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Jäger, Gustav +

German physician and zoologist; the bibliography cites ''Neuralanalyse'' (1881). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#653|4:653]][[SMW::on]]). +

Jörd +

In Northern Germany the goddess of the Earth, the same as Nerthus and the Scandinavian Freya or Frigg [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

K

K. Venkata Narasaya +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). +

Ka +

According to Max Muller, the interrogative pronoun “who?” — raised to the dignity of a deity without cause or reason. Still it has its esoteric significance and is a name of Brahmâ in his phallic character as generator or Prajâpati (''q.v.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kabah +

The name of the famous Mahommedan temple at Mecca, a great place of pilgrimage. The edifice is not large but very original; of a cubical form 23 X 24 cubits in length and breadth and 27 cubits high, with only one aperture on the East side to admit light. In the north‐east corner is the “black stone” of Kaaba, said to have been lowered down direct from heaven and to have been as white as snow, but subsequently it became black, owing to the sins of mankind The “white stone”, the reputed tomb of Ismael, is in the north side and the place of Abraham is to the east. If, as the Mahommedans claim, this temple was, at the prayer of Adam after his exile, transferred by Allah or Jehovah direct from Eden down to earth, then the “heathen” may truly claim to have far exceeded the divine primordial architecture in the beauty of their edifices [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kabalah +

The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kabalist +

From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of “secret science”, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The books of ''Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, ''and the ''Revelation ''of St. John, are purely kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or “magic”. History catches glimpses of famous kabalists ever since the eleventh century. The Mediæval ages, and even our own times, have had an enormous number of the most learned and intellectual men who were students of the Kabala (or Qabbalah, as some spell it). The most famous among the former were Paracelsus, Henry Khunrath, Jacob Böhmen, Robert Fludd, the two Van Helmonts, the Abbot John Trithemius, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardinal Nicolao Cusani, Jerome Carden, Pope Sixtus IV., and such Christian scholars as Raymond Lully, Giovanni Pico de la Mirandola, Guillaume Postel, the great John Reuchlin, Dr. Henry More, Eugenius Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), the erudite Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, Christian Knorr(Baron) von Rosenroth; then Sir Isaac Newton., Leibniz, Lord Bacon, Spinosa, etc., etc., the list being almost inexhaustible. As remarked by Mr. Isaac Myer, in his Qabbalah, the ideas of the Kabalists have largely influenced European literature. “Upon the practical Qabbalah, the Abbé ,de Villars (nephew of de Montfaucon) in 1670, published his celebrated satirical novel, ‘The Count de Gabalis’, upon which Pope based his ‘Rape of the Lock’. Qabbalism ran through the Mediæval poems, the ‘Romance of the Rose’, and permeates the writings of Dante.” No two of them, however, agreed upon the origin of the Kabala, the ''Zohar, Sepher Yetzirah, ''etc. Some show it as coming from the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, and even Seth; others from Egypt, others again from Chaldea. The system is certainly very old; but like all the rest of systems, whether religious or philosophical, the Kabala is derived directly from the primeval Secret Doctrine of the East; through the Vedas, the Upanishads, Orpheus and Thales, Pythagoras and the Egyptians. Whatever its source, its substratum is at any rate identical with that of all the other systems from the ''Book of the Dead ''down to the later Gnostics. The best exponents of the ''Kabala ''in the Theosophical Society were among the earliest, Dr. S. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, and Mr. G. Felt; and among the latest, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Mr. S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers (both of the Rosicrucian College) and a few others. (See “ Qabbalah “.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Kabalistic Faces +

These are Nephesch, Ruach and Neschamah, or the animal (vital), the Spiritual and the Divine Souls in man — Body, Soul and Mind [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kabbala Denudata +

Latin translations of several Zohar treatises by [[Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian|C. Knorr von Rosenroth]], published alongside the Hebrew text: volume I, Sulzbach, 1677–1678; volume II, Frankfurt, 1684. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#270|BCW 7:270]]) +

Kabiri +

Deities and very mysterious gods with the ancient nations, including the Israelites, some of whom — as Terah, Abram’s father — worshipped them under the name of ''Teraphim''. With the Christians, however, they are now devils, although the modern Archangels are the direct transformation of these same Kabiri. In Hebrew the latter name means “the mighty ones”, Gibborim. At one time all the deities connected with fire — whether they were divine, infernal or volcanic — were called Kabirian [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kadmon +

Archetypal man. See.“Adam Kadmon” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kadosh +

Consecrated, holy; also written '''Kodesh'''. Something set apart for temple worship. But between the etymological meaning of the word, and its subsequent significance in application to the ''Kadeshim ''(the “priests” set apart for certain temple rites) — there is an abyss. The words ''Kadosh ''and ''Kadeshim ''are used in II. Kings as rather an opprobrious name, for the ''Kadeshuth ''of the Bible were identical in their office and duties with the Nautch girls of some Hindu temples. They were Galli, the mutilated priests of the lascivious rites of Venus Astarte, who lived “by the house of the Lord”. Curiously enough the terms ''Kadosh, ''etc., were appropriated and used‐ by several degrees of Masonic knighthood [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kahatriya +

The second of the four castes into which the Hindus were originally divided [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kaikheshru, Manakji +

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

Kailasa +

In metaphysics “heaven”, the abode of gods; geographically a mountain range in the Himalayas, north of the Mansaravâra lake, called also lake ''Manasa.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kailem +

Lit., vessels or vehicles; the vases for the source of the Waters of Life ; used of the Ten Sephiroth, considered as the primeval ''nuclei ''of all Kosmic Forces. Some Kabalists regard them as manifesting in the universe through twenty‐two canals, which are represented by the twenty‐two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, thus making with the Ten Sephiroth thirty‐two paths of wisdom. [w. w. w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kaimarath +

The last of the race of the ''prehuman ''kings. He is identical with Adam Kadmon. A fabulous Persian hero [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kakodaemon +

The evil genius as opposed to ''Agathodæmon ''the good genius, or deity. A Gnostic term [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kala +

A measure of time; four hours, a period of thirty Kashthas. Time, fate; a cycle and a proper name, or title given to Yama, King of the nether world and Judge of the Dead [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Kalabhana +

The same as Taraka (See ''Secret Doctrine'', Vol. II., p. 382, foot‐note) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +