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Besant, Walter +

Author of the three-volume novel Herr Paulus: his rise, his greatness, and his fall (London, 1888) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#412|10:412]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bestla +

The daughter of the “Frost giants”, the sons of Ymir; married to Bun, and the mother of Odin and his brothers (''Edda'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Betanelly, Michael +

was a Georgian immigrant engaged in export-import business. He married [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] on April 3, 1875. The marriage broke off after several months and Betanelly sued for divorce, which was finally granted on May 25, 1878, with [[William Q. Judge]] acting as Blavatsky's counsel. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.1)#lv|BCW 1:lv]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.1)#lxiii|BCW 1:lxiii]]) +

Beth +

House, dwelling [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Beth Elohim +

A Kabbalistic treatise treating of the angels, souls of men, and demons. The name means “House of the Godsʺ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Betyles +

Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in and used both by Gentiles and Christians. (See ''S.D''. II. p. 342) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Beytrag zu den zufälligen Gedanken +

über die Bulle Dominus, ac Redemptor noster, etc. Strassburg, 1774 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#406|9:406]][[SMW::on]]). +

Be‐ness +

A term coined by Theosophists to render more accurately the essential meaning of the untranslatable word Sat. The latter word does not mean “Being” for it presupposes a sentient feeling or some consciousness of existence. But, as the term Sat is applied solely to the absolute Principle, the universal, unknown, and ever unknowable Presence, which philosophical Pantheism postulates in Kosmos, calling it the basic root of Kosmos. and Kosmos itself — “Being” was no fit word to express it. Indeed, the latter is not even, as translated by some Orientalists, “the incomprehensible Entity”; for it is no more an Entity than a non‐Entity, but both. It is, as said, absolute ''Be‐ness'', not ''Being, ''the one secondless, undivided, and indivisible All — the root of all Nature visible and invisible, objective and subjective, to be sensed by the highest spiritual intuition, but’ never to be fully comprehended [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhadra Vihara +

Lit., “the Monastery of the Sages or Bodhisattvas”. A certain ''Vihara ''or ''Matham ''in Kanyâkubdja [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhadrakalpa +

Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching makes it last 236 million years. It is “so called because 1,000 Buddhas or sages appear in the course of it”. ''(Sanshrit Chinese Dict.) ''“Four Buddhas have already appeared” it adds; but as out of the 236 millions, over 151 million years have already elapsed, it does seem a rather uneven distribution of Buddhas. This is the way exoteric or popular religions confuse everything. Esoteric philosophy teaches us that every Root‐ race has its chief Buddha or Reformer, who appears also in the seven sub‐ races as a Bodhisattva (''q.v''.). Gautama Sakyamuni was the fourth, and also the fifth Buddha: the fifth, because we are the fifth root‐race; the fourth, as the chief Buddha in this ''fourth ''Round. The Bhadra Kalpa, or the “period of stability”, is the name of our present Round, esoterically — its duration applying, of course, only to our globe (D), the “1,000” Buddhas being thus in reality limited to but forty‐nine in all [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhadrasena +

A Buddhist king of Magadha [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhagats +

Also called ''Sokha ''and ''Sivnath ''by the Hindus; one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhagavad‐gita +

Lit., “the Lord’s Song”. A portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a dialogue wherein Krishna — the “Charioteer” — and Arjuna, his Chela, have a discussion upon the highest spiritual philosophy. The work is pre‐eminently occult or esoteric [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Zirkoff’s selected bibliography includes versions by Mohini M. Chatterji (1887), William Quan Judge (1890), Bhagavan Das and Annie Besant (1895), and S. Radhakrishnan (1947), as well as a translation with Samkaracharya’s commentary by A. Mahadeva Sastri. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#363|5:363]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff lists A. Mahadeva Sastri’s translation with Samkaracharya’s commentary, second edition, Mysore, 1901, in the Vedic Religion Series. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#424|6:424]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography refers readers to the Oriental Bibliography in BCW volume 5 for information on editions (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#413|10:413]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bhagavan Das +

Indian philosopher, educator and Theosophist. Collaborated with Annie Besant in establishing the Central Hindu College and later helped found Kashi Vidya Pith. His books include ''The Essential Unity of All Religions''. +

Bhagavat +

A title of the Buddha and of Krishna. “The Lord” literally [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bhagavata Purana +

Among the editions listed by de Zirkoff are the Bombay Sanskrit text of 1898, Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English prose translation (1895-1896), and the French translation begun by Eugène Burnouf in 1840. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#424|6:424]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists the second edition edited by Balakrishna Shastri Yogi, published by the Nirnayasagara Press in Bombay in 1898 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#406|9:406]][[SMW::on]]). Information on editions is referenced to the biobibliographical index in BCW volume 9 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#413|10:413]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bhagwan Chand +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Bhalchandra Krishna +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). +

Bhanap, G. V. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Bhao +

A ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +