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| Bihar Gyalpo A king deified by the Dugpas. A patron over all their religious buildings [[Category: Theosophical G ...
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| Binah Understanding. The third of the 10 Sephiroth, the third of the Supernal Triad; a female potency, cor ...
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| Birs Nimrud Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is ...
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| Black Dwarfs The name of the Elves of Darkness, who creep about in the dark caverns of the earth and fabricate we ...
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| Black Fire A Kabbalistic term for Absolute Light and Wisdom; “black” because it is incomprehensible to our fini ...
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| Black Magic Sorcery; necromancy, or the raising of the dead, and other selfish abuses of abnormal powers. This a ...
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky • HPB She was the main source of Theosophical teachings and discussed the major themes of Theosophy in man ...
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Nikifor Vladimirovich Blavatsky Vice Governor (1849-1861) of Erivan Province (now Armenia) of Russian Empire; husband of [[Blavatsky ...
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| Yuri Blavatsky • Youry Blavatsky Infant-ward of H. P. Blavatsky and N. V. Blavatsky.
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| Boat of the Sun This sacred solar boat was called Sekti, and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the ...
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| Boaz The great‐grandfather of David. The word is from B, meaning “in”, and oz “strength”, a symbolic ...
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| Bodha‐Bodhi Wisdom‐knowledge<span style="color: grey; font-size: ...
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| Bodhi • Sambodhi Receptive intelligence, in contradistinction to Buddhi, which is the potentiality of intelligenc ...
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| Bodhi Druma The Bo or Bodhi tree; the tree of “knowledge the Pippala or ficus religiosa in botany. It is ...
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| Bodhidharma Wisdom‐religion; or the wisdom contained in Dharma (ethics). Also the name of a great Arhat Ks ...
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| Bodhisattva Lit., “he, whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)”; those who need but one m ...
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| Bodhyanga Lit., the seven branches of knowledge or understanding. One of the 37 categories of the Bodhi pakc ...
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| Boehme A great mystic philosopher, one of the most prominent Theosophists of the mediæval ages. He was born ...
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| Bona‐Oma • Bona Dea A Roman goddess, the patroness of female Initiates and Occultists. Called also Fauna after her fathe ...
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| Bonati Guido. A Franciscan monk, born at Florence in the XIIIth century and died in 1306. He became an astr ...
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| Bono Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy ...
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| Boodhasp An alleged Chaldean; but in esoteric teaching a Buddhist (a Bodhisattva), from the East, who was the ...
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| Sepher Jetzirah • Book of the Creation The most occult of all the Kabalistic works now in the possession of modern mystics. Its alleged ori ...
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| Book of the Dead An ancient Egyptian ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thot‐Hermes. Found in the coffins of a ...
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| Book of the Keys An ancient Kabbalistic work<span style="color: grey; ...
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Boris de Zirkoff was an American Theosophist, editor and writer; a relative of H. P. Blavatsky, his mother was Lydia ...
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| Borj The Mundane Mountain, a volcano or fire‐ mountain; the same as the Indian Meru [[Category: Theosophi ...
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| Borri Joseph Francis. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an ...
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| Borsippa The planet‐tower, wherein Bel was worshipped in the days when astrolaters were the greatest astr ...
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| Both‐al The Both‐al of the Irish is the descendant and copy of the Greek Batylos and the Beth‐el of Canaan, ...
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| Bragadini Marco Antonio. A Venetian Rosicrucian of great achievements, an Occultist and Kabbalist who was deca ...
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| Bragi The god of New Life, of the re‐incarnation of nature and man. He is called “the divine singer” witho ...
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| Brahma The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian P ...
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| Brahma Prajapati “Brahmâ the Progenitor”, literally the “Lord of Creatures”. In this aspect Brahmâ is the synthesis o ...
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| Brahma Vach Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, lite ...
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| Brahma Vidya The knowledge, the esoteric science, about the two Brahmas and their true nature [[Category: Theosop ...
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| Brahma Viraj The same: Brahmâ separating his body into two halves, male and female, creates in them Vâch and Virâ ...
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| Brahmachari A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: Theo ...
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| Brahmajnani One possessed of complete Knowledge; an Illuminatus in esoteric parlance [[Category: Theosophica ...
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| Brahman The highest of the four castes in India, one supposed or rather fancying himself, as high among men, ...
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| Brahmana period One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided by Orientalists [[Category: The ...
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| Brahmanas Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas ...
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| Brahmanaspati The planet Jupiter; a deity in the Rig ‐Veda, known in the exoteric works as Brihaspati, who ...
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| Brahmapuri Lit., “the City of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; f ...
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| Brahmaputras The Sons of Brahmâ<span style="color: grey; font-siz ...
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| Brahmarandhra A spot on the crown of the head connected by Sushumna, a cord in the spinal column, with the hea ...
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| Brahmarshis The Brahminical Rishis<span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Brahma’s Day A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahmâ having emerged out of his golden egg (Hiranyag ...
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| Brahma’s Night A period of equal duration, during which Brahmâ. is said to be asleep. Upon awakening he recommences ...
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| Bread and Wine Baptism and the Eucharist have their direct origin in pagan Egypt. There the “waters of purification ...
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| Briatic World • Briah This world is the second of the Four worlds of the Kabbalists and referred to the highest created “A ...
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| Briareus A famous giant in the Theogony of Hesiod. The son of Cœlus and Terra, a monster with 50 heads and 10 ...
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| Bride The tenth Sephira, Malkuth, is called by the Kabbalists the Bride of Microprosopus; she is the final ...
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| Brihadaranyaka The name of a Upanishad. One of the sacred and secret books of the Brahmins; an Aranyaka ' ...
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| Brihaspati The name of a Deity, also of a Rishi. It is like wise the name of the planet Jupiter. He is the ...
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| Briseus A name given to the god Bacchus from his nurse, Briso. He had also a temple at Brisa, a promontory o ...
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| Brotherhood of Luxor A certain Brotherhood of mystics. Its name had far better never have been divulged, as it led a grea ...
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| Brothers of Light This is what the great authority on secret societies, Brother Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie IX., says of t ...
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| Brothers of the Shadow A name given by the Occultists to Sorcerers, and especially to the Tibetan Dugpas, of whom there ...
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| Bubaste A city in Egypt which was sacred to the cats, and where was their principal shrine. Many hundreds of ...
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| Buddha Lit., “The Enlightened”. The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break throug ...
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| Buddhachhaya Lit., “the shadow of Buddha”. It is said to become visible at certain great events, and during some ...
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| Buddhaphala Lit., “the fruit of Buddha”, the fruition of Arahattvaphalla'', or Arhatship [[Category: ...
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| Buddhi Universal Soul or Mind. Mahâbuddhi is a name of Mahat (see “Alaya”); also the spiritual Soul in ...
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| Buddhism Buddhism is now split into two distinct Churches : the Southern and the Northern Church. The former ...
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| Buddhochinga The name of a great Indian Arhat who went to China in the 4th century to propagate Buddhism and conv ...
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| Budha “The Wise and Intelligent”, the Son of Soma, the Moon, and of Rokini or Taraka, wife of Brihaspati c ...
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| Bull‐Worship The worship of the Bull and the Ram was addressed to one and the same power, that of generative crea ...
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| Bumapa A school of men, usually a college of mystic students [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)] ...
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| Bunda‐hish An old Eastern work in which among other things anthropology is treated in an allegorical fashion [[ ...
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| Burham‐i‐Kati A Hermetic Eastern work<span style="color: grey; fon ...
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| Buri “The producer”, the Son of Bestla, in Norse legends< ...
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| Buru Bonga The “Spirit of the Hills”. This Dryadic deity is worshipped by the Kolarian tribes of Central India ...
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| Busardier A Hermetic philosopher born in Bohemia who is credited with having made a genuine powder of projecti ...
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| Butler An English name assumed by an adept, a disciple of some Eastern Sages, of whom many fanciful stories ...
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| Bythos A Gnostic term meaning “Depth” or the “great Deep”, Chaos. It is equivalent to space, before anythin ...
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| B’ne Alhim • Beni Elohim “Sons of God ”, literally or more correctly “Sons of the gods”, as Elohim is the plural of Eloah. A ...
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| Cabar Zio “The mighty Lord of Splendour” (Codex Nazaraeus), they who procreate seven beneficent lives, ' ...
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| Cabeiri • Kabiri Deities, held in the highest veneration at Thebes, in Lemnos, Phrygia, Macedonia, and especially at ...
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| Cabletow A Masonic term for a certain object used in the Lodges. Its origin lies in the thread of the Brahman ...
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| Cadmus The supposed inventor of the letters of the alphabet. He may have been their originator and teacher ...
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| Caduceus The Greek poets and mythologists took C—The third letter of the English alphabet, which has no ...
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| Caesar A far‐famed astrologer and “professor of magic,” i.e., an Occultist, during the reign of Henry IV of ...
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| Cagliostro A famous Adept, whose real name is claimed (by his enemies) to have been Joseph Balsamo. He was a na ...
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| Cain • Kayn In Esoteric symbology he is said to be identical with Jehovah or the “Lord God” of the fourth chapte ...
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| Calvary Cross This form of cross does not date from Christianity. It was known and used for mystical purposes, tho ...
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