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Zampun +

The sacred tree of life, having many mystic meanings. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zander, Emil +

Treasurer of the Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society, named among the signatories of its report for 1889. +

Zander, G. +

President of the Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society, who sent its greeting from Stockholm to the Adyar Convention of 1890. +

Zander, Gustaf +

Swedish Theosophist, president of the Swedish Branch founded in 1889 and General Secretary of the Swedish Section formed in 1895. +

Zander, Jonas Gustaf Wilhelm +

Swedish physician and pioneer of mechanically assisted therapeutic exercise; opened a medico-mechanical institute in Stockholm in 1865. He was also active in the Theosophical movement in Sweden (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#595|11:595-596]][[SMW::on]]). +

Zarate, Augustine de +

Spanish historian and financial official who served in Peru and Flanders. His Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de la provincia del Perú, incorporating events he witnessed, appeared in Antwerp in 1555 and was translated into several languages. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#550|2:550-551]][[SMW::on]]). +

Zarathustra +

The great lawgiver, and the founder of the religion variously called Mazdaism, Magism, Parseeїsm, Fire‐Worship, and Zoroastrianism. The age of the last Zoroaster (for it is a generic name) is not known, and perhaps for that very reason. Xanthus of Lydia, the earliest Greek writer who mentions this great lawgiver and religious reformer, places him about six hundred years before the Trojan War. But where is the historian who can now tell when the latter took place? Aristotle and also Eudoxus assign him a date of no less than 6,000 years before the days of Plato, and Aristotle was not one to make a statement without a good reason for it. Berosus makes him a king of Babylon some 2,200 years B.C.; but then, how can one tell what were the original figures of Berosus, before his MSS. passed through the hands of Eusebius, whose fingers were so deft at altering figures, whether in Egyptian synchronistic tables or in Chaldean chronology? Haug refers Zoroaster to at least 1,000 years B.C.; and Bunsen (''God in'' ''History'', Vol. I., Book iii., ch. vi., p. 276) finds that Zarathustra Spitama lived under the King Vistaspa about 3,000 years B.C., and describes him as “one of the mightiest intellects and one of the greatest men of all time”. It is with such exact dates in hand, and with the utterly extinct language of the Zend, whose teachings are rendered, probably in the most desultory manner, by the Pahlavi translation — a tongue, as shown by Darmsteter, which was itself growing obsolete so far back as the Sassanides — that our scholars and Orientalists have presumed to monopolise to themselves the right of assigning hypothetical dates for the age of the holy prophet Zurthust. But the Occult records claim to have the correct dates of each of the thirteen Zoroasters mentioned in the Dabistan. Their doctrines, and especially those of the last (divine) Zoroaster, spread from Bactria to the Medes; thence, under the name of Magism, incorporated by the Adept‐Astronomers in Chaldea, they greatly influenced the mystic teachings of the Mosaic doctrines, even before, perhaps, they had culminated into what is now known as the modern religion of the Parsis. Like Manu and Vyâsa in India, Zarathustra is a generic name for great reformers and law‐givers. The hierarchy began with the divine Zarathustra in the ''Vendîdâd'', and ended with the great, but mortal man, bearing that title, and now lost to history. There were, as shown by the ''Dabistan'', many Zoroasters or Zarathustras. As related in the'' Secret Doctrine'', Vol. II., the last Zoroaster was the founder of the Fire‐temple of Azareksh, many ages before the historical era. Had not Alexander destroyed so many sacred and precious works of the Mazdeans, truth and philosophy would have been more inclined to agree with history, in bestowing upon that Greek Vandal the title of “the Great”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Zarpanitu +

The goddess who was the supposed mother, by Merodach, of ''Nebo'', god of Wisdom. One of the female “Serpents of Wisdom”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zasulich, Vera Ivanovna +

A Russian revolutionary acquitted after attempting to assassinate the St Petersburg governor F. F. Trepov. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The State of Russia (1)|BCW 3:165]]) Dates: 1849-1919. ([https://nlr.ru/domplekhanova/dep/artupload/dp/article/98/NA58108.pdf National Library of Russia: V. I. Zasulich]; [https://www.xn--80adcv1b.xn--p1ai/terms/30/5346/zasulich-vera-ivanovna Archival guide: V. I. Zasulich]) +

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft +

Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, abbreviated ZDMG; published at Leipzig from 1847 according to Zirkoff’s bibliography. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). R. Roth’s contribution in volume XXVI (1872), pp. 441 and 448 is cited through A. Weber’s History of Indian Literature, p. 268, note 307. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#274|BCW 5:274]]) +

Zelator +

The lowest degree in the exoteric Rosicrucian system; a kind of probationer or low chelâ. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zend‐Avesta +

The general name for the sacred books of the Parsis, fire or sun worshippers, as they are ignorantly called. So little is understood of the grand doctrines which are still found in the various fragments that compose all that is now left of that collection of religious works, that Zoroastrianism is called indifferently Fire‐worship, Mazdaism, or Magism, Dualism, Sun‐worship, and what not. The ''Avesta'' has two parts as now collected together, the first portion containing the ''Vendîdâd'', the ''Vispêrad'' and the ''Yasna''; and the second portion, called the ''Khorda Avesta ''(Small Avesta), being composed of short prayers called Gâh, Nyâyish, etc. ''Zend ''means “a commentary or explanation”, and ''Avesta'' (from the old Persian'' âbashtâ,'' “the law”. (See Darmsteter.) As the translator of the Vendîdâd remarks in a foot note (see int. xxx.): “what it is customary to call ‘the Zend language’, ought to be named ‘the Avesta language’, the Zend being no language at all and if the word be used as the designation of one, it can be rightly applied only to the Pahlavi”. But then, the Pahlavi itself is only the language into which certain original portions of the ''Avesta ''are translated. What name should be given to the old ''Avesta'' language, and particularly to the “special dialect, older than the general language of the ''Avesta''” (Darmst.), in which the five Ghthas in the ''Yasna'' are written? To this day the Orientalists are mute upon the subject. Why should not the Zend be of the same family, if not identical with the Zen‐sar, meaning also the speech explaining the abstract symbol, or the “mystery language,” used by Initiates? [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zervana Akarna +

As translated from the ''Vendîdâd ''(Fargard xix), lit., “Boundless”, or “Limitless Time”, or “Duration in a Circle”. Mystically, the Beginningless and the Endless One Principle in Nature ; the ''Sat ''of the Vedânta and esoterically, the Universal Abstract Space synonymous with the Unknowable Deity. It is the Ain‐Soph of the Zoroastrians, out of which radiates Ahura Mazda, the eternal Light or Logos, from which, in its turn, emanates everything that has being, existence and form. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zeus +

The “Father of the gods”. ''Zeus‐Zen'' is Æther, there fore Jupiter was called Pater Æther by some Latin races. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Zhelihovsky V.P. - From the Polar Lands +

The unfinished English text appeared in Nightmare Tales in 1892. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zhelihovsky V.P. - From the Polar Lands#247|BCW 13:247]]) The attribution to V. P. de Zhelihovsky and the identification of H. P. Blavatsky as translator follow [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Zhelihovsky_V.P._-_From_the_Polar_Lands A. D. Tiurikov’s editorial note]. The original BCW introduction attributes the story to Blavatsky; the underlying archival letter still requires direct verification. +

Zhelihovsky, Helena Vladimirovna de +

With her sister sent letters of her aunt [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] to C. Jinarajadasa in September 1931. Among them was a copy of a protest addressed to A. S. Suvorin; the autograph fragment One Eternal Truth was discovered on the reverse of its fourth page. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - One Eternal Truth#269|BCW 13:269]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - One Eternal Truth#270|BCW 13:270]]) +

Zhelihovsky, Vera P. de +

Bibliographical references include: Pravda, etc. See p. 364, footnote, for data about it (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#596|11:596]][[SMW::on]]). +

Zhelihovsky, Vera Petrovna de +

Younger sister of H. P. Blavatsky. A successful writer of children's stories and periodical contributor in Russia, she also left valuable biographical material on H.P.B. and their family, including accounts of H.P.B.'s occult phenomena and a reply to V. S. Solovyov's hostile book. Zirkoff notes the deep and lasting affection between the sisters, and that Zhelihovsky defended H.P.B. and, later, W. Q. Judge, to the end. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#534|1:534-538]][[SMW::on]]). H. P. Blavatsky’s sister and author of “The Truth about H. P. Blavatsky”, published in ''Rebus'', volume II, numbers 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47 and 48, in 1883, and also issued as a pamphlet. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#449|6:449]][[SMW::on]]). Blavatsky’s sister and author of ''H. P. Blavatsky and a Modern Priest of Truth'', published in Russian at St. Petersburg in 1893, in 177 pages. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#402|7:402]][[SMW::on]]). Supplied an account of a supposedly miraculous beard on a crucifix in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] added a comment. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Editors Note to The Miraculous Beard and the Monks of St. Stephano of Vienna#130|BCW 6:130]]) In her Truth about [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] (Rebus, 1883), dated her sister’s return to Pskov to Christmas Eve 1858. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Dates Again#364|BCW 11:364]])

Zhelikhovsky, Vera Petrovna +

The younger sister of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. +

Zhelyabov, Andrei Ivanovich +

Involved in preparations for the assassination of Alexander II; executed after trial in 1881. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The State of Russia|BCW 3:156]]) +