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Naros +

A cycle, which the Orientalists describe as consisting of 600 years. But what years? There were three kinds of Neros : the greater, the middle and the less. It is the latter cycle only which was of 600 years. (See [[Neros]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa +

A collection edited by [[Markham, Clements Robert|C. R. Markham]] and published in London in 1876. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to Who are the Aryas and the Buddhists|BCW 3:304]]) [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that this collection was the work on Tibet referred to by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Tibetan Teachings#106|BCW 6:106]]) +

Naryshkin Family +

A Russian noble family that included Peter I’s mother N. K. Naryshkina. Its Tatar origin is transmitted as a family tradition. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Book|BCW 2:355]]) +

Nastika +

Atheist, or rather he who does not worship or recognize the gods and idols [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Natarajier, M. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Nath +

A Lord: used of gods and men; a title added to the first name of men and things as ''Badrinath ''(lord of mountains), a famous place of pilgrimage; ''Gopinath ''(lord of the shepherdesses), used of Krishna [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Natu, Chintamanrao Vishvanath +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Nature +

London periodical whose first issue appeared on 4 November 1869, listed among the sources of BCW volume 5. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). +

Nava Nidhi +

Lit., “the nine Jewels”; a consummation of spiritual development, in mysticism [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nayudu, C. Munisami +

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

Nayudu, L. Venkata Varadarajulu +

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

Nazar +

One “set apart”; a temporary monastic class of celibates spoken of in the ''Old Testament, ''who married not, nor did they use wine during the time of their vow, and who wore their hair long, cutting it only at their initiation. Paul must have belonged to this class of Initiates, for he himself tells the ''Galatians ''(i. x5) that he was ''separated ''or “set apart” from the moment of his birth ; and that he had his hair cut at Cenchrea, because “he had a vow” (''Acts ''xviii.18), i.e., had been initiated as a Nazar; after which he became a “ master‐builder” (i ''Corinth''. iii.10). Joseph is styled a Nazar (''Gen''. xlix. 26). Samson and Samuel were also Nazars, and many more [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nazarenes +

The same as the St. John Christians; called the Mend or Sabeans. Those Nazarenes who left Galilee several hundred years ago and settled in Syria, east of Mount Lebanon, call themselves also Galileans ; though they designate Christ “a false Messiah” and recognise only St. John the Baptist, whom they call the “Great Nazar”. The Nabatheans with very little difference adhered to the same belief as the Nazarenes or the Sabeans. More than this — the Ebionites, whom Renan shows as numbering among their sect all the surviving relatives of Jesus, seem to have been followers of the same sect if we have to believe St. Jerome, who writes: “ I received permission from the Nazaræans who at Beræa of Syria used this (Gospel of Matthew written in Hebrew) to translate it.... The Evangel which the Nazarenes and Ebionites use which recently I translated from Hebrew into Greek.’ (Hieronymus’ ''Comment''. to ''Matthew'', Book II., chapter xii., and Hieronymus’ ''De Viris Illust. cap ''3.) Now this supposed Evangel of Matthew, by whomsoever written, “exhibited matter”, as Jerome complains (bc. cit.), “not for edification but for destruction”(of Christianity). But the fact that the Ebionites, the ''genuine primitive Christians, ''“rejecting the rest of the apostolic writings, made use only of this (Matthew’s Hebrew) Gospel” (Adv. Hær., i. 26) is very suggestive. For, as Epiphanius declares, the Ebionites firmly believed, with the Nazarenes, that Jesus was but a man “of the seed of a man” (Epiph. ''Contra Ebionites''). Moreover we know from the Codex of the Nazarenes, of which the “Evangel according to Matthew” formed a portion, that these Gnostics, whether Galilean, Nazarene or Gentile, call Jesus, in their hatred of astrolatry, in their Codex ''Naboo‐ Meschiha ''or “ Mercury”. (See [[Mendaeans|“Mendæans”]]). This does not shew much orthodox Christianity either in the Nazarenes or the Ebionites; but seems to prove on the contrary that the Christianity of the early centuries and modern Christian theology are two entirely opposite things [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Nebban +

The same as Nirvâna, ''Nippang ''in Tibet [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nebo +

The same as the Hindu Budha, son of Soma the Moon, and Mercury the planet. (See [[Nabu]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Necromancy +

The raising of the images of the dead, considered in antiquity and by modern Occultists as a practice of black magic. Iamblichus, Porphyry and other Theurgists have deprecated the practice, no less than did Moses, who condemned the “witches” of his day to death, the said witches being only Necromancers — as in the case of the Witch of Endor and Samuel [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neelakantan, Seetha +

Helped make microfilms of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s unpublished manuscripts available during [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s 1977 visit to India for the Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) +

Neff, Mary Katherine +

Author of ''How Theosophy Came to Australia and New Zealand'', published by the Australian Section of the Theosophical Society in Sydney in 1943. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#379|5:379]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''How Theosophy Came to Australia and New Zealand'' (Sydney, 1943) and ''The “Brothers” of Madame Blavatsky'' (Adyar, 1932). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#441|6:441]][[SMW::on]]). Contributed to the preparation of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings by deciphering and copying materials in the Adyar Archives ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.1)#xvii|BCW 1:xvii,xxi]]). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xv|4:xv]][[SMW::on]]) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|4:xix]][[SMW::on]]) +

Nehaschim +

“The serpent’s works.” It is a name given to the Astral Light, “the great deceiving serpent” (Mâyâ), during certain practical works of magic. (See ''Sec. Doc''. II. 409.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neilos +

The river Nile; also a god [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +