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Champollion, Jean François +

His ''Monuments de l’Égypte et de la Nubie'' is cited in the Paris edition of 1835-1845, published by Firmin Didot frères. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#364|7:364]][[SMW::on]]). +

Chandan Gopal +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). +

Chandler, William Eaton +

American government official who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and later as Secretary of the Navy. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Chandra +

The Moon; also a deity. The terms ''Chandra'' and Soma are synonyms [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chandragupta +

The first Buddhist King in India, the grand‐sire of Asoka ; the ''Sandracottus ''of the all‐bungling Greek writers who went to India in Alexander’s time. (See “[[Asoka]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chandramanam +

The method of calculating time by the Moon [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chandrasekharam, C. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Chandrayana +

The lunar year chronology [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chandra‐kanta +

“The moon‐stone”, a gem that is claimed to be formed and developed under the moon‐ beams, which give it occult and magical properties. It has a very cooling influence in fever if applied to both temples [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chandra‐vansa +

The “Lunar Race”, in contradistinction to ''Suryavansa'', the “Solar Race”. Some Orientalists think it an inconsistency that Krishna, a ''Chandravansa ''(of the Yadu branch) should have been declared an Avatar of Vishnu, who is a ''manifestation of the solar energy ''in Rig ‐Veda, a work of unsurpassed authority with the Brahmans. This shows, however, the deep occult meaning of the Avatar ; a meaning which only esoteric philosophy can explain. A glossary is no fit place for such explanations; but it may be useful to remind those who know, and teach those who do not, that in Occultism, man is called a ''solar‐lunar ''being, solar in his higher triad, and lunar in his quaternary. Moreover, it is the Sun who imparts his light to the Moon, in the same way as the human ''triad ''sheds its divine light on the mortal shell of sinful man. Life celestial quickens life terrestrial. Krishna stands metaphysically for the ''Ego ''made one with Atma‐ Buddhi, and performs mystically the same function as the ''Christos ''of the Gnostics, both being “the inner god in the temple” — man. Lucifer is “the bright morning star”, a well known symbol in ''Revelations, ''and, as a planet, corresponds to the EGO. Now Lucifer (or the planet Venus) is the ''Sukra‐Usanas ''of the Hindus ; and Usanas is the Daitya‐guru, i.e., the spiritual guide and instructor of the Danavas and the Daityas. The latter are the giant‐ demons in the ''Purânas'', and in the esoteric interpretations, the antetypal symbol of the man of flesh, physical mankind. The Daityas can raise themselves, it is said, through knowledge “austerities and devotion” to “the rank of the gods and of the ABSOLUTE”. All this is very suggestive in the legend of Krishna ; and what is more suggestive still is that just as Krishna, the Avatar of a great God in India, is of time race of Yadu, so is another incarnation, “God incarnate himself” — or the “God‐man Christ”, also of the race ''Iadoo'' — the name for the Jews all over Asia. Moreover, as his mother, who is represented as Queen of Heaven standing on the crescent, is identified in Gnostic philosophy, and also in the esoteric system, with the Moon herself, like all the other lunar goddesses such as Isis, Diana, Astarte and others — mothers of the Logoi, so Christ is called repeatedly in the Roman Catholic Church, the Sun‐Christ, the ''Christ‐Soleil ''and so on. If the later is a metaphor so also is the earlier [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Chaney, William Henry +

American astrologer born in Maine on 13 January 1821. He worked as a government surveyor, district attorney and newspaper editor; specialized in primary directions, calculated ephemerides and wrote a ''Primer of Astrology''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#500|3:500-501]][[SMW::on]]). +

Chantong +

“He of the 1,000 Eyes”, a name of Padmapani or Chenresi (Avalokitesvara) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Chaos +

The Abyss, the “Great Deep”. It was personified in Egypt by the Goddess Neїth, anterior to all gods. As Deveria says, “the only God, without form and sex, who gave birth to itself, and without fecundation, is adored under the form of a Virgin Mother”. She is the vulture‐headed Goddess found in the oldest period of Abydos, who belongs, accordingly to Mariette Bey, to the first Dynasty, which would make her, even on the confession of the time‐dwarfing Orientalists, about 7,000 years old. As Mr. Bonwick tells us in his excellent work on Egyptian belief — “Neїth, Nut, Nepte, Nuk (her names as variously read !) is a philosophical conception worthy of the nineteenth century after the Christian era, rather than the thirty‐ninth before it or earlier than that”. And he adds: “ Neith or Nout is neither more nor less than the ''Great Mother'', a yet the ''Immaculate Virgin'', or female God from whom all things proceeded”. Neїth is the “Father‐ mother” of the ''Stanzas ''of the ''Secret Doctrine'', the Swabhavat of the Northern Buddhists, the ''immaculate ''Mother indeed, the prototype of the latest “Virgin” of all; for, as Sharpe says, “the Feast of Candlemas — in honour of the goddess Neїth — is yet marked in our Almanacs as Candlemas day, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary”; and Beauregard tells us of “the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, who can henceforth, as well as the Egyptian Minerva, the mysterious Neїth, boast of having come from herself, and of having given birth to God”. He who would deny the working of cycles and the recurrence of events, let him read what Neїth was years ago, in the conception of the Egyptian Initiates, trying to popularize a philosophy too abstract for the masses; and then remember the subjects of dispute at the Council of Ephesus in 431, when Mary was declared Mother of God; and her Immaculate Conception forced on the World as by command of God, by Pope and Council in 1858. Neїth is ''Swabhdvat ''and also the Vedic ''Aditi ''and the Purânic ''Akâsa'', for “she is not only the celestial vault, or ether, but is made to appear in a tree, from which she gives the fruit of the Tree of Life (like another Eve) or pours upon her worshippers some of the divine water of life”. Hence she gained the favourite appellation of “Lady of the Sycamore”, an epithet applied to another Virgin (Bonwick). The resemblance becomes still more marked when Neїth is found on old pictures represented as a Mother embracing the ram‐headed god, the “Lamb”. An ancient stele declares her to be “Neut, the luminous, who has engendered the gods” — the Sun included, for Aditi is the mother of the Marttanda, the Sun — an Aditya. She is ''Naus, ''the celestial ship ; hence we find her on the prow of the Egyptian vessels, like Dido on the prow of the ships of the Phœnician mariners, and forth with we have the Virgin Mary, from ''Mar'', the “Sea”, called the “Virgin of the Sea”, and the “Lady Patroness” of all Roman Catholic seamen. The Rev. Sayce is quoted by Bonwick, explaining her as a principle in the Babylonian ''Bahu ''(Chaos, or confusion) i.e., “merely the Chaos of Genesis . . . and perhaps also Môt, the primitive substance that was the mother of all the gods”. Nebuchadnezzar seems to have been in the mind of the learned professor, since he left the following witness in cuneiform language, “I built a temple to the Great Goddess, my Mother”. We may close with the words of Mr. Bonwick with which we thoroughly agree “She (Neїth) is the ''Zerouâna ''of the Avesta, ‘time without limits’. She is the Nerfe of the Etruscans, half a woman and half a fish” (whence the connection of the Virgin Mary with the fish and ''pisces'') ; of whom it is said: “From holy good Nerfe the navigation is happy. She is the ''Bythos ''of the Gnostics, the ''One ''of the Neoplatonists, the All of German metaphysicians, the ''Anaita ''of Assyria.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Charaka +

A writer on Medicine who lived in Vedic times. He is believed to have been an incarnation (''Avatara) ''of the Serpent ''Sesha'', i.e., an embodiment of divine Wisdom, since Sesha‐Naga, the King of the “Serpent” race, is synonymous with Ananta, the seven‐ headed Serpent, on which Vishnu sleeps during the ''pralayas. Ananta ''is the “endless” and the symbol of eternity, and as such, one with Space, while Sesha is only periodical in his manifestations. Hence while Vishnu is identified with ''Ananta, ''Charaka is only the Avatar of Sesha. (See “Ananta” and “Sesha”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Ancient Indian sage and physician associated with the ''Charaka-samhita'', which presents Atreya’s medical teaching transmitted through Agnivesa. Zirkoff records traditions connecting him with King Kanishka and the legendary incarnation of the serpent-king Sesha. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#371|5:371-372]][[SMW::on]]). +

Charakasamhita +

Medical compendium by Charaka. Zirkoff lists editions by Jivananda Vidyasagara (Calcutta, 1877 and 1896) and K. A. C. Kaviratna’s translation (Calcutta, 1890-1925). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#364|5:364]][[SMW::on]]). +

Charcot, Jean-Martin +

French physician (1825-1893), professor of pathological anatomy and researcher of nervous disorders. His Salpêtrière lectures of 1873 and 1884 were translated into many languages. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#525|2:525]][[SMW::on]]). French physician who developed a major neurological clinic at the Salpêtrière and researched hypnotism and hysteria; author of lectures on diseases of the nervous system and the Salpêtrière's Tuesday lectures. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#638|4:638]][[SMW::on]]). French physician associated with the Salpêtrière hospital, noted for research into nervous disorders, hysteria and hypnotism. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#364|7:364-365]][[SMW::on]]). [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] met him at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris on 7 June 1884. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxi|BCW 6:xxxi]]) +

Chari, N. Ragunatha +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Charlu, A. Govinda +

Indian engineer employed on the Mysore State Railway and writer on Vishishtadvaita philosophy. He translated the ''Bhagavad Gita'' with Ramanuja’s commentary. +

Charlu, S. E. Gopala +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +

Charlu, T. Vijayaraghava +

Indian Theosophist who served as private secretary to Henry Steel Olcott, Recording Secretary and Treasurer of the Theosophical Society, and business manager of ''The Theosophist''. He was also known as Ananda Babu. +