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Hamerster, Albertus Jacobus +

Collaborated with [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] through the Adyar Archives and carefully transcribed archival material for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.5)#xvii|BCW 5:xvii]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.5)#xxi|BCW 5:xxi]]) The full name is Albertus Jacobus Hamerster (1883–1951), a Dutch Theosophist and worker at the Adyar Library. ([https://theosophy.wiki/en/A._J._Hamerster Theosophy Wiki: Albertus Jacobus Hamerster]) +

Hamlet +

A tragedy by [[Shakespeare, William|W. Shakespeare]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Light Shining in Darkness#98|BCW 4:98]]) +

Hammond, William Alexander H. +

American physician. Became Brig.-General and Surgeon-Gen. of the Army, 1862; founded the Army Medical Museum. Resigned in 1864 and became Prof. of Psychiatry and nervous diseases at College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Chief works: ''The Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion'', ''On Sleep and Its Derangements'' (1869), *''Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism'' (1870). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#465|1:465-466]][[SMW::on]]). The Appendix refers readers to BCW I, 465-466 for biographical information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#531|2:531]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''On Sleep and its Derangements'', Philadelphia, 1869. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#510|3:510]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hamsa +

[1] (Sk.) “Swan or goose”, according to the Orientalists ; a mystical bird in Occultism analogous to the Rosicrucian Pelican. The sacred mystic name which, when preceded by that of KALA (infinite time), i.e. ''Kalahansa'', is name of Parabrahm ; meaning the “ Bird out of space and time”. Hence Brahmâ (male)is called ''Hansa Vahana ''“the Vehicle of Hansa” (the Bird). We find the same idea in the ''Zohar, ''where ''Ain Suph ''(the endless and infinite) is said to descend into the universe, for purposes of manifestation, using Adam Kadmon (Humanity) as a chariot or vehicle [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). [2] (Arab) The founder of the mystic sect of the Druzes of Mount Lebanon. (See [[Druzes]] .) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hangsa +

A mystic syllable standing for evolution, and meaning in its literal sense “I am he”, or ''Ahamsa'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hansa +

The name, according to the ''Bhâgavata Purâna'', of the “One Caste” when there were as yet no varieties of caste, but verily “one Veda, one Deity and one Caste” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hanschell, H. +

Judicial official at St Thomas in the Danish West Indies who issued the December 1881 judgment in the case concerning Charles E. Taylor’s medical practice. +

Hanson, Virginia +

Provided suggestions concerning [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s introduction to volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxii|BCW 14:xxii]]) +

Hanuman +

The monkey god of the ''Ramayana''; the ''generalissimo ''of Rama’s army; the son of Vayu, the god of the wind, and of a virtuous she‐demon. Hanuman was the faithful ally of Rama and by his unparalleled audacity and wit, helped the Avatar of Vishnu to finally conquer the demon‐king of Lanka, Ravana, who had carried off the beautiful Sita, Rama’s wife, an outrage which led to the celebrated war described in the Hindu epic poem [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Happy Fields +

The name given by the Assyrio‐Chaldeans to their Elysian Fields, which were intermingled with their Hades. As Mr. Boscawen tells his readers — “The Kingdom of the underworld was the realm of the god Hea, and the Hades of the Assyrian legends was placed in the underworld, and was ruled over by a goddess, Nin‐ Kigal, or ‘the Lady of the Great Land’. She is also called Allât.” A translated inscription states: — “After the gifts of these present days, in the feasts of the land of the silver sky, the resplendent courts, the abode of blessedness, and in the light of the Happy Fields, may he dwell in life eternal, holy, in the presence of the gods who inhabit Assyria”. This is worthy of a Christian tumulary inscription. Ishtar, the beautiful goddess, descended into Hades after her beloved Tammuz, and found that this dark place of the shades had seven spheres and seven gates, at each of which she had to leave something belonging to her [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hara +

A title of the god Siva [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Harbinger of Light, The +

The Journal Devoted to Zoistic Science, Free Thought, Spiritualism and the Harmonial Philosophy. A Monthly Journal Devoted to Psychology, Occultism, and Spiritual Philosophy. Devoted to Occultism and Spiritual Philosophy. (IAPSOP) Melbourne periodical founded by William H. Terry on 1 September 1870. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#385|5:385]][[SMW::on]]). Melbourne periodical founded by William H. Terry on 1 September 1870. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#450|6:450]][[SMW::on]]). [[Terry, William Henry|W. H. Terry]] edited the journal for many years; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] associates his work with the early growth of Theosophy in Australia. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Theosophie et Spiritisme#11|BCW 5:11]]) +

Harbottle T.B. - Brotherhood +

Signed “T. B. H.”; identified by the author's own statement in [[Harbottle T.B. - Socialism and Theosophy|Socialism and Theosophy]], ''Lucifer'', vol. 1, January 1888, p. 415. +

Harbottle, Thomas Benfield +

English Theosophist and compiler of dictionaries of quotations and historical reference works. Joined the Theosophical Society in 1885 and participated in founding the Blavatsky Lodge in 1887. +

Hardinge-Britten, Mrs. Emma +

An English woman who became a prominent orator, writer and traveller in the cause of Spiritualism, writing ''Modern American Spiritualism'' (1870) and ''Nineteenth Century Miracles'' (1883), the latter containing an account of the formation of the Theosophical Society, in which both she and her husband took part from the very first. Also published *''Art Magic; or, Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism'' (1876), which she claimed to have translated for an Adept known as "Chevalier Louis." Left the Theosophical Society fairly soon, though she retained some contact with its leaders until 1890. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#466|1:466-467]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hardy, H. +

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

Hardy, Robert Spence +

English Wesleyan missionary who spent twenty-three years in Ceylon and wrote on Buddhism and Pali literature. His works include Eastern Monachism and A Manual of Buddhism (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#417|10:417-418]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: A Manual of Buddhism, in its Modern Development, London, 1853; 2nd ed. 1880. See Vol. X of the present Series for biogr. data (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#578|11:578]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hare, Robert +

American chemist. Discovered, 1801, the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, which led to the founding of the platinum industry. Elected, 1816, Prof. of Chemistry at the Univ. of Penna. One of the first eminent men of science who, setting out to expose the delusions of Spiritualism, became a firm believer instead; embodied his research in *''Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations'' (1855), which led to a disgraceful persecution of him by the professors of Harvard and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#467|1:467-468]][[SMW::on]]). His ''Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations'' was published in New York by Partridge & Brittan in 1855, with 460 pages and two portraits. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#510|3:510]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix directs the reader to a biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#651|4:651]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hare‐Worship +

The hare was sacred in many lands and especially among the Egyptians and Jews. Though the latter consider it an unclean, ''hoofed ''animal, unfit to eat, yet it was held sacred by some tribes. The reason for this was that in a certain species of hare the male suckled the little ones. It was thus considered to be androgynous or hermaphrodite, and so typified an attribute of the Demiurge, or creative Logos. The hare was a symbol of the moon, wherein the face of the prophet Moses is to be seen to this day, say the Jews. Moreover the moon is connected with the worship of Jehovah, a deity pre‐ eminently the god of generation, perhaps also for the same reason that Eros, the god of sexual love, is represented as carrying a hare. The hare was also sacred to Osiris. Lenormand writes that the hare “has to be considered as the symbol of the Logos . . . the Logos ought to be hermaphrodite and we know that the hare is an androgynous type” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hari +

A title of Vishnu, but used also for other gods [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +