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Makara Ketu +

A name of Kâma, the Hindu god of love and desire [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Bhuvana +

A name of Rudra or Siva, one of the Indian ''Trimurti ''(Trinity) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nilakantha +

A name of Siva meaning “ blue throated”. This is said to have been the result of some poison administered to the god [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Izdubar +

A name of a hero in the fragments of Chaldean History and Theogony on the so‐called Assyrian tiles, as read by the late George Smith and others. Smith seeks to identify Izdubar with Nimrod. Such may or may not be the case; but as the name of that Babylonian King itself only “appears” as Izduhar, his identification with the son of Cush may also turn out more apparent than real. Scholars are but too apt to check their archæological discoveries by the far later statements found in the Mosaic books, instead of acting ''vice versa''. “The chosen people” have been fond at all periods of history of helping themselves to other people’s property. From the appropriation of the early history of Sargon, King of Akkad, and its wholesale application to Moses born (if at all) some thousands of years later, down to their “spoiling” the Egyptians under the direction and divine advice of their Lord God, the whole Pentateuch seems to be made up of unacknowledged ''mosaical ''fragments from other people’s Scriptures. This ought to have made Assyriologists more cautious; but as many of these belong to the clerical caste, such coincidences as that of Sargon affect them very little. One thing is certain Izdubar, or whatever may be his name, is shown in all the tablets as a mighty giant who towered in size above all other men as a cedar towers over brushwood—a hunter, according to cuneiform legends, who contended with, and destroyed the lion, tiger, wild bull, and buffalo, the most formidable animals [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mulil +

A name of the Chaldean Bel [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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El‐Elion +

A name of the Deity ''borrowed ''by the Jews from the ''Phœnician Elon'', a name of the Sun [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Aditya +

A name of the Sun; as Mârttânda he is the Son of Aditi. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ambhamsi +

A name of the chief of the Kumâras Sanat‐Sujâta, signifying the “waters”. This epithet will become more comprehensible when we remember that the later type of Sanat‐Sujâta was Michael, the Archangel, who is called in the Talmud “the Prince of ''Waters''”, and in the Roman Catholic Church is regarded as the patron of gulfs and promontories. Sanat‐Sujâta is the immaculate son of the immaculate mother (Ambâ or Aditi, chaos and space) or the “waters” of limitless space. (See ''Secret Doctrine''‐, Vol. I., p. 460.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nannak +

A name of the moon; said to be the son of ''Mulil'', the older Bel and the Sun, in the later mythology. In the earliest, the Moon is far older than the Sun [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Indwellers +

A name or the substitute for the right Sanskrit esoteric name, given to our “inner enemies”, which are seven in the esoteric philosophy. The early Christian Church called them the “seven capital Sins ‘: the Nazarene Gnostics named them, the “seven badly disposed Stellars”, and so on. Hindu exoteric teachings speak only of the “''six ''enemies” and under the term ''Arishadwarga ''enumerate them as follows: (1) Personal desire, lust or any passion (''Kâma''); (2) Hatred or malice (''Krodha''); ( Avarice or cupidity (''Lobha''); ( Ignorance (''Moha''); ( Pride or arrogance (''Mada''); (6) Jealousy, envy (''Matcharya''); forgetting the seventh, which is the “unpardonable sin”, and the worst of all in Occultism. (See ''[[Theosophist]]'', May, 1890, p. 431.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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En +

A negative particle, like a in Greek and Sanskrit. The first syllable of “En‐Soph” ''(q.v.)'', or nothing that begins or ends, the “Endless” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Christian Scientist +

A newly‐coined term for denoting the practitioners of an art of healing by will. The name is a misnomer, since Buddhist or Jew, Hindu or Materialist, can practise this new form of Western Yoga, with like success, if he can only guide and control his will with sufficient firmness. The “Mental Scientists” are another rival school. These work by a universal denial of every disease and evil imaginable, and claim syllogistically that since Universal Spirit cannot be subject to the failings of flesh, and since every atom is Spirit and in Spirit, and since finally, they—the healers and the healed—are all absorbed in this Spirit or Deity, there is not, nor can there he, such a thing as disease. This prevents in no wise both Christian and Mental Scientists from succumbing to disease, and nursing chronic diseases in their own bodies just like ordinary mortals [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Innocents +

A nick‐name given to the Initiates and Kabbalists before the Christian era. The “Innocents” of Bethlehem and of Lud (or Lydda) who were put to death by Alexander Janneus, to the number of several thousands (B.C. 100, or so), gave rise to the legend of the 40,000 innocent babes murdered by Herod while searching for the infant Jesus. The first is a little known historical fact, the second a fable, as sufficiently shown by Renan in his ''Vie de Jésus'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Neophyte +

A novice; a postulant or candidate for the Mysteries. The methods of initiation varied. Neophytes had to pass in their trials through all the four elements, emerging in the fifth as glorified Initiates. Thus having passed through Fire (Deity), Water (Divine Spirit), Air (the Breath of God), and the Earth (Matter), they received a sacred mark, a ''tat ''and a ''tau'', or a + and a . The latter was the monogram of the Cycle called the Naros, or Neros. As shown by Dr. E. V. Kenealy, in his Apocalypse, the cross in symbolical language (one of the seven meanings)“+ exhibits at the same time three primitive letters, of which the word LVX or Light is compounded. . . . The Initiates were marked with this sign, when they were admitted into the perfect mysteries. We constantly see the Tau and the Resh united thus . Those two letters in the old Samaritan, as found on coins, stand, the first for 400, the second for 200 = 600. This is the staff of Osiris.” Just so, but this does not prove that the Naros was a cycle of 600 years; but simply that one more pagan symbol had been appropriated by the Church. (See “Naros” and “Neros” and also “I. H. S.”) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Brahma’s Day +

A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahmâ having emerged out of his golden egg ''(Hiranyagarbha''), creates and fashions the material world (being simply the fertilizing and creative force in Nature). After this period, the worlds being destroyed in turn, by fire and water, he vanishes with objective nature, and then comes Brahmâʹs Night [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Brahma’s Night +

A period of equal duration, during which Brahmâ. is said to be asleep. Upon awakening he recommences the process, and this goes on for an AGE of Brahmâ composed of alternate “Days”, and “Nights”, and lasting 100 years (of 2,160,000,000 years each). It requires fifteen figures to express the duration of such an age; after the expiration of which the ''Mahapralaya ''or the Great Dissolution sets in, and lasts in its turn for the same space of fifteen figures [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Manvantara +

A period of manifestation, as opposed to Pralaya (dissolution, or rest), applied to various cycles, especially to a Day of Brahmâ, 4,320,000,000 Solar years— and to the reign of one Manu— 308,448,000. (See Vol. II. of the ''Secret Doctrine'', p. 68 ''et. seq''.) Lit., ''Manuantara''— between Manus [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ayana +

A period of time; two Ayanas complete a year, one being the period of the Sun’s progress northward, and the other south ward in the ecliptic [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Atarpi +

A personage who was “pious to the gods”; and who prayed the god Hea to remove the evil of drought and other things before the Deluge is sent. The story is found on one of the most ancient Babylonian tablets, and relates to the sin of the world. In the words of G. Smith “the god Elu or Bel calls together an assembly of the gods, his sons, and relates to them that he is angry at the sin of the world”; and in the fragmentary phrases of the tablet: “ . . . . I made them . . . . Their wickedness I am angry at, their punishment shall not be small . . . . let food be exhausted, above let Vul drink up his rain”, etc., etc. In answer to Atarpi’s prayer the god Hea announces his resolve to destroy the people he created, which he does finally by a deluge [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Bes +

A phallic god, the god of concupiscence and pleasure. He is represented standing on a lotus ready to devour his own progeny (Abydos). A rather modern deity of foreign origin [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +