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Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai +

Indian Sanskrit scholar, Gujarati writer and teacher of Advaita Vedanta. Taught at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar and contributed to theosophical periodicals. +

Dwapara Yuga +

The third of the “Four Ages” in Hindu Philosophy ; or the second age counted from below [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwarf of Death +

In the ''Edda ''of the Norsemen, Iwaldi, the Dwarf of Death, hides Life in the depths of the great ocean, and then sends her up into the world at the right time. This Life is Iduna, the beauti‐ ful maiden, the daughter of the “Dwarf”. She is the Eve of the Scandinavian Lays, for she gives of the apples of ever‐ renewed youth to the gods of Asgard to eat ; but these, instead of being cursed for so doing and doomed to die, give thereby renewed youth yearly to the earth and to men, after every short and sweet sleep in the arms of the Dwarf. Iduna is raised from the Ocean when Bragi ''(q.v.)'', the Dreamer of Life, without spot or blemish, crosses asleep the silent waste of waters. Bragi is the divine ideation of Life, and Iduna living Nature — Prakriti, Eve [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwellers +

A term invented by Bulwer Lytton in ''Zanoni''; but in Occultism the word “Dweller” is an occult term used by students for long ages past, and refers to certain maleficent astral Doubles of defunct persons [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwesa +

Anger. One of the three principal states of mind (of which 63 are enumerated), which are ''Râga'' — pride or evil desire, ''Dwesa'' — anger, of which hatred is a part, and Moha — the ignorance of truth. These three are to be steadily avoided [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwija Brahman +

The investure with the sacred thread that now constitutes the “second birth”. Even a Sudra who chooses to pay for the honour becomes, after the ceremony of passing through a silver or golden cow — a ''dwijâ.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwijâ +

“Twice‐born”. In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahmans; but now it is applied to every man belonging to the first of the four castes, who has undergone a certain ceremony [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dwipa +

An island or a continent. The Hindus have seven ''(Sapta dwipa )''; the Buddhists only four. This is owing to a misunderstood reference of the Lord Buddha who, using the term metaphorically, applied the word ''dwipa ''to the races of men. The four Root‐races which preceded our fifth, were compared by Siddhârtha to four continents or isles which studded the ocean of birth and death'' — Samsâra.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dynasties +

In India there are two, the Lunar and the Solar, or the ''Somavansa ''and the ''Suryavansa''. In Chaldea and Egypt there were also two distinct kinds of dynasties, the ''divine ''and the ''human. ''In both countries people were ruled in the beginning of time by Dynasties of Gods. In Chaldea they reigned one hundred and twenty Sari, or in all 432,000 years; which amounts to the same figures as a Hindu Mahayuga 4,320,000 years. The chronology prefacing the ''Book of Genesis ''(English translation) is given “Before Christ, 4004”. But the figures are a rendering by solar years. In the original Hebrew, which preserved a lunar calculation, the figures are 4,320 years. This “coincidence” is well explained in Occultism [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dyookna +

The shadow of eternal Light. The “Angels of the Presence” or archangels. The same as the ''Ferouer ''in the ''Vendidad ''and other Zoroastrian works [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dzyn +

Written also ''Dzen''. A corruption of the Sanskrit Dhyan and ''jnâna ''(or ''gnyâna ''phonetically) — Wisdom, divine knowledge. In Tibetan, learning is called ''dzin.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Dâgoba +

Lit: a sacred mound or tower for Buddhist holy relics. These are pyramidal‐looking mounds scattered all over India and Buddhist countries, such as Ceylon, Burmah, Central Asia, etc. They are of various sizes, and generally contain some small relics of Saints or those claimed to have belonged to Gautama, the Buddha. As the human body is supposed to consist of 84,000 '''''dhâtus '''''(organic cells with definite vital functions in them), Asoka is said for this reason to have built 84,000 ''dhâtu‐gopas ''or Dâgobas in honour of every cell of the Buddha’s body, each of which has now become a ''dhârmadhâtu ''or holy relic. There is in Ceylon a Dhâtu‐ gopa at Anurâdhapura said to date from160 years B.C. They are now built pyramid‐like, but the primitive Dâgobas were all shaped like towers with a cupola and several tchhatra (umbrellas) over them. Eitel states that the Chinese Dâgobas have all from 7 to 14 ''tchhatras ''over them, a number which is symbolical of the human body [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Döllinger J.J.I. von - Heidenthum und Judenthum +

A work by J. J. I. von Döllinger; the passage on Mithra cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] through J. E. de Mirville paraphrases part I, pp. 383–390. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet#23|BCW 8:23]]) +

D’Silva, E. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol9|vol. 9]] (1887–1888). +

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E +

The fifth letter of the English alphabet. The he (soft) of the Hebrew alphabet becomes in the Ehevi system of reading that language an E. Its numerical value is five, and its symbolism is a ''window''; the womb, in the Kabbala. In the order of the divine names it stands for the fifth, which is ''Hadoor ''or the “majestic” and the “splendid.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ea +

The second god of the original Babylonian trinity composed of Anu, Hea and Bel. Hea was the “Maker of Fate”, “Lord of the Deep”, “God of Wisdom and Knowledge”, and “Lord of the City of Eridu” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eagle +

[1] This symbol is one of the most ancient. With the Greeks and Persians it was sacred to the Sun; with the Egyptians, under the name of ''Ah'', to Horus, and the Kopts worshipped the eagle under the name of ''Ahom''. It was regarded as the sacred emblem of Zeus by the Greeks, and as that of the highest god by the Druids. The symbol has passed down to our day, when following the example of the pagan Marius, who, in the second century B.C. used the double‐headed eagle as the ensign of Rome, the Christian crowned heads of Europe made the double‐ headed sovereign of the air sacred to themselves and their scions. Jupiter was satisfied with a one‐headed eagle and so was the Sun. The imperial houses of Russia, Poland, Austria, Germany, and the late Empire of the Napoleons, have adopted a two‐headed eagle as their device [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). [2] Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in early spring. It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of Ostara. These have now become Easter‐Eggs. As expressed in ''Asgard and the Gods: ''“Christianity put another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days before he awakened to new life”. This was the more natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and long death of winter. (See “[[Eggs]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Easter +

The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in early spring. It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of Ostara. These have now become Easter‐Eggs. As expressed in Asgard and the Gods: “Christianity put another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days before he awakened to new life”. This was the more natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and long death of winter. (See “[[Eggs]]”.) +

Eastwood +

English physician and president of the North of England Branch of the British Medical Association. He spoke against Spiritualism at the Newcastle Church Congress in 1881. +

Eberty, Gustav +

The appendix attributes ''The Stars and the Earth'' to him and refers to the note on page 284 of the same volume for bibliographical details. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#646|4:646]][[SMW::on]]). +