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Ash +

Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as ''As'', ''Aish ''and ''Esch'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adi‐nidana +

First and Supreme Causality, from ''Âdi'', the first, and ''Nidâna ''the principal cause (or the concatenation of cause and effect). [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Gazette +

Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal on June 3, 1778.[4] It was the first entirely French-language newspaper in Canada.[4] The paper did not accept advertising aside for the various books that Mesplet also published. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy, as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. Mesplet began a second weekly, The Montreal Gazette / La Gazette de Montréal, on August 25, 1785, which had a dual French-English bilingual format similar to that used by the Quebec Gazette. In 1822, it was sold to businessman Thomas Andrew Turner who converted into an English-only paper in 1822.[3][6] Under Turner, The Gazette identified with the interests of anglophone business leaders in their fight with the Patriote movement. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti +

Following along the lines of the 17th-century handwritten Kuranty, Peter's newspaper contained little other than reports of military victories and diplomatic relations, either composed by the tsar himself or translated from Dutch newspapers according to his choice. With Peter's death in 1725, the newspaper lost its most precious contributor. As Russia offered no choice of journalists who could carry on his project, ownership of the paper was transferred to the Russian Academy of Sciences, which renamed it Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (that is, Saint Petersburg News) in 1727. In the course of the 18th century, the academics issued the newspaper twice a week, supplementing it with extensive scholarly "commentaries", whose editors included Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov, Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Ippolit Bogdanovich. Since 1800, the Saint Petersburg Vedomosti was published daily. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Jesod +

Foundation; the ninth of the Ten Sephiroth, a masculine active potency, completing the six which form the Microprosopus. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avikara +

Free from degeneration; changeless—used of Deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Baissac, Jules +

French theologist, who viewed Satan as a 'Centrifugal Energy of the Universe’ in a cosmic sense [[Category: Secret Doctrine (CTD terms)]] (SD, 2:245). +

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Alchemists +

From '''''Al '''''and '''''Chemi, '''''fire, or the god and patriarch, ''Kham, ''also, the name of Egypt. The Rosicrucians of the middle ages, such as Robertus de Fluctibus (Robert Fludd), Paracelsus, Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Van Helmont, and others, were all alchemists, who sought for the ''hidden spirit ''in every inorganic matter. Some people— nay, the great majority—have accused alchemists of charlatanry and false pretending. Surely such men as Roger Bacon, Agrippa, Henry Khunrath, and the Arabian Geber (the first to introduce into Europe some of the secrets of chemistry), can hardly he treated as impostors— least of all as fools. Scientists who are reforming the science of physics upon the basis of the atomic theory of Democritus, as restated by John Dalton, conveniently forget that Democritus, of Abdera, was an alchemist, and that the mind that was capable of penetrating so far into the secret operations of nature in one direction must have had good reasons to study and become a Hermetic philosopher. Olaus Borrichius says that the cradle of alchemy is to be sought in the most distant times. (''Isis Unveiled)''. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Heranasikha +

From ''Herana ''“novice” and ''Sikha ''“rule” or precept: manual of Precepts. A work written in ''Elu ''or the ancient Singhalese, for the use of young priests [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mage +

From ''Mag ''or ''Maha''. The word is the root of the word magician. The Maha‐âtma (the great Soul or Spirit) in India had its priests in the pre‐Vedic times. The Magians were priests of the fire‐god; we find them among the Assyrians and Babylonians, as well as among the Persian fire‐worshippers. The three Magi, also denominated kings, that are said to have made gifts of gold, incense and myrrh to the infant Jesus, were fire‐ worshippers like the rest, and astrologers ; for they saw his star. The high priest of the Parsis, at Surat, is called Mobed. Others derived the name from Megh; Meh‐ab signifying some thing grand and noble. Zoroaster’s disciples were called ''Meghestom'', according to Kleuker [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Muluk‐Taoos +

From ''Maluk'', “Ruler”, a later form of Moloch, Melek, Malayak and ''Malachim'', “messengers”, angels. It is the Deity worshipped by the ''Yezidis'', a sect in Persia, kindly called by Christian theology “devil worshippers”, under the form of a peacock. The Lord “Peacock” is not Satan, nor is it the devil; for it is simply the symbol of the ''hundred eyed ''Wisdom ; the bird of Saraswati, goddess of Wisdom; of ''Karttikeya ''the ''Kumâra'', the Virgin celibate of the Mysteries of Juno, and all the gods and goddesses connected with the secret learning [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Dactyli +

