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A

Aranyaka +

Holy hermits, sages who dwelt in ancient India in forests. Also a portion of the Vedas containing Upanishads, etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Karnaim +

Horned, an attribute of Ashtoreth and Astarte; those horns typify the male element, and convert the deity into an androgyne. Isis also is at times horned. Compare also the idea of the Crescent Moon—‐symbol of Isis—as horned. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Harviri +

Horns, the elder: the ancient name of a solar god: the rising sun represented as a god reclining on a full‐blown lotus, the symbol of the Universe [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Beth +

House, dwelling [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Manushi +

Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Matronethah +

Identical with ''Malcuth'', the tenth Sephira. ''Lit''., Matrona is the “inferior mother” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Maya +

Illusion ; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal existence and the perceptions thereof possible. In Hindu philosophy that alone which is changeless and eternal is called ''reality ''; all that which is subject to change through decay and differentiation and which has therefore a begining and an end is regarded as ''mâyâ''—illusion [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Das Neue Blatt +

Illustrated Family Journal: a weekly magazine for entertainment and instruction. +

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Nagkon Wat +

Imposing ruins in the province of Siamrap (Eastern Siam), if ruins they may be called. An abandoned edifice of most gigantic dimensions, which, together with the great temple of Angkorthâm, are the best preserved relics of the past in all Asia. After the Pyramids this is the most occult edifice in the whole world. Of an oblong form, it is 796 feet in length and 588 in width, entirely built of stone, the roof included, but ''without cement ''like the pyramids of Ghizeh, the stones fitting so closely that the joints are even now hardly discernible. It has a central pagoda 250 feet in height from the first floor, and four smaller pagodas at the four corners, about 175 feet each. In the words of a traveller, (''The Land of the White Elephant'', Frank Vincent, p. 209) “in style and beauty of architecture, solidity of construction, and magnificent and elaborate carving and sculpture, the great Nagkon Wat has no superior, certainly no rival, standing at the present day.” (See ''Isis Unv.'', Vol. I. pp. 561‐566.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Magnum Opus +

In Alchemy the final completion, the “Great Labour” or Grand ''Œuvre''; the production of the “Philosopher’s Stone” and “Elixir of Life” which, though not by far the myth some sceptics would have it, has yet to be accepted symbolically, and is full of mystic meaning [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Alchemy +

In Arabic ''Ul‐Khemi, ''is, as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. ''Ui‐Khemi ''or ''Al‐Kimia'', however, is only an Arabianized word, taken from the Greek chemeia, (''chemeia'') from cumoz — “juice”, sap extracted from a plant. Says Dr. Wynn Westcott: “The earliest use of the actual term ‘alchemy’ is found in the works of Julius Firmicus Maternus, who lived in the days of Constantine the Great. The Imperial Library in Paris contains the oldest‐extant alchemic treatise known in Europe; it was written by Zosimus the Panopolite about 400 A.D. in the Greek language, the next oldest is by Æneas Gazeus, 480 A.D.” It deals with the finer forces of nature and the various conditions in which they are found to operate. Seeking under the veil of language, more or less artificial, to convey to the uninitiated so much of the ''mysterium magnum ''as is safe in the hands of a selfish world, the alchemist postulates as his first principle the existence of a certain Universal Solvent by which all composite bodies are resolved into the homogeneous substance from which they are evolved, which substance he calls pure gold, or ''summa materia''. This solvent, also called ''menstvuum universale, ''possesses the power of removing all the seeds of disease from the human body, of renewing youth and prolonging life. Such is the ''lapis philosophorum ''(philosopher’s stone). Alchemy first penetrated into Europe through Geber, the great Arabian sage and philosopher, in the eighth century of our era; but it was known and practised long ages ago in China and in Egypt, numerous papyri on alchemy and other proofs of its being the favourite study of kings and priests having been exhumed and preserved under the generic name of Hermetic treatises. (See “Tabula Smaragdina”). Alchemy is studied under three distinct aspects, which admit of many different interpretations, viz.: the Cosmic, Human, and Terrestrial. These three methods were typified under the three alchemical properties—sulphur, mercury, and salt. Different writers have stated that there are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed that there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. What that gold, however, really is, very few people understand correctly. No doubt that there is such a thing in nature as transmutation of the baser metals into the nobler, or gold. But this is only one aspect of alchemy, the terrestrial or purely material, for we sense logically the same process taking place in the bowels of the earth. Yet, besides and beyond this interpretation, there is in alchemy a symbolical meaning, purely psychic and spiritual. While the Kabbalist‐Alchemist seeks for the realization of the former, the Occultist‐Alchemist, spurning the gold of the mines, gives all his attention and directs his efforts only towards the transmutation of the baser ''quaternary ''into the divine upper ''trinity ''of man, which when finally blended are one. The spiritual, mental, psychic, and physical planes of human existence are in alchemy compared to the four elements, fire, air, water and earth, and are each capable of a threefold constitution, i.e., fixed, mutable and volatile. Little or nothing is known by the word concerning the origin of this archaic branch of philosophy; but it is certain that it antedates the construction of any known Zodiac, and, as dealing with the personified forces of nature, probably also any of the mythologies of the world; nor is there any doubt that the true secret of transmutation (on the physical plane) was known in days of old, and lost before the dawn of the so‐ called historical period. Modern chemistry owes its best fundamental discoveries to alchemy, but regardless of the undeniable truism of the latter that there is but one element in the universe, chemistry has placed metals in the class of elements and is only now beginning to find out its gross mistake. Even sonic Encyclopædists are now forced to confess that if most of the accounts of transmutations are fraud or delusion, “yet some of them are accompanied by testimony ''which renders them probable.'' . . By means of the galvanic battery even the alkalis have been discovered to have a metallic base. The possibility of obtaining metal from other substances which contain the ingredients composing it, and ''of changing one metal into another ''. . . must therefore be left undecided. Nor are all alchemists to be considered impostors. Many have laboured under the conviction of obtaining their object, with indefatigable patience and purity of heart, which is earnestly recommended by sound alchemists as the principal requisite for the success of their labours.” (''Pop. Encyclop''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

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Dhyana +

In Buddhism one of the six Paramitas of perfection, a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic practising it far above this plane of sensuous perception and out of the world of matter. Lit., “contemplation”. The six stages of Dhyan differ only in the degrees of abstraction of the personal Ego from sensuous life [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dhyani Bodhisattyas +

In Buddhism, the five sons of the Dhyani‐Buddhas. They have a mystic meaning in Esoteric Philosophy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dharani +

In Buddhism—both Southern and Northern—and also in Hinduism, it means simply a ''mantra ''or ''mantras''—sacred verses from the ''Rig Veda. ''In days of old these mantras or Dhâranî were all considered mystical and practically efficacious in their use. At present, however, it is the Yogâchârya school alone which proves the claim in practice. When chanted according to given instructions a '''Dhâranî '''produces wonderful effects. Its occult power, however, does not reside in the ''words ''but in the inflexion or accent given and the resulting sound originated thereby. (See “Mantra” and “Akasa”) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Isis +

In Egyptian ''Issa'', the goddess Virgin‐Mother; personified nature. In Egyptian or Koptic ''Uasari, ''the female reflection of ''Uasar ''or Osiris. She is the “woman clothed with the sun” of the land of Chemi. Isis Latona is the Roman Isis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hippopotamus +

In Egyptian symbolism Typhon was called “the hippopotamus who slew his father and violated his mother,” Rhea (mother of the gods). His father was Chronos. As applied therefore to Time and Nature (Chronos and Rhea), the accusation becomes comprehensible. The type of Cosmic Disharmony, Typhon, who is also Python, the monster formed of the slime of the Deluge of Deucalion, “violates” his mother, Primordial Harmony, whose beneficence was so great that she was called “The Mother of the Golden Age”. It was Typhon, who put an end to the latter, i.e., produced the first war of elements [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Sons of Adi +

In Esoteric philosophy the “Sons of Adi” are called the “Sons of the Fire‐mist”. A term used of certain adepts. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chitkala +

In Esoteric philosophy, identical with the Kumâras those who first incarnated into the men of the Third Root‐Race. (See ''Sec.Doct''.; Vol. 1. p. 288 n.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Cain +

In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapter of ''Genesis''. It is held, moreover, that Abel is not his brother, but his female aspect. (See ''Sec.Doct''., ''sub voce''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dangma +

In Esotericism a purified Soul. A Seer and an Initiate; one who has attained full wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +