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Neo‐platonism +

Lit.,“The ''new ''Platonism” or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandria by Ammonius Saccas, of which his disciple Plotinus was the head (A.D. 189‐270). It sought to reconcile Platonic teachings and the Aristotelean system with oriental Theosophy. Its chief occupation was pure spiritual philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism. Theurgy was introduced towards its later years. It was the ultimate effort of high intelligences to check the ever‐ increasing ignorant superstition and ''blind ''faith of the times; the last product of Greek philosophy, which was finally crushed and put to death by brute force [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Docetae +

Lit.,“The Illusionists”. The name given by orthodox Christians to those Gnostics who held that Christ did not, nor could he, suffer death actually, but that, if such a thing had happened, it was merely an illusion which they explained in various ways [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dâgoba +

Lit: a sacred mound or tower for Buddhist holy relics. These are pyramidal‐looking mounds scattered all over India and Buddhist countries, such as Ceylon, Burmah, Central Asia, etc. They are of various sizes, and generally contain some small relics of Saints or those claimed to have belonged to Gautama, the Buddha. As the human body is supposed to consist of 84,000 '''''dhâtus '''''(organic cells with definite vital functions in them), Asoka is said for this reason to have built 84,000 ''dhâtu‐gopas ''or Dâgobas in honour of every cell of the Buddha’s body, each of which has now become a ''dhârmadhâtu ''or holy relic. There is in Ceylon a Dhâtu‐ gopa at Anurâdhapura said to date from160 years B.C. They are now built pyramid‐like, but the primitive Dâgobas were all shaped like towers with a cupola and several tchhatra (umbrellas) over them. Eitel states that the Chinese Dâgobas have all from 7 to 14 ''tchhatras ''over them, a number which is symbolical of the human body [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Faizi +

Literally the “heart”. A writer on occult and mystic subjects. Mussulman ascetics are entitled to it. This loose way of calling things by general names was adopted in ''Isis Unveiled ''but is now altered [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nâga +

Literally “Serpent”. The name in the Indian Pantheon of the Serpent or Dragon Spirits, and of the inhabitants of Pâtâla, hell. But as Pâtâla means the ''antipodes'', and was the name given to America by the ancients, who knew and visited that continent before Europe had ever heard of it, the term is probably akin to the Mexican Nagals the (now) sorcerers and medicine men. The Nagas are the Burmese ''Nats'', serpent‐gods, or “dragon demons”. In Esotericism, however, and as already stated, this is a nick‐name for the “wise men” or adepts in China and Tibet, the “Dragons.” are regarded as the titulary deities of the world, and of various spots on the earth, and the word is explained as meaning adepts, yogis, and narjols. The term has simply reference to their great knowledge and wisdom. This is also proven in the ancient Sûtras and Buddha’s biographies. The Nâga is ever a wise man, endowed with extraordinary magic powers, in South and Central America as in India, in Chaldea as also in ancient Egypt. In China the “worship” of the Nâgas was widespread, and it has become still more pronounced since Nâgarjuna (the “great Nâga”, the “great adept” literally), the fourteenth Buddhist patriarch, visited China. The “Nâgasʺ are regarded by the Celestials as “the tutelary Spirits or gods of the five regions or the four points of the compass and the centre, as the guardians of the five lakes and four oceans” ('''Eitel'''). This, traced to its origin and translated esoterically, means that the five continents and their five root‐races had always been under the guardianship of “terrestrial deities”, i.e., Wise Adepts. The tradition that Nâgas washed Gautama Buddha at his birth, protected him and guarded the relics of his body when dead, points again to the Nâgas being only wise men, Arhats, and no monsters or Dragons. This is also corroborated by the innumerable stories of the conversion of Nâgas to Buddhism. The Nâga of a lake in a forest near Râjagriha and many other “Dragons” were thus converted by Buddha to the good Law [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

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Agapae +

Love Feasts; the early Christians kept such festivals in token of sympathy, love and mutual benevolence. It became necessary to abolish them as an institution, because of great abuse ; Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians complains of misconduct at the feasts of the Christians. [w.w.w.]. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Klesha +

Love of life, but literally “pain and misery”. Cleaving to existence, and almost the same as ''Kama'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lucifer (magazine) +

Lucifer was a monthly journal published from September, 1887, to August, 1897, in London. The first issue was published on September 15, 1887. The names of H. P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins appear as Editors, with the publisher as George Redway, York Street, Covent Garden, London. Bertram Keightley assisted the editors. The slogan printed on the cover was "To bring to light the hidden things of darkness." Mme. Blavatsky edited it until her death in 1891, followed by Annie Besant. After September 1895 G. R. S. Mead joined the editorial staff. Besides Mme. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins, other major contributors included Archibald Keightley, Anna Bonus Kingsford, H. S. Olcott, William Scott-Elliot, Constance Wachtmeister, Gerald Massey, William Kingsland and many others. The co-editors contributed substantially, although HPB was usually anonymous in her writings. A new volume of the journal was started every six months, rather than annually, so that the volumes ran September-February and March-August. +

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Nakshatra +

Lunar asterisms [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Machagistia +

Magic, as once taught in Persia and Chaldea, and raised in its occult practices into a religio‐ magianism. Plato, speaking of Machagistia, or Magianism, remarks that it is the purest form of the worship of ''things divine.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Betyles +

Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in and used both by Gentiles and Christians. (See ''S.D''. II. p. 342) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lupercalia +

Magnificent popular festivals celebrated in ancient Rome on February 15th in honour of the God Pan, during which the ''Luperci, ''the most ancient and respectable among the sacerdotal functionaries, sacrificed two goats and a dog, and two of the most illustrious youths were compelled to run about the city naked (except the loins) whipping all those whom they met. Pope Gelasius abolished the Lupercalia in 496, but substituted for them on the same day the procession of lighted candles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Brahma Vach +

Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, literally. (See ''Manu ''Book I., and ''Vishnu Purâna.'') [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bragadini +

Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was decapitated in 1595 in Bavaria, for making gold [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Cross +

Mariette Bey has shown its antiquity in Egypt by proving that in all the primitive sepulchres “the plan of the chamber has the form of a cross”. It is the symbol of the Brotherhood of races and men; and was laid on the breast of the corpses in Egypt, as it is now placed on the corpses of deceased Christians, and, in its ''Swastica ''form (''croix ''cramponnée) on the hearts of the Buddhist adepts and Buddhas. (See “Calvary Cross”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Edris +

Meaning “the learned One”, an epithet applied by the Arabs to Enoch [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Chyuta +

Means, “the fallen” into generation, as a Kabbalist would say; the opposite of ''achyuta'', something which is not subject to change or differentiation; said of deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lhagpa +

Mercury, the planet [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Kusala +

Merit, one of the two chief constituents of Karma [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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First Point +

Metaphysically the first point of manifestation, the germ of primeval differentiation, or the point in the infinite Circle “whose centre is everywhere, and circumference nowhere“. The Point is the Logos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +