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D

Devarshis +

Lit., “gods rishis” ; the divine or god like saints, those sages who attain a fully divine nature on earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Deva +

Lit., “great god”; a title of Siva. '''Mahâ Guru '''(''Sk''.). Lit., “great teacher”. The Initiator. '''Mahâjwala '''(''Sk.''). A certain hell [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Mahatma +

Lit., “great soul”. An adept of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower principles are thus living unimpeded by the “man of flesh”, and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Edda +

Lit., “great‐grandmother”of the Scandinavian Lays. It was Bishop Brynjϋld Sveinsson, who collected them and brought them to light in 1643. There are two collections of Sagas, translated by the Northern Skalds, and there are two ''Eddas. ''The earliest is of unknown authorship and date and its antiquity is very great. These Sagas were collected in the XIth century by an Icelandic priest; the second is a collection of the history (or myths) of the gods spoken of in the first, which became the Germanic deities, giants, dwarfs and heroes [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ardha‐Nari +

Lit., “half‐woman”. Siva represented as Androgynous, as half male and half female, a type of male and female energies combined. (See occult diagram in ''Isis Unveiled, ''Vol. II.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bodhisattva +

Lit., “he, whose essence (''sattva'') has become intelligence ''(bodhi'')”; those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect Buddhas, i.e., to be entitled to Nirvâna. This, as applied to ''Manushi ''(terrestrial) Buddhas. In the metaphysical sense, ''Bodhisattva ''is a title given to the sons of the celestial ''Dhyâni ''Buddhas [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Durga +

Lit., “inaccessible”. The female potency of a god; the name of Kali, the wife of Siva, the ''Mahesvara'', or “the great god” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gnosis +

Lit., “knowledge”. The technical term used by the schools of religious philosophy, both before and during the first centuries of so‐called Christianity, to denote the object of their enquiry. This Spiritual and Sacred Knowledge, the ''Gupta Vidya ''of the Hindus, could only be obtained by Initiation into Spiritual Mysteries of which the ceremonial “Mysteries” were a type [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arghyanath +

Lit., “lord of libations” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nitya Pralaya +

Lit., “perpetual” Pralaya or dissolution. It is the constant and imperceptible changes undergone by the atoms which last as long as a Mahâmanvantara, a whole age of Brahmâ, which takes fifteen figures to sum up. A stage of chronic change and dissolution, the stages of growth and decay. It is the duration of “Seven Eternities”. (See ''Secret Doctrine ''I. 371, II. 69, 310.) There are four kinds of Pralayas, or states of changelessness. The Naimittika, when Brahmâ slumbers; the Prakritika, a partial Pralaya of anything during Manvantara; Atyantika, when man has identified himself with the One Absolute synonym of Nirvâna; and Nitya, for physical things especially, as a state of profound and dreamless sleep [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hachoser +

Lit., “reflected Lights”; a name for the minor or inferior powers, in the Kabbalah [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Orgelmir +

Lit., “seething clay”. The same as Ymir, the giant, the unruly, turbulent, erratic being, the type of primordial matter, out of whose body, after killing him, the sons of Bör created a new earth. He is also the cause of the Deluge in the Scandinavian Lays, for he flung his body into Ginnungagap, the yawning abyss; the latter being filled with it, the blood flowed over and produced a great flood in which all the Hrimthurses, the frost giants, were drowned; one of them only the cunning Bergelmir saves himself and wife in a boat and became the father of a new race of giants. “ And there were giants on the earth in those days.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dipamkara +

Lit., “the Buddha of fixed light”; a predecessor of Gautama, the Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmapuri +

Lit., “the City of Brahmâ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avesta +

Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian ''Âbastâ, ''“the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastrians. ''Zend ''means in the “Zend‐Avesta”—a “commentary” or “interpretation”. It is an error to regard “ Zend” as a language, as “it was applied only to explanatory texts, to the translations of the Avesta”(Darmsteter) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bhadra Vihara +

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

A

Ayur Veda +

Lit., “the Veda of Life” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hakem +

Lit., “the Wise One”, the Messiah to come, of the Druzes or the “Disciples of Hamsa” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Janarddana +

Lit., “the adored of mankind”, a title of Krishna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +