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A

Agathon +

Plato’s Supreme Deity. Lit., “The Good”, our ALAYA, or “Universal Soul”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

P

Padarthas +

Predicates of existing things; so‐called in the ''Vaiseshika ''or “atomic” system of philosophy founded by Kanâda. This school is one of the six ''Darshanas'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asmoneans +

Priest‐kings of Israel whose dynasty reigned over the Jews for 126 years. They promulgated the Canon of the Mosaic Testament in contradistinction to the “Apocrypha” (q.v.) or Secret Books of the Alexandrian Jews, the Kabbalists, and maintained the dead‐letter meaning of the former. Till the time of John Hyrcanus, they were Ascedeans ''(Chasidim'') and Pharisees; but later they became Sadducees or Zadokites, asserters of Sacerdotal rule as contradistinguished from Rabbinical [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adi‐budhi +

Primeval Intelligence or Wisdom; the eternal Budhi or Universal Mind. Used of ''Divine Ideation'', “Mahâbuddhi” being synonymous with MAHAT. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Archobiosis +

Primeval beginning of life [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adi‐Sakti +

Primeval, divine Force; the female creative power, and aspect in and of every male god. The ''Sakti ''in the Hindu Pantheon is always the spouse of some god. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gaea +

Primordial Matter, in the Cosmogony of Hesiod; Earth, as some think; the wife of Ouranos, the sky or heavens. The female personage of the primeval Trinity, composed of Ouranos, Gæa and Eros [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ilus +

Primordial mud or slime; called also Hyle [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hyle +

Primordial stuff or matter; esoterically the homogeneous sediment of Chaos or the Great Deep. The first principle out of which the objective Universe was formed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Noo +

Primordial waters of space called “Father‐ Mother”; the “face of the deep” of the Bible; for above Noo hovers the Breath of Kneph, who is represented with the Mundane Egg in his mouth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daivi‐prakriti +

Primordial, homogeneous light, called by some Indian Occultists “the Light of the Logos” (see ''Notes on the Bhagavat Gita'', by T. Subba Row, B.A., L.L.B.); when differentiated this light becomes FOHAT [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Diploteratology +

Production of mixed Monsters; in abbreviation ''teratology'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Elementaries +

Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls having at some time prior to death separated from themselves their divine spirits, and so lost their chance for immortality; but at the present stage of learning it has been thought best to apply the term to the spooks or phantoms of disembodied persons, in general, to those whose temporary habitation is the Kâma Loka. Eliphas Lévi and some other Kabbalists make little distinction between elementary spirits who have been men, and those beings which people the elements [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kneph, The +

Published under the Authority of the Sovereign Sanctuary for Great Britain and Ireland. Editor: Bro. Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, IX(degree), LL.D., 32(degree)(first six issues), then James Hill, John Yarker, et alia. Succeeded by: Zuzimoth January 1, 1881-July 28, 1900. The last numbered issue was that for August 1895, and only one issue seems to have been issued thereafter. This was the organ of John Yarker's Antient & Primitive Rite of Masonry, which has intimate connections with the origins of the Theosophical Society and with later occult organizations, such as Theodor Reuss' O.T.O. Despite its notoriety for contributions by Mackenzie and Yarker, the journal by and large consisted of lodge news and of Yarker's interminable efforts to establish his Masonic genealogy. Listed in F. Leigh Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonne of Works on the Occult Sciences, Vol. 1, Rosicrucian Books (London: Privately Printed, 1903). Copy in Chancellor Robert L. Livingston Masonic Library, New York. (IAPSOP) +

Y

Yates County Chronicle +

Publisher: S.C. Cleveland. +

I

Ithyphallic +

Qualification of the gods as males and hermaphrodites, such as the bearded Venus, Apollo in woman’s clothes, Ammon the generator, the embryonic Ptah, and so on. Yet the phallus, so conspicuous and, according to ''our ''prim notions, so indecent, in the Indian and Egyptian religions, was associated in the earliest symbology far more with another and much purer idea than that of sexual creation. As shown by many an Orientalist, it expressed ''resurrection, the rising in life from death. ''Even the other meaning had nought indecent in it: “These images only symbolise in a very expressive manner the creative force of nature, without obscene intention,” writes Mariette Bey, and adds, “It is but another way to express ''celestial generation'', which should cause the deceased to enter into a new life”. Christians and Europeans are very hard on the phallic symbols of the ancients. The nude gods and goddesses and their generative emblems and statuary have secret departments assigned to them in our museums; why then adopt and preserve the same symbols for Clergy and Laity? The love‐feasts in the early Church—its ''agapæ ''as pure (or as impure) as the Phallic festivals of the Pagans; the long priestly robes of the Roman and Greek Churches, and the long hair of the latter, the holy water sprinklers and the rest, are there to show that Christian ritualism has preserved in more or less modified forms all the symbolism of old Egypt. As to the symbolism of a purely ''feminine ''nature, we are bound to confess that in the sight of every impartial archæologist the half nude toilets of our cultured ladies of Society are far more suggestive of female‐sex worship than are the rows of yoni‐shaped lamps, lit along the highways to temples in India [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

G

Gunas +

Qualities, attributes (See“ Triguna”) ; a thread, also a cord [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bakhour +

R. M. ''[Cyclop.]'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hiranya +

Radiant, golden, used of the “Egg of Brahmâ” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Criocephale +

Ram‐headed, applied to several deities and emblematic figures, notably those of ancient Egypt, which were designed about the period when the Sun passed, at the Vernal Equinox, from the sign Taurus to the sign Aries. Previously to this period, bull‐headed and horned deities prevailed. Apis was the type of the Bull deity, Ammon that of the ram‐headed type: Isis, too, had a Cow’s head allotted to her. Porphyry writes that the Greeks united the Ram to Jupiter and the Bull to Bacchus. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +