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Notes and Queries +

London periodical intended as a medium of communication among writers, artists, antiquaries and genealogists, published in successive series. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Noumenon +

The true essential nature of being as distinguished from the illusive objects of sense [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nous +

A Platonic term for the Higher Mind or Soul. It means Spirit as distinct from animal Soul — ''psyche''; divine consciousness or mind in man: ''Nous ''was the designation given to the Supreme deity (third ''logos'') by Anaxagoras. Taken from Egypt where it was called ''Nout'', it was adopted by the Gnostics for their first conscious Æon which, with the Occultists, is the third ''logos'', cosmically, and the third “principle” (from above) or ''manas, ''in man. (See [[Nout]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nout +

In the Pantheon of the Egyptians it meant the “One‐ only‐One”, because they did not proceed in their popular or exoteric religion higher than the third manifestation which radiates from the ''Unknown ''and the ''Unknowable'', the first unmanifested and the second ''logoi ''in the esoteric philosophy of every nation. The Nous of Anaxagoras was the ''Mahat ''of the Hindu Brahmâ, ''the first manifested ''Deity — “the Mind or Spirit self‐potent”; this creative Principle being of course the ''primum mobile ''of everything in the Universe — its Soul and Ideation. (See “Seven Principles” in man.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Novikova, Olga Alekseevna +

Russian writer (1840-1924), née Kireyeva, who lived for many years in England and advocated closer Anglo-Russian relations. A friend of H. P. Blavatsky, she wrote in English and Russian and used the initials O. K. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#441|6:441-442]][[SMW::on]]). +

Novoye Vremya +

St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal political paper of Russia, founded 1868 by Kirkor and Yumatov. Taken over by A. S. Suvorin in 1876. Liberal. Ceased publication soon after the Revolution (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#461|9:461]][[SMW::on]]). +

Nripendra Narayan +

Maharaja of Cooch Behar. Sent Henry Steel Olcott a telegram announcing a local branch of the Theosophical Society in August 1890. +

Nubar Pasha +

[[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] attended a dinner with him during her stay in Cairo in November 1884. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxviii|BCW 6:xxxviii]]) +

Number Nip +

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

Nuns +

There were nuns in ancient Egypt as well as in Peru and old Pagan Rome. They were the “virgin brides” of their respective (Solar) gods. Says Herodotus, “The brides of Ammon are excluded from all intercourse with men”, they are “the brides of Heaven”; and virtually they became dead to the world, just as they are now. In Peru they were “Pure Virgins of the Sun”, and the ''Pallakists ''of Ammon‐Ra are referred to in some inscriptions as the “divine spouses”. “The sister of Oun‐nefer, the chief prophet of Osiris, during the reign of Rameses II.,” is described as “Taia, Lady Abbess of Nuns” (Mariett e Bey). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nuntis +

The “Sun‐Wolf”, a name of the planet Mercury. He is the Sun’s attendant, ''Solaris luminis particeps''. (See ''Secret Doct''. II. 28.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nyaya +

One of the six ''Darshanas ''or schools of Philosophy in India; a system of Hindu logic founded by the Rishi Gautama [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nyayasutra +

Work of Gotama Akshapada, also called ''Nyayadarsana''. Zirkoff cites the text and translation by Satisa C. Vidyabhushana in volume 8 of ''Sacred Books of the Hindus'' (Allahabad, 1913). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#366|5:366]][[SMW::on]]). +

Nyima +

The Sun — astrologically [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nyingpo +

The same as Alaya, “the World Soul”; also called ''Tsang'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nâga +

Literally “Serpent”. The name in the Indian Pantheon of the Serpent or Dragon Spirits, and of the inhabitants of Pâtâla, hell. But as Pâtâla means the ''antipodes'', and was the name given to America by the ancients, who knew and visited that continent before Europe had ever heard of it, the term is probably akin to the Mexican Nagals the (now) sorcerers and medicine men. The Nagas are the Burmese ''Nats'', serpent‐gods, or “dragon demons”. In Esotericism, however, and as already stated, this is a nick‐name for the “wise men” or adepts in China and Tibet, the “Dragons.” are regarded as the titulary deities of the world, and of various spots on the earth, and the word is explained as meaning adepts, yogis, and narjols. The term has simply reference to their great knowledge and wisdom. This is also proven in the ancient Sûtras and Buddha’s biographies. The Nâga is ever a wise man, endowed with extraordinary magic powers, in South and Central America as in India, in Chaldea as also in ancient Egypt. In China the “worship” of the Nâgas was widespread, and it has become still more pronounced since Nâgarjuna (the “great Nâga”, the “great adept” literally), the fourteenth Buddhist patriarch, visited China. The “Nâgasʺ are regarded by the Celestials as “the tutelary Spirits or gods of the five regions or the four points of the compass and the centre, as the guardians of the five lakes and four oceans” ('''Eitel'''). This, traced to its origin and translated esoterically, means that the five continents and their five root‐races had always been under the guardianship of “terrestrial deities”, i.e., Wise Adepts. The tradition that Nâgas washed Gautama Buddha at his birth, protected him and guarded the relics of his body when dead, points again to the Nâgas being only wise men, Arhats, and no monsters or Dragons. This is also corroborated by the innumerable stories of the conversion of Nâgas to Buddhism. The Nâga of a lake in a forest near Râjagriha and many other “Dragons” were thus converted by Buddha to the good Law [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

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O +

The fifteenth letter and fourth vowel in the English alphabet. It has no equivalent in Hebrew, whose alphabet with one exception is vowelless. As a numeral, it signified with the ancients 11; and with a dash on it 11,000. With other ancient people also, it was a very sacred letter. In the Dêvanâgari, or the characters of the gods, its significance is varied, but there is no space to give instances [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oak, sacred +

With the Druids the oak was a most holy tree, and so also with the ancient Greeks, if we can believe Pherecydes and his cosmogony, who tells us of the sacred oak “in whose luxuriant branches a serpent (i.e., wisdom) dwelleth, and cannot be dislodged”. Every nation had its own sacred trees, pre‐eminently the Hindus [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oannes +

Musarus Oannes, the Annedotus, known in the Chaldean “legends”, transmitted through Berosus and other ancient writers, as Dag or Dagon, the “man‐ fish”. Oannes came to the early Babylonians as a reformer and an instructor. Appearing from the Erythræan Sea, he brought to them civilisation, letters and sciences, law, astronomy and religion, teaching them agriculture, geometry and the arts in general. There were Annedoti who came after him, five in number (our race being ''the fifth '') — “all like Oannes inform and teaching the same”; but Musarus Oannes was the first to appear, and this he did during the reign of Ammenon, the third of the ten antediluvian Kings whose dynasty ended with Xisuthrus, the Chaldean Noah (See “Xisuthrus”). Oannes was “an ''animal ''endowed with reason whose body was that of a fish, but ''who had a human head under the fish’s with feet also below, similar to those of a man, ''subjoined to the fish’s tail, and ''whose voice and language too were articulate ''and human” (Polyhistor and Apollodorus). This gives the key to the allegory. It points out Oannes, as a ''man ''and a “priest”, an ''Initiate. ''Layard showed long ago (See ''Nineveh'') that the “fish’s head” was simply a head gear, the ''mitre ''worn by priests and gods, made in the form of a fish’s head, and which in a very little modified form is what we see even now on the heads of high Lamas and Romish Bishops. Osiris had such a mitre. The fish’s tail is simply the train of a long stiff mantle as depicted on some Assyrian tablets, the form being seen reproduced in the sacerdotal gold cloth garment worn during service by the modern Greek priests. This allegory of Oannes, the Annedotus, reminds us of the “Dragon” and “Snake‐ Kings “; the ''Nâgas ''who in Buddhist legends instruct people in wisdom on lakes and rivers, and end by becoming converts to the good Law and ''Arhats''. The meaning is evident. The “ fish” is an old and very suggestive symbol in the Mystery‐language, as is also “water”. Ea or Hea was the god of the sea and Wisdom, and the sea serpent was one of his emblems, his priests being “serpents “ or Initiates. Thus one sees why Occultism places Oannes and the other Annedoti in the group of those ancient “adepts” who were called “marine” or “water dragons” — Nâgas. Water typified their human origin (as it is a symbol of earth and matter and also of purification), in distinction to the “fire Nâgas” or the immaterial, Spiritual Beings, whether celestial Bodhisattvas or Planetary Dhyânis, also regarded as the instructors of mankind. The hidden meaning becomes clear to the Occultist, once he is told that “this being (Oannes) was accustomed to pass the day among men, teaching; and when the Sun had set, he retired again into the sea, passing the night in the deep, “''for he was amphibious''”, i.e., he belonged to two planes: the spiritual and the physical. For the Greek word ''amphibios ''means simply “life on two planes”, from ''amphi, ''“on both sides”, and ''bios, ''“life”. The word was often applied in antiquity to those men who, though still wearing a human form, had made themselves almost divine through knowledge, and lived as much in the spiritual supersensuous regions as on earth. Oannes is dimly reflected in Jonah, and even in John, the Precursor, both connected with Fish and Water [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Ob +

The astral light‐ — or rather, its pernicious evil currents — was personified by the Jews as a Spirit, the Spirit of ''Ob''. With them, any one who dealt with spirits and necromancy was said to be possessed by the Spirit of ''Ob'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +