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Gaffarillus +

An Alchemist and philosopher who lived in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the first philosopher known to maintain that every natural object (e.g., plants, living creatures, etc.), when burned, retained its form in its ashes and that it could be raised again from them. This claim was justified by the eminent chemist Du Chesne, and after him Kircher, Digby and Vallemont have assured themselves of the fact, by demonstrating that the astral forms of burned plants could be raised from their ashes. A receipt for raising such astral phantoms of flowers is given in a work of Oetinger, ''Thoughts on the Birth and Generation of Things.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Aristobulus +

An Alexandrian writer, and an obscure philosopher. A Jew who tried to prove that Aristotle explained the esoteric thoughts of Moses [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Collemann, Jean +

An Alsatian, born at Orleans, according to K. Mackenzie; other accounts say he was a Jew, who found favour owing to his astrological studies, with both Charles VII. and Louis XI., and that he had a bad influence on the latter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nagarjuna +

An Arhat, a hermit (a native of Western India) converted to Buddhism by Kapimala and the fourteenth Patriarch, and now regarded as a Bodhisattva‐ Nirmanakaya. He was famous for his dialectical subtlety in metaphysical arguments; and was the first teacher of the Amitâbha doctrine and a representative of the Mahayâna School. Viewed as the greatest philosopher of the Buddhists, he was referred to as “one of the four suns which illumine the world”. He was born 223 B.C, and going to China after his conversion converted in his turn the whole country to Buddhism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Dhruva +

An Aryan Sage, now the Pole Star. A ''Kshatriya ''(one of the warrior caste) who became through religious austerities a ''Rishi, ''and was, for this reason, raised by Vishnu to this eminence in the skies. Also called ''Grah‐Âdhâr ''or “the pivot of the planets” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Khepra +

An Egyptian god presiding over rebirth and transmigration. He is represented with a scarabæus instead of a head [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Iachus +

An Egyptian physician, whose memory, according to Ælian, was venerated for long centuries on account of his wonderful occult knowledge. Iachus is credited with having stopped epidemics simply by ''certain fumigations'', and cured diseases by making his patients inhale herbs [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Number Nip +

An Elf, the mighty King of the Riesengebirge, the most powerful of the genii in Scandinavian and German folk‐lore [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Butler +

An English name assumed by an adept, a disciple of some Eastern Sages, of whom many fanciful stories are current. It is said for instance, that Butler was captured during his travels in 1629, and sold into captivity. He became the slave of an Arabian philosopher, a great alchemist, and finally escaped, robbing his Master of a large quantity of red powder. According to more trustworthy records, only the last portion of this story is true. Adepts who can be robbed without knowing it would be unworthy of the name. Butler or rather the person who assumed this name, ''robbed ''his “Master” (whose free disciple he was) ''of the secret of transmutation, ''and abused of his knowledge—i.e., sought to turn it to his personal profit, but was speedily punished for it. After performing many wonderful cures by means of his “stone (i.e., the occult knowledge of an initiated adept), and producing extraordinary phenomena, to some of which Val Helmont, the famous Occultist and Rosicrucian, was witness, not for the benefit of men but his own vain glory, Butler was imprisoned in the Castle of Viloord, in Flanders, and passed almost the whole of his life in confinement. He lost his powers and died miserable and unknown. Such is the fate of every Occultist who abuses his power or desecrates the sacred science [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Epoptes +

An Initiate. One who has passed his last degree of initiation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Chabrat Zereh Aur Bokher +

An Order of the Rosicrucian stock, whose members study the Kabbalah and Hermetic sciences; it admits both sexes, and has many grades of instruction. The members meet in private, and the very existence of the Order is generally unknown. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Apsaras +

An Undine or Water‐Nymph, from the Paradise or Heaven of Indra. The Apsarases are in popular belief the “wives of the gods” and called ''Surânganâs'', and by a less honourable term, ''Sumad‐âtmajâs ''or the “daughters of pleasure”, for it is fabled of them that when they appeared at the churning of the Ocean neither Gods (Suras) nor Demons (Asuras) would take them for legitimate wives. Urvasi and several others of them are mentioned in the ''Vedas''. In Occultism they are certain “sleep‐producing” aquatic plants, and inferior forces of nature [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Eurasians +

An abbreviation of “European‐Asians”. The mixed coloured races: the children of the white fathers and the dark mothers of India, or ''vice versa.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Jivanmukta +

An adept or yogi who has reached the ultimate state of holiness, and separated himself from matter; a Mahatma, or ''Nirvânee'', a “dweller in bliss” and emancipation. Virtually one who has reached Nirvâna during life [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lully, Raymond +

An alchemist, adept and philosopher, born in the 13th century, on the island of Majorca. It is claimed for him that, in a moment of need, he made for King Edward III. of England several millions of gold “rose nobles”, and thus helped him to carry on war victoriously. He founded several colleges for the study of Oriental languages, and Cardinal Ximenes was one of his patrons and held him in great esteem, as also Pope John XXI. He died in 1314, at a good old age. Literature has preserved many wild stories about Raymond Lully, which would form a most extraordinary romance. He was the elder son of the Seneshal of Majorca and inherited great wealth from his father [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Boodhasp +

An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the founder of the esoteric school of Neo‐Sabeism, and whose secret rite of baptism passed bodily into the Christian rite of the same name. For almost three centuries before our era, Buddhist monks overran the whole country of Syria, made their way into the Mesopotamian valley and visited even Ireland. The name ''Ferho ''and ''Faho ''of the Codex Nazaraeus is but a corruption of Fho, Fo and Pho, the name which the Chinese, Tibetans and even Nepaulese often give to Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Kamea +

An amulet, generally a magic square [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Book of the Dead +

An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of ancient mummies [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Marcionites +

An ancient Gnostic Sect founded by Marcion who was a devout Christian as long as no dogma of human creation came to mar the purely transcendental, and metaphysical concepts, and the ''original ''beliefs of the early Christians. Such primitive beliefs were those of Marcion. He denied the ''historical ''facts (as now found in the Gospels) of Christ’s birth, incarnation and passion, and also the resurrection of the body of Jesus, maintaining that such statements were simply the ''carnalization ''of metaphysical allegories and symbolism, and a degradation of the true spiritual idea. Along with all the other Gnostics, Marcion accused the “Church Fathers”, as Irenæus himself complains, of “framing their (Christian) doctrine according to the capacity of their hearers, fabling blind things for the blind, according to their blindness; for the dull, according to their dulness: for those in error, according to their errors.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hermas +

An ancient Greek writer of whose works only a few fragments are now extant [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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