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Ah‐hi +

'''Ahi '''(''Sk''.), or Serpents. Dhyân Chohans. “Wise Serpents” or Dragons of Wisdom. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aja +

'''Aja '''(''Sk''.). “Unborn”, uncreated; an epithet belonging to many of the primordial gods, but especially to the first ''Logos''—a radiation of the Absolute on the plane of illusion. Performance, and it had its own appointed Hotri (priest) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ama +

'''Amia''', (''Chald.''). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who is called “Supernal Mother”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Anyamsam Aniyasam +

''A no‐ranîyânsam ''(in ''Bhagavad'' ''gîtâ''). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of the small ”. Applied to the universal deity, whose essence is everywhere [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ad +

''Ad, ''“the Father”. In Aramean ''ad ''means one, and ''ad‐ad ''“the only one”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adept +

''Adeptus'', “He who has obtained.” In Occultism one who has reached the stage of Initiation, and become a Master in the science of Esoteric philosophy. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Anagamin +

''Anagam. ''One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Arhat and ready for Nirvâna. The ''third ''of the four grades of holiness on the way to final Initiation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhuts +

''Bhûta.'': Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if on the one hand, a Bhûta is “a malignant spirit which haunts cemeteries, lurks in trees, animates dead bodies, and deludes and devours human beings”, in popular fancy, in India in Tibet and China, by Bhûtas are also meant “heretics” who besmear their bodies with ashes, or Shaiva ascetics (Siva being held in India for the King of Bhûtas) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chichhakti +

''Chih‐Sakti''; the power which generates thought [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Chitanuth our +

''Chitons'', a priestly garb; the coats of skin given by ''Java Aleim ''to Adam and Eve after their fall [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Aparoksha +

''Direct perception.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ilda Baoth +

''Lit''., “the child from the Egg”, a Gnostic term. He is the creator of our physical globe (the earth) according to the Gnostic teaching in the ''Codex Nazaræus ''(the Evangel of the Nazarenes and the Ebionites). The latter identifies him with Jehovah the God of the Jews. Ildabaoth is “the Son of Darkness” in a bad sense and the father of the six terrestrial “ Stellar”, dark spirits, the antithesis of the bright Stellar spirits. Their respective abodes are the seven spheres, the upper of which begins in the “middle space”, the region of their mother Sophia Achamôth, and the lower ending on this earth—the seventh region (See ''Isis Unveiled, ''Vol. II., 183.) Ilda‐Baoth is the genius of Saturn, the planet; or rather the evil spirit of its ruler [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Abba Amona +

''Lit.'', “Father‐Mother”; the occult names of the two higher Sephiroth, ''Chokmah ''and ''Binah'', of the upper triad, the apex of which is Sephira or Kether. From this triad issues the lower septenary of the Sephirothal Tree. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mahoraga +

''Mahâ uraga'', “great serpent”——Sesha or any others [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Neith +

''Neithes''. The Queen of Heaven; the moon‐ goddess in Egypt. She is variously called ''Nout'', ''Nepte, Nur''. (For symbolism, see “Nout”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chnouphis +

''Nouf ''in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power ''in actu'', as Kneph is of the same in ''potentia''. He is also ram‐ headed. If in his aspect as Kneph he is the Holy Spirit with the creative ideation brooding in him, as Chnouphis, he is the angel who “comes in” into the Virgin soil and flesh. A prayer on a papyrus, translated by the French Egyptologist Chabas, says; ‘ O Sepui, Cause of being, who hast formed thine own body! O only Lord, proceeding from Noum ! O divine substance, created from itself! O God, who hast made the substance which is in him! O God, who has made his own father and impregnated his own mother.” This shows the origin of the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and immaculate conception. He is seen on a monument seated near a potter’s wheel, and forming men out of clay. The fig‐leaf is sacred to him, which is alone sufficient to prove him a phallic god—an idea which is carried out by the inscription: “he who made that which is, the creator of beings, the first existing, he who made to exist all that exists.” Some see in him the incarnation of Ammon‐Ra, but he is the latter himself in his phallic aspect, for, like Ammon, he is “ his mother’s husband”, i.e., the male or impregnating side of Nature. His names vary, as Cnouphis, Noum, Khem, and Khnum or Chnoumis. As he represents the Demiurgos (or Logos) from the material, lower aspect of the Soul of the World, he is the Agathodæmon, symbolized sometimes by a Serpent ; and his wife Athor or Maut (Môt mother), or Sate, “the daughter of the Sun”, carrying an arrow on a sunbeam (the ray of conception), stretches “mistress over the lower portions of the atmosphere”. below the constellations, as Neїth expands over the starry heavens. (See “Chaos”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Crescent +

''Sin ''was the Assyrian name for the moon, and ''Sin‐ai ''the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of Dionysos, Bacchus and several other gods. According to Rawlinson, the moon was held in higher esteem than the sun at Babylon, ''because darkness preceded light. ''The crescent was, therefore, a sacred symbol with almost every nation, before it became the ‘standard of the Turks. Says the author of ''Egyptian Belief, ''“ The crescent is not essentially a Mahometan ensign. On the contrary, it was a Christian one, derived through Asia from the Babylonian Astarte, Queen of Heaven, or from the Egyptian Isis . . . . whose emblem was the crescent. The Greek Christian Empire of Constantinople held it as their palladium. Upon the conquest of the Turks, the Mahometan Sultan adopted it for the symbol of his power. Since that time the ''crescent ''has been made to oppose the idea of the cross.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ibn Gebirol +

''Solomon Ben Yehudah'': a great philosopher and scholar, a Jew by birth, who lived in the eleventh century in Spain. The same as Avicenna (''q.v''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Davkina +

''The wife of Hea, “the goddess of the lower regions, the consort of the Deep”, the mother of Merodach, the Bel of later times, and mother to many river‐gods, Hea being the god of the lower regions, the “lord of the Sea or abyss”, and also the lord of Wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Madhava +

(1) A name of Vishnu or Krishna; (2) The month of April ; (3) A title of Lakshmi when written ''Madhavi.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nishada +

(1) One of the seven qualities of sound— the one and sole attribute of Akâsa; (2) the ''seventh ''note of the Hindu musical scale; (3) an outcast offspring of a Brahman and a Sudra mother; (4) a range of mountains south of Meru—north of the Himalayas [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Magic, Black +

(Vide ''Supra''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nimitta +

1. An interior illumination developed by the practice of meditation. 2. The efficient spiritual cause, as contrasted with Upadana, the material cause, in Vedânta philosophy. See also ''Pradhâna ''in Sankhya philosophy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ayuta +

100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Lakh +

100,000 of units, either in specie or anything else [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chhandoga +

A ''Samhitâ ''collection of Sama Veda; also a priest, a chanter of the Sama Veda [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Rajikas +

A ''gana ''or class of gods 236 in number. Certain ''Forces ''in esoteric teachings [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmachari +

A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahavanso +

A Buddhist historical work written by Bhikshu Mohânâma, the uncle of King Dhatusma. An authority on the history of Buddhism and its spread in the island of Ceylon [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhadrasena +

A Buddhist king of Magadha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dammapadan +

A Buddhist work containing moral precepts [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Campanella Tomaso +

A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up during his whole life to the Occult Arts. The story which shows him initiated in his boyhood into the secrets of alchemy and thoroughly instructed in the secret science by a Rabbi‐Kabbalist in a ''fortnight ''by means of ''notavicon, ''is a cock and bull invention. Occult knowledge, even when a heirloom from the preceding birth, does not come back into a new personality within fifteen days. He became an opponent of the Aristotelian materialistic philosophy when at Naples and was obliged to fly for his life. Later, the Inquisition sought to try and condemn him for the practice of magic arts, but its efforts were defeated. During his lifetime he wrote an enormous quantity of magical, astrological and alchemical works, most of which are no longer extant. He is reported to have died in the convent of the Jacobins at Paris on May the 21st, 1639 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Chiffilet +

A Canon‐Kabbalist of the XVIIth century, reputed to have learned a key to the Gnostic works from Coptic Initiates; he wrote a work on Abraxas in two portions, the esoteric portion of which was burnt by the Church [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Fahian +

A Chinese traveller and writer in the early centuries of Christianity, who wrote on Buddhism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Fa‐Hwa‐King +

A Chinese work on Cosmogony [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jacobites +

A Christian sect in Syria of the VIth cent. (550) which held that Christ had only one nature and that confession was not of divine origin. They had secret signs, passwords and a solemn initiation with mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Clemens Alexandrinus +

A Church Father and a voluminous writer, who had been a Neo‐Platonist and a disciple of Ammonius Saccas. He lived between the second and the third centuries of our era, at Alexandria [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lactantius +

A Church Father, who declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, and that of the antipodes as a “fallacy invented by the devil” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ichthus +

A Fish: the symbol of the Fish has been frequently referred to Jesus, the Christ of the New Testament, partly because the five letters forming the word are the initials of the Greek phrase, ''Iesous ''Christos ''Theou Uios Soter, ''Jesus Christ the Saviour, Son of God. Hence his followers in the early Christian centuries were often called ''fishes, ''and drawings of fish are found in the Catacombs. Compare also the narrative that some of his early disciples were fishermen, and the assertion of Jesus― “I will make you fishers of men”. Note also the Vesica Piscis, a conventional shape for fish in general, is frequently found enclosing a picture of a Christ, holy virgin, or saint; it is a long oval with pointed ends, the space marked out by the intersection of two equal circles, when less than half the area of one. Compare the Christian female recluse, a Nun—this word is the Chaldee name for fish, and fish is connected with the worship of Venus, a goddess, and the Roman Catholics still eat fish on the Dies Veneris or Friday. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Magnetism +

A Force in nature and in man. When it is the former, it is an agent which gives rise to the various phenomena of attraction, of polarity, etc. When the latter, it becomes “animal” magnetism, in contradistinction to cosmic, and terrestrial magnetism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chastanier +

A French mason who established in London in 1767 a Lodge called “The Illuminated Theosophists” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Demrusch +

A Giant in the mythology of ancient Iran [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Ophites +

A Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt, and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism, or ''Gnosis ''(Wisdom, Knowledge), known as the “Brotherhood of the Serpent”. It flourished early in the second century, and while holding some of the principles of Valentinus had its own occult rites and symbology. A living serpent, representing the Christos‐principle (i.e., the divine reincarnating Monad, not Jesus the man), was displayed in their mysteries and reverenced as a symbol of wisdom, Sophia, the type of the all‐good and all‐wise. The Gnostics were not a Christian sect, in the common acceptation of this term, as the ''Christos ''of pre‐Christian thought and the Gnosis was ''not ''the “god‐man” Christ, but the divine EGO, made one with Buddhi. Their Christos was the “Eternal Initiate”, the Pilgrim, typified by hundreds of Ophidian symbols for several thousands of years before the “ Christian” era, so‐ called. One can see it on the “Belzoni tomb” from Egypt, ''as a winged serpent with three heads ''(Atma‐Buddhi‐Manas), and ''four ''human legs, typifying its androgynous character; on the walls of the descent to the sepulchral chambers of Rameses V., it is found as a snake with vulture’s wings—the vulture and hawk being solar symbols. “The heavens are scribbled over with interminable snakes ‘ writes Herschel of the Egyptian chart of stars. “The ''Meissi ''(Messiah?) meaning the ''Sacred Word, ''was a good serpent”, writes Bonwick in his ''Egyptian Belief. ''“This serpent of goodness, with its head crowned, was mounted upon a cross and formed a sacred standard of Egypt.” The Jews ''borrowed ''it in their “brazen serpent of Moses”. It is to this “Healer” and “Saviour”, therefore, that the Ophites referred, and not to Jesus or his words, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so it behoves the Son of Man to be lifted up”— when explaining the meaning of their ''ophis. ''Tertullian, whether wittingly or unwittingly, mixed up the two. The four‐winged serpent is the god Chnuphis. The good serpent bore the cross of life around its neck, or suspended from its mouth. The winged serpents become the Seraphim (Seraph, ''Saraph) ''of the Jews. In the 87th chapter of the ''Ritual ''(the Book of the Dead) the human soul transformed into ''Bata'', the omniscient serpents says:—“ I am the serpent '''Ba‐ta, '''of long years, Soul of the Soul, laid out and born daily; I am the Soul that descends on the earth”, i.e., the Ego [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

B

Bythos +

A Gnostic term meaning “Depth” or the “great Deep”, Chaos. It is equivalent to space, before anything had formed itself in it from the primordial atoms that exist eternally in its spatial depths, according to the teachings of Occultism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Iurbo Adunai +

A Gnostic term, or the compound name for Iao Jehovah, whom the Ophites regarded as an emanation of their Ilda‐Baoth, the Son of Sophia Achamoth—the proud, ambitious and jealous god, and impure Spirit, whom many of the Gnostic sects regarded as the god of Moses. “Iurbo is called by the Abortions (the Jews) Adunai” says the ''Codex Nazaræus ''(vol. iii., p.13 The “Abortions” and ''Abortives ''was the nickname given to the Jews by their opponents the Gnostics [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Burham‐i‐Kati +

A Hermetic Eastern work [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Busardier +

A Hermetic philosopher born in Bohemia who is credited with having made a genuine powder of projection. He left the bulk of his ''red ''powder to a friend named Richthausen, an adept and alchemist of Vienna. Some years after Busardier’s death, in 1637, Richthausen introduced himself to the Emperor Ferdinand III, who is known to have been ardently devoted to alchemy, and together they are said to have converted three pounds of mercury into the finest gold with one single grain of Busardier’s powder. In 1658 the Elector of Mayence also was permitted to test the powder, and the gold produced with it was declared by the Master of the Mint to be such, that he had never seen finer. Such are the claims vouchsafed by the city records and chronicles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Macroprosopus +

A Kabalistic term, made of a compound Greek word: meaning the Vast or Great Countenance (See “Kabalistic Faces”); a title of Kether, the Crown, the highest Sephira. It is the name of the Universe, called ''Arikh‐Anpin'', the totality of that of which Microprosopus or ''Zauir‐Anpin ''“the lesser countenance”, is the part and antithesis. In its high or abstract metaphysical sense, Microprosopus is Adam Kadmon, the ''vehicle of Ain‐Suph'', and the crown of the Sephirothal Tree, though since Sephira and Adam Kadmon are in fact one under two aspects, it comes to the same thing. Interpretations are many, and they differ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Falk +

A Kabbalistic Jew, reputed to have worked “miracles”. Kenneth Mackenzie quotes in regard to him from the German annalist Archenoiz’ work on England (1788) :—“ There exists in London an extraordinary man who for thirty years has been celebrated in Kabbalistic records. He is named Caїn Chenul Falk. A certain Count de Rautzow, lately dead in the service of France, with the rank of Field‐Marshal, certifies that he has seen this Falk in Brunswick, and that evocations of spirits took place in the presence of credible witnesses.” These “spirits” were Elementals, whom Falk brought into view by the conjurations used by every Kabbalist. His son, Johann Friedrich Falk, likewise a Jew, was also a Kabbalist of repute, and was once the head of a Kabbalistic college in London. His occupation was that of a jeweller and appraiser of diamonds, and he was a wealthy man. To this day the mystic writings and rare Kabbalistic works bequeathed by him to a trustee may be perused in a certain half‐public library in London, by every genuine student of Occultism. Falk’s own writings are all still in MS., and some in cypher [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Demon est Deus inversus +

A Kabbalistic axiom; lit., “the devil is god reversed”; which means that there is neither evil nor good, but that the forces which create the one create the other, according to the nature of the materials they find to work upon [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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