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Eek, Sven +

Assisted in selling the early volumes of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings; formerly managed the Publications Department at Point Loma. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|BCW 4:xix]]) +

Eggs +

Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the “Mundane Egg”, in which Brahmâ gestated, with the Hindus the ''Hiranya‐Gharba'', and the Mundane Egg of the Egyptians, which proceeds from the mouth of the “unmade and eternal deity”, Kneph, and which is the emblem of generative power. Then the Egg of Babylon, which hatched Ishtar, and was said to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates. Therefore coloured eggs were used yearly during spring in almost every country, and in Egypt were exchanged as sacred symbols in the spring‐time, which was, is, and ever will be, the emblem of birth or rebirth, cosmic and human, celestial and terrestrial. They were hung up in Egyptian temples and are so suspended to this day in Mahometan mosques [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Egkosmioi +

“The intercosmic gods, each of which presides over a great number of daemons to whom they impart their power and change it from one to another at will”, says Proclus, and he adds, that which is taught in the esoteric doctrine. In his system he shows the uppermost regions from the zenith of the Universe to the moon belonging to the gods, or planetary Spirits, according to their hierarchies and classes. The highest among them were the twelve ''Huper‐ouranioi'', the super‐ celestial gods. Next to the latter, in rank and power, came the ''Egkosmioi.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eglinton, William +

English medium (1857-1933) who entered professional mediumship in 1875. He visited India in 1881 and became acquainted with Theosophists there, meeting Blavatsky and Olcott in London in 1884. De Zirkoff points to J. S. Farmer's ''Twixt Two Worlds'' and Sven Eek's ''Dâmodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement'' for further accounts. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#503|3:503-505]][[SMW::on]]). [[Kellar, Harry|H. Kellar]] described a séance with him whose phenomena he considered inexplicable by trickery or sleight of hand. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Conjurer among the Spiritualists|BCW 3:488]]) [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] dates the SS Vega episode involving him and Master K. H. to 22-24 March 1882. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxiii|BCW 4:xxiii]]) +

Ego +

“ Self” ; the consciousness in man “I am I” — or the feeling of “I‐am‐ship”. Esoteric philosophy teaches the existence of two Egos in man, the mortal or personal, and the Higher, the Divine and the Impersonal, calling the former “personality” and the latter “Individuality Egoity. From the word “Ego”. Egoity means “individuality”, never “personality”, and is the opposite of egoism or “selfishness”, the characteristic par excellence of the latter [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Egregores +

Eliphas Lévi calls them “the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action” ; whatever that may or may not mean. The Oriental Occultists describe the ''Egregores ''as Beings whose bodies and essence is a tissue of the so‐called ''astral light''. They are the shadows of the higher Planetary Spirits whose bodies are of the essence of the higher divine light [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eheyeh +

“I am”, according to Ibn Gebirol, but not in the sense of “I am that I am” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eidolon +

The same as that which we term the human phantom, the astral form [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eisen, Gustaf +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Eka +

“One”; also a synonym of '''Mahat, '''the ''Universal Mind, ''as the principle of Intelligence [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ekana‐rupa +

The One (and the Many) bodies or forms; a term applied by the Purânas to Deity [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ekasloka Shastra +

A work on the ''Shastras ''(Scriptures) by Nagarjuna; a mystic work translated into Chinese [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eklund, Dara R. +

Checked numerous quotations against their original publications for the new first volume of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings, issued in 1966. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.1)#xxiv|BCW 1:xxiv]]) Checked many quotations in hard-to-find publications for the second volume of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxiv]]) Checked numerous quotations and references for volume XI of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.11)#xxi|BCW 11:xxi]]) Read proofs for volume XII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings and prepared its index. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.12)#xxi|BCW 12:xxi]]) Wrote the foreword to volume XIII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings, signed in Los Angeles in May 1982 after [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s death. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi-xxii]]) Signed the foreword to volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings in Los Angeles in autumn 1985 as Assistant Compiler. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi-xxiii]])

Eleazar I +

See for biogr. sketch BCW Vol. VI, p. 433. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#462|1:462]][[SMW::on]]). Mishnaic teacher of the fourth generation, a disciple of Akiba, ordained after his teacher’s death by Judah ben Baba. He founded a college, trained many pupils, and exerted a lasting influence on the transmission of rabbinical tradition. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#433|6:433]][[SMW::on]]). +

Elementals +

Spirits of the Elements. The creatures evolved in the four Kingdoms or Elements — earth, air, fire, and water. They are called by the Kabbalists, Gnomes (of the earth), Sylphs (of the air), Salamanders (of the fire), and Undines (of the water). Except a few of the higher kinds, and their rulers, they are rather forces of nature than ethereal men and women. These forces, as the servile agents of the Occultists, may produce various effects; but if employed by” Elementaries” ''(q.v.) ''in which case they enslave the mediums — they will deceive the credulous. All the lower invisible beings generated on the 5th 6th, and 7th planes of our terrestrial atmosphere, are called Elementals Peris, Devs, Djins, Sylvans, Satyrs, Fauns, Elves, Dwarfs, Trolls, Kobolds, Brownies, Nixies, Goblins, Pinkies, Banshees, Moss People, White Ladies, Spooks, Fairies, etc., etc., etc. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Elementaries +

Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls having at some time prior to death separated from themselves their divine spirits, and so lost their chance for immortality; but at the present stage of learning it has been thought best to apply the term to the spooks or phantoms of disembodied persons, in general, to those whose temporary habitation is the Kâma Loka. Eliphas Lévi and some other Kabbalists make little distinction between elementary spirits who have been men, and those beings which people the elements [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Elias Levita +

Jewish grammarian (1469-1549), also called Ashkenazi and Bachur, who promoted Hebrew studies among Christians. He assisted Egidio di Viterbo in studying Kabbalah and wrote important works on the Masorah, including ''Massoreth Hamasoreth'' (1538). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#505|3:505]][[SMW::on]]). +

Elliot, Gilbert +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Elliotson, John +

English physician (1791-1868), professor of medicine in London and advocate of mesmerism. Disagreement over mesmerism led to his resignation in 1838. He founded The Zoist to record mesmeric observations and published Principles and Practice of Medicine in 1839. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#528|2:528]][[SMW::on]]). English physician whose interest in mesmerism led to his resignation from University Hospital in 1838; founded a mesmeric hospital in 1849 and contributed to medical and phrenological organizations. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#646|4:646]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ellis, William Ashton +

English physician, theosophist, translator and biographer of Richard Wagner. Edited ''The Meister'', the journal of the London Wagner Society, and translated Wagner’s prose writings into English. Came from London to Ostend at [[Wachtmeister, Constance|C. Wachtmeister]]’s request during [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s serious illness in the spring of 1887 and consulted with her Belgian physician. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.7)#xxviii|BCW 7:xxviii]], [[Zirkoff B. - H. P. Blavatskys Instructions to Countess Constance Wachtmeister#301|BCW 7:301]]) +