Akasha Dictionary

ashuddha tattvas: Odic, or magnetic, energy. These 24 categories make up the "world" of ashuddha (impure) maya. This is the realm of the astral and physical planes, in which souls function through the manomaya, pranamaya and

annamaya koshas, depending on their level of embodiment.

1.    prakriti tattva: primal nature, the gross energy of which all lower tattvas are formed. Prakriti, also called pradhana, is expressed as three gunas (qualities) - sattva, rajas and tamas. These manifest as light, activity and inertia, respectively; and on the subtle level as pleasure, sorrow and delusion. These gunas dominate the soul's powers of knowledge, action and desire (jnana, kriya and ic�ha), and form the guna body, manomaya kosha. - antahkarana: the mental faculty.

2.     buddhi tattva: judgment, intellect, the faculty of discrimination.

3.     ahamkara tattva: egoism, sense of I-ness in the external form. It is the fundamental principle of individuality.

4.     manas tattva: the instinctive mind, the receiving and directing link between the outer senses and the inner faculties. - jnanendriya: the five cognitive senses, of the nature of sattva guna. Each has a subtle and physical aspect.

5.     shrotra tattva: hearing (ears).

6.     tvak tattva: touching (skin).

7.     chakshu tattva: seeing (eyes).

8.     rasana tattva: tasting (tongue).

9.     ghrana tattva: smelling (nose). - karmendriya: the five organs of action, of the nature of rajaguna. Each has a subtle and physical aspect.

10.  vak tattva: speech (voice).

11.  pani tattva: grasping (hands).

12.  pada tattva: walking (feet).

13.  payu tattva: excretion (anus).

14.  upastha tattva: procreation (genitals). - tanmatra: the five subtle elements, of the nature of tamaguna.

15.  shabda tattva: sound.

16.  sparsha tattva: feel.

17.  rupa tattva: form.

18.  rasa tattva: taste.

19.  gandha tattva: odor. These are the subtle characteristics of the five gross elements, akasha, vayu, tejas, apas and prithivi, respectively. - panchabhuta: the five gross elements.

20.  akasha tattva: ether or space.

21.  vayu tattva: air.

22.  tejas tattva: fire.

23.  apas tattva (or jala): water.

24.  prithivi tattva: earth.

See:tattvas, tattva, atattva, antahkarana, guna, kosha, Siva

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REINCARNATION

Advanced minds seem to take reincarnation for granted: Plato, Emerson, Edison, Shaw, Jung -- even Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. All life transmigrates -- indeed, not just life, but everything "returns." Many find the latter idea hard to take -- as though there must be not only no mice in the Afterworld, but no machines! Yet, obviously, if one thing evolves, then everything evolves. Molecules of steel and granite cling tenaciously, as do we, to permanence and the spider chooses her life, even as we choose ours, because spiderdom is the acme of her aspirations. Where the will exists, there return exists.

Even if the evolution of life out of the inanimate does not indicate mind apart from brain, even if it demonstrates only the "accidental" fact that things must mutate "upward" or else dissolve downward into entropy, then "mind" or "purpose" is synonymous with or implicit in "accidence" itself. The one apodictic truth is that life and complexification have prevailed, whatever else has not, including the "content" of entropy.

The universe is mind, as we've pointed out elsewhere. The purpose of mind is to know itself, and knowing can succeed only through particularization.

One way to understand metempsychosis is to imagine our poor sublunary lives as pressings onto phonograph records, on the Akasha's etheric record. When the Atma particle, or Oversoul, incarnates, it shuffles off its generalized shell and starts to particularize. In so doing it may, under certain rare and privileged circumstances, find itself able to examine previous akashic recordings in which it formed similar particularizations. The Oversoul itself, however, is made up of all these countless recorded souls. With each experience it grows in metamorphic complexity. In the Oversoul the Whole is greater that its parts -- although when it separates individually the part is naturally greater than the Whole.

The Buddhists hold that there is no "immutable soul." Therefore reincarnation is simply a way of expressing the rebirth of unenlightened mind. Rebirth is then merely like the same sand pouring into different vessels: bucket, goblet, urn, etc. If death is the abandonment of personal self, then the dividing walls between us crumble and memory has access to all former lives. Most people tend to remember only the former lives of the more interesting or arresting personalities: kings, queens, martyrs, monsters, etc. That's why there are so many former Napoleons and Cleopatras and so few kitchenmaids and village idiots.

Finally, we must detach ourselves from the encapsulating Xtian belief in literal "Resurrection." We must understand that the "raising of the dead" is a metaphorical version, not of reincarnation, but of renewal within life. To be reborn of the flesh, of fire, of water and the spirit -- these are its tetramorphic aspects, to be sure, but resurrection, reincarnation and being "born again" are all symbols of the birth or rebirth of the spirit within the "dead" soul of materialistic greed. Rebirth begins before physical death and proceeds post-mortem into actual reincarnation. Reincarnation per se, however, is not acceptable to orthodox Xtianity in the slightest because it neutralizes Salvation.

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ELEMENTS -

1.the four alchemical elements once thought to make up the entire universe. These are Earth, Air, Fire and Water plus the fifth element of pure spirit in, of, and outside them all. Each Pagan tradition has their own directions, tools and correspondences for each of these. (CMM)

2. Earth, Air, Water and Fire including also Spirit/Akasha. Each has a direction within a circle or working: East-Air, South-Fire, West-Water, North-Earth, Center-Spirit/Akasha. (TRASB)

3. fundamental constituents of the material world, earth, air, fire, water and sometime ether. Substance that cannot be separated into different substances except by nuclear disintegration. Frequencies of energy found in all living things. Atoms and compounds, the orderly manifestation of subatomic particles into spirallic atomic structures. (NAD)

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Earth - North
Air - East
Fire - South
Water - West
Spirit (Akasha) - Center

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Akashic Records

Edgar Cayce's concept which states that somewhere there is a universal hall of data about past lives, magic, healing, and spirituality. It does not exist on the physical plane but rather on a more psychic level.

Some believe it can be accessed on the astral plane, others feel it can only be accessed through a visualization journey in the mind.

The akashic records can be reached with emotional clairvoyance. They do not contain the past of the planet, but what people in all times have believed about this past. The real akasha, the akasha of the planetary hierarchy, is on a higher level

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Ether (Ancient Greek). With the ancients the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe, the "garment" of the Supreme Deity, Zeus, or Jupiter. With the moderns, Ether, for the meaning of which in physics and chemistry see Webster’s Dictionary or any other. In esotericism Ether is the third principle of the Kosmic Septenary; the Earth being the lowest, then the Astral light, Ether and Akasa (phonetically Akasha) the highest.

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AKASHIC RECORDS

Akasha is Sanskrit for ether, and it is within this Etheric state of being that the records of everything that has been, is, and the future (the potential thereof) are recorded.

The Akashic Records can be accessed by those who are either trained, or have a natural affinity, and have universal permission to do so. These readers are able to provide you with information that will assist you with unresolved issues of the past, and past lives, and also with issues you are presently occupied with.

The future, as well as the present, and past can be altered by your choice of intent, and free will. Time is a continuum, which is illusory in its artificial nature. Understanding this will enable you to change your reality on this continuum by enlightened intent. Therefore, the information contained in these sacred records can be of invaluable assistance in your own growth of consciousness.

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inner (innermost): Located within. Of the depths of our being.

• inner advancement (or unfoldment): Progress of an individual at the soul level rather than in external life.
• inner bodies: The subtle bodies of man within the physical body.
• inner discovery: Learning from inside oneself, experiential revelation; one of the benefits of inner life.
• inner form (or nature) of the guru: The deeper levels of the guru's being that the disciple strives to attune himself to and emulate.
• inner law: The principles or mechanism underlying every action or experience, often hidden. Karma is one such law.
• inner life: The life we live inside ourselves, at the emotional, mental and spiritual levels, as distinguished from outer life.
• inner light: A moonlight-like glow that can be seen inside the head or throughout the body when the vrittis, mental fluctuations, have been sufficiently quieted. To be able to see and bask in the inner light is a milestone on the path.
• See: vritti.
• inner mind: The mind in its deeper, intuitive functions and capacities- the subsuperconscious and superconscious.
• innermost body: The soul body.
• inner planes: Inner worlds or regions of existence.
• inner self: The real, deep Self; the essence of the soul, rather than the outer self with which we usually identify.
• inner sky: The area of the mind which is clear inner space, free of mental images, feelings, identifications, etc. Tranquility itself. The superconscious mind, Satchidananda.

See: akasha. -

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Elements, The:

A classification system based upon the division of all phenomena into four or five categories; in Western occultism there are Earth, Water, Air, Fire and sometimes Spirit or Ether (or in India, Akasha); in Chinese occultism these are Earth, Water, Metal, Fire and Wood.

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ELEMENTS: the four basic manifestations of matter; earth, fire, water and air; also spirit or ether. These 4 essences are the building blocks of the Universe.   These are Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and the fifth element of pure spirit in, of and outside them all. Each Pagan tradition has their own tools, directions, and correspondences. Everything that exists, or has the potential to exist, contains one or more of these energies. These 4 elements formed from Primal Essence or power, Akasha. AND for the Practitioner who wonders, "What the HECK are those people talking about?"

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EARTH POWER - the power inherent in the Earth & nature. Connected with both & Akasha.

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Agnidagdha (Sanskrit) (from agni fire + dagdha burnt from the verbal root dah to burn)

Consumed by fire; a class of pitris (fathers, ancestors) who maintained the household fires and offered oblations with fire. Those who refrained form doing so were called anagnidagdhas (not consumed by fire).

The agnidagdhas, corresponding to the lunar pitris of The Secret Doctrine, are as mysterious as the higher or arupa classes of kumaras or agnishvattas. The agnidagdhas are the vehicles of the arupa classes and, because of their grosser or more materialized essences, are able to coalesce with the forces and substances of nature on more material planes of the solar system. Known also as barhishads, they "kept up the household flame," and thus were conversant with and living with flames of the material or quasimaterial realms. Such "material" flames are the fiery or magneto-electric forces and substances of the lower worlds, which include the flame of desire and passion as well as the electric fire of the physical universe. They not only equipped man with the lower parts of his constitution, but likewise projected their chhayas (shadows or astral vehicles), thus furnishing the astral-physical vehicle of early humanity.

The anagnidagdhas are the more spiritual and intellectual classes of pitris who provided nascent humanity with its spiritual, intellectual, and higher psychic principles. Blavatsky writes: "The first or primordial Pitris, the 'Seven Sons of Fire' or of the Flame, are distinguished or divided into seven classes . . . (VP 3:14; Manu 3:199)

three of which classes are Arupa, formless, 'composed of intellectual not elementary substance,' and four are corporeal. The first are pure Agni (fire) or Sapta-jiva ('seven lives,' now become Sapta-jihva, seven-tongued, as Agni is represented with seven tongues and seven winds as the wheels of his car). As a formless, purely spiritual essence, in the first degree of evolution, they could not create that, the prototypical form of which was not in their minds, as this is the first requisite. They could only give birth to 'mind-born' beings, their 'Sons,' the second class of Pitris (or Prajapati, or Rishis, etc.), one degree more material; these, to the third -- the last of the Arupa class. It is only this last class that was enabled with the help of the Fourth principle of the Universal Soul (Aditi, Akasha) to produce beings that became objective and having a form. But when these came to existence, they were found to possess such a small proportion of the divine immortal Soul or Fire in them, that they were considered failures. . . . The three orders of Beings, the Pitri-Rishis, the Sons of Flame, had to merge and blend together their three higher principles with the Fourth (the Circle), and the Fifth (the microcosmic) principle before the necessary union could be obtained and result therefrom achieved" (BCW 6:191-3).

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Elements, The - Usually counted as four:Earth,Air,Fire and Water.However many witches add spirit or akasha to this category,as well.Each element has a direction within a magickal circle: Earth=north, Air=east, Fire=south, Water=west, Akasha=center.The elements are what sustain all life.The elements are found within each individual as well asin nature.

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ILIASTER

(Paracelsus.) Cf. Akasha, Univ. Proteus. Martinus Rulandus described it as "the first chaos of the matter of all things." Thus the iliaster of the three Threophrastic principles is sulfur, salt and mercury. The iliaster of the elements is fourfold and the iliastri of man are his life, broken down into four parts: the span of life, life derived from the elements, the quintessence and the other world. By analogy, it can also refer to the Philosopher's Stone

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ELEMENTS: Usually: Earth, air, fire, water. The building blocks of the universe. Everything that exists contains one or more of these energies. Some include a fifth element- spirit or Akasha.

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Chidakasha: Brahman in Its aspect as limitless knowledge; unbounded intelligence. This is a familiar concept of the Upanishads. It is not meant that the physical ether is consciousness. The Pure Consciousness (Cit) is like the ether (Akasha), an all-pervading continuum.

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TATTWA

The four Hindu elements (See AKASHA): earth, Prithivi (yellow square); Water, Apas (silver crescent); Air, Vayu (blue hexagon or circle); Fire, Tejas (red triangle). The colors and geometrics for Apas and Tejas are self evident. Prithivi is yellow to suggest the ochres and greenery of earth, it is a four-sided figure to indicate the fourfold states of matter (solid, liquid, gas, plasm) and three dimensions of space plus one dimension of time. Vayu is blue to suggest the sky and the color of reason. Since air is dispersive it is characterized by a circle or hexagram -- in order to demonstrate its progress from the center outward in all directions.

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prakrtika cikitsa (naturopathy): Ayurvedic variation of Nature Cure. According to its theory, five mahabhutas (literally, great elements) constitute the human body: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and akasha (Ether, which pervades the universe).

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Siva Advaita: (Sanskrit) Also called Siva Vishishtadvaita, or Saivite "qualified nondualism,"

Siva Advaita is the philosophy of Srikantha (ca 1050) as expounded in his commentary on the Brahma Sutras (ca 500-200 bce). Patterned after the Vaishnavite Vishishtadvaita of Ramanuja, this philosophy was later amplified by Appaya Dikshita. Brahman, or Siva, is transcendent and the efficient and material cause of the world and souls. Souls are not identical to Him and never merge in Him, even after liberation.

As a school Siva Advaita remained exclusively intellectual, never enjoying a following of practitioners. Purification, devotion and meditation upon Siva as the Self - the akasha within the heart - define the path. Meditation is directed to the Self, Siva, the One Existence that evolved into all form. Liberation depends on grace, not deeds.

See: Appaya Dikshita, Saivism, Srikantha.

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