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Leviathan +

In biblical esotericism, Deity in its double manifestation of good and evil. The meaning may be found in the ''Zohar ''(II. 34''b''.) “Rabbi Shimeon said: The work of the beginning (of ‘creation’) the companions (candidates) study and understand it; but the ''little ones ''(the full or perfect Initiates) are those who understand the allusion to the work of the beginning ''by the Mystery of the Serpent of the Great Sea ''(to wit) ''Thanneen, Leviathan''.” (See also ''Qabbalah, ''by I. Myer.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lewes, George Henry +

The Appendix refers readers to BCW VIII, 463 for biographical information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#534|2:534]][[SMW::on]]). English author. Educ. at various schools. Studied medicine; spent two years in Germany studying the life and culture of that country (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#463|8:463]][[SMW::on]]). Vide Volume VIII, p. 463, for biographical data (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#442|9:442]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte, etc. 1857; also 1867 & 1871. Two Vols (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#580|11:580]][[SMW::on]]). +

Lewins, Robert +

Bibliographical references include: Auto-Centricism; or the Brain Theory of Life and Mind, London, 1888. Humanism versus Theism. London: W. Stewart & Co. 1887 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#463|8:463]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Auto-Centricism; or the Brain Theory of Life and Mind, London, 1888. Humanism versus Theism. London: W. Stewart & Co (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#442|9:442]][[SMW::on]]). +

Lha +

Spirits of the highest spheres, whence the name of Lhassa, the residence of the Dalaї‐Lama. The title of Lha is often given in Tibet to some ''Narjols ''(Saints and Yogi adepts) who have attained great occult powers [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lhagpa +

Mercury, the planet [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lhakang +

A temple; a crypt, especially a subterranean temple for mystic ceremonies [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lhamayin +

Elemental sprites of the lower terrestrial plane. Popular fancy makes of them demons and devils [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Liber Pontificalis +

A collection of lives of the bishops of Rome, originally from Peter to Nicholas I, with later continuations. First printed at Mainz in 1602; L. Duchesne edited it in two volumes at Paris in 1886–1892. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] finds no pope named Lucifer in it. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Whats in a Name#12|BCW 8:12]]) +

Lif +

Lif and Lifthresir, the only two human beings who were allowed to be present at the “Renewal of the World”. Being “pure and innocent and free from sinful desires, they are permitted to enter the world where peace now reigns”. The ''Edda ''shows them hidden in Hoddmimir’s forest dreaming the dreams of childhood while the last conflict was taking place. These two creatures, and the allegory in which they take part, are allusions to the few nations of the Fourth Root Race, who, surviving the great submersion of their continent and the majority of their Race, passed into the Fifth and continued their ethnical evolution in our present Human Race [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Life of Pythagoras +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] lists the Amsterdam edition of 1707 and compares [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s reference with H. Jennings’s The Rosicrucians, page 49 of the 1870 edition. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Stars and Numbers|BCW 3:195]]) +

Light +

Light was published by the London Spiritualist Alliance beginning in 1881. William Eglinton and other early London Theosophists were frequently mentioned in early issues. Publication was taken over in 1884 by the College of Pyschic Studies, founded by William Stainton Moses, and continues to this day. This was the preeminent spiritualist journal in England for more than a century, directed, unlike its contemporaries the Medium and Daybreak and The Two Worlds, more to the educated, less avowedly Christian and more urbane classes of London than to working-class or provincial audiences (IAPSOP). London journal of spiritual progress and psychical research, founded by E. Dawson Rogers; its first issue appeared on 7 January 1881. William Stainton Moses, writing as “M.A., Oxon.”, edited it for a period. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#385|5:385]][[SMW::on]]). London journal of spiritual progress and psychic research, founded by E. Dawson Rogers and edited for a time by W. Stainton Moses. Its first issue appeared on 7 January 1881. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#450|6:450]][[SMW::on]]). London journal of spiritual progress and psychic research, founded by E. Dawson Rogers. Its first issue appeared on 7 January 1881; W. Stainton Moses edited it for several years. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#403|7:403]][[SMW::on]]). London journal of spiritual progress and psychic research, founded by E. Dawson Rogers; its first issue appeared on 7 January 1881. W. Stainton Moses edited it for some years (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#429|10:429]][[SMW::on]]). In July–October 1883 published the controversy over Esoteric Buddhism: [[Wyld, George|G. Wyld]]’s letter, replies by [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]], E. W. Wade and F. Arundale, [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s response and a collective protest from Indian Theosophists. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic#329|BCW 5:329]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic#332|BCW 5:332]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic#334|BCW 5:334]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The St. James Gazette and Esoteric Buddhism#349|BCW 5:349]])

Light on the Path +

The first part was recorded by M. Collins and is attributed in Theosophical tradition to Hillarion Smerdis. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Hillarion - A Letter from Surb Ohannes|BCW 3:212]]) +

Light, Brothers of +

This is what the great authority on secret societies, Brother Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie IX., says of this Brotherhood. “A mystic order, ''Fratres Lucis, ''established in Florence in 1498. Among the members of this order were Pasqualis, Cagliostro, Swedenborg, St. Martin, Eliphaz Lévi, and many other eminent mystics. Its members were very much persecuted by the Inquisition. It is a small but compact body, the members being spread all over the world.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lila +

Sport, literally; or pastime. In the orthodox Hindu Scriptures it is explained that “the acts of the divinity are ''lila ''”, or sport [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lilith +

By Jewish tradition a demon who was the first wife of Adam, before Eve was created: she is supposed to have a fatal influence on mothers and newly‐ born infants. LIL is night, and LILITH is also the owl: and in mediæval works is a synonym of Lamia or female demon. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Lillie, Arthur +

Author of ''Buddha and Early Buddhism'', an illustrated work published in New York by Putnam's Sons in 1882. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#514|3:514]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites ''Buddha and Early Buddhism'' (1882). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#655|4:655]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''Buddha and Early Buddhism'' (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882), an illustrated volume of xiv, 256 pages. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#377|5:377]][[SMW::on]]). Author of ''Buddha and Early Buddhism'' (New York, 1882) and of a letter headed “Koot Hoomi” in ''Light'', 6 September 1884, page 366. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#440|6:440]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Buddha and Early Buddhism. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. xiv, 256 pp. ills. Buddhism in Christendom, or Jesus the Essene (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#464|8:464]][[SMW::on]]).

Lil‐in +

The children of Lilith, and their descendants. “Lilith is the Mother of the ''Shedim ''and the ''Muquishim ''(the ensnarers)”. Every class of the Lil‐ins, therefore, are devils in the demonology of the Jews. (See ''Zohar ''ii. 268''a''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Limbus Major +

A term used by Paracelsus to denote primordial (alchemical) matter; “Adam’s earth” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Limousin, Charles +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], citing A. L. Caillet, identifies Aleph as C. Limousin, editor of L’Acacia and author of La Doctrine théosophique et les diverses organisations théosophiques, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] replied. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Fausses Conceptions#48|BCW 8:48]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Misconceptions#70|BCW 8:70]]) +

Lindsay, James Ludovic +

Astronomer, collector and bibliophile (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. He founded the Dunecht observatory and donated its equipment and library to the nation in 1888. His occult interests are mentioned in a letter from K. H. to A. P. Sinnett received in February 1881. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#534|2:534-535]][[SMW::on]]). +