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Ulom +

The intelligible deity. The objective or material Universe, in the theogony of Mochus. The reflection of the ever‐concealed deity; the Plerôma of the Gnostics. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ulphilas +

A schoolman who made a new alphabet for the Goths in the fourth century — a union of Greek letters with the form of the runic alphabet, since which time the runes began to die out and their secret was gradually lost. (See [[Runes]].) He translated the Bible into Gothic, preserved in the ''Codex Argenteus.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ulrici, Dr. Hermann +

The bibliography lists Über den Spiritismus als wissenschaftliche Frage (Spiritualism as a Scientific Question), published in Halle in 1879. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#547|2:547]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ulupi +

A daughter of Kauravya, King of the ''Nâgas'' in Pâtâla (the nether world, or more correctly, the Antipodes, America). Exoterically, she was the daughter of a king or chief of an aboriginal tribe of the Nâgas, or Nagals (ancient adepts) in pre‐historic America — Mexico most likely, or Uruguay. She was married to Arjuna, the disciple of Krishna, whom every tradition, oral and written, shows travelling five thousand years ago to Pâtâla (the Antipodes). The Purânic tale is based on a historical fact. Moreover, Ulûpi, as a name, has a Mexican ring in it, like “ Atlan ”, “ Aclo ”, etc. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uma‐Kanya +

Lit., “Virgin of Light”; a title ill‐ befitting its possessor, as it was that of Durgâ Kâli, the goddess or female aspect of Siva. Human flesh was offered to her every autumn; and, as Durgâ, she was the patroness of the once murderous Thugs of India, and the special goddess of Tântrika sorcery. But in days of old it was not as it is now. The earliest mention of the title “Umâ‐Kanyâ is found in the ''Kena''‐''Upanishad''; in it the now blood‐thirsty Kâlî, was a benevolent goddess, a being of light and goodness, who brings about reconciliation between Brahmâ and the gods. She is Saraswati and she is Vâch. In esoteric symbology, Kâlî is the dual type of the dual soul — the divine and the human, the light and the dark soul of man [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Umbra +

The shadow of an earth‐bound spook. The ancient Latin races divided man (in esoteric teachings) into seven principles, as did every old system, and as Theosophists do now. They believed that after death ''Anima'', the pure divine soul, ascended to heaven, a place of bliss; ''Manes ''(the Kâma Rûpa) descended into Hades (Kâma Loka); and Umbra (or astral double, the ''Linga '' ''Sharîra'') remained on earth hovering about its tomb, because the attraction of physical, objective matter and affinity to its earthly body kept it within the places which that body had impressed with its emanations. Therefore, they said that nothing but the astral image of the defunct could be seen on earth, and even that faded out with the disintegration of the last particle of the body which had been so long its dwelling. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Una +

Something underlying; subordinate; secondary also, and material. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Undines +

Water nymphs and spooks. One of the four principal kinds of elemental spirits, ‘which are Salamanders (fire), Sylphs (air), Gnomes (earth), and Undines (water). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Unwala, J. N. +

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

Unwalla, J. N. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Upadana +

Material Cause; as flax is the cause of linen. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upadana Karanam +

The material cause of an effect. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upadhi +

Basis; the vehicle, carrier or bearer of something less material than itself: as the human body is the ''upâdhi ''of its spirit, ether the ''upâdhi'' of light, etc., etc.; a mould; a defining or limiting substance. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upadhya, Shen Narain +

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

Upadvipas +

The root (underlying) of islands; dry land. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upanishad +

Translated as “esoteric doctrine ”, or interpretation of the ''Vedas'' by the ''Vedânta'' methods. The third division of the ''Vedas ''appended to the ''Brâhmanas'' and regarded as a portion of ''Sruti ''or “revealed” word. They are, however, as records, far older than the ''Brâhmanas ''the exception of the two, still extant, attached to the ''Rig ‐Veda'' of the Aitareyins. The term'' Upanishad'' is explained by the Hindu pundits as “that which destroys ignorance, and thus produces liberation” of the spirit, through the knowledge of the supreme though'' hidden'' truth; the same, therefore, as that which was hinted at by Jesus, when he is made to say, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free ” (''John'' viii. 32). It is from these treatises of the ''Upanishads'' — themselves the echo of the primeval Wisdom‐Religion―that the Vedânta system of philosophy has been developed. (See “Vedânta”.) Yet old as the ''Upanishads ''may be, the Orientalists will not assign to the oldest of them more than an antiquity of 600 years B.C. The accepted number of these treatises is 150, though now no more than about twenty are left unadulterated. They treat of very abstruse, metaphysical questions, such as the origin of the Universe; the nature and the essence of the Unmanifested Deity and the manifested gods the connection, primal and ultimate, of spirit and matter; the universality of mind and the nature of the human Soul and Ego. The'' Upanishads'' must be far more ancient than the days of Buddhism, as they show no preference for, nor do they uphold, the superiority of the Brahmans as a caste. On the contrary, it is the (now) second caste, the Kshatriya, or warrior class, who are exalted in the oldest of them. As stated by Professor Cowell in Elphinstone’s ''History of'' ''India'' — — “they breathe a freedom of spirit unknown to any earlier work except the'' Rig Veda''. . . The great teachers of the higher knowledge and Brahmans are continually represented as ''going to Kshatriya'' ''Kings to become their '' ''pupils''.” The “ Kshatriya Kings” were in the olden times, like the King Hierophants of Egypt, the receptacles of the highest divine knowledge and wisdom, the'' Elect'' and the incarnations of the primordial divine Instructors — the Dhyâni Buddhas or Kumâras. There was a time, æons before the Brahmans became a caste, or even the ''Upanishads'' were written, when there was on earth but one “lip ”, one religion and one science, namely, the speech of the gods, the Wisdom‐Religion and Truth. This was before the fair fields of the latter, overrun by nations of many languages, became overgrown with the weeds of intentional deception, and national creeds invented by ambition, cruelty and selfishness, broke the one sacred Truth into thousands of fragments. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Upanishadbhashya +

Samkaracharya’s commentary on the Upanishads. Zirkoff refers to volume 2 of the second edition of his works, edited by Hari Raghunath Bhagavat (Poona, 1927-28). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#368|5:368]][[SMW::on]]). +

Upanita +

One who is invested with the Brahmanical thread; lit., “brought to a spiritual teacher or Guru”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Uparati +

Absence of outgoing desires; a Yoga state. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Upasaka +

Male chelas or rather devotees. Those who without entering the priesthood vow to preserve the principal commandments. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +