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B

Bread and Wine +

Baptism and the Eucharist have their direct origin in pagan Egypt. There the “waters of purification” were used (the Mithraic font for baptism being borrowed by the Persians from the Egyptians) and so were bread and wine. “Wine in the Dionysiak cult, a in the Christian religion, represents that blood which in different senses is the life of the world” (Brown, in the ''Dionysiak Myth''). Justin Martyr says, “In imitation of which the devil did the like in the Mysteries of Mithras, for you either know or may ''know that they also take bread and a cup of water ''in the sacrifices of those that are initiated and ''pronounce certain words over it”''. (See “Holy Water”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adhishtanam +

Basis; a principle in which some other principle inheres. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhava +

Being, or state of being; the world, a birth, and also a name of Siva [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Birs Nimrud +

Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is near Babylon. Sir H. Rawlinson and several Assyriologists examined the excavated ruins and found that the tower consisted of seven stages of brick‐work, each stage of a different colour, which shows that the temple was devoted to the seven planets. Even with its three higher stages or floors in ruins, it still rises now 154 feet above the level of the plain. (”See Borsippa”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahabhautic +

Belonging to the Macrocosmic principles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Manes +

Benevolent “gods”, i.e., “spooks” of the lower world ''(Kâmaloka)''; the deified shades of the dead—of the ancient profane, and the “materialized”''ghosts ''of the modern Spiritualists, believed to be the souls of the departed, whereas, in truth, they are only their empty ''shells'', or images [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ananda +

Bliss, joy, felicity, happiness. A name of the favourite disciple of Gautama, the Lord Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Guff +

Body; physical form; also written Gof [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bandha +

Bondage; life on this earth; from the same root as Baddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Collanges, Gabriel de +

Born in 1524. The best astrologer in the XVlth century and a still better Kabbalist. He spent a fortune in the unravelling of its mysteries. It was rumoured that he died through poison administered to him by a Jewish Rabbin‐Kabbalist [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adah +

Borrowed by the Hebrews for the name of their Adah, father of Jubal, etc. But Adah meaning the first, the one, is universal property. There are reasons to think that ''Ak‐ad'', means the ''first''‐born or Son of ''Ad''. ''Adon ''was the first “Lord” of Syria. (See ''Isis Unv. ''II., pp. 452, 453.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

D +

Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbolical signification in the ''Kabbala ''of the ''Daleth ''is “door”. It is the Greek ''delta ''D, through which the world (whose symbol is the ''tetrad ''or number four,) issued, producing the divine seven. The name of the Tetrad was Harmony with the Pythagoreans, “because it is a diatessaron in sesquitertia”. With the Kabbalists, the divine name associated with Daleth was Daghoul [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Baddha +

Bound, conditioned; as is every mortal who has not made himself free through Nirvâna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mantra Shastra +

Brahmanical writings on the occult science of incantations [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nephesh +

Breath of life. ''Anima, Mens, Vita, ''Appetites. This term is used very loosely in the Bible. It generally means ''prana ''“life”; in the Kabbalah it is the animal passions and the animal Soul. [w.w.w.] Therefore, as maintained in theosophical teachings, ''Nephesh ''is the synonym of the Prâna‐Kâmic Principle, or the vital animal Soul in man. [H. P. B.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Buddhism +

Buddhism is now split into two distinct Churches : the Southern and the Northern Church. The former is said to be the purer form, as having preserved more religiously the original teachings of the Lord Buddha. It is the religion of Ceylon, Siam, Burmah and other places, while Northern Buddhism is confined to Tibet, China and Nepaul. Such a distinction, however, is incorrect. If the Southern Church is nearer, in that it has not departed, except perhaps in some trifling dogmas due to the many councils held after the death of the Master, from the public or ''exoteric ''teachings of Sâkyamuni—the Northern Church is the outcome of Siddhârta Buddha’s esoteric teachings which he confined to his elect Bhikshus and Arhats. In fact, Buddhism in the present age, cannot he justly judged either by one or the other of its exoteric popular forms. Real Buddhism can be appreciated only by blending the philosophy of the Southern Church and the metaphysics of the Northern Schools. If one seems too iconoclastic and stero:, and the other too metaphysical and transcendental, even to being overgrown with the weeds of Indian exotericism—many of the gods of its Pantheon having been transplanted under new names to Tibetan soil—it is entirely due to the popular expression of Buddhism in both Churches. Correspondentially they stand in their relation to each other as Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. Both err by an excess of zeal and erroneous interpretations, though neither the Southern nor the Northern Buddhist clergy have ever departed from truth consciously, still less have they acted under the dictates of ''priestocracy'', ambition, or with an eye to personal gain and power, as the two Christian Churches have [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Augoeides +

Bulwer Lytton calls it the “Luminous Self ”, or our Higher Ego. But Occultism makes of it something distinct from this. It is a mystery. The ''Augocides ''is the luminous divine radiation of the EGO which, when incarnated, is but its shadow—pure as it is yet. This is explained in the ''Amshaspends ''and their ''Ferouers.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lilith +

By Jewish tradition a demon who was the first wife of Adam, before Eve was created: she is supposed to have a fatal influence on mothers and newly‐ born infants. LIL is night, and LILITH is also the owl: and in mediæval works is a synonym of Lamia or female demon. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mash‐Mak +

By tradition an Atlantean word of the fourth Race, to denote a mysterious Cosmic fire, or rather Force, which was said to be able to pulverize in a second whole cities and disintegrate the world [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kukkuta Padagiri +

Called also ''Gurupadagiri'', the “teacher’s mountain”. It is situated about seven miles from Gaya, and is famous owing to a persistent report that Arhat Mahâkâsyapa even to this day dwells in its caves [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +