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Baal +

Baal or Adon (Adonai) was a phallic god. “Who shall ascend unto the hill (the high place) of the Lord; who shall stand in the place of his ''Kadushu ''(q.v.) ? ” (''Psalms ''XX1V. 3.) The “circle dance” performed by King David round the ark, was the dance prescribed by the Amazons in the Mysteries, the dance of the daughters of Shiloh (''Judges ''xxi., ''et seq.'') and the same as the leaping of the prophets of Baal (I. ''Kings ''xviii). He was named ''Baal‐Tzephon, ''or god of the crypt (Exodus) and ''Seth'', or the ''pillar ''(''phallus''), because he was the same as Ammon (or Baal‐Hammon) of Egypt, called “the hidden god”. Typhon, called Set, who was a great god in Egypt during the early dynasties, is an aspect of Baal and Ammon as also of Siva, Jehovah and other gods. Baal is the all devouring Sun, in one sense, the fiery Moloch [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Babaji +

Indian member of the early Theosophical Society, also known as S. Krishnaswami Iyengar. Worked at its headquarters and was associated with H. P. Blavatsky. Used the name Dharbagiri Nath, which was also borne by another person and should not be treated as an unambiguous identification. +

Babil Mound +

The site of the Temple of Bel at Babylon [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Babinet, Jacques +

French physicist, professor at the Lycée Saint-Louis and later the Collège de France, and member of the Académie des Sciences from 1840. Author of ''Résumé complet de physique'' (1825) and other scientific works; also noted as a talented journalist and imaginative writer. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#447|1:447]][[SMW::on]]). French physicist and popularizer of science who improved meteorological instruments and taught physics and meteorology. His works include Résumé complet de la physique (1825) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#412|10:412]][[SMW::on]]). +

Babula +

A Gujarati servant who entered [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s household in March 1879 through Mulji Thackersey. He accompanied the Founders on their travels and nursed her during a serious fever at Lahore in November 1880. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxvi,xxxv]]) +

Bacchus +

Exoterically and superficially the god of wine and the vintage, and of licentiousness and joy; but the esoteric meaning of this personification is more abstruse and philosophical. He is the Osiris of Egypt, and his life and significance belong to the same group as the other solar deities, all “sin‐bearing,” killed and resurrected; e.g., as Dionysos or Atys of Phrygia (Adonis, or the Syrian Tammuz), as Ausonius, Baldur (q.v.), &c., &c. All these were put to death, mourned for, and restored to life. The rejoicings for Atys took place at the ''Hilaria ''on the “pagan” Easter, March 15. Ausonius, a form of Bacchus, was slain “at the vernal equinox, March 21st, and rose in three days”. Tammuz, the double of Adonis and Atys, was mourned by the women at the “grove” of his name “over Bethlehem, where the infant Jesus cried”, says St. Jerome. Bacchus is murdered and his mother collects the fragments of his lacerated body as Isis does those of Osiris, and so on. Dionysos Iacchus, torn to shreds by the Titans, Osiris, Krishna, all descended into Hades and returned again. Astronomically, they all represent the Sun ; psychically they are all emblems of the ever‐resurrecting “ Soul” (the Ego in its re‐incarnation) ; spiritually, all the innocent scape‐goats, atoning for the sins of mortals, their own earthly envelopes, and in truth, the poeticized image of DIVINE MAN, the form of clay informed by its God [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bacon +

Roger. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth century in England. He believed in the philosopher’s stone in the way all the adepts of Occultism believe in it; and also in philosophical astrology. He is accused of having made a head of bronze which having an acoustic apparatus hidden in it, seemed to utter oracles which were words spoken by Bacon himself in another room. He was a wonderful physicist and chemist, and credited with having invented gunpowder, though he said he had the secret from “Asian (Chinese) wise men.ʺ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bacon R. - De Mirabili Potestate Artis et Naturae +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] checked [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s quotation against the English translation signed I.N., published in London in 1659 from J. Dee’s copy; the reference is chapter VIII, p. 37. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century#547|BCW 11:547]]) +

Bacon, Francis +

was an English philosopher, historian and statesman. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism and English materialism. His New Atlantis is listed in an edition dated 1659. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#522|2:522]][[SMW::on]]). The appendix cites ''The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies'', edited by F. B. Bickley from British Museum manuscript Harleian 7017 (London, 1898). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#621|4:621]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bacon, Roger +

Bibliographical references include: De mirabili potestate artis et naturae, 1256-57, a work usually spoken of as Treatise on the Admirable Force of Art and of Nature. Transl. into English by L. Davis. Easton, Penna.: The Chemical Publ. Co. 1923 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#566|11:566]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bacon, William Thompson +

American clergyman. Graduated at Yale, 1837, delivering the valedictory poem. Studied later at Yale Divinity School, and from 1842 to 1845 was pastor of the Congregational Church in Trumbull, Conn (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#405|9:405]][[SMW::on]]). +

Baddha +

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

Bagavadam +

A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bagh‐bog +

“God”; a Slavonian name for the Greek Bacchus, whose name became the prototype of the name God or ''Bagh ''and ''bog ''or ''bogh''; the Russian for God [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bagration Family +

A princely and royal family of Georgia. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Armenians|BCW 2:265]]) The Georgian branch of the Bagratids, a dynasty that also ruled in Armenia. Members of this branch held royal power in Georgia from 888. ([https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bagratids-dynasty/ C. Toumanoff, Bagratids, Encyclopaedia Iranica]) +

Bahak‐Zivo +

The “father of the Genii” in the Codex Nazarœus. The Nazarenes were an early semi‐Christian sect [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bailly Jean Sylvain +

French astronomer, statesman and historian. Educated at home in the art of painting; later devoted himself to poetry and belles-lettres, until his acquaintance with Father Nicolas Lacaille, when he became an ardent student of astronomy (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#419|8:419-420]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bain, Alexander +

Zirkoff lists ''The Correlations of Nervous and Mental Forces'' as unidentified and refers to BCW VIII, p. 420, for biographical information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#621|4:621]][[SMW::on]]). Scottish philosopher and educationist, born in Aberdeen, where he also died. Began life as a weaver (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#420|8:420]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Mind and Body. The Theories of their Relation, in “The International Scientific Series,” London, 1872; 3rd ed. 1874. Vide Volume VIII of the present Series for biogr. sketch of the author (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#405|9:405]][[SMW::on]]). +

Baissac, Jules +

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

Bakhour +

R. M. ''[Cyclop.]'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +