Astronomy Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Astronomos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Astronomos
Astronomos (Ancient Greek). The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of the reception of the Mysteries. In days of old, A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Spiritual Dictionary On Astrology
Astrology: Astrology is a science that examines the action of celestial bodies upon all living beings, non-living objects, and earthly...   » Read the article

Article - Vedic Origins Of The Zodiac: The Hymns Of Dirghatamas In The Rig Veda
The Hymns of Dirghatamas in the Rig Veda Some scholars have claimed that the Babylonians invented the zodiac of 360 degrees around 700 B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Astrology
Astrology Universal analogy provides a key to occult mysteries by studying the nature and motions of the celestial orbs. The heavenly ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zodiac: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Zodiac
Zodiac (Ancient Greek). From the word zodion, a diminutive of zoon, animal.   This word is used in a dual meaning; it may refer ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jyotisha Vedanga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Jyotisha Vedanga
Jyotisha Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Veda-limb of celestial science (astronomy-astrology)." Ancient texts giving knowledge of astr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Astrology
Astrology (Ancient Greek) The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future...   » Read the article

Article - Tantra Yoga: The Left Hand Path Of Love - Tantra
The mysterious Tradition of Tantra This article attempts to outline, in an extremely general way, some basic ideas of the Tantric tradit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Astrology
ASTROLOGY: 1) the belief that the relative positions of planets, planetoids and stars, can influence events & behavior surroundin...   » Read the article

Article - The Vedas: Divine Scriptures Of Ancient India - The Vedas
The Vedas  The Vedas are the Divine scriptures of ancient India and in modern times can be traced as least as far back as 12,OOO B....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occultism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Occultism
Occultism [from Latin occultus hid]   The science of things behind the veils of nature both visible and invisible, things hidden ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tortoise: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tortoise
Tortoise In China, a favorite symbol, and Confucius regarded it as sacred; in India the same veneration is given to it, for in one of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sabean, Sabaean, Sabian, Sabianism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sabean, Sabaean, Sabian, Sabianism
Sabean, Sabaean, Sabian, Sabianism [from Hebrew tsaba host, army, celestial hosts]   A name given by the Shemitic peoples to thos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heaven And Hell: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heaven And Hell
Heaven and Hell In Christian theology, the abodes of Deity and the celestial hierarchy on the one hand, and of Satan and his fallen an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahabharata: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Mahabharata
Mahabharata: (Sanskrit) "Great Epic of India."   The world's longest epic poem. It revolves around the conflict betwee...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herbs: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Herbs
Herbs The very large number of plants used as remedial agents in medicine are the natural remedies in treating disease, divine instruc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apap, Apep: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Apap, Apep
Apap or Apep (Egyptian) Apophis (Greek) The serpent of evil, generally denoting matter in its lower reaches of differentiation from sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angiras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angiras
Angiras (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ang to go, move tortuously (cf agni))   One of the Saptarshis (seven rishis) or manasapu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jyotisha, Jyotisa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jyotisha, Jyotisa
Jyotisha jyotisa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root jyut to shine)   An astronomer; as a neuter noun, astronomy, also called jyotis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jyotisha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jyotisha
Jyotisha (Sanskrit). Astronomy and Astrology; one of the Vedangas.     Jyotisham Jyotch (Sanskrit). The "light of ligh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seasons: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seasons
Seasons The seasons are at least in part due to the inclination of the earth's axis, and wholly according to this explanation in moder...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Conjunction: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Conjunction
Conjunction A conjunction of two heavenly bodies occurs when, as seen from the earth, they are in the same ecliptic longitude, accordi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Purana
Purana (Sanskrit) Ancient, old, an ancient tale or legend. The 18 Hindu scriptures known today as the Puranas are ancient legends of o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoreans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pythagoreans
Pythagoreans The school founded at Crotona, Italy in the 6th century BC by Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras was an initiate not only in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Year: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Year
Year There are several years -- the sidereal, tropical, lunar, and others -- known to astronomy and calendrical science. Among nations...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiranyagarbha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiranyagarbha
Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit) (from hiranya imperishable substance, golden + garbha womb, embryo, fetus, also the interior of anything, hen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pillaloo Codi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pillaloo Codi
Pillaloo Codi (Tamil). A nickname in popular astronomy given to the Pleiades, meaning "hen and chickens". The French also, c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paranellatons: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Paranellatons
Paranellatons. In ancient Astronomy the name was applied to certain stars and constellations which are extra Zodiacal, lying above and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vriddha-garga: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vriddha-garga
Vriddha-garga Vriddha-garga (Sanskrit) Old Garga; an ancient sage who was one of the oldest writers on astronomy.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aquarius: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Aquarius
AQUARIUS The 11th sign, the number of wizardry - electronic as well as esoteric. The sign of astronomy, no less than astrology, and ab...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Suryasiddhanta: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Suryasiddhanta
Suryasiddhanta (Sanskrit). A Sanskrit treatise on astronomy.   (See also: Suryasiddhanta , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Singular Point: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Singular Point
Singular Point Used in mathematics in contradistinction to an ordinary point or Euclid's point, without length, breadth, or thickness....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ketu: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ketu
Ketu (Sanskrit). The descending node in astronomy; the tail of the celestial dragon who attacks the Sun during the eclipses; also a co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sunspots: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sunspots
Sunspots Astronomers describe the spots appearing upon the photosphere of the sun as irregularly ring-shaped penumbra enclosing a dark...   » Read the article

Article - Venus Transit: Enter The Goddess - Venus Transit 2004-2012
The Venus Transit will be a wonderful opportunity to plug into a major planetary shift that will have positive collective consequences fo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddhanta: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Siddhanta
Siddhanta (Sanskrit). Any learned work on astronomy or mathematics, in India.   (See also: Siddhanta , Theosophy, Spirituality...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sirius: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sirius
SIRIUS (See SOTHIS.) In recent times reputable French anthropologists who visited the Dogon people of Mali, living in the furthest rea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angula: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angula
Angula (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ag, the verbal root ang to move)   A thumb or finger, a digit's breadth, a measure equal ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiranya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiranya
Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit) (from hiranya imperishable substance, golden + garbha womb, embryo, fetus, also the interior of anything, hen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddhanta: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Siddhanta
Siddhanta (Sanskrit) [from siddha accomplished from the verbal root sidh to accomplish, succeed + anta end, completion]   An esta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanga: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vedanga
Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Veda-limb." Six branches of post- Vedic studies revered as auxiliary to the Vedas.   Four Vedanga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlanteans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atlanteans
Atlanteans The various peoples which flourished during long ages, on the fourth great continent, called Atlantis by theosophists; the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ouranos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ouranos
Ouranos (Greek) Uranus (Latin) [cf Sanskrit Varuna]   Originally the celestial spaces of the starry deep, its spiritual, invisibl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ishtar: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ishtar
Ishtar (Chaldean) Ancient Babylonian deity, eldest of heaven and earth, daughter of Anu (the lord of the heavens). Her worship was fer...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quadrivium: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Quadrivium
Quadrivium (Latin) [from quattuor four + via path]   A place where four roads meet and cross; used by Boethius and medieval schol...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Quadrivium: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Quadrivium
Quadrivium (Latin). A term used by the Scholastics during the Middle Ages to designate the last four paths of learning - of which ther...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bagavadam: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bagavadam
Bagavadam (Tamil) According to Blavatsky, a scripture on astronomy and kindred subjects (TG 48). The time periods in it differ from pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedangas: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Ii On Vedangas
vedangas: rules on ritual, astronomy, morals, grammar and phonetics   (See also: vedangas , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Satellite: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Satellite
Satellite [from Latin satelles an attendant, assistant]   Astronomically, a globe which revolves around a larger one which is its...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vriddha Garga: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vriddha Garga
Vriddha Garga (Sanskrit). From Vriddha, "old", and Garga, an ancient sage, one of the oldest writers on astronomy.   ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bagavadam: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bagavadam
Bagavadam (Sanskrit). A Tamil Scripture on Astronomy and other matters.   (See also: Bagavadam , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vine
Vine A symbol of inspiration and of spiritual fertility, both as a tree with many branches and as the producer of grapes and wine. It ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ayana
Ayana (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root i, ay to go)   Going, walking; road, path, way. Used in astronomy for advancing, precessio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arya-bhatta: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arya-bhatta
Arya-bhatta (Sanskrit) An ancient Hindu writer on algebra and astronomy, born in Kusuma-Pura (modern Patma). His most famous astrologi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thoth: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Thoth
Thoth (Egypt, Egyptian). The most mysterious and the least understood of gods, whose personal character is entirely distinct from all ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arya-bhata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Arya-bhata
Arya-Bhata (Sanskrit) The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author of a work cal...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astronomos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Astronomos
Astronomos (Greek) An astronomer; in ancient Greek usage equivalent to astrologos; in the sixth degree of the Egyptian Mysteries at Th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zodiac: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zodiac
Zodiac [from Greek zodiakos kyklos circle of animals]   The zone extending on both sides of the ecliptic, with a total width of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kala 64: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Kala 64
Kala 64 (chatuh shashti kala): (Sanskrit) "Sixty-four arts."   A classical curriculum of sacred sciences, studies, art...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oannes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Oannes
Oannes. (Ancient Greek). Musarus Oannes, the Annedotus, known in the Chaldean "legends", transmitted through Berosus and oth...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mandala, Mandala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mandala, Mandala
Mandala mandala (Sanskrit) A circle, ball, wheel, ring, or circumference, as the orbit of a heavenly body, and hence a great circle in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Calendar: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Calendar
Calendar A formal table of time measures based on the motions of the heavenly bodies. Where esoteric knowledge is intact, these cyclic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Numerology: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Numerology
NUMEROLOGY The first thing to remember about numbers is that each number, far from being just an accretion of previous numbers, really...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Watchers Of The Heavens: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Watchers Of The Heavens
WATCHERS OF THE HEAVENS In Old Persian astronomy, the four "Royal Stars" which were at that time (3000 B.C.) standing guard ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rasi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rasi
Rasi (Sanskrit) A heap, mass, quantity, number; in astronomy, a sign of the zodiac (as being a certain number of degrees); in astrolog...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Surya-siddhanta: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Surya-siddhanta
Surya-Siddhanta (Sanskrit) A celebrated astronomical and cosmogonical work of ancient India of enormous antiquity. This work shows mar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asuramaya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asuramaya
Asuramaya (Sanskrit) Also Mayasura, Mayesvara. Legendary astronomer spoken of in Sanskrit literature as versed in magic, astronomy, an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dynasties: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dynasties
Dynasties Among ancient peoples almost worldwide there have always been two types of dynastic government, the divine and the human. An...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ketu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ketu
Ketu (Sanskrit) The descending node of the moon in astronomy; in Hindu mythology, the tail of the celestial dragon who is supposed to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Piscean Age: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Piscean Age
Piscean Age A cycle of time wherein the Earth received the influence of the constellation Pisces, acording to astronomy and astrology...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Relativity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Relativity
Relativity Associated with Einsteinian physics; the first postulate of the theory of relativity is the relativity of all motion, a ret...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heathen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heathen
Heaven and Hell In Christian theology, the abodes of Deity and the celestial hierarchy on the one hand, and of Satan and his fallen an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heranasikha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heranasikha
Herbs The very large number of plants used as remedial agents in medicine are the natural remedies in treating disease, divine instruc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Music: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Music
Music [from Greek mousike (techne) the art of the Muses]   The music of the Greeks did not signify merely the harmony of sounds, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanga: Sai Baba Dictionary On Vedanga
Vedanga: Vedanga: Veda-limb. Six branches of post-Vedic studies revered as auxiliary to the Vedas. Four Vedangas govern correct cha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedangas: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Vedangas (vedhaangaa)
Vedangas: Vedangas (Vedhaangaa). Subsidiary treatises of the Vedas: six sciences of proper pronunciation, grammar, metre, etymology...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nebula: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nebula
Nebula (Latin) Mist, cloud; in astronomy, cloudlike appearances seen at distances comparable to those of the fixed stars. A true or ir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hinduism Dictionary: Spiritual Dictionary On Hindusim From R-z
A Hinduism dictionary with the most common spiritual words from P-Z. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Dictionary: Spiritual Hinduism Dictionary
A spiritual dictionary of the 280 most common words in Hinduism. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritual D...   » Read the article