Property:CTD term short description
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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... +