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Beecher, Henry Ward +

Passage quoted from one of his sermons; has not been traced to any source (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#406|9:406]][[SMW::on]]). +

Beechey, Katherine A. +

As keeper of the Adyar Archives, supplied material and information for Volume VI of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.6)|BCW 6:xxiii]]) +

Beel‐Zebub +

The disfigured ''Baal ''of the Temples. and more correctly Beel‐Zebul. Beel‐Zebub means ‐ literally “god of flies” ; the derisory epithet used by the Jews, and the incorrect and confused rendering of the “god of the sacred scarabæi”, the divinities watching the mummies, and symbols of transformation, regeneration and immortality. Beel‐Zeboul means properly the “ God of the Dwelling:’ and is spoken of in this sense in ''Matthew'' x. 25. As Apollo, originally not a Greek but a Phenician god, was the healing god, Paiàn, or physician, as well as the god of oracles, he became gradually transformed as such into the “Lord of Dwelling”, a household deity, and thus was called Beel‐Zeboul. He was also, in a sense, a psychopompic god, taking care of the souls as did Anubis. Beelzebub was always the oracle god, and was only confused and identified with Apollo latter on [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Beglar, Joseph David +

Author of a report on tours in the south-eastern provinces of India in 1874-75 and 1875-76, undertaken under Alexander Cunningham’s supervision. It was published at Calcutta in 1882 as volume XIII of the old series of Archaeological Survey of India reports. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#371|5:371]][[SMW::on]]). +

Beharee, Hardeva +

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

Beit el-Wali +

A Nubian temple of Ramesses II; the name means “House of the Saint.” [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that Bait-Oxly in The Secret Doctrine is a corruption of this name but does not identify the tomb mentioned by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Crucifixion of Man#274|BCW 9:274-275]]) +

Beke, Charles Tilstone +

English explorer and biblical researcher (1800-1874), active in Abyssinia, Syria and Palestine. His works include ''Origines Biblicae'' (1834) and ''The Idol in Horeb'' (1871); his investigations included the sources of the Nile and the location of Mount Sinai. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#496|3:496-497]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bel +

The oldest and mightiest god of Babylonia, one of the earliest trinities, — Anu (''q.v.'') ; Bel, “Lord of the World”, father of the gods, Creator, and “Lord of the City of Nipur’; and Hea, maker of fate, Lord of the Deep, God of Wisdom and esoteric Knowledge, and “Lord of the city of Eridu”. The wife of Bel, or his female aspect (''Sakti''), was Belat, or Beltis, “the mother of the great gods”, and the “Lady of the city of Nipur”. The original Bel was also called Enu, Elu and Kaptu (see ''Chaldean account of Genesis, ''by G. Smith). His eldest son was the Moon God Sin (whose names were also Ur, Agu and Itu), who was the presiding deity of the city of Ur, called in his honour by one of his names. Now Ur was the place of nativity of Abram (see “[[Astrology]]”). In the early Babylonian religion the Moon was, like ''Soma ''in India, a male, and the Sun a female deity. And this led almost every nation to great fratricidal wars between the lunar and the solar worshippers — e.g., the contests between the Lunar and the Solar Dynasties, the Chandra and Suryavansa in ancient Aryavarta. Thus we find the same on a smaller scale between the Semitic tribes. Abram and his father Terah are shown migrating from Ur and carrying their lunar god (or its scion) with them ; for Jehovah Elohim or El — another form of Elu — has ever been connected with the moon. It is the Jewish lunar chronology which has led the European “civilized” nations into the greatest blunders and mistakes. Merodach, the son of Hea, became the later Bel and was worshipped at Babylon. His other title, Belas, has a number of symbolical meanings [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bela‐Shemesh +

“The Lord of the Sun”, the name of the Moon during that period when the Jews became in turn solar and lunar worshippers, and when the Moon was a male, and the Sun a female deity. This period embraced the time between the allegorical expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden down to the no less allegorical Noachian flood. (See ''Secret Doctrine, ''I. 397.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Beliy, Elizabeth Petrovna +

Paternal half-sister of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and her companion on a journey in 1859. In a letter of 1873 she informed her of their father’s death ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xliv|BCW 1:xliv,li]]). +

Bell, Lydia +

Theosophist associated with the Aryan Theosophical Society in New York. Her election as its vice-president was reported in ''The Path'' in January 1889. +

Bellachini, Samuel +

Court conjurer to the German emperor whose testimony was cited in defence of the medium [[Slade, Dr. Henry|H. Slade]] ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Dr. Slades Final Triumph#316|BCW 1:316]]). +

Bellarmino R. - Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei +

The section De vigiliis invoked by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] appears in volume II of the Venice edition of 1721, p. 454. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry#91|BCW 11:91]]) +

Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo +

Italian cardinal and theologian who joined the Society of Jesus in 1560, studied at Padua and taught theology at Louvain (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#567|11:567]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bembo +

Tablet of; or ''Mensa Isiaca. ''A brazen tablet inlaid with designs in Mosaic (now in the Museum at Turin) which once belonged to the famous Cardinal Bembo. Its origin and date are unknown. It is covered with Egyptian figures and hieroglyphics, and is supposed to have been an ornament in an ancient Temple of Isis. The learned Jesuit Kircher wrote a description of it, and Montfaucon has a chapter devoted to it. [ w.w.w.] The only English work on the Isiac Tablet is by Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, who gives a photogravure in addition to its history, description, and occult significance. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ben +

A son; a common prefix in proper names to denote the son of so‐and‐so, e.g., Ben Solomon, Ben Ishmael, etc. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ben Shamesh +

The children or the “Sons of the Sun”. The term belongs to the period when the Jews were divided into sun and moon worshippers — Elites and Belites. (See “[[Bela‐Shemesh]]”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Benedict XIV +

Pope, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (1675-1758). His treatise on beatification and canonization appeared in his collected works; part was translated into English as ''Heroic Virtue'' (1850-1852). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#357|7:357]][[SMW::on]]). +

Benedict, H. M. +

President of the New York Gold Exchange. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Bengal Theosophical Society +

Founded in Calcutta on 6 April 1882 during the visit of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]; [[Mitra, Peary Chand|P. C. Mitra]] became its president. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxiii|BCW 4:xxiii]]) +