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Memories of an Active Life +

Memoirs of [[Flint, Charles Ranlett|C. R. Flint]] (1923), containing an account of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s lawsuit and the Hiraf group ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - H.P.Bs Lawsuit in America#85|BCW 1:85]]). +

Memrab +

In the Kabala, “the voice of the will” i.e., the collective forces of nature in activity, called the “Word”, or Logos, by the Jewish Kabalists [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Menander +

Early Gnostic teacher about whom little is known; Zirkoff's entry quotes the account of G. R. S. Mead (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#581|11:581-582]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mendaeans +

Also called ''Sabians, ''and St. John Christians. The latter is absurd, since, according to all accounts, and even their own, they have nothing at all to do with Christianity, ''which they abominate''. The modern sect of the Mendæans is widely scattered over Asia Minor and elsewhere, and is rightly believed by several Orientalists to be a direct surviving relic of the Gnostics. For as explained in the ''Dictionnaire des Apocryphes ''by the Abbé Migrie (art. “Le Code Nazaréan” vulgaire‐ment appele “''Livre d’Adam''”), the Mendæans (written in French ''Mandaїtes'', which name they pronounce as ''Mandai'') “properly signifies science, knowledge or Gnosis. Thus it is the equivalent of Gnostics” (''loc. cit''. note p. 3). As the above cited work shows, although many travellers have spoken of a sect whose followers are variously named Sabians, St. John’s Christians and Mendæans, and who are scattered around ''Schat‐Etarab ''at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates (principally at Bassorah, Hoveїza, Korna, etc.), it was Norberg who was the first to point out a tribe belonging to the same sect established in Syria. And they are the most interesting of all. This tribe, some 14,000 or 15,000 in number, lives at a day’s march east of Mount Lebanon, principally at Elmerkah, (Lata‐Kieh). They call themselves indifferently Nazarenes and Galileans, as they originally come to Syria from Galilee. They claim that their religion is the same as that of St. John the Baptist, and that it has not changed one bit since his day. On festival days they clothe them selves in camel’s skins, sleep on camel’s skins, and eat locusts and honey as did their “Father, St. John the Baptist”. Yet they call Jesus Christ an ''impostor, a false Messiah, ''and Nebso (or the planet Mercury in its evil side), and show him as a production of the Spirit of the “seven badly‐ disposed stellars” (or planets). See ''Codex Nazaræus, ''which is their Scripture [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Mendeleyev, Dmitriy Ivanovich +

Russian chemist, best known for his work on the ''Periodic Law''. His Periodic Tables of Elements embodies in its conception an aspect of the Sevenfold Nature of the Universe; it has stood the test of time and was fully supported by the most recent developments of atomic physics. H.P.B. herself refers to it on various occasions throughout her writings [Cf. ''The Secret Doctrine'', II, 627]. His best known work is ''The Principles of Chemistry'' (1868-70). Peculiarly, Mendeleyev assumed a very prejudiced attitude towards Spiritualistic manifestations. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#498|1:498-499]][[SMW::on]]). +

Mendes +

The name of the ''demon‐goat, ''alleged by the Church of Rome to have been ''worshipped ''by the Templars and other Masons. But this goat was a myth created by the evil fancy of the ''odium theologicum. ''There never was such a creature, nor was its worship known among Templars or their predecessors, the Gnostics. The god of Mendes, or the Greek Mendesius, a name given to Lower Egypt in pre‐Christian days, was the ram‐headed god Ammon, the living and holy spirit of ''Ra'', the life‐giving sun; and this led certain Greek authors into the error of affirming that the Egyptians called the “goat” (or the ''ram''‐ headed god) himself, Mendes. Ammon was for ages the chief deity of Egypt, the supreme god; ''Amoun‐Ra ''the “hidden god”, or ''Amen ''(the concealed) the ''Self''‐''engendered ''who is “his own father and his own son”. Esoterically, he was ''Pan'', the god of nature or nature personified, and probably the cloven foot of Pan the ''goat‐footed'', helped to produce the error of this god being a goat. As Ammon’s shrine was at ''Pa‐bi‐neb‐tat, ''“the dwelling of ''Tat ''or Spirit, Lord of Tat” (''Bindedi ''in the Assyrian inscriptions), the Greeks first corrupted the name into ''Bendes ''and then into ''Mendes ''from “Mendesius”. The “error” served ecclesiastical purposes too well to be made away with, even when recognized [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mendis, H. J. +

Translator of the Sinhalese Subhasita of Alagiawanna Mohottala into English. +

Menelao, Pasquale +

President of the Ionian Theosophical Branch at Corfu. His presidential address appeared in ''The Theosophist'' in September 1880. The unexplained number “1907” in the later spreadsheet index is not used as a date of birth or death. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] supplied a closing comment on his inaugural address presenting the charter to the members. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Closing Note to Address of the President of the Ionian Theosophical Branch at Corfu|BCW 2:442]]) +

Mensambulism +

A word coined by some French Kabalists to denote the phenomenon of “table turning” from the Latin ''mensa, ''a table [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Meracha phath +

Used of the “breathing” of the divine Spirit when in the act of hovering over the waters of space before creation (See ''Siphra Dzeniutha'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mercavah +

A chariot: the Kabalists say that the Supreme after he had established the Ten Sephiroth used them as a chariot or throne of glory on which to descend upon the souls of men [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Meredith, Evan Powell +

The bibliography cites his correspondence with J. L. Francklin on the divine origin of Christianity (1866). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#658|4:658]][[SMW::on]]). +

Merodach +

God of Babylon, the Bel of later times. He is the son of Davkina, goddess of the lower regions, or the earth, and of Hea, God of the Seas and Hades with the Orientalists; but esoterically and with the Akkadians, the Great God of Wisdom, “he who resurrects the dead”. Hea, Ea, Dagon or Oannes and Merodach are one [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Meru +

The name of an alleged mountain in the centre (or “navel”) of the earth where Swarga, the Olympus of the indians, is placed. It contains the “cities” of the greatest gods and the abodes of various Devas. Geographically accepted, it is an unknown mountain north of the Himalayas. In tradition, Meru was the “ Land of Bliss” of the earliest Vedic times. It is also referred to as ''Hemâdri ''“the golden mountain”, ''Ratnasânu'', “jewel peak”, ''Karnikâchala'', “lotus‐ mountain”, and ''Amarâdri ''and ''Deva‐ parvata'', “the mountain of the gods” The Occult teachings place it in the very centre of the North Pole, pointing it out as the site of the first continent on our earth, after the solidification of the globe [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mervyn, Henry +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol8|vol. 8]] (1886–1887). +

Meshia +

The Adam and Eve of the Zoroastrians, in the early Persian system; the first human couple [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton +

The famous physician who rediscovered and applied practically that magnetic fluid in man which was called animal magnetism and since then Mesmerism. He was born in Schwaben, in 1734 and died in 1815. He was an initiated member of the Brotherhoods of the ''Fratres Lucis ''and of Lukshoor (or Luxor), or the Egyptian Branch of’ the latter. It was the Council of “Luxor” which selected him — according to the orders of the “Great Brotherhood” — to act in the XVIIIth century as their usual pioneer, sent in the last quarter of every century to enlighten a small portion of the Western nations in occult lore. It was St. Germain who supervised the development of events in this case; and later Cagliostro was commissioned to help, but having made a series of mistakes, more or less fatal, he was ''recalled. ''Of these three men who were at first regarded as quacks, Mesmer is already vindicated. The justification of the two others will follow in the next century. Mesmer founded the “Order of Universal Harmony” in 1783, in which presumably only animal magnetism was taught, but which in reality expounded the tenets of Hippocrates, the methods of the ancient ''Asclepieia, ''the Temples of Healing, and many other occult sciences [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Meston, Archibald +

Scottish-born Australian journalist, explorer and politician who wrote extensively about Queensland and its Aboriginal peoples. His proposals influenced Queensland’s restrictive Aboriginal protection legislation, and as southern protector he oversaw forced removals to missions and reserves. +

Metamon, Paulos +

Coptic mystic with whom [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] associated in Cairo. He disapproved of her establishment of a spiritualist society ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xxxviii|BCW 1:xxxviii,xlix]]). +

Metamorphoses (Ovid) +

A poem by Ovid. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Friendly Chastisement#117|BCW 4:117]]) +