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Mansel, Henry Longueville +

English philosopher and Anglican clergyman, professor at Oxford and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. English philosopher. Educ. at Merchant Taylor's School and St. John's Coll. Oxford. Appointed reader in moral and metaphysical philosophy at Magdalen College, 1855, and Waynflete professor, 1859 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#464|8:464-465]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures, Oxford, 1858; 1st Amer, ed. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1859. - See Vol. VIII, pp. 464-65, for biogr. data (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#581|11:581]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mansi, Gian Domenico +

Editor of ''Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio'', a collection of church councils subsequently continued and enlarged by other editors. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#382|7:382]][[SMW::on]]). +

Manticism +

During this state was developed the gift of prophecy. The two words are nearly synonymous. One was as honoured as the other. Pythagoras and Plato held it in high esteem, and Socrates advised his disciples to study Manticism. The Church Fathers, who condemned so severely the ''mantic frenzy ''in Pagan priests and Pythiæ, were not above applying it to their own uses. The Montanists, who took their name from Montanus, a bishop of Phrygia, who was considered divinely inspired, contended with the '''mavnteiz '''(manteis) or prophets. “Tertullian, Augustine, and the martyrs of Carthage, were of the number”, says the author of ''Prophecy, Ancient and Modern. ''“The Montanists seem to have resembled the ''Bacchantes ''in the wild enthusiasm that characterized their orgies,” he adds. There is a diversity of opinion as to the origin of the word ''Manticism''. There was the famous Mantis the Seer, in the days of Melampus and Prœtus King of Argos; and there was Manto, the daughter of the prophet of Thebes, herself a prophetess. Cicero describes prophecy and mantic frenzy, by saying, that “in the inner recesses of the mind is divine prophecy hidden and confined, a divine impulse, which when it burns more vividly is called furor”, frenzy. (''Isis Unveiled''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mantra Shastra +

Brahmanical writings on the occult science of incantations [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mantra Tantra Shastras +

Works on incantations, but specially on magic [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mantra period +

One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mantras +

Verses from the Vedic works, used as incantations and charms. By Mantras are meant all those portions of the Vedas which are distinct from the ''Brahmanas'', or their interpretation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mantrika Sakti +

The power, or the occult potency of mystic words, sounds, numbers or letters in these Mantras [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manu +

The great Indian legislator. The name comes from the Sanskrit root ''man ''“to think” — mankind really, but stands for Swâyambhuva, the first of the Manus, who started from ''Swâyambhu, ''“the self‐existent” hence the ''Logos'', and the progenitor of mankind. Manu is the first Legislator, almost a Divine Being [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manu Swayambhuva +

The heavenly man. Adam‐ Kadmon, the synthesis of the fourteen Manus [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques et occultes +

Three-volume bibliography of psychic and occult literature by A. J. Caillet, published at Paris by Lucien Dorbon in 1912. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#361|7:361]][[SMW::on]]). +

Manus +

The fourteen Manus are the patrons or guardians of the race cycles in a Manvantara, or Day of Brahmâ. The primeval Manus are seven, they become fourteen in the ''Purânas.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manushi +

Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manvantara +

A period of manifestation, as opposed to Pralaya (dissolution, or rest), applied to various cycles, especially to a Day of Brahmâ, 4,320,000,000 Solar years — and to the reign of one Manu — 308,448,000. (See Vol. II. of the ''Secret Doctrine'', p. 68 ''et. seq''.) Lit., ''Manuantara'' — between Manus [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Maquom +

“A secret place” in the phraseology of the Zohar, a concealed spot, whether referring to a sacred shrine in a temple, to the “Womb of the World”, or the human womb. A Kabalistic term [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mara +

The god of Temptation, the ''Seducer ''who tried to turn away Buddha from his PATH. He is called the “Destroyer” and “Death” (of the Soul). One of the names of Kâma, God of love [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Marabut +

A Mahometan pilgrim who has been to Mekka, a saint. After his death his body is placed in an open sepulchre built above ground, like other buildings, but in the middle of the streets and public places of populated cities. Placed inside the small and only room of the tomb (and several such public sarcophagi of brick and mortar may be seen to this day in the streets and squares of Cairo), the devotion of the way farers keeps a lamp ever burning at his head. The tombs of some of these marabuts are very famous for the miracles they are alleged to perform [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Marble, Mortimer +

Early member of the Theosophical Society in New York and secretary of the Aryan Theosophical Society at its formation in 1883. +

Marcellus I, Pope +

Bishop of Rome who worked to restore church discipline after the Diocletian persecutions. Traditions concerning his imprisonment and martyrdom are recounted with reservations about their certainty (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#425|10:425]][[SMW::on]]). +

Marcionites +

An ancient Gnostic Sect founded by Marcion who was a devout Christian as long as no dogma of human creation came to mar the purely transcendental, and metaphysical concepts, and the ''original ''beliefs of the early Christians. Such primitive beliefs were those of Marcion. He denied the ''historical ''facts (as now found in the Gospels) of Christ’s birth, incarnation and passion, and also the resurrection of the body of Jesus, maintaining that such statements were simply the ''carnalization ''of metaphysical allegories and symbolism, and a degradation of the true spiritual idea. Along with all the other Gnostics, Marcion accused the “Church Fathers”, as Irenæus himself complains, of “framing their (Christian) doctrine according to the capacity of their hearers, fabling blind things for the blind, according to their blindness; for the dull, according to their dulness: for those in error, according to their errors.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +