Karneios (Greek) Carneus (Latin) Title of Apollo; like Krishna, who is also mystically an imbodiment of a solar spiritual force, this deity refers to mystical matters connected with the sun and its spiritual effluvia radiating throughout the solar system. Apollo Karneios was celebrated at Sparta in the great festival of the Karneia, held during nine days of the Attic month Metageitnion (August).

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Ab 'ab (Hebrew) (from the verbal root 'abab to blossom, bear fruit)

Father, hence founder, forefather, ancestor; by extension, teacher or counselor. Originally a Babylonian name.

Fifth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical or sacred year, according to the system used after the Babylonian captivity; also the 11th month of the civil year. Likewise the 11th month of the Palmyrenes and Syrians, equivalent to July-August and the zodiacal sign Leo.

See also ABBA.

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Germ Plasm A term used by German biologist August Weismann (1894-1914) for the hereditary material in each cell passed unchanged from generation to generation. The cell was divided into somatic plasm and germ plasm, the latter divided into the dormant portion passed on to the next generation unchanged and the active portion which was used to build the body.

This passive germ plasm was "immortal" in that it was the identic to that belonging to a person's earliest ancestor.

See also HEREDITY ()

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A Dream Dictionary including dreams about:

Archbishop, Architect, Arm, Aroma, Arrested, Arrow, Art Gallery, Ascend, Asceticism, Ashes, Asia, Asp, Asparagus, Ass , Assassin, Assistance, Astral, Asylum, Atlas, Atonement , Attic, Attorney, Auction, Augur, August , Aunt, Aura, Author, Automobile, Autumn, Awake, Axe

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LUGHNASADH: the festival celebrated Aug. 1, or August eve Sabbat. Also see NOS CALON AWST.  marking the first harvest of winter food and ebbing of the Sun's (God's) energies and days grow short. A time to remember the bounty of food we eat and each meal an attunement to Nature. Also called: Aug. Eve, Lammas, and Feast of Bread. Pronounced: LOO n'sar.

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ORIENTAL ZODIAC - astrology system prevalent in the Far East, base on the order in which the animals arrived to pay tribute to the Buddha, the rat jumping off the ox’s back to win.

 rat-April ox-May

 tiger-June rabbit-July

 dragon-August serpent-September

 horse-October sheep-November

 monkey-December cock-January

 dog-February bear-March

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Definition and meaning of Atlantic Charter:

Atlantic Charter

At a meeting in August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill developed the Atlantic Charter, a statement of common principles and war aims.

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Stalingrad:

Battle of Stalingrad

This World War II battle of attrition between German and Soviet armies in Stalingrad, on the Volga River, from August 1942 to February 1943, ended with the surrender of the encircled German army.

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Definition and meaning of Enola Gay:

Enola Gay

"Enola Gay" was the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

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Definition and meaning of Woodstock generation:

Woodstock generation

The term Woodstock generation came to define members of the late 1960s counterculture; named for a rock festival held in New York State in August 1969.

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Joseph Francis Borri. A great Hermetic philosopher, born at Milan in the 17th century. He was an adept, an alchemist and a devoted occultist. He knew too much and was, therefore, condemned to death for heresy, in January, 1661, after the death of Pope Innocent X.

He escaped and lived many years after, when finally he was recognised by a monk in a Turkish village, denounced, claimed by the Papal Nuncio, taken back to Rome and imprisoned, August 10th, 1675. But facts show that he escaped from his prison in a way no one could account for.

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Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H. B. of L.) A spurious "esoteric" society started about 1884 in England, which later spread to America before it was exposed as a fraud in Yorkshire by theosophists around 1887. This society "pretended to give to its members occult teaching free. In August, 1887, Mr. (T. H.)

Burgoyne, styling himself 'Private secretary,' issued to the members a secret circular, the essence of which was that he had studied Chaldean Astrology for eighteen years, but could not communicate the 'lessons' in it and Occultism without a payment to him of $60; that his teachings had the full approval of the Masters; and that the $60 subscription was a necessity to Initiation" (Ec from Or 2:183). He was 28 years old at the time. He later published the same material in a book, The Light of Egypt, sold for $3.00.

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Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H. B. of L.) A spurious "esoteric" society started about 1884 in England, which later spread to America before it was exposed as a fraud in Yorkshire by theosophists around 1887. This society "pretended to give to its members occult teaching free. In August, 1887, Mr. (T. H.)

Burgoyne, styling himself 'Private secretary,' issued to the members a secret circular, the essence of which was that he had studied Chaldean Astrology for eighteen years, but could not communicate the 'lessons' in it and Occultism without a payment to him of $60; that his teachings had the full approval of the Masters; and that the $60 subscription was a necessity to Initiation" (Ec from Or 2:183). He was 28 years old at the time. He later published the same material in a book, The Light of Egypt, sold for $3.00.

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Brooklyn Heights:

Battle of Brooklyn Heights

During the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, a Revolutionary War battle fought on August 27, 1776, Sir William Howe landed a large British force on Long Island, New York, outflanked the American defenders, and attacked their rear. Although the Americans suffered heavy casualties, General George Washington was later able under cover of darkness to withdraw his forces to Manhattan Island.

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Camden:

Battle of Camden

During this decisive British victory at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, more than one thousand Americans were killed or wounded and many were captured. A second battle near Camden on April 25, 1781, was more nearly a draw.

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Yorktown:

Battle of Yorktown

Beginning August 30, 1781, armies under Washington, Lafayette, and Rochambeau, backed by a French fleet in the Chesapeake Bay, laid siege to British forces under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 troops on October 19, 1781.

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Definition and meaning of Iwo Jima:

Iwo Jima

In March 1945, the strategic island of Iwo Jima was captured by U.S. forces. Okinawa was taken in June 1945 and, except for the Japanese home islands, this completed the island hopping campaign in the Pacific that had begun at Guadalcanal in August 1942.

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Definition and meaning of Hiroshima:

Hiroshima

Hiroshima, Japan, a city of 344,000 persons, was the target of the first atomic bombing in history. On August 6, 1945, 78,000 Japanese were killed in Hiroshima and 100,000 more were injured. Over 96 percent of the city's buildings were destroyed.

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Definition and meaning of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - [Social Studies]

Prompted by reports of North Vietnamese aggression toward the American destroyer, the U.S.S. Maddox, in August 1964, Congress authorized President Lyndon Johnson to increase American military involvement in Vietnam. The resolution was not an official declaration of war against North Vietnam but it gave the president the freedom to send troops into combat.

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Definition and meaning of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - [Social Studies]

Prompted by reports of North Vietnamese aggression toward the American destroyer, the U.S.S. Maddox, in August 1964, Congress authorized President Lyndon Johnson to increase American military involvement in Vietnam. The resolution was not an official declaration of war against North Vietnam but it gave the president the freedom to send troops into combat.

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Positivism In general, a philosophy based on physical phenomena and ignoring underlying antecedent causes; specifically, the system of Auguste Comte (1798-1857), miscalled the Religion of Humanity. He held that all speculative thought passes through three phases -- theological, metaphysical, positive: in the first, living beings having individual free will are regarded as the cause of phenomena; in the next, unverifiable abstractions are resorted to; positivism contents itself with a general description of phenomena.

The universe is not composed of individuals with volition, but of an ordered organism -- humanity -- governed by necessary laws. The civilized community is a true organism, a great being, and should be an object of worship. In conformity with the last, Positivist churches continue to exist, with definite organization and procedure. As stated in Isis Unveiled (1:79), negativism might be a better term, since the system denies more than it affirms. Its rejection of individuals in favor of humanity certainly is a lapse into the rejected metaphysical stage of speculation, which Comte showed he had no true comprehension of.

As a philosophy, holding that knowledge is based exclusively on the methods and discoveries of physical or positive science, it labors under great disadvantages. That speculation does pass through these and other stages is evident from the history of philosophy; but that positivism represents more than a passing phase is impossible to believe. It is one of the subtle forms of materialistic European philosophy so popular -- and among certain minds still in vogue -- during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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