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Banerji, Bipin Bihari +

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

Banerji, Raj Kumar +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol8|vol. 8]] (1886–1887). +

Banerji, Rustik Lal +

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

Banerji, Tarapada +

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

Banner of Light, The +

The longest lasting and most important American spiritualist weekly journal, published by Isaac Rich and Luther Colby (IAPSOP). Boston Spiritualist periodical, 1857-1907, originally edited by Colby and Rich. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#450|6:450]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bannerjee, Nobin K. +

An early Indian Theosophist and president of the Berhampore branch. He served as deputy magistrate and deputy collector and managed wards’ estates in Murshidabad, Bengal. His contributions discussed mediumship, dreams and related questions. +

Banon, Arthur Thomas +

Anglo-Irish army officer and early member of the Theosophical Society in India. He served in the 39th Bengal Native Infantry and established orchards at Manali. Described his travels in the Gangotri Valley and visit to Tholing monastery in Tibet; his claims about the lamas’ powers prompted comments by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to A Cis-Tibetan Ramble#160|BCW 4:160]]) +

Baphomet +

The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See ''Secret Doctrine'', I. 253). According to the Western, and especially the French Kabalists, the Templars were accused of worshipping Baphomet, and Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Templars, with all his brother‐Masons, suffered death in consequence. But esoterically, and philologically, the word never meant “goat”, nor even anything so objective as an idol. The term means according to Von Hammer, “baptism” or ''initiation into Wisdom, ''from the Greek words bafh and mhtiz and from the relation of Baphometus to Pan. Von Hammer must be right. It was a Hermetico Kabalistic symbol, but the whole story as invented by the Clergy was false. (See “[[Pan]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Baptism +

The rite of purification performed during the ceremony of initiation in the sacred tanks of India, and also the later identical rite established by John “the Baptist” and practised by his disciples and followers, who were not Christians. This rite was hoary with age when it was adopted by the ''Chrestians ''of the earliest centuries. Baptism belonged to the earliest Chaldeo‐Akkadian theurgy; was religiously practised in the nocturnal ceremonies in the Pyramids where we see to this day the font in the shape of the sarcophagus; was known to take place during the Eleusinian mysteries in the sacred temple lakes, and is practised even now by the descendants of the ancient Sabians. The Mendæans (the ''El Mogtasila ''of the Arabs) are, notwithstanding their deceptive name of “St. John Christians”, less Christians than are the Orthodox Mussulman Arabs around them. They are pure Sabians; and this is very naturally explained when one remembers that the great Semitic scholar Renan has shown in his ''Vie de Jésus ''that the Aramean verb ''seba'', the origin of the name ''Sabian'', is a synonym of the Greek baptizw. The modern Sabians, the Mendæans whose vigils and religious rites, face to face with the silent stars, have been described by several travellers, have still preserved the theurgic, baptismal rites of their distant and nigh‐for gotten forefathers, the Chaldean Initiates. Their religion is one of multiplied baptisms, of seven purifications in the name of the seven planetary rulers, the “seven Angels of the Presence” of the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestant Baptists are but the pale imitators of the ''El Mogtasila ''or ''Nazareans ''who practise their Gnostic rites in the deserts of Asia Minor. (See “[[Boodhasp]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Bapu Deva Shastri +

Indian Sanskrit scholar, mathematician and astronomer, professor at the Government College of Benares. He edited and translated classical Indian mathematical and astronomical texts, including the ''Līlāvatī''. +

Barberi, Andrew +

Bibliographical references include: Bullarii Romani Continuatio, Rome, 1835-57. 19 vols. fol. Extends from Clement XIII to Gregory XVI, in 1834 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#405|9:405]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barborka, Geoffrey +

Assisted with the early volumes of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] included the name in his collective acknowledgment for research, reference checking, manuscript copying and technical assistance. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|BCW 4:xix]]) +

Bardesanes +

A Syrian Gnostic, erroneously regarded as a Christian theologian, born at Edessa (''Edessene Chronicle'') in 155 of our era (Assemani ''Bibl.. Orient. ''i. 389). He was a great astrologer following the Eastern Occult System. According to Porphyry (who calls him the Babylonian, probably on account of his ''Chaldeeism ''or astrology), “Bardesanes . . . . held intercourse with the Indians that had been sent to the Cæsar with Damadamis at their head” (''De Abst. ''iv. 17), and had his information from the Indian gymnosophists. The fact is that most of his teachings, however much they may have been altered by his numerous Gnostic followers, can be traced to Indian philosophy, and still more to the Occult teachings of the Secret System. Thus in his Hymns he speaks of the creative Deity as “Father‐ Mother”, and elsewhere of “Astral Destiny” (Karma) of “Minds of Fire” (the ''Agni‐Devas'') &c. He connected the Soul (the personal Manas) with the Seven Stars, ''deriving its origin ''from the Higher Beings (the divine Ego); and therefore “admitted spiritual resurrection but denied the resurrection of the body”, as charged with by the Church Fathers. Ephraim shows him preaching the signs of the Zodiac, the importance of the birth‐hours and “proclaiming the seven”. Calling the Sun the “Father of Life” and the Moon the “Mother of Life”, he shows the latter “laying aside her garment of light (principles) for the renewal of the Earth”. Photius cannot understand how, while accepting “the Soul free from the power of genesis (destiny of birth)” and possessing free will, he still placed the body under the rule of birth (genesis). For “they (the Bardesanists) say, that wealth and poverty and sickness and health and death and all things not within our control are works of destiny” (''Bibl. Cod. ''223, p.221 — f). This is Karma, most evidently, which does not preclude at all free‐will. Hippolytus makes him a representative of the Eastern School. Speaking of Baptism, Bardesanes is made to say (''loc. cit''. pp. 985‐ff “It is not however the Bath alone which makes us free, but the Knowledge of who we are, what we are become, where we were before, whither we are hastening, whence we are redeemed; what is generation (birth), what is re‐ generation (re.birth)”. This points plainly to the doctrine of re‐incarnation. His conversation (''Dialogue'') with Awida and Barjamina on Destiny and Free Will shows it. “What is called Destiny, is an order of outflow given to the Rulers (Gods) and the Elements, according to which order the Intelligences (Spirit‐Egos) are changed by their descent into the Soul, and the Soul by its descent into the body”. (See Treatise, found in its Syriac original, and published with English translation in 1855 by Dr. Cureton, ''Spicileg. Syriac''. in British Museum.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Bardesanian +

The “Codex of the Nazarenes”, a system worked out by one Bardesanes. It is called by some a Kabala within the Kabala; a religion or sect the esotericism of which is given out in names and allegories entirely ''sui‐generis''. A very old Gnostic system. This codex has been translated into Latin. Whether it is right to call the ''Sabeanism ''of the Mendaїtes (miscalled St. John’s Christians), contained in the Nazarene Codex, “the Bardesanian system”, as some do, is doubtful; for the doctrines of the Codex and the names of the Good and Evil Powers therein, are older than Bardaisan. Yet the names are identical in the two systems [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Baresma +

A plant used by Mobeds (''Parsi priests'') in the fire‐ temples, wherein consecrated bundles of it are kept [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Barhishad +

A class of the “lunar” Pitris or “Ancestors”, Fathers, who are believed in popular superstition to have kept up in their past incarnations the household sacred flame and made fire‐offerings. Esoterically the Pitris who evolved their shadows or ''chhayas ''to make there‐with the first man. (See ''Secret Doctrine, ''Vol. II.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Baring-Gould S. - Curious Myths of the Middle Ages +

The passage discussed by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] is located in the first series, pp. 127–133 of the second revised edition of 1868. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Mr. Lloyds Questions to Mohini#215|BCW 6:215]]) +

Baring-Gould, Sabine +

Author of ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'', first published in London in 1866; de Zirkoff also lists revised and later editions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#437|6:437]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barker, Alfred Trevor +

English Theosophist who deciphered, edited and published ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (1923) and ''The Letters of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] to A. P. Sinnett'' (1926). He belonged to the Theosophical Society (Adyar) until 1925 and joined the Point Loma Theosophical Society in San Diego, California, in 1930 ([[:t-ru-lib:Баркер, Альфред Тревор|BTS: Barker, Alfred Trevor]]). Took part in collecting [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s articles and in negotiations with Rider. At the publisher’s insistence, his name appeared on the title page as editor, while the compilation was undertaken by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.1)#xvi|BCW 1:xvi-xviii]]). In 1930 supplied the Point Loma group with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] articles collected jointly with R. A. V. Morris. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xiv|BCW 4:xiv-xvi]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|BCW 4:xix]]) +

Barker, Virginia +

Assisted with editing manuscripts for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings and business arrangements with Rider. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xix|BCW 4:xix]]) +