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Blayton, Thomas +

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

Blech, Charles +

Author of ''Contribution à l'Histoire de la Société Théosophique en France'' (Paris: Éditions Adyar, 1933, 215 pages). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#634|4:634]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''Contribution à l’Histoire de la Société Théosophique en France'' (Paris: Éditions Adyar, 1933), a 215-page work on the history of the Theosophical Society in France. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#371|5:371]][[SMW::on]]). Reprinted [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s controversy with Tremeschini in his 1933 history of the Theosophical Society in France; the account was incomplete because early issues of the Paris Bulletin were unavailable to him. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Note (1)#479|BCW 4:479]]) +

Bleuler, Eugen +

Swiss psychiatrist, born in 1857, director of the Rheinau institution and later professor at Zürich and director of Burghölzli. His publications include a psychiatric textbook and a study of the natural history of the soul and consciousness. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#358|7:358]][[SMW::on]]). +

Boat of the Sun +

This sacred solar boat was called ''Sekti'', and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the highest exaltation of the Sun was in ''Aries ''and the depression in ''Libya''. (See “Pharaoh”, the “Son of the Sun”.) A blue light — which is the “Sun’s Son” — is seen streaming from the bark. The ancient Egyptians taught that the real colour of the Sun was blue, and Macrobius also states that his colour is of a pure blue before he reaches the horizon and after he disappears below. It is curious to note in this relation the fact that it is only since 1881 that physicists and astronomers discovered that “our Sun is really blue”. Professor Langley devoted many years to ascertaining the fact. Helped in this by the magnificent scientific apparatus of physical science, he has succeeded finally in proving that the apparent yellow‐orange colour of the Sun is due only to the effect of absorption exerted by its atmosphere of vapours, chiefly metallic; but that in sober truth and reality, it is not “a white Sun but a blue one”, i.e., something which the Egyptian priests had discovered without any known scientific instruments, many thousands of years ago! [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Boaz +

The great‐grandfather of David. The word is from B, meaning “in”, and ''oz ''“strength”, a symbolic name of one of the pillars at the porch of King Solomon’s temple. [w. w. w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bochart, Samuel +

French Protestant pastor and Oriental scholar; his ''Geographia sacra'' (1646), comprising ''Phaleg'' and ''Chanaan'', discusses the dispersion of nations and proposed Phoenician origins of languages. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#634|4:634]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bodha‐Bodhi +

Wisdom‐knowledge [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bodhi +

Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to ''Buddhi'', which is the potentiality of intelligence [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bodhi Druma +

The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the ''Pippala ''or ''ficus religiosa ''in botany. It is the tree under which Sâkymuni meditated for seven years and then reached Buddhaship. It was originally 400 feet high, it is claimed; but when Hiouen‐Tsang saw it, about the year 640 of our era, it was only 50 feet high. Its cuttings have been carried all over the Buddhist world and are planted in front of almost every Vihâra or temple of fame in China, Siam, Ceylon, and Tibet [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bodhidharma +

Wisdom‐religion; or the wisdom contained in ''Dharma ''(ethics). Also the name of a great Arhat ''Kshatriya ''(one of the warrior‐caste), the son of a king. It was Panyatara, his guru, who “gave him the name Bodhidharma to mark his understanding (bodhi) of the Law (dharma) of Buddha”. (''Chin. San. Diet''.). Bodhidharma, who flourished in the sixth century, travelled to China, whereto he brought a precious relic, namely, the almsbowl of the Lord Buddha [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

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: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bodhyanga +

Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the ''Bodhi pakchika dharma, ''comprehending seven degrees of intelligence (esoterically, seven states of consciousness), and these are (1) ''Smriti “''memory”; (2) Dharma pravitchaya, “correct understanding” or discrimination of the Law ; (3) ''Virya, ''“energy” ; (4) ''Priti, ''“spiritual joy” ; (5)''Prasrabdhi, ''“tranquillity” or quietude; (6) ''Samâdhi'', “ecstatic contemplation”; and (7) ''Upeksha ''“absolute indifference” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bodin, Jean +

French jurist and political thinker (1530-1596). His ''Six livres de la République'' examines the state and its institutions, while ''De la Démonomanie des Sorciers'' defends the reality of witchcraft. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#358|7:358-359]][[SMW::on]]). +

Boehme +

A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the mediæval ages. He was born about 1575 at Old Seidenburg, some two miles from Görlitz (Silesia), and died in 1624, at nearly fifty years of age. In his boyhood he was a common shepherd, and, after learning to read and write in a village school, became an apprentice to a poor shoemaker at Görlitz. He was a natural clairvoyant of most wonderful powers. With no education or acquaintance with science he wrote works which are now proved to be full of scientific truths; but then, as he says himself, what he wrote upon, he “saw it as in a great Deep in the Eternal”. He had “a thorough view of the universe, as in a chaos”, which yet “opened itself in him, from time to time, as in a young plant”. He was a thorough born Mystic, and evidently of a constitution which is most rare one of those fine natures whose material envelope impedes in no way the direct, even if only occasional, intercommunion between the intellectual and the spiritual Ego. It is this Ego which Jacob Boehme, like so many other untrained mystics, mistook for God; “Man must acknowledge,” he writes, “that his knowledge is not his own, but from God, who manifests the Ideas of Wisdom to the Soul of Man, in what measure he pleases.” Had this great Theosophist mastered Eastern Occultism he might have expressed it otherwise. He would have known then that the “god” who spoke through his poor uncultured and untrained brain, was his own divine Ego, the omniscient Deity within himself, and that what that Deity gave out was not in “what measure pleased,” but in the measure of the capacities of the mortal and temporary dwelling IT informed [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). His ''Aurora, oder die Morgenröte im Aufgang'' dates from 1612. John Sparrow's English translation was edited by C. J. Barker and D. S. Hehner and published by John M. Watkins in London in 1914. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#497|3:497]][[SMW::on]]).

Boerhaave, Hermann +

Dutch physician and famous professor of medicine. Graduated in philosophy at Leyden and in medicine at Harderwyck (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#568|11:568]][[SMW::on]]). +

Boethius +

Philosopher and statesman influenced by Neoplatonism and Stoicism, and a Latin translator and commentator of Aristotle. Appointed consul under Theodoric in 510, he later wrote ''The Consolation of Philosophy'' during imprisonment and was executed in 524. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#497|3:497-498]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bogle, George +

Scottish diplomat in East India Company service, sent by Warren Hastings to the Tashi Lama to establish friendly and commercial relations with Tibet. His journals formed a source for Clements Markham's ''Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet'' (1876). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#634|4:634-635]][[SMW::on]]). +

Boldetti, Marco Antonio +

Italian antiquary (1663-1749), Vatican Hebrew scribe and inspector of the Roman catacombs under Clement XI. His principal work, Osservazioni sopra i cimiterj de’ Santi Martiri, ed antichi Cristiani di Roma, appeared in Rome in 1720. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#523|2:523]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bombay Gazette +

Bombay newspaper for which Zirkoff gives a publication span of 5 July 1826 to 31 December 1896. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#385|5:385]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bombay Sanskrit Series +

Sanskrit publication series abbreviated BSS in Zirkoff’s bibliography. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#362|5:362]][[SMW::on]]). +