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'''Ahi '''(''Sk''.), or Serpents. Dhyân Chohans. “Wise Serpents” or Dragons of Wisdom. Category: The... +
'''Aja '''(''Sk''.). “Unborn”, uncreated; an epithet belonging to many of the primordial gods, but e... +
'''Amia''', (''Chald.''). Mother. A title of Sephira Binah, whose “divine name is Jehovah” and who i... +
''A no‐ranîyânsam ''(in ''Bhagavad'' ''gîtâ''). Lit., “the most atomic of the atomic; smallest of th... +
''Ad, ''“the Father”. In Aramean ''ad ''means one, and ''ad‐ad ''“the only one”. Category: Theosophi... +
''Adeptus'', “He who has obtained.” In Occultism one who has reached the stage of Initiation, and be... +
''Anagam. ''One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Ar... +
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''Bhûta.'': Ghosts, phantoms. To call them “demons”, as do the Orientalists, is incorrect. For, if o... +
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''Chih‐Sakti''; the power which generates thought Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span s... +
''Chitons'', a priestly garb; the coats of skin given by ''Java Aleim ''to Adam and Eve after their ... +
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''Direct perception.'' Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font-siz... +
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''Lit''., “the child from the Egg”, a Gnostic term. He is the creator of our physical globe (the ear... +
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''Lit.'', “Father‐Mother”; the occult names of the two higher Sephiroth, ''Chokmah ''and ''Binah'', ... +
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''Mahâ uraga'', “great serpent”——Sesha or any others Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<spa... +
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''Neithes''. The Queen of Heaven; the moon‐ goddess in Egypt. She is variously called ''Nout'', ''Ne... +
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''Nouf ''in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power ''in ... +
''Sin ''was the Assyrian name for the moon, and ''Sin‐ai ''the Mount, the birth‐place of Osiris, of ... +
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''Solomon Ben Yehudah'': a great philosopher and scholar, a Jew by birth, who lived in the eleventh ... +
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''The wife of Hea, “the goddess of the lower regions, the consort of the Deep”, the mother of Meroda... +
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(1) A name of Vishnu or Krishna; (2) The month of April ; (3) A title of Lakshmi when written ''Madh... +
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(1) One of the seven qualities of sound— the one and sole attribute of Akâsa; (2) the ''seventh ''no... +
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(Vide ''Supra''.) Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90... +
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1. An interior illumination developed by the practice of meditation. 2. The efficient spiritual caus... +
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100 Kôti, or a sum equal to 1,000,000,000 Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="co... +
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100,000 of units, either in specie or anything else Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span... +
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A ''Samhitâ ''collection of Sama Veda; also a priest, a chanter of the Sama Veda Category: Theosophi... +
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A ''gana ''or class of gods 236 in number. Certain ''Forces ''in esoteric teachings Category: Theoso... +
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A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student Category: Theoso... +
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A Buddhist historical work written by Bhikshu Mohânâma, the uncle of King Dhatusma. An authority on ... +
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A Buddhist king of Magadha Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font... +
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A Buddhist work containing moral precepts Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="co... +
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A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up dur... +
A Canon‐Kabbalist of the XVIIth century, reputed to have learned a key to the Gnostic works from Cop... +
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A Chinese traveller and writer in the early centuries of Christianity, who wrote on Buddhism Categor... +
A Chinese work on Cosmogony Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; fon... +
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A Christian sect in Syria of the VIth cent. (550) which held that Christ had only one nature and tha... +
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A Church Father and a voluminous writer, who had been a Neo‐Platonist and a disciple of Ammonius Sac... +
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A Church Father, who declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, and that of the antipode... +
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A Fish: the symbol of the Fish has been frequently referred to Jesus, the Christ of the New Testamen... +
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A Force in nature and in man. When it is the former, it is an agent which gives rise to the various ... +
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A French mason who established in London in 1767 a Lodge called “The Illuminated Theosophists” Categ... +
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A Giant in the mythology of ancient Iran Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="col... +
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A Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt, and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism, or ''Gnosis ''(Wisdom, K... +
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A Gnostic term meaning “Depth” or the “great Deep”, Chaos. It is equivalent to space, before anythin... +
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A Gnostic term, or the compound name for Iao Jehovah, whom the Ophites regarded as an emanation of t... +
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A Hermetic Eastern work Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font-si... +
A Hermetic philosopher born in Bohemia who is credited with having made a genuine powder of projecti... +
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A Kabalistic term, made of a compound Greek word: meaning the Vast or Great Countenance (See “Kabali... +
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A Kabbalistic Jew, reputed to have worked “miracles”. Kenneth Mackenzie quotes in regard to him from... +
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A Kabbalistic axiom; lit., “the devil is god reversed”; which means that there is neither evil nor g... +
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A Kabbalistic term ; the fifth Sephira, a female and passive potency, meaning severity and power; fr... +
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A Kabbalistic term for Absolute Light and Wisdom; “black” because it is incomprehensible to our fini... +
A Kabbalistic treatise treating of the angels, souls of men, and demons. The name means “House of th... +
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A King of the Daityas, whom Vishnu—in his ''avatar ''of the “man.lion”—puts to death Category: Theos... +
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A King of the Tochari, who flourished when the third Buddhist Synod met in Kashmir, i.e., about the ... +
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A Lord: used of gods and men; a title added to the first name of men and things as ''Badrinath ''(lo... +
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A Mahometan pilgrim who has been to Mekka, a saint. After his death his body is placed in an open se... +
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A Masonic term for a certain object used in the Lodges. Its origin lies in the thread of the Brahman... +
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A Masonic term meaning “the Sun in putrefaction”. Has a direct reference—perhaps forgotten by the Ma... +
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A Mussulman ascetic in India, a Mahometan “Yogi”. The name is often applied, though erroneously. to ... +
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A Mussulman—Turkish or Persian—ascetic. A nomadic and wandering monk. Dervishes, however, sometimes ... +
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A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addresse... +
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A Platonic term for the Higher Mind or Soul. It means Spirit as distinct from animal Soul—''psyche''... +
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A Platonic term meaning “vehicle” or body Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="co... +
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A Prince‐Philosopher and Occultist. (See Book ''Al‐Chazari.'') Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD ... +
A Purânic personage, the “nephew of 60,000 uncles” King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes by ... +
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A Record of the Progress of the Science and Ethics of Spiritualism / The Oldest Newspaper connected with Spiritualism in Great Britain. +
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A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her fathe... +
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A Roman saint, solemnly beatified a few years ago. His great holiness consisted in sitting at one of... +
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A Saint; a glorified Adept Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font... +
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A Sanskrit Sage of the race of Kuru, who, together with another Sage (Moru), is supposed to live thr... +
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A Sanskrit epic, celebrating the strife and prowess of Arjuna with the god Siva disguised as a fores... +
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A Singhalese priest who has not yet been ordained—from ''gana'', an assemblage or brotherhood. The h... +
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A Society in France, founded by a great mystic called the Marquis de St. Martin, a disciple of Marti... +
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A Sorcerer, or Wizard Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style="color: grey; font-size... +
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A Syrian Gnostic, erroneously regarded as a Christian theologian, born at Edessa (''Edessene Chronic... +
A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span st... +
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A Vedantic term, meaning the ''Sheath ''(''Kosha'') of the ''Manomaya'', an equivalent for fourth an... +
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A Vedantic term. The same as ''Sthûla Sharîra ''or the physical body. It is the first “sheath” of th... +
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A Vedic Sage; in the words of ''Atharva Veda'', “The self‐born who sprang from Time”. Besides being ... +
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A Vedic term. The unrevealed Deity, or that which reveals Itself only as light and the bright day—me... +
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A Vedânta sect. The non‐dualistic (A‐ dwaita) school of Vedântic philosophy founded by Sankarâchârya... +
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A Weekly Journal in English published in New York in the 19th Century, "devoted to Jewish & General ... +
A biblical personage; a skilful builder and a “Widow’s Son”, whom King Solomon procured from Tyre, f... +
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A bridge built by the gods to protect Asgard. On it “the third Sword‐god, known as Heimdal or Riger”... +
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A celebrated Brahman teacher, the author of the Commentaries on the ''Sankhya Karika, Mandukya Upani... +
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A celebrated Indian king of the Môrya dynasty which reigned at Magadha. There were two Asokas in rea... +
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A celebrated biography of Sakya Muni, the Lord Buddha, by Dharmarakcha, A.D. 308 Category: Theosophi... +
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A celestial sculptor, in the Egyptian legends, who creates a beautiful girl whom he sends like anoth... +
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A ceremony of divination among the Kolarian tribes of Central India Category: Theosophical Glossary ... +
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A certain Brotherhood of mystics. Its name had far better never have been divulged, as it led a grea... +
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A certain class of celestial Beings who are said to inhabit ''Maharloka. ''They are the rulers of ou... +
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A certain degree of ecstatic contemplation. A stage in ''Samâdhi.'' Category: Theosophical Glossary ... +
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A chariot: the Kabalists say that the Supreme after he had established the Ten Sephiroth used them a... +
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A chief of the giants in the ''Edda ''and the ally of the gods. The highest of the Water‐gods, and t... +
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A circle; also the ten divisions of the Vedas Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)<span style... +
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A city in Assyria ; the ancient seat of a library from which George Smith excavated the earliest kno... +
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A city in Egypt which was sacred to the cats, and where was their principal shrine. Many hundreds of... +
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A class of Pitris, the creators of the first ethereal race of men. Our solar ancestors as contrasted... +