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Bombay Theosophical Society +

A branch of the Theosophical Society organized on 25 April 1880 during the Founders’ residence in Bombay; the chronological survey describes it as the first Indian branch. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxx]]) +

Bonati +

Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astrologer and alchemist, but failed as a Rosicrucian adept. He returned after this to his monastery [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bona‐Oma +

A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her father Faunus. She was worshipped as a prophetic and chaste divinity, and her cult was confined solely to women, men not being allowed to even pronounce her name. She revealed her oracles only to women, and the ceremonies of her Sanctuary (a grotto in the Aventine) were conducted by the Vestals, every 1st of May. Her aversion to men was so great that no male person was permitted to approach the house of the consuls where her festival was sometimes held, and even the portraits and the busts of men were carried out for the time from the building. Clodius, who once profaned such a sacred festival by entering the house of Caesar where it was held, in a female disguise, brought grief upon himself. Flowers and foliage decorated her temple and women made libations from a vessel (mellarium) full of milk. It is not true that the mellarium contained wine, as asserted by some writers, who being men thus tried to revenge themselves [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bonesetter, Fakirji R. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Bonggren, Jacob +

Swedish-American writer and publicist who contributed to Theosophical periodicals. Author of ''The Second Coming of the Christ''. Published a study of the seven mystery names and their correspondences in Lucifer, IV, July 1889, pp. 404-407; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] recommends it in connection with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s essay on star-angel worship. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#32|BCW 10:32]]) +

Bonnet C. - La Palingénésie philosophique +

A two-volume work by [[Bonnet, Charles|C. Bonnet]] published in Geneva in 1769. The statements on animals’ future condition cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] through J. E. de Mirville are free paraphrases rather than literal quotations; the corresponding passages are in volume II, pp. 77–78, 122–123 and 125–126. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Have Animals Souls#41|BCW 7:41-43]]) +

Bonnet, Charles +

Swiss naturalist and philosopher (1720-1793), whose studies ranged from insects and plants to psychology. In ''La palingénésie philosophique'' he discussed the past and future of living beings and supported the survival of animals. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#359|7:359]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bono +

Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy. Returning from his voyage he settled in Istria in 1330, and became famous as a Rosicrucian. A Calabrian monk named Lacinius is credited with having published in 1702 a condensed version of Bono’s works on the transmutation of metals. There is, however, more of Lacinius than of Bono in the work. Bono was a genuine adept and an Initiate ; and such do not leave their secrets behind them in MSS [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Boodhasp +

An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the founder of the esoteric school of Neo‐Sabeism, and whose secret rite of baptism passed bodily into the Christian rite of the same name. For almost three centuries before our era, Buddhist monks overran the whole country of Syria, made their way into the Mesopotamian valley and visited even Ireland. The name ''Ferho ''and ''Faho ''of the Codex Nazaraeus is but a corruption of Fho, Fo and Pho, the name which the Chinese, Tibetans and even Nepaulese often give to Buddha [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Book of Armagh +

Manuscript cited as held in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#359|7:359]][[SMW::on]]). +

Book of Common Prayer according to the Church of England +

The bibliography lists the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#407|9:407]][[SMW::on]]). Listed among works referred to in BCW volume 10, without further bibliographical details (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#413|10:413]][[SMW::on]]). +

Book of Heaven through keeping the Ten Prohibitions +

No information available (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#407|9:407]][[SMW::on]]). +

Book of Jehiel +

The bibliography refers the reader to p. 224 in BCW volume 8 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#421|8:421]][[SMW::on]]). The Disputacio R. Jechielis cum quodam Nicolao printed in the second volume of [[Wagenseil, Johann Christoph|J. C. Wagenseil]]’s Tela ignea Satanae (1681). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies it with the Disputation of Rabbi Jechiel cited by É. Lévi. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#224|BCW 8:224]]) +

Book of Law (unidentified work in BCW 6) +

An unidentified work listed as ''The Book of Law'' in the sixth-volume appendix; de Zirkoff states that no information was available. The entry does not establish its identity with another work of the same name. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#428|6:428]][[SMW::on]]). +

Book of the Arhats +

A title cited in the appendix for which Zirkoff reports no available information. (BCW). +

Book of the Dead +

An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of ancient mummies [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The quotations were checked against E. A. Wallis Budge’s English translation of the Theban recension, second revised and enlarged edition, London and New York, 1928, three volumes in one. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#523|2:523]][[SMW::on]]). For a detailed bibliography of this work, de Zirkoff directs readers to the appendix of ''Collected Writings'', volume X, pages 413-414. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#498|3:498]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix directs the reader to volume X, pages 413-414, for a fuller bibliography. (BCW). De Zirkoff lists E. A. Wallis Budge’s edition and translation of the Theban recension, with vocabulary and plates: three volumes, London, 1898, and an enlarged seven-volume second edition, 1909-1911. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#428|6:428]][[SMW::on]]). Passages quoted have been checked by the English transl. of the Theban Recension by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge; 2nd rev. and enl. ed. London: Kegan Paul; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1928, 3 vols. in one (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#408|9:408]][[SMW::on]]). Consult Bio-Bibliographical Index of Volume X in the present Series, for comprehensive information concerning the nature of this title and the various editions of the text (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#568|11:568]][[SMW::on]]). Conventional title for ancient Egyptian collections of funerary spells, hymns and invocations, preserved on monuments and papyri. The bibliography distinguishes Heliopolitan, Theban and Saite recensions (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#413|10:413-415]][[SMW::on]]). In E. A. Wallis Budge’s English translation of the Theban recension (1928), p. 318, the description of the barley occurs in chapter CIX, verses 7-8, whereas [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] cites verses 4-5. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that she may have used a different recension. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Psychology of Ancient Egypt#55|BCW 10:55-56]])

Book of the Keys +

An ancient Kabbalistic work [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso +

Italian physiologist and physicist, professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa. Author of ''De motu animalium'' (1680–81), explaining animal movement on mechanical principles; in 1665 he was the first to suggest a parabolic path for comets, and his ''Theoria mediceorum planetarum ex causis physicis deducta'' (1666) considered gravitational attraction on the satellites of Jupiter. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#447|1:447]][[SMW::on]]). +

Borj +

The Mundane Mountain, a volcano or fire‐ mountain; the same as the Indian Meru [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Borri +

Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an alchemist and a devoted occultist. He knew too much and was, therefore, condemned to death for heresy, in January, 1661, after the death of Pope Innocent X. He escaped and lived many years after, when finally he was recognised by a monk in a Turkish village, denounced, claimed by the Papal Nuncio, taken back to Rome and imprisoned, August 10th, 1675. But facts show that he escaped from his prison in a way no one could account for [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +