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Manasa Dhyanis +

The highest Pitris in the ''Purânas''; the Agnishwatthas, or Solar Ancestors of Man, those who made of Man a rational being, by incarnating in the senseless forms of semi‐ethereal flesh of the men of the third race. (See Vol. II. of ''Secret Doctrine''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manasas +

Those who endowed humanity with ''manas ''or intelligence, the immortal EGOS in men. (See [[Manas]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manasasarovara +

Phonetically pronounced ''Mansoravara''. A sacred lake in Tibet, in the Himalayas, also called ''Anavatapta''. Manasasarovara is the name of the tutelary deity of that lake and, according to popular folk‐ lore, is said to be a ''nâga, ''a “serpent”. This, translated esoterically, means a great adept, a sage. The lake is a great place of yearly pilgrimage for the Hindus, as the ''Vedas ''are claimed to have been written on its shores [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manava +

A land of ancient India; a Kalpa or Cycle. The name of a weapon used by Râma; meaning of “Manu” as,― [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manava Dharma Shastra +

— is the ancient code of law of, or by Manu [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manavadharmasastra +

*Text critically edited by J. Jolly. London: Trubner & Co., 1887. Trubner Oriental Series. - Transl. by G. Buhler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. ''SBE'' XXV. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#497|1:497]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites Julius Jolly's edition of the laws of Manu (1887) and Georg Bühler's translation in ''Sacred Books of the East'', volume XXV (1886). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#656|4:656]][[SMW::on]]). Also called ''Manusmriti'', a metrical Smriti associated with Manu and closely connected with the ''Mahabharata''. Zirkoff notes its 2,684 verses and cites J. Jolly’s critical edition (1887) and G. Bühler’s translation (1886). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#365|5:365-366]][[SMW::on]]). An early metrical Smriti closely related to the ''Mahabharata''. De Zirkoff lists J. Jolly’s critical edition (1887) and G. Bühler’s English translation in ''Sacred Books of the East'', volume 25 (1886). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#425|6:425]][[SMW::on]]). The most important and earliest of the metrical Smritis, prob. based on a Mānavadharmasūtra. Closely connected with the Mahābhārata, of which three books alone (iii. xii. xvi) contain as many as 260 of its 2684 ślokas (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#443|9:443]][[SMW::on]]).

Manchester Courier +

Manchester, England (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#479|8:479]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mandakini +

The heavenly ''Ganga ''or Ganges [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mandala +

A circle; also the ten divisions of the Vedas [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mandara +

The mountain used by the gods as a stick to churn the ocean of milk in the ''Purânas'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mandragora +

A plant whose root has the human form. In Occultism it is used by ''black ''magicians for various illicit objects, and some of the “left‐hand” Occultists make ''homunculi ''with it. It is commonly called ''mandrake'', and is supposed to cry out when pulled out of the ground [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mandrin, Louis +

A French outlaw (1724-1755), executed on 26 May 1755; one of the examples used by Abbé Roca in his controversy with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Abbe Roca - Reply of Abbe Roca to Madame Blavatskys Allegations against Christian Esotericism#391|BCW 9:391]]) +

Manes +

Benevolent “gods”, i.e., “spooks” of the lower world ''(Kâmaloka)''; the deified shades of the dead — of the ancient profane, and the “materialized”''ghosts ''of the modern Spiritualists, believed to be the souls of the departed, whereas, in truth, they are only their empty ''shells'', or images [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mang +

An Indian community historically associated with rope- and basket-making and village service. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Thunder Cloud with Silver Lining|BCW 2:141]]) +

Manichaeans +

A sect of the third century which believed in ''two ''eternal principles of good and evil; the former furnishing mankind with souls, and the latter with bodies. This sect was founded by a certain half‐Christian mystic named Mani, who gave himself out as the expected “Comforter”, the Messiah and Christ. Many centuries later, after the sect was dead, a Brotherhood arose, calling itself the “Manichees”, of a masonic character with several degrees of initiation. Their ideas were Kabalistic, but were misunderstood [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manjusri +

The God of Wisdom. In Esoteric philosophy a certain Dhyan Chohan [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manning, Thomas +

English traveller and student of Chinese who reached Lhasa in 1811; his account was published by Clements Markham in 1876 together with George Bogle's narrative. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#656|4:656-657]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mano +

The Lord of Light. ''Rex Lucis'', in the ''Codex Nazaræus. ''He is the Second “Life” of the second or manifested trinity “the heavenly life and light, and older than the architect of heaven and earth” (''Cod. Naz.'', Vol. I. p. 145). These trinities are as follows. The Supreme Lord of splendour and of light, luminous and refulgent, before which no other existed, is called Corona (the crown); Lord Ferho, the unrevealed life which existed in the former from eternity; and Lord Jordan — the spirit, the living water of grace (''Ibid. ''II pp. 45‐51). He is the one through whom alone we can be saved. These three constitute the trinity ''in abscondito''. The second trinity is composed of the three lives. The first is the similitude of Lord Ferho, through whom he has proceeded forth; and the second Ferho is the King of Light — MANO. The second life is ''Ish Amon ''(Pleroma), the vase of election, containing the visible thought of the ''Jordanus Maximus'' — the ''type ''(or its intelligible reflection), the prototype of the living water, who is the “spiritual Jordan”. (''Ibid. ''II., p. 211.) The third life, which is produced by the other two, is ABATUR (''Ab'', the Parent or Father). This is the mysterious and decrepit “Aged of the Aged”, the Ancient “''Senem sui obtegentem et grandævum mundi''.” This latter third Life is the Father of the Demiurge Fetahil, the Creator of the world, whom the Ophites call llda‐Baoth ''(q.v.)'', though Fetahil is the ''only‐ begotten one'', the reflection of the Father, Abatur, who begets him by looking into the “dark water”. Sophia Achamoth also begets her Son Ilda‐Baoth the ''Demiurge'', by looking into the chaos of matter. But the Lord Mano, “the Lord of loftiness, the Lord of all genii”, is higher than the Father, in this kabalistic ''Codex'' — one is purely spiritual, the other material. So, for instance, while Abatur’s “only‐begotten” one is the genius Fetahil, the Creator of the physical world, Lord Mano, the “Lord of Celsitude”, who is the son of Him, who is “the Father of all who preach the Gospel”, produces also an “only‐ begotten” one, the Lord Lehdaio, “a just Lord”. He is the Christos, the anointed, who pours out the “grace” of the Invisible Jordan, the Spirit of the ''Highest Crown. ''(See for further information ''Isis Unveiled. ''Vol. II., pp. 227, ''et. seq''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Manodhatu +

Lit., the “World of the mind”, meaning not only all our mental faculties, but also one of the divisions of the plane of mind. Each human being has his ''Manodhatu ''or plane of thought proportionate with the degree of his intellect and his mental faculties, beyond which he can go only by studying and developing his higher spiritual faculties in one of the higher spheres of thought [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Manomaya Kosha +

A Vedantic term, meaning the ''Sheath ''(''Kosha'') of the ''Manomaya'', an equivalent for fourth and fifth “principles” in man. In esoteric philosophy this “Kosha” corresponds to the dual ''Manas.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +