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Anunnaki +

Angels or Spirits of the Earth; terrestrial Elementals also [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anupadaka +

Anupapâdaka, also Aupapâduka; means parentless”, “self‐existing”, born without any parents or progenitors. A term applied to certain self‐ created gods, and the Dhyâni Buddhas [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anuttara +

Unrivalled, peerless. Thus ''Anuttara Bodhi ''means unexcelled or unrivalled intelligence”, ''Anuttara Dharma'', unrivalled law or religion, &c [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Anyamsam Aniyasam +

''A no‐ranîyânsam ''(in ''Bhagavad'' ''gîtâ''). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of the small ”. Applied to the universal deity, whose essence is everywhere [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aour +

The synthesis of the two aspects of ''astro‐ etheric ''light; and the ''od'' — the life‐giving, and the ''ob'' — the death‐giving light [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apam Napat +

A mysterious being, corresponding to the Fohat of the Occultists. It is both a Vedic and an Avestian name. Literally, the name means the “Son of the Waters” (of space, i.e., Ether), for in the ''Avesta ''Apâm Napât stands between the ''fire‐yazatas ''and the ''water‐ yazatas ''.(See ''Secret Doctrine, ''Vol. II., p. 400, note) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apana +

“Inspirational breath”; a practice in Yoga. ''Prana ''and ''apâna ''are the “expirational” and the “inspirational” breaths. It is called “vital wind” in ''Anugîta.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apap +

The symbolical Serpent of Evil. The Solar Boat and the Sun are the great Slayers of Apap in the ''Book of the Dead. ''It is Typhon, who having killed Osiris, incarnates in Apap, seeking to kill Horus. Like Taoer (or ''Ta‐ap‐oer'') the female aspect of Typhon, Apap is called “the devourer of the Souls”, and truly, since Apap symbolizes the animal body, as matter left soulless and to itself. Osiris, being, like all the other Solar gods, a type of the Higher Ego (Christos), Horus (his son) is the lower Manas or the ''personal ''Ego. On many a monument one can see Horus, helped by a number of dog‐headed gods armed with crosses and spears, killing Apap. Says an Orientalist : “The God Horus standing as conqueror upon the Serpent of Evil, may be considered as the earliest form of our well‐known group of St. George (who is Michael) and the Dragon, or holiness trampling down sin.” Draconianism did not die with the ancient religions, but has passed bodily into the latest Christian form of the worship [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aparinamin +

The Immutable and the Unchangeable, the reverse of Parinâmin, that which is subject to modification, differentiation or decay [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aparoksha +

''Direct perception.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apava +

Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for Âpava, like the latter, divides himself into two parts, male and female, and creates Vishnu, who creates Virâj, who creates Manu. The name is explained and interpreted in various ways in Brahmanical literature [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apavarga +

Emancipation from repeated births [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aphorisms (Buddha) +

No information available (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#414|8:414]][[SMW::on]]). +

Apis +

The “living deceased one” or Osiris incarnate in the sacred white Bull. Apis was the bull‐god that, on reaching the age of twenty‐eight, the age when Osiris was killed by Typhon — was put to death with great ceremony. It was not the Bull that was worshipped but the Osiridian symbol; just as Christians kneel now before the Lamb, the symbol of Jesus Christ, in their churches [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apocrypha +

Very erroneously explained and adopted as doubtful, or spurious. The word means simply ''secret, esoteric, hidden.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apollo Belvidere +

Of all the ancient statues of Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, called Phœbus, Helios, the radiant and the Sun, the best and most perfect is the one known by this name, which is in the Belvidere gallery of the Vatican at Rome. It is called the ''Pythian Apollo'', as the god is represented in the moment of his victory over the serpent Python. The statue was found in the ruins of Antium, in 1503 [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Apollonius Rhodius +

Greek epic poet and grammarian of Alexandria, pupil of Callimachus and author of the Argonautica, an epic in four books about the Argonauts (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#564|11:564]][[SMW::on]]). +

Apollonius of Tyana +

A wonderful philosopher born in Cappadocia about the beginning of the first century; an ardent Pythagorean, who studied the Phœnician sciences under Euthydemus; and Pythagorean philosophy and other studies under Euxenus of Heraclea. According to the tenets of this school he remained a vegetarian the whole of his long life, fed only on fruit and herbs, drank no wine, wore vestments made only of plant‐fibres, walked barefooted, and let his hair grow to its full length, as all the Initiates before and after him. He was initiated by the priests of the temple of Æsculapius (Asciepios) at Ægae, and learnt many of the “miracles” for healing the sick wrought by the god of medicine. Having prepared himself for a higher initiation by a silence of five years, and by travel, visiting Antioch, Ephesus, Pamphylia and other parts, he journeyed via Babylon to India, all his intimate disciples having abandoned him, as they feared to go to the “land of enchantments”. A casual disciple, Damis, however, whom he met on his way, accompanied him in his travels. At Babylon he was initiated by the Chaldees and Magi, according to Damis, whose narrative was copied by one named Philostratus a hundred years later. After his return from India, he showed himself a true Initiate, in that the pestilences and earthquakes, deaths of kings and other events, which he prophesied duly happened. At Lesbos, the priests of Orpheus, being jealous of him, refused to initiate him into their peculiar mysteries, though they did so several years later. He preached to the people of Athens and other cities the purest and noblest ethics, and the phenomena he produced were as wonderful as they were numerous and well attested. “How is it”, enquires Justin Martyr in dismay — ” how is it that the talismans (''telesmata'') of Apollonius have power, for they prevent, as we see, the fury of the waves and the violence of the winds, and the attacks of the wild beasts; and ''whilst our Lord’s miracles are preserved by tradition alone, ''those of Apollonius ''are most numerous and actually manifested in present facts?''”. (Quaest, XXIV.). But an answer is easily found to this in the fact that after crossing the Hindu Kush, Apollonius had been directed by a king to the ''abode of the Sages'', whose abode it may be to this day, by whom he was taught unsurpassed knowledge. His dialogues with the Corinthian Menippus indeed give us the esoteric catechism and disclose (when understood) many an important mystery of nature. Apollonius was the friend, correspondent and guest of kings and queens, and no marvellous or “magic” powers are better attested than his. At the end of his long and wonderful life he opened an esoteric school at Ephesus, and died aged almost one hundred years [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Apollonius of Tyana. The Philosopher of the First Century A.D. +

G. R. S. Mead’s work, published at London and Benares in 1901. The University Books reissue (New York, 1966) has a foreword by L. Shepard. It examines ancient evidence concerning Apollonius, including Philostratus’s biography. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Apollonius Tyanaeus|BCW 3:175]]) +

Aporrheta +

Secret instructions upon esoteric subjects given during the Egyptian and Grecian Mysteries [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +