Dictionary - Egypt: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Egypt
EGYPT It is in Egypt that we encounter the roots of the entire Western tradition, including the Hermetic arts. If you would unravel th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Egyptian: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Egyptian
  Egyptian: 1. Dreaming of living in ancient Egypt might actually be a past-life memory. Be sure to write the dream down immediat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Akhenaton: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Akhenaton
Akhenaton (Egyptian, "he who acts effectively for the invisible solar disk") Pharaoh of Egypt ca. 1350 to 1334 BC, often cal...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karnak: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Karnak
Karnak (Egypt, Egyptian). The ruins of the ancient temples, and palaces which now stand on the emplacement of ancient Thebes. The most...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ptah, Pthah: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ptah, Pthah
Ptah, or Pthah (Egypt, Egyptian). The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Book Of The Dead: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Book Of The Dead
Book of the Dead Also Egyptian Book of the Dead (known to the ancient Egyptians as The Book of Coming Forth by Day.   A collecti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Reincarnation
Reincarnation. The doctrine of rebirth, believed in by Jesus and the Apostles, as by all men in those days, but denied now by the Chri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ank'h: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Ank'h
Ank'h (Egyptian= Life) The ancient Egyptian "looped cross". It signifies eternal life.   (See also: Ank'h , New Age...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tat: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tat
Tat (Egypt, Egyptian). An Egyptian symbol: an upright round standard tapering toward the summit, with four cross-pieces placed on the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nut: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nut
Nut (Egyptian) Also Noot, Noun, Nout, Nu. Goddess of the sky or cosmic space -- whether of the solar system or the galaxy -- daughter ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atef: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atef
Atef (Egyptian) Father; the Atef-crown was one of the crowns of Osiris (also of Khnum, less frequently of other deities) and of some k...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cobra: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Cobra
COBRA The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous explains the metaphorical aspects of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. The first entry is about ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sphinx: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Sphinx
Sphinx (Egyptian - arranged after the order of Enoch) The mythical sphinx has a human head and a lion's body. In ancient Egypt, it ori...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aethiopians, Ethiopians: Theosophy Dictionary On Aethiopians, Ethiopians
Aethiopians, Ethiopians An undefined but powerful group of peoples, generally placed south of Egypt and east of Babylon; often spoken ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Noon
Noon (Egypt, Egyptian). The celestial river which flows in Noot, the cosmic abyss or Noo. As all the gods have been generated in the r...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Serapis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Serapis
Serapis [from Greek Sarapis from Egyptian Asar-Hapi Osiris-Apis]   The most important deity at Alexandria during the time of Ptol...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ammon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ammon
Ammon (Egypt, Egyptian). One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun-Ra, and is identified with Baal. Hammo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tuat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tuat
Tuat (Egyptian) Also Tiau, Tiaou. The region of the underworld or of the dead, though it was not situated under the earth, or answer t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Set, Seth: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Set, Seth
SET/SETH Dark god of Egypt -- ruled the Redlands, or Desert, hence those things that were most fearful to the Egyptians. Sometimes ass...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Apis
Apis (Greek) Hap (Egyptian) The sacred bull of Memphis into which Osiris was thought to incarnate. Classical Greek authors all mention...   » 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 - Ark Of The Covenant: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ark Of The Covenant
Ark of the Covenant. Every ark-shrine, whether with the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans or Mexicans, was a phallic shrine, the symbol of ...   » 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

Dictionary - Anubis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anubis
Anubis (Greek) Anpu (Egyptian) The Egyptian jackal-headed deity, lord of the Silent Land of the West (the underworld). To him with Tho...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hap, Hapi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hap, Hapi
Hap, Hapi (Egyptian) God of the Nile; Hep (later Hap) is a name believed to be given to the river by the predynastic Egyptians. The de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantide: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atlantide
Atlantide (Ancient Greek) The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Esoteric S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Chaos
Chaos (Ancient Greek) The Abyss, the "Great Deep". It was personified in Egypt by the Goddess Ne?th, anterior to all gods. A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ammon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ammon
Ammon (Greek) Amen (Egyptian) Also Amun, Amon. In the Egyptian 5th dynasty, Amen and his consort Ament were among the primeval gods, m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hathor: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hathor
Hathor (Greek) Het-Hert (Egyptian) (from het-hert the house above)   One of the oldest known Egyptian deities. Het-Hert refers to...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ophites: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ophites
Ophites (Ancient Greek). A Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt, and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism, or Gnosis (Wisdom, Knowledge), kn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osiris: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Osiris
Osiris. (Egypt, Egyptian). The greatest God of Egypt, the Son of Seb (Saturn), celestial fire, and of Neith, primordial matter and inf...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aanroo: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Aanroo
Aanroo (Egypt, Egyptian). The second division of Amenti. The celestial field of Aanroo is encircled by an iron wall. The field is cove...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nofir-hotpoo: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Nofir-hotpoo
Nofir-hotpoo (Egypt, Egyptian). The same as the god Khonsoo, the lunar god of Thebes. Lit., "he who is in absolute rest". No...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Artes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Artes
Artes (Egypt, Egyptian). The Earth; the Egyptian god Mars.   (See also: Artes , Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holy Spirit: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Holy Spirit
Holy Water As practiced in the Roman Catholic Church the rite is virtually identical with that of the ancient Egyptians: the water whi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Calvary Cross: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Calvary Cross
Calvary Cross. This form of cross does not date from Christianity. It was known and used for mystical purposes, thousands of years bef...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pharoah: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Pharoah
Pharoah (Egyptian- great house, house of Ra)) One of the kings of ancient Egypt. Its popular use stems from the Bible, but its use as ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sokaris: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sokaris
Sokaris (Egypt, Egyptian). A fire-god; a solar deity of many forms. He is Ptah Sokaris, when the symbol is purely cosmic, and "Pt...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hieroglyphics: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hieroglyphics
HIEROGLYPHICS (From Greek: "sacred carvings.") To the ancients all writing was magical or sacred, insofar as it could relate...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thoth, Thot: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Thoth, Thot
Thoth, Thot (Greek) Tehuti (Egyptian) Egyptian goddess of wisdom, equivalent to the Greek Hermes, Thoth was often represented as an ib...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anuki: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anuki
Anuki (Egypt, Egyptian). "See Anouki" supra. "The word Ank in Hebrew, means ‘my life’, my being, which is t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ammon-ra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ammon-ra
Ammon-Ra (Greek) Amen-Ra (Egyptian) When the princes of Thebes had conquered all rival claimants to the sovereignty of Egypt and estab...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amen: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Amen
Amen. In Hebrew is formed of the letters A M N = 1,40,50 =91,and is thus a simile of "Jehovah Adonai"=10, 5, 6, 5 and 1,4, 5...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kneph: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kneph
Kneph (Egypt, Egyptian). Also Cneph and Nef, endowed with the same attributes as Khem. One of the gods