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An elemental, a spook, which haunts burial grounds and animates corpses. Category: CTD info from The...  +
A practice of sorcery; means of obtaining power over the living by black magic, incantations, and ce...  +
“Twenty-Five Tales of the Vetala”. De Zirkoff lists Richard Burton's version, ''Vikram and the Vampi...  +
A settlement on the Volga in Enotayevsk district, Astrakhan province, founded in 1764–1765; B. de Zi...  +
Swedish-born American Swedenborgian minister, homeopathic physician and Theosophist who adopted Budd...  +
This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', vol. 8 (1886–1887).  +
French priest known as the Curé d'Ars, appointed parish priest at Ars in 1818 and canonized in 1925....  +
A mystic fire connected with the beginning of ''pralaya'', or the dissolution of the universe. Categ...  +
The same as ''Siddhis'' or magic powers. Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary<span style="c...  +
This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', vol. 6 (1884–1885).  +
Knowledge, Occult Science. Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary<span style="color: grey; fo...  +
And Vidyâ‐dharî, male and female deities. Lit., “possessors of knowledge”. They are also called ''Na...  +
Belgian violinist and composer (1820-1881), pupil of Bériot and one of the founders of the Franco-Be...  +
Any place inhabited by Buddhist priests or ascetics; a Buddhist temple, generally a rock‐temple or c...  +
The superior (whether male or female) of a monastery or convent, Vihâra. Also called ''Karmadâna'', ...  +
A Jain scriptural text, published by Ookerdhaboy Shewjee in Bombay in 1877, cited by Zirkoff among t...  +
The Vedântic name for the principle which dwells in the ''Vijnânamaya Kosha'' (the sheath of intelle...  +
Lit., “shorn of his rags”; a name of the Sun, and the type of the initiated neophyte. (See ''Secret ...  +
R. F. Burton’s English adaptation of tales of the vetala. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; ...  +
The same as Nirvâna. Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary<span style="color: grey; font-siz...  +