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Ishmonia +

The city near which is buried the so‐ called “petrified city” in the Desert. Legend speaks of immense subterranean halls and chambers, passages, and libraries secreted in them. Arabs dread its neighbourhood after sunset [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ishtar +

The Babylonian Venus, called “the eldest of heaven and earth“, and daughter of Anu, the god of heaven. She is the goddess of love and beauty. The planet Venus, as the evening star, is identified with Ishtar, and as the morning star with Anunit, the goddess of the Akkads. There exists a most remarkable story of her descent into Hades, on the sixth and seventh Assyrian tiles or tablets deciphered by the late G. Smith. Any Occultist who reads of her love for Tammuz, his assassination by Izdubar, the despair of the goddess and her descent in search of her beloved through the seven gates of Hades, and finally her liberation from the dark realm, will recognise the beautiful allegory of the soul in search of the Spirit [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Isiac table +

A true monument of Egyptian art. It represents the goddess Isis under many of her aspects. The Jesuit Kircher describes it as a table of copper overlaid with black enamel and silver incrustations. It was in the possession of Cardinal Bembo, and therefore called ''“Tabula Bembina sive Mensa Isiaca ''”. Under this title it is described by W. Wynn Westcott, M.B., who gives its “History and Occult Significance” in an extremely interesting and learned volume (with photographs and illustrations). The tablet was believed to have been a votive offering to Isis in one of her numerous temples. At the sack of Rome in 1525, it came into the possession of a soldier who sold it to Cardinal Bembo. Then it passed to the Duke of Mantua in 1630, when it was lost [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Isidore (Metropolitan) +

Metropolitan of Kiev and formerly Exarch of Georgia. He met [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] at Zadonsk and, according to the testimony cited, advised her to exercise her abilities with discretion ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xliv|BCW 1:xliv]]). +

Isidore of Seville +

Christian encyclopaedist and Archbishop of Seville, approximately 570–636. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] tentatively identifies him with the Isidore mentioned by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in her discussion of animal souls. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Have Animals Souls#26|BCW 7:26]]) +

Isis +

In Egyptian ''Issa'', the goddess Virgin‐Mother; personified nature. In Egyptian or Koptic ''Uasari, ''the female reflection of ''Uasar ''or Osiris. She is the “woman clothed with the sun” of the land of Chemi. Isis Latona is the Roman Isis [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Isis (French theosophical periodical) +

Organ of the French Theosophical Society (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#429|10:429]][[SMW::on]]). +

Isis Branch +

At a Paris meeting on 23 June 1888 the Branch revised its rules and addressed internal dissension. Le Lotus ceased to be its official organ. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.9)#xxv|BCW 9:xxv]]) At its meeting of 13 July 1888 it endorsed [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s action in the Paris dispute. On 17 September [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] withdrew its charter and granted a new charter to the Hermes Branch. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.10)#xxiv|BCW 10:xxiv-xxv]]) +

Isis Unveiled and The Theosophist on Reincarnation +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] attributes the article to Master K. H.’s dictation to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], citing The Mahatma Letters (pp. 172-173) and her letters to Sinnett (p. 26). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Isis Unveiled and The Theosophist on Reincarnation#182|BCW 4:182]]) +

Isitwa +

The divine Power [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Israel +

The Eastern Kabbalists derive the name from ''Isaral ''or ''Asar'', the Sun‐God. “Isra‐el” signifies “striving with god”: the “sun rising upon Jacob‐Israel ” means the Sun‐god Isaral (or Isar‐el) striving with, and to fecundate matter, which has power with “God and with man” and often prevails over both. Esau, Æsaou, Asu, is also the Sun. Esau and Jacob, the allegorical twins, are the emblems of the ever struggling dual principle in nature — good and evil, darkness and sunlight, and the “ Lord” (Jehovah) is their antetype. Jacob‐Israel is the feminine principle of Esau, as Abel is that of Cain, both Cain and Esau being the male principle. Hence, like Malach‐Iho, the “Lord” Esau fights with Jacob and prevails not. In ''Genesis ''xxxii. the God‐Sun first strives with Jacob, breaks his ''thigh ''(a phallic symbol) and yet is defeated by his terrestrial type — matter; and the Sun‐God rises on Jacob and his ''thigh ''in covenant. All these biblical personages, their “Lord God” included, are types represented in an allegorical sequence. They are types of Life and Death, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, of Matter and Spirit in their synthesis, all these being under their contrasted aspects [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Iswara +

The “Lord” or the personal god — ''divine Spirit in man. Lit''., sovereign (independent) existence. A title given to Siva and other gods in India. Siva is also called Iswaradeva, or sovereign deva [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ithyphallic +

Qualification of the gods as males and hermaphrodites, such as the bearded Venus, Apollo in woman’s clothes, Ammon the generator, the embryonic Ptah, and so on. Yet the phallus, so conspicuous and, according to ''our ''prim notions, so indecent, in the Indian and Egyptian religions, was associated in the earliest symbology far more with another and much purer idea than that of sexual creation. As shown by many an Orientalist, it expressed ''resurrection, the rising in life from death. ''Even the other meaning had nought indecent in it: “These images only symbolise in a very expressive manner the creative force of nature, without obscene intention,” writes Mariette Bey, and adds, “It is but another way to express ''celestial generation'', which should cause the deceased to enter into a new life”. Christians and Europeans are very hard on the phallic symbols of the ancients. The nude gods and goddesses and their generative emblems and statuary have secret departments assigned to them in our museums; why then adopt and preserve the same symbols for Clergy and Laity? The love‐feasts in the early Church — its ''agapæ ''as pure (or as impure) as the Phallic festivals of the Pagans; the long priestly robes of the Roman and Greek Churches, and the long hair of the latter, the holy water sprinklers and the rest, are there to show that Christian ritualism has preserved in more or less modified forms all the symbolism of old Egypt. As to the symbolism of a purely ''feminine ''nature, we are bound to confess that in the sight of every impartial archæologist the half nude toilets of our cultured ladies of Society are far more suggestive of female‐sex worship than are the rows of yoni‐shaped lamps, lit along the highways to temples in India [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Iurbo Adunai +

A Gnostic term, or the compound name for Iao Jehovah, whom the Ophites regarded as an emanation of their Ilda‐Baoth, the Son of Sophia Achamoth — the proud, ambitious and jealous god, and impure Spirit, whom many of the Gnostic sects regarded as the god of Moses. “Iurbo is called by the Abortions (the Jews) Adunai” says the ''Codex Nazaræus ''(vol. iii., p.13 The “Abortions” and ''Abortives ''was the nickname given to the Jews by their opponents the Gnostics [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Iu‐Kabar Zivo +

Known also as Nebat‐Iavar‐bar‐ Iufin‐Ifafin, “Lord of the Æons” in the Nazarene System. He is the procreator (Emanator) of the ''seven holy lives ''(the seven primal Dhyan Chohans, or Archangels, each representing one of the cardinal Virtues), and is himself called the third life (''third ''Logos). In the Codex he is addressed as “the Helm and ''Vine ''of the food of life”. Thus, he is identical with Christ (Christos) who says “I am the ''true Vine ''and my Father is the Husband‐ man “(John xv. i). It is well known that Christ is regarded in the Roman Catholic Church, as the “chief of the Æons”, and also as Michael “who is like god”. Such was also the belief of the Gnostics [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Iverach, James +

Scottish clergyman. Ordained at West Calder, 1869. Educated in the Univ, and New College, Edinburgh (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#459|8:459]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ivins, William Mills +

Distinguished American lawyer. Represented H.P.B. in her lawsuit against Clementine Gerebko. During 1885-88, was judge advocate general of New York state; in 1881-82 was to a large extent acting mayor of New York under Wm. R. Grace. In 1907-09, was Chairman of the committee which prepared the Ivins Charter for New York city, which became a model for other city charters. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#471|1:471]][[SMW::on]]). Recalled his acquaintance with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] during her lawsuit and her work as a translator ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - H.P.Bs Lawsuit in America#84|BCW 1:84-85]]). +

Iwaldi +

The dwarf whose sons fabricated for Odin the magic spear. One of the subterranean master‐ smiths who, together with other gnomes, contrived to make an enchanted sword for the great war‐god Cheru. This two‐edged‐sword figures in the legend of the Emperor Vitellius, who got it from the god, “to his own hurt”, according to the oracle of a “wise woman”, neglected it and was finally killed with it at the foot of the capitol, by a German soldier who had purloined the weapon. The “sword of the war‐god” has a long biography, since it also re‐appears in the half‐legendary biography of Attila. Having married against her will Ildikd, the beautiful daughter of the King of Burgundy whom he had slain, his bride gets the magic sword from a mysterious old woman, and with it kills the King of the Huns [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Iyengar, A. Narasimma +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Iyengar, K. Rangamannar +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +