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C +

C — The third letter of the English alphabet, which has no equivalent in Hebrew except Caph, which see under K. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cabar Zio +

“The mighty Lord of Splendour” (''Codex Nazaraeus''), they who procreate ''seven beneficent lives, ''“who shine in their own form and light” to counteract the influence of the seven “badly‐disposed” stellars or principles. These are the progeny of Karabtanos, the personification of concupiscence and matter. The latter are the seven physical planets, the former, their genii or Rulers [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cabeiri +

Deities, held in the highest veneration at Thebes, in Lemnos, Phrygia, Macedonia, and especially at Samothrace. They were mystery gods, no profane having the right to name or speak of them. Herodotus makes of them Fire‐gods and points to Vulcan as their father. The Kabiri presided over the Mysteries, and their real number has never been revealed, their occult meaning being very sacred [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cables, Josephine +

American Theosophist, a founder and secretary of the Rochester branch of the Theosophical Society. Edited ''The Occult Word'' and served as corresponding secretary of the American Board of Control. +

Cabletow +

A Masonic term for a certain object used in the Lodges. Its origin lies in the thread of the Brahman ascetics, a thread which is also used for magical purposes in Tibet [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cabral, Pedro Alvarez +

Portuguese navigator who commanded the fleet that reached Brazil on 22 April 1500, then continued to India and concluded a treaty with the ruler of Cochin. He returned to Portugal in 1501. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#524|2:524]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cadmus +

The supposed inventor of the letters of the alphabet. He may have been their originator and teacher in Europe and Asia Minor; but in India the letters were known and used by the Initiates ages before him [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Caduceus +

The Greek poets and mythologists took the idea of the Caduceus of Mercury from the Egyptians. The Caduceus is found as two serpents twisted round a rod, on Egyptian monuments built before Osiris. The Greeks altered this. We find it again in the hands of Æsculapius assuming a different form to the wand of Mercurius or Hermes. It is a cosmic, sidereal or astronomical, as well as a spiritual and even physiological symbol, its significance changing with its application. Metaphysically, the Caduceus represents the fall of primeval and primordial matter into gross terrestrial matter, the one Reality becoming Illusion. (See ''Sect.Doct.'' I. 550.) Astronomically, the head and tail represent the points of the ecliptic where the planets and even the sun and moon meet in close embrace. Physiologically, it is the symbol of the restoration of the equilibrium lost between Life, as a unit, and the currents of life performing various functions in the human body [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Caesar +

A far‐famed astrologer and “professor of magic,” i.e., an Occultist, during the reign of Henry IV of France. “He was reputed to have been strangled by the devil in 1611,” as Brother Kenneth Mackenzie tells us [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Caesar, Gaius Julius +

*''Commentarii de bello Gallico'', written in 51 B.C. Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#449|1:449]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cagliostro +

A famous Adept, whose real name is claimed (by his enemies) to have been Joseph Balsamo. He was a native of Palermo, and studied under some mysterious foreigner of whom little has been ascertained. His accepted history is too well known to need repetition, and his real history has never been told. His fate was that of every human being who proves that he knows more than do his fellow‐ creatures; he was “stoned to death” by persecutions, lies, and infamous accusations, and yet he was the friend and adviser of the highest and mightiest of every land he visited. He was finally tried and sentenced in Rome as a heretic, and was said to have died during his confinement in a State prison. (See “ Mesmer”.) Yet his end was not utterly undeserved, as he had been untrue to his vows in some respects, had fallen from his state of chastity and yielded to ambition and selfishness [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cahagnet, Louis-Alphonse +

French artisan and writer on animal magnetism, somnambulism and spiritualism. His works include ''Arcanes de la vie future dévoilée'' and ''Magie magnétique''. French artisan and prolific student of animal magnetism, somnambulism and mystical thought (1805-1885). His writings examine magnetizing methods, sensitive subjects and treatment of illness; ''The Celestial Telegraph'' appeared in English in London in 1850. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#499|3:499-500]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix refers to his biographical sketch in volume III, pages 499-500. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#637|4:637]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cailletet, Louis Paul +

French industrialist and experimental scientist, known for work on the liquefaction of gases, conducted independently of Pictet; also interested in aeronautics and elected to the Paris Academy. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#637|4:637]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cain +

In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapter of ''Genesis''. It is held, moreover, that Abel is not his brother, but his female aspect. (See ''Sec.Doct''., ''sub voce''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Caine, William Sproston +

English politician and temperance advocate. Educated privately. Entered as partner in his father’s business; early bent for preaching and philanthropy, but mainly absorbed in temperance movement in Liverpool (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#569|11:569-570]][[SMW::on]]). +

Caithness, Marie, Countess of +

Provided accommodation for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] in Nice and Paris in March 1884. Incorporated the substance of Blavatsky’s discussions in Parisian homes into The Mystery of the Ages (1887). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxvii|BCW 6:xxvii,xxix]]) +

Calmeil, Juste-Louis +

Author of ''De la folie considérée sous le point de vue philosophique'', published in Paris in 1845. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#500|3:500]][[SMW::on]]). French psychiatrist (1798-1895), a pupil of Esquirol who worked at Charenton. His writings examined mental illness and its historical manifestations. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#363|7:363]][[SMW::on]]). +

Calvary Cross +

This form of cross does not date from Christianity. It was known and used for mystical purposes, thousands of years before our era. It formed part and parcel of the various Rituals, in Egypt and Greece, in Babylon and India, as well as in China, Mexico, and Peru. It is a cosmic, as well as a physiological (or ''phallic'') symbol. That it existed among all the “heathen” nations is testified to by Tertullian. “How doth the Athenian Minerva differ from the body of a cross?” he queries. “The origin of your gods is derived from figures moulded on a cross. All those rows of images on your standards are the appendages of crosses; those hangings on your banners are the robes of crosses.” And the fiery champion was right. The ''tau ''or '''T '''is the most ancient of all forms, and the cross or the ''tat (q.v.) ''as ancient. The ''crux ansata, ''the cross with a handle, is in the hands of almost every god, including Baal and the Phœnician Astarte. The ''croix cramponnée ''is the Indian ''Swastica''. It has been exhumed from the lowest foundations of the ancient site of Troy, and it appears on Etruscan and Chaldean relics of antiquity. As Mrs. Jamieson shows: “The ''ankh ''of Egypt was the crutch of St. Anthony and the cross of St. Philip. The ''Labarum ''of Constantine . . . was an emblem long before, in Etruria. Osiris had the ''Labarum ''for his sign; Horus appears sometimes with the long Latin cross. The Greek pectoral cross is Egyptian. It was called by the Fathers the devil’s invention before Christ . The ''crux ansata ''is upon the old coins of Tarsus, as the Maltese upon the breast of an Assyrian king ...The cross of Calvary, so common in Europe, occurs on the breasts of mummies. . . it was suspended round the necks of sacred Serpents in Egypt. . . . Strange Asiatic tribes bringing tribute in Egypt are noticed with garments studded with crosses, and Sir Gardner Wilkinson dates this picture B.C. 1500.” Finally, “Typhon, the Evil One, is chained by a cross”. ''(Eg. Belief and Mod. Thought).'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Campanella Tomaso +

A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up during his whole life to the Occult Arts. The story which shows him initiated in his boyhood into the secrets of alchemy and thoroughly instructed in the secret science by a Rabbi‐Kabbalist in a ''fortnight ''by means of ''notavicon, ''is a cock and bull invention. Occult knowledge, even when a heirloom from the preceding birth, does not come back into a new personality within fifteen days. He became an opponent of the Aristotelian materialistic philosophy when at Naples and was obliged to fly for his life. Later, the Inquisition sought to try and condemn him for the practice of magic arts, but its efforts were defeated. During his lifetime he wrote an enormous quantity of magical, astrological and alchemical works, most of which are no longer extant. He is reported to have died in the convent of the Jacobins at Paris on May the 21st, 1639 [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Campbell, George Douglas +

The eighth Duke of Argyll and author of The Reign of Law, cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] when discussing philosophical explanations of the universe. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Spinoza and Western Philosophers#311|BCW 13:311]]) +