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Holt, Joseph +

Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Holy Water +

This is one of the oldest rites practised in Egypt, and thence in Pagan Rome. It accompanied the rite of bread and wine. “Holy water was sprinkled by the Egyptian priest alike upon his gods’ images and the faithful. It was both poured and sprinkled. A brush has been found, supposed to have been used for that purpose, as at this day.” (Bonwick’s ''Egyptian Belief.'') As to the bread, “the cakes of Isis were placed upon the altar. Gliddon writes that they were ‘identical in shape with the consecrated cake of the Roman and Eastern Churches’. Melville assures us ‘the Egyptians marked this holy bread with St. Andrew’s cross’. The Presence bread was broken before being distributed by the priests to the people, and was supposed to become the flesh and blood of the Deity. The miracle was wrought by the hand of the officiating priest, who blessed the food. . . . Rouge tells us ‘the bread offerings bear the imprint of the fingers, the mark of consecration ‘.” (''Ibid'', page 458.) (See also [[Bread and Wine]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Holy of Holies +

The Assyriologists, Egyptologists, and Orientalists, in general, show that such a place existed in every temple of antiquity. The great temple of Bel‐ Merodach whose sides faced the four cardinal points, had in its extreme end a “Holy of Holies” hidden from the profane by a veil: here, “at the beginning of the year ‘the divine king of heaven and earth, the lord of the heavens, seats himself’.” According to Herodotus, here was the golden image of the god with a golden table in front like the Hebrew table for the shew bread, and upon this, food appears to have been placed. in some temples there also was “a little coffer or ark with two engraved stone tablets on it”. (Myer’s ''Qabbalah.'') In short, it is now pretty well proven, that the “chosen people” had nothing original of their own, but that every detail of their ritualism and religion was borrowed from older nations. The ''Hibbert Lectures ''by Prof. Sayce and others show this abundantly. The story of the birth of Moses is that of Sargon, the Babylonian, who preceded Moses by a couple of thousand years; and no wonder, as Dr. Sayce tells us that the name of Moses, ''Mosheh, ''has a connection with the name of the Babylonian sun‐god as the “hero” or “leader”. (''Hib. Lect.'', p. 46 ''et seq''.) Says Mr. J. Myer, “The orders of the priests were divided into high priests, those attached or bound to certain deities, like the Hebrew Levites; anointers or cleaners ; the ''Kali'', ‘illustrious’ or ‘elders’; the soothsayers, and the ''Makhkhu ''or ‘great one’, in which Prof. Delitzsch sees the ''Rab‐mag ''of the Old Testament. . . The Akkadians and Chaldeans kept a Sabbath day of rest every seven days, they also had thanksgiving days, and days for humiliation and prayer. There were sacrifices of vegetables and animals, of meats and wine. . . . The number seven was especially sacred. . . . The great temple of Babylon existed long before 2,250 B.c. Its ‘Holy of Holies’ was with in the shrine of Nebo, the prophet god of wisdom.” It is from the Akkadians that the god Mardak passed to the Assyrians, and he had been before Merodach, “the merciful”, of the Babylonians, the only son and interpreter of the will of Ea or ''Hea'', the great Deity of Wisdom. The Assyriologists have, in short, unveiled the whole scheme of the ''“chosen ''people” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Home, Daniel Dunglas +

Scottish Spiritualistic medium. Converted to Spiritualism in 1850, giving ''seances'' in New York and elsewhere; sent to Europe, 1855, where his ''seances'' aroused considerable interest. In 1870-72 had a series of sittings with Sir Wm. Crookes. As a medium, was connected with all known forms of manifestation, and was never detected in any fraud; his phenomena are the best attested in the history of Spiritualism. Works: *''Incidents in My Life'' (1863-72); ''Light and Shadows of Spiritualism'' (1877). In spite of some statements to the contrary, H.P.B. did not know Home personally and never met him. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#469|1:469]][[SMW::on]]). +

Homer +

For the ''Iliad'', Zirkoff recommends Robinson Smith’s ''The Original Iliad'', with text and translation (London, 1938), and the Nonesuch Press edition with translation (1931). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#375|5:375]][[SMW::on]]). The ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' are cited in the Loeb Classical Library editions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#375|7:375]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Iliad and Odyssey. Loeb Classical Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#459|8:459]][[SMW::on]]). +

Homogeneity +

From the Greek words ''homos ''“the same” and ''genos ''“kind”. That which is of the same nature throughout, undifferentiated, non‐compound, as gold is ''supposed ''to be [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Honir +

A creative god who furnished the first man with intellect and understanding after man had been created by him jointly with Odin and Lodur from an ash tree [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Honover +

The Persian ''Logos'', the manifested Word [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hooke, Robert +

English experimental physicist. Appointed, 1662, curator of experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1663. Appointed, 1665, professor of geometry in Gresham college. His optical investigations led him to adopt the undulatory theory of light; he was the first to state clearly that the motions of the heavenly bodies must be regarded as a mechanical problem, and he approached the discovery of universal gravitation. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#469|1:469-470]][[SMW::on]]). +

Hopkins J. - Meditation on Emptiness +

Contains a commentary and partial translation of the Great Exposition of the Tenets, tentatively identified as the treatise intended by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Published in London by Wisdom Publications in 1983. ([[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Few More Misconceptions Corrected#439|BCW 14:439]]) +

Hor Ammon +

“The Self‐engendered”, a word in theogony which answers to the Sanskrit '''''Anupadaka, '''''parentless. Hor‐Ammon is a combination of the ram‐ headed god of Thebes and of Horus [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Horace +

De Zirkoff cites his ''Satires'' in the Loeb Classical Library edition. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#511|3:511]][[SMW::on]]). His Odes and Satires are listed in the Loeb Classical Library editions (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#418|10:418]][[SMW::on]]). +

Horace - Odes +

Ode III, VI, lines 45-48, supplies the Latin passage on the degeneration of successive generations in C. C. Blake’s letter answered by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in Casting Off. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Casting Off#190|BCW 10:190]]) +

Horace - Satires +

I, IV, lines 81-85, is the source of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s verse quotation on maligning an absent friend. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Is Denunciation a Duty#208|BCW 10:208]]) +

Horchia +

According to Berosus, the same as Vesta, goddess of the Hearth [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hornby, Edmund Grimani +

British judge who served in China and Japan. His account of an apparition was discussed in the literature of psychical research. +

Horner, George +

Published an English translation of Pistis Sophia directly from Coptic in 1924, with an introduction by F. Legge. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] recommends it for study of the complete text alongside the passages commented on by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Introductory Notes to H.P.B.s Commentary on the Pistis Sophia#3|BCW 13:3-5]]) +

Horrocks, Jeremiah +

English astronomer. Calculated that, contrary to the prediction in Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, a transit of Venus would occur on November 24 (old style), 1639; this was the first transit of Venus to be observed. A brilliant young man, to whom are due several important contributions to astronomical knowledge, he died in his 22nd year. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#470|1:470]][[SMW::on]]). +

Horus +

The last in the line of divine Sovereigns in Egypt, said to he the son of Osiris and Isis. He is the great god “loved of Heaven”, the “beloved of the Sun, the offspring of the gods, the subjugator of the world”. At the time of the Winter Solstice (our Christmas), his image, in the form of a small newly‐born infant, was brought out from the sanctuary for the adoration of the worshipping crowds. As he is the type of the vault of heaven, he is said to have come from the ''Maem Misi, ''the sacred birth‐place (the womb of the World), and is, therefore, the “mystic Child of the Ark” or the ''argha'', the symbol of the matrix. Cosmically, he is the Winter Sun. A tablet describes him as the “substance of his father”, Osiris, of whom he is an incarnation and also identical with him. Horus is a chaste deity, and “like Apollo has no amours. His part in the lower world is associated with the judgment. He introduces souls to his father, the judge” (Bonwick). An ancient hymn says of him, “By him the world is judged in that which it contains. Heaven and earth are under his immediate presence. He rules all human beings. The sun goes round according to his purpose. He brings forth abundance and dispenses it to all the earth. Everyone adores his beauty. Sweet is his love in us.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Hotri +

A priest who recites the hymns from the ''Rig Veda'', and makes oblations to the fire [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +