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Another Eminent Convert +

[[Wagner, Prof. Nikolay Petrovich|N. P. Wagner]]’s report from ''Vestnik Evropy'', translated by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] for ''Spiritual Scientist''. The translation appeared in three instalments in June 1875 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Unknown author - A Budget of Good News#90|BCW 1:90]]). +

Anouki +

A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew ''Ank'', life. (See “[[Anuki|Anuki.]]”) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anstey F. - The Fallen Idol +

A work published under F. Anstey, the pseudonym of [[Guthrie, Thomas Anstey|T. A. Guthrie]]. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] cites J. W. Lovell’s New York edition of 1886, a second edition of the same year and a third of 1902. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Animated Statues#215|BCW 7:215]]) +

Ansumat +

A Purânic personage, the “nephew of 60,000 uncles” King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes by a single glance from Kapila Rishi’s “Eye” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Antahkarana +

The term has various meanings, which differ with every school of philosophy and sect. Thus Sankârachârya renders the word as “understanding”; others, as “the internal instrument, the Soul, formed by the thinking principle and egoism”; whereas the Occultists explain it as the ''path ''or bridge between the Higher and the Lower Manas, the divine ''Ego'', and the ''personal ''Soul of man. It serves as a medium of communication between the two, and conveys from the Lower to the Higher Ego all those personal impressions and thoughts of men which can, by their nature, be assimilated and stored by the undying Entity, and be thus made immortal with it, these being the only elements of the evanescent ''Personality ''that survive death and time. It thus stands to reason that only that which is noble, spiritual and divine in man can testify in Eternity to his having lived [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ante-Nicene Fathers +

English translations of the writings of the Church Fathers down to AD 325, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. De Zirkoff lists the ten-volume American edition revised with notes by A. Cleveland Coxe, New York, 1908-1913. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#427|6:427]][[SMW::on]]). Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to a.d. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Editors (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#418|8:418]][[SMW::on]]). +

Antetypion +

A proposed device discussed by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] for recovering images and voices of the past. Olcott’s diary entry for 23 June 1879 records their discussion; no evidence of a working apparatus is supplied. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxviii]]) +

Anthesteria +

The feast of Flowers ''(Floralia''): during this festival the rite of Baptism or purification was performed in the Eleusinian Mysteries in the temple lakes, the Limnae, when the Mystæ were made to pass through the “narrow gate” of Dionysus, to emerge therefrom as full Initiates [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anthon, Charles +

American classical scholar. Grad. of Columbia Univ. 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar, 1819, but never practised (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#404|9:404-405]][[SMW::on]]). +

Anthropology +

The Science of man; it embraces among other things : — ''Physiology'', or that branch of natural science which discloses the mysteries of the organs and their functions in men, animals and plants; and also, and especially, — ''Psychology ''or the great, and in our days, too much neglected science of the soul, both as an entity distinct from the spirit, and in its relation to the spirit and body. In modern science, psychology deals only or principally with conditions of the nervous system, and almost absolutely ignores the psychical essence and nature. Physicians denominate the science of insanity psychology, and name the lunacy chair in medical colleges by that designation. (''Isis Unveiled''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anthropomorphism +

From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Antiquities of Mexico +

An illustrated multi-volume collection of Mexican antiquities associated with E. King, Viscount Kingsborough, and the artist A. Aglio. Kingsborough’s editorial role, including the publication of B. de Sahagún, explains references to him in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s article. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Land of Mystery|BCW 2:316,321]]) +

Anu +

[1] (Sk.)An “atom”, a title of Brahmâ, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe. A hint at the pantheistic nature of the god [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). [2] (''Chald.''). One of the highest of Babylonian deities, “King of Angels and Spirits, Lord of the city of Erech”. He is the Ruler and God of Heaven and Earth. His symbol is a star and a kind of Maltese cross — emblems of divinity and sovereignty. He is an abstract divinity supposed to inform the whole expense of ethereal space or heaven, while his “wife” informs the more material planes. Both are the types of the Ouranos and Gaia of Hesiod. They sprang from the original Chaos. All his titles and attributes are grapfiic and indicate health, purity physical and moral, antiquity and holiness. Anu was the earliest god of the city of Erech. One of his sons was ''Bil ''or''Vil‐Kan, ''the god of fire, of various metals, and of weapons. George Smith very pertinently sees in this deity a close connection with a kind of cross breed between “the biblical Tubal Cain and the classical Vulcan” . .who is considered to be moreover “the most potent deity in relation to witchcraft and spells generally” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anubis +

The dog ‐headed god, identical, in a certain aspect, with Horus. He is pre‐eminently the god who deals with the disembodied, or the resurrected in ''post mortem ''life. ''Anepou ''is his Egyptian name. He is a psychopompic deity, “the Lord of the Silent Land of the West, the land of the Dead, the preparer of the way to the other world ”, to whom the dead were entrusted, to be led by him to Osiris, the Judge. In short, he is the “embalmer” and the “guardian of the dead”. One of the oldest deities in Egypt, Mariette Bey having found the image of this deity in tombs of the Third Dynasty [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anugita +

One of the ''Upanishads. ''A very occult treatise. ''(See The sacred Books of the East.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Included in K. T. Telang's English translation of the Bhagavadgita, Sanatsugatiya and Anugita (Oxford, 1882), and in the German Vier philosophische Texte des Mahabharata (Leipzig, 1906) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#412|10:412]][[SMW::on]]). +

Anugraha +

The eighth creation in the ''Vishnu Purâna.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anuki +

“See Anouki” ''supra. ''“The word ''Ank ''in Hebrew, means ‘my life’, my being, which is the personal pronoun Anocki, from the name of the Egyptian goddess ''Anouki ''”, says the author of the ''Hebrew Mystery, ''or the ''Source of Measures.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anumati +

The moon at the full; when from a god — Soma — she becomes a goddess [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anumitis +

Inference, deduction in philosophy [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anunit +

The goddess of Akkad ; Lucifer, the morning star. Venus as the evening star as Ishtar of Erech [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +