Property:CTD term description

This property has type Text.

Usage6024

FilterThe <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Property_page/Filter">search filter</a> allows the inclusion of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Query_expressions">query expressions</a> such as <code>~</code> or <code>!</code>. The selected <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Query_engine">query engine</a> might also support case insensitive matching or other short expressions like:<ul><li><code>in:</code> result should include the term, e.g. '<code>in:Foo</code>'</li></ul><ul><li><code>not:</code> result should to not include the term, e.g. '<code>not:Bar</code>'</li></ul>

Showing 20 pages using this property.

K

Kanitkar, Govind W. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). +

Kant, Immanuel +

The bibliography lists Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgement (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#427|9:427]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kanya +

A virgin or maiden. ''Kanya Kumârî ''“the virgin‐ maiden” is a title of Durga‐Kali, worshipped by the Thugs and Tantrikas [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kapila +

*''The Aphorisms of the Sankhya Philosophy of Kapila'', with illustrative extracts from the Commentaries. Text and Translation by James R. Ballantyne. Allahabad: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1852, 1854, 1856; 3rd ed., London, Trubner & Co., 1885. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#490|1:490]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kapila Rishi +

A great sage, a great adept of antiquity; the author of the Sankhya philosophy [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kapilavastu +

The birth‐place of the Lord Buddha; called “the yellow dwelling”: the capital of the monarch who was the father of Gautama Buddha [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karabtanos +

The spirit of blind or animal desire; the symbol of Kama‐rupa. The Spirit “without sense or judgment” in the Codex of the Nazarenes. He is the symbol of matter and stands for the father of the seven spirits of concupiscence begotten by him on his mother, the “Spiritus” or the Astral Light [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karam +

A great festival in honour of the Sun‐Spirit with the Kolarian tribes [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karana +

Cause (metaphysically) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karana Sarira +

The “Causal body”. It is dual in its meaning. Exoterically, it is Avidya, ignorance, or that which is the cause of the evolution of a human ego and its reincarnation ; hence the lower Manas esoterically — the causal body or Kâranopadhi stands in the Taraka Raja yoga as corresponding to Buddhi and the Higher “ Manas,” or Spiritual Soul [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karanda +

The “sweet‐voiced bird,” the same as ''Kalavingka ''(''q.v.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karanopadhi +

The basis or ''upadhi ''of Karana, the “causal soul”. In Taraka Rajayoga, it corresponds with both ''Manas ''and ''Buddhi. ''See Table in the ''Secret Doctrine'', Vol. I, p. 157. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kardec, Allan +

Pen name of Hippolyte-Léon-Denizard Rivail, a French writer whose work helped spread Spiritism. His books include ''Le Livre des Esprits'' (1857), ''Le Livre des Médiums'' (1861), ''Le Ciel et l’Enfer'' (1865), and ''L’Évangile selon le Spiritisme''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#375|5:375-376]][[SMW::on]]). +

Kardecists +

The followers of the spiritistic system of Allan Kardec, the Frenchman who founded the modern movement of the Spiritist School. The Spiritists of France differ from the American and English Spiritualists in that their “Spirits” teach reincarnation, while those of the United States and Great Britain denounce this belief as a heretical fallacy and abuse and slander those who accept it. “When Spirits disagree...” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karma +

Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It is the eleventh ''Nidana ''in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox Buddhism ; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, the meta physical ''Samskâra'', or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply ''the one ''Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. When Buddhism teaches that “Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration ‘ or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought after each Personality but the causes produced by it ; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them, so to speak, and such causes — unless compensated during the life of the person who produced them with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and causes is fully reestablished. No “personality” — a mere bundle of material atoms and of instinctual and mental characteristics — can of course continue, as such, in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced, it is therefore the Ego, that ''self ''which is the “moral kernel” referred to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Karnaim +

Horned, an attribute of Ashtoreth and Astarte; those horns typify the male element, and convert the deity into an androgyne. Isis also is at times horned. Compare also the idea of the Crescent Moon — ‐symbol of Isis — as horned. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karnak +

The ruins of the ancient temples, and palaces which now stand on the emplacement of ancient Thebes. The most magnificent representatives of the art and skill of the earliest Egyptians. A few lines quoted from Champollion, Denon and an English traveller, show most eloquently what these ruins are. Of Karnak Champollion writes : — “The ground covered by the mass of remaining buildings is square; and each side measures 1,800 feet. One is astounded and ''overcome by the grandeur ''of the sublime remnants, the prodigality and magnificence of workmanship to be seen everywhere. No people of ancient or modern times has conceived the art of architecture upon a scale so sublime, so grandiose as it existed among the ancient Egyptians; and the imagination, which in Europe soars far above our porticos, arrests itself ''and falls powerless ''at the foot of the hundred and forty columns of the hypostyle of Karnak! In one of its halls, the Cathedral of Notre Dame might stand and not touch the ceiling, but be considered as a small ornament in the centre of the hall.” Another writer exclaims: “Courts, halls, gateways, pillars, obelisks, monolithic figures, sculptures, long rows of sphinxes, are found in such profusion at Karnak, that the sight is too much for modern compre‐hension.” Says Denon, the French traveller: “It is hardly possible to believe, after seeing it, in the reality of the existence of so many buildings collected together on a single point, in their dimensions, in the resolute perseverance which their construction required, and in the incalculable expenses of so much magnificence! It is necessary that the reader should fancy what is before him to be a dream, as he who views the objects themselves occasionally yields to the doubt whether he be perfectly awake. . . . There are lakes and mountains within the ''periphery of the sanctuary''. These two edifices are selected as examples from a list ''next to inexhaustible. ''The whole valley and delta of the Nile, from the cataracts to the sea, was covered with temples, palaces, tombs, pyramids, obelisks, and pillars. The execution of the sculptures is beyond praise. The mechanical perfection with which artists wrought in granite, serpentine, breccia, and basalt, is wonderful, according to all the experts animals and plants look as good as natural, and artificial objects are beautifully sculptured; battles by sea and land, and scenes of domestic life are to be found in all their ''bas‐reliefs''.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Karneios +

“Apollo ''Karneїos'',” is evidently an ''avatar ''of the Hindu “Krishna ''Karna”''. Both were Sun‐gods; both “Karna” and Karneios meaning “radiant”. (See the ''Secret Doctrine ''II., p. 44. note.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karshipta +

The holy bird of Heaven in the Mazdean Scriptures, of which Ahura Mazda says to Zaratushta that ''“he recites the Avesta in the language of birds''” (''Bund. ''xix. ''et seq''.). The bird is the symbol of “Soul” of Angel and Deva in every old religion. It is easy to see, therefore, that this “holy bird” means the divine Ego of man, or the “Soul”. The same as '''Karanda '''(q.v.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Karshvare +

The “seven earths” (our septenary chain) over which rule the ''Amesha Spenta'', the Archangels or Dhyan Chohans of the Parsis. The seven earths, of which one only, namely Hvanirata — our earth — is known to mortals. The Earths (esoterically), or seven divisions (exoterically), are our own planetary chain as in ''Esoteric Buddhism ''and the ''Secret Doctrine. ''The doctrine is plainly stated in Fargard XIX., 39, of the ''Vendidad'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +