedas'' by the three strides of Vishnu. Everywhere antiquity shows an unbounded reverence for the Triad and Triangle — the first geometrical figure. The old Babylonians had their three stages of initiation into the priesthood (which was then esoteric knowledge); the Jews, the Kabbalists and mystics borrowed them from the Chaldees, and the Christian Church from the Jews. “ There are Two”, says Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, “in conjunction with One; hence they are Three, and if they are Three, then they are One.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Three Faces +

The ''Trimûrti'' of the Indian Pantheon; the three persons of the one godhead. Says the Book of Precepts: “There are two Faces, one in ''Tushita ''(Devâchân) and one in'' Myalba'' (earth); and the Highest Holy unites them and finally absorbs both.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Three Fires +

The name given to Atmâ‐Buddhi‐ Manas, which when united become one. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Through Afghanistan +

[[Grodekov, Nikolai Ivanovich|N. I. Grodekov]]’s account of his 1878 journey through Afghanistan, published in Russian in 1880. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s unsigned English translation appeared in The Pioneer from 8 April to 9 July 1880. This newspaper translation is distinct from C. Marvin’s English book translation of 1880. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes|BCW 2:391]]) +

Thsang Thisrong tsan +

A king who flourished between the years 728 and 787, and who invited from Bengal Pandit Rakshit, called for his great learning Bodhisattva, to come and settle in Tibet, in order to teach Buddhist philosophy to his priests. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thulabhi, Thedar Nath +

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

Thumi Sambhota +

An Indian mystic and man of erudition, the inventor of the Tibetan alphabet. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thummim +

“Perfections.” An ornament on the breastplates of the ancient High Priests of Judaism. Modern Rabbins and Hebraists may well pretend they do not know the joint purposes of the ''Thummim'' and the [[Urim]]; but the Kabbalists do and likewise the Occultists. They were the instruments of ''magic'' divination and oracular communication — theurgic and astrological. This is shown in the following well‐known facts — (1) upon each of the twelve precious stones was engraved the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob, each of these “sons” personating one of the signs of the zodiac; (2) both were oracular images, like the ''teraphim'', and uttered oracles by a voice, and both were agents for hypnotisation and throwing the priests who wore them into an ecstatic condition. The ''Urim'' and ''Thummim ''were not original with the Hebrews, but had been borrowed, like most of their other religious rites, from the Egyptians, with whom the mystic scarabæus worn on the breast by the Hierophants, had the same functions. They were thus purely ''heathen '' ''and magical'' modes of divination ; and when the Jewish “Lord God” was called upon to manifest his presence and speak out his will through the'' Urim'' by preliminary incantations, the ''modus operandi'' was the same as that used by all the Gentile priests the world over. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thumos +

The astral, animal soul; the'' Kâmas‐Manas; '' ''Thumos ''means passion, desire and confusion and is so used by Homer. The word is probably derived from the Sanskit ''Tamas'', which has the same meaning. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Thurstan, Frederic W. +

Writer on occult and psychical subjects who contributed a study of Apollonius of Tyana’s journey to India. +

Thyraeus P. - Loca infesta +

A work by the Jesuit [[Thyraeus, Petrus|P. Thyraeus]] on haunted places, with an appended discussion of nocturnal terrors. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies editions published at Cologne in 1598 and Lyon in 1625 as the work referred to by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (3)#210|BCW 7:210-211]]) +

Thyraeus, Petrus +

Jesuit of the diocese of Cologne, to whom the bibliography attributes ''Loca infesta'', a work on places troubled by demons and spirits. Zirkoff treats the available biographical information as limited. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#399|7:399]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tiamat +

A female dragon personifying the ocean; the “great mother” or the living principle of chaos. Tiamat wanted to swallow Bel, but Bel sent a wind which entered her open mouth and killed Tiamat. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tiaou +

A kind of Devachanic ''post mortem ''state. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tia‐Huanaco +

Most magnificent ruins of a pre‐ historic city in Peru. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tibullus, Albius +

Roman elegiac poet associated with Messalla and Horace. His verse is described as simple and tender, concerned with nature and domestic life; four books of elegies were attributed to him. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#399|7:399]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tiedemann, Friedrich +

German anatomist and anthropologist who taught at Heidelberg. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#666|4:666]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tien‐Hoang +

The twelve hierarchies of Dhyânis. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tien‐Sin +

Lit., “the heaven of mind”, or abstract, subjective, ideal heaven. A metaphysical term applied to the Absolute. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tikkun +

Manifested Man or Adam Kadmon, the first ray from the manifested ''Logos''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +