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Asomatous +

Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asrama +

A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in India has its ''Ashrams'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Assassins +

A masonic and mystic order founded by Hassan Sabah in Persia, in the eleventh century. The word is a European perversion of “Hassan”, which forms the chief part of the name. They were simply ''Sufis ''and addicted, according to the tradition, to ''hascheesl‐eating, ''in order to bring about celestial visions. As shown by our late brother, Kenneth Mackenzie, “they were teachers of the secret doctrines of Islamism; they encouraged mathematics and philosophy, and produced many valuable works. The chief of the Order was called Sheik‐ el‐Jebel, translated the ‘''Old Man of the Mountains’'', and, as their Grand Master, he possessed power of life and death.’ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Assier, Adolphe d’ +

French scientist, philosopher and student of language, born in 1828. His ''Essai sur l’Humanité Posthume et le Spiritisme'' (1883) was translated and annotated by H. S. Olcott as ''Posthumous Humanity: A Study of Phantoms'' (London, 1887). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#370|5:370]][[SMW::on]]). +

Assorus +

The third group of progeny (Kissan and Assorus) from the Babylonian Duad, Tauthe and Apason, according to the Theogonies of Damascius. From this last emanated three others, of which series the last, Aus, begat Belus — “the fabricator of the World, the Demiurgus” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Assur +

A city in Assyria ; the ancient seat of a library from which George Smith excavated the earliest known tablets, to which he assigns a date about 1500 B.C., called ''Assur Kileh Shergat.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Assurbanipal +

The Sardanapalus of the Greeks, “the greatest of the Assyrian Sovereigns, far more memorable on account of his magnificent patronage of learning than of the greatness of his empire”, writes the late G. Smith, and adds: “Assurbanipal added more to the Assyrian royal library than ''all the kings who had gone before him”''. As the distinguished Assyriologist tells us in another place of his “Babylonian and Assyrian Literature” (''Chald. Account of Genesis'') that “the majority of the texts preserved belong to the earlier period previous to B.C. 1600”, and yet asserts that “it is to tablets written in his (Assurbanipal’s) reign (B.C. 673) that we owe almost all our knowledge of the Babylonian early history”, one is well justified in asking, “How do you know?” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Assyrian +

Holy Scriptures''. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpretations, of Going to Hades; two Prayer Books ''(Kanmagarri and Kanmikri: ''Talbot) and the Kantolite, the lost Assyrian Psalter [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asta‐dasha +

Perfect, Supreme Wisdom; a title of Deity [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Aster’t +

Astarte, the Syrian goddess the consort of Adon, or Adonai [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Astraea +

The ancient goddess of justice, whom the wickedness of men drove away from earth to heaven, wherein she now dwells as the constellation ''Virgo.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Astral Body +

The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The '''''Linga Sharira, '''''the “Doppelgäinger”. The reader must not confuse it with the ASTRAL SOUL, another name for the lower Manas, or Kama‐Manas so‐called, the reflection of the HIGHER EGO [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Astral Light +

The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle of Kosmos (the third being Life, of which it is the vehicle) to the ''Linga Sharira ''or the Astral Double in man. A subtle Essence visible only to a clairvoyant eye, and the lowest but one (''viz.'', the earth), of the Seven Akâsic or Kosmic Principles. Eliphas Levi calls it the great Serpent and the Dragon from which radiates on Humanity every evil influence. This is so; but why not add that the Astral Light gives out nothing but what it has received; that it is the great terrestrial crucible, in which the vile emanations of the earth (moral and physical) upon which the Astral Light is fed, are all converted into their subtlest essence, and radiated back intensified, thus becoming epidemics — moral, psychic and physical. Finally, the Astral Light is the same as the ''Sidereal Light ''of Paracelsus and other Hermetic philosophers. “Physically, it is the ether of modern science. Metaphysically, and in its spiritual, or occult sense, ether is a great deal more than is often imagined. In occult physics, and alchemy, it is well demonstrated to enclose within its shoreless waves not only Mr. Tyndall’s ''‘promise ''and potency of every quality of life’, but also the ''realization ''of the potency of every quality of spirit. Alchemists and Hermetists believe that their ''astral'', or sidereal ether, besides the above properties of sulphur, and white and red magnesia, or ''magnes'', is the ''anima mundi, ''the workshop of Nature and of all the Kosmos, spiritually, as well as physically. The ‘grand magisterium’ asserts itself in the phenomenon of mesmerism, in the ‘levitation’ of human and inert objects; and may be called the ether from its spiritual aspect. The designation ''astral ''is ancient, and was used by some of the Neo‐platonists, although it is claimed by some that the word was coined by the Martinists. Porphyry describes the celestial body which is always joined with the soul as ‘immortal, luminous, and star‐like’. The root of this word may be found, perhaps, in the Scythic ''Aist‐aer'' — which means star, or the Assyrian ''Istar, ''which, according to Burnouf has the same sense.” ''(Isis Unveiled.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Astrology +

The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future events from the position of the stars. Its antiquity is such as to place it among the very earliest records of human learning. It remained for long ages a secret science in the East, and its final expression remains so to this day, its exoteric application having been brought to any degree of perfection in the West only during the period of time since Varaha Muhira wrote his book on Astrology some 1400 years ago. Claudius Ptolemy, the famous geographer and mathematician, wrote his treatise ''Tetrabiblos ''about 135 A.D., which is still the basis of modern astrology. The science of Horoscopy is studied now chiefly under four heads: ''viz''., (1) ''Mundane'', in its application to meteorology, seismology, husbandry, etc. (2) ''State or civic, ''in regard to the fate of nations, kings and rulers. (3) ''Horary'', in reference to the solving of doubts arising in the mind upon any subject. (4) ''Genethliacal'', in its application to the fate of individuals from the moment of their birth to their death. The Egyptians and the Chaldees were among the most ancient votaries of Astrology, though their modes of reading the stars and the modern practices differ considerably. The former claimed that Belus, the Bel or Elu of the Chaldees, a scion of the ''divine ''Dynasty, or the Dynasty of the king‐ gods, had belonged to the land of Chemi, and had left it, to found a colony from Egypt on the banks of the Euphrates, where a temple ministered by priests in the service of the “lords of the stars” was built, the said priests adopting the name of ''Chaldees. ''Two things are known: (a) that Thebes (in Egypt) claimed the honour of the invention of Astrology; and (b) that it was the Chaldees who taught that science to the other nations. Now Thebes antedated considerably not only “Ur of the Chaldees”, but also Nipur, where Bel was first worshipped — Sin, his son (the moon), being the presiding deity of Ur, the land of the nativity of Terah, the Sabean and Astrolatrer, and of Abram, his son, the great Astrologer of biblical tradition. All tends, therefore, to corroborate the Egyptian claim. If later on the name of Astrologer fell into disrepute in Rome and elsewhere, it was owing to the fraud of those who wanted to make money by means of that which was part and parcel of the sacred Science of the Mysteries, and, ignorant of the latter, evolved a system based entirely upon mathematics, instead of on transcendental metaphysics and having the physical celestial bodies as its ''upadhi ''or material basis. Yet, all persecutions notwithstanding, the number of the adherents of Astrology among the most intellectual and scientific minds was always very great. If Cardan and Kepler were among its ardent supporters, then its later votaries have nothing to blush for, even in its now imperfect and distorted form. As said in ''Isis Unveiled ''(1. 259): “Astrology is to exact astronomy what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter, and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit.” (See “ ''Astronomos'''''''.'''''”)[[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Astronomia Magna +

A work by [[Paracelsus|Paracelsus]] used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] in her exposition of the Kabbalistic teaching concerning spirits. Information is given about the edition of 1571 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Kabalistic Views on Spirits as Propagated by the Theosophical Society#284|BCW 1:284]]). +

Astronomische Nachrichten +

Astronomical periodical founded by H. C. Schumacher. Zirkoff lists publication at Altona in 1823-73 and subsequently at Kiel. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#385|5:385]][[SMW::on]]). +

Astronomos +

The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of old, Astronomy was synonymous with Astrology; and the great Astrological Initiation took place in Egypt at Thebes, where the priests perfected, if they did not wholly invent the science. Having passed through the degrees of ''Pastophoros, Neocoros, Melanophoros, Kistophoros, ''and ''Balahala ''(the degree of Chemistry of the Stars), the neophyte was taught the mystic signs of the Zodiac, in a circle dance representing the course of the planets (the dance of Krishna and the Gopis, celebrated to this day in Rajputana); after which he received a cross, the Tau (or Tat), becoming an ''Astronomos ''and a Healer. (''See Isis Unveiled''. Vol. II. 365). Astronomy and Chemistry were inseparable in these studies. “Hippocrates had so lively a faith in the influence of the stars on animated beings, and on their diseases, that he expressly recommends not to trust to physicians who are ignorant of astronomy.’ (Arago.) Unfortunately the key to the final door of Astrology or Astronomy is lost by the modern Astrologer; and without it, how can he ever be able to answer the pertinent remark made by the author of ''Mazzaroth''''''', '''''who writes: “people are said to be born under one sign, while in reality they are born under another, because ''the sun is now seen among different stars at the equinox ''”? Nevertheless, even the few truths he does know brought to his science such eminent and scientific believers as Sir Isaac Newton, Bishops Jeremy and Hall, Archbishop Usher, Dryden, Flamstead, Ashmole, John Milton, Steele, and a host of noted Rosicrucians [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asura Mazda +

In the Zend, ''Ahura Mazda''. The same as Ormuzd or Mazdeô; the god of Zoroaster and the Parsis [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asuramaya +

Known also as ''Mayâsura''. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, well‐known in Sanskrit works [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Asuras +

Exoterically, elementals and evil, gods — considered maleficent; demons, and '''''no '''''gods. But esoterically — the reverse. For in the most ancient portions of the ''Rig Veda, ''the term is used for the Supreme Spirit, and therefore the Asuras are spiritual and divine It is only in the last book of the ''Rig Veda'', its latest part, and in the ''Atharva Veda, ''and the ''Brâhmanas, ''that the epithet, which had been given to Agni, the greatest Vedic Deity, to Indra and Varuna, has come to signify the reverse of gods. ''Asu ''means breath, and it is with his breath that Prajâpati (Brahmâ) creates the Asuras. When ritualism and dogma got the better of the Wisdom religion, the initial letter '''a '''was adopted as a negative prefix, and the term ended by signifying “not a god”, and Sura only a deity. But in the Vedas the Suras have ever been connected with ''Surya, ''the sun, and regarded as ''inferior ''deities, devas [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +