A Wisdom Archive on and Animals

Yatus, or Yatudhanas (Sanskrit). A kind of animal-formed demons. Esoterically, human animal passions.

 
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Metempsychosis. The progress of the soul from one stage of existence to another. Symbolized as and vulgarly believed to be rebirths in animal bodies. A term generally misunderstood by every class of European and American society, including many scientists. Metempsychosis should apply to animals alone. The kabalistic axiom, "A stone becomes a plant, a plant an animal, an animal a man, a man a spirit, and a spirit a god", receives an explanation in Manu’s Manava-Dharma-Shastra and other Brahmanical books.

 
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Zoonisation [from Greek zoon animal]
 
Also Inzoonization. Coined by Master KH (ML 81), signifying the monads performing that phase of their evolution through the animal kingdom.

 
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Samana (Sanskrit). One of the five breaths (Pranas) which carry on the chemical action in the animal body.

 
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Vetala (Sanskrit). An elemental, a spook, which haunts burial grounds and animates corpses.

 
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Psyche (Ancient Greek). The animal, terrestrial Soul; the lower Manas.

 
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Vetala (Sanskrit) A ghost, spook, or elementary astral entity, haunting cemeteries and occupying corpses for a temporary animation.

 
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Ophiozenes (Ancient Greek). The name of the Cypriote charmers of venomous serpents and other reptiles and animals.

 
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Zoolatry [from Greek zoon animal + latreia worship]
 
Animal worship; animal symbols are found in all religions, as in the religions of ancient Egypt and in Christianity, as the dove and the lamb. The Maharajas of the four quarters of space are sometimes represented as elephants; most of the zodiacal signs are animals, as the name implies.
 
These symbols should not be regarded as arbitrarily chosen on account of a fancied resemblance: the animals are actually emblems, if not in all cases manifestations, of the powers in question. It is the same with plants and stones: they are not emblems only but actually enshrine certain occult qualities. If plants may have medicinal virtues, and stones possess magical powers, why may not animals have the same? The phrase animal worship implies that the veneration has often been transferred from the power to its symbol or emblem, as in the case of idolatry.
 
Yet no polished or cultivated nation of antiquity, no more so than the Christians today, worshiped these animal emblems as otherwise than figurations, or also at times as manifestations, of cosmic powers or beings -- end-products of divine cosmic originants. Man himself falls into the same category, not only as being an offspring of the gods, but as an end-product of a divine hierarchy manifesting in greater or less degree the spiritual-divine attributes, functions, faculties, and powers of his sublime ancestors or parents.

 
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Pho (Chin.). The animal Soul.

 
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Nephesh Chia (Kab.). Animal or living Soul.

 
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Tairyagyonya (Sanskrit). The fifth creation, or rather the fifth stage of creation, that of the lower animals, reptiles, etc. (See " Tiryaksrotas ".)

 
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