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Nishada +

(1) One of the seven qualities of sound— the one and sole attribute of Akâsa; (2) the ''seventh ''note of the Hindu musical scale; (3) an outcast offspring of a Brahman and a Sudra mother; (4) a range of mountains south of Meru—north of the Himalayas [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Magic, Black +

(Vide ''Supra''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nimitta +

1. An interior illumination developed by the practice of meditation. 2. The efficient spiritual cause, as contrasted with Upadana, the material cause, in Vedânta philosophy. See also ''Pradhâna ''in Sankhya philosophy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ayuta +

100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lakh +

100,000 of units, either in specie or anything else [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chhandoga +

A ''Samhitâ ''collection of Sama Veda; also a priest, a chanter of the Sama Veda [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Rajikas +

A ''gana ''or class of gods 236 in number. Certain ''Forces ''in esoteric teachings [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmachari +

A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahavanso +

A Buddhist historical work written by Bhikshu Mohânâma, the uncle of King Dhatusma. An authority on the history of Buddhism and its spread in the island of Ceylon [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhadrasena +

A Buddhist king of Magadha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dammapadan +

A Buddhist work containing moral precepts [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Campanella Tomaso +

A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up during his whole life to the Occult Arts. The story which shows him initiated in his boyhood into the secrets of alchemy and thoroughly instructed in the secret science by a Rabbi‐Kabbalist in a ''fortnight ''by means of ''notavicon, ''is a cock and bull invention. Occult knowledge, even when a heirloom from the preceding birth, does not come back into a new personality within fifteen days. He became an opponent of the Aristotelian materialistic philosophy when at Naples and was obliged to fly for his life. Later, the Inquisition sought to try and condemn him for the practice of magic arts, but its efforts were defeated. During his lifetime he wrote an enormous quantity of magical, astrological and alchemical works, most of which are no longer extant. He is reported to have died in the convent of the Jacobins at Paris on May the 21st, 1639 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Chiffilet +

A Canon‐Kabbalist of the XVIIth century, reputed to have learned a key to the Gnostic works from Coptic Initiates; he wrote a work on Abraxas in two portions, the esoteric portion of which was burnt by the Church [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Fahian +

A Chinese traveller and writer in the early centuries of Christianity, who wrote on Buddhism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Fa‐Hwa‐King +

A Chinese work on Cosmogony [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Jacobites +

A Christian sect in Syria of the VIth cent. (550) which held that Christ had only one nature and that confession was not of divine origin. They had secret signs, passwords and a solemn initiation with mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Clemens Alexandrinus +

A Church Father and a voluminous writer, who had been a Neo‐Platonist and a disciple of Ammonius Saccas. He lived between the second and the third centuries of our era, at Alexandria [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lactantius +

A Church Father, who declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, and that of the antipodes as a “fallacy invented by the devil” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ichthus +

A Fish: the symbol of the Fish has been frequently referred to Jesus, the Christ of the New Testament, partly because the five letters forming the word are the initials of the Greek phrase, ''Iesous ''Christos ''Theou Uios Soter, ''Jesus Christ the Saviour, Son of God. Hence his followers in the early Christian centuries were often called ''fishes, ''and drawings of fish are found in the Catacombs. Compare also the narrative that some of his early disciples were fishermen, and the assertion of Jesus― “I will make you fishers of men”. Note also the Vesica Piscis, a conventional shape for fish in general, is frequently found enclosing a picture of a Christ, holy virgin, or saint; it is a long oval with pointed ends, the space marked out by the intersection of two equal circles, when less than half the area of one. Compare the Christian female recluse, a Nun—this word is the Chaldee name for fish, and fish is connected with the worship of Venus, a goddess, and the Roman Catholics still eat fish on the Dies Veneris or Friday. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Magnetism +

A Force in nature and in man. When it is the former, it is an agent which gives rise to the various phenomena of attraction, of polarity, etc. When the latter, it becomes “animal” magnetism, in contradistinction to cosmic, and terrestrial magnetism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +