Property:CTD term description

This property has type Text.

Usage1793

FilterThe <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Property_page/Filter">search filter</a> allows the inclusion of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Query_expressions">query expressions</a> such as <code>~</code> or <code>!</code>. The selected <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Query_engine">query engine</a> might also support case insensitive matching or other short expressions like:<ul><li><code>in:</code> result should include the term, e.g. '<code>in:Foo</code>'</li></ul><ul><li><code>not:</code> result should to not include the term, e.g. '<code>not:Bar</code>'</li></ul>

Showing 20 pages using this property.

A

Ayin +

Lit., “Nothing”, whence the name of Ain‐ Soph. (See“Ain”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dugpas +

Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of ''Tsong‐ka‐pa ''in the fourteenth century, the Tibetans, whose Buddhism had deteriorated and been dreadfully adulterated with the tenets of the old ''Bhon ''religion,—were all Dugpas. From that century, however, and after the rigid laws imposed upon the ''Gelukpas ''(yellow caps) and the general reform and purification of Buddhism (or Lamaism), the Dugpas have given themselves over more than ever to sorcery, immorality, and drunkenness. Since then the word Dugpas has become a synonym of “sorcerer”, “adept of black magic” and everything vile. There are few, if any, Dugpas in Eastern Tibet, but they congregate in Bhutan, Sikkim, and the borderlands generally. Europeans not being permitted to penetrate further than those borders, the Orientalists never having studied Buddho‐Lamaism in Tibet proper, but judging of it on hearsay and from what Cosmo di Köros, Schlagintweit, and a few others have learnt of it from Dugpas, confuse both religions and bring them under one head. They thus give out to the public pure Dugpaism instead of Buddho‐Lamaism. In short Northern Buddhism in its purified, metaphysical form is almost entirely unknown [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atmabodha +

Lit., “Self‐knowledge”; the title of a Vedantic treatise by Sankârachârya [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Buddha +

Lit., “The Enlightened”. The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all otherselves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bhadrakalpa +

Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching makes it last 236 million years. It is “so called because 1,000 Buddhas or sages appear in the course of it”. ''(Sanshrit Chinese Dict.) ''“Four Buddhas have already appeared” it adds; but as out of the 236 millions, over 151 million years have already elapsed, it does seem a rather uneven distribution of Buddhas. This is the way exoteric or popular religions confuse everything. Esoteric philosophy teaches us that every Root‐ race has its chief Buddha or Reformer, who appears also in the seven sub‐ races as a Bodhisattva (''q.v''.). Gautama Sakyamuni was the fourth, and also the fifth Buddha: the fifth, because we are the fifth root‐race; the fourth, as the chief Buddha in this ''fourth ''Round. The Bhadra Kalpa, or the “period of stability”, is the name of our present Round, esoterically—its duration applying, of course, only to our globe (D), the “1,000” Buddhas being thus in reality limited to but forty‐nine in all [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dhyan Chohans +

Lit., “The Lords of Light”. The highest gods, answering to the Roman Catholic Archangels. The divine Intelligences charged with the supervision of Kosmos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kuklos Anagkes +

Lit., “The Unavoidable Cycle” or the “Circle of Necessity”‐. Of the numerous catacombs in Egypt and Chaldea the most renowned were the subterranean crypts of Thebes and Memphis. The former began on the Western side of the Nile extending toward the Libyan desert, and were known as the ''serpents''’ (Initiated Adepts) catacombs. It was there that the Sacred Mysteries of the ''Kuklos Anagkês ''were performed, and the candidates were acquainted with the inexorable laws traced for every disembodied soul from the beginning of time. These laws were that every reincarnating Entity, casting away its body should pass from this life on earth unto another life on a more subjective plane, a state of bliss, unless the sins of the personality brought on a complete separation of the higher from the lower “principles” ; that the “circle of necessity” or the ''unavoidable cycle ''should last a given period (from one thousand to even three thousand years in a few cases), and that when closed the Entity ''should return to its mummy'', i.e., to a new incarnation. The Egyptian and Chaldean teachings were those of the “Secret Doctrine” of the Theosophists. The Mexicans had the same. Their demi‐god, Votan, is made to describe in ''Popol Vu ''(see de Bourbourg’s work) the ''ahugero de colubra ''which is identical with the “Serpent’s Catacombs”, or passage, adding that it ran underground and “terminated at the root of heaven”, into which ''serpent’s hole, ''Votan was, admitted because he was himself “a son of the Serpents”, or a ''Dragon of Wisdom'', i.e., an Initiate. The world over, the priest‐adepts called themselves “Sons of the Dragon” and “Sons of the Serpent‐god” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahat +

Lit., “The great one”. The first principle of Universal Intelligence and Consciousness. In the Purânic philosophy the first product of root‐nature or ''Pradhâna ''(the same as Mulaprakriti); the producer of ''Manas ''the thinking principle, and of ''Ahankâra'', egotism or the feeling of “I am I” (in the lower Manas) [[Category: TG terms]] (TG). +

K

Kinnaras +

Lit., “What men?” Fabulous creatures of the same description as the ''Kim‐purushas'', One of the four classes of beings called “Maharajas” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Melekh +

Lit., “a King”. A title of the Sephira Tiphereth, the V, or ''vau ''in the tetragrammaton—the son or ''Microprosopus ''(the Lesser Face) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Grihastha +

Lit., “a householder”, “one who lives in a house with his family”. A Brahman “ family priest” in popular rendering, and the sarcerdotal hierarchy of the Hindus [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Agni Bhuvah +

Lit., “born of fire”, the term is applied to the four races of ''Kshatriyas ''(the second or warrior caste) whose ancestors are said to have sprung from fire. Agni Bhuvah is the son of Agni, the God of Fire; Agni Bhuvah being the same as Kartti‐keya, the God of War. (See ''Sec.Doct.'', Vol. II., p. 550.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Khi +

Lit., “breath”; meaning Buddhi. '''Khnoom '''(''Eg''.). The great Deep, or Primordial Space. '''Khoda '''(''Pers''.). The name for the Deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Divyasrotra +

Lit., “celestial Ear” Or divine hearing. The second “Abhijna”, or the faculty of understanding the language or sound produced by any living being on Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Divyachakchus +

Lit., “celestial Eye” or divine seeing, perception. It is the first of the six “Abhijnas” (q.v.) ; the faculty developed by Yoga practice to perceive any object in the Universe, at whatever distance [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Guru Deva +

Lit., “divine Master” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arwaker +

Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the ''Eddas'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhrantidarsanatah +

Lit., “false comprehension or apprehension”; something conceived of on false appearances as a ''mayavic, ''illusionary form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Ma +

Lit., “five”. A name of Lakshmi [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Logi +

Lit., “flame”. This giant with his sons and kindred, made themselves finally known as the authors of every cataclysm and conflagration in heaven or on earth, by letting mortals perceive them in the midst of flames. These giant‐fiends were all enemies of man trying to destroy his work wherever they found it. A symbol of the cosmic elements [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +