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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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Anaxagoras +

A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and settled in the days of Pericles at Athens. Socrates, Euripides, Archelaus and other distinguished men and philosophers were among his disciples and pupils. He was a most learned astronomer and was one of the first to explain openly that which was taught by Pythagoras secretly, namely, the movements of the planets, the eclipses of the sun and moon, etc. It was he who taught the theory of Chaos, on the principle that “nothing comes from nothing”; and of atoms, as the underlying essence and substance of all bodies, “of the same nature as the bodies which they formed”. These atoms, he taught, were primarily put in motion by Nous (Universal Intelligence, the Mahat of the Hindus), which Nous is an immaterial, eternal, spiritual entity; by this combination the world was formed, the material gross bodies sinking down, and the ethereal atoms (or fiery ether) rising and spreading in the upper celestial regions. Antedating modern science by over 2000 years, he taught that the stars were of the same material as our earth, and the sun a glowing mass; that the moon was a dark, uninhabitable body, receiving its light from the sun; the comets, wandering stars or bodies ; and over and above the said science, he confessed himself thoroughly convinced that the real existence of things, perceived by our senses, could not be demonstrably proved. He died in exile at Lampsacus at the age of seventy‐two [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Khunrath, Henry +

A famous Kabalist, chemist and physician born in 1502, initiated into Theosophy (Rosicrucian) in 1544. He left some excellent Kabalistic works, the best of which is the “Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom” (1598) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Coeur, Jacques +

A famous Treasurer of France, born in 1408, who obtained the office by black magic. He was reputed as a great alchemist and his wealth became fabulous; but he was soon banished from the country, and retiring to the Island of Cyprus, died there in 1460, leaving behind enormous wealth, endless legends and a bad reputation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Heabani +

A famous astrologer at the Court of Izdubar, frequently mentioned in the fragments of the Assyrian tablets in reference to a dream of Izdubar, the great Babylonian King, or Nimrod, the “mighty hunter before the Lord ”. After his death, his soul being unable to rest underground, the ghost of Heabani was raised by Merodach, the god, his body restored to life and then transferred alive, like Elijah, to the regions of the Blessed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ecbatana +

A famous city in Media worthy of a place among the seven wonders of the world. It is thus described by Draper in his ''Conflict between Religion and Science'', chap. i, . . “ The cool summer retreat of the Persian Kings, was defended by seven encircling walls of hewn and polished blocks, the interior ones in succession of increasing height, and of different colours, in astrological accordance with the seven planets. The palace was roofed with silver tiles; its beams were plated with gold. At midnight in its halls, the sun was rivalled by many a row of naphta cressets. A paradise, that luxury of the monarchs of the East, was planted in the midst of the city. The Persian Empire was truly the garden of the world.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hippocrates +

A famous physician of Cos, one of the Cyclades, who flourished at Athens during the invasion of Artaxerxes, and delivered that town from a dreadful pestilence. He was called “the father of Medicine “. Having studied his art from the votive tablets offered by the cured patients at the temples of Æsculapius, he became an Initiate and the most proficient healer of his day, so much so that he was almost deified. His learning and knowledge were enormous. Galen says of his writings that they are truly the voice of an oracle. He died in his 100th year, 361 B.c. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Atalanta Fugiens +

A famous treatise by the eminent Rosicrucian Michael Maier; it has many beautiful engravings of Alchemic symbolism: here is to be found the original of the picture of a man and woman within a circle, a triangle around it, then a square: the inscription is, “From the first '''''ens '''''proceed two contraries, thence come the three principles, and from them the four elementary states ; if you separate the pure from the impure you will have the stone of the Philosophers”. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Fire +

A figure of speech to denote deity, the “One” life. A theurgic term, used later by the Rosicrucians. The symbol of the ''living fire ''is the sun, ''certain of whose rays develope the fire of life in a diseased body,'' ''impart the knowledge of the future ''to the sluggish mind, and stimulate to active function a certain psychic and generally dormant faculty in man. The meaning is very occult [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Kravyad +

A flesh‐eater; a carnivorous man or animal [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Arian +

A follower of Arius, a presbyter of the Church in Alexandria in the fourth century. One who holds that Christ is a created and human being, inferior to God the Father, though a grand and noble man, a true adept versed in all the divine mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adwaitin +

A follower of the said school. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Daksha +

A form of Brahmâ and his son in the Purânas But the ''Rig Veda ''states that “Daksha sprang from Aditi, and Aditi from Daksha”, which proves him to be a personified correlating Creative Force acting on ''all the planes. ''The Orientalists seem very much perplexed what to make of him; but Roth is nearer the truth than any, when saying that Daksha is the spiritual power, and at the same time the male energy that generates the gods in eternity, which is represented by Aditi. The Purânas as a matter of course, anthropomorphize the idea, and show Daksha instituting “sexual intercourse on this earth”, after trying every other means of procreation. The generative Force, spiritual at the commencement, becomes of course at the most material end of its evolution a procreative Force on the physical plane ; and so far the Purânic allegory is correct, as the Secret Science teaches that our present mode of procreation began towards the end of the third Root‐Race [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Anouki +

A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew ''Ank'', life. (See “Anuki.”) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Murti +

A form, or a sign, or again a face, e.g., “Trimûrti”, the “three Faces” or Images [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Artufas +

A generic name in South America and the islands for temples of ''nagalism ''or serpent worship [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Empusa +

A ghoul, a vampire, an evil demon taking various forms [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Muspel +

A giant in the ''Edda'', the Fire‐god, and the father of the Flames. It was these evil sons of the good Muspel Who after threatening evil in Glowheim (Muspelheim) finally gathered into a formidable army, and fought the “Last Battle” on the field of Wigred. Muspel is rendered as “World (or Mundane) Fire”. The conception Dark Surtur (black smoke) out of which flash tongues of flame, connects Muspel with the Hindu Agni [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +