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L

Law of Retribution +

See “Karma” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jetzirah +

See “Yetzirah” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hochmah +

See “[[Chochmah]]” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nabia +

Seership, soothsaying. This oldest and most respected of mystic phenomena is the name given to prophecy in the ''Bible'', and is correctly included among the spiritual powers, such as divination, clairvoyant visions, trance‐conditions, and oracles. But while enchanters, diviners, and even astrologers are strictly condemned in the Mosaic books, prophecy, seership, and ''nabia ''appear as the special gifts of heaven. In early ages they were all termed ''Epoptai ''(Seers), the Greek word for Initiates; they were also designated ''Nebim'', “the plural of Nebo, the Babylonian god of wisdom.” The Kabalist distinguishes between the ''seer ''and the ''magician''; one is passive, the other active; ''Nebirah'', is one who looks into futurity and a clairvoyant; ''Nebi‐poel'', he who possesses ''magic powers''. We notice that Elijah and Apollonius resorted to the same means to isolate themselves from the disturbing influences of the outer world, viz., wrapping their heads entirely in a woollen mantle, from its being an electric non‐conductor we must suppose [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna +

She was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in many articles and several major works, including ''Isis Unveiled'', ''The Secret Doctrine'', ''The Key to Theosophy'', and ''The Voice of the Silence''. She was co-founder of The Theosophical Society. +

K

Klippoth +

Shells: used in the Kabbalah in several senses; (1) evil spirits, demons; (2) the shells of dead human beings, not the physical body, but the remnant of the personality after the spirit has departed; (3) the Elementaries of some authors. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gonpis +

Shepherdesses — the playmates and companions of Krishna, among whom was his wife Raddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abhijna +

Six phenomenal (or “supernatural”) gifts which Sâkyamuni Buddha acquired in the night on which he reached Buddhaship. This is the “fourth” degree of Dhyâna (the seventh in esoteric teachings) which has to be attained by every true Arhat. In China, the initiated Buddhist ascetics reckon six such powers, but in Ceylon they reckon only five. The first Abhijñâ is Divyachakchus, the instantaneous view of anything one wills to see; the second, is Divyasrotra, the power of comprehending any sound whatever, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nidra +

Sleep. Also the female form of Brahmâ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aith‐ur +

Solar fire, divine Æther. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nirmanakaya +

Something entirely different in esoteric philosophy from the popular meaning attached to it, and from the fancies of the Orientalists. Some call the ''Nirmânakâya ''body “Nirvana with remains” (Schlagintweit, etc.) on the supposition, probably, that it is a kind of Nirvânic condition during which consciousness and form are retained. Others say that it is one of the ''Trikâya ''(three bodies), with the “power of assuming any form of appearance in order to propagate Buddhism” (Eitel’s idea); again, that “it is the incarnate avatâra of a deity” (''ibid.''), and so on. Occultism, on the other hand, says:that Nirmânakâya, although meaning literally a transformed “body”, is a state. The form is that of the adept or yogi who enters, or chooses, that ''post mortem ''condition in preference to the Dharmakâya or ''absolute ''Nirvânic state. He does this because the latter ''kâya ''separates him for ever from the world of form, conferring upon him a state of ''selfish ''bliss, in which no other living being can participate, the adept being thus precluded from the possibility of helping humanity, or even ''devas''. As a Nirmânakâya, however, the man leaves behind him only his physical body, and retains every other “principle” save the Kamic—for he has crushed this out for ever from his nature, during life, and it can never resurrect in his post mortem state. Thus, instead of going into selfish bliss, he chooses a life of self‐sacrifice, an existence which ends only with the life‐cycle, in order to be enabled to help mankind in an invisible yet most effective manner. (See ''The Voice of the Silence'', third treatise, “The Seven Portals”.) Thus a Nirmânakâya is not, as popularly believed, the body “in which a Buddha or a Bodhisattva appears on earth”, but verily one, who whether a ''Chutuktu ''or a ''Khubilkhan, ''an adept or a yogi during life, has since become a member of that invisible Host which ever protects and watches over Humanity within Karmic limits. Mistaken often for a “Spirit”, a Deva, God himself, &c., a Nirmânakâya is ever a protecting, compassionate, verily a ''guardian ''angel, to him who becomes worthy of his help. Whatever objection may be brought forward against this doctrine; however much it is denied, because, forsooth, it has never been hitherto made public in Europe and therefore since it is unknown to Orientalists, it must needs be “a myth of modern invention”—no one will be bold enough to say that this idea of helping suffering mankind at the price of one’s own almost interminable self‐sacrifice, is not one of the grandest and noblest that was ever evolved from human brain [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

M

Murttimat +

Something inherent or incarnate in something else and inseparable from it; like ''wetness ''in water, which is coexistent and coeval with it. Used of some attributes of Brahmâ and other gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Incubus +

Something more real and dangerous than the ordinary meaning given to the word, viz., that of “nightmare ”. An ''Incubus ''is the male Elemental, and ''Succuba ''the female, and these are undeniably the spooks of mediæval demonology, called forth from the invisible regions by human passion and lust. They are now called “Spirit brides” and “Spirit husbands” among some benighted Spiritists and spiritual mediums. But these poetical names do not prevent them in the least being that which they are—Ghools, Vampires and soulless Elementals; formless centres of Life, devoid of sense; in short, ''subjective protoplasms ''when left alone, but called into a definite being and form by the creative and diseased imagination of certain mortals. They were known under every clime as in every age, and the Hindus can tell more than one terrible tale of the dramas enacted in the life of young students and mystics by the ''Pisachas'', their name in India [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Obeah +

Sorcerers and sorceresses of Africa and the West Indies. A sect of black magicians, snake‐charmers, enchanters, &c [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jadoo +

Sorcery, black magic, enchantment [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Black Magic +

Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This abuse may be unintentional; yet it is still “''black ''magic” whenever anything is produced phenomenally simply for one’s own gratification [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dukkha +

Sorrow, pain [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Neshamah +

Soul, ''anima, afflatus''. In the Kabbalah, as taught in the Rosicrucian order, one of the three highest essences of the Human Soul, corresponding to the ''Sephira Binah''. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atma‐bhu +

Soul‐existence, or existing as soul. (See “'''''Alaya'''''”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Magic, White +

So‐called, is ''divine ''magic, devoid of selfishness, love of power, of ambition, or lucre, and bent only on doing good to the world in general, and one’s neighbour in particular. The smallest attempt to use one’s abnormal powers for the gratification of self, makes of these powers sorcery or black magic [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +