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Some Words on Daily Life +

Published in Lucifer in January 1888 under the attribution “A Master of Wisdom”, this is an expanded version of passages from a letter used in The Original Programme of the Theosophical Society. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] could not establish which teacher wrote the original letter or the whereabouts of its manuscript. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Text of the Original Programme Manuscript#146|BCW 7:146-148,173]]) A letter from one of the Teachers to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] refers in her address to the readers of Lucifer; reproduced in BCW 7:173-175. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - To the Readers of Lucifer#6|BCW 9:6]]) +

Somnambulism +

Lit., “sleep‐walking ”, or moving, acting, writing, reading and performing every function of waking consciousness in one’s sleep, with utter oblivion of the fact on awakening. This is one of the great psycho‐ physiological phenomena, the least understood as it is the most puzzling, to which Occultism alone holds the key. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sons of Adi +

In Esoteric philosophy the “Sons of Adi” are called the “Sons of the Fire‐mist”. A term used of certain adepts. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Son‐kha‐pa +

Written also ''Tsong‐kha‐pa.'' A famous Tibetan reformer of the fourteenth century, who introduced a purified Buddhism into his country. He was a great Adept, who being unable to witness any longer the desecration of Buddhist philosophy by the false priests who made of it a marketable commodity, put a forcible stop thereto by a timely revolution and the exile of 40,000 sham monks and Lamas from the country. He is regarded as an Avatar of Buddha, and is the founder of the ''Gelukpa'' (“ yellow‐cap ”) Sect, and of the mystic Brotherhood connected with its chiefs. The “tree of the 10,000 images” ''(khoom boom'') has, it is said, sprung from the long hair of this ascetic, who leaving it behind him disappeared for ever from the view of the profane. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sooniam +

A magical ceremony for the purpose of removing a sickness from one person to another. Black magic, sorcery. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sophia +

Wisdom. The female ''Logos'' of the Gnostics; the Universal Mind; and the female Holy Ghost with others. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sophia Achamoth +

The daughter of Sophia. The personified Astral Light, or the lower plane of Ether. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sophocles +

Bibliographical references include: Philoctetes. Loeb Classical Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#475|8:475]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Electra. Loeb Class. Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#590|11:590]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sortes Sanctorum +

The “holy casting of lots for purposes of divination”, practised by the early and mediæval Christian clergy. St. Augustine, who does not “disapprove of this method of learning futurity, provided it be not used for worldly purposes, practised it himself ” (Life of St. Gregory of Tours). If, however, “it is practised by laymen, heretics, or heathen” of any sort, ''sortes '' ''sanctorum'' become — if we believe the good and pious fathers — ''sortes diabolorum or sortilegium'' — sorcery. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sosiosh +

The Mazdean Saviour who, like Vishnu, Maitreya Buddha and others, is expected to appear on a white horse at the end of the cycle to save mankind. (See “S´ambhala”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sostratus +

Son of Dexiphanes, of Cnidus, one of the great architects who flourished during and after the life of Alexander the Great (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#590|11:590]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sotah +

Treatise of the Talmud (q.v.) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#415|8:415]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sotheran, Charles +

English-born American antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer and journalist, associated with the New York booksellers Sotheran & Co. Present at the founding of the Theosophical Society in New York in September 1875, where he was elected its first Librarian. He briefly resigned from the Society in January 1876 after a public dispute with H. P. Blavatsky, but was readmitted some months later and helped her with research and borrowed books while she wrote ''Isis Unveiled''. A high-ranking Freemason, initiated in 1872, and a member of the Rosicrucian Society; later active in New York socialist politics. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#525|1:525-527]][[SMW::on]]). +

Soul +

The '''yuch''', or ''nephesh'' of the ''Bible''; the vital principle, or the breath of life, which every animal, down to the infusoria, shares with man. In the translated Bible it stands indifferently for ''life'', blood and soul. “ Let us not kill his ''nephesh'' ”, says the original text: “let us not kill ''him'' ”, translate the Christians (''Genesis ''xxxvii. 21), and so on. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

South of India Observer +

Periodical listed by de Zirkoff as ''The South of India Observer''; he supplies no further information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine +

É. R. Huc’s two-volume account of travels in 1844-1846, published at Paris in 1850 and translated into English by W. Hazlitt in 1851. It is a source in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s discussion of Buddhist clergy. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Buddhist Priests and the Title Reverend|BCW 2:44]]) +

Souza, D. X. De +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Sowan +

The first of the “four paths” which lead to Nirvâna, in Yoga practice. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sowanee +

He who entered upon that “path”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Spaar, J. A. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +