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Essasua +

The African and Asiatic sorcerers and serpent charmers [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus +

A collection by [[Colebrooke, Henry Thomas|H. T. Colebrooke]]. The essay on Hindu religious ceremonies first appeared in Asiatic Researches, volume 7 (1801), pp. 232-285. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] gives two further editions of the collection, dated 1837 and 1858. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Cross and Fire|BCW 2:145]]) +

Essenes +

A hellenized word, from the Hebrew ''Asa, ''a “healer”. A mysterious sect of Jews said by Pliny to have lived near the Dead Sea '''''per millia sæculorum''''' — for thousands of ages. “ Some have supposed them to be extreme Pharisees, and others — which may be the true theory — the descendants of the ''Benim‐nabim ''of the ''Bible, ''and think that they were ‘Kenites and ''Nazarites''. They had many Buddhistic ideas and practices; and it is noteworthy that the priests of the ''Great Mother ''at Ephesus, Diana‐ Bhavani with many breasts, were also so denominated. Eusebius, and after him De Quincey, declared them to be the same as the early Christians, which is more than probable. The title ‘ brother’, used in the early Church, was Essenean ; they were a fraternity, or a koinobion or community like the early converts.” (''Isis Unveiled''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Estienne H. - Thesaurus Graecae Linguae +

A Greek dictionary by [[Estienne, Henri|H. Estienne]], known by the Latin name Henricus Stephanus: five volumes, Geneva, 1572. Republished in London in 1816–1826 and Paris in 1831–1865. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#231|BCW 8:231]]) +

Estienne, Henri +

Listed under the Latinized name H. Stephanus in de Zirkoff’s appendix, which directs the reader to page 234 of volume VI of H. P. Blavatsky’s ''Collected Writings''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#446|6:446]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Thesaurus Graecae linguae. Geneva, 1572. 5 vols. fol.; London: ed. by A. J. Valpy, 1816-26, fol.; Paris: A. Firmin Didot, 1831-1865. 8 vols (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#475|8:475]][[SMW::on]]). [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s quotation concerning a Catholic saint comes from his Introduction au Traité de la Conformité des Merveilles anciennes avec les modernes, first published at Geneva in 1566; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] checked it against P. Ristelhuber’s 1879 edition (vol. II, ch. XXXIX, p. 412). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Roman Catholic Saint at Goa#234|BCW 6:234]]) +

Ether +

Students are but too apt to confuse this with Akâsa and with Astral Light. It is neither, in the sense in which ether is described by physical Science. Ether is a material agent, though hitherto undetected by any physical apparatus; whereas Akâsa is a distinctly spiritual agent, identical, in one sense, with the Anima Mundi, while the Astral Light is only the seventh and highest principle of the terrestrial atmosphere, as undetectable as Akâsa and real Ether, because it is something quite on another plane. The seventh principle of the earth’s atmosphere, as said, the Astral Light, is only the second on the Cosmic scale. The scale of Cosmic Forces, Principles and Planes, of Emanations — on the metaphysical — and Evolutions — on the physical plane — is the Cosmic Serpent biting its own tail, the Serpent reflecting the Higher, and reflected in its turn by the lower Serpent. The Caduceus explains the mystery, and the four‐fold Dodecahedron on the model of which the universe is said by Plato to have been built by the manifested Logos — synthesized by the unmanifested First‐Born — yields geometrically the key to Cosmogony and its microcosmic reflection — our Earth [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Eurasians +

An abbreviation of “European‐Asians”. The mixed coloured races: the children of the white fathers and the dark mothers of India, or ''vice versa.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Euripides +

The bibliography lists Ion in an English verse translation by A. W. Verrall, published at Cambridge in 1890 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#436|8:436]][[SMW::on]]). +

Eusebius Pamphili +

The bibliography cites his ''Chronicle'' in the Milan edition of Angelo Mai and J. Zohrab (1816), and ''Praeparatio Evangelica'' in Migne’s collection. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#368|7:368]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Historia ecclesiastica. Engl, tr. by Rev. C. F. Crusé. London: George Bell & Sons, 1908. Constantine’s Oration to the Assembly of the Saints. Migne, Patr. C. Compl. Ser. Graeco-Lat. XX (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#436|8:436]][[SMW::on]]). His Life of Constantine comprises four books; the bibliography refers to the text in Migne's collection and an English translation in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#573|11:573]][[SMW::on]]). +

Evans, Thomas +

Clergyman at Mussoorie who wrote to the English press about alcohol consumption in India. +

Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling +

Assisted in preparing Volume V of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.5)#xxiii|BCW 5:xxiii]]) American anthropologist and scholar of Tibetan religion, a Theosophist associated with the Point Loma community. ([https://www.theosophy.wiki/en/W._Y._Evans-Wentz Theosophy Wiki: Walter Evans-Wentz]) +

Evapto +

Initiation; the same as ''Epopteia'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Evarts, William Maxwell +

American lawyer and statesman who served as United States Secretary of State. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Evening Mail, The +

The paper was founded as the New York Evening Mail in 1867 and published under that name through 1877. It then went through some minor name changes, becoming the New York Mail for about a year (November 1877 – November 1878), and then The Mail (through late 1879). It then became the Evening Mail from 1879 through December 1881, when owner Cyrus West Field acquired the New York Evening Express (which had been founded by James and Erastus Brooks as a Whig paper in June 1836), and created The Mail and Express. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

Evolution +

The development of higher orders of animals from lower. As said in ''Isis Unveiled: ''“Modern Science holds but to a one‐sided physical evolution, prudently avoiding and ignoring the higher or spiritual evolution, which would force our contemporaries to confess the superiority of the ancient philosophers and psychologists over themselves. The ancient sages, ascending to the UNKNOWABLE, made their starting‐ point from the first manifestation of the unseen, the unavoidable, and, from a strictly logical reasoning, the absolutely necessary creative Being, the Demiurgos of the universe. Evolution began with them from pure spirit, which descending lower and lower down, assumed at last a visible and comprehensible form, and became matter. Arrived at this point, they speculated in the Darwinian method, but on a far more large and comprehensive basis.” (See “[[Emanation]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] points to Part III, chapter IV, p. 299, footnote, as a parallel to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s discussion of “vital force”. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - What is Matter and What is Force#225|BCW 4:225]]) +

Ewen, E. D. +

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

Examiner, The +

The Examiner was a weekly paper founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, but from 1865 it repeatedly changed hands and political allegiance, resulting in a rapid decline in readership and loss of purpose. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

Exoteric +

Outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Extraits des Assertions +

A collection of extracts from Jesuit writers, published by P. G. Simon in Paris in 1762 in one-volume and four-volume editions. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] checked [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s quotations against the latter, not against the rare Latin originals. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#308|BCW 9:308-310]]) +