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Brahma’s Night +

A period of equal duration, during which Brahmâ. is said to be asleep. Upon awakening he recommences the process, and this goes on for an AGE of Brahmâ composed of alternate “Days”, and “Nights”, and lasting 100 years (of 2,160,000,000 years each). It requires fifteen figures to express the duration of such an age; after the expiration of which the ''Mahapralaya ''or the Great Dissolution sets in, and lasts in its turn for the same space of fifteen figures [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Braid, James +

Physician and investigator of hypnotism, who studied altered states induced by a fixed gaze and called them neuro-hypnotism; author of ''Neurypnology'' (1843) and ''Observations on Trance'' (1850). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#636|4:636]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brainard, M. L. +

Secretary of the Chicago Branch of the Theosophical Society. Presented a paper on colour symbolism, published in ''Lucifer'' in February 1888. +

Braunsberger, Otto +

Bibliographical references include: Petri Canisii epistulae et acta, Freiburg, 1896 ff (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#408|9:408]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bread and Wine +

Baptism and the Eucharist have their direct origin in pagan Egypt. There the “waters of purification” were used (the Mithraic font for baptism being borrowed by the Persians from the Egyptians) and so were bread and wine. “Wine in the Dionysiak cult, a in the Christian religion, represents that blood which in different senses is the life of the world” (Brown, in the ''Dionysiak Myth''). Justin Martyr says, “In imitation of which the devil did the like in the Mysteries of Mithras, for you either know or may ''know that they also take bread and a cup of water ''in the sacrifices of those that are initiated and ''pronounce certain words over it”''. (See “[[Holy Water]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bretschneider, Karl Gottlieb +

German theologian (1776-1848), lecturer at Wittenberg and later general superintendent at Gotha. While recognizing a supernatural element in the Bible, he allowed reason a critical role in interpreting Christian dogma. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#428|6:428]][[SMW::on]]). +

Breve della Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XIV +

Rome, 1773 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#408|9:408]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brewster, Sir David +

Scottish physicist and one of the founders of the British Association, known for his investigations on the diffraction of light. Principal of Edinburgh University from 1859, and one of the eight “foreign associates” of the Institute of France. Author of a Treatise on Optics (1831), editor of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808–30), and a leading contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (7th and 8th editions). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#447|1:447]][[SMW::on]]). +

Briareus +

A famous giant in the Theogony of Hesiod. The son of Cœlus and Terra, a monster with 50 heads and 100 arms. He is conspicuous in the wars and battles between the gods [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Briatic World +

This world is the second of the Four worlds of the Kabbalists and referred to the highest created “Archangels”, or to Pure Spirits. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bride +

The tenth Sephira, Malkuth, is called by the Kabbalists the Bride of Microprosopus; she is the final Hé of the Tetragrammaton ; in a similar manner the Christian Church is called the Bride of Christ. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bridge, John Ransom +

Wrote an essay defending the medieval alchemists. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] commented on symbolic expressions in the alchemical works he quoted. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to The Alchemists#52|BCW 12:52]]) +

Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François +

French physician specializing in mental disorders (1798-1881). His work on hallucinations examined visions, dreams, ecstasy and related experiences. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#359|7:359-360]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bright, John Brailsford +

British barrister; born on 29 March 1854, the eldest son of Sir Charles Tilston Bright. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, received the M.A. in 1879 and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 29 June 1881. ([https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Men-at-the-Bar/Bright,_John_Brailsford Joseph Foster, ''Men-at-the-Bar'' (1885), “Bright, John Brailsford”]; [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Alumni_Oxoniensis_(1715-1886)_volume_1.djvu/180 Joseph Foster, ''Alumni Oxonienses, 1715–1886'', vol. 1, “Bright, John Brailsford”]) Under the signature J. Brailsford Bright (M.A. Oxon.), he contributed [[Bright J.B. - Theosophy and Modern Socialism|“Theosophy and Modern Socialism”]] to ''[[Lucifer]]'', defending the compatibility of socialism with Theosophy in a discussion with [[Harbottle, Thomas Benfield|T. B. Harbottle]]. The three instalments appeared in December 1887, March 1888 and May 1888. ([[Lucifer/Vol1#n4|''Lucifer'', vol. 1, no. 4]], pp. 282-287; [[Lucifer/Vol2#n7|vol. 2, no. 7]], pp. 62-67; [[Lucifer/Vol2#n9|no. 9]], pp. 227-233) He was associated with the British Freeland Association and signed a letter to A. R. Wallace in 1892. ([https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-002102382 British Library, A. R. Wallace Papers, Add MS 46440, f. 133]) +

Brihadaranyaka +

The name of a ''Upanishad''. One of the sacred and ''secret ''books of the Brahmins; an ''Aranyaka ''is a treatise appended to the Vedas, and considered a subject of special study by those who have retired to the jungle (forest) for purposes of religious meditation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Listed editions include Sris Chandra Vasu’s translation with Madhvacharya’s commentary (Allahabad, 1916; Sacred Books of the Hindus XIV) and Böhtlingk’s edition and translation (Leipzig, 1889). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#523|2:523]][[SMW::on]]). Zirkoff cites the text and translation by Sris Chandra Vasu, with Madhvacharya’s commentary (Allahabad: Panini Office, 1916), volume 14 of ''Sacred Books of the Hindus''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#363|5:363]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brihaspati +

The name of a Deity, also of a ''Rishi''. It is like wise the name of the planet Jupiter. He is the personified Guru and priest of the gods in India ; also the symbol of exoteric ritualism as opposed to esoteric mysticism. Hence the opponent of King Soma — the moon, but also the sacred juice drunk at initiation — the parent of Budha, Secret Wisdom [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brihat-Samkara-Vijaya +

Title listed in Zirkoff’s bibliography of Oriental works quoted or referred to by H. P. Blavatsky; the compiler states that no information was available. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#363|5:363]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brihatsamhita +

Work by Varahamihira. Editions listed by Zirkoff include Sudhakara Dvivedi’s text (Benares, 1895-97) and N. Chidambaram Iyer’s translation (Madura, 1884-85). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#363|5:363]][[SMW::on]]). +

Briseus +

A name given to the god Bacchus from his nurse, Briso. He had also a temple at Brisa, a promontory of the isle of Lesbos [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

British Section of the Theosophical Society +

Organized on 19 October 1888, uniting the Blavatsky Lodge, Scottish Theosophical Society and the Dublin, Cambridge and Glasgow lodges. A. P. Sinnett’s London Lodge remained outside it. [[Keightley, Archibald|A. Keightley]] became president pro tempore. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.10)#xxvi|BCW 10:xxvi]]) +