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Masonic Monthly +

London periodical listed for July-December 1882 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#429|10:429]][[SMW::on]]). +

Masonic Review, The +

The journal was published by Cornelius Moore. It featured material on the history of Freemasonry, biographies of prominent figures of the order, and discussions of ritual and lodge organization. Monthly Masonic magazine published at Cincinnati from 1845 and edited by Cornelius Moore and H. D. Moore; the appendix also gives the title ''Masonic Journal of Louisville, Ky.''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#403|7:403]][[SMW::on]]). +

Masorah +

The name is especially applied to a collection of notes, explanatory, grammatical and critical, which are found on the margin of ancient Hebrew MSS., or scrolls of the Old Testament. The Masoretes were also called Melchites [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Masoretic Points +

Or, as the system is now called, ''Masóra ''from ''Massoreh ''or ''Massoreth, ''“tradition”, and ''Mâsar'', to “hand down”. The Rabbins who busied themselves with the ''Masorah, ''hence called Masorites, were also the inventors of the Masoretic points, which are supposed to give the vowelless words of the Scriptures their true pronunciation, by the addition of points representing vowels to the consonants. This was the invention of the learned and cunning Rabbins of the School of Tiberias (in the ninth century of our era), who, by doing so, have put an entirely new construction on the chief words and names in the Books of Moses, and made thereby confusion still more confounded. The truth is, that this scheme has only added additional blinds to those already existing in the ''Pentateuch ''and other works [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Maspero, Gaston +

The bibliography lists studies of Egyptian grammar and history, ''Les contes populaires de l’Égypte ancienne'' and a guide to the Bulaq Museum. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#382|7:382]][[SMW::on]]). Accompanied [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] on a visit to the Bulaq Museum in November 1884; I. Cooper-Oakley left an account of the visit. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxix|BCW 6:xxxix]]) +

Massey G. - The Name and Nature of the Christ +

An essay by [[Massey, Gerald|G. Massey]] in the Agnostic Annual for 1888, pp. 9–14; the source of several extracts used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] concerning the names Chrest and Christ. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#223|BCW 8:223,231]]) +

Massey, Charles Carleton +

An English barrister and writer on spiritualism and metaphysics. He helped found the Theosophical Society in 1875, became the first president of its British branch in 1878, and was a founding member of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. The appendix refers to his biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#657|4:657]][[SMW::on]]). Elected president of the Theosophical Society in England in August 1882, succeeding [[Wyld, George|G. Wyld]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxv|BCW 4:xxv]]) His objections to the teaching on Devachan were addressed in The Theosophist in August 1883. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] associates the transmission of the replies with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and allows that she may have written portions of the text. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Devachan. Western Stricture and Eastern Version#70|BCW 5:70]]) Explained his resignation from the Theosophical Society in Light on 26 July 1884, chiefly in relation to the Kiddle incident. His action is referred to in the petition for the formation of the London Lodge’s Inner Group. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Petition to the Masters for the Formation of an Inner Group in the London Lodge#250|BCW 6:250]])

Massey, Gerald +

English poet, freethinker and writer on comparative mythology. His books include ''A Book of the Beginnings'' and ''The Natural Genesis'', which Helena Petrovna Blavatsky discussed in her writings. Author of ''A Book of the Beginnings'', published in London by Williams and Norgate in two volumes in 1881. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#515|3:515]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix refers to his biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#657|4:657]][[SMW::on]]). English poet and Egyptologist. He was the son of Wm. Massey, a canal boatman, and his wife Mary. His father brought up a large family on a weekly wage of some ten shillings (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#465|8:465-467]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: “The Name and Nature of the Christ,” in the Agnostic Annual of 1888. The Natural Genesis. London: Williams and Norgate, 1883. 2 vols. Vide Volume VIII, pp. 465-67, for comprehensive sketch about the author and his work (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#444|9:444]][[SMW::on]]). See Vol. VIII, pp. 465-67, for biogr. data (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#581|11:581]][[SMW::on]]). In a letter to Lucifer (October 1887), he answered [[Wyld, George|G. Wyld]] by pointing to contradictions between Gospel sayings. The editors invited opponents to respond but rejected Massey’s exclusively exoteric interpretation and announced an esoteric treatment of the New Testament. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#219|BCW 8:219,221,223]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Notes on Abbe Rocas Esotericism of Christian Dogma#382|BCW 8:382-384]])

Massinger, Philip +

English dramatist, educated at Oxford; prolific writer of plays which had generally an obvious moral intention. In the art of construction he had hardly any rivals in his days. The passage quoted by H.P.B. has not been identified (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#581|11:581]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mastaba +

The upper portion of an Egyptian tomb, which, say the Egyptologists, consisted always of three parts: namely (1) the ''Mastaba ''or memorial chapel above ground, (2) a Pit from twenty to ninety feet in depth, which led by a passage, to (3) the ''Burial Chamber'', where stood the ''Sarcophagus'', containing the ''mummy ''sleeping its sleep of long ages. Once the latter interred, the pit was filled up and the entrance to it concealed. Thus say the Orientalists, who divide the last resting place of the mummy on almost the same principles as theologians do man — into body, soul, and spirit or mind. The fact is, that these tombs of the ancients were symbolical like the rest of their sacred edifices, and that this symbology points directly to the septenary division of man. But in death the order is reversed; and while the Mastaba with its scenes of daily life painted on the walls, its ''table of offerings, ''to the ''Larva, ''the ''ghost'', or “Linga Sarira”, was a memorial raised to the two Principles and Life which had quitted that which was a lower ''trio ''on earth; the Pit, the Passage, the Burial Chambers and the mummy in the Sarcophagus, were the objective symbols raised to the two perishable “principles”, the ''personal ''mind and Kama, and the three imperishable, the higher Triad, now merged into one. This “One” was the Spirit of the Blessed now resting in the Happy Circle of Aanroo [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Master, Rustamji Ardeshir +

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

Master, Rustomjee Ardeshir +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Matari Svan +

An ærial being shown in ''Rig‐Veda ''bringing down ''agni ''or fire to the ''Bhrigus''; who are called “The Consumers”, and are described by the Orientalists as “a class of mythical beings who belonged to the middle or ærial class of gods”. In Occultism the Bhrigus are simply the “Salamanders” of the Rosicrucians and Kabalists [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Materializations +

In Spiritualism the word signifies the objective appearance of the so‐called “Spirits” of the dead, who reclothe themselves occasionally in matter; ''i.e.'', they form for themselves out of the materials at hand, which are found in the atmosphere and the emanations of those present, a temporary body hearing the human likeness of the defunct as he appeared, when alive. Theosophists accept the phenomenon of “materialization”; but they reject the theory that it is produced by “ Spirits”, ''i.e.'', the immortal principles of the disembodied persons. Theosophists hold that when the phenomenon is genuine — and it is a fact of rarer occurrence than is generally believed — it is produced by the ''larvæ'', the ''eidola ''or Kamalokic “ghosts” of dead personalities. (See [[Kamadhatu|“Kâmadhâtu”]], [[Kamaloka|“Kâmaloka”]] and [[Kamarupa|“Kâmarupa”]].) As Kâmaloka is on the earth plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which reason it is concealed from our normal sight, the occasional apparition of such shells is as natural as that of electric balls and other atmospheric phenomena. Electricity as a fluid, or atomic matter (for Theosophists hold with Maxwell that it ''is ''atomic), though invisible, is ever present in the air, and manifests under various shapes, but only when certain conditions are there to “materialize” the fluid, when it passes from its own on to our plane and makes itself objective. Similarly with the ''eidola ''of the dead. They are present, around us, but being on another plane do not see us any more than we see them. But whenever the strong desires of living men and the conditions furnished by the abnormal constitutions of mediums are combined together, these ''eidola ''are drawn — nay, ''pulled ''down from their plane on to ours and made objective. This is ''Necromancy ''; it does no good to the dead, and great harm to the living, in addition to the fact that it interferes with a law of nature. The occasional materialization of the “astral bodies” or ''doubles ''of living persons is quite another matter. These “astrals” are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon‐like, our own “Elementaries”, along with those of the disembodied and cosmic Elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. In short, at the so‐called “materialization” seances it is those present and the medium, who ''create ''the peculiar likeness of the ''apparitions''. Independent “apparitions” belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. Materializations are also called “form‐manifestations” and “portrait statues”. To call them materialized spirits is inadmissible, for they are not spirits but animated portrait‐statues, indeed [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Mathadhipatis +

Heads of various religious Brotherhoods in India, High Priests in Monasteries [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor +

British occultist and translator of ''The Kabbalah Unveiled''. One of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Responded to the review of his translation in ''The Theosophist''. His ''The Kabbalah Unveiled'' was published by George Redway at London in 1887; the bibliography refers also to its account under ''Zohar''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#382|7:382]][[SMW::on]]). His Kabbalah Unveiled contains English translations of books of the Zohar, including the Book of Concealed Mystery (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#467|8:467-468]][[SMW::on]]). +

Matra +

The shortest period of time as applied to the duration of sounds, equal to the twinkling of the eye [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Matripadma +

The mother‐lotus; the womb of Nature [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Matris +

“Mothers,” the divine mothers. Their number is seven. They are the female aspects and powers of the gods [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Matronethah +

Identical with ''Malcuth'', the tenth Sephira. ''Lit''., Matrona is the “inferior mother” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +