Avitchi (Sanskrit) A state: not necessarily after death only or between two births, for it can take place on earth as well. Lit., "uninterrupted hell". The last of the eight hells, we are told, "where the culprits die and are reborn without interruption - yet not without hope of final redemption. This is because Avitchi is another name for Myalba (our earth) and also a state to which some soulless men are condemned on this physical plane.

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Saptaparna (Sanskrit). The "sevenfold". A plant which gave its name to a famous cave, a Vihara, in Rajagriha, now near Buddhagaya, where the Lord Buddha used to meditate and teach his Arhats, and where after his death the first Synod was held. This cave had seven chambers, whence the name. In Esotericism Saptaparna is the symbol of the "seven fold Man-Plant".

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Skandha or Skhanda (Sanskrit). Lit., "bundles", or groups of attributes; everything finite, inapplicable

to the eternal and the absolute. There are five - esoterically, seven - attributes in every human living being, which are known as the Pancha Shandhas. These are

(1) form, rupa;

(2) perception, vidana;

(3) consciousness, sanjna;

(4) action, sanskara;

(5) knowledge, vidyana. These unite at the birth of man and constitute his personality. After the maturity of these Skandhas, they begin to separate and weaken,

and this is followed by jaramarana, or decrepitude and death.

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Habal de Garmin (Hebrew, Jewish) According to the Kabbalah this is the Resurrection Body: a tzelem image or demooth similitude to the deceased man; an inner fundamental spiritual type remaining after death. It is the "Spirit of the Bones " mentioned in Daniel and Isaiah and the Psalms, and is referred to in the Vision of Ezekiel about the clothing of the dry bones with life: consult C, de Leiningen on the Kabbalah, T.P.S. Pamphlet, Vol. II., No. 18.

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Heabani (Chald.) A famous astrologer at the Court of Izdubar, frequently mentioned in the fragments of the Assyrian tablets in reference to a dream of Izdubar, the great Babylonian King, or Nimrod, the "mighty hunter before the Lord ".

After his death, his soul being unable to rest underground, the ghost of Heabani was raised by .Merodach, the god, his body restored to life and then transferred alive, like Elijah, to the regions of the Blessed.

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REINCARNATION -

1. one has lived another lifetime. (TRASB)

2. rebirth in various bodies from one lifetime to the next. (NAD)

3. a basic tenet of Paganism, the belief that the souls of human beings return to the earth plane in another human body or even in another life form, after death. Celtic Paganism embraces portions of this belief, only without the ideas of karma (divine justice) operating in most other cultures. (CMM)

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BA

The Atman, the Egyptian soul, depicted as a bird with a human head, though apparently not the very similar bennu-bird. After death, it splits apart into the akh, which is a temporary spirit in the form of a bird that flies to the Afterworld where it turns back into the ka, or double. The ba remains behind with the mummy. The ba is incarnation, the ka is the vitalizing power and the akh (symbolized by the ibis) is light. On the spirit level they correspond to the uas, ankh and djed.

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Karna

The first son of Kunti, born to her by the sun-god before her marriage to Pandu. She abandoned the infant Karna by floating him in a basket on a river, and he was discovered and adopted by a mixed-caste chariot driver. Karna became an arch-rival of the Pandavas, who were unaware of his origin. In the Kurukshetra battle, he was made the Kuru commander-in-chief after the death of Drona, and Arjuna killed him.

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Outer Round The passage of all the life-waves of a planetary chain to other planetary chains in serial order, at the completion of a specific cycle of manifestation on the original planetary chain. This outer round encompasses the seven sacred planets for seven or ten times, in accordance with the working of the circulations of the solar system. Also used for the journey of the human spiritual monad through the solar system after death.

See also INNER ROUND; ROUND

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Maitreya-Buddha (Sanskrit) Equivalent to the Kalki (white horse) avatara of Vishnu, to Sosiosh, and other Messiahs. Popular teaching states that Gautama Buddha visited him in a celestial abode and commissioned him to come to earth as his successor 5,000 years after the Buddha's death. Theosophic philosophy teaches that the next buddha will appear during the seventh subrace of this round.

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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.

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HOUDINI

The American stage illusionist (1874 - 1926). It is commonly believed that Houdini's pact with his wife, that, if possible, he would manage to communicate with her after his death, was never fulfilled. Her failure to receive Houdini's message is frequently offered as proof that all spritualism is bunk. According to Dr. Clifford Wilson, The Alien Agenda (Signet, 1988), one Rev. Arthur Ford was the medium of a spirit called "Fletcher", who did convey a message to Mrs. Houdini after all. She acknowledged it as being in a code known only to her and to her husband.

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Umbra (Latin) A shade; the kama-rupic spook which remains in the lower regions of the astral light after physical death and often hovers in the neighborhood of the tomb. "The ancient Latin races . . . believed that after death Anima, the pure divine soul, ascended to heaven, a place of bliss; Manes (the Kama Rupa) descended into Hades (Kama Loka); and Umbra (or astral double, the Linga Sharira) remained on earth hovering about its tomb, because the attraction of physical, objective matter and affinity to its earthly body kept it within the places which that body had impressed with its emanations. Therefore, they said that nothing but the astral image of the defunct could be seen on earth, and even that faded out with the disintegration of the last particle of the body which had been so long its dwelling" (TG 353).

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Ka (Egyptian) plural kau. Equivalent to the astral double, model-body, or linga-sarira. The ancient Egyptians held that when a human being was born, the ka was born with him and remained with him throughout his life. Even after death it remained in the tomb with the corpse; it was popularly believed that the offerings placed on graves were made to perpetuate the ka. Furthermore, the gods possessed them, each deity being said to have many kau; thus in one text the god Ra is said to possess seven bau (souls) and 14 kau. Even cities were held to possess kau in the heaven world.

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Adhishthana adhishthana (Sanskrit) (from adhi over, upon + the verbal root stha to stand upon)

A basis, seat, or focus of action (cf BG 3:40, 18:14). Often applied to a principle or element which inheres in another principle; i.e., the active agent working in prakriti would be adhishthnana. Also, precedent, rule, as when used as a name for one of the ten paramitas (rules of conduct).

Adhishnhana-deha or -sarira (-body) is a subtle intermediate body with which the departed is clothed after death.

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Acheron (Greek) (probably from achos pain, distress; Etruse Acceruns)

The River of Woe, one of five rivers surrounding Hades. The others were Cocytus (river of wailing), Styx (the hateful), Pyriphlegethon (the fiery), and Lethe (forgetfulness).

In later traditions, a son of the sun (Helios) and Demeter who supplied the titans with drink when they were fighting against Zeus, and was therefore transformed into a river of the underworld. These rivers have reference to the circulations of the universe, and in this connection the ancient Greeks and Romans had certain mystical rites relating to the "deification" of souls after death and their passage into other spheres.

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Daena (Avestan) (from da, day to look, see, know)

The personification of the Zoroastrian law or religion, presiding over the 24th day of the month, and giving to that day her name. Together with Khista (religious knowledge, the knowledge of what leads to bliss) she forms the subject of the 16th Yasht, Din Yasht, Din being Pahlavi for Daena. Christi (knowledge) was used in Mithraic circles in the same sense as Daena in Zoroastrianism.

It is the human principle of understanding paralleling manas (TG 94); also the fourth of the five inner faculties. On the Chinvat Bridge after death the soul meets its daena in the form of a maiden whose appearance varies according to the soul's deeds on earth.

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Elysian Fields, Elysium (Greek) Originally in Greek mythology, beautiful meadows or plains, or islands of the blest, located in the far west by the banks of Ocean.

There certain heroes of the fourth race who never experienced death were said to dwell in perfect happiness ruled by Rhadamanthus. The titans after being reconciled with Zeus also lived there under the rule of Kronos. Pindar holds that all who have passed blamelessly through life three times live there in bliss. Later, Elysium was located in the underworld as the abode of those whom the judges of the dead found worthy. The river Lethe (forgetfulness) flowed by the Elysian Fields.

See also AANROO; DEVACHAN; HADES ()

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Electra Elektra (Greek) One of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and mother by Zeus of Dardanus, ancestor of the royal house of Troy. Called "dark-faced," she is sometimes considered the Pleiad not visible to the naked eye, as upon seeing the ruin of Troy, she left her place to become a comet.

Also, a daughter of Ocean, mother by Thaumas of Iris and the Harpies; and a river nymph, daughter of Ocean and Tethys. Again, she is the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sister of Iphigenia and Orestes. After her mother killed her father, Electra saved her brother and eventually helped him revenge their father's death. (SD 2:768; BCW 4:224)

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Dream Interpretation Deceased

Dreaming of a deceased person is usually a warning that tells you about being careful in all your affairs until this unfavourable time passes. If a woman dreams of her deceased husband: she has finally accepted his death. Seeing a deceased person: the person is trying to look after you and wants to tell you something what will support you.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Dream Interpretation Cave

Being in a dark cave: you are overwhelmed by a current situation or present problems. Living in a cave suggests that you are getting unpopular because of your seclusion. If you are digging a cave, it could possibly foretell the death in your surroundings. Coming out of the dark cave means that your affairs are going to improve after a time of deprivation like unemployment, depression etc.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Lettuce

• To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.
• If you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion, or perhaps it may be petty jealousy.
• For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause of her own early sickness or death.
• To gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness, and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated distress and pain.
• To buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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