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Sringa Giri +

A large and wealthy monastery on the ridge of the Western Ghauts in Mysore (Southern India) ; the chief ''matham'' of the Adwaita and Smârta Brahmans, founded by Sankarâchârya. There resides the religious head (the latter being called Sankarâchârya) of all the Vedantic Adwaitas, credited by many with great abnormal powers. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Srinivasaingar, P. T. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Srinivasaiyangar, A. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Srinivasaiyar, P. T. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Srinivasayangar, C. R. +

Theosophical writer on Hindu philosophy, yoga and karma; contributed dialogues and a translation of the Brahmopanishad. +

Sriramamurthy, G. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol11|vol. 11]] (1889–1890). +

Srivamamurthi, G. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol9|vol. 9]] (1887–1888). +

Srivatsa +

A mystical mark worn by Krishna, and also adopted by the Jains. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sriyantra +

The double triangle or the seal of Vishnu, called also “Solomon’s seal ”, and adopted by the''' T. S.''' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sri‐pada +

The impression of Buddha’s foot. ''Lit''., “the step or foot of the Master or exalted Lord”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Srotapatti +

Lit., “ he who has entered the stream ”, ''i.e''., the stream or path that leads to Nirvâna, or figuratively, to the Nirvânic Ocean. The same as ''Sowanee.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Srotriya +

The appellation of a Brahman who practises the Vedic rites he studies, as distinguished from the ''Vedavit'', the Brahman who studies them only theoretically. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Srouthy, Sundaresvara +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Sruti +

Sacred tradition received by revelation; the ''Vedas'' are such a tradition as distinguished from “ Smriti ” (''q.v''.). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

St. George for Merry England +

Article by W. M. Braithwaite, cited from the second issue of Masonic Monthly (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#415|10:415]][[SMW::on]]). +

St. Germain, the Count of +

Referred to as an enigmatical personage by modern writers. Frederic II., King of Prussia, used to say of him that he was a man whom no one had ever been able make out. Many are his “biographies”, and each is wilder than the other. By some he was regarded as an incarnate god, by others as a clever Alsatian Jew. One thing is certain, Count de St. Germain — whatever his real patronymic may have been — had a right to his name and title, for he had bought a property called San Germano, in the Italian Tyrol, and paid the Pope for the title. He was uncommonly handsome, and his enormous erudition and linguistic capacities are undeniable, for he spoke English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Swedish, Danish, and many Slavonian and Oriental languages, with equal facility with a native. He was extremely wealthy, never received a ''sou'' from anyone — in fact never accepted a glass of water or broke bread with anyone made most extravagant presents of superb jewellery to all his friends, even to the royal families of Europe. His proficiency in music was marvellous; he played on every instrument, the violin being his favourite. “St. Germain rivalled Paganini himself”, was said of him by an octogenarian Belgian in 1835, after hearing the “''Genoese '' ''maestro''”. “It is St. Germain resurrected who plays the violin in the body of an Italian skeleton ”, exclaimed a Lithuanian baron who had heard both. He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such claim. He used to pass into a dead trance from thirty‐seven to forty‐nine hours without awakening, and then knew all he had to know, and demonstrated the fact by prophesying futurity and never making a mistake. It is he who prophesied before the Kings Louis XV. and XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. Many were the still living witnesses in the first quarter of this century who testified to his marvellous memory; he could read a paper in the morning and, though hardly glancing at it, could repeat its contents without missing one word days afterwards; he could write with two hands at once, the right hand writing a piece of poetry, the left a diplomatic paper of the greatest importance. He read sealed letters without touching them, while still in the hand of those who brought them to him. He was the greatest adept in transmuting metals, making gold and the most marvellous diamonds, an art, he said, he had learned from certain Brahmans in India, who taught him the artificial crystallisation (“quickening”) of pure carbon. As our Brother Kenneth Mackenzie has it : — “ In 1780, when on a visit to the French Ambassador to the Hague, he broke to pieces with a hammer a superb diamond of his own manufacture, the counterpart of which, also manufactured by himself, he had just before sold to a jeweller for 5500 louis d’or”. He was the friend and confidant of Count Orloff in 1772 at Vienna, whom he had helped and saved in St. Petersburg in 1762, when concerned in the famous political conspiracies of that time; he also became intimate with Frederick the Great of Prussia. As a matter of course, he had numerous enemies, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if all the gossip invented about him is now attributed to his own confessions: e.g., that he was over five hundred years old; also, that he claimed personal intimacy “with the Saviour and his twelve Apostles, and that he had reproved Peter for his bad temper ” — the latter clashing somewhat in point of time with the former, if he had really claimed to be only five hundred years old. if he said that “he had been born in Chaldea and professed to possess the secrets of the Egyptian magicians and sages ”, he may have spoken truth without making any miraculous claim. There are Initiates, and not the highest either, who are placed in a condition to remember more than one of their past lives. But we have good reason to know that St. Germain could never have claimed “personal intimacy ” with the Saviour. How ever that may be, Count St. Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries. But Europe knew him not. Perchance some may recognise him at the next ''Terreur'' which will affect all Europe when it comes, and not one country alone. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). De Zirkoff recommends the studies by Isabel Cooper-Oakley and Paul Chacornac, with reservations about some of their sources. He warns against confusing the occultist with the soldier Claude-Louis de Saint-Germain, regards the claimed connection with the Rákóczi family as undocumented, and rejects the supposed memoirs of the Countess d'Adhémar as reliable evidence. He also traces the surviving portrait engraving and lists earlier memoirs relevant to research. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#523|3:523-528]][[SMW::on]]).

St. James’ Gazette +

London daily founded on 31 May 1880. It merged with the ''Evening Standard'' on 14 March 1905, continuing as ''The Evening Standard and St. James’ Gazette''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). London daily established on 31 May 1880; merged with the ''Evening Standard'' in March 1905 under a combined title. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). London daily founded in 1880 and merged with the Evening Standard in 1905 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#429|10:429]][[SMW::on]]). +

St. Louis Republican, The +

The Missouri Republican was a newspaper founded in 1808 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Its predecessor was the Morning Gazette. It later changed its name to St. Louis Republic. After supporting the Whig Party, the paper became aligned with the Democratic Party. In the late 19th century, the Republic had the second-largest circulation in St. Louis, surpassing papers that would survive it, such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis Star-Times. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

St. Stephen’s Review of Facts and Fancies, Thoughts, Realities and Shams +

London, 1883, etc (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#479|8:479]][[SMW::on]]). +

Stahl, Georg Ernst +

German physician and chemist associated with the phlogiston theory. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#665|4:665-666]][[SMW::on]]). +