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C

Ceres +

In Greek ''Demeter''. As the female aspect of Pater Æther, Jupiter, she is esoterically the productive principle in the all‐pervading Spirit that quickens every germ in the material universe [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Amen +

In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of “Jehovah Adonai”=10, 5, 6, 5 and 1,4, 50, 10 =91 together; it is one form of the Hebrew word for “truth”. In common parlance Amen is said to mean “so be it”. [ w.w.w.] But, in ''esoteric ''parlance ''Amen ''means “the concealed”. Manetho Sebennites says the word signifies ''that which is hidden ''and we know through Hecatæus and others that the Egyptians used the word to call upon their great God of Mystery, Ammon (or “Ammas, the hidden god ”) to make himself conspicuous and manifest to them. Bonomi, the famous hieroglyphist, calls his worshippers very pertinently the “Amenoph”, and Mr. Bonwick quotes a writer who says: “Ammon, the hidden god, will remain for ever hidden till anthropomorphically revealed; gods who are afar off are useless”. Amen is styled “Lord of the new‐moon festival”. Jehovah‐Adonai is a new form of the ram‐headed god Amoun or Ammon (q.v.) who was invoked by the Egyptian priests under the name of Amen. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jerusalem +

In Hebrew it is written Yrshlim or “city of peace”,but the ancient Greeks called it pertinently ''Hierosalem ''or “Secret Salem”, since Jerusalem is a rebirth from Salem of which Melchizedek was the King‐Hierophant, a declared Astrolator and worshipper of the Sun,’“the Most High” by‐the‐bye. There also Adoni‐Zedek reigned in his turn, and was the last of its Amorite Sovereigns. He allied himself with four others, and these five kings went to conquer back Gideon, but (according to ''Joshua ''X) came out of the affray second best. And no wonder, since these five kings were opposed, not only by Joshua but by the “Lord God”, and by the Sun and the Moon also. On that day, we read, at the command of the successor of Moses, “the sun stood still and the moon stayed” (v. 13) for the whole day. No mortal man, king or yeoman, could withstand, of course, such a shower “of great stones from heaven” as was cast upon them by the Lord himself . . . . “from Beth‐horon unto Azekah” “and they died” (v. ii). After having died they “fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah” (v. i6). It appears, however, that such undignified behaviour in a God received its Karmic punishment afterwards. At different epochs of history, the Temple of the Jewish Lord was sacked, ruined and burnt (See“Mount Moriah”)—holy ark of the covenant, cherubs, Shekinah and all, but that deity seemed as powerless to protect his property from desecration as though they were no more stones left in heaven. After Pompey had taken the Second Temple in 63, B.c., and the third one, built by Herod the Great, had been razed to the ground by the Romans, in 70 A.D., no new temple was allowed to be built in the capital of the “chosen people” of the Lord. In spite of the Crusades, since the XIIIth century Jerusalem has belonged to the Mahommedans, and almost every site holy and dear to the memory of the old Israelites, and also of the Christians, is now covered by minarets and mosques, Turkish barracks and other monuments of Islam [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

D

Dynasties +

In India there are two, the Lunar and the Solar, or the ''Somavansa ''and the ''Suryavansa''. In Chaldea and Egypt there were also two distinct kinds of dynasties, the ''divine ''and the ''human. ''In both countries people were ruled in the beginning of time by Dynasties of Gods. In Chaldea they reigned one hundred and twenty Sari, or in all 432,000 years; which amounts to the same figures as a Hindu Mahayuga 4,320,000 years. The chronology prefacing the ''Book of Genesis ''(English translation) is given “Before Christ, 4004”. But the figures are a rendering by solar years. In the original Hebrew, which preserved a lunar calculation, the figures are 4,320 years. This “coincidence” is well explained in Occultism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jörd +

In Northern Germany the goddess of the Earth, the same as Nerthus and the Scandinavian Freya or Frigg [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Demerit +

In Occult and Buddhistic parlance, a constituent of Karma. It is through ''avidya ''or ignorance of ''vidya, ''divine illumination, that merit and demerit are produced. Once an Arhat obtains full illumination and perfect control over his personality and lower nature, he ceases to create merit and demerit [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Illusion +

In Occultism everything finite (like the universe and all in it) is called illusion or ''maya'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Imagination +

In Occultism this is not to be confused with fancy, as it is one of the plastic powers of the higher Soul, and is the memory of the preceding incarnations, which, however disfigured by the lower Manas, yet rests always on a ground of truth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Namah +

In Pali ''Namo''. The first word of a daily invocation among Buddhists, meaning “I humbly trust, or adore, or acknowledge” the Lord; as: “Namo tasso Bhagavato Arahato” etc., addressed to Lord Buddha. The priests are called “Masters of Namah”—both Buddhist and Taoist, because this word is used in liturgy and prayers, in the invocation of the ''Triratna ''(''q.v''.), and with a slight change in the occult incantations to the ''Bodhisvattvas ''and ''Nirmânakâyas.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ideos +

In Paracelsus the same as Chaos, or ''Mysterium Magnum ''as that philosopher calls it [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Iliados +

In Paracelsus the same as “Ideos” (q.v.). Primordial matter in the subjective state [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhikshu +

In Pâli ''Bihkhu''. The name given to the first followers of Sâkyamuni Buddha. Lit., “mendicant scholar”. The ''Sanskrit Chinese Dictionary ''explains the term correctly by dividing Bhikshus into two classes of ''Sramanas ''(Buddhist monks and priests), viz., “esoteric mendicants who control their nature by the (religious) law, and exoteric mendicants who control their nature by ''diet'';” and it adds, less correctly: “every true Bhikshu is supposed to work miracles” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gems, Three precious +

In Southern Buddhism these are the sacred books, the Buddhas and the priesthood. In Northern Buddhism and its secret schools, the Buddha, his sacred teachings, and the Narjols (Buddhas of Compassion) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Materializations +

In Spiritualism the word signifies the objective appearance of the so‐called “Spirits” of the dead, who reclothe themselves occasionally in matter; ''i.e.'', they form for themselves out of the materials at hand, which are found in the atmosphere and the emanations of those present, a temporary body hearing the human likeness of the defunct as he appeared, when alive. Theosophists accept the phenomenon of “materialization”; but they reject the theory that it is produced by “ Spirits”, ''i.e.'', the immortal principles of the disembodied persons. Theosophists hold that when the phenomenon is genuine—and it is a fact of rarer occurrence than is generally believed—it is produced by the ''larvæ'', the ''eidola ''or Kamalokic “ghosts” of dead personalities. (See “Kâmadhâtu”, “Kâmaloka” and “Kâmarupa”.) As Kâmaloka is on the earth plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which reason it is concealed from our normal sight, the occasional apparition of such shells is as natural as that of electric balls and other atmospheric phenomena. Electricity as a fluid, or atomic matter (for Theosophists hold with Maxwell that it ''is ''atomic), though invisible, is ever present in the air, and manifests under various shapes, but only when certain conditions are there to “materialize” the fluid, when it passes from its own on to our plane and makes itself objective. Similarly with the ''eidola ''of the dead. They are present, around us, but being on another plane do not see us any more than we see them. But whenever the strong desires of living men and the conditions furnished by the abnormal constitutions of mediums are combined together, these ''eidola ''are drawn— nay, ''pulled ''down from their plane on to ours and made objective. This is ''Necromancy ''; it does no good to the dead, and great harm to the living, in addition to the fact that it interferes with a law of nature. The occasional materialization of the “astral bodies” or ''doubles ''of living persons is quite another matter. These “astrals” are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon‐like, our own “Elementaries”, along with those of the disembodied and cosmic Elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. In short, at the so‐called “materialization” seances it is those present and the medium, who ''create ''the peculiar likeness of the ''apparitions''. Independent “apparitions” belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. Materializations are also called “form‐manifestations” and “portrait statues”. To call them materialized spirits is inadmissible, for they are not spirits but animated portrait‐statues, indeed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

K

Khubilkhan +

In Tibet the names given to the supposed incarnations of Buddha. Elect Saints [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avebury +

In Wiltshire are the remains of an ancient megalithic Serpent temple: according to the eminent antiquarian Stukeley, 1740, there are traces of two circles of stones and two avenues; the whole has formed the representation of a serpent. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mystes +

In antiquity, the name of the new Initiates; now that of Roman Cardinals, who having borrowed all their other rites and dogmas from Aryan, Egyptian and Hellenic “heathen”, have helped themselves also to the '''musiz '''of the neophytes. They have ''to keep their eyes and mouth shut on their ''consecration and are, therefore, called ''Mystæ'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Leviathan +

In biblical esotericism, Deity in its double manifestation of good and evil. The meaning may be found in the ''Zohar ''(II. 34''b''.) “Rabbi Shimeon said: The work of the beginning (of ‘creation’) the companions (candidates) study and understand it; but the ''little ones ''(the full or perfect Initiates) are those who understand the allusion to the work of the beginning ''by the Mystery of the Serpent of the Great Sea ''(to wit) ''Thanneen, Leviathan''.” (See also ''Qabbalah, ''by I. Myer.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Geber +

In heaven, they are regarded as powerful angels, on earth as the giants mentioned in chapter vi. of ''Genesis'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Emanation +

In its metaphysical meaning, it is opposed to Evolution, yet one with it. Science teaches that evolution is physiologically a mode of generation in which the germ that develops the foetus pre‐exists already in the parent, the development and final form and characteristics of that germ being accomplished in nature; and that in cosmology the process takes place blindly through the correlation of the elements, and their various compounds. Occultism answers that this is only the '''''apparent '''''mode, the real process being Emanation, guided by intelligent Forces under an immutable LAW. Therefore, while the Occultists and Theosophists believe thoroughly in the doctrine of Evolution as given out by Kapila and Manu, they are ''Emanationists ''rather than ''Evolutionists. ''The doctrine of Emanation was at one time universal. It was taught by the Alexandrian as well as by the Indian philosophers, by the Egyptian, the Chaldean and Hellenic Hierophants, and also by the Hebrews (in their Kabbala, and even in ''Genesis)''. For it is only owing to deliberate mistranslation that the Hebrew word asdt has been translated “angels” from the Septuagint, when it means ''Emanations, Æons'', precisely as with the Gnostics. Indeed, in Deuteronomy (xxxiii., 2) the word ''asdt ''or ''ashdt ''is translated as” fiery law”, whilst the correct rendering of the passage should be “from his right hand went [ not a fiery law, but a fire according to law “; viz., that the fire of one flame is imparted to, and caught up by another like as in a trail of inflammable substance. This is precisely emanation. As shown in Isis Unveiled : “In Evolution, as it is now beginning to he understood, there is supposed to be in all matter an impulse to take on a higher form—a supposition clearly expressed by Manu and other Hindu philosophers of the highest antiquity. The philosopher’s tree illustrates it in the case of the zinc solution. The controversy between the followers of this school and the Emanationists may he briefly stated thus The Evolutionist stops all inquiry at the borders of ‘ the Unknowable “; the Emanationist believes that nothing can be evolved—or, as the word means, unwombed or born—except it has first been involved, thus indicating that life is from a spiritual potency above the whole.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).