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D

Dracontia +

Temples dedicated to the Dragon, the emblem of the Sun, the symbol of Deity, of Life and Wisdom. The Egyptian Karnac, the Carnac in Britanny, and Stonehenge are Dracontia well known to all [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mutham +

Temples in India with cloisters and monasteries for regular ascetics and scholars [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Madhya +

Ten thousand billions [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dharana +

That state in Yoga practice when the mind has to be fixed unflinchingly on some object of meditation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gunavat +

That which is endowed with qualities [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Achyuta +

That which is not subject to change or fall; the opposite to ''Chyuta, ''“fallen”. A title of Vishnu. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hoa +

That, from which proceeds ''Ab'', the “Father”; therefore the Concealed ''Logos.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aswattha +

The '''''Bo‐tree''''', the tree of knowledge, '''''ficus religiosa''''' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dudaim +

The ''Atropa Mandragova ''plant is mentioned in ''Genesis, ''XXX., 14, and in ''Canticles'': the name is related in Hebrew to words meaning “breasts” and “love”, the plant was notorious as a love charm, and has been used in many forms of black magic. [ w.w.w.] Dudaim in Kabbalistic parlance is the Soul and Spirit; any two things united in love and friendship ''(dodim''). “Happy is he who preserves his ''dudai''m (higher and lower Manas) inseparable.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ishim +

The ''B’ne‐Aleim'', the “beautiful sons of god”, the originals and prototypes of the later “Fallen Angels” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kiver‐Shans +

The ''astral ''or “Thought Body” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Achath +

The ''one'', the first, feminine; ''achad ''being masculine. A Talmudic word applied to Jehovah. It is worthy of note that the Sanskrit term ''ak ''means one, ''ekata ''being “unity”, Brahmâ being called ''ák'', or ''eka'', the one, the first, whence the Hebrew word and application. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kamaloka +

The ''semi''‐material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied “personalities”, the astral forms, called ''Kamarupa ''remain, until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires; (See “Kamarupa”.) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks and the Amenti of the Egyptians, the land of Silent Shadows; a division of the first group of the ''Trailôkya. ''(See “Kamadhâtu”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arvaksrotas +

The ''seventh ''creation, that of man, in the ''Vishnu Purâna'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Athanor +

The ''“astral” ''fluid of the Alchemists, their Archimedean lever; exoterically, the furnace of the Alchemist [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Capricornus +

The 10th sign of the Zodiac (''Makâra ''in Sanskrit), considered, on account of its hidden meaning, the most important among the constellations of the mysterious Zodiac. it is fully described in the ''Secret Doctrine'', and therefore needs but a few words more. Whether, agreeably with exoteric statements, Capricornus was related in any way to the wet‐nurse Amalthæa who fed Jupiter with her milk, or whether it was the god Pan who changed himself into a goat and left his impress upon the sidereal records, matters little. Each of the fables has its significance. Everything in Nature is intimately correlated to the rest, and therefore the students of ancient lore will not be too much surprised when told that even the seven steps taken in the direction of every one of the four points of the compass, or —28 steps— taken by the new‐born infant Buddha, are closely related to the 28 stars of the constellation of Capricornus [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nidana +

The 12 causes of existence, or a chain of causation, “a concatenation of cause and effect in the whole range of existence through 12 links”. This is the fundamental dogma of Buddhist thought, “the understanding of which solves the riddle of life, revealing the insanity of existence and preparing the mind for Nirvâna”. (Eitel’s ''Sans. Chin. Dict''.) The 12 links stand thus in their enumeration. (1) Jail, or birth, according to one of the four modes of entering the stream of life and reincarnation—or ''Chatur Yoni (q.v.''), each mode placing the being born in one of the six ''Gâti ''(q.v.). (2) ''Jarârnarana'', or decrepitude and death, following the maturity of the ''Skandhas ''(q.v.). (3) ''Bhava, ''the Karmic agent which leads every new sentient being to be born in this or another mode of existence in the ''Trailokya ''and Gâti. (4) ''Upâdâna'', the creative cause of ''Bhava ''which thus becomes the cause of ''Jati ''which is the effect; and this creative cause is the ''clinging to life. ''( 5) Trishnâ, love, whether pure or impure. (6) ''Vêdâna'', or sensation; perception by the senses, it is the 5th Skandha. (7) Sparsa, the sense of touch. (8) ''Chadâyatana'', the organs of sensation. (9) ''Nâmarûpa'', personality, i.e., a form with a name to it, the symbol of the unreality of material phenomenal appearances. (10) ''Vijnâna'', the perfect knowledge of every perceptible thing and of all objects in their concatenation and unity. (11) ''Samskâra'', action on the plane of illusion. (12) ''Avidyâ'', lack of true perception, or ignorance. The Nidânas belonging to the most subtle and abstruse doctrines of the Eastern metaphysical system, it is impossible to go into the subject at any greater length [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

N +

The 14th letter in both the English and the Hebrew alphabets. In the latter tongue the N is called Nun, and signifies a fish. It is the symbol of the female principle or the womb. Its numerical value is 50 in the Kabalistic system, but the Peripatetics made it equivalent to 900, and with a stroke over it (900) 9,000. With the Hebrews, however, the ''final Nun ''was 700 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

P

P +

The 16th letter in both the Greek and the English alphabets, and the 17th in the Hebrew, where it is called ''pé ''or ''pay'', and is symbolized by the mouth, corresponding also, as in the Greek alphabet, to number 80. The Pythagoreans also made it equivalent to 100, and with a dash thus ( P) it stood for 400,000. The Kabbalists associated with it the sacred name of ''Phodeh ''(Redeemer), though no valid reason is given for it [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chaos +

The Abyss, the “Great Deep”. It was personified in Egypt by the Goddess Neїth, anterior to all gods. As Deveria says, “the only God, without form and sex, who gave birth to itself, and without fecundation, is adored under the form of a Virgin Mother”. She is the vulture‐headed Goddess found in the oldest period of Abydos, who belongs, accordingly to Mariette Bey, to the first Dynasty, which would make her, even on the confession of the time‐dwarfing Orientalists, about 7,000 years old. As Mr. Bonwick tells us in his excellent work on Egyptian belief—“Neїth, Nut, Nepte, Nuk (her names as variously read !) is a philosophical conception worthy of the nineteenth century after the Christian era, rather than the thirty‐ninth before it or earlier than that”. And he adds: “ Neith or Nout is neither more nor less than the ''Great Mother'', a yet the ''Immaculate Virgin'', or female God from whom all things proceeded”. Neїth is the “Father‐ mother” of the ''Stanzas ''of the ''Secret Doctrine'', the Swabhavat of the Northern Buddhists, the ''immaculate ''Mother indeed, the prototype of the latest “Virgin” of all; for, as Sharpe says, “the Feast of Candlemas—in honour of the goddess Neїth— is yet marked in our Almanacs as Candlemas day, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary”; and Beauregard tells us of “the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, who can henceforth, as well as the Egyptian Minerva, the mysterious Neїth, boast of having come from herself, and of having given birth to God”. He who would deny the working of cycles and the recurrence of events, let him read what Neїth was years ago, in the conception of the Egyptian Initiates, trying to popularize a philosophy too abstract for the masses; and then remember the subjects of dispute at the Council of Ephesus in 431, when Mary was declared Mother of God; and her Immaculate Conception forced on the World as by command of God, by Pope and Council in 1858. Neїth is ''Swabhdvat ''and also the Vedic ''Aditi ''and the Purânic ''Akâsa'', for “she is not only the celestial vault, or ether, but is made to appear in a tree, from which she gives the fruit of the Tree of Life (like another Eve) or pours upon her worshippers some of the divine water of life”. Hence she gained the favourite appellation of “Lady of the Sycamore”, an epithet applied to another Virgin (Bonwick). The resemblance becomes still more marked when Neїth is found on old pictures represented as a Mother embracing the ram‐headed god, the “Lamb”. An ancient stele declares her to be “Neut, the luminous, who has engendered the gods”—the Sun included, for Aditi is the mother of the Marttanda, the Sun—an Aditya. She is ''Naus, ''the celestial ship ; hence we find her on the prow of the Egyptian vessels, like Dido on the prow of the ships of the Phœnician mariners, and forth with we have the Virgin Mary, from ''Mar'', the “Sea”, called the “Virgin of the Sea”, and the “Lady Patroness” of all Roman Catholic seamen. The Rev. Sayce is quoted by Bonwick, explaining her as a principle in the Babylonian ''Bahu ''(Chaos, or confusion) i.e., “merely the Chaos of Genesis . . . and perhaps also Môt, the primitive substance that was the mother of all the gods”. Nebuchadnezzar seems to have been in the mind of the learned professor, since he left the following witness in cuneiform language, “I built a temple to the Great Goddess, my Mother”. We may close with the words of Mr. Bonwick with which we thoroughly agree “She (Neїth) is the ''Zerouâna ''of the Avesta, ‘time without limits’. She is the Nerfe of the Etruscans, half a woman and half a fish” (whence the connection of the Virgin Mary with the fish and ''pisces'') ; of whom it is said: “From holy good Nerfe the navigation is happy. She is the ''Bythos ''of the Gnostics, the ''One ''of the Neoplatonists, the All of German metaphysicians, the ''Anaita ''of Assyria.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).