From ''daktulos, ''“a finger”. The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regarded as the greatest magicians and exorcists. They were five or ten in number because of the five fingers on one hand that blessed, and the ten on both hands which evoke the gods. They also healed by manipulation or mesmerism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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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: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mazdeans +

From (Ahura) Mazda. (See Spiegel’s ''Yasna'', xl.) They were the ancient Persian nobles who worshipped Ormazd, and, rejecting images, inspired the Jews with the same horror for every concrete representation of the Deity. They seem in Herodotus’ time to have been superseded by the Magian religionists. The Parsis and Gebers, (''geberim'', mighty men, of ''Genesis'' vi. and x. 8) appear to be Magian religionists [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kabalist +

From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of “secret science”, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The books of ''Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, ''and the ''Revelation ''of St. John, are purely kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or “magic”. History catches glimpses of famous kabalists ever since the eleventh century. The Mediæval ages, and even our own times, have had an enormous number of the most learned and intellectual men who were students of the Kabala (or Qabbalah, as some spell it). The most famous among the former were Paracelsus, Henry Khunrath, Jacob Böhmen, Robert Fludd, the two Van Helmonts, the Abbot John Trithemius, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardinal Nicolao Cusani, Jerome Carden, Pope Sixtus IV., and such Christian scholars as Raymond Lully, Giovanni Pico de la Mirandola, Guillaume Postel, the great John Reuchlin, Dr. Henry More, Eugenius Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), the erudite Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, Christian Knorr(Baron) von Rosenroth; then Sir Isaac Newton., Leibniz, Lord Bacon, Spinosa, etc., etc., the list being almost inexhaustible. As remarked by Mr. Isaac Myer, in his Qabbalah, the ideas of the Kabalists have largely influenced European literature. “Upon the practical Qabbalah, the Abbé ,de Villars (nephew of de Montfaucon) in 1670, published his celebrated satirical novel, ‘The Count de Gabalis’, upon which Pope based his ‘Rape of the Lock’. Qabbalism ran through the Mediæval poems, the ‘Romance of the Rose’, and permeates the writings of Dante.” No two of them, however, agreed upon the origin of the Kabala, the ''Zohar, Sepher Yetzirah, ''etc. Some show it as coming from the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, and even Seth; others from Egypt, others again from Chaldea. The system is certainly very old; but like all the rest of systems, whether religious or philosophical, the Kabala is derived directly from the primeval Secret Doctrine of the East; through the Vedas, the Upanishads, Orpheus and Thales, Pythagoras and the Egyptians. Whatever its source, its substratum is at any rate identical with that of all the other systems from the ''Book of the Dead ''down to the later Gnostics. The best exponents of the ''Kabala ''in the Theosophical Society were among the earliest, Dr. S. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, and Mr. G. Felt; and among the latest, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Mr. S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers (both of the Rosicrucian College) and a few others. (See “ Qabbalah “.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

A

Altruism +

From alter = other. A quality opposed to egoism. Actions tending to do good to others, regardless of self. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Cycle +

From the Greek ''Kuklos''. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical. There were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great Orphic cycle, referring to the ethnological change of races, lasting 120,000 years, and the cycle of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary influences and their correlations between men and gods—a fact entirely lost sight of by modern astrologers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Homogeneity +

From the Greek words ''homos ''“the same” and ''genos ''“kind”. That which is of the same nature throughout, undifferentiated, non‐compound, as gold is ''supposed ''to be [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Hierophant +

From the Greek “Hierophantes”; literally, “One who explains sacred things ”. The discloser of sacred learning and the Chief of the Initiates. A title belonging to the highest Adepts in the temples of antiquity, who were the teachers and expounders of the Mysteries and the Initiators into the final great Mysteries. The Hierophant represented the Demiurge, and explained to the postulants for Initiation the various phenomena of Creation that were produced for their tuition. “ He was the sole expounder of the esoteric secrets and doctrines. It was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an uninitiated person. He sat in the East, and wore as a symbol of authority a golden globe suspended from the neck. He was also called ''Mystagogus''” (Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, ix., F.T.S., in ''The Royal Masonic cyclopædia''). In Hebrew and Chaldaic the term was ''Peter'', the opener, discloser; hence the Pope as the successor of the hierophant of the ancient Mysteries, sits in the Pagan chair of St. Peter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Initiate +

From the Latin ''Initiatus''. The designation of anyone who was received into and had revealed to him the mysteries and secrets of either Masonry or Occultism. In times of antiquity, those who had been initiated into the arcane knowledge taught by the Hierophants of the Mysteries; and in our modern days those who have been initiated by the adepts of mystic lore into the mysterious knowledge, which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, has yet a few real votaries on earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +