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F

Fluvii Transitus +

Or crossing of the River (Chebar). Cornelius Agrippa gives this alphabet. In the ''Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, ''Vol. III., part 2, 1890, which work is the Report of the proceedings of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Freemasons, No. 2076, will be found copies of this alphabet, and also the curious old letters called Melachim, and the Celestial alphabet, supplied by W. Wynn Westcott, P.M. This Lodge seems to be the only one in England which really does study “the hidden mysteries of Nature and Science” in earnest [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kiyun +

Or the god ''Kivan ''which was worshipped by the Israelites in the wilderness and was probably identical with Saturn and even with the god Siva. Indeed, as the Zendic H is S in India (their “hapta” is “sapta”, etc.), and as the letters K, H, and S, are interchangeable, Siva may have easily become ''Kiva ''and ''Kivan'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Masoretic Points +

Or, as the system is now called, ''Masóra ''from ''Massoreh ''or ''Massoreth, ''“tradition”, and ''Mâsar'', to “hand down”. The Rabbins who busied themselves with the ''Masorah, ''hence called Masorites, were also the inventors of the Masoretic points, which are supposed to give the vowelless words of the Scriptures their true pronunciation, by the addition of points representing vowels to the consonants. This was the invention of the learned and cunning Rabbins of the School of Tiberias (in the ninth century of our era), who, by doing so, have put an entirely new construction on the chief words and names in the Books of Moses, and made thereby confusion still more confounded. The truth is, that this scheme has only added additional blinds to those already existing in the ''Pentateuch ''and other works [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Caste +

Originally the system of the four hereditary classes into which the Indian population was divided: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Sudra (or descendants of Brahmâ, Warriors, Merchants, and the lowest or Agriculturalists). Besides these original four, hundreds have now grown up in India [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gebras +

Out of date name of Zoroastrians. This was the name given to the free inhabitants of Mesopotamia in Sasanian Iran. The name, apparently, was transferred from the Zoroastrian community of Mesopotamia to all Zoroastrians during the Islamization of Iran +

M

Mlechchhas +

Outcasts. The name given to all foreigners, and those who are non‐Aryas [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Extra‐Cosmic +

Outside of Kosmos or Nature; a nonsensical word invented to assert the existence of a ''personal ''god, independent of, or out side, Nature ''per se'', in opposition to the Pantheistic idea that the whole Kosmos is animated or informed with the Spirit of Deity, Nature being but the garment, and matter the illusive shadow, of the real unseen Presence [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Exoteric +

Outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gehs +

Parsi prayers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Niyashes +

Parsi prayers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mobeds +

Parsi, or Zoroastrian priests [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kshanti +

Patience, one of the ''Paramîtas ''of perfection [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Manas Sanyama +

Perfect concentration of the mind, and control over it, during Yoga practices [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asta‐dasha +

Perfect, Supreme Wisdom; a title of Deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aeon +

Periods of time; emanations proceeding from the divine essence, and celestial beings; genii and angels with the Gnostics. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Achara +

Personal and social (religious) obligations. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bono +

Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy. Returning from his voyage he settled in Istria in 1330, and became famous as a Rosicrucian. A Calabrian monk named Lacinius is credited with having published in 1702 a condensed version of Bono’s works on the transmutation of metals. There is, however, more of Lacinius than of Bono in the work. Bono was a genuine adept and an Initiate ; and such do not leave their secrets behind them in MSS [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Manasasarovara +

Phonetically pronounced ''Mansoravara''. A sacred lake in Tibet, in the Himalayas, also called ''Anavatapta''. Manasasarovara is the name of the tutelary deity of that lake and, according to popular folk‐ lore, is said to be a ''nâga, ''a “serpent”. This, translated esoterically, means a great adept, a sage. The lake is a great place of yearly pilgrimage for the Hindus, as the ''Vedas ''are claimed to have been written on its shores [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Karma +

Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It is the eleventh ''Nidana ''in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox Buddhism ; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, the meta physical ''Samskâra'', or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply ''the one ''Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. When Buddhism teaches that “Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration ‘ or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought after each Personality but the causes produced by it ; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them, so to speak, and such causes—unless compensated during the life of the person who produced them with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and causes is fully reestablished. No “personality”—a mere bundle of material atoms and of instinctual and mental characteristics—can of course continue, as such, in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced, it is therefore the Ego, that ''self ''which is the “moral kernel” referred to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

L

Lycanthropy +

Physiologically, a disease or mania, during which a person imagines he is a wolf, and acts as such. Occultly, it means the same as “were‐wolf”, the psychological faculty of certain sorcerers to ''appear ''as wolves. Voltaire states that in the district of Jura, in two years between 1598 and 1600, over 600 lycanthropes were put to death by a too Christian judge. This does not mean that Shepherds accused of sorcery, and seen as wolves, had indeed the power of changing themselves physically into such; but simply that they had the hypnotizing power of making people (or those they regarded as enemies), believe they saw a wolf when there was none in fact. The exercise of such power is truly sorcery. “Demoniacal” possession is ''true ''at bottom, minus the devils of Christian theology. But this is no place for a long disquisition upon occult mysteries and magic powers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +