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Clement VII, Pope +

Giulio de’ Medici (1478-1534), pope and successor to Adrian VI. Died on 25 September 1534. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#22|BCW 10:22]]) Elected pope on 19 November 1523 (BCW gives 18 November). ([https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father/clemente-vii.html Vatican: Clement VII]) +

Clement XI, Pope +

Giovanni Francesco Albani (23 July 1649-19 March 1721), born at Urbino; elected pope on 23 November 1700 as successor to Innocent XII. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#25|BCW 10:25]]) +

Clement XIV - Dominus ac Redemptor noster +

Clement XIV’s papal brief dated 21 July 1773 suppressing the Society of Jesus. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] distinguishes it from a bull and discusses the manner of its notification to the order’s leadership. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#311|BCW 9:311-313]]) +

Clement XIV, Pope +

Bibliographical references include: Dominus ac Redemptor noster.. Bibliographical information may be found on pp. 312-13 of BCW volume 9 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#409|9:409]][[SMW::on]]). Lorenzo Ganganelli (1705-1774), the pope who issued the 1773 brief Dominus ac Redemptor noster suppressing the Society of Jesus. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] considers insufficiently established the authenticity of a letter supposedly retracting that decision in 1774. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#311|BCW 9:311-313]]) +

Clement of Alexandria +

De Zirkoff lists his ''Stromateis'' and directs readers to volume VIII, page 423, of ''Collected Writings''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#501|3:501]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix cites the ''Stromata'', O. Stählin's edition of the collected works (1905), and John Potter's Greek-Latin edition, frequently used by Blavatsky. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#640|4:640]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites the ''Stromata'' and the discourse addressed to the Gentiles, ''Cohortatio ad Gentes''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#365|7:365]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Stromateis or Stromata (Miscellanies). Standard ed. of collected works is the one of O. Stählin (Leipzig, 1905) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#423|8:423]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Strômateis or Stromata (Miscellanies). Standard ed. of collected works is the one of O. Stâhlin (Leipzig, 1905) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#570|11:570]][[SMW::on]]).

Clement of Alexandria - The Writings of Clement of Alexandria +

The collection includes Clement’s Stromata. Books II, 11 and VII, 17 are cited by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] among patristic sources on Simon Magus. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#571|BCW 12:571]]) +

Clementine Homilies +

The bibliography refers the reader to p. 221 in BCW volume 8 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#423|8:423]][[SMW::on]]). Writings attributed to Clement of Rome, including letters from Peter and Clement to James of Jerusalem and about twenty sermons delivered by Peter while travelling with Clement; the authorship is disputed. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#221|BCW 8:221-222]]) +

Clementine Literature +

A group of writings attributed to Clement of Rome but of disputed authorship. The Homilies and Recognitions employ narratives of Clement’s travels with Peter and Peter’s debates with Simon; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] treats them as evidence of early Jewish Christianity. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#221|BCW 8:221-222]]) [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] places the Recognitions, Homilies and associated Apostolic Constitutions in the legendary group of sources on Simon Magus, referring to [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]]’s summary in Simon Magus, pp. 31–37. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#572|BCW 12:572-573]]) +

Clifford, William Kingdon +

English mathematician and philosopher. Appointed prof. of mathematics at Univ. College, London, 1871, and became F.R.S. 1874 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#423|8:423-424]][[SMW::on]]). +

Clinton, Henry Fynes +

English chronologist (1781-1852), whose studies concerned the chronology of classical antiquity. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#365|7:365]][[SMW::on]]). +

Clovis +

King of the Salian Franks, son of Childerich I, whom he succeeded in 481 at the age of 15. The Salian Franks had by then advanced to the river Somme, and were centred at Tournai (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#409|9:409-410]][[SMW::on]]). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] connects him with the earlier historical incarnation of the protagonist in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Karmic Visions, identifying the later incarnation in the narrative with Frederick III. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Karmic Visions#318|BCW 9:318-319]]) +

Coats, John +

Helped make microfilms of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s unpublished manuscripts available during [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s 1977 visit to India for the Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) In January 1978 authorized the provision from the Adyar archives of the concluding portion of “To the Readers” in the Würzburg manuscript of The Secret Doctrine for publication in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Zirkoff B. - Appendices (BCW vol.14)#457|BCW 14:457]]) +

Cobb, John Storer +

English barrister and Doctor of Laws; at one time Editor of the ''New Era'' magazine, the organ of the Reformed Jews in New York. Was a leader in the Cremation Movement. He assisted in the formation of The Theosophical Society, and was elected its Recording Secretary. In 1878 he was sent as Presidential Agent by the Council of the T.S. in New York, to assist in the formation of the British Theos. Society. He seems to have lost interest soon after and was heard of no more. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#449|1:449]][[SMW::on]]). Barrister and editor of the New York ''New Era'', interested in cremation and associated with the early Theosophical Society. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#365|7:365-366]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cock +

A very occult bird, much appreciated in ancient augury and symbolism. According to the ''Zohar, ''the cock crows three times before the death of a person; and in Russia and all Slavonian countries whenever a person is ill on the premises where a cock is kept, its crowing is held to be a sign of inevitable death, unless the bird crows at the hour of midnight, or immediately afterwards, when its crowing is considered natural. As the cock was sacred to Æsculapius, and a the latter was called the ''Soter ''(Saviour) who raised the dead to life, the Socratic exclamation “We owe a cock to Æculapius”, just before the Sage’s death, is very suggestive. As the cock Was always connected in symbology with the Sun (or solar gods), Death and Resurrection, it has found its appropriate place in the four Gospels in the prophecy about Peter repudiating his Master before the cock crowed thrice. The cock is the most magnetic and sensitive of all birds, hence its Greek name ''alectruon'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Cocker, Benjamin Franklin +

Author of ''Christianity and Greek Philosophy'', a study of Greek thought in relation to Christian teaching, published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1870. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#431|6:431]][[SMW::on]]). +

Cocquelines, Charles +

Bibliographical references include: Bullarum, privilegiarum ac diplomatum Romanorum Pontificum amplissima collectio, Rome, 1745. This is a re-editing of Cherubini’s six volumes on the subject (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#410|9:410]][[SMW::on]]). +

Codex Nazaraeus +

The “Book of Adam” — the latter name meaning ''anthropos'', Man or Humanity. The Nazarene faith is called sometimes the Bardesanian system, though Bardesanes (B.C. 155 to 228) does not seem to have had any connection with it. True, he was born at Edessa in Syria, and was a famous astrologer and Sabian before his alleged conversion. But he was a well‐ educated man of noble family, and would not have used the almost incomprehensible Chaldeo dialect mixed with the mystery language of the Gnostics, in which the Codex is written. The sect of the Nazarenes was pre‐Christian. Pliny and Josephus speak of the Nazarites as settled on the banks of the Jordan 150 years B.C. (''Ant.Jud. ''xiii. p. 9); and Munk says that the “Naziareate was an institution established before the laws of Musah” or Moses. (Munk p. 169.) Their modern name is in Arabic — ''El Mogtasila''; in European languages — the Mendæans or “Christians of St. John”. (See “[[Baptism]]”.) But if the term Baptists may well be applied to them, it is not with the Christian meaning: for while they were, and still are Sabians, or pure astrolaters, the Mendæans of Syria, called the Galileans, are pure polytheists, as every traveller in Syria and on the Euphrates can ascertain, once he acquaints himself with their mysterious rites and ceremonies. (''See Isis Unv. ii. 290, et seq''.) So secretly did they preserve their beliefs from the very beginning, that Epiphanius who wrote against the Heresies in the14th century confesses himself unable to say what they believed in (i. 122); he simply states that they never mention the name of Jesus, nor do they call themselves Christians (''loc. cit. ''190. Yet it is undeniable that some of the alleged philosophical views and doctrines of Bardesanes are found in the codex of the Nazarenes. (See Norberg’s ''Codex Nazaræous ''or the “Book of Adam”, and also “Mendæans ”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The three-volume edition with M. Norberg's Latin translation appeared in 1815-1816. De Zirkoff describes its Syriac transcription of the Mandaean text and notes the rarity of the edition. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#501|3:501]][[SMW::on]]). Mandaean work called ''Sidra Rabba'', or the Great Book, by the Mandaeans. De Zirkoff lists Matthias Norberg’s three-volume edition of 1815-1816. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#431|6:431]][[SMW::on]]).

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: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Coffin‐Rite +

This was the final rite of Initiation in the Mysteries in Egypt, Greece and elsewhere. The last and supreme secrets of Occultism could not be revealed to the Disciple until he had passed through this allegorical ceremony of Death and Resurrection into new light. “The Greek verb ''teleutaó,''” says Vronsky, “signifies in the active voice ‘I die’, and in the middle voice ‘I am initiated”. Stobæus quotes an ancient author, who says, “The mind is affected in death, just as it is in the initiation into the Mysteries ; and word answers to word, as well as thing to thing ; for ''teleutan ''is ‘ to die ‘, and '''''teleisthai '''''‘to be initiated’”. And thus, as Mackenzie corroborates, when the Aspirant was placed in the ''Pastos'', Bed, or Coffin (in India on the ''lathe'', as explained in the ''Secret Doctrine''), “he was symbolically said to die.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Colebrooke H.T. - Essai sur la philosophie des Hindous +

The French translation of [[Colebrooke, Henry Thomas|H. T. Colebrooke]]’s work by J.-P.-[[Pauthier, Jean-Pierre-Guillaume|G. Pauthier]], published in Paris in 1833. The passage describing India as an ancient centre of human thought belongs to the translator’s preface, not to Colebrooke. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Ancient Magic in Modern Science#91|BCW 7:91]]) +