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Courier Journal, The +

The Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentucky in the 19th century. A pioneer paper called The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, The Louisville Daily Journal, began distribution in the city and, in 1832, the Journal absorbed The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature. The Louisville Journal was an organ of the Whig Party and was founded and edited by George D. Prentice, a New Englander who initially came to Kentucky to write a biography of Henry Clay. Prentice edited the Journal for more than 40 years. In 1844, another newspaper, the Louisville Morning Courier, was founded in Louisville by Walter Newman Haldeman. The Louisville Daily Journal and the Louisville Morning Courier were leading newspapers in Louisville and were politically opposed throughout the Civil War; The Journal was against slavery while the Courier was pro-Confederacy. The Courier was suppressed by the Union and had to move to Nashville, but it returned to Louisville after the war. Upon the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the Confederate states, the Journal opposed the Proclamation as an unconstitutional use of presidential power, and predicted: "Kentucky cannot and will not acquiesce in this measure. Never!" In 1868, an ailing Prentice persuaded the 28-year-old Henry Watterson to come edit for the Journal. During secret negotiations in 1868, The Journal and the Courier merged, and the first edition of The Courier-Journal was delivered to Louisvillians on Sunday morning, November 8, 1868. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Audumla +

The Cow of Creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the giant Ymir or Örgelmir (matter in ebullition) and his sons, the Hrimthurses (Frost giants), before the appearance of gods or men. Having nothing to graze upon she licked the salt of the ice‐rocks and thus produced Buri, “the Producer” in his turn, who had a son Bör (the born) who married a daughter of the Frost Giants, and had three sons, ''Odin ''(Spirit), ''Wili ''(Will), and We (Holy). The meaning of the allegory is evident. It is the precosmic union of the elements, of Spirit, or the creative Force, with Matter, cooled and still seething, which it forms in accordance with universal Will. Then the Ases, “the pillars and supports of the World” ('''''Cosmocratores'''''), step in and ''create ''as All‐father wills them. The symbol of nature in the Norse mythology; the cow who licks the salt rock, whence the divine Buri is born, before man’s creation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Dingir +

The Creative Gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Kether +

The Crown, the highest of the ten Sephiroth; the first of the Supernal Triad. It corresponds to the Macroprosopus, vast countenance, or Arikh Anpin, which differentiates into Chokmah and Binah. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Daily Graphic +

The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper was the first American newspaper with daily illustrations. It was founded in New York City in 1873 by Canadian engravers George-Édouard Desbarats and William Leggo, and began publication in March of that year. It continued publication until September 23, 1889. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP). +

Daily Picayune, The +

The Daily Picayune is an American daily newspaper from New Orleans (Louisiana) founded on 25 january 1837. In 1914, The Picayune merged with the Times-Democrat and became The Times-Picayune until october 2012. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

Demiurgos +

The Demiurge or Artificer; the Supernal Power which built the universe. Freemasons derive from this word their phrase of “Supreme Architect ”. With the Occultists it is the third manifested Logos, or Plato’s “second god”, the second logos being represented by him as the “Father”, the only Deity that he dared mention as an Initiate into the Mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dionysos +

The Demiurgos, who, like Osiris, was killed by the Titans and dismembered into fourteen parts. He was the personified Sun, or as the author of the ''Great Dionysiak Myth ''says “He is Phanes, the spirit of material visibility, Kyklops giant of the Universe, with one bright solar eye, the growth‐power of the world, the all‐ pervading animism of things, son of Semele Dionysos was born at Nysa or Nissi, the name given by the Hebrews to Mount Sinai (Exodus xvii. 15), the birthplace of Osiris, which identifies both suspiciously with “Jehovah Nissi”. (See ''Isis Unv. ''II. 165, 526.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Abhasvaras +

The Devas or “Gods” of ''Light and Sound'', the highest of the upper three celestial regions (planes) of the second ''Dhyâna (q.v.) ''A class of gods ''sixty‐ four ''in number, representing a certain cycle and an occult number. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Fafnir +

The Dragon of Wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ashmog +

The Dragon or Serpent, a monster with a camel’s neck in the ''Avesta''; a kind of allegorical Satan, who after the Fall, “lost its nature and its name”. Called in the old Hebrew (Kabbalistic) texts the “flying camel”; evidently a reminiscence or tradition in both cases of the prehistoric or antediluvian monsters, half bird, half reptile [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Artes +

The Earth; the Egyptian god Mars [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Israel +

The Eastern Kabbalists derive the name from ''Isaral ''or ''Asar'', the Sun‐God. “Isra‐el” signifies “striving with god”: the “sun rising upon Jacob‐Israel ” means the Sun‐god Isaral (or Isar‐el) striving with, and to fecundate matter, which has power with “God and with man” and often prevails over both. Esau, Æsaou, Asu, is also the Sun. Esau and Jacob, the allegorical twins, are the emblems of the ever struggling dual principle in nature— good and evil, darkness and sunlight, and the “ Lord” (Jehovah) is their antetype. Jacob‐Israel is the feminine principle of Esau, as Abel is that of Cain, both Cain and Esau being the male principle. Hence, like Malach‐Iho, the “Lord” Esau fights with Jacob and prevails not. In ''Genesis ''xxxii. the God‐Sun first strives with Jacob, breaks his ''thigh ''(a phallic symbol) and yet is defeated by his terrestrial type—matter; and the Sun‐God rises on Jacob and his ''thigh ''in covenant. All these biblical personages, their “Lord God” included, are types represented in an allegorical sequence. They are types of Life and Death, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, of Matter and Spirit in their synthesis, all these being under their contrasted aspects [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Cynocephalus +

The Egyptian ''Hapi. ''There was a notable difference between the ape‐headed gods and the “Cynocephalus” (''Simia hamadryas''), a dog‐headed baboon from upper Egypt. The latter, whose sacred city was Hermopolis, was sacred to the lunar deities and Thoth Hermes, hence an emblem of secret wisdom—as was Hanuman, the monkey‐god of India, and later, the elephant‐headed Ganesha. The mission of the Cynocephalus was to show the way for the Dead to the Seat of Judgment and Osiris, whereas the ape‐gods were all phallic. They are almost invariably found in a crouching posture, holding on one hand the ''outa ''(the eye of Horus), and in the other the sexual cross. Isis is seen sometimes riding on an ape, to designate the fall of divine nature into generation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Charon +

The Egyptian ''Khu‐en‐ua, ''the hawk‐headed Steersman of the boat conveying the Souls across the black waters that separate life from death. Charon, the Sun of Erebus and Nox, is a variant of Khu en‐ua. The dead were obliged to pay an ''obolus'', a small piece of money, o this grim ferryman of the Styx and Acheron; therefore the ancients always placed a coin under the tongue of the deceased. This custom has been preserved in our own times, for most of the lower classes in Russia place coppers in the coffin under the head of the dead for ''post mortem ''expenses [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Harmachus +

The Egyptian Sphinx, called ''Har‐em‐chu ''or “Horus (the Sun) in the Horizon”, a form of Ra the sun‐god; esoterically the risen god. An inscription on a tablet reads “0 blessed Ra Harmachus Thou careerest by him in triumph. 0 shine, Amoun‐Ra Harmachus self‐ generated ‘. The temple of the Sphinx was discovered by Mariette Bey close to the Sphinx, near the great Pyramid of Gizeh All the Egyptologists agree in pronouncing the Sphinx and her temple the “oldest religious monument of the world ”—at any rate of Egypt. “The principal chamber”, writes the late Mr. Fergusson “''in the form of a cross, ''is supported by piers, simple prisms of Syenite granite without base or capital . . no sculptures or inscriptions of any sort are found on the walls of this temple, no ornament or symbol nor any image in the sanctuary”. This proves the enormous antiquity of both the Sphinx and the temple. “The great bearded Sphinx of the Pyramids of Gizeh is the symbol of Harmachus, the same as each Egyptian Pharaoh who bore, in the inscriptions, the name of ‘living form of the Solar Sphinx upon the Earth ‘,”writes Brugsh Bey. And Renan recalls that “at one time the Egyptians were said to have temples without sculptured images” (Bonwick). Not only the Egyptians but every nation of the earth began with temples devoid of idols and even of symbols. It is only when the remembrance of the great abstract truths and of the primordial Wisdom taught to humanity by the dynasties of the divine kings died out that men had to resort to mementos and symbology. In the story of Horus in some tablets of Edfou, Rouge found an inscription showing that the god had once assumed “the shape of a human‐headed lion to gain advantage over his enemy Typhon. Certainly Horus was so adored in Leontopolis. He is the real Sphinx. That accounts, too, for the lion figure being sometimes seen on each side of Isis. . . It was her child.” (Bonwick.) And yet the story of Harmachus, or Har em‐chu, is still left untold to the world, nor is it likely to he divulged to this generation. (See “[[Sphinx]]”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

A

Amun +

The Egyptian god of wisdom, who had only Initiates or Hierophants to serve him as priests [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Isarim +

The Essenian Initiates [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Examiner, The +

The Examiner was a weekly paper founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, but from 1865 it repeatedly changed hands and political allegiance, resulting in a rapid decline in readership and loss of purpose. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Kalevala +

The Finnish Epic of Creation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +