Dzyan - Article Index

Dictionary - Dzyan: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Dzyan
DZYAN A corruption of Sanskrit Dhyana, "meditation" > Chinese Ch'an, Japanese Zen. The word, however, has entirely differ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Book Of Dzyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Book Of Dzyan
Book of Dzyan (probably from Sanskrit dhyana intense spiritual meditation, wisdom, divine knowledge)   An archaic work of enormou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dzyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dzyan
Dzyan (Senzar) Closely similar to the Tibetan dzin (learning, knowledge). Although Blavatsky states that dzyan is "a corruption o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Senzar: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Senzar
Senzar The name given to the ancient mystery-language unknown to modern philologists, that was known to all initiates of the inhabited...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spark, Sacred: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spark, Sacred
Spark, Sacred Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan in reference to the early history of the human race, and particularly to its intellectual e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adinidana-svabhavat: Theosophy Dictionary On Adinidana-svabhavat
Adinidana-svabhavat (Sanskrit) (from adi first, primordial + nidana causation + svabhavat self-being, self-becoming from sva self + th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Silence: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Silence
Silence Like darkness and space, used in attempts to express the ineffable.     To our minds they often seem negative quali...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agni: Theosophy Dictionary On Agni
Agni (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ag to move tortuously, wind)   Fire; as god of fire, one of the most revered of Vedic deiti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Word: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Word
Word In religious and philosophical usage, a translation of the Greek logos or Latin verbum. Its meaning here is that of reason manife...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Winged Wheel: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Winged Wheel
Winged Wheel Used in mystic philosophy worldwide, depicted under many forms, whether as a winged wheel, globe, egg, disk, etc. The Sta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Crown: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Crown
Crown In the Qabbalah, the first or highest Sephirah, Kether (Crown). In the Stanzas of Dzyan, "Fohat traces spiral lines to unit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sin
Sin (Chaldean) The moon; also the Babylonian and Assyrian moon deity called Enzu (the lord of wisdom) and Nannar (the illuminer). The ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yellow Father: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yellow Father
Yellow Father. The sun, in the Stanzas of Dzyan.   (See also: Yellow Father , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Himalayas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Himalayas
Himavat, Himavan (Sanskrit) The snowy; a name of the Himalaya range, especially the personified aspect, mythologically considered as t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yellow-faced: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yellow-faced
Yellow-faced Used in an archaic commentary on the Book of Dzyan (q SD 2:427-8), referring to people on Atlantis, the continent of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Crore: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Crore
Crore (from Hindi karor 10 millions; cf Sanskrit koti)   Numeral adjective 10 millions; in India, 100 lakhs -- a lakh being 100,0...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World Egg, Mundane Egg: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World Egg, Mundane Egg
World Egg, Mundane Egg The virgin or eternal egg is chaos, which is fecundated by the ray from spirit, and yet remains immaculate. Acc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asura-devata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asura-devata
Asura-devata (Sanskrit) (from a not + sura god + devata from deva god)   Equivalent to the Flames of the Stanzas of Dzyan, or the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kwan-yin, Kuan-yin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kwan-yin, Kuan-yin
Kwan-yin, Kuan-yin (Chinese) The Chinese Buddhist goddess of compassion, the female aspect of Kwan-shai-yin, referred to in the Stanza...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fish: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fish
Fish In ancient theologic or mystical thought, fish is cognate with water and the matrix; in the Stanzas of Dzyan, the Mother is calle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dragon Of Wisdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dragon Of Wisdom
Dragon of Wisdom Commonly an adept, one of the wise; also popularly a skilled magician -- whether of the right or left path. Referring...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Water Of Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Water Of Life
Water of Life The Book of Dzyan says that light is cold flame, flame is fire, and fire produces heat, which yields the water of life i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solar Lhas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solar Lhas
Solar Lhas [from solar + Tibetan lha a celestial being]   Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan to indicate the higher beings derivative f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pitri, Pitris, Pitr: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pitri, Pitris, Pitr
Pitri, Pitris pitr (Sanskrit) Fathers; referring to the merely human deceased father and grandparents; also to the progenitors of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sea Of Fire: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sea Of Fire
Sea of Fire In the Stanzas of Dzyan, "the Super-Astral (i.e., noumenal) Light, the first radiation from the Root, the Mulaprakrit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shu-king: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Shu-king
Shu-king (Chinese) Also Shoo King, Shu Ching. Popularly known as the Canon, or Book of History; one of the Four Shu Books compiled by ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dzyn, Dzyan: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dzyn, Dzyan
Dzyn or Dzyan (Tibet, Tibetan). Written also Dzen. A corruption of the Sanskrit Dhyan and jnana (or gnyana phonetically) - Wisdom, div...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sacred Four: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sacred Four
Sacred Four Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan in speaking of the primordial principles in cosmogenesis as numbers:   "I. The Adi-...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dangma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dangma
Dangma (Senzar-Tibetan) {BCW Index has Tibetan Dwans-ma} Purified soul; used north of the Himalayas for one in whom the spiritual eye ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nine
Nine Especially significant when regarded as a triad of triads, it is the number which reproduces itself in multiplication. "It i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ring-pass-not: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ring-pass-not
Ring-pass-not The limit in spiritual, intellectual, or psychological power or consciousness, beyond which an individual is unable to p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chhayaloka, Chayalok: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chhayaloka, Chayalok
Chhayaloka chayalok (Sanskrit) (from chhaya shadow + loka world)   Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan for the shadow of cosmic spirit, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siphra' Di-tseni`utha': Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Siphra' Di-tseni`utha'
Siphra' Di-tseni`utha' (Chaldean) "Their counting or telling of the concealed mysteries," the Book of Secrets or Mysteries; ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ch'an: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ch'an
Ch'an. See DHYANA; DZYAN   (See also: Ch'an , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Oeaohoo, Oeaihu, Oeaihwu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Oeaohoo, Oeaihu, Oeaihwu
Oeaohoo Also Oeaihu, Oeaihwu. A very ancient form of the sacred and mystical holy name as it occurs in the Stanzas of Dzyan. These sev...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Niflung: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Niflung
Niflung(ar) (Icelandic) [from nifl mist, nebula + unge child]   Children of the mist; in the Norse Edda comparable to the Sons of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moon-colored Races: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Moon-colored Races
Moon-colored Races Four principal racial colors are enumerated in the Stanzas of Dzyan: moon-colored (yellow-white), yellow like gold,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Stanzas Of Dzyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Stanzas Of Dzyan
Stanzas of Dzyan Archaic verses of philosophical and cosmogonical content drawn from the Book of Dzyan, which form the basis of The Se...   » Read the article