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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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