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Hillarion +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies the author of the letter signed “X… F.T.S.” as Hillarion Smerdis on the basis of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s manuscript on Zoroastrianism. [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] recorded his visit to the Founders in Bombay on 19 February 1881. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Hillarion - A Letter from Surb Ohannes|BCW 3:211-212]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxiii-xxiv]]) [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies the “Eastern adept” who collaborated with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] on occult stories as Hilarion Smerdis. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Mr. A. Lillies Delusions#280|BCW 6:280]]) +

Hillel +

A great Babylonian Rabbi of the century preceding the Christian era. He was the founder of the sect of the Pharisees, a learned and a sainted man [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Jewish religious teacher associated with Babylon and Jerusalem, remembered for seven rules of scriptural interpretation and for an emphasis on charity and humility. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#652|4:652]][[SMW::on]]). +

Himachala Himadri +

The Himalayan Mountains [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Himavat +

The personified Himalayas; the father of the river Ganga, or Ganges [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hinayana +

The “ Smaller Vehicle”; a Scripture and a School of the Northern Buddhists, opposed to the ''Mahayana'', “the Greater Vehicle”, in Tibet. Both schools are mystical. (See [[Mahayana]].) Also in exoteric superstition the lowest form of transmigration [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hinrichs, Frederick W. +

One of the contributors to the article published under the collective signature “Hiraf”, which prompted an occult reply by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. His later account of the article’s composition is preserved in his letter of 3 December 1923 to [[Jinarajadasa, Curuppumullage|C. Jinarajadasa]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Hiraf Club and its Historical Background#97|BCW 1:97-100]]) The middle name is represented by W. in the source and is not expanded here. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Hiraf Club and its Historical Background#97|BCW 1:97-100]]) +

Hints on Esoteric Theosophy +

The first number, written by [[Hume, Allan Octavian|A. O. Hume]], was issued anonymously under the authority of the Theosophical Society in 1882; the second followed about a year later. Both were reissued in 1909 with different pagination. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxix]]) The first part appeared in April 1882. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxiv|BCW 4:xxiv]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxxi|BCW 4:xxxi]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Questions about Esoteric Theosophy Answered#170|BCW 4:170]]) +

Hiouen Thsang +

A great Chinese writer and philosopher who travelled in India in the sixth century, in order to learn more about Buddhism, to which he was devoted [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hippocrates +

A famous physician of Cos, one of the Cyclades, who flourished at Athens during the invasion of Artaxerxes, and delivered that town from a dreadful pestilence. He was called “the father of Medicine “. Having studied his art from the votive tablets offered by the cured patients at the temples of Æsculapius, he became an Initiate and the most proficient healer of his day, so much so that he was almost deified. His learning and knowledge were enormous. Galen says of his writings that they are truly the voice of an oracle. He died in his 100th year, 361 B.c. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The bibliography cites ''De Diaeta'' in the Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#652|4:652]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hippolytus +

A writer of the early Church, whose personality was enveloped in mystery before the discovery in 1851 of the Philosophumena attributed to his pen (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#419|9:419]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Philosophumena (or Refutation of All Heresies). Text publ. by Miller (Oxford, 1851), Duncker and Schneidewin (Gottingen, 1859) and Cruice (Paris, 1860). Engl. tr. by Legge (1951). See Ante-Nicene Fathers (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#578|11:578]][[SMW::on]]). The Philosophumena is attributed to him by some scholars. Blavatsky quoted the 1860 Greek-Latin edition of Patricius Cruice, who instead ascribed it to Origen (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#418|10:418]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hippolytus - Refutation of All Heresies +

Passages on Simon Magus in the Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge derive from Book VI, 12. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] compares them with P. Cruice’s Greek-Latin edition (Paris, 1860), pp. 249-251, and suggests that [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] translated them herself. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of The Theosophical Society#404|BCW 10:404-405]]) M. Mynas brought a manuscript from Mount Athos to Paris in 1842. E. Miller published it in 1851 under Origen’s name; its subsequent attribution to Hippolytus became a subject of scholarly debate. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] emphasizes its quotations from Simonian writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#573|BCW 12:573]]) +

Hippopotamus +

In Egyptian symbolism Typhon was called “the hippopotamus who slew his father and violated his mother,” Rhea (mother of the gods). His father was Chronos. As applied therefore to Time and Nature (Chronos and Rhea), the accusation becomes comprehensible. The type of Cosmic Disharmony, Typhon, who is also Python, the monster formed of the slime of the Deluge of Deucalion, “violates” his mother, Primordial Harmony, whose beneficence was so great that she was called “The Mother of the Golden Age”. It was Typhon, who put an end to the latter, i.e., produced the first war of elements [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiquet +

The frog‐goddess; one of the symbols of immortality and of the “water” principle. The early Christians had their church lamps made in the form of a frog, to denote that baptism in water led to immortality [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiraf +

A group of five participants and their collective signature. An article published under this signature prompted a reply by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Membership of the group must be distinguished from established authorship of individual portions of the article ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Hiraf Club and its Historical Background#95|BCW 1:95-100]]). +

Hiram Abiff +

A biblical personage; a skilful builder and a “Widow’s Son”, whom King Solomon procured from Tyre, for the purpose of super‐intending the works of the Temple, and who became later a masonic character, the hero on whom hangs all the drama, or rather play, of the Masonic Third Initiation. The Kabbala makes a great deal of Hiram Abiff [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiranya +

Radiant, golden, used of the “Egg of Brahmâ” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiranya Garbha +

The radiant or golden egg or womb. Esoterically the luminous “fire mist” or ethereal stuff from which the Universe was formed [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiranyakasipu +

A King of the Daityas, whom Vishnu — in his ''avatar ''of the “man.lion” — puts to death [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiranyaksha +

“The golden‐eyed.” the king and ruler of the 5th region of ''Pâtala'', the nether‐world; a snake‐god in the Hindu Pantheon. It has various other meanings [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hiranyapura +

The Golden City [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +