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Obeah +

Sorcerers and sorceresses of Africa and the West Indies. A sect of black magicians, snake‐charmers, enchanters, &c [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Obrenovic, Mihailo +

Prince of Serbia, ruling in 1839-1842 and again from 1860 until his assassination near Belgrade in 1868. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Story of the Mystical#164|BCW 1:164]]) Note on conflicting readings: BCW 1:23 gives 1838 as the birth year, while 1:164 gives 1823; the museum catalogue supports 1823-1868. Sources also disagree on the precise April date of the transfer of Belgrade’s fortress; no exact day is asserted here. ([https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/en/object/190421-fuerst-michael-von-serbien-mihailo-obrenovic-1823-1868/ Wien Museum: Mihailo Obrenović (1823-1868)]) ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - H. P. Blavatskys Literary Career#23|BCW 1:23]]) ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Story of the Mystical#164|BCW 1:164]]) +

Obrenovic, Milan +

A young relative of the murdered Prince M. Obrenovic. He succeeded to the Serbian throne in 1868 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Story of the Mystical#165|BCW 1:165]]). In 1888 he secured his son Alexander’s return from Wiesbaden with German police assistance and then obtained a divorce from Natalie. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] protested against his treatment of the queen. He abdicated in favour of his son on 6 March 1889 and died in Vienna on 11 February 1901. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Our Christian XIXth Century Ethics#87|BCW 10:87-88]]) +

Obrenovic, Natalie +

Queen of Serbia, wife of Milan Obrenovic and mother of Alexander. After the October 1888 divorce she struggled to retain access to her son; [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] publicly defended her. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] lists her Mother (Russian translation, St Petersburg, 1891) and Memoirs (Paris, 1891). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Our Christian XIXth Century Ethics#87|BCW 10:87-88]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Our Christian XIXth Century Ethics#88|BCW 10:88]]) +

Occult Sciences +

The science of the secrets of nature — physical and psychic, mental and spiritual; called Hermetic and Esoteric Sciences. In the West, the Kabbalah may be named; in the East, mysticism, magic, and Yoga philosophy, which latter is often referred to by the Chelas in India as the ''seventh ''“Darshana” (school of philosophy), there being only ''six ''Darshanas in India known to the world of the profane. These sciences are, and have been for ages, hidden from the vulgar for the very good reason that they would never be appreciated by the selfish educated classes, nor understood by the uneducated; whilst the former might misuse them for their own profit, and thus turn the divine science into ''black magic''. It is often brought forward as an accusation against the Esoteric philosophy and the Kabbalah that their literature is full of “a barbarous and meaningless jargon” unintelligible to the ordinary mind. But do not exact Sciences — medicine, physiology, chemistry, and the rest — do the same? Do not official Scientists equally veil their facts and discoveries with a newly coined and most barbarous Græco‐Latin terminology? As justly remarked by our late brother, Kenneth Mackenzie — “To juggle thus with words, when the facts are so simple, is the art of the Scientists of the present time, in striking contrast to those of the XVIIth century, who called spades spades, and not ‘agricultural implements ‘.“Moreover, whilst their facts would be as simple and as comprehensible if rendered in ordinary language, the facts of Occult Science are of so abstruse a nature, that in most cases no words exist in European languages to express them; in addition to which our “jargon” is a ''double ''necessity — (a) for the purpose of describing clearly these ''facts ''to him who is versed in the Occult terminology; and (b) to conceal them from the profane [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Occultist +

One who studies the various branches of occult science. The term is used by the French Kabbalists (See Eliphas Lévi’s works). Occultism embraces the whole range of psychological, physiological, cosmical, physical, and spiritual phenomena. From the word occultus hidden or secret. It therefore applies to the study of the '''Kabbalah''', astrology, alchemy, and all arcane sciences [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Od +

From ''odos'', “passage”, or passing of that force which is developed by various minor forces or agencies such as magnets, chemical or vital action, heat, light, &c. It is also called “odic” and “odylic force”, and was regarded by Reichenbach and his followers as an independent entitative force — which it certainly is — stored in man as it is in Nature [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Odacon +

The fifth Annedotus, or ''Dagon ''(See [[Oannes]]) who appeared during the reign of Euedoreschus from Pentebiblon, also “from the Erythræan Sea like the former, having the same ''complicated form between a fish and a man''” (''Apollodorus, ''Cory p. 30) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Odem +

A stone (the cornelian) on the breast‐plate of the Jewish High Priest. It is of red colour and possesses a great medicinal power [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oderberg, I. Manuel +

Searched the library and archives of the Theosophical Society at Pasadena for materials needed for volume XIII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxii|BCW 13:xxii]]) Helped check references using the Theosophical Society’s research library at Pasadena for volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxii|BCW 14:xxii]]) +

Odessa Theosophical Society +

The first Theosophical Society branch in Odessa was formed in August 1883, with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s aunt N. A. de Fadeyev as president. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.5)#xxv|BCW 5:xxv]]) +

Odin +

The god of battles, the old German ''Sabbaoth'', the same as the Scandinavian ''Wodan''. He is the great hero in the ''Edda ''and one of the creators of man. Roman antiquity regarded him as one with Hermes or Mercury (Budha), and modern Orientalism (Sir W. Jones) accordingly confused him with Buddha. In the Pantheon of the Norse men, he is the “father of the gods” and divine wisdom, and as such he is of course Hermes or the creative wisdom. Odin or Wodan in creating the first man from trees — the Ask (ash) and Embla (the alder)_ endowed them with life and soul, Honir with intellect, and Lodur with form and colour [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Odur +

The human husband of the goddess Freya, a scion of divine ancestry in the Northern mythology [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oeaihu +

The manner of pronunciation depends on the accent. This is an esoteric term for the six in one or the mystic seven. The occult name for the “seven vowelled” ever‐present manifestation of the Universal Principle [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Off, Louise A. +

Secretary of the Los Angeles Theosophical Society; signed its report in the February 1888 supplement. +

Ogdoad +

The tetrad or “quaternary” reflecting itself produced the ogdoad, the “eight”, according to the Marcosian Gnostics. The eight great gods were called the “sacred Ogdoad” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ogham +

A mystery language belonging to the early Celtic races, and used by the Druids. One form of this language consisted in the association of the leaves of certain trees with the letters, this was called ''Beth‐luis‐nion Ogham'', and to form words and sentences the leaves were strung on a cord in the proper order. Godfrey Higgins suggests that to complete the mystification certain other leaves which meant nothing were interspersed. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ogilvie, John +

Lexicographer and teacher (1797-1867), educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen. His revision and enlargement of Webster’s dictionary became the ''Imperial Dictionary'', completed in 1850 with a supplement in 1855. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#442|6:442]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ogir +

A chief of the giants in the ''Edda ''and the ally of the gods. The highest of the Water‐gods, and the same as the Greek Okeanos [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ogmius +

The god of wisdom and eloquence of the Druids, hence Hermes in a sense [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +