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Tzool‐mah +

Lit., “shadow”. It is stated in the ''Zohar '' (I., 218 a, i. fol. 117 a, col. 466.), that during the last seven nights of a mans life, the ''Neshczmah,'' his spirit, leaves him and the shadow, ''tzool‐mah'', acts no longer, his body casting no shadow; and when the ''tzool‐mah ''disappears entirely, then ''Ruach'' and'' Nephesh'' — the soul and life — go with it. It has been often urged that in Kabbalistic philosophy there were but three, and, with the Body, ''Guff,'' four “principles”. It can be easily shown there are seven, and several subdivisions more, for there are the “upper” and the “lower ” ''Neshamah'' (the dual Manas); ''Ruach'', Spirit or Buddhi; ''Nephesh'' (Kâma) which “has no light from her own substance”, but is associated with the ''Guff,'' Body; ''Tzelem'', “Phantom of the Image” and ''D’yooknah'', Shadow of the Phantom Image, or ''Mâyâvi '' ''Rûpa''. Then come the'' Zurath'', Prototypes, and'' Tab‐nooth'', Form; and finally,'' Tzurah'', ‘ highest Principle (Âtman) which remains above”, etc., etc. (See Myer’s ''Qabbalah'', pp. 400 ''et. seq''.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tzuphon +

A name for Boreas, the Northern Wind, which some of the old Israelites deified and worshipped. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tzurah +

The divine prototype in the ''Kabbalah''. In Occultism it embraces Âtmâ‐Buddhi‐Manas, the Highest Triad; the eternal divine ''Individual''. The plural is ''tzurath''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tzure +

Almost the same as the above: the prototype of the “Image” ''tzelem'' ; a Kabbalistic term used in reference to the so‐called creation of the divine and the human Adam, of which the ''Kabala ''(or ''Kabbalah'') has four types, agreeing with the root‐races of men. The Jewish Occultists knew of no Adam and, refusing to recognise in the first human race Humanity with Its Adam, spoke only of “primordial sparks”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tāndyamahābrāhmaṇa or Pañchaviṃśabrāhmaṇa +

Also known as the Panchavimsha Brahmana. The bibliography lists an edition with Sayana's commentary and W. Caland's translation (Calcutta, 1931) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#416|8:416]][[SMW::on]]). +

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U +

'''U — '''The twenty‐first letter of the Latin alphabet, which has no equivalent in Hebrew. As a number, however, it is considered very mystical both by the Pythagoreans and the Kabbalists, as it is the product of 3 x 7. The latter consider it the most sacred of the odd numbers, as 21 is the sum of the numerical value of the Divine Name ''aeie'', or ''eiea'', or again ''aheihe'' — thus (read backward, ''aheihe'') '' he i he a'' 5+10+5+1=21 In Alchemy it symbolizes the twenty‐one days necessary for the transmutation of baser metals into silver. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uasar +

The same as Osiris, the latter name being Greek. Uasar is described as the “Egg‐born ”, like Brahmâ. “He is the egg‐sprung Eros of Aristophanes, whose creative energy brings all things into existence ; the demiurge who made and animates the world, a being who is a sort of personification of Amen, the invisible god, as Dionysos is a link between mankind and the Zeus Hypsistos” (The ''Great'' ''Dionysiak Myth'', Brown). Isis is called ''Uasi'', as she is the ''Sakti'' of Osiris, his female aspect, both symbolizing the creating, energising, vital forces of nature in its aspect of male and female deity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uchchaih‐Sravas +

The model‐horse; one of the fourteen precious things or Jewels produced at the Churning of the Ocean by the gods. The white horse of Indra, called the Râjâ of horses. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uchnicha +

Explained as “a protuberance on Buddha’s cranium, forming a hair‐tuft ”. This curious description is given by the Orientalists, varied by another which states that Uchnîcha was “originally a conical or flame‐shaped hair tuft on the crown of a Buddha, in later ages represented as a fleshy excrescence on the skull itself ”. This ought to read quite the reverse; for esoteric philosophy would say: Originally an orb with the third eye in it, which degenerated later in the human race into a fleshy protuberance, to disappear gradually, leaving in its place but an occasional flame‐ coloured aura, perceived only through clairvoyance, and when the exuberance of spiritual energy causes the (now concealed) “third eye to radiate its superfluous magnetic power. At this period of our racial development, it is of course the “Buddhas” or Initiates alone who enjoy in full the faculty of the “third eye” , as it is more or less atrophied in everyone else. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Udana +

Extemporaneous speeches; also Sûtras. In philosophy the term applies to the physical organs of speech, such as tongue, mouth, voice, etc. In sacred literature in general, it is the name of those Sûtras which contain extemporaneous discourses, in distinction to the Sûtras that contain only that subject matter which is introduced by questions put to Gautama the Buddha and his replies. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Udayana +

Modern Peshawer. “ The classic ''land of '' ''sorcery”'' according to Hiouen‐Thsang. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Udayana Raja +

A king of Kausâmbî, called Vatsarâjâ, who was the first to have a statue of Buddha made before his death; in consequence of which, say the Roman Catholics, who build statues of Madonnas and Saints at every street corner — he “became the originator of Buddhist IDOLATRY”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Udayashankar, Gaorishankar +

Indian administrator who retired from public service and entered the Sannyasa order. A letter to F. Max Müller explaining this decision was quoted in the March 1890 issue. +

Udra Ramaputra +

Udra, the son of Râma. A Brahman ascetic, who was for some years the Guru of Gautama Buddha. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Udumbara +

A lotus of gigantic size, sacred to Buddha: the ''Nila Udumbara'' or “blue lotus”, regarded as a supernatural omen when ever it blossoms, for it flowers but once every three thousand years. One such, it is said, burst forth before the birth of Gautama, another, near a lake at the foot of the Himalayas, in the fourteenth century, just before the birth of Tsong‐kha‐pa, etc., etc. The same is said of the Udumbara tree (''ficus glomerata'') because it flowers at intervals of long centuries, as does also a kind of cactus, which blossoms only at extra ordinary altitudes and opens at midnight. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ugolino della Gherardesca +

Count of Donoratico and a participant in the struggle for power in Pisa; captured by Archbishop Ruggieri, he died of starvation in confinement in 1289. Dante portrayed him in the Inferno. The story that he ate his children is a legend. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (3)#94|BCW 9:94]]) +

Ugolinus, Blasius +

Associated with ''Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum'', a thirty-four-volume collection of studies of ancient Hebrew customs, laws and religious and civil rites, published at Venice in 1744-1769. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#399|7:399-400]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ullambana +

The festival of “all souls”, the prototype of All Souls’ Day in Christian lands. It is held in China on the seventh moon annually, when both “ Buddhist and Tauist priests read masses, to release the souls of those who died on land or sea from purgatory, scatter rice to feed Prêtas [ classes of demons ever hungry and thirsty] , consecrate domestic ancestral shrines, . . . . recite Tantras . . . accompanied by magic finger‐play (mûdra) to comfort the ancestral spirits of seven generations in Nâraka” (a kind of purgatory or ''Kama Loka'') The author of the ''Sanskrit‐Chinese Dictionary ''thinks that this is the old Tibetan (Bhon) “ Gtorma ritual engrafted upon Confucian ancestral worship,” owing to Dhamaraksha translating the ''Ullambana Sûtra'' and introducing it into China. The said Sûtra is certainly a forgery, as it gives these rites on the authority of Sâkyamuni Buddha, and “ supports it by the alleged experiences of his principal disciples, Ânanda being said to have appeased Prêtas by food offerings ”. But as correctly stated by Mr. Eitel, “the whole theory, with the ideas of intercessory prayers, priestly litanies and requiems, and ancestral worship, is entirely foreign to ancient and Southern Buddhism ”. And to the Northern too, if we except the sects of Bhootan and Sikkim, of the Bhon or Dugpa persuasion — the ''red caps'', in short. As the ceremonies of All Saints’ Day, or days, are known to have been introduced into China in the third century (265‐292), and as the same Roman Catholic ceremonial and ritual for the dead, held on November 2nd, did not exist in those early days of Christianity, it cannot be the Chinese who borrowed this religious custom from the Latins, but rather the latter who imitated the Mongolians and Chinese. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Uller +

The god of archery, who “journeys over the silvery ice‐ways on skates”. He is the patron of the chase during that period when the Sun passes over the constellation of Sagittarius; and lives in the “ Home of the Light‐Elves” which is in the Sun and outside of Asgard. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ulloa, Antonio de +

Spanish naval officer, traveller and scholar (1716-1795), author of Relación histórica del viaje a América Meridional (Madrid, 1748). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#547|2:547]][[SMW::on]]). +