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Neith +

''Neithes''. The Queen of Heaven; the moon‐ goddess in Egypt. She is variously called ''Nout'', ''Nepte, Nur''. (For symbolism, see “Nout”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neocoros +

With the Greeks the guardian of a Temple [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neophyte +

A novice; a postulant or candidate for the Mysteries. The methods of initiation varied. Neophytes had to pass in their trials through all the four elements, emerging in the fifth as glorified Initiates. Thus having passed through Fire (Deity), Water (Divine Spirit), Air (the Breath of God), and the Earth (Matter), they received a sacred mark, a ''tat ''and a ''tau'', or a + and a . The latter was the monogram of the Cycle called the Naros, or Neros. As shown by Dr. E. V. Kenealy, in his Apocalypse, the cross in symbolical language (one of the seven meanings)“+ exhibits at the same time three primitive letters, of which the word LVX or Light is compounded. . . . The Initiates were marked with this sign, when they were admitted into the perfect mysteries. We constantly see the Tau and the Resh united thus . Those two letters in the old Samaritan, as found on coins, stand, the first for 400, the second for 200 = 600. This is the staff of Osiris.” Just so, but this does not prove that the Naros was a cycle of 600 years; but simply that one more pagan symbol had been appropriated by the Church. (See [[Naros]] and [[Neros]] and also “I. H. S.”) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neo‐platonism +

Lit.,“The ''new ''Platonism” or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandria by Ammonius Saccas, of which his disciple Plotinus was the head (A.D. 189‐270). It sought to reconcile Platonic teachings and the Aristotelean system with oriental Theosophy. Its chief occupation was pure spiritual philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism. Theurgy was introduced towards its later years. It was the ultimate effort of high intelligences to check the ever‐ increasing ignorant superstition and ''blind ''faith of the times; the last product of Greek philosophy, which was finally crushed and put to death by brute force [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nephesh +

Breath of life. ''Anima, Mens, Vita, ''Appetites. This term is used very loosely in the Bible. It generally means ''prana ''“life”; in the Kabbalah it is the animal passions and the animal Soul. [w.w.w.] Therefore, as maintained in theosophical teachings, ''Nephesh ''is the synonym of the Prâna‐Kâmic Principle, or the vital animal Soul in man. [H. P. B.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nephesh Chia +

Animal or living Soul [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nephilim +

Giants, Titans, the Fallen Ones [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nephtys +

The sister of Isis, philosophically only one of her aspects. As Osiris and Typhon are one under two aspects, so Isis and Nephtys are one and the same symbol of nature under its dual aspect. Thus, while Isis is the wife of Osiris, Nephtys is the wife of Typhon, the foe of Osiris and his slayer, although she weeps for him. She is often represented at the bier of the great Sun‐god, having on her head a disk between the two horns of a crescent. She is the genius of the lower world, and Anubis, the Egyptian Pluto, is called her son. Plutarch has given a fair esoteric explanation of the two sisters. Thus he writes: Nephtys designs that which is under the earth, and which one sees not (i.e., its disintegrating and reproducing power), and Isis that which is above earth, and which is visible (or physical nature). . . . The circle of the horizon which divides these two hemispheres and which is common to both, is Anubis.” The identity of the two goddesses is shown in that Isis is also called the mother of Anubis. Thus the two are the Alpha and Omega of Nature [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nergal +

On the Assyrian tablets he is described as the “giant king of war, lord of the city of Cutha”. It is also the Hebrew name for the planet Mars, associated invariably with ill‐luck and danger. Nergal‐Mars is the “shedder of blood”. In occult astrology it is less malefic than Saturn, but is more active in its associations with men and its influence on them [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neros +

As shown by the late E. V. Kenealy this “Naronic Cycle” was a ''mystery'', a true “secret of god”, to disclose which during the prevalence of the religious mysteries and the authority of the priests, meant death. The learned author seemed to take it for granted that the Neros was of 600 years duration, but he was mistaken. (See “Natos”.) Nor were the establishment of the Mysteries and the rites of Initiation due merely the necessity of perpetuating the knowledge of the true meaning of the Naros and keeping this cycle secret from the profane; for the Mysteries are as old as the present human race, and there were far more important secrets to veil than the figures of any cycle. (See [[Neophyte]] and “I. H. S.”, also [[Naros]].) The mystery of 666, “the number of the great heart” so called, is far better represented by the ''Tau ''and the ''Resh ''than 600 [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nerthus +

The goddess of the earth, of love and beauty with the old Germans; the same as the Scandinavian Freya or Frigga. Tacitus mentions the great honours paid to Nerthus when her idol was carried on a car in triumph through several districts [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neshamah +

Soul, ''anima, afflatus''. In the Kabbalah, as taught in the Rosicrucian order, one of the three highest essences of the Human Soul, corresponding to the ''Sephira Binah''. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nesku +

Is described in the Assyrian tablets as the “holder of the golden sceptre, the lofty god” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nestorius +

Syrian ecclesiastic, patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431; he was a native of Germanicia in Syria, though the year of his birth is unknown; he died about 451 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#583|11:583-584]][[SMW::on]]). +

Netzach +

“Victory”. The seventh of the Ten Sephiroth, a masculine active potency. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Neufville, Hermance de +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol12|vol. 12]] (1890–1891). +

New American Cyclopaedia +

*''New American Cyclopaedia, 1858-63'', 16 vols.; edited by Geo. Ripley and Chas. A. Dana. New edition, as ''American Cyclopaedia'', 1873-76, 16 vols., was prepared by the same editors. (BCW). A sixteen-volume encyclopedia edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, published by Daniel Appleton & Co. in 1858-1863. Later called the American Cyclopaedia, it received a new sixteen-volume edition in 1873-1876 under the same editors. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#537|2:537]][[SMW::on]]). Sixteen-volume encyclopaedia edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, issued in 1858-1863. The same editors prepared the sixteen-volume ''American Cyclopaedia'' of 1873-1876. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#516|3:516]][[SMW::on]]). Articles on American antiquities, Titicaca and Tiahuanaco were used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in “A Land of Mystery”. Statements by several earlier writers were transmitted through the encyclopaedia rather than necessarily quoted directly from their books. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Land of Mystery|BCW 2:314-324]])

New Californian, The +

American English-language monthly devoted principally to Theosophy, with literary writing and material about California. Published in San Francisco and later Los Angeles, from June 1891 to June 1894; the first number is explicitly dated June 1891. [https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_californian/new_californian_v1_n1_jun_1891.pdf First issue] [https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_californian/ IAPSOP] Jerome A. Anderson was its early editor, although the first year’s issues did not name an editor. Louise A. Off took over the editorial work in July 1892 when Anderson withdrew because of ill health; IAPSOP also lists Marie A. Walsh among the editors. [https://theosophy.wiki/en/The_New_Californian_(periodical) Theosophy Wiki] [https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_californian/ IAPSOP] +

New Dispensation +

A religious movement led by K. C. Sen, who claimed divine inspiration and direct communion with God and the prophets and sought to “purify the religions of India”. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to The New Dispensation Dissected|BCW 3:286]]) +

New York Evening Post +

It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. Its most famous 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +