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D

Daath +

Knowledge; “the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah, Wisdom and Understanding”: sometimes, in error, called a Sephira. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asuramaya +

Known also as ''Mayâsura''. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, well‐known in Sanskrit works [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Iu‐Kabar Zivo +

Known also as Nebat‐Iavar‐bar‐ Iufin‐Ifafin, “Lord of the Æons” in the Nazarene System. He is the procreator (Emanator) of the ''seven holy lives ''(the seven primal Dhyan Chohans, or Archangels, each representing one of the cardinal Virtues), and is himself called the third life (''third ''Logos). In the Codex he is addressed as “the Helm and ''Vine ''of the food of life”. Thus, he is identical with Christ (Christos) who says “I am the ''true Vine ''and my Father is the Husband‐ man “(John xv. i). It is well known that Christ is regarded in the Roman Catholic Church, as the “chief of the Æons”, and also as Michael “who is like god”. Such was also the belief of the Gnostics [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mukta +

Liberation from sentient life; one beatified or liberated; a candidate for ''Moksha'', freedom from flesh and matter, or life on this earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lif +

Lif and Lifthresir, the only two human beings who were allowed to be present at the “Renewal of the World”. Being “pure and innocent and free from sinful desires, they are permitted to enter the world where peace now reigns”. The ''Edda ''shows them hidden in Hoddmimir’s forest dreaming the dreams of childhood while the last conflict was taking place. These two creatures, and the allegory in which they take part, are allusions to the few nations of the Fourth Root Race, who, surviving the great submersion of their continent and the majority of their Race, passed into the Fifth and continued their ethnical evolution in our present Human Race [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Jiva +

Life, as the Absolute; the Monad also or “Atma‐ Buddhi” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chiah +

Life; Vita, ''Revivificatio''. In the Kabbala, the second highest essence of the human soul, corresponding to Chokmah (Wisdom) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Light +

Light was published by the London Spiritualist Alliance beginning in 1881. William Eglinton and other early London Theosophists were frequently mentioned in early issues. Publication was taken over in 1884 by the College of Pyschic Studies, founded by William Stainton Moses, and continues to this day. This was the preeminent spiritualist journal in England for more than a century, directed, unlike its contemporaries the Medium and Daybreak and The Two Worlds, more to the educated, less avowedly Christian and more urbane classes of London than to working-class or provincial audiences (IAPSOP). +

A

Apava +

Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for Âpava, like the latter, divides himself into two parts, male and female, and creates Vishnu, who creates Virâj, who creates Manu. The name is explained and interpreted in various ways in Brahmanical literature [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Djnana +

Lit., Knowledge; esoterically, “supernal or divine knowledge acquired by Yoga”. Written also ''Gnyana'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Niti +

Lit., Prudence, ethics [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dharmachakra +

Lit., The turning of the “wheel of the Law”. The emblem of Buddhism as a system of cycles and rebirths or reincarnations [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nitya Parivrita +

Lit., continuous extinction [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Enoichion +

Lit., the ''inner ''Eye” ; the “Seer”, a reference to the third ''inner'', or Spiritual Eye, the true name for Enoch disfigured from ''Chanoch.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gatra +

Lit., the ''limbs ''(of Brahmâ) from which the “mind‐born” sons, the seven Kumâras, were born [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avarasaila Sangharama +

Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihâra (monastery) in Dhana‐kstchâka, according to Eitel, “built 600 B.C., and deserted A.D. 600” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Maha Manvantara +

Lit., the great interludes between the “Manus”. The period of universal activity. Manvantara implying here simply a period of activity, as opposed to Pralaya, or rest—without reference to the length of the cycle [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chhannagarikah +

Lit., the school of six cities. A famous philosophical school where Chelas are prepared before entering on the Path [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Bodhyanga +

Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the ''Bodhi pakchika dharma, ''comprehending seven degrees of intelligence (esoterically, seven states of consciousness), and these are (1) ''Smriti “''memory”; (2) Dharma pravitchaya, “correct understanding” or discrimination of the Law ; (3) ''Virya, ''“energy” ; (4) ''Priti, ''“spiritual joy” ; (5)''Prasrabdhi, ''“tranquillity” or quietude; (6) ''Samâdhi'', “ecstatic contemplation”; and (7) ''Upeksha ''“absolute indifference” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chadayatana +

Lit., the six dwellings or ''gates ''in man for the reception of sensations; thus, on the physical plane, the eyes, nose, ear, tongue, body (or touch) and mind, as a product of the physical brain and on the mental plane (esoterically), ''spiritual ''sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch and perception, the whole synthesized by the ''Buddhi‐atmic ''element. Chadâyatana is one of the 12 Nidânas, which form the chain of incessant causation and effect [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +