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Niti +

Lit., Prudence, ethics [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nitya Parivrita +

Lit., continuous extinction [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nitya Pralaya +

Lit., “perpetual” Pralaya or dissolution. It is the constant and imperceptible changes undergone by the atoms which last as long as a Mahâmanvantara, a whole age of Brahmâ, which takes fifteen figures to sum up. A stage of chronic change and dissolution, the stages of growth and decay. It is the duration of “Seven Eternities”. (See ''Secret Doctrine ''I. 371, II. 69, 310.) There are four kinds of Pralayas, or states of changelessness. The Naimittika, when Brahmâ slumbers; the Prakritika, a partial Pralaya of anything during Manvantara; Atyantika, when man has identified himself with the One Absolute synonym of Nirvâna; and Nitya, for physical things especially, as a state of profound and dreamless sleep [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nitya Sarga +

The state of constant creation or evolution, as opposed to ''Nitya Pralaya'' — the state of perpetual incessant dissolution (or change of atoms) disintegration of molecules, hence change of forms [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nixies +

The water‐sprites; Undines [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Niyashes +

Parsi prayers [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nizida - The Astral Light +

[[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] commented on the definition of astral light as the thought substance of the universe in the London edition issued by the Theosophical Publishing Company. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (58)#58|BCW 12:58]]) +

Nizir +

The “Deluge Mountain”; the Ararat of the Babylonians with “Xisuthrus” as Noah [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nofir‐hotpoo +

The same as the god ''Khonsoo'', the lunar god of Thebes. Lit., “he who is in absolute rest”. Nofir‐hotpoo is one of the three persons of the Egyptian trinity, composed of Ammon, Mooth, and their son Khonsoo or Nofir‐hotpoo [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nogah +

Venus, the planet; glittering splendour [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Noguchi, Zenshiro +

Japanese Buddhist delegate who addressed the thirteenth anniversary celebration of the Theosophical Society in Madras in December 1888. Translated M. Tokunaga’s ''The Skeleton of a Philosophy of Religion'' into English (Tokyo, 1893). Arrived at Adyar on 3 December 1888 as representative of a Japanese committee inviting [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] to visit Japan in the service of Buddhism. In January 1889 he accompanied Olcott on the journey via Ceylon. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.10)#xxvii|BCW 10:xxvii-xxviii]]) +

Noo +

Primordial waters of space called “Father‐ Mother”; the “face of the deep” of the Bible; for above Noo hovers the Breath of Kneph, who is represented with the Mundane Egg in his mouth [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Noom +

A celestial sculptor, in the Egyptian legends, who creates a beautiful girl whom he sends like another Pandora to ''Batoo ''(or “man”), whose happiness is thereafter destroyed. The “sculptor” or artist is the same as Jehovah, the architect of the world, and the girl is “Eve” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Noon +

The celestial river which flows in ''Noot'', the cosmic abyss or Noo. As all the gods have been generated in the ''river ''(the Gnostic ''Pleroma''), it is called “the Father‐ Mother of the gods” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Noor Ilahee +

“The light of the Elohim”, literally. This light is believed by some Mussulmen to be transmitted to mortals “through a hundred prophet‐ leaders”. Divine knowledge; the Light of the Secret Wisdom [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Noot +

The heavenly abyss in the ''Ritual ''or the Book of the Dead. It is infinite space personified in the ''Vedas ''by Aditi, the goddess who, like Noon (''q.v''.) is the “mother of all the gods” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nork, Friedrich +

German-Jewish Orientalist and student of mythology. Expelled from gymnasium of native town on account of a satirical poem about his teacher (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#470|8:470]][[SMW::on]]). The compiler did not identify the quoted passage and refers readers to the biographical entry in BCW volume 8, page 470 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#584|11:584]][[SMW::on]]). +

Norns +

The three sister goddesses in the ''Edda'', who make known to men the decrees of ''Orlog ''or Fate. They are shown as coming out of the unknown distances ''enveloped in a dark veil ''to the Ash Yggdrasil (''q.v''.), and “sprinkle it daily with water from the Fountain of Urd, that it may not wither but remain green and fresh and strong” (''Asgard and the Gods''). Their names are “Urd”, the Past; [[Werdandi]], the Present; and “Skuld”, the Future, “which is either rich in hope or dark with tears”. Thus they reveal the decrees of Fate “for out of the past and present the events and actions of the future are born” (''loc. cit''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Norris, Henry Handley +

Bibliographical references include: The Principles of the Jesuits, developed in a Collection of Extracts from their own Authors: to which are prefixed a brief account of the Origin of the Order, and a sketch of its Institute (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#446|9:446]][[SMW::on]]). His Principles of the Jesuits appeared anonymously in London in 1839 and served as a source of quotations for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#308|BCW 9:308-309]]) +

Notaricon +

A division of the practical Kabbalah; treats of the formation of words from the initials or finals of the words in every sentence; or conversely it forms a sentence of words whose initials or finals are those of some word [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +