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Ebionites +

Lit., “the poor”; the earliest sect of Jewish Christians, the other being the Nazarenes. They existed when the term “Christian” was not yet heard of. Many of the relations of ''Iassou ''(Jesus), the adept ascetic around whom the legend of Christ was formed, were among the Ebionites. As the existence of these mendicant ascetics can be traced at least a century earlier than chronological Christianity, it is an additional proof that ''lassou ''or ''Jeshu ''lived during the reign of Alexander Jannæus at Lyd (or Lud), where he was put to death as stated in the ''Sepher Toldos Jeshu.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

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

Ecclesiastical History +

Book I, chapter 13 contains the correspondence of Jesus and Abgarus referred to by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] describes it as spurious. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Apollonius Tyanaeus|BCW 3:175]]) +

Ecclesiasticus +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies the Wisdom of Iaseus mentioned by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] with the Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Beacon of the Unknown#258|BCW 11:258]]) +

Echath +

The same as the following — the “One”, but feminine [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Echod +

“One”, masculine, applied to Jehovah [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eckartshausen, Karl von +

German mystical writer and philosopher, author of works on Christian theosophy and occult subjects. +

Eckstein, Friedrich +

Austrian Theosophist and writer, the first president of the Vienna Theosophical Society. His circle brought together writers, musicians and students of esoteric traditions. +

Eclectic Philosophy +

One of the names given to the Neo‐ Platonic school of Alexandria [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ecstasis +

A psycho‐spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing on visions [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Edda +

Lit., “great‐grandmother”of the Scandinavian Lays. It was Bishop Brynjϋld Sveinsson, who collected them and brought them to light in 1643. There are two collections of Sagas, translated by the Northern Skalds, and there are two ''Eddas. ''The earliest is of unknown authorship and date and its antiquity is very great. These Sagas were collected in the XIth century by an Icelandic priest; the second is a collection of the history (or myths) of the gods spoken of in the first, which became the Germanic deities, giants, dwarfs and heroes [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The Poetic Edda: Hovamol (The Ballad of the High One), embodying Odin’s Rune-Song. Vide Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda. Tr. from the Icelandic. New York: The American-Scandin. Foundation; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1926 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#413|9:413]][[SMW::on]]). +

Eddy Brothers +

Horatio and William Eddy, American mediums on whose farm at Chittenden, Vermont, phenomena of materialization took place. Investigated for ten weeks in 1874 by Col. Henry Steel Olcott for the New York ''Daily Graphic'', whose articles formed the basis of his book ''People from the Other World'' (1875). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#461|1:461-462]][[SMW::on]]). +

Eden +

“Delight”, pleasure. In ''Genesis ''the “Garden of Delight” built by God ; in the Kabbala the “Garden of Delight”, a place of Initiation into the mysteries. Orientalists identify it with a place which was situated in Babylonia in the district of Karduniyas, called also Gan‐ dunu, which is almost like the Gan‐eden of the Jews. (See the works of Sir H. Rawlinson, and G. Smith.) That district has four rivers, Euphrates, Tigris, Surappi, Ukni. The two first have been adopted without any change by the Jews; the other two they have probably transformed into “ Gihon and Pison”, so as to have something original. The following are some of the reasons for the identification of Eden, given by Assyriologists. The cities of Babylon, Larancha and Sippara, were founded before the flood, according to the chronology of the Jews. “Surippak was the city of the ark, the mountain east of the Tigris was the resting place of the ark, Babylon was the site of the tower, and Ur of the Chaldees the birthplace of Abraham.” And, as Abraham, “the first leader of the Hebrew race, migrated from Ur to Harran in Syria and from thence to Palestine”, the best Assyriologists think that it is “so much evidence in favour of the hypothesis that Chaldea was the original home of these stories (in the Bible) and that the Jews received them originally from the Babylonians” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Edge, Henry Travers +

Suggested Rider as a publisher for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings and helped identify the authorship of unsigned articles. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.1)#xvi|BCW 1:xvi,xxi]]) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xiv|4:xiv]][[SMW::on]]) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|4:xix]][[SMW::on]]) +

Edison, Thomas Alva +

Inventor who applied to join the Theosophical Society on 5 April 1878. Before the founders left America, [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] visited him at Menlo Park ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.1)#lxiii|BCW 1:lxiii,lxvi]]). +

Edkins, Joseph +

English sinolog and missionary of the London Missionary Society. Was sent to China in 1848, residing at Tientsin, Tchenfu and Peking until 1863 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#413|9:413]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists the revised second edition of Chinese Buddhism: A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive and Critical, published in London in 1893 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#572|11:572]][[SMW::on]]). +

Edom +

Edomite Kings. A deeply concealed mystery is to he found in the allegory of the seven Kings of Edorn, who “reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any King over the children of Israel”. ''(Gen. xxxvi''. 31.) The Kabbala teaches that this Kingdom was one of “unbalanced forces’ and necessarily of unstable character. The world of Israel is a type of the condition of the worlds which came into existence subsequently to the later period when the equilibrium had become established. [w.w. w.] On the other hand the Eastern Esoteric philosophy teaches that the seven Kings of Edom are not the type of perished worlds or unbalanced forces, but the symbol of the seven human Root‐races, four of which have passed away, the fifth is passing, and two are still to come. Though in the language of esoteric ''blinds, ''the hint in St. John’s ''Revelation ''is clear enough when it states in chapter xvii , 10: “And there are seven Kings; five are fallen, and one (the fifth, still) is, and the other (the sixth Root‐ race) is not yet come Had all the seven Kings of Edom perished as worlds of “unbalanced forces”, how could the fifth still be, and the other or others “not yet come” ? In The ''Kabbalah Unveiled, ''we read on page 48, “ The seven Kings had died and their possessions had been broken up”, and a footnote emphasizes the statement by saying, “these seven Kings are the Edomite Kings” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Edrewere, Greg. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Edris +

Meaning “the learned One”, an epithet applied by the Arabs to Enoch [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Edwards, Jonathan +

American theologian (1703-1758), a Yale graduate and pastor at Northampton. After his dismissal he worked among the Housatonic Indians and wrote The Freedom of the Will; he later briefly headed the College of New Jersey. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#528|2:528]][[SMW::on]]). +