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Arvaksrotas +

The ''seventh ''creation, that of man, in the ''Vishnu Purâna'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Arwaker +

Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the ''Eddas'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Arya +

Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) and entered the Âryanimârga path to Nirvâna or Moksha, the great “four‐fold” path. But now the name has become the epithet of a race, and our Orientalists, depriving the Hindu Brahmans of their birth‐right, have made Aryans of all Europeans. In esotericism, as the four paths, or stages, can be entered only owing to great spiritual development and “growth in holiness ”, they are called the “four fruits”. The degrees of Arhatship, called respectively Srotâpatti, Sakridâgamin, Anâgâmin, and Arhat, or the four classes of Âryas, correspond to these four paths and truths [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Arya, The +

Lahore monthly devoted to Aryan philosophy, arts, literature, science and religions, together with modern Western philosophy; de Zirkoff lists five volumes, 1882-1887. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#450|6:450]][[SMW::on]]). +

Aryahata +

The “Path of Arhatship”, or of holiness [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aryasangha +

The Founder of the ''first ''Yogâchârya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha, is most unaccountably mixed up and confounded with a personage of the same name, who is said to have lived in Ayôdhya (Oude) about the fifth or sixth century of our era, and taught Tântrika worship in addition to the Yogâchârya system. Those who sought to make it popular, claimed that he was the same Âryasangha, that had been a follower of Sâkyamuni, and that he was 1,000 years old. Internal evidence alone is sufficient to show that the works written by him and translated about the year 600 of our era, works full of Tantra worship, ritualism, and tenets followed now considerably by the “red‐cap” sects in Sikhim, Bhutan, and Little Tibet, cannot be the same as the lofty system of the early Yogâcharya school of pure Buddhism, which is neither northern nor southern, but absolutely esoteric. Though none of the genunine Yogâchârya books (the ''Narjol chodpa'') have ever been made public or marketable, yet one finds in the ''Yogâchârya Bhûmi Shâstra ''of the ''pseudo''‐Âryasangha a great deal from the older system, into the tenets of which he may have been initiated. It is, however, so mixed up with Sivaism and Tantrika magic and superstitions, that the work defeats its own end, notwithstanding its remarkable dialectical subtilty. How unreliable are the conclusions at which our Orientalists arrive, and how contradictory the dates assigned by them, may be seen in the case in hand. While Csoma de Körös (who, by‐the‐bye, never became acquainted with the Gelukpa (yellow‐caps), but got all his information from “red‐cap” lamas of the Borderland), places the ''pseudo''‐Âryasangha in the seventh century of our era; Wassiljew, who passed most of his life in China, proves him to have lived much earlier; and Wilson (see ''Roy. As. Soc''., Vol. VI., p. 240), speaking of the period when Âryasangha’s works, which are still extant in Sanskrit, were written, believes it now “established, that they have been written ''at the latest, from a century and a half before, to'' ''as much after, ''the era of Christianity”. At all events since it is beyond dispute that the Mahâyana religious works were all written far before Âryasangha’s time — whether he lived in the “''second ''century B.C.”, or the ''“seventh'' .A.D.” — and that these contain all and far more of the fundamental tenets of the Yogâchârya system, so disfigured by the Ayôdhyan imitator — the inference is that there must exist somewhere a genuine rendering free from popular Sivaism and left‐hand magic [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Aryasatyani +

The four truths or the four dogmas, which are (1) ''Dukha, ''or that misery and pain are the unavoidable concomitants of sentient (esoterically, physical) existence; (2) ''Samudaya'', the truism that suffering is intensified by human passions; (3) ''Nirôdha, ''that the crushing out and extinction of all such feelings are possible for a man “on the path”; (4) ''Mârga'', the narrow way, or that path which leads to such a blessed result [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aryavarta +

The “land of the Aryas”, or India. The ancient name for Northern India. The Brahmanical invaders (“ from the Oxus” say the Orientalists) first settled. It is erroneous to give this name to the whole,of India, since Manu gives the name of “the land of the Aryas” only to “the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the eastern to the western sea” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Arya‐Bhata +

The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author of a work called ''Ârya Siddhânta'', a system of Astronomy [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Arya‐Dasa +

Lit., “Holy Teacher”. A great sage and Arhat of the Mahâsamghika school [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ar‐Abu Nasr‐al‐Farabi +

Called in Latin Alpharabius, a Persian, and the greatest Aristotelian philosopher of the age. He was born in 950 A.D., and is reported to have been murdered in 1047. He was an Hermetic philosopher and possessed the power of hypnotizing through music, making those who heard him play the lute laugh, weep, dance and do what he liked. Some of his works on Hermetic philosophy may be found in the Library of Leyden [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asakrit Samadhi +

A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in ''Samâdhi.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asana +

The third stage of ''Hatha Yoga'', one of the prescribed postures of meditation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asat +

A philosophical term meaning “non‐being”, or rather ''non‐be‐ness. ''The “incomprehensible nothingness”. ''Sat'', the immutable, eternal, ever‐present, and the one real “Be‐ness” (not Being) is spoken of as being “ Born of Asat, and Asat begotten by Sat”. The unreal, or Prakriti, objective nature regarded as an illusion. Nature, or the illusive shadow of its one true essence [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asathor +

The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miölnir, the “storm‐ hammer”, from its fabricators, the dwarfs. With it he conquer Alwin in a “battle of words” breaks the head of the giant Hrungir, chastises Loki for his magic; destroys the whole race of giants in Thrymheim; and, as a good and benevolent god, sets up therewith land‐marks, sanctifies marriage bonds, blesses law and order, and produces every good and terrific feat with its help. A god in the ''Eddas'', who is almost as great as Odin. (See “Miölnir” and “Thor’s Hammer”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asava Samkhaya +

The “finality of the stream”, one of the six “Abhijnâs” ''(q.v.)''. A phenomenal knowledge of the finality of the stream of life and the series of re‐births [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asburj +

One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which corresponds in its allegorical meaning to the World‐ mountain, Meru. Asburj is that mount “at the foot of which the sun sets” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asch Metzareph +

The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals and the planets. [w.w.w] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asclepius (Hermetic treatise) +

A Hermetic dialogue between Asclepius and Hermes Trismegistus whose Greek original is lost. The surviving Latin translation was formerly attributed to Apuleius. The passage on animated statues used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] is printed with a translation in [[Scott, Walter|W. Scott]]’s Hermetica. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Animated Statues#216|BCW 7:216]]) +

Ases +

The creators of the Dwarfs and Elves, the Elementals below men, in the Norse lays. They are the progeny of Odin; the same as the ''Æsir'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +