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Upasika +

Female chelas or devotees. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upasruti +

According to Orientahists a “supernatural voice which is heard at night revealing the secrets of the future ”. According to the explanation of Occultism, the voice of any person at a distance — — generally one versed in the mysteries of esoteric teachings or an adept — — endowed with the gift of projecting both his voice and astral image to any person whatsoever, regardless of distance. The ''upasruti'' may “reveal the secrets of the future ”, or may only inform the person it addresses of some prosaic fact of the present; yet it will still be an'' '' ''upasruti'' — the “double” or the echo of the voice of a living man or woman. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upeksha +

Lit., Renunciation. In Yoga a state of absolute indifference attained by self‐control, the complete mastery over one’s mental and physical feelings and sensations. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ur +

The chief seat of lunar worship; the Babylonian city where the moon was the chief deity, and whence Abram brought the Jewish god, who is so inextricably connected with the moon as a creative and generative deity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uraeus +

In Egyptian ''Urhek'', a serpent and a sacred symbol. Some see in it a cobra, while others say it is an asp. Cooper explains that “the asp is not a uræus but a cerastes, or kind of viper, i.e., a two‐ horned viper. It is the royal serpent, wearing the ''pschent ''. . . the ''naya hâje''.” The uræus is “round the disk of Horus and forms the ornament of the cap of Osiris, besides overhanging the brows of other divinities” (Bonwick). Occultism explains that the uræus is the symbol of initiation and also of hidden wisdom, as the serpent always is. The gods were all patrons of the hierophants and their instructors. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uragas +

The Nâgas (serpents) dwelling in Pâtâla the nether world or hell, in popular thought ; the Adepts, High Priests and Initiates of Central and South America, known to the ancient Aryans; where Arjuna wedded the daughter of the king of the Nâgas — Ulûpî. ''Nagalism'' or Nâga‐worship prevails to this day in Cuba and Hayti, and Voodooism, the chief branch of the former, has found its way into New Orleans. In Mexico the chief “sorcerers ”, the “ medicine men ”, are called ''Nagals'' to this day; just as thousands of years ago the Chaldean and Assyrian High Priests were called'' Nargals'', they being chiefs of the Magi (Rab.Mag), the office held at one time by the prophet Daniel. The word Nâga, “ wise serpent ”, has become universal, because it is one of the few words that have survived the wreck of the first universal language. In South as well as in Central and North America, the aborigines use the word, from Behring Straits down to Uruguay, where it means a “chief”, a “teacher and a “ serpent ”. The very word ''Uraga'' may have reached India and been adopted through its connection, in prehistoric times, with South America and Uruguay itself, for the name belongs to the American Indian vernacular. The origin of the Uragas, for all that the Orientalists know, may have been in Uruguai, as there are legends about them which locate their ancestors the Nâgas in Pâtâla, the antipodes, or America. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uranides +

One of the names of the ''divine'' Titans, those who rebelled against Kronos, the prototypes of the Christian “fallen” angels. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Urban, Vonda +

Obtained J. Oppert’s cuneiform inscriptions from the University of Chicago Library for the preparation of volume XIII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) Assisted with volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings as part of the Chicago group of Theosophical students. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi]]) +

Urim +

See [[Thummim]]. The“ Urim and Thummim ”originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two ''Truths'', the two figures of '''Ra''' and ''Thmei'' being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. ''Thme ''(plural ''Thmin'') means “ Truth” in Hebrew. “ The Septuagint translates thummim, as ''Truth ''” (Bonwick). The late Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, shows the Jewish idea “derived directly from the Egyptians”. But Philo Judæus affirms that Urim and Thummim were “the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate ”, and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Urlak +

The same as “Orlog” (''q.v.''). Fate; an impersonal power bestowing gifts “blindly” on mortals; a kind of Nemesis. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Urusov Family +

A princely family of Tatar origin. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Book|BCW 2:352]]) The family traces its descent to the Nogai prince Urus, a descendant of Edigu Mangit. P. V. Dolgorukov’s Russian Genealogical Book places Urus in the sixth generation from Edigu; the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary also records this descent. ([https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Spravochniki/rossijskaja-rodoslovnaja-kniga/52 П.В. Долгоруков, Российская родословная книга: князья Урусовы]; [https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/ЭСБЕ/Урусовы ЭСБЕ: Урусовы, т. XXXIVa (1902), с. 942-943]) +

Urvasi +

A divine nymph, mentioned in the'' Rig‐Veda'', whose beauty set the whole heaven ablaze. Cursed by the gods she descended to earth and settled there. The loves of Purûravas (the Vikrama), and the nymph Urvasî are the subject of Kâlidâsaʹs world‐famous drama, the ''Vikramorvasî''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Usanas +

The planet Venus or Sukra; or rather the ruler and governor of that planet. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ushas +

The dawn, the daughter of heaven; the same as the Aurora of the Latins and the '''hjwvd '''of the Greeks. She is first mentioned in the ''Vedas,'' wherein her name is also ''Ahanâ ''and ''Dyotanâ'' (the illuminator), and is a most poetical and fascinating image. She is the ever‐faithful friend of men, of rich and poor, though she is believed to prefer the latter. She smiles upon and visits the dwelling of every living mortal. She is the immortal, ever‐youthful virgin, the light of the poor, and the destroyer of darkness. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uttara Mimansa +

The second of the two Mîmânsâs — the first being ''Pûrva'' (first) Mîmânsâ, which form respectively the fifth and sixth of the'' Darshanas ''or schools of philosophy. The Mîmânsâ are included in the generic name of ''Vedânta'', though it is the ''Uttara'' (by Vyâsa) which is really the ''Vedânta''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uzza +

The name of an angel who, together with Azrael, opposed, as the ''Zohar'' teaches, the creation of man by the Elohim, for which the latter annihilated both. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

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V +

'''V — '''The twenty‐second letter of the Latin alphabet. Numerically it stands for 5; hence the Roman '''V''' (with a dash) stands for 5,000. The Western Kabbalists have connected it with the divine Hebrew name '''IHVH'''. The Hebrew ''Vau'', however, being number 6, it is only by being identical with the '''W''', that it can ever become a proper symbol for the male‐female, and spirit‐matter. The equivalent for the Hebrew Vau is YO, and in numerals 6. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vach +

To call Vâch “speech” simply, is deficient in clearness. Vâch is the mystic personification of speech, and the female ''Logos,'' being one with Brahmâ, who created her out of one‐half of his body, which he divided into two portions; she is also one with Virâj (called the “female” Virâj) who was created in her by Brahmâ. In one sense Vâch is “speech” by which knowledge was taught to man; in another she is the “mystic, secret speech” which descends upon and enters into the primeval Rishis, as the “tongues of fire” are said to have “sat upon” the apostles. For, she is called “the female creator ”, the “mother of the Vedas ”, etc., etc. Esoterically, she is the subjective Creative Force which, emanating from the Creative Deity (the subjective Universe, its “privation ”, or ''ideation'') becomes the manifested “world of speech ”, i.e., the ''concrete expression of ideation'', hence the “Word” or Logos. Vâch is “the male and female” Adam of the first chapter of ''Genesis'', and thus called “Vâch‐Virâj” by the sages. (See ''Atharva Veda''.) She is also “the celestial Saraswatî produced from the heavens ”, a “voice derived from ''speechless'' Brahmâ” ''(Mahâbhârata)''; the goddess of wisdom and eloquence. She is called ''Sata‐rûpa, ''the goddess of ''a hundred'' ''forms.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vachaspati, Taranatha Tarka +

According to [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s Old Diary Leaves, received him at his home on 9 March 1883, prepared food for him, conferred the Brahmanical sacred thread and adopted him into the Sandilya gotra. The account elucidates [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s reference to Hindu recognition of Olcott’s services. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (28)#324|BCW 5:324]]) +

Vacuum +

The symbol of the absolute Deity or Boundless Space, esoterically. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +