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Ash +

Fire, whether physical or symbolical fire; also found written in English as ''As'', ''Aish ''and ''Esch'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adi‐nidana +

First and Supreme Causality, from ''Âdi'', the first, and ''Nidâna ''the principal cause (or the concatenation of cause and effect). [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Gazette +

Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal on June 3, 1778.[4] It was the first entirely French-language newspaper in Canada.[4] The paper did not accept advertising aside for the various books that Mesplet also published. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy, as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. Mesplet began a second weekly, The Montreal Gazette / La Gazette de Montréal, on August 25, 1785, which had a dual French-English bilingual format similar to that used by the Quebec Gazette. In 1822, it was sold to businessman Thomas Andrew Turner who converted into an English-only paper in 1822.[3][6] Under Turner, The Gazette identified with the interests of anglophone business leaders in their fight with the Patriote movement. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti +

Following along the lines of the 17th-century handwritten Kuranty, Peter's newspaper contained little other than reports of military victories and diplomatic relations, either composed by the tsar himself or translated from Dutch newspapers according to his choice. With Peter's death in 1725, the newspaper lost its most precious contributor. As Russia offered no choice of journalists who could carry on his project, ownership of the paper was transferred to the Russian Academy of Sciences, which renamed it Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (that is, Saint Petersburg News) in 1727. In the course of the 18th century, the academics issued the newspaper twice a week, supplementing it with extensive scholarly "commentaries", whose editors included Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov, Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Ippolit Bogdanovich. Since 1800, the Saint Petersburg Vedomosti was published daily. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Jesod +

Foundation; the ninth of the Ten Sephiroth, a masculine active potency, completing the six which form the Microprosopus. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avikara +

Free from degeneration; changeless—used of Deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Baissac, Jules +

French theologist, who viewed Satan as a 'Centrifugal Energy of the Universe’ in a cosmic sense [[Category: Secret Doctrine (CTD terms)]] (SD, 2:245). +

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Alchemists +

From '''''Al '''''and '''''Chemi, '''''fire, or the god and patriarch, ''Kham, ''also, the name of Egypt. The Rosicrucians of the middle ages, such as Robertus de Fluctibus (Robert Fludd), Paracelsus, Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Van Helmont, and others, were all alchemists, who sought for the ''hidden spirit ''in every inorganic matter. Some people— nay, the great majority—have accused alchemists of charlatanry and false pretending. Surely such men as Roger Bacon, Agrippa, Henry Khunrath, and the Arabian Geber (the first to introduce into Europe some of the secrets of chemistry), can hardly he treated as impostors— least of all as fools. Scientists who are reforming the science of physics upon the basis of the atomic theory of Democritus, as restated by John Dalton, conveniently forget that Democritus, of Abdera, was an alchemist, and that the mind that was capable of penetrating so far into the secret operations of nature in one direction must have had good reasons to study and become a Hermetic philosopher. Olaus Borrichius says that the cradle of alchemy is to be sought in the most distant times. (''Isis Unveiled)''. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Heranasikha +

From ''Herana ''“novice” and ''Sikha ''“rule” or precept: manual of Precepts. A work written in ''Elu ''or the ancient Singhalese, for the use of young priests [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mage +

From ''Mag ''or ''Maha''. The word is the root of the word magician. The Maha‐âtma (the great Soul or Spirit) in India had its priests in the pre‐Vedic times. The Magians were priests of the fire‐god; we find them among the Assyrians and Babylonians, as well as among the Persian fire‐worshippers. The three Magi, also denominated kings, that are said to have made gifts of gold, incense and myrrh to the infant Jesus, were fire‐ worshippers like the rest, and astrologers ; for they saw his star. The high priest of the Parsis, at Surat, is called Mobed. Others derived the name from Megh; Meh‐ab signifying some thing grand and noble. Zoroaster’s disciples were called ''Meghestom'', according to Kleuker [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Muluk‐Taoos +

From ''Maluk'', “Ruler”, a later form of Moloch, Melek, Malayak and ''Malachim'', “messengers”, angels. It is the Deity worshipped by the ''Yezidis'', a sect in Persia, kindly called by Christian theology “devil worshippers”, under the form of a peacock. The Lord “Peacock” is not Satan, nor is it the devil; for it is simply the symbol of the ''hundred eyed ''Wisdom ; the bird of Saraswati, goddess of Wisdom; of ''Karttikeya ''the ''Kumâra'', the Virgin celibate of the Mysteries of Juno, and all the gods and goddesses connected with the secret learning [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Dactyli +

From ''daktulos, ''“a finger”. The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regarded as the greatest magicians and exorcists. They were five or ten in number because of the five fingers on one hand that blessed, and the ten on both hands which evoke the gods. They also healed by manipulation or mesmerism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Od +

From ''odos'', “passage”, or passing of that force which is developed by various minor forces or agencies such as magnets, chemical or vital action, heat, light, &c. It is also called “odic” and “odylic force”, and was regarded by Reichenbach and his followers as an independent entitative force—which it certainly is— stored in man as it is in Nature [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mazdeans +

From (Ahura) Mazda. (See Spiegel’s ''Yasna'', xl.) They were the ancient Persian nobles who worshipped Ormazd, and, rejecting images, inspired the Jews with the same horror for every concrete representation of the Deity. They seem in Herodotus’ time to have been superseded by the Magian religionists. The Parsis and Gebers, (''geberim'', mighty men, of ''Genesis'' vi. and x. 8) appear to be Magian religionists [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kabalist +

From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of “secret science”, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means. The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era. The books of ''Ezekiel, Daniel, Henoch, ''and the ''Revelation ''of St. John, are purely kabalistical. This secret doctrine is identical with that of Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian wisdom, or “magic”. History catches glimpses of famous kabalists ever since the eleventh century. The Mediæval ages, and even our own times, have had an enormous number of the most learned and intellectual men who were students of the Kabala (or Qabbalah, as some spell it). The most famous among the former were Paracelsus, Henry Khunrath, Jacob Böhmen, Robert Fludd, the two Van Helmonts, the Abbot John Trithemius, Cornelius Agrippa, Cardinal Nicolao Cusani, Jerome Carden, Pope Sixtus IV., and such Christian scholars as Raymond Lully, Giovanni Pico de la Mirandola, Guillaume Postel, the great John Reuchlin, Dr. Henry More, Eugenius Philalethes (Thomas Vaughan), the erudite Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, Christian Knorr(Baron) von Rosenroth; then Sir Isaac Newton., Leibniz, Lord Bacon, Spinosa, etc., etc., the list being almost inexhaustible. As remarked by Mr. Isaac Myer, in his Qabbalah, the ideas of the Kabalists have largely influenced European literature. “Upon the practical Qabbalah, the Abbé ,de Villars (nephew of de Montfaucon) in 1670, published his celebrated satirical novel, ‘The Count de Gabalis’, upon which Pope based his ‘Rape of the Lock’. Qabbalism ran through the Mediæval poems, the ‘Romance of the Rose’, and permeates the writings of Dante.” No two of them, however, agreed upon the origin of the Kabala, the ''Zohar, Sepher Yetzirah, ''etc. Some show it as coming from the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, and even Seth; others from Egypt, others again from Chaldea. The system is certainly very old; but like all the rest of systems, whether religious or philosophical, the Kabala is derived directly from the primeval Secret Doctrine of the East; through the Vedas, the Upanishads, Orpheus and Thales, Pythagoras and the Egyptians. Whatever its source, its substratum is at any rate identical with that of all the other systems from the ''Book of the Dead ''down to the later Gnostics. The best exponents of the ''Kabala ''in the Theosophical Society were among the earliest, Dr. S. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, and Mr. G. Felt; and among the latest, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Mr. S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers (both of the Rosicrucian College) and a few others. (See “ Qabbalah “.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

A

Altruism +

From alter = other. A quality opposed to egoism. Actions tending to do good to others, regardless of self. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Cycle +

From the Greek ''Kuklos''. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical. There were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great Orphic cycle, referring to the ethnological change of races, lasting 120,000 years, and the cycle of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary influences and their correlations between men and gods—a fact entirely lost sight of by modern astrologers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Homogeneity +

From the Greek words ''homos ''“the same” and ''genos ''“kind”. That which is of the same nature throughout, undifferentiated, non‐compound, as gold is ''supposed ''to be [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Hierophant +

From the Greek “Hierophantes”; literally, “One who explains sacred things ”. The discloser of sacred learning and the Chief of the Initiates. A title belonging to the highest Adepts in the temples of antiquity, who were the teachers and expounders of the Mysteries and the Initiators into the final great Mysteries. The Hierophant represented the Demiurge, and explained to the postulants for Initiation the various phenomena of Creation that were produced for their tuition. “ He was the sole expounder of the esoteric secrets and doctrines. It was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an uninitiated person. He sat in the East, and wore as a symbol of authority a golden globe suspended from the neck. He was also called ''Mystagogus''” (Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, ix., F.T.S., in ''The Royal Masonic cyclopædia''). In Hebrew and Chaldaic the term was ''Peter'', the opener, discloser; hence the Pope as the successor of the hierophant of the ancient Mysteries, sits in the Pagan chair of St. Peter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Initiate +

From the Latin ''Initiatus''. The designation of anyone who was received into and had revealed to him the mysteries and secrets of either Masonry or Occultism. In times of antiquity, those who had been initiated into the arcane knowledge taught by the Hierophants of the Mysteries; and in our modern days those who have been initiated by the adepts of mystic lore into the mysterious knowledge, which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, has yet a few real votaries on earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Laya +

From the root ''Li ''“to dissolve, to disintegrate” a point of equilibrium (''zero‐point'') in physics and chemistry. In occultism, that point where substance becomes homogeneous and is unable to act or differentiate [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jupiter +

From the same root as the Greek Zeus, the greatest god of the ancient Greeks and Romans, adopted also by other nations. His names are among others: (1) Jupiter‐Aërios; (2) Jupiter‐Ammon of Egypt ; (3) Jupiter Bel‐Moloch, the Chaldean; (4) Jupiter‐Mundus, Deus Mundus, “God of the World”; (5) Jupiter‐Fulgur, “the Fulgurant”, etc.,etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Initiation +

From the same root as the Latin ''initia, ''which means the basic or first principles of any Science. The practice of initiation or admission into the sacred Mysteries, taught by the Hierophants and learned priests of the Temples, is one of the most ancient customs. This was practised in every old national religion. In Europe it was abolished with the fall of the last pagan temple. There exists at present but one kind of initiation known to the public, namely that into the Masonic rites. Masonry, however, has no more secrets to give out or conceal. In the palmy days of old, the Mysteries, according to the greatest Greek and Roman philosophers, were the most sacred of all solemnities as well as the most beneficent, and greatly promoted virtue. The Mysteries represented the passage from mortal life into finite death, and the experiences of the disembodied Spirit and Soul in the world of subjectivity. In our own day, as the secret is lost, the candidate passes through sundry meaningless ceremonies and is initiated into the solar allegory of Hiram Abiff, the “Widow’s Son” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Anthropomorphism +

From “anthropos” meaning man. The act of endowing god or gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

GARF +

GARF is a large Russian state archive, which houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian authority. +

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Fludd +

Generally known as Robertus de Fluctibus, the chief of the “Philosophers by Fire”. A celebrated English Hermetist of the sixteenth century, and a voluminous writer. He wrote on the essence of gold and other mystic and occult subjects.[[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daityas +

Giants, Titans, and exoterically demons, but in truth identical with certain Asuras, the intellectual gods, the opponents of the useless gods of ritualism and the enemies of ''puja ''sacrifices [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nephilim +

Giants, Titans, the Fallen Ones [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Merodach +

God of Babylon, the Bel of later times. He is the son of Davkina, goddess of the lower regions, or the earth, and of Hea, God of the Seas and Hades with the Orientalists; but esoterically and with the Akkadians, the Great God of Wisdom, “he who resurrects the dead”. Hea, Ea, Dagon or Oannes and Merodach are one [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kuvera +

God of the Hades, and of wealth like Pluto. The king of the evil demons in the Hindu Pantheon [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mysteries +

Greek ''teletai'', or finishings, celebrations of initiation or the Mysteries. They were observances, generally kept secret from the profane and uninitiated, in which were taught by dramatic representation and other methods, the origin of things, the nature of the human spirit, its relation to the body, and the method of its purification and restoration to higher life. Physical science, medicine, the laws of music, divination, were all taught in the same manner. The Hippocratic oath was but a mystic obligation. Hippocrates was a priest of Asklepios, some of whose writings chanced to become public. But the Asklepiades were initiates of the Æsculapian serpent‐worship, as the Bacchantes were of the Dionysia; and both rites were eventually incorporated with the Eleusinia. The Sacred Mysteries were enacted in the ancient Temples by the initiated Hierophants for the benefit and instruction of the candidates. The most solemn and occult Mysteries were certainly those which were performed in Egypt by “the band of secret‐keepers”, as Mr. Bonwick calls the Hierophants. Maurice describes their nature very graphically in a few lines. Speaking of the Mysteries performed in Philæ (the Nile‐island), he says that “it was in these gloomy caverns that the grand and mystic arcana of the goddess (Isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses”. The word “mysteries” is derived from the Greek ''muô, ''“to close the mouth”, and every symbol connected with them had, a hidden meaning. As Plato and many other sages of antiquity affirm, the Mysteries were highly religious, moral and beneficent as a school of ethics. The Grecian mysteries, those of Ceres and Bacchus, were only imitations of the Egyptian; and the author of ''Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought'', informs us that our own “word ''chapel ''or ''capella ''is said to be the ''Caph‐El ''or college of ''El, ''the Solar divinity”. The well‐known ''Kabiri ''are associated with the Mysteries. In short, the Mysteries were in every country a series of dramatic performances, in which the mysteries of cosmogony and nature, in general, were personified by the priests and neophytes, who enacted the part of various gods and goddesses, repeating supposed scenes (allegories) from their respective lives. These were explained in their hidden meaning to the candidates for initiation, and incorporated into philosophical doctrines [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Mahabhutas +

Gross elementary principles of matter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bonati +

Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astrologer and alchemist, but failed as a Rosicrucian adept. He returned after this to his monastery [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine +

Harper's Magazine began as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in New York City in June 1850, by publisher Harper & Brothers. The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Brontë sisters. The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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New, John Chalfant +

He was a United States banker and lawyer who held a variety of government positions. He was Treasurer of the United States from 1875 to 1876 and served as U.S. consul general in London from 1889 to 1893. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP). +

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Mathadhipatis +

Heads of various religious Brotherhoods in India, High Priests in Monasteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Eros +

Hesiod makes of the god Eros the third personage of the Hellenic primordial Trinity composed of Ouranos, Gæa and Eros. It is the personified procreative Force in nature in its abstract sense, the propeller to “creation” and procreation. Exoterically, mythology makes of Eros the god of lustful, animal desire, whence the term ''erotic ''esoterically, it is different. (See “ Kâma”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Esoteric +

Hidden, secret. From the Greek ''esotericos'', “inner” concealed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Archangel +

Highest supreme angel. From the Greek ''arch'', “chief” or “primordial”, and ''angelos, ''“messenger ” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmanas +

Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas which were intended for the ritualistic use and guidance of the “twice‐born (Dwija) or Brahmans [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Assyrian +

Holy Scriptures''. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpretations, of Going to Hades; two Prayer Books ''(Kanmagarri and Kanmikri: ''Talbot) and the Kantolite, the lost Assyrian Psalter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aranyaka +

Holy hermits, sages who dwelt in ancient India in forests. Also a portion of the Vedas containing Upanishads, etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Karnaim +

Horned, an attribute of Ashtoreth and Astarte; those horns typify the male element, and convert the deity into an androgyne. Isis also is at times horned. Compare also the idea of the Crescent Moon—‐symbol of Isis—as horned. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Harviri +

Horns, the elder: the ancient name of a solar god: the rising sun represented as a god reclining on a full‐blown lotus, the symbol of the Universe [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Beth +

House, dwelling [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Manushi +

Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Matronethah +

Identical with ''Malcuth'', the tenth Sephira. ''Lit''., Matrona is the “inferior mother” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Maya +

Illusion ; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal existence and the perceptions thereof possible. In Hindu philosophy that alone which is changeless and eternal is called ''reality ''; all that which is subject to change through decay and differentiation and which has therefore a begining and an end is regarded as ''mâyâ''—illusion [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nagkon Wat +

Imposing ruins in the province of Siamrap (Eastern Siam), if ruins they may be called. An abandoned edifice of most gigantic dimensions, which, together with the great temple of Angkorthâm, are the best preserved relics of the past in all Asia. After the Pyramids this is the most occult edifice in the whole world. Of an oblong form, it is 796 feet in length and 588 in width, entirely built of stone, the roof included, but ''without cement ''like the pyramids of Ghizeh, the stones fitting so closely that the joints are even now hardly discernible. It has a central pagoda 250 feet in height from the first floor, and four smaller pagodas at the four corners, about 175 feet each. In the words of a traveller, (''The Land of the White Elephant'', Frank Vincent, p. 209) “in style and beauty of architecture, solidity of construction, and magnificent and elaborate carving and sculpture, the great Nagkon Wat has no superior, certainly no rival, standing at the present day.” (See ''Isis Unv.'', Vol. I. pp. 561‐566.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Magnum Opus +

In Alchemy the final completion, the “Great Labour” or Grand ''Œuvre''; the production of the “Philosopher’s Stone” and “Elixir of Life” which, though not by far the myth some sceptics would have it, has yet to be accepted symbolically, and is full of mystic meaning [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Alchemy +

In Arabic ''Ul‐Khemi, ''is, as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. ''Ui‐Khemi ''or ''Al‐Kimia'', however, is only an Arabianized word, taken from the Greek chemeia, (''chemeia'') from cumoz — “juice”, sap extracted from a plant. Says Dr. Wynn Westcott: “The earliest use of the actual term ‘alchemy’ is found in the works of Julius Firmicus Maternus, who lived in the days of Constantine the Great. The Imperial Library in Paris contains the oldest‐extant alchemic treatise known in Europe; it was written by Zosimus the Panopolite about 400 A.D. in the Greek language, the next oldest is by Æneas Gazeus, 480 A.D.” It deals with the finer forces of nature and the various conditions in which they are found to operate. Seeking under the veil of language, more or less artificial, to convey to the uninitiated so much of the ''mysterium magnum ''as is safe in the hands of a selfish world, the alchemist postulates as his first principle the existence of a certain Universal Solvent by which all composite bodies are resolved into the homogeneous substance from which they are evolved, which substance he calls pure gold, or ''summa materia''. This solvent, also called ''menstvuum universale, ''possesses the power of removing all the seeds of disease from the human body, of renewing youth and prolonging life. Such is the ''lapis philosophorum ''(philosopher’s stone). Alchemy first penetrated into Europe through Geber, the great Arabian sage and philosopher, in the eighth century of our era; but it was known and practised long ages ago in China and in Egypt, numerous papyri on alchemy and other proofs of its being the favourite study of kings and priests having been exhumed and preserved under the generic name of Hermetic treatises. (See “Tabula Smaragdina”). Alchemy is studied under three distinct aspects, which admit of many different interpretations, viz.: the Cosmic, Human, and Terrestrial. These three methods were typified under the three alchemical properties—sulphur, mercury, and salt. Different writers have stated that there are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed that there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. What that gold, however, really is, very few people understand correctly. No doubt that there is such a thing in nature as transmutation of the baser metals into the nobler, or gold. But this is only one aspect of alchemy, the terrestrial or purely material, for we sense logically the same process taking place in the bowels of the earth. Yet, besides and beyond this interpretation, there is in alchemy a symbolical meaning, purely psychic and spiritual. While the Kabbalist‐Alchemist seeks for the realization of the former, the Occultist‐Alchemist, spurning the gold of the mines, gives all his attention and directs his efforts only towards the transmutation of the baser ''quaternary ''into the divine upper ''trinity ''of man, which when finally blended are one. The spiritual, mental, psychic, and physical planes of human existence are in alchemy compared to the four elements, fire, air, water and earth, and are each capable of a threefold constitution, i.e., fixed, mutable and volatile. Little or nothing is known by the word concerning the origin of this archaic branch of philosophy; but it is certain that it antedates the construction of any known Zodiac, and, as dealing with the personified forces of nature, probably also any of the mythologies of the world; nor is there any doubt that the true secret of transmutation (on the physical plane) was known in days of old, and lost before the dawn of the so‐ called historical period. Modern chemistry owes its best fundamental discoveries to alchemy, but regardless of the undeniable truism of the latter that there is but one element in the universe, chemistry has placed metals in the class of elements and is only now beginning to find out its gross mistake. Even sonic Encyclopædists are now forced to confess that if most of the accounts of transmutations are fraud or delusion, “yet some of them are accompanied by testimony ''which renders them probable.'' . . By means of the galvanic battery even the alkalis have been discovered to have a metallic base. The possibility of obtaining metal from other substances which contain the ingredients composing it, and ''of changing one metal into another ''. . . must therefore be left undecided. Nor are all alchemists to be considered impostors. Many have laboured under the conviction of obtaining their object, with indefatigable patience and purity of heart, which is earnestly recommended by sound alchemists as the principal requisite for the success of their labours.” (''Pop. Encyclop''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

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Dhyana +

In Buddhism one of the six Paramitas of perfection, a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic practising it far above this plane of sensuous perception and out of the world of matter. Lit., “contemplation”. The six stages of Dhyan differ only in the degrees of abstraction of the personal Ego from sensuous life [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dhyani Bodhisattyas +

In Buddhism, the five sons of the Dhyani‐Buddhas. They have a mystic meaning in Esoteric Philosophy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dharani +

In Buddhism—both Southern and Northern—and also in Hinduism, it means simply a ''mantra ''or ''mantras''—sacred verses from the ''Rig Veda. ''In days of old these mantras or Dhâranî were all considered mystical and practically efficacious in their use. At present, however, it is the Yogâchârya school alone which proves the claim in practice. When chanted according to given instructions a '''Dhâranî '''produces wonderful effects. Its occult power, however, does not reside in the ''words ''but in the inflexion or accent given and the resulting sound originated thereby. (See “Mantra” and “Akasa”) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Isis +

In Egyptian ''Issa'', the goddess Virgin‐Mother; personified nature. In Egyptian or Koptic ''Uasari, ''the female reflection of ''Uasar ''or Osiris. She is the “woman clothed with the sun” of the land of Chemi. Isis Latona is the Roman Isis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hippopotamus +

In Egyptian symbolism Typhon was called “the hippopotamus who slew his father and violated his mother,” Rhea (mother of the gods). His father was Chronos. As applied therefore to Time and Nature (Chronos and Rhea), the accusation becomes comprehensible. The type of Cosmic Disharmony, Typhon, who is also Python, the monster formed of the slime of the Deluge of Deucalion, “violates” his mother, Primordial Harmony, whose beneficence was so great that she was called “The Mother of the Golden Age”. It was Typhon, who put an end to the latter, i.e., produced the first war of elements [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

S

Sons of Adi +

In Esoteric philosophy the “Sons of Adi” are called the “Sons of the Fire‐mist”. A term used of certain adepts. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chitkala +

In Esoteric philosophy, identical with the Kumâras those who first incarnated into the men of the Third Root‐Race. (See ''Sec.Doct''.; Vol. 1. p. 288 n.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Cain +

In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapter of ''Genesis''. It is held, moreover, that Abel is not his brother, but his female aspect. (See ''Sec.Doct''., ''sub voce''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dangma +

In Esotericism a purified Soul. A Seer and an Initiate; one who has attained full wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Ceres +

In Greek ''Demeter''. As the female aspect of Pater Æther, Jupiter, she is esoterically the productive principle in the all‐pervading Spirit that quickens every germ in the material universe [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Amen +

In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of “Jehovah Adonai”=10, 5, 6, 5 and 1,4, 50, 10 =91 together; it is one form of the Hebrew word for “truth”. In common parlance Amen is said to mean “so be it”. [ w.w.w.] But, in ''esoteric ''parlance ''Amen ''means “the concealed”. Manetho Sebennites says the word signifies ''that which is hidden ''and we know through Hecatæus and others that the Egyptians used the word to call upon their great God of Mystery, Ammon (or “Ammas, the hidden god ”) to make himself conspicuous and manifest to them. Bonomi, the famous hieroglyphist, calls his worshippers very pertinently the “Amenoph”, and Mr. Bonwick quotes a writer who says: “Ammon, the hidden god, will remain for ever hidden till anthropomorphically revealed; gods who are afar off are useless”. Amen is styled “Lord of the new‐moon festival”. Jehovah‐Adonai is a new form of the ram‐headed god Amoun or Ammon (q.v.) who was invoked by the Egyptian priests under the name of Amen. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jerusalem +

In Hebrew it is written Yrshlim or “city of peace”,but the ancient Greeks called it pertinently ''Hierosalem ''or “Secret Salem”, since Jerusalem is a rebirth from Salem of which Melchizedek was the King‐Hierophant, a declared Astrolator and worshipper of the Sun,’“the Most High” by‐the‐bye. There also Adoni‐Zedek reigned in his turn, and was the last of its Amorite Sovereigns. He allied himself with four others, and these five kings went to conquer back Gideon, but (according to ''Joshua ''X) came out of the affray second best. And no wonder, since these five kings were opposed, not only by Joshua but by the “Lord God”, and by the Sun and the Moon also. On that day, we read, at the command of the successor of Moses, “the sun stood still and the moon stayed” (v. 13) for the whole day. No mortal man, king or yeoman, could withstand, of course, such a shower “of great stones from heaven” as was cast upon them by the Lord himself . . . . “from Beth‐horon unto Azekah” “and they died” (v. ii). After having died they “fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah” (v. i6). It appears, however, that such undignified behaviour in a God received its Karmic punishment afterwards. At different epochs of history, the Temple of the Jewish Lord was sacked, ruined and burnt (See“Mount Moriah”)—holy ark of the covenant, cherubs, Shekinah and all, but that deity seemed as powerless to protect his property from desecration as though they were no more stones left in heaven. After Pompey had taken the Second Temple in 63, B.c., and the third one, built by Herod the Great, had been razed to the ground by the Romans, in 70 A.D., no new temple was allowed to be built in the capital of the “chosen people” of the Lord. In spite of the Crusades, since the XIIIth century Jerusalem has belonged to the Mahommedans, and almost every site holy and dear to the memory of the old Israelites, and also of the Christians, is now covered by minarets and mosques, Turkish barracks and other monuments of Islam [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

D

Dynasties +

In India there are two, the Lunar and the Solar, or the ''Somavansa ''and the ''Suryavansa''. In Chaldea and Egypt there were also two distinct kinds of dynasties, the ''divine ''and the ''human. ''In both countries people were ruled in the beginning of time by Dynasties of Gods. In Chaldea they reigned one hundred and twenty Sari, or in all 432,000 years; which amounts to the same figures as a Hindu Mahayuga 4,320,000 years. The chronology prefacing the ''Book of Genesis ''(English translation) is given “Before Christ, 4004”. But the figures are a rendering by solar years. In the original Hebrew, which preserved a lunar calculation, the figures are 4,320 years. This “coincidence” is well explained in Occultism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jörd +

In Northern Germany the goddess of the Earth, the same as Nerthus and the Scandinavian Freya or Frigg [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Demerit +

In Occult and Buddhistic parlance, a constituent of Karma. It is through ''avidya ''or ignorance of ''vidya, ''divine illumination, that merit and demerit are produced. Once an Arhat obtains full illumination and perfect control over his personality and lower nature, he ceases to create merit and demerit [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Illusion +

In Occultism everything finite (like the universe and all in it) is called illusion or ''maya'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Imagination +

In Occultism this is not to be confused with fancy, as it is one of the plastic powers of the higher Soul, and is the memory of the preceding incarnations, which, however disfigured by the lower Manas, yet rests always on a ground of truth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Namah +

In Pali ''Namo''. The first word of a daily invocation among Buddhists, meaning “I humbly trust, or adore, or acknowledge” the Lord; as: “Namo tasso Bhagavato Arahato” etc., addressed to Lord Buddha. The priests are called “Masters of Namah”—both Buddhist and Taoist, because this word is used in liturgy and prayers, in the invocation of the ''Triratna ''(''q.v''.), and with a slight change in the occult incantations to the ''Bodhisvattvas ''and ''Nirmânakâyas.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Ideos +

In Paracelsus the same as Chaos, or ''Mysterium Magnum ''as that philosopher calls it [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Iliados +

In Paracelsus the same as “Ideos” (q.v.). Primordial matter in the subjective state [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhikshu +

In Pâli ''Bihkhu''. The name given to the first followers of Sâkyamuni Buddha. Lit., “mendicant scholar”. The ''Sanskrit Chinese Dictionary ''explains the term correctly by dividing Bhikshus into two classes of ''Sramanas ''(Buddhist monks and priests), viz., “esoteric mendicants who control their nature by the (religious) law, and exoteric mendicants who control their nature by ''diet'';” and it adds, less correctly: “every true Bhikshu is supposed to work miracles” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gems, Three precious +

In Southern Buddhism these are the sacred books, the Buddhas and the priesthood. In Northern Buddhism and its secret schools, the Buddha, his sacred teachings, and the Narjols (Buddhas of Compassion) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Materializations +

In Spiritualism the word signifies the objective appearance of the so‐called “Spirits” of the dead, who reclothe themselves occasionally in matter; ''i.e.'', they form for themselves out of the materials at hand, which are found in the atmosphere and the emanations of those present, a temporary body hearing the human likeness of the defunct as he appeared, when alive. Theosophists accept the phenomenon of “materialization”; but they reject the theory that it is produced by “ Spirits”, ''i.e.'', the immortal principles of the disembodied persons. Theosophists hold that when the phenomenon is genuine—and it is a fact of rarer occurrence than is generally believed—it is produced by the ''larvæ'', the ''eidola ''or Kamalokic “ghosts” of dead personalities. (See “Kâmadhâtu”, “Kâmaloka” and “Kâmarupa”.) As Kâmaloka is on the earth plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which reason it is concealed from our normal sight, the occasional apparition of such shells is as natural as that of electric balls and other atmospheric phenomena. Electricity as a fluid, or atomic matter (for Theosophists hold with Maxwell that it ''is ''atomic), though invisible, is ever present in the air, and manifests under various shapes, but only when certain conditions are there to “materialize” the fluid, when it passes from its own on to our plane and makes itself objective. Similarly with the ''eidola ''of the dead. They are present, around us, but being on another plane do not see us any more than we see them. But whenever the strong desires of living men and the conditions furnished by the abnormal constitutions of mediums are combined together, these ''eidola ''are drawn— nay, ''pulled ''down from their plane on to ours and made objective. This is ''Necromancy ''; it does no good to the dead, and great harm to the living, in addition to the fact that it interferes with a law of nature. The occasional materialization of the “astral bodies” or ''doubles ''of living persons is quite another matter. These “astrals” are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon‐like, our own “Elementaries”, along with those of the disembodied and cosmic Elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. In short, at the so‐called “materialization” seances it is those present and the medium, who ''create ''the peculiar likeness of the ''apparitions''. Independent “apparitions” belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. Materializations are also called “form‐manifestations” and “portrait statues”. To call them materialized spirits is inadmissible, for they are not spirits but animated portrait‐statues, indeed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

K

Khubilkhan +

In Tibet the names given to the supposed incarnations of Buddha. Elect Saints [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avebury +

In Wiltshire are the remains of an ancient megalithic Serpent temple: according to the eminent antiquarian Stukeley, 1740, there are traces of two circles of stones and two avenues; the whole has formed the representation of a serpent. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mystes +

In antiquity, the name of the new Initiates; now that of Roman Cardinals, who having borrowed all their other rites and dogmas from Aryan, Egyptian and Hellenic “heathen”, have helped themselves also to the '''musiz '''of the neophytes. They have ''to keep their eyes and mouth shut on their ''consecration and are, therefore, called ''Mystæ'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Leviathan +

In biblical esotericism, Deity in its double manifestation of good and evil. The meaning may be found in the ''Zohar ''(II. 34''b''.) “Rabbi Shimeon said: The work of the beginning (of ‘creation’) the companions (candidates) study and understand it; but the ''little ones ''(the full or perfect Initiates) are those who understand the allusion to the work of the beginning ''by the Mystery of the Serpent of the Great Sea ''(to wit) ''Thanneen, Leviathan''.” (See also ''Qabbalah, ''by I. Myer.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Geber +

In heaven, they are regarded as powerful angels, on earth as the giants mentioned in chapter vi. of ''Genesis'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Emanation +

In its metaphysical meaning, it is opposed to Evolution, yet one with it. Science teaches that evolution is physiologically a mode of generation in which the germ that develops the foetus pre‐exists already in the parent, the development and final form and characteristics of that germ being accomplished in nature; and that in cosmology the process takes place blindly through the correlation of the elements, and their various compounds. Occultism answers that this is only the '''''apparent '''''mode, the real process being Emanation, guided by intelligent Forces under an immutable LAW. Therefore, while the Occultists and Theosophists believe thoroughly in the doctrine of Evolution as given out by Kapila and Manu, they are ''Emanationists ''rather than ''Evolutionists. ''The doctrine of Emanation was at one time universal. It was taught by the Alexandrian as well as by the Indian philosophers, by the Egyptian, the Chaldean and Hellenic Hierophants, and also by the Hebrews (in their Kabbala, and even in ''Genesis)''. For it is only owing to deliberate mistranslation that the Hebrew word asdt has been translated “angels” from the Septuagint, when it means ''Emanations, Æons'', precisely as with the Gnostics. Indeed, in Deuteronomy (xxxiii., 2) the word ''asdt ''or ''ashdt ''is translated as” fiery law”, whilst the correct rendering of the passage should be “from his right hand went [ not a fiery law, but a fire according to law “; viz., that the fire of one flame is imparted to, and caught up by another like as in a trail of inflammable substance. This is precisely emanation. As shown in Isis Unveiled : “In Evolution, as it is now beginning to he understood, there is supposed to be in all matter an impulse to take on a higher form—a supposition clearly expressed by Manu and other Hindu philosophers of the highest antiquity. The philosopher’s tree illustrates it in the case of the zinc solution. The controversy between the followers of this school and the Emanationists may he briefly stated thus The Evolutionist stops all inquiry at the borders of ‘ the Unknowable “; the Emanationist believes that nothing can be evolved—or, as the word means, unwombed or born—except it has first been involved, thus indicating that life is from a spiritual potency above the whole.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

K

Kailasa +

In metaphysics “heaven”, the abode of gods; geographically a mountain range in the Himalayas, north of the Mansaravâra lake, called also lake ''Manasa.' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Makaram +

In occult symbology a pentagon, the five‐pointed star, the five limbs, or extremities, of man. Very mystical [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Mehen +

In popular myths, the great serpent which represents the lower atmosphere. In Occultism, the world of the ''Astral light'', called symbolically the Cosmic Dragon and the Serpent. (See the works of Eliphaz Lévi, who called this light ''le Serpent du Mal'', and by other names, attributing to it all the evil influences on the earth.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Archons +

In profane and biblical language “rulers” and princes; in Occultism, primordial planetary spirits [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dwarf of Death +

In the ''Edda ''of the Norsemen, Iwaldi, the Dwarf of Death, hides Life in the depths of the great ocean, and then sends her up into the world at the right time. This Life is Iduna, the beauti‐ ful maiden, the daughter of the “Dwarf”. She is the Eve of the Scandinavian Lays, for she gives of the apples of ever‐ renewed youth to the gods of Asgard to eat ; but these, instead of being cursed for so doing and doomed to die, give thereby renewed youth yearly to the earth and to men, after every short and sweet sleep in the arms of the Dwarf. Iduna is raised from the Ocean when Bragi ''(q.v.)'', the Dreamer of Life, without spot or blemish, crosses asleep the silent waste of waters. Bragi is the divine ideation of Life, and Iduna living Nature—Prakriti, Eve [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Freya +

In the ''Edda'', Frigga is the mother of the gods like Aditi in the ''Vedas''. She is identical with the Northern Frea of the Germans, and in her lowest aspect was worshipped as the all‐ nourishing Mother Earth. She was seated on her golden throne, formed of webs of golden light, with three divine virgins as her handmaidens and messengers, and was occupied with spinning golden threads with which to reward good men. She is Isis and Diana at the same time, for she is also Holda, the mighty huntress, and she is Ceres‐Demeter, who protects agriculture—the moon and nature [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adam +

In the ''Kabalah ''Adam is the “only‐begotten”, and means also “red earth”. (See “Adam‐Adami” in the ''S.D. ''II p. 452.) It is almost identical with ''Athamas ''or ''Thomas'', and is rendered into Greek by ''Didumos'', the “twin”—Adam, “the first”, in chap. 1 of ''Genesis, ''being shown, “male‐female.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Continents +

In the Buddhist cosmogony, according to Gautama Buddha’s exoteric doctrine, there are numberless systems of worlds (or ''Sakwala'') all of which are born, mature, decay, and are destroyed periodically. Orientalists translate the teaching about “the four great continents which do not communicate with each other”, as meaning that “upon the earth there are four great continents” (see Hardy’s ''Eastern Monachism'', p. 4), while the doctrine means simply that around or ''above ''the earth there are on either side four worlds, i.e., the earth appearing as the fourth on each side of the arc [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hatchet +

In the Egyptian Hieroglyphics a symbol of power, and also of death. The hatchet is called the “Severer of the Knot ” i.e., of marriage or any other tie [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Myalba +

In the Esoteric philosophy of Northern Buddhism, the name of our Earth, called '''Hell '''for those who reincarnate in it for punishment. Exoterically, Myalba is translated a Hell [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Memrab +

In the Kabala, “the voice of the will” i.e., the collective forces of nature in activity, called the “Word”, or Logos, by the Jewish Kabalists [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Deona Mati +

In the Kolarian dialect, one who exorcises evil spirits [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abatur +

In the Nazarene system the “Ancient of Days”, ''Antiquus Altus'', the Father of the Demiurgus of the Universe, is called the ''Third Life ''or “Abatur”. He corresponds to the ''Third ''“Logos” in the ''Secret Doctrine''. (See ''Codex Nazaræus'') [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Magus +

In the New Testament it means a Sage, a wise man of the Chaldeans; it is in English often used for a Magician, any wonder‐worker; in the Rosicrucian Society it is the title of the highest members, the IXth grade; the Supreme Magus is the Head of the Order in the “Outer”; the Magi of the “Inner” are unknown except to those of the VIIIth grade. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Donar +

In the North the God of Thunder. He was the Jupiter Tonans of Scandinavia. Like as the oak was devoted to Jupiter so was it sacred to Thor, and his altars were over shadowed with oak trees. Thor, or Donar, was the offspring of Odin, “the omnipotent God of Heaven”, and of Mother Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nout +

In the Pantheon of the Egyptians it meant the “One‐ only‐One”, because they did not proceed in their popular or exoteric religion higher than the third manifestation which radiates from the ''Unknown ''and the ''Unknowable'', the first unmanifested and the second ''logoi ''in the esoteric philosophy of every nation. The Nous of Anaxagoras was the ''Mahat ''of the Hindu Brahmâ, ''the first manifested ''Deity—“the Mind or Spirit self‐potent”; this creative Principle being of course the ''primum mobile ''of everything in the Universe—its Soul and Ideation. (See “Seven Principles” in man.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chhassidi +

In the Septuagint ''Assidai'', and in English ''Assideans''. They are also mentioned in ''Maccabees ''I., vii., 13, as being put to death with many others. They were the followers of Mattathias, the father of the Maccabeans, and were all initiated mystics, or Jewish adepts. The word means ‘‘ skilled learned in all wisdom, human and divine”. Mackenzie (R.M.C.) regards them as the guardians of the Temple for the preservation of its purity ; but as Solomon and his Temple are both allegorical and had no real existence, the Temple means in this case the “ body of Israel ” and its morality.“ Scaliger connects this Society of the ''Assideans ''with that of the Essenes, deeming it the predecessor of the latter.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dis +

In the Theogony of Damascius, the same as ''Protogonos, ''the “first born light”, called by that author “the disposer of all things [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asura Mazda +

In the Zend, ''Ahura Mazda''. The same as Ormuzd or Mazdeô; the god of Zoroaster and the Parsis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daemon +

In the original Hermetic works and ancient classics it has a meaning identical with that of “god”, “angel” or “genius”. The Dæmon of Socrates is the incorruptible part of the man, or rather the real inner man which we call Nous or the rational divine Ego. At all events the Dæmon (or Daimon of the great Sage was surely not the demon of the Christian Hell or of Christian orthodox theology. The name was given by ancient peoples, and especially the philosophers of the Alexandrian school, to all kinds of spirits, whether good or bad, human or otherwise. The appellation is often synonymous with that of gods or angels. But some philosophers tried, with good reason, to make a just distinction between the many classes [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Naraka +

In the popular conception, a hell, a “prison under earth”. The hot and cold hells, each eight in number, are simply emblems of the globes of our septenary chain, with the addition of the “eighth sphere” supposed to be located in the moon. This is a transparent ''blind'', as these “hells” are called ''vivifying hells ''because, as explained, any being dying in one is immediately born in the second, then in the third, and so on; life lasting in each 500 years (a blind on the number of cycles and reincarnations). As these hells constitute one of the six ''gâti ''(conditions of sentient existence), and as people are said to be reborn in one or the other according to their Karmic merits or demerits, the blind becomes self‐ evident. Moreover, these Nârakas are rather purgatories than hells, since release from each is possible through ''the prayers and intercessions of priests for a consideration'', just as in the Roman Catholic Church, which seems to have copied the Chinese‐ritualism in this pretty closely. As said before, esoteric philosophy traces every hell to life on earth, in one or another form of sentient existence [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kamadeva +

In the popular notions the god of love, a Visva‐deva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As the ''Eros ''of Hesiod, degraded into Cupid by exoteric law, and still more degraded by a later popular sense attributed to the term, so is Kama a most mysterious and metaphysical subject. The earlier Vedic description of Kama alone gives the key‐note to what he emblematizes. Kama is the first conscious, ''all embracing desire ''for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness, the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE Force, as soon as it came into life and being as a ray from the ABSOLUTE. Says the ''Rig Veda'', “Desire first arose in IT, which was the primal germ of mind, and which Sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects Entity with non‐ Entity”, or ''Manas ''with pur''e Atma‐Buddhi''. There is no idea of sexual love in the conception. Kama is pre‐eminently the divine desire of creating happiness and love; and it is only ages later, as mankind began to materialize by anthropomorphization its grandest ideals into cut and dried dogmas, that Kama became the power that gratifies desire on the animal plane. This is shown by what every ''Veda ''and some ''Brahmanas ''say. In the ''Atharva Veda, ''Kama is represented as the Supreme Deity and Creator. In the Taitarîya Brahmana, he is the child of Dharma, the god of Law and Justice, of Sraddha and faith. In another account he springs from the heart of Brahmâ. Others show him born from water, i.e., from primordial chaos, or the “Deep”. Hence one of his many names, ''Irâ‐ja, ''“the water‐ born”; and ''Aja, ''“unborn” ; and ''Atmabhu ''or “Self‐ existent”. Because of the sign of ''Makara ''(Capricornus) on his banner, he is also called “ Makara Ketu”. The allegory about Siva, the “Great Yogin ”, reducing Kama to ashes by the fire from his ''central ''(or third) ''Eye'', for inspiring the Mahadeva with thoughts of his wife, while he was at his devotions—is very suggestive, as it is said that he thereby reduced Kama to his primeval spiritual form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

B

Blavatsky, Yuri +

Infant-ward of H. P. Blavatsky and N. V. Blavatsky. +

A

Anumitis +

Inference, deduction in philosophy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Cosmic Gods +

Inferior gods, those connected with the formation of matter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Athenaeum, The +

Initiated in 1828 by James Silk Buckingham, it was sold within a few weeks to Frederick Maurice and John Sterling, who failed to make it profitable. In 1829, Charles Wentworth Dilke became part proprietor and editor; he greatly extended the influence of the magazine. In 1846, he resigned the editorship and assumed that of the Daily News of London, but contributed a series of notable articles to the Athenaeum. The poet and critic Thomas Kibble Hervey succeeded Dilke as editor and served from 1846 until his resignation due to ill health in 1853. Historian and traveller William Hepworth Dixon succeeded Hervey in 1853, and remained editor until 1869. Editor from 1871 to 1900 was Norman MacColl. From 1849 to 1880 Geraldine Jewsbury contributed more than 2300 reviews. She was one of very few women who reviewed for the Athenaeum and started submitting her reviews regularly by 1854. She rated highly novels that showed character morality and were also entertaining. She criticized the "fallen woman" theme, which was common in Victorian literature. During the second half of the 1850s, Jewsbury was entrusted with editing the "New Novels" section. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

D

Diksha +

Initiation. ''Dikshit, ''an Initiate [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Evapto +

Initiation; the same as ''Epopteia'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Acacia +

Innocence; and also a plant used in Freemasonry as a symbol of initiation, immortality, and purity; the tree furnished the sacred Shittim wood of the Hebrews. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adbhuta +

Is a title of Vishnu, the “first Element” containing all elements, “the ''unfathomable ''deity”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nesku +

Is described in the Assyrian tablets as the “holder of the golden sceptre, the lofty god” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atef +

It consisted of a tall white cap with ram’s horns, and the ''urœus ''in front. Its two feathers represent the two truths—''life and death.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lost Word +

It ought to stand as “lost words” and lost secrets, in general, for that which is termed the lost “Word” is no word at all, as in the case of the Ineffable Name (''q.v''.) The Royal Arch Degree in Masonry, has been “in search of it” since it was founded. But the “dead”—‐especially those ''murdered''—do not speak; and were even “the Widow’s Son” to come back to life “materialized”, he could hardly reveal that which never existed in the form in which it is ''now ''taught. The SHEMHAMPHORASH (the separated name, through the power of which according to his detractors, Jeshu Ben Pandira is said to have wrought his miracles, after stealing it from the Temple)—whether derived from the “self existent substance” of Tetragrammaton, or not, can never be a substitute, for the lost LOGOS of divine magic [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

New York Evening Post +

It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. Its most famous 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

A

Aymar +

Jacques. A famous Frenchman who had great success in the use of the Divining Rod about the end of the 17th century; he was often employed in detecting criminals; two M.D’s of the University of Paris, Chauvin and Garnier reported on the reality of his powers. See Colquhoun on ''Magic. ''[ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bassantin +

James. A Scotch astrologer. He lived in the 16th century and is said to have predicted to Sir Robert Melville, in 1562, the death and all the events connected therewith of Mary, the unfortunate Queen of Scots [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Borri +

Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an alchemist and a devoted occultist. He knew too much and was, therefore, condemned to death for heresy, in January, 1661, after the death of Pope Innocent X. He escaped and lived many years after, when finally he was recognised by a monk in a Turkish village, denounced, claimed by the Papal Nuncio, taken back to Rome and imprisoned, August 10th, 1675. But facts show that he escaped from his prison in a way no one could account for [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gyn +

Knowledge acquired under the tuition of an adept teacher or guru [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Gnâna +

Knowledge as applied to the esoteric sciences [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jhâna +

Knowledge; Occult Wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daath +

Knowledge; “the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah, Wisdom and Understanding”: sometimes, in error, called a Sephira. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asuramaya +

Known also as ''Mayâsura''. An Atlantean astronomer, considered as a great magician and sorcerer, well‐known in Sanskrit works [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Iu‐Kabar Zivo +

Known also as Nebat‐Iavar‐bar‐ Iufin‐Ifafin, “Lord of the Æons” in the Nazarene System. He is the procreator (Emanator) of the ''seven holy lives ''(the seven primal Dhyan Chohans, or Archangels, each representing one of the cardinal Virtues), and is himself called the third life (''third ''Logos). In the Codex he is addressed as “the Helm and ''Vine ''of the food of life”. Thus, he is identical with Christ (Christos) who says “I am the ''true Vine ''and my Father is the Husband‐ man “(John xv. i). It is well known that Christ is regarded in the Roman Catholic Church, as the “chief of the Æons”, and also as Michael “who is like god”. Such was also the belief of the Gnostics [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mukta +

Liberation from sentient life; one beatified or liberated; a candidate for ''Moksha'', freedom from flesh and matter, or life on this earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lif +

Lif and Lifthresir, the only two human beings who were allowed to be present at the “Renewal of the World”. Being “pure and innocent and free from sinful desires, they are permitted to enter the world where peace now reigns”. The ''Edda ''shows them hidden in Hoddmimir’s forest dreaming the dreams of childhood while the last conflict was taking place. These two creatures, and the allegory in which they take part, are allusions to the few nations of the Fourth Root Race, who, surviving the great submersion of their continent and the majority of their Race, passed into the Fifth and continued their ethnical evolution in our present Human Race [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jiva +

Life, as the Absolute; the Monad also or “Atma‐ Buddhi” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chiah +

Life; Vita, ''Revivificatio''. In the Kabbala, the second highest essence of the human soul, corresponding to Chokmah (Wisdom) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Apava +

Lit. “He who sports in the Water”. Another aspect of Nârâyana or Vishnu and of Brahmâ combined, for Âpava, like the latter, divides himself into two parts, male and female, and creates Vishnu, who creates Virâj, who creates Manu. The name is explained and interpreted in various ways in Brahmanical literature [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Djnana +

Lit., Knowledge; esoterically, “supernal or divine knowledge acquired by Yoga”. Written also ''Gnyana'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Niti +

Lit., Prudence, ethics [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dharmachakra +

Lit., The turning of the “wheel of the Law”. The emblem of Buddhism as a system of cycles and rebirths or reincarnations [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nitya Parivrita +

Lit., continuous extinction [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Enoichion +

Lit., the ''inner ''Eye” ; the “Seer”, a reference to the third ''inner'', or Spiritual Eye, the true name for Enoch disfigured from ''Chanoch.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gatra +

Lit., the ''limbs ''(of Brahmâ) from which the “mind‐born” sons, the seven Kumâras, were born [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avarasaila Sangharama +

Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihâra (monastery) in Dhana‐kstchâka, according to Eitel, “built 600 B.C., and deserted A.D. 600” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Manvantara +

Lit., the great interludes between the “Manus”. The period of universal activity. Manvantara implying here simply a period of activity, as opposed to Pralaya, or rest—without reference to the length of the cycle [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chhannagarikah +

Lit., the school of six cities. A famous philosophical school where Chelas are prepared before entering on the Path [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bodhyanga +

Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the ''Bodhi pakchika dharma, ''comprehending seven degrees of intelligence (esoterically, seven states of consciousness), and these are (1) ''Smriti “''memory”; (2) Dharma pravitchaya, “correct understanding” or discrimination of the Law ; (3) ''Virya, ''“energy” ; (4) ''Priti, ''“spiritual joy” ; (5)''Prasrabdhi, ''“tranquillity” or quietude; (6) ''Samâdhi'', “ecstatic contemplation”; and (7) ''Upeksha ''“absolute indifference” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chadayatana +

Lit., the six dwellings or ''gates ''in man for the reception of sensations; thus, on the physical plane, the eyes, nose, ear, tongue, body (or touch) and mind, as a product of the physical brain and on the mental plane (esoterically), ''spiritual ''sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch and perception, the whole synthesized by the ''Buddhi‐atmic ''element. Chadâyatana is one of the 12 Nidânas, which form the chain of incessant causation and effect [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hydranos +

Lit., the “Baptist”. A name of the ancient Hierophant of the Mysteries who made the candidate pass through the “trial by water”, wherein he was plunged thrice. This was his baptism by the Holy Spirit which moves on the waters of Space. Paul refers to St. John as ''Hydranos, ''the Baptist. The Christian Church took this rite from the ritualism of the Eleusinian and other Mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mundakya Upanishad +

Lit., the “Mundaka esoteric doctrine”, a work of high antiquity. It has been translated by Raja Rammohun Roy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Manodhatu +

Lit., the “World of the mind”, meaning not only all our mental faculties, but also one of the divisions of the plane of mind. Each human being has his ''Manodhatu ''or plane of thought proportionate with the degree of his intellect and his mental faculties, beyond which he can go only by studying and developing his higher spiritual faculties in one of the higher spheres of thought [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adikrit +

Lit., the “first produced” or made. The creative Force eternal and uncreate, but manifesting periodically. Applied to Vishnu slumbering on the “waters of space” during “pralaya” (q.v.). [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahabharata +

Lit., the “great war”; the celebrated epic poem of India (probably the longest poem in the world) which includes both the ''Ramayana ''and the ''Bhagavad Gîtâ ''“the Song Celestial”. No two Orientalists agree as to its date. But it is undeniably extremely ancient [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Manas Taijasi +

Lit., the “radiant” Manas; a state of the Higher Ego, which only high metaphysicians are able to realize and comprehend [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Amulam Mulam +

Lit., the “rootless root” ; Mulâprakriti of the Vedantins the spiritual “root of nature” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Orpheus +

Lit., the “tawny one”. Mythology makes him the son of Æager and the muse Calliope. Esoteric tradition identifies him with Arjuna, the son of Indra and the disciple of Krishna. He went round the world teaching the nations wisdom and sciences, and establishing mysteries. The very story of his losing his Eurydice and finding her in the underworld or Hades, is another point of resemblance with the story of Arjuna, who goes to Pâtàla (''Hades ''or hell, but in reality the Antipodes or America) and finds there and marries Ulupi, the daughter of the Nâga king. This is as suggestive as the fact that he was considered ''dark ''in complexion even by the Greeks, who were never very fair‐skinned themselves [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arjuna +

Lit., the “white”. The third of the five Brothers Pandu or the reputed Sons of Indra (esoterically the same as Orpheus). A disciple of Krishna, who visited him and married Su‐bhadrâ, his sister, besides many other wives, according to the allegory. During the fratricidal war between the ''Kauravas ''and the ''Pândavas, ''Krishna instructed him in the highest philosophy, while serving as his charioteer. ''(See Bhaguvad Gîtâ''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kailem +

Lit., vessels or vehicles; the vases for the source of the Waters of Life ; used of the Ten Sephiroth, considered as the primeval ''nuclei ''of all Kosmic Forces. Some Kabalists regard them as manifesting in the universe through twenty‐two canals, which are represented by the twenty‐two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, thus making with the Ten Sephiroth thirty‐two paths of wisdom. [w. w. w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aethrobacy +

Lit., walking on, or being lifted into the air with no visible agent at work; “levitation”. It may be conscious or unconscious; in the one case it is magic, in the other either disease or a power which requires a few words of elucidation. We know that the earth is a magnetic body; in fact, as some scientists have found, and as Paracelsus affirmed some 300 years ago, it is one vast magnet. It is charged with one form of electricity—let us call it positive—which it evolves continuously by spontaneous action, in its interior or centre of motion. Human bodies, in common with all other forms of matter, are charged with the opposite form of electricity, the negative. That is to say, organic or inorganic bodies, if left to themselves will constantly and involuntarily charge themselves with and evolve the form of electricity opposite to that of the earth itself. Now, what is weight? Simply the attraction of the earth. “Without the attraction of the earth you would have no weight”, says Professor Stewart; “and if you had an earth twice as heavy as this, you would have double the attraction”. How then, can we get rid of this attraction? According to the electrical law above stated, there is an attraction between our planet and the organisms upon it, which keeps them upon the surface of the globe. But the law of gravitation has been counteracted in many instances, by levitation of persons and inanimate objects. How account for this? The condition of our physical systems, say theurgic philosophers, is largely dependent upon the action of our will. If well‐ regulated, it can produce “miracles”; among others a change of this electrical polarity from negative to positive; the man’s relations with the earth‐magnet would then become repellent, and “gravity”for him would have ceased to exist. It would then be as natural for him to rush into the air until the repellent force had exhausted itself, as, before, it had been for him to remain upon the ground. The altitude of his levitation would be measured by his ability, greater or less, to charge his body with positive electricity. This control over the physical forces once obtained, alteration of his levity or gravity would be as easy as breathing. (See ''Isis Unveiled'', Vol. I., page xxiii.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Asomatous +

Lit., without a material body, incorporeal; used of celestial Beings and Angels [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Foh‐tchou +

Lit., “Buddha’s Lord”, meaning, however, simply the teacher of the doctrines of Buddha. Foh means a Guru who lives generally in a temple of Sakyamuni Buddha—the Foh‐Maeyu [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adi‐Sanat +

Lit., “First Ancient”. The term corresponds to the Kabalistic “ancient of days”, since it is a title of Brahmâ—called in the ''Zohar ''the ''Atteekah d’Atteekeen, ''or “the Ancient of the Ancients”, ''etc.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Epimetheus +

Lit., “He who takes counsel ''after''” the event. A brother of Prometheus in Greek Mythology [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arya‐Dasa +

Lit., “Holy Teacher”. A great sage and Arhat of the Mahâsamghika school [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Daenam +

Lit., “Knowledge”, the principle of understanding in man, rational Soul, or ''Manas'', according to the ''Avesta.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jagan‐Natha +

Lit., “Lord of the World”, a title of Vishnu. The great image of Jagan‐natha on its car, commonly pronounced and spelt Jagernath. The idol is that of Vishnu Krishna. Puri, near the town of Cuttack in Orissa, is the great seat of its worship; and twice a year an immense number of pilgrims attend the festivals of the Snâna yâtra and Ratha‐âtra During the first, the image is bathed, and during the second it is placed on a car, between the images of ''Balarâma ''the brother, and ''Subhadr''â the sister of Krishna and the huge vehicle is drawn by the devotees, who deem it felicity to be crushed to death under it [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nara Sinha +

Lit., “Man‐lion”; an Avatar of Vishnu [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abhayagiri +

Lit., “Mount Fearless” in Ceylon. It has an ancient ''Vihâra ''or Monastery in which the well‐known Chinese traveller Fa‐hien found 5,000 Buddhist priests and ascetics in the year 400 of our era, and a School called ''Abhayagiri Vâsinah'',, “School of the Secret Forest”. This philosophical school was regarded as heretical, as the ascetics studied the doctrines of both the “greater” and the “smaller” vehicles— or the ''Mahâyâna ''and the ''Hinayâna ''systems and ''Triyâna ''or the three successive degrees of Yoga; just as a certain Brotherhood does now beyond the Himalayas. This proves that the “disciples of Kâtyâyana were and are as ''unsectarian ''as their humble admirers the Theosophists are now. (See “Sthâvirâhʺ School.) This was the most mystical of all the schools, and renowned for the number of Arhats it produced. The Brotherhood of ''Abhayagiri ''called themselves the disciples of Kâtyâyana, the favourite Chela of Gautama, the Buddha. Tradition says that owing to bigoted intolerance and persecution, they left Ceylon and passed beyond the Himalayas, where they have remained ever since. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Ayin +

Lit., “Nothing”, whence the name of Ain‐ Soph. (See“Ain”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dugpas +

Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of ''Tsong‐ka‐pa ''in the fourteenth century, the Tibetans, whose Buddhism had deteriorated and been dreadfully adulterated with the tenets of the old ''Bhon ''religion,—were all Dugpas. From that century, however, and after the rigid laws imposed upon the ''Gelukpas ''(yellow caps) and the general reform and purification of Buddhism (or Lamaism), the Dugpas have given themselves over more than ever to sorcery, immorality, and drunkenness. Since then the word Dugpas has become a synonym of “sorcerer”, “adept of black magic” and everything vile. There are few, if any, Dugpas in Eastern Tibet, but they congregate in Bhutan, Sikkim, and the borderlands generally. Europeans not being permitted to penetrate further than those borders, the Orientalists never having studied Buddho‐Lamaism in Tibet proper, but judging of it on hearsay and from what Cosmo di Köros, Schlagintweit, and a few others have learnt of it from Dugpas, confuse both religions and bring them under one head. They thus give out to the public pure Dugpaism instead of Buddho‐Lamaism. In short Northern Buddhism in its purified, metaphysical form is almost entirely unknown [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atmabodha +

Lit., “Self‐knowledge”; the title of a Vedantic treatise by Sankârachârya [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Buddha +

Lit., “The Enlightened”. The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all otherselves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bhadrakalpa +

Lit., “The Kalpa of the Sages”. Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching makes it last 236 million years. It is “so called because 1,000 Buddhas or sages appear in the course of it”. ''(Sanshrit Chinese Dict.) ''“Four Buddhas have already appeared” it adds; but as out of the 236 millions, over 151 million years have already elapsed, it does seem a rather uneven distribution of Buddhas. This is the way exoteric or popular religions confuse everything. Esoteric philosophy teaches us that every Root‐ race has its chief Buddha or Reformer, who appears also in the seven sub‐ races as a Bodhisattva (''q.v''.). Gautama Sakyamuni was the fourth, and also the fifth Buddha: the fifth, because we are the fifth root‐race; the fourth, as the chief Buddha in this ''fourth ''Round. The Bhadra Kalpa, or the “period of stability”, is the name of our present Round, esoterically—its duration applying, of course, only to our globe (D), the “1,000” Buddhas being thus in reality limited to but forty‐nine in all [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dhyan Chohans +

Lit., “The Lords of Light”. The highest gods, answering to the Roman Catholic Archangels. The divine Intelligences charged with the supervision of Kosmos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kuklos Anagkes +

Lit., “The Unavoidable Cycle” or the “Circle of Necessity”‐. Of the numerous catacombs in Egypt and Chaldea the most renowned were the subterranean crypts of Thebes and Memphis. The former began on the Western side of the Nile extending toward the Libyan desert, and were known as the ''serpents''’ (Initiated Adepts) catacombs. It was there that the Sacred Mysteries of the ''Kuklos Anagkês ''were performed, and the candidates were acquainted with the inexorable laws traced for every disembodied soul from the beginning of time. These laws were that every reincarnating Entity, casting away its body should pass from this life on earth unto another life on a more subjective plane, a state of bliss, unless the sins of the personality brought on a complete separation of the higher from the lower “principles” ; that the “circle of necessity” or the ''unavoidable cycle ''should last a given period (from one thousand to even three thousand years in a few cases), and that when closed the Entity ''should return to its mummy'', i.e., to a new incarnation. The Egyptian and Chaldean teachings were those of the “Secret Doctrine” of the Theosophists. The Mexicans had the same. Their demi‐god, Votan, is made to describe in ''Popol Vu ''(see de Bourbourg’s work) the ''ahugero de colubra ''which is identical with the “Serpent’s Catacombs”, or passage, adding that it ran underground and “terminated at the root of heaven”, into which ''serpent’s hole, ''Votan was, admitted because he was himself “a son of the Serpents”, or a ''Dragon of Wisdom'', i.e., an Initiate. The world over, the priest‐adepts called themselves “Sons of the Dragon” and “Sons of the Serpent‐god” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mahat +

Lit., “The great one”. The first principle of Universal Intelligence and Consciousness. In the Purânic philosophy the first product of root‐nature or ''Pradhâna ''(the same as Mulaprakriti); the producer of ''Manas ''the thinking principle, and of ''Ahankâra'', egotism or the feeling of “I am I” (in the lower Manas) [[Category: TG terms]] (TG). +

K

Kinnaras +

Lit., “What men?” Fabulous creatures of the same description as the ''Kim‐purushas'', One of the four classes of beings called “Maharajas” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Melekh +

Lit., “a King”. A title of the Sephira Tiphereth, the V, or ''vau ''in the tetragrammaton—the son or ''Microprosopus ''(the Lesser Face) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Grihastha +

Lit., “a householder”, “one who lives in a house with his family”. A Brahman “ family priest” in popular rendering, and the sarcerdotal hierarchy of the Hindus [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Agni Bhuvah +

Lit., “born of fire”, the term is applied to the four races of ''Kshatriyas ''(the second or warrior caste) whose ancestors are said to have sprung from fire. Agni Bhuvah is the son of Agni, the God of Fire; Agni Bhuvah being the same as Kartti‐keya, the God of War. (See ''Sec.Doct.'', Vol. II., p. 550.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Khi +

Lit., “breath”; meaning Buddhi. '''Khnoom '''(''Eg''.). The great Deep, or Primordial Space. '''Khoda '''(''Pers''.). The name for the Deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Divyasrotra +

Lit., “celestial Ear” Or divine hearing. The second “Abhijna”, or the faculty of understanding the language or sound produced by any living being on Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Divyachakchus +

Lit., “celestial Eye” or divine seeing, perception. It is the first of the six “Abhijnas” (q.v.) ; the faculty developed by Yoga practice to perceive any object in the Universe, at whatever distance [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Guru Deva +

Lit., “divine Master” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arwaker +

Lit., “early waker”. The horse of the chariot of the Sun driven by the maiden Sol, in the ''Eddas'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhrantidarsanatah +

Lit., “false comprehension or apprehension”; something conceived of on false appearances as a ''mayavic, ''illusionary form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Ma +

Lit., “five”. A name of Lakshmi [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Logi +

Lit., “flame”. This giant with his sons and kindred, made themselves finally known as the authors of every cataclysm and conflagration in heaven or on earth, by letting mortals perceive them in the midst of flames. These giant‐fiends were all enemies of man trying to destroy his work wherever they found it. A symbol of the cosmic elements [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Devarshis +

Lit., “gods rishis” ; the divine or god like saints, those sages who attain a fully divine nature on earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Deva +

Lit., “great god”; a title of Siva. '''Mahâ Guru '''(''Sk''.). Lit., “great teacher”. The Initiator. '''Mahâjwala '''(''Sk.''). A certain hell [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Mahatma +

Lit., “great soul”. An adept of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower principles are thus living unimpeded by the “man of flesh”, and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Edda +

Lit., “great‐grandmother”of the Scandinavian Lays. It was Bishop Brynjϋld Sveinsson, who collected them and brought them to light in 1643. There are two collections of Sagas, translated by the Northern Skalds, and there are two ''Eddas. ''The earliest is of unknown authorship and date and its antiquity is very great. These Sagas were collected in the XIth century by an Icelandic priest; the second is a collection of the history (or myths) of the gods spoken of in the first, which became the Germanic deities, giants, dwarfs and heroes [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ardha‐Nari +

Lit., “half‐woman”. Siva represented as Androgynous, as half male and half female, a type of male and female energies combined. (See occult diagram in ''Isis Unveiled, ''Vol. II.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bodhisattva +

Lit., “he, whose essence (''sattva'') has become intelligence ''(bodhi'')”; those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect Buddhas, i.e., to be entitled to Nirvâna. This, as applied to ''Manushi ''(terrestrial) Buddhas. In the metaphysical sense, ''Bodhisattva ''is a title given to the sons of the celestial ''Dhyâni ''Buddhas [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Durga +

Lit., “inaccessible”. The female potency of a god; the name of Kali, the wife of Siva, the ''Mahesvara'', or “the great god” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gnosis +

Lit., “knowledge”. The technical term used by the schools of religious philosophy, both before and during the first centuries of so‐called Christianity, to denote the object of their enquiry. This Spiritual and Sacred Knowledge, the ''Gupta Vidya ''of the Hindus, could only be obtained by Initiation into Spiritual Mysteries of which the ceremonial “Mysteries” were a type [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arghyanath +

Lit., “lord of libations” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nitya Pralaya +

Lit., “perpetual” Pralaya or dissolution. It is the constant and imperceptible changes undergone by the atoms which last as long as a Mahâmanvantara, a whole age of Brahmâ, which takes fifteen figures to sum up. A stage of chronic change and dissolution, the stages of growth and decay. It is the duration of “Seven Eternities”. (See ''Secret Doctrine ''I. 371, II. 69, 310.) There are four kinds of Pralayas, or states of changelessness. The Naimittika, when Brahmâ slumbers; the Prakritika, a partial Pralaya of anything during Manvantara; Atyantika, when man has identified himself with the One Absolute synonym of Nirvâna; and Nitya, for physical things especially, as a state of profound and dreamless sleep [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hachoser +

Lit., “reflected Lights”; a name for the minor or inferior powers, in the Kabbalah [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Orgelmir +

Lit., “seething clay”. The same as Ymir, the giant, the unruly, turbulent, erratic being, the type of primordial matter, out of whose body, after killing him, the sons of Bör created a new earth. He is also the cause of the Deluge in the Scandinavian Lays, for he flung his body into Ginnungagap, the yawning abyss; the latter being filled with it, the blood flowed over and produced a great flood in which all the Hrimthurses, the frost giants, were drowned; one of them only the cunning Bergelmir saves himself and wife in a boat and became the father of a new race of giants. “ And there were giants on the earth in those days.” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dipamkara +

Lit., “the Buddha of fixed light”; a predecessor of Gautama, the Buddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmapuri +

Lit., “the City of Brahmâ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avesta +

Lit., “the Law”. From the old Persian ''Âbastâ, ''“the law”. The sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastrians. ''Zend ''means in the “Zend‐Avesta”—a “commentary” or “interpretation”. It is an error to regard “ Zend” as a language, as “it was applied only to explanatory texts, to the translations of the Avesta”(Darmsteter) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhagavad‐gita +

Lit., “the Lord’s Song”. A portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a dialogue wherein Krishna—the “Charioteer”—and Arjuna, his Chela, have a discussion upon the highest spiritual philosophy. The work is pre‐eminently occult or esoteric [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bhadra Vihara +

Lit., “the Monastery of the Sages or Bodhisattvas”. A certain ''Vihara ''or ''Matham ''in Kanyâkubdja [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ayur Veda +

Lit., “the Veda of Life” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hakem +

Lit., “the Wise One”, the Messiah to come, of the Druzes or the “Disciples of Hamsa” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Janarddana +

Lit., “the adored of mankind”, a title of Krishna [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ardhanariswara +

Lit., “the bi‐sexual lord”. Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the Kabalistic Sephira, Adam Kadmon, &c [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adhyatma Vidya +

Lit., “the esoteric luminary”. One of the Pancha Vidyâ Sastras, or the Scriptures of the Five Sciences. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chidagnikundum +

Lit., “the fire‐hearth in the heart”; the seat of the force which extinguishes all individual desires [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Buddhaphala +

Lit., “the fruit of Buddha”, the fruition of ''Arahattvaphalla''''''', '''''or Arhatship [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dharmakaya +

Lit., “the glorified spiritual body” called the “Vesture of Bliss”. The third, or highest of the ''Trikâya ''(Three Bodies), the attribute developed by every “Buddha”, i.e., every initiate who has crossed or reached the end of what is called the “fourth Path” (in esotericism the sixth “portal” prior to his entry on the seventh). The highest of the ''Trikâya, ''it is the ''fourth ''of the ''Buddhakchêtra'', or Buddhic planes of consciousness, represented figuratively in Buddhist asceticism as a robe or vesture of luminous Spirituality. In popular Northern Buddhism these vestures or robes are: (1) Nirmanakâya (2) Sambhogakâya (3) and Dharmakâya the last being the highest and most sublimated of all, as it places the ascetic on the threshold of Nirvâna. (See, however, the ''Voice of the Silence, ''page 96, ''Glossary'', for the true ''esoteric ''meaning.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gnan Devas +

Lit., “the gods of knowledge”. The higher classes of gods or devas; the “mind‐born” sons of Brahmâ, and others including the Manasa‐putras (the Sons of Intellect). Esoterically, our reincarnating Egos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Arya +

Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) and entered the Âryanimârga path to Nirvâna or Moksha, the great “four‐fold” path. But now the name has become the epithet of a race, and our Orientalists, depriving the Hindu Brahmans of their birth‐right, have made Aryans of all Europeans. In esotericism, as the four paths, or stages, can be entered only owing to great spiritual development and “growth in holiness ”, they are called the “four fruits”. The degrees of Arhatship, called respectively Srotâpatti, Sakridâgamin, Anâgâmin, and Arhat, or the four classes of Âryas, correspond to these four paths and truths [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nagadwipa +

Lit., “the island of the Dragons”; one of the ''Seven Divisions ''of Bhâratavarsha, or modern India, according to the Purânas. No proofs remain as to who were the Nâgas (a historical people however), the favourite theory being that they were a Scythic race. But there is no proof of this. When the Brahmans invaded India they “found a race of ''wise ''men, half‐gods, half‐ demons”, says the legend, men who were the teachers of other races and became likewise the instructors of the Hindus and the Brahmans themselves. Nagpur is justly believed to be the surviving relic of Nâgadwîpa. Now Nagpur is virtually in Râjputana near Oodeypore, Ajmere, etc. And is it not well known that there was a time when Brahmans went to learn Secret Wisdom from the Râjputs? Moreover a tradition states that Apollonius of Tyana was instructed in magic by the Nâgas of Kashmere [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

DevanagarI +

Lit., “the language or letters of the dêvas” or gods. The characters of the Sanskrit language. The alphabet and the art of writing were kept secret for ages, as the ''Dwijas ''(Twice‐born) and the ''Dikshitas ''(Initiates) alone were permitted to use this art. It was a crime for a. Sudra to recite a verse of the ''Vedas'', and for any of the two lower castes (Vaisya and Sudra) to know the letters was an offence punishable by death. Therefore is the word ''lipi, ''‘‘writing”, absent from the oldest MSS., a fact which gave the Orientalists the erroneous and rather incongruous idea that writing was not only unknown before the day of Pânini, but even to that sage himself That the greatest grammarian the world has ever produced should be ignorant of writing would indeed be the greatest and most incomprehensible phenomenon of all [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Manas, Kama +

Lit., “the mind of desire.” With the Buddhists it is the ''sixth ''of the Chadâyatana ''(q.v.)'', or the six organs of knowledge, hence the highest of these, synthesized by the seventh called ''Klichta'', the spiritual perception of that which defiles this (lower) Manas, or the “Human‐animal Soul”, as the Occultists term it. While the Higher Manas or the Ego is directly related to ''Vijnâna ''(the 10th of the 12 Nidânas)—which is the perfect knowledge of all forms of knowledge, whether relating to object or subject in the nidânic concatenation of causes and effects; the lower, the Kâma Manas is but one of the ''Indriya ''or organs (roots) of Sense. Very little can be said of the dual Manas here, as the doctrine that treats of it, is correctly stated only in esoteric works. Its mention can thus be only very superficial [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Manas +

Lit., “the mind”, the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of ''Mahat''. ''Esoterically, ''however, it means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists ''Buddhi‐ Manas ''or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection—''Kâma‐Manas.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Ghocha +

Lit., “the miraculous Voice”. The name of a great Arhat, the author of Abhidharmamrita Shastra, who restored sight to a blind man by anointing his eyes with the tears of the audience moved by his (Ghôcha’s) supernatural eloquence [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Devamatri +

Lit., “the mother of the gods”. A title of Aditi, Mystic Space [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kumara guha +

Lit., “the mysterious, virgin youth”. A title given to Karttikeya owing to his strange origin [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nava Nidhi +

Lit., “the nine Jewels”; a consummation of spiritual development, in mysticism [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Monogenes +

Lit., “the only‐begotten”; a name of Proserpine and other gods and goddesses [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Oshadi Prastha +

Lit., “the place of medicinal herbs”. A mysterious city in the Himalayas mentioned even from the Vedic period. Tradition shows it as once inhabited by sages, great adepts in the healing art, who used only herbs and plants, as did the ancient Chaldees. The city is mentioned in the ''Kumâra Sambhava ''of Kalidasa [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Ebionites +

Lit., “the poor”; the earliest sect of Jewish Christians, the other being the Nazarenes. They existed when the term “Christian” was not yet heard of. Many of the relations of ''Iassou ''(Jesus), the adept ascetic around whom the legend of Christ was formed, were among the Ebionites. As the existence of these mendicant ascetics can be traced at least a century earlier than chronological Christianity, it is an additional proof that ''lassou ''or ''Jeshu ''lived during the reign of Alexander Jannæus at Lyd (or Lud), where he was put to death as stated in the ''Sepher Toldos Jeshu.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Buddhachhaya +

Lit., “the shadow of Buddha”. It is said to become visible at certain great events, and during some imposing ceremonies performed at Temples in commemoration of glorious acts of Buddhas life. Hiouen‐ tseng, the Chinese traveller, names a certain cave where it occasionally appears on the wall, but adds that only he whose mind is perfectly pure”, can see it [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jalarupa +

Lit., “water‐body, or form”. One of the names of Makâra (the sign ''capricornus''). It is one of the most occult and mysterious of the Zodiacal signs; it figures on the banner of Kama, god of love, and is connected with our immortal Egos. (See ''Secret Doctrine.'') [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Neo‐platonism +

Lit.,“The ''new ''Platonism” or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandria by Ammonius Saccas, of which his disciple Plotinus was the head (A.D. 189‐270). It sought to reconcile Platonic teachings and the Aristotelean system with oriental Theosophy. Its chief occupation was pure spiritual philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism. Theurgy was introduced towards its later years. It was the ultimate effort of high intelligences to check the ever‐ increasing ignorant superstition and ''blind ''faith of the times; the last product of Greek philosophy, which was finally crushed and put to death by brute force [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Docetae +

Lit.,“The Illusionists”. The name given by orthodox Christians to those Gnostics who held that Christ did not, nor could he, suffer death actually, but that, if such a thing had happened, it was merely an illusion which they explained in various ways [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Dâgoba +

Lit: a sacred mound or tower for Buddhist holy relics. These are pyramidal‐looking mounds scattered all over India and Buddhist countries, such as Ceylon, Burmah, Central Asia, etc. They are of various sizes, and generally contain some small relics of Saints or those claimed to have belonged to Gautama, the Buddha. As the human body is supposed to consist of 84,000 '''''dhâtus '''''(organic cells with definite vital functions in them), Asoka is said for this reason to have built 84,000 ''dhâtu‐gopas ''or Dâgobas in honour of every cell of the Buddha’s body, each of which has now become a ''dhârmadhâtu ''or holy relic. There is in Ceylon a Dhâtu‐ gopa at Anurâdhapura said to date from160 years B.C. They are now built pyramid‐like, but the primitive Dâgobas were all shaped like towers with a cupola and several tchhatra (umbrellas) over them. Eitel states that the Chinese Dâgobas have all from 7 to 14 ''tchhatras ''over them, a number which is symbolical of the human body [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

Faizi +

Literally the “heart”. A writer on occult and mystic subjects. Mussulman ascetics are entitled to it. This loose way of calling things by general names was adopted in ''Isis Unveiled ''but is now altered [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nâga +

Literally “Serpent”. The name in the Indian Pantheon of the Serpent or Dragon Spirits, and of the inhabitants of Pâtâla, hell. But as Pâtâla means the ''antipodes'', and was the name given to America by the ancients, who knew and visited that continent before Europe had ever heard of it, the term is probably akin to the Mexican Nagals the (now) sorcerers and medicine men. The Nagas are the Burmese ''Nats'', serpent‐gods, or “dragon demons”. In Esotericism, however, and as already stated, this is a nick‐name for the “wise men” or adepts in China and Tibet, the “Dragons.” are regarded as the titulary deities of the world, and of various spots on the earth, and the word is explained as meaning adepts, yogis, and narjols. The term has simply reference to their great knowledge and wisdom. This is also proven in the ancient Sûtras and Buddha’s biographies. The Nâga is ever a wise man, endowed with extraordinary magic powers, in South and Central America as in India, in Chaldea as also in ancient Egypt. In China the “worship” of the Nâgas was widespread, and it has become still more pronounced since Nâgarjuna (the “great Nâga”, the “great adept” literally), the fourteenth Buddhist patriarch, visited China. The “Nâgasʺ are regarded by the Celestials as “the tutelary Spirits or gods of the five regions or the four points of the compass and the centre, as the guardians of the five lakes and four oceans” ('''Eitel'''). This, traced to its origin and translated esoterically, means that the five continents and their five root‐races had always been under the guardianship of “terrestrial deities”, i.e., Wise Adepts. The tradition that Nâgas washed Gautama Buddha at his birth, protected him and guarded the relics of his body when dead, points again to the Nâgas being only wise men, Arhats, and no monsters or Dragons. This is also corroborated by the innumerable stories of the conversion of Nâgas to Buddhism. The Nâga of a lake in a forest near Râjagriha and many other “Dragons” were thus converted by Buddha to the good Law [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

A

Agapae +

Love Feasts; the early Christians kept such festivals in token of sympathy, love and mutual benevolence. It became necessary to abolish them as an institution, because of great abuse ; Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians complains of misconduct at the feasts of the Christians. [w.w.w.]. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Klesha +

Love of life, but literally “pain and misery”. Cleaving to existence, and almost the same as ''Kama'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nakshatra +

Lunar asterisms [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Machagistia +

Magic, as once taught in Persia and Chaldea, and raised in its occult practices into a religio‐ magianism. Plato, speaking of Machagistia, or Magianism, remarks that it is the purest form of the worship of ''things divine.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Betyles +

Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the “animated stones” ; oracular stones, believed in and used both by Gentiles and Christians. (See ''S.D''. II. p. 342) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lupercalia +

Magnificent popular festivals celebrated in ancient Rome on February 15th in honour of the God Pan, during which the ''Luperci, ''the most ancient and respectable among the sacerdotal functionaries, sacrificed two goats and a dog, and two of the most illustrious youths were compelled to run about the city naked (except the loins) whipping all those whom they met. Pope Gelasius abolished the Lupercalia in 496, but substituted for them on the same day the procession of lighted candles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahma Vach +

Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, literally. (See ''Manu ''Book I., and ''Vishnu Purâna.'') [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bragadini +

Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was decapitated in 1595 in Bavaria, for making gold [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Cross +

Mariette Bey has shown its antiquity in Egypt by proving that in all the primitive sepulchres “the plan of the chamber has the form of a cross”. It is the symbol of the Brotherhood of races and men; and was laid on the breast of the corpses in Egypt, as it is now placed on the corpses of deceased Christians, and, in its ''Swastica ''form (''croix ''cramponnée) on the hearts of the Buddhist adepts and Buddhas. (See “Calvary Cross”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Edris +

Meaning “the learned One”, an epithet applied by the Arabs to Enoch [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Chyuta +

Means, “the fallen” into generation, as a Kabbalist would say; the opposite of ''achyuta'', something which is not subject to change or differentiation; said of deity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lhagpa +

Mercury, the planet [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kusala +

Merit, one of the two chief constituents of Karma [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

F

First Point +

Metaphysically the first point of manifestation, the germ of primeval differentiation, or the point in the infinite Circle “whose centre is everywhere, and circumference nowhere“. The Point is the Logos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kamarupa +

Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies. After that death three of the seven “principles”—or let us say planes of senses and consciousness on which the human instincts and ideation act in turn—viz., the body, its astral prototype and physical vitality,—being of no further use, remain on earth; the three higher principles, grouped into one, merge into the state of Devachan (''q.v''.), in which state the Higher Ego will remain until the hour for a new reincarnation arrives; and the ''eidolon ''of the ex‐Personality is left alone in its new abode. Here, the pale copy of the man that was, vegetates for a period of time, the duration of which is variable and according to the element of materiality which is left in it, and which is determined by the past life of the defunct. Bereft as it is of its higher mind, spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will gradually fade out and disintegrate. But, if forcibly drawn back into the terrestrial sphere whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices—one of the most pernicious of which is medium‐ ship—the “spook” may prevail for a period greatly exceeding the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kamarupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire, feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. In India these ''eidolons ''are called ''Pisâchas, ''and are much dreaded, as already explained elsewhere [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gatha +

Metrical chants or hymns, consisting of moral aphorisms. A gâthâ of thirty‐two words is called Âryâgiti [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kimapurushas +

Monstrous Devas, half‐men, half‐ horses [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Ophanim +

More correctly written Auphanim. The “wheels” seen by Ezekiel and by John in the Revelation— world.spheres (''Secret Doctrine ''I., 92.) The symbol of the Cherubs or Karoubs (the Assyrian Sphinxes). As these beings are represented in the Zodiac by Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, or the Bull, the Lion, the Eagle and Man, the occult meaning of these creatures being placed in company of the four Evangelists becomes evident. In the ''Kabbalah ''they are a group of beings allotted to the Sephira Chokmah, Wisdom [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bamboo Books +

Most ancient and certainly pre‐historic works in Chinese containing the antediluvian records of the ''Annals of China''. They were found in the tomb of King Seang of Wai, who died 295 B.C., and claim to go back many centuries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Immah +

Mother, in contradistinction to ''Abba,'' father [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Oannes +

Musarus Oannes, the Annedotus, known in the Chaldean “legends”, transmitted through Berosus and other ancient writers, as Dag or Dagon, the “man‐ fish”. Oannes came to the early Babylonians as a reformer and an instructor. Appearing from the Erythræan Sea, he brought to them civilisation, letters and sciences, law, astronomy and religion, teaching them agriculture, geometry and the arts in general. There were Annedoti who came after him, five in number (our race being ''the fifth '')—“all like Oannes inform and teaching the same”; but Musarus Oannes was the first to appear, and this he did during the reign of Ammenon, the third of the ten antediluvian Kings whose dynasty ended with Xisuthrus, the Chaldean Noah (See “Xisuthrus”). Oannes was “an ''animal ''endowed with reason whose body was that of a fish, but ''who had a human head under the fish’s with feet also below, similar to those of a man, ''subjoined to the fish’s tail, and ''whose voice and language too were articulate ''and human” (Polyhistor and Apollodorus). This gives the key to the allegory. It points out Oannes, as a ''man ''and a “priest”, an ''Initiate. ''Layard showed long ago (See ''Nineveh'') that the “fish’s head” was simply a head gear, the ''mitre ''worn by priests and gods, made in the form of a fish’s head, and which in a very little modified form is what we see even now on the heads of high Lamas and Romish Bishops. Osiris had such a mitre. The fish’s tail is simply the train of a long stiff mantle as depicted on some Assyrian tablets, the form being seen reproduced in the sacerdotal gold cloth garment worn during service by the modern Greek priests. This allegory of Oannes, the Annedotus, reminds us of the “Dragon” and “Snake‐ Kings “; the ''Nâgas ''who in Buddhist legends instruct people in wisdom on lakes and rivers, and end by becoming converts to the good Law and ''Arhats''. The meaning is evident. The “ fish” is an old and very suggestive symbol in the Mystery‐language, as is also “water”. Ea or Hea was the god of the sea and Wisdom, and the sea serpent was one of his emblems, his priests being “serpents “ or Initiates. Thus one sees why Occultism places Oannes and the other Annedoti in the group of those ancient “adepts” who were called “marine” or “water dragons”—Nâgas. Water typified their human origin (as it is a symbol of earth and matter and also of purification), in distinction to the “fire Nâgas” or the immaterial, Spiritual Beings, whether celestial Bodhisattvas or Planetary Dhyânis, also regarded as the instructors of mankind. The hidden meaning becomes clear to the Occultist, once he is told that “this being (Oannes) was accustomed to pass the day among men, teaching; and when the Sun had set, he retired again into the sea, passing the night in the deep, “''for he was amphibious''”, i.e., he belonged to two planes: the spiritual and the physical. For the Greek word ''amphibios ''means simply “life on two planes”, from ''amphi, ''“on both sides”, and ''bios, ''“life”. The word was often applied in antiquity to those men who, though still wearing a human form, had made themselves almost divine through knowledge, and lived as much in the spiritual supersensuous regions as on earth. Oannes is dimly reflected in Jonah, and even in John, the Precursor, both connected with Fish and Water [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

K

Konx‐Om‐Pax +

Mystic words used in the Eleusinian mysteries. It is believed that these words are the Greek imitation of ancient Egyptian words once used in the secret ceremonies of the Isiac cult. Several modern authors give fanciful translations, but they are all only guesses at the truth. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abraxas +

Mystic words which have been traced as far back as Basilides, the Pythagorean, of Alexandria, AD. 90. He uses Abraxas as a title for Divinity, the supreme of Seven, and as having 365 virtues. In Greek numeration, a. 1, b. 2, r. 100, a. I, x 60, a. I, s. 200 = 365 days of the year, solar year, a cycle of divine action. C. W. King, author of The Gnostics, considers the word similar to the Hebrew ''Shemhamphorasch'', a holy word, the extended name of God. An Abraxas Gem usually shows a man’s body with the head of a cock, one arm with a shield, the other with a whip. [ w.w.w.] Abraxas is the counterpart of the Hindu Abhimânim (q.v.) and Brahmâ combined. It is these compound and mystic qualities which caused Oliver, the great Masonic authority, to connect the name of Abraxas with that of Abraham. This was unwarrantable ; the virtues and attributes of Abraxas, which are 365 in number, ought to have shown him that the deity was connected with the Sun and solar division of the year——nay, that Abraxas is the antitype, and the Sun, the type. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Basilidean +

Named after Basilides; the Founder of one of the most philosophical gnostic sects. Clement the Alexandrian speaks of Basilides, the Gnostic, as “a philosopher devoted to the contemplation of divine things”. While he claimed that he had all his doctrines from the Apostle Matthew and from Peter through Glaucus, Irenaeus reviled him, Tertullian stormed at him, and the Church Fathers had not sufficient words of obloquy against the “heretic”. And yet on the authority of St. Jerome himself, who describes with indignation what he had found ''in the only genuine Hebrew copy ''of the Gospel of Matthew (See ''Isis Unv.'', ii., 181) which he got from the Nazarenes, the statement of Basilides becomes more than credible, and if accepted would solve a great and perplexing problem. His 24 vols. ''of Interpretation of the Gospels'', were, as Eusebius tells us, burnt. Useless to say that these gospels were not our ''present ''Gospels. Thus, truth was ever crushed [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nabu +

Nebu or Nebo, generally; the Chaldean god of Secret Wisdom, from which name the Biblical, Hebrew term '''Nabiim '''(prophets) was derived. This son of Anu and Ishtar was worshipped chiefly at Borsippa; but he had also his temple at Babylon, above that of Bel, devoted to the seven planets. (See “ Nazarenes” and “ Nebo”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abhava +

Negation, or non‐being of individual objects; the ''noumenal ''substance, or abstract objectivity. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nirguna +

Negative attribute; unbound, or without ''Gunas ''(attributes), i.e., that which is devoid of all qualities, the opposite of Saguna, that which has attributes (''Secret Doctrine, ''II. 95), e.g., Parabrahmam is Nirguna; Brahmâ, Saguna. Nirguna is a term which shows the impersonality of the thing spoken of [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gehenna +

No hell at all, but a valley near Jerusalem, where Israelites immolated their children to Moloch. In that valley a place named ''Tophet ''was situated, where a fire was perpetually preserved for sanitary purposes. The prophet Jeremiah informs us that his countrymen, the Jews, used to sacrifice their children on that spot [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ajnana +

Non‐knowledge; absence of knowledge rather than “ignorance” as generally translated. An ''Ajnâni ''means a “profane”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Drakon +

Now considered a “mythical” monster, perpetuated in the West only on seals,. &c., as a heraldic griffin, and the Devil slain by St. George, &c. In fact an extinct antediluvian monster In Babylonian antiquities it is referred to as the “scaly one” and connected on many gems with Tiamat the sea. “The Dragon of the Sea” is repeatedly mentioned. In Egypt, it is the star of the Dragon (then the North Pole Star), the origin of the connection of almost all the gods with the Dragon. Bel and the Dragon, Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, Sigur and Fafnir, and finally St. George and the Dragon, are the same. They were all solar gods, and wherever we find the Sun there also is the Dragon, the symbol of Wisdom—Thoth‐Hermes. The Hierophants of Egypt and of Babylon styled themselves “Sons of the Serpent‐God” and “Sons of the Dragon”. “I am a Serpent, I am a Druid”, said the Druid of the Celto‐Britannic regions, for the Serpent and the Dragon were both types of Wisdom, Immortality and Rebirth. As the serpent casts its old skin only to reappear in a new one, so does the immortal Ego cast off one personality but to assume another [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Naimittika +

Occasional, or incidental; used of one of the four kinds of Pralayas (See “Pralaya”) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hair +

Occult philosophy considers the hair (whether human or animal) as the natural receptacle and retainer of the vital essence which often escapes with other emanations from the body. It is closely connected with many of the brain functions—for instance memory. With the ancient Israelites the cutting of the hair and beard was a sign of defilement, and “the Lord said unto Moses. . . They shall not make baldness upon their head”, etc. (Lev. XX1., 1‐5.) “Baldness”, whether natural or artificial, was a sign of calamity, punishment, or grief, as when Isaiah (iii.,24) enumerates, “instead of well‐set hair baldness”, among the evils that are ready to befall the chosen people. And again, “On all their heads baldness and every beard cut” (''Ibid. ''xv., 2). The Nazarite was ordered to let his hair and beard grow, and never to permit a razor to touch them. With the Egyptians and Buddhists it was only the initiated priest or ascetic to whom life is a burden, who shaved. The Egyptian priest was supposed to have become master of his body, and hence shaved his head for cleanliness; yet the Hierophants wore their hair long. The Buddhist still shaves his head to this day—as sign of scorn for life and health. Yet Buddha, after shaving his hair when he first became a mendicant, let it grow again and is always represented with the top‐knot of a Yogi. The Hindu priests and Brahmins, and almost all the castes, shave the rest of the head but leave a long lock to grow from the centre of the crown. The ascetics of India wear their hair long, and so do the war‐like Sikhs, and almost all the Mongolian peoples. At Byzantium and Rhodes the shaving of the beard was prohibited by law, and in Sparta the cutting of the beard was a mark of slavery and servitude. Among the Scandinavians, we are told, it was considered a disgrace, “a mark of infamy”, to cut off the hair. The whole population of the island of Ceylon (the Buddhist Singhalese) wear their hair long. So do the Russian, Greek and Armenian clergy, and monks. Jesus and the Apostles are always represented with their hair long, but fashion in Christendom proved stronger forces [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

I

Image +

Occultism permits no other image than that of the living image of divine man (the symbol of Humanity) on earth. The ''Kabbala ''teaches that this divine Image, the copy of the ''sublime and holy upper Image ''(the Elohim) has now changed into ''another similitude'', owing to the development of men’s sinful nature. It is only the ''upper divine Image ''(the Ego) which is the same; the lower (personality) has changed, and man, now fearing the wild beasts, has grown to bear on his face the similitude of many of them. (''Zohar ''I. fol. 71a.) In the early period of Egypt there were no images; but later, as Lenormand says, “In the sanctuaries of Egypt they divided the properties of nature and consequently of Divinity (the Elohim, or the Egos), into seven abstract qualities, characterised each by an emblem, which are matter, cohesion, fluxion, coagulation, accumulation, station and division ”. These were all attributes symbolized in various images [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Humanity +

Occultly and Kabbalistically, the whole of mankind is symbolised, by Manu in India; by Vajrasattva or Dorjesempa, the head of the Seven Dhyani, in Northern Buddhism; and by Adam Kadmon in the Kabbala. All these represent the totality of mankind whose beginning is in this androgynic protoplast, and whose end is in the Absolute, beyond all these symbols and myths of human origin. Humanity is a great Brotherhood by virtue of the sameness of the material from which it is formed physically and morally. Unless, however, it becomes a Brotherhood also intellectually, it is no better than a superior genus of animals [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Kshira Samudra +

Ocean of milk, churned by the gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Apollo Belvidere +

Of all the ancient statues of Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, called Phœbus, Helios, the radiant and the Sun, the best and most perfect is the one known by this name, which is in the Belvidere gallery of the Vatican at Rome. It is called the ''Pythian Apollo'', as the god is represented in the moment of his victory over the serpent Python. The statue was found in the ruins of Antium, in 1503 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nergal +

On the Assyrian tablets he is described as the “giant king of war, lord of the city of Cutha”. It is also the Hebrew name for the planet Mars, associated invariably with ill‐luck and danger. Nergal‐Mars is the “shedder of blood”. In occult astrology it is less malefic than Saturn, but is more active in its associations with men and its influence on them [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Anugita +

One of the ''Upanishads. ''A very occult treatise. ''(See The sacred Books of the East.'') [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhuya‐loka +

One of the 14 worlds [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Bhur‐loka +

One of the 14, lokas or worlds in Hindu Pantheism; our Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aged +

One of the Kabbalistic names for Sephira, called also the Crown, or ''Kether.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Axieros +

One of the Kabiri [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nanda +

One of the Kings of Magadha (whose dynasty was overthrown by Chandragupta ''q.v''.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Janaka +

One of the Kings of Mithilâ of the Solar race. He was a great royal sage, and lived twenty generations before Janaka the father of Sita who was King of Videha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ajitas +

One of the Occult names of the twelve great gods incarnating in each Manvantara. The Occultists identify them with the Kumâras. They are called Jnâna (or Gnâna) Devas. Also, a form of Vishnu in the second Manvantara. Called also ''Jayas.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Augiras +

One of the Prajâpatis. A son of Daksha ; a lawyer, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Azhi‐Dahaka +

One of the Serpents or Dragons in the legends of Iran and the Avesta Scriptures, the allegorical destroying Serpent or Satan [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Narada +

One of the Seven great Rishis, a Son of Brahmâ This “Progenitor” is one of the most mysterious personages in the Brahmanical sacred symbology. Esoterically Nârada is the Ruler of events during various Karmic cycles, and the personification, in a certain sense, of the great human cycle; a Dhyan Chohan. He plays a great part in Brahmanism, which ascribes to him some of the most occult hymns in the ''Rig Veda'', in which sacred work he is described as “of the Kanwa family”. He is called Deva‐Brahmâ, but as such has a distinct character from the one he assumes on earth—or Pâtâla. Daksha cursed him for his interference with his 5,000 and 10,000 sons, whom he persuaded to remain Yogins and ''celibates'', to be reborn time after time on this earth (''Mahâbhârata''). But this is an allegory. He was the inventor of the Vina, a kind of lute, and a great “lawgiver”. The story is too long to be given here [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Katha +

One of the Upanishads commented upon by Sankarâchârya [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Kebar‐Zivo +

One of the chief creators in the ''Codex Nasaræus'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aahla +

One of the divisions of the ''Kerneter'' or infernal regions, or [[Amenti]] ; the word means the “Field of Peace”. +

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Idwatsara +

One of the five periods that form the Yuga. This cycle is pre‐eminently the Vedic cycle, which is taken as the basis of calculation for larger cycles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atyantika +

One of the four kinds of '''''pralaya '''''or dissolution. The “absolute” pralaya [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmana period +

One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided by Orientalists [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Mantra period +

One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Illinus +

One of the gods in the Chaldean Theogony of Damascius [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhrigu +

One of the great Vedic Rishis. He is called “Son” by Manu, who confides to him his ''Institutes''. He is one of the Seven ''Prajâpatis ''or progenitors of mankind, which is equivalent to identifying him with one of the creative gods, placed by the Purânas in Krita Yug, or the first age, that of purity. Dr. Wynn Westcott reminds us of the fact that the late and very erudite Dr. Kenealy (who spelt the name ''Brighoo''), made of this Muni (Saint) the fourth, out of his twelve, “divine messengers” to the World, adding that he appeared in Tibet, A.N. 4800 and that his religion spread to Britain, where his followers raised the megalithic temple of Stonehenge. This, of course, is a hypothesis, based merely on Dr. Kenealy’s personal speculations [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ammon +

One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun‐Ra, and is identified with Baal. Hammon, the Lord of Heaven. Amoun‐Ra was Ra the Spiritual Sun, the “Sun of Righteousness”, etc., for—“the Lord God is a Sun”. He is the God of Mystery and the hieroglyphics of his name are often reversed. He is Pan, All‐Nature esoterically, and therefore the universe, and the “Lord of Eternity”. Ra, as declared by an old inscription, was “begotten by Neith but not engendered”. He is called the “self‐ begotten” Ra,, and created goodness from a glance of his fiery eye, as Set‐Typhon created evil from his. As Ammon (also Amoun and Amen), Ra, he is “Lord of the worlds enthroned on the Sun’s disk and appears in the abyss of heaven”. A very ancient hymn spells the name ''“Amen‐ra”'', and hails the “Lord of the thrones of the earth...Lord of Truth, father of the gods, maker of man, creator of the beasts, Lord of Existence, Enlightener of the Earth, sailing in heaven in tranquillity. . . All hearts are softened at beholding thee, sovereign of life, health and strength We worship ''thy spirit who alone made us''”, etc., etc. (See Bonwick’s ''Egyptian Belief.'') Ammon Ra is called “his mother’s husband” and her son. (See “Chnourmis” and “Chnouphis” and also ''Secret Doctrine ''I, pp. 91 and It was to the “ram‐headed” god that the Jews sacrificed lambs, and the ''lamb ''of Christian theology is a disguised reminiscence of the ram [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Episcopal Crook +

One of the insignia of Bishops, derived from the sacerdotal sceptre of the Etruscan Augurs. it is also found in the hand of several gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Asburj +

One of the legendary peaks in the Teneriffe range. A great mountain in the traditions of Iran which corresponds in its allegorical meaning to the World‐ mountain, Meru. Asburj is that mount “at the foot of which the sun sets” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Jambu‐dwipa +

One of the main divisions of the globe, in the Purânic system. It includes India. Some say that it was a continent,—others an island—or one of the seven islands ''(Sapta dwipa) ''It is “the dominion of Vishnu”. In its astronomical and mystic sense it is the name of our globe, separated by the plane of objectivity from the six other globes of our planetary chain [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bal‐ilu +

One of the many titles of the Sun [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hay‐yah +

One of the metaphysical human “Principles”. Eastern Occultists divide men into seven such Principles; Western Kabbalists, we are told, into three only—namely, ''Nephesh Ruach ''and ''Neshamah''. But in truth, this division is as loose and as mere an abbreviation as our “Body, Soul, Spirit ”. For, in the ''Qabbalah ''of Myer (''Zohar ''ii.,141 b., ''Cremona Ed''. ii., fol. 63 b., col. 251) it is stated that ''Neshamah ''or Spirit has three divisions, “the highest being ''Ye’hee‐dah ''(Atmâ) the middle, ''Hay‐yah ''(Buddhi), and the last and third, the ''Neshamah, ''properly speaking (Manas)”. Then comes ''Mahshabah, ''Thought (the lower Manas, or conscious Personality), in which the higher then manifest themselves, thus making ''four''; this is followed by ''Tzelem, ''Phantom of the Image (''Kama‐rupa ''in life the Kamic element); ''D’yooq‐nah'', Shadow of the image ''(Linga Sharira, ''the Double); and ''Zurath'', Prototype, which is Life—seven in all, even without the ''D’mooth'', Likeness or Similitude, which is called a lower manifestation, and is in reality the ''Guf'', or Body. Theosophists of the E. S. who know the transposition made of Atmâ and the part taken by the ''auric ''prototype, will easily find which are the ''real seven, ''and assure themselves that between the division of Principles of the Eastern Occultists and that of the real Eastern Kabbalists there is no difference. Do not let us forget that neither the one nor the other are prepared to give out the real and ''final ''classification in their public writings [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Maha Parinibbana Sutta +

One of the most authoritative of the Buddhist sacred writings [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Individuality +

One of the names given in Theosophy and Occultism to the Human Higher EGO. We make a distinction between the immortal and divine Ego, and the mortal human Ego which perishes. The latter, or “personality” (personal Ego) survives the dead body only for a time in the Kama Loka; the Individuality prevails forever [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Eclectic Philosophy +

One of the names given to the Neo‐ Platonic school of Alexandria [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

China +

One of the oldest known Chinese books is the ''Yih King, or Book of Changes. ''It is reported to have been written 2850 B.C., in the dialect of the Accadian black races of Mesopotamia. It is a most abstruse system of Mental and Moral Philosophy, with a scheme of universal relation and divination. Abstract ideas are represented by lines, half lines, circle, and points. Thus a circle represents YIH, the Great Supreme; a line is referred to YIN, the Masculine Active Potency; two half lines are YANG, the Feminine Passive Potency. KWEI is the animal soul, SHAN intellect, KHIEN heaven or Father, KHWAN earth or Mother, KAN or QHIN is Son; male numbers are odd, represented by light circles, female numbers are even, by black circles. There are two most mysterious diagrams, one called “HO or the River Map”, and also associated with a Horse ; and the other called “The Writing of LO” ; these are formed of groups of white and black circles, arranged in a Kabbalistic manner. The text is by a King named Wan, and the commentary by Kan, his son ; the text is allowed to be older than the time of Confucius. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Anjala +

One of the personified powers which spring from Brahmâ’s body—the Prajâpatis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Atala +

One of the regions in the Hindu lokas, and one of the seven mountains; but esoterically Atala is on an astral plane, and was, once on a time, a real island upon this earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Acheron +

One of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Morya +

One of the royal Buddhist houses of Magadha; to which belonged Chandragupta and Asoka his grandson; also the name of a Rajpoot tribe [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nissi +

One of the seven Chaldean gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kusadwipa +

One of the seven islands named ''Saptadwipa ''in the ''Puranas. ''(See ''Secret Doctrine ''II., p. 404, Note.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Nyaya +

One of the six ''Darshanas ''or schools of Philosophy in India; a system of Hindu logic founded by the Rishi Gautama [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Gna +

One of the three handmaidens of the goddess Freya. She is a female Mercury who bears her mistress’ messages into all parts of the world [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hahnir +

One of the three mighty gods (Odin, Hahnir and Lodur) who, while wandering on earth, found lying on the sea‐shore two human forms, motionless, speechless, and senseless. Odin gave them souls; Hahnir, motion and senses; and Lodur, blooming complexions. Thus were men created [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bhaskara +

One of the titles of Surya, the Sun; meaning “life‐ giver” and “light‐maker” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kols +

One of the tribes in central India, much addicted to magic. They are considered to he great sorcerers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Djati +

One of the twelve “Nidanas” (q.v.); the cause and the effect in the mode of birth taking place according to the “Chatur Yoni”(q.v.), when in each case a being, whether man or animal, is placed in one of the six (esoteric seven) Gâti or paths of sentient existence, which esoterically, counting downward, are: (1) the highest Dhyani (''Anupadaka)''; (2) Devas ; (3) Men; (4) Elementals or Nature Spirits; (5) Animals; (6) lower Elementals; (7) organic Germs. These are in the popular or exoteric nomenclature, Devas, Men, Asûras, Beings in Hells, Prêtas (hungry demons), and Animals [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Marichi +

One of the “mind‐born” sons of Brahmâ in the ''Purânas''. Brahmans make of him the personified light, the parent of Sûrya, the Sun and the direct ancestor of Mahâkâsyapa. The Northern Buddhists of the Yogachârya School, see in Mârîchi Deva, a Bodhisattva, while Chinese Buddhists (especially the Tauists), have made of this conception the Queen of Heaven, the goddess of light, ruler of the sun and moon. With the pious but illiterate Buddhists, her magic formula “Om Mârîchi svâha” is very powerful. Speaking of Mârîchi, Eitel mentions “Georgi, who explains the name as a ‘Chinese transcription of the name of the holy Virgin Mary’” (!!). As Mârîchi is the chief of the Maruts and one of the seven primitive Rishis, the supposed derivation does seem a little far fetched [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Klikoosha +

One possessed by the Evil one. Lit., a “crier out”, a “screamer”, as such unfortunates are periodically attacked with fits during which they crow like cocks, neigh, bray and prophesy [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmajnani +

One possessed of complete Knowledge; an ''Illuminatus ''in esoteric parlance [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Deist +

One who admits the existence of a god or gods, but claims to know nothing of either and denies revelation. A Freethinker of olden times [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nirvani +

One who has attained Nirvana—an emancipated soul. That Nirvâna means nothing of the kind asserted by Orientalists every scholar who has visited China, India and Japan is well aware. It is “''escape ''from misery” but only from that of matter, freedom from ''Klêsha'', or ''Kâma, ''and the complete extinction of animal desires. If we are told that ''Abidharma ''defines Nirvâna “as a state of absolute annihilation”, we concur, adding to the last word the qualification “of everything connected with matter or the physical world”, and this simply because the latter (as also all in it) is illusion, ''mâyâ''. Sâkya‐mûni Buddha said in the last moments of his life that “the spiritual body is immortal” (See ''Sans. Chin. Dict''.). As Mr. Eitel, the scholarly Sinologist, explains it: “The popular exoteric systems agree in defining Nirvâna ''negatively ''as a state of absolute exemption from the circle of transmigration; as a state of entire freedom from all forms of existence; to begin with, freedom from all passion and exertion; a state of indifference to all sensibility” and he might have added “death of all compassion for the world of suffering”. And this is why the Bodhisattvas who prefer the Nirmânakâya to the Dharmakâya vesture, stand higher in the popular estimation than the Nirvânîs. But the same scholar adds that: “Positively (and esoterically) they define Nirvâna as the highest state of spiritual bliss, as absolute immortality through absorption of the soul (spirit rather) into itself, but ''preserving individuality ''so that, e.g., Buddhas, after entering Nirvâna, may reappear on earth”—i.e., in the future Manvantara [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Occultist +

One who studies the various branches of occult science. The term is used by the French Kabbalists (See Eliphas Lévi’s works). Occultism embraces the whole range of psychological, physiological, cosmical, physical, and spiritual phenomena. From the word occultus hidden or secret. It therefore applies to the study of the '''Kabbalah''', astrology, alchemy, and all arcane sciences [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nazar +

One “set apart”; a temporary monastic class of celibates spoken of in the ''Old Testament, ''who married not, nor did they use wine during the time of their vow, and who wore their hair long, cutting it only at their initiation. Paul must have belonged to this class of Initiates, for he himself tells the ''Galatians ''(i. x5) that he was ''separated ''or “set apart” from the moment of his birth ; and that he had his hair cut at Cenchrea, because “he had a vow” (''Acts ''xviii.18), i.e., had been initiated as a Nazar; after which he became a “ master‐builder” (i ''Corinth''. iii.10). Joseph is styled a Nazar (''Gen''. xlix. 26). Samson and Samuel were also Nazars, and many more [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avidya +

Opposed to ''Vidyâ'', Knowledge. Ignorance which proceeds from, and is produced by the illusion of the Senses or ''Viparyaya.'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Airyamen Yaego +

Or ''Airyana Vaêgo''; the primeval land of bliss referred to in the ''Vendîdâd'', where Ahura Mazda delivered his laws to Zoroaster (Spitama Zarathustra). [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aindriya +

Or ''Indrânî, ''Indriya; ''Sakti. ''The female aspect or “wife” of Indra. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Alcyone +

Or Halcyone, daughter of Æolus, and wife of Ceyx, who was drowned as he was journeying to consult the oracle, upon which she threw herself into the sea. Accordingly both were changed, through the mercy of the gods, into king‐fishers. The female is said to lay her eggs ''on the sea and keep it calm ''during the seven days before and seven days after the winter solstice. It has a very occult significance in ornithomancy. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hermanubis +

Or Hermes Anubis “the revealer of the mysteries of the lower world ”—not of Hell or Hades as interpreted, but of our Earth ''(the lowest world of the septenary chain of worlds'')—and also of the sexual mysteries. Creuzer must have guessed at the truth of the right interpretation, as he calls Anubis‐Thoth‐Hermes “''a symbol of science and of the intellectual world ''”. He was always represented with a cross in his hand, one of the earliest symbols of the mystery of generation, or procreation on this earth. In the Chaldean Kabbala (''Book of Numbers'') the Tat symbol, or '''+''', is referred to as Adam and Eve, the latter being the transverse or horizontal bar drawn out of the side (or rib) of ''Hadam'', the perpendicular bar. The fact is that, esoterically, Adam and Eve while representing the early ''third ''Root Race—those who, being still mindless, imitated the animals and degraded themselves with the latter—stand also as the dual symbol of the sexes. Hence Anubis, the Egyptian god of generation, is represented with the head of an animal, a dog or a jackal, and is also said to be the “ Lord of the underworld” or “ Hades ” into which he introduces the souls of the dead (the reincarnating entities), for Hades is in one sense the womb, as some of the writings of the Church Fathers fully show [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Anacalypsis +

Or an “Attempt to withdraw the veil of the Saitic Isis”, by Godfrey Higgins. This is a very valuable work, now only obtainable at extravagant prices; it treats of the origin of all myths, religions and mysteries, and displays an immense fund of classical erudition. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Mundane Egg +

Or any other such symbolical object in the world Mythologies. ''Meru ''is a “Mundane Mountain” ; the Bodhi Tree, or ''Ficus religiosa, ''is the Mundane Tree of the Buddhists; just as the Yggdrasil is the “''Mundane ''Tree” of the Scandinavians or Norsemen [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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). +

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). +

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). +

B

Bodhi +

Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to ''Buddhi'', which is the potentiality of intelligence [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dhatu +

Relics of Buddha’s body collected after his cremation [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nile‐God +

Represented by a wooden image of the river god receiving honours in gratitude for the bounties its waters afford the country. There was a “celestial” Nile, called in the Ritual ''Nen‐naou ''or “primordial waters”; and a terrestrial Nile, worshipped at ''Nilopolis ''and Hapimoo. The latter was represented as an androgynous being with a beard and breasts, and a fat blue face ; green limbs and reddish body. At the approach of the yearly inundation, the image was carried from one place to another in solemn procession [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dama +

Restraint of the senses [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kumbhaka +

Retention of breath, according to the regulations of the Hatha Yoga system [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bacon +

Roger. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth century in England. He believed in the philosopher’s stone in the way all the adepts of Occultism believe in it; and also in philosophical astrology. He is accused of having made a head of bronze which having an acoustic apparatus hidden in it, seemed to utter oracles which were words spoken by Bacon himself in another room. He was a wonderful physicist and chemist, and credited with having invented gunpowder, though he said he had the secret from “Asian (Chinese) wise men.ʺ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

V

Vorborth A.A. +

Russian diplomat, full state Councilor, who in 1887-1898 served as Consul General in London. In 1890 in London, he made an official translation into English of [[HPB|H.P. Blavatsky]]'s [[HPB - Passport for Yuri|passport]] for [[Blavatsky Yuri|Yuri]], issued on August 23, 1862. +

A

Aksakoff, Alexander Nikolaevich +

Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor. +

M

Munis +

Saints, or Sages [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

K

Kronos +

Saturn. The God of Boundless Time and of the Cycles [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Drishti +

Scepticism; unbelief [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

S

Scientific American +

Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large-format New York City newspaper was released on August 28, 1845. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology. It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into a monthly in November 1921. Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn a mere ten months after founding it. Until 1948, it remained owned by Munn & Company. Under Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the twentieth-century incarnation of Popular Science. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

A

Aporrheta +

Secret instructions upon esoteric subjects given during the Egyptian and Grecian Mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lahgash +

Secret speech; esoteric incantation; almost identical with the mystical meaning of Vâch [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Esoteric Bodhism +

Secret wisdom or intelligence from the Greek ''esotericos ''“inner”, and the Sanskrit ''Bodhi'', “knowledge”, intelligence— in contradistinction to ''Buddhi, ''“the ''faculty ''of knowledge or intelligence” and ''Buddhism'', the philosophy or Law of Buddha (the Enlightened). Also written “ Budhism”, from ''Budha ''(Intelligence and Wisdom) the Son of Soma [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Iao +

See "[[Iaho]]". The highest god of the Phœnicians the light conceivable only by intellect”, the physical and spiritual Principle of all things, “the male Essence of Wisdom ”. It is the ideal Sun light [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abiri +

See Kabiri, also written Kabeiri, the Mighty Ones, celestials, sons of Zedec the just one, a group of deities worshipped in Phœnicia: they seem to be identical with the Titans, Corybantes, Curetes, Telchines and Dii Magni of Virgil. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Annapura +

See “Anâ” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Day of Brahma +

See “Brahmâʹs Day” etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Alhim +

See “Elohim” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Law of Retribution +

See “Karma” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jetzirah +

See “Yetzirah” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hochmah +

See “[[Chochmah]]” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nabia +

Seership, soothsaying. This oldest and most respected of mystic phenomena is the name given to prophecy in the ''Bible'', and is correctly included among the spiritual powers, such as divination, clairvoyant visions, trance‐conditions, and oracles. But while enchanters, diviners, and even astrologers are strictly condemned in the Mosaic books, prophecy, seership, and ''nabia ''appear as the special gifts of heaven. In early ages they were all termed ''Epoptai ''(Seers), the Greek word for Initiates; they were also designated ''Nebim'', “the plural of Nebo, the Babylonian god of wisdom.” The Kabalist distinguishes between the ''seer ''and the ''magician''; one is passive, the other active; ''Nebirah'', is one who looks into futurity and a clairvoyant; ''Nebi‐poel'', he who possesses ''magic powers''. We notice that Elijah and Apollonius resorted to the same means to isolate themselves from the disturbing influences of the outer world, viz., wrapping their heads entirely in a woollen mantle, from its being an electric non‐conductor we must suppose [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna +

She was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in many articles and several major works, including ''Isis Unveiled'', ''The Secret Doctrine'', ''The Key to Theosophy'', and ''The Voice of the Silence''. She was co-founder of The Theosophical Society. +

K

Klippoth +

Shells: used in the Kabbalah in several senses; (1) evil spirits, demons; (2) the shells of dead human beings, not the physical body, but the remnant of the personality after the spirit has departed; (3) the Elementaries of some authors. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Gonpis +

Shepherdesses — the playmates and companions of Krishna, among whom was his wife Raddha [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Abhijna +

Six phenomenal (or “supernatural”) gifts which Sâkyamuni Buddha acquired in the night on which he reached Buddhaship. This is the “fourth” degree of Dhyâna (the seventh in esoteric teachings) which has to be attained by every true Arhat. In China, the initiated Buddhist ascetics reckon six such powers, but in Ceylon they reckon only five. The first Abhijñâ is Divyachakchus, the instantaneous view of anything one wills to see; the second, is Divyasrotra, the power of comprehending any sound whatever, etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nidra +

Sleep. Also the female form of Brahmâ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Aith‐ur +

Solar fire, divine Æther. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nirmanakaya +

Something entirely different in esoteric philosophy from the popular meaning attached to it, and from the fancies of the Orientalists. Some call the ''Nirmânakâya ''body “Nirvana with remains” (Schlagintweit, etc.) on the supposition, probably, that it is a kind of Nirvânic condition during which consciousness and form are retained. Others say that it is one of the ''Trikâya ''(three bodies), with the “power of assuming any form of appearance in order to propagate Buddhism” (Eitel’s idea); again, that “it is the incarnate avatâra of a deity” (''ibid.''), and so on. Occultism, on the other hand, says:that Nirmânakâya, although meaning literally a transformed “body”, is a state. The form is that of the adept or yogi who enters, or chooses, that ''post mortem ''condition in preference to the Dharmakâya or ''absolute ''Nirvânic state. He does this because the latter ''kâya ''separates him for ever from the world of form, conferring upon him a state of ''selfish ''bliss, in which no other living being can participate, the adept being thus precluded from the possibility of helping humanity, or even ''devas''. As a Nirmânakâya, however, the man leaves behind him only his physical body, and retains every other “principle” save the Kamic—for he has crushed this out for ever from his nature, during life, and it can never resurrect in his post mortem state. Thus, instead of going into selfish bliss, he chooses a life of self‐sacrifice, an existence which ends only with the life‐cycle, in order to be enabled to help mankind in an invisible yet most effective manner. (See ''The Voice of the Silence'', third treatise, “The Seven Portals”.) Thus a Nirmânakâya is not, as popularly believed, the body “in which a Buddha or a Bodhisattva appears on earth”, but verily one, who whether a ''Chutuktu ''or a ''Khubilkhan, ''an adept or a yogi during life, has since become a member of that invisible Host which ever protects and watches over Humanity within Karmic limits. Mistaken often for a “Spirit”, a Deva, God himself, &c., a Nirmânakâya is ever a protecting, compassionate, verily a ''guardian ''angel, to him who becomes worthy of his help. Whatever objection may be brought forward against this doctrine; however much it is denied, because, forsooth, it has never been hitherto made public in Europe and therefore since it is unknown to Orientalists, it must needs be “a myth of modern invention”—no one will be bold enough to say that this idea of helping suffering mankind at the price of one’s own almost interminable self‐sacrifice, is not one of the grandest and noblest that was ever evolved from human brain [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

M

Murttimat +

Something inherent or incarnate in something else and inseparable from it; like ''wetness ''in water, which is coexistent and coeval with it. Used of some attributes of Brahmâ and other gods [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

I

Incubus +

Something more real and dangerous than the ordinary meaning given to the word, viz., that of “nightmare ”. An ''Incubus ''is the male Elemental, and ''Succuba ''the female, and these are undeniably the spooks of mediæval demonology, called forth from the invisible regions by human passion and lust. They are now called “Spirit brides” and “Spirit husbands” among some benighted Spiritists and spiritual mediums. But these poetical names do not prevent them in the least being that which they are—Ghools, Vampires and soulless Elementals; formless centres of Life, devoid of sense; in short, ''subjective protoplasms ''when left alone, but called into a definite being and form by the creative and diseased imagination of certain mortals. They were known under every clime as in every age, and the Hindus can tell more than one terrible tale of the dramas enacted in the life of young students and mystics by the ''Pisachas'', their name in India [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

O

Obeah +

Sorcerers and sorceresses of Africa and the West Indies. A sect of black magicians, snake‐charmers, enchanters, &c [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jadoo +

Sorcery, black magic, enchantment [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Black Magic +

Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This abuse may be unintentional; yet it is still “''black ''magic” whenever anything is produced phenomenally simply for one’s own gratification [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dukkha +

Sorrow, pain [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Neshamah +

Soul, ''anima, afflatus''. In the Kabbalah, as taught in the Rosicrucian order, one of the three highest essences of the Human Soul, corresponding to the ''Sephira Binah''. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Atma‐bhu +

Soul‐existence, or existing as soul. (See “'''''Alaya'''''”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Magic, White +

So‐called, is ''divine ''magic, devoid of selfishness, love of power, of ambition, or lucre, and bent only on doing good to the world in general, and one’s neighbour in particular. The smallest attempt to use one’s abnormal powers for the gratification of self, makes of these powers sorcery or black magic [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dik +

Space, Vacuity [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Sunyata +

Space, or eternal law; the great void or chaos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hwun +

Spirit. The same as Atmân [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Elementals +

Spirits of the Elements. The creatures evolved in the four Kingdoms or Elements—earth, air, fire, and water. They are called by the Kabbalists, Gnomes (of the earth), Sylphs (of the air), Salamanders (of the fire), and Undines (of the water). Except a few of the higher kinds, and their rulers, they are rather forces of nature than ethereal men and women. These forces, as the servile agents of the Occultists, may produce various effects; but if employed by” Elementaries” ''(q.v.) ''in which case they enslave the mediums—they will deceive the credulous. All the lower invisible beings generated on the 5th 6th, and 7th planes of our terrestrial atmosphere, are called Elementals Peris, Devs, Djins, Sylvans, Satyrs, Fauns, Elves, Dwarfs, Trolls, Kobolds, Brownies, Nixies, Goblins, Pinkies, Banshees, Moss People, White Ladies, Spooks, Fairies, etc., etc., etc. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lha +

Spirits of the highest spheres, whence the name of Lhassa, the residence of the Dalaї‐Lama. The title of Lha is often given in Tibet to some ''Narjols ''(Saints and Yogi adepts) who have attained great occult powers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Guru +

Spiritual Teacher; a master in metaphysical and ethical doctrines; used also for a teacher of any science [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Acharya +

Spiritual teacher, Guru; as Sankar‐''âchârya'', lit., a “teacher of ethics”. A name generally given to Initiates, etc., and meaning “Master”. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hod +

Splendour, the eighth of the ten Sephiroth, a female passive potency. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

L

Lila +

Sport, literally; or pastime. In the orthodox Hindu Scriptures it is explained that “the acts of the divinity are ''lila ''”, or sport [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Avasthas +

States, conditions, positions [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

E

Ether +

Students are but too apt to confuse this with Akâsa and with Astral Light. It is neither, in the sense in which ether is described by physical Science. Ether is a material agent, though hitherto undetected by any physical apparatus; whereas Akâsa is a distinctly spiritual agent, identical, in one sense, with the Anima Mundi, while the Astral Light is only the seventh and highest principle of the terrestrial atmosphere, as undetectable as Akâsa and real Ether, because it is something quite on another plane. The seventh principle of the earth’s atmosphere, as said, the Astral Light, is only the second on the Cosmic scale. The scale of Cosmic Forces, Principles and Planes, of Emanations—on the metaphysical—and Evolutions—on the physical plane—is the Cosmic Serpent biting its own tail, the Serpent reflecting the Higher, and reflected in its turn by the lower Serpent. The Caduceus explains the mystery, and the four‐fold Dodecahedron on the model of which the universe is said by Plato to have been built by the manifested Logos—synthesized by the unmanifested First‐Born—yields geometrically the key to Cosmogony and its microcosmic reflection—our Earth [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jabalas +

Students of the mystical portion of the White ''Yajur Veda'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

D

Dravya +

Substance (metaphysically) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

J

Jagaddhatri +

Substance; the name of “the nurse of the world”, the designation of the power which carried Krishna and his brother Balarama into Devaki, their mother’s bosom. A title Sarasvati of and Durga [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Heliolatry +

Sun‐Worship [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Akshara +

Supreme Deity; lit., “indestructible”, ever perfect. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

M

Maha Purusha +

Supreme or Great Spirit. A title of Vishnu [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adhi +

Supreme, paramount. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

Cecco d’Ascoli +

Surnamed “Francesco Stabili.” He lived in the thirteenth century, and was considered the most famous astrologer in his day. A work of his published at Basle in 1485, and called ''Commentarii in Sphaeram Joannis de Sacrabosco'', is still extant. He was burnt alive by the Inquisition in 1327 [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bembo +

Tablet of; or ''Mensa Isiaca. ''A brazen tablet inlaid with designs in Mosaic (now in the Museum at Turin) which once belonged to the famous Cardinal Bembo. Its origin and date are unknown. It is covered with Egyptian figures and hieroglyphics, and is supposed to have been an ornament in an ancient Temple of Isis. The learned Jesuit Kircher wrote a description of it, and Montfaucon has a chapter devoted to it. [ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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). +

H

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).

M

Meshia +

The Adam and Eve of the Zoroastrians, in the early Persian system; the first human couple [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Boston Daily Advertiser, The +

The Advertiser was established in early March 1813. It was published by William W. Clapp and edited by Horatio Biglow; in March 1814, it was purchased by journalist Nathan Hale. Hale was its chief editor until his death in 1863. Under Hale's supervision, the paper was first Federalist in politics, then Whig, and finally Republican, and it became very influential. It opposed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, and was the first paper to recommend the free colonization of Kansas. The principle of editorial responsibility, as distinct from that of individual contributions, was established in its columns. From 1841 until 1853, Hale's son Nathan Hale Jr., was associated with his father in the editorial management of the paper. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

E

Essasua +

The African and Asiatic sorcerers and serpent charmers [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

P

Phrenological Journal, The +

The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany was founded in 1838 as a phrenological periodical, though the details of its foundation are largely unknown. It was financially and ideologically supported by the phrenologist Fowler family, including Orson Squire Fowler, Lorenzo Fowler, and Samuel R. Wells; Wells became its leading editor during the 1870s. In its first issue, the journal explained that its purpose was support the theories underlying phrenology – a pseudoscientific and racist area of research correlating skull measurements to personality and intelligence – and to apply them. It was an eclectic periodical; in addition to its phrenological research, it acquired and published writing in the domains of medical science, physiognomy, and in some unrelated areas, such as education. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

D

Dumah +

The Angel of Silence (Death) in the Kabbala [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Basileus +

The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an initiated layman, and magistrate at Athens, the ''Basileus ''of the ''inner ''Temple was of the staff of the great Hierophant, and as such was one of the chief ''Mystæ ''and belonged to the inner mysteries [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Holy of Holies +

The Assyriologists, Egyptologists, and Orientalists, in general, show that such a place existed in every temple of antiquity. The great temple of Bel‐ Merodach whose sides faced the four cardinal points, had in its extreme end a “Holy of Holies” hidden from the profane by a veil: here, “at the beginning of the year ‘the divine king of heaven and earth, the lord of the heavens, seats himself’.” According to Herodotus, here was the golden image of the god with a golden table in front like the Hebrew table for the shew bread, and upon this, food appears to have been placed. in some temples there also was “a little coffer or ark with two engraved stone tablets on it”. (Myer’s ''Qabbalah.'') In short, it is now pretty well proven, that the “chosen people” had nothing original of their own, but that every detail of their ritualism and religion was borrowed from older nations. The ''Hibbert Lectures ''by Prof. Sayce and others show this abundantly. The story of the birth of Moses is that of Sargon, the Babylonian, who preceded Moses by a couple of thousand years; and no wonder, as Dr. Sayce tells us that the name of Moses, ''Mosheh, ''has a connection with the name of the Babylonian sun‐god as the “hero” or “leader”. (''Hib. Lect.'', p. 46 ''et seq''.) Says Mr. J. Myer, “The orders of the priests were divided into high priests, those attached or bound to certain deities, like the Hebrew Levites; anointers or cleaners ; the ''Kali'', ‘illustrious’ or ‘elders’; the soothsayers, and the ''Makhkhu ''or ‘great one’, in which Prof. Delitzsch sees the ''Rab‐mag ''of the Old Testament. . . The Akkadians and Chaldeans kept a Sabbath day of rest every seven days, they also had thanksgiving days, and days for humiliation and prayer. There were sacrifices of vegetables and animals, of meats and wine. . . . The number seven was especially sacred. . . . The great temple of Babylon existed long before 2,250 B.c. Its ‘Holy of Holies’ was with in the shrine of Nebo, the prophet god of wisdom.” It is from the Akkadians that the god Mardak passed to the Assyrians, and he had been before Merodach, “the merciful”, of the Babylonians, the only son and interpreter of the will of Ea or ''Hea'', the great Deity of Wisdom. The Assyriologists have, in short, unveiled the whole scheme of the ''“chosen ''people” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

I

Ishtar +

The Babylonian Venus, called “the eldest of heaven and earth“, and daughter of Anu, the god of heaven. She is the goddess of love and beauty. The planet Venus, as the evening star, is identified with Ishtar, and as the morning star with Anunit, the goddess of the Akkads. There exists a most remarkable story of her descent into Hades, on the sixth and seventh Assyrian tiles or tablets deciphered by the late G. Smith. Any Occultist who reads of her love for Tammuz, his assassination by Izdubar, the despair of the goddess and her descent in search of her beloved through the seven gates of Hades, and finally her liberation from the dark realm, will recognise the beautiful allegory of the soul in search of the Spirit [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

H

Hayo Bischat +

The Beast, in the ''Zohar: ''the Devil and Tempter. Esoterically our lower animal passions [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Bodhi Druma +

The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the ''Pippala ''or ''ficus religiosa ''in botany. It is the tree under which Sâkymuni meditated for seven years and then reached Buddhaship. It was originally 400 feet high, it is claimed; but when Hiouen‐Tsang saw it, about the year 640 of our era, it was only 50 feet high. Its cuttings have been carried all over the Buddhist world and are planted in front of almost every Vihâra or temple of fame in China, Siam, Ceylon, and Tibet [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Almadel +

The Book. A treatise on Theurgia or White Magic by an unknown mediæval European author; it is not infrequently found in volumes of MSS. called ''Keys of Solomon. ''[ w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Both‐al +

The Both‐al of the Irish is the descendant and copy of the Greek Batylos and the Beth‐el of Canaan, the “house of God” (q.v.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Ain Soph Aur +

The Boundless Light which concentrates into the First and highest Sephira or Kether, the Crown. [w. w. w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

B

Brahmarshis +

The Brahminical Rishis [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Adbhuta Brahmana +

The Brâhmana of miracles; treats of marvels, auguries, and various phenomena. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

G

Garm +

The Cerberus of the ''Edda. ''This monstrous dog lived in the Gnypa cavern in front of the dwelling of Hel, the goddess of the nether‐world [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Nargal +

The Chaldean and Assyrian chiefs of the Magi (Rab Mag) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Amitabha +

The Chinese perversion of the Sanskrit ''Amrita Buddha'', or the “Immortal Enlightened”, a name of Gautama Buddha. The name has such variations as Amita, Abida, Amitâya, etc., and. is explained as meaning both “Boundless Age” and “Boundless Light”. The original conception of the ideal of an impersonal divine light has been anthrdpomorphized with time [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

N

Naaseni +

The Christian Gnostic sect, called Naasenians, or serpent worshippers, who considered the constellation of the Dragon as the symbol of their Logos or Christ [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

A

Asch Metzareph +

The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals and the planets. [w.w.w] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

C

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).

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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). +

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Adi‐Buddha +

The First and Supreme Buddha—not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adi +

The First, the primeval. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Aryasangha +

The Founder of the ''first ''Yogâchârya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha, is most unaccountably mixed up and confounded with a personage of the same name, who is said to have lived in Ayôdhya (Oude) about the fifth or sixth century of our era, and taught Tântrika worship in addition to the Yogâchârya system. Those who sought to make it popular, claimed that he was the same Âryasangha, that had been a follower of Sâkyamuni, and that he was 1,000 years old. Internal evidence alone is sufficient to show that the works written by him and translated about the year 600 of our era, works full of Tantra worship, ritualism, and tenets followed now considerably by the “red‐cap” sects in Sikhim, Bhutan, and Little Tibet, cannot be the same as the lofty system of the early Yogâcharya school of pure Buddhism, which is neither northern nor southern, but absolutely esoteric. Though none of the genunine Yogâchârya books (the ''Narjol chodpa'') have ever been made public or marketable, yet one finds in the ''Yogâchârya Bhûmi Shâstra ''of the ''pseudo''‐Âryasangha a great deal from the older system, into the tenets of which he may have been initiated. It is, however, so mixed up with Sivaism and Tantrika magic and superstitions, that the work defeats its own end, notwithstanding its remarkable dialectical subtilty. How unreliable are the conclusions at which our Orientalists arrive, and how contradictory the dates assigned by them, may be seen in the case in hand. While Csoma de Körös (who, by‐the‐bye, never became acquainted with the Gelukpa (yellow‐caps), but got all his information from “red‐cap” lamas of the Borderland), places the ''pseudo''‐Âryasangha in the seventh century of our era; Wassiljew, who passed most of his life in China, proves him to have lived much earlier; and Wilson (see ''Roy. As. Soc''., Vol. VI., p. 240), speaking of the period when Âryasangha’s works, which are still extant in Sanskrit, were written, believes it now “established, that they have been written ''at the latest, from a century and a half before, to'' ''as much after, ''the era of Christianity”. At all events since it is beyond dispute that the Mahâyana religious works were all written far before Âryasangha’s time—whether he lived in the “''second ''century B.C.”, or the ''“seventh'' .A.D.”—and that these contain all and far more of the fundamental tenets of the Yogâchârya system, so disfigured by the Ayôdhyan imitator—the inference is that there must exist somewhere a genuine rendering free from popular Sivaism and left‐hand magic [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG).

Arba‐il +

The Four Great Gods. ''Arba ''is Aramaic for four, and ''il ''is the same as Al or El. Three male deities, and a female who is virginal yet reproductive, form a very common ideal of Godhead. [w.w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hrimthurses +

The Frost‐giants; Cyclopean builders in the ''Edda'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ganga +

The Ganges, the principal sacred river in India. There are two versions of its myth: one relates that Gangâ (the goddess) having transformed herself into a river, flows from the big toe of Vishnu; the other, that the Gangâ drop from the ear of Siva into the Anavatapta lake, thence passes out, through the mouth of the silver cow (''gômukhi''), crosses all Eastern India and falls into the Southern Ocean. “An ‘heretical superstition ”, remarks Mr. Eitel in his ''Sanskrit, Chinese Dictionary ''“ascribes to the waters of the Ganges ''sin‐cleansing power''” No more a “superstition” one would say, than the belief that the waters of Baptism and the Jordan have “sin‐cleansing power” [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Loreley +

The German copy of the Scandinavian “Lake Maiden”. Undine is one of the names given to these maidens, who are known in exoteric Magic and Occultism as the Water‐Elementals [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hermes Sarameyas +

The God Hermes, or Mercury, “he who watches over the flock of stars” in the Greek mythology [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Aidoneus +

The God and King of the Nether World; Pluto or Dionysos Chthonios (subterranean). Nameless, and therefore called Ain Soph; the word ''Ain'' [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Agni +

The God of Fire in the Veda; the oldest and the most revered of Gods in India. He is one of the three great deities: Agni, Vâyu and Sûrya, and also all the three, as he is the triple aspect of fire; in heaven as the Sun; in the atmosphere or air (Vâyu), as Lightning; on. earth, as ordinary Fire. Agni belonged to the earlier Vedic ''Trimûrti ''before Vishnu was given a place of honour and before Brahmâ and Siva were invented. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Al‐ait +

The God of Fire, an ancient and very mystic name in Koptic Occultism. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Manjusri +

The God of Wisdom. In Esoteric philosophy a certain Dhyan Chohan [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hel +

The Goddess‐Queen of the Land of the Dead; the inscrutable and direful Being who reigns over the depths of Helheim and Nifelheim. In the earlier mythology, Hel was the earth‐goddess, the good and beneficent mother, nourisher of the weary and the hungry. But in the later Skalds she became the female Pluto, the dark Queen of the Kingdom of Shades, she who brought death into this world, and sorrow afterwards [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Achar +

The Gods over whom (according to the Jews) Jehovah is the God. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hiranyapura +

The Golden City [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Ares +

The Greek name for Mars, god of war; also a term used by Paracelsus, the differentiated Force in Cosmos [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Caduceus +

The Greek poets and mythologists took '''C—'''The third letter of the English alphabet, which has no equivalent in Hebrew except Caph, which see under K [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Hartford Daily Times, The +

The Hartford Times was a daily afternoon newspaper serving the Hartford, Connecticut, community from 1817 to 1976. It was started by Frederick D. Bolles and John M. Niles, a future senator, as an anti-federalist weekly by the name of The Hartford Weekly Times in 1817. It styled itself as a champion of reform and an advocate for the people throughout its history. One early editor was Gideon Welles, later secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. Alfred E. Burr led the paper for over six decades from 1829 until 1890, making it a daily and giving him considerable political influence statewide. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Advocate, The +

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States. The magazine (published then in newspaper format) was founded by Charles S. Gage and William G. Peckham in 1866 and, except for a hiatus during the last years of World War II, has published continuously since then. When the Advocate was founded, it adopted the mottos Dulce est Periculum (Danger is Sweet) and Veritas Nihil Veretur (Truth fears Nothing) which had been used by an earlier Harvard newspaper, the Collegian. [[Category: Wikipedia (CTD terms)]] (WP) +

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Eshmim +

The Heavens, the Firmament in which are the Sun, Planets and Stars; from the root '''Sm''', meaning to place, dispose ; hence, the planets, as disposers. [ w. w.w.] [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Demeter +

The Hellenic name for the Latin Ceres, the goddess of corn and tillage. The astronomical sign, Virgo. The Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated in her honour [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Himachala Himadri +

The Himalayan Mountains [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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Arasa Maram +

The Hindu sacred tree of knowledge. In occult philosophy a mystic word [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

Adytum +

The Holy of Holies in the pagan temples. A name for the secret and sacred precincts or the inner chamber, into which no profane could enter; it corresponds to the sanctuary of the altars of Christian Churches. [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). +

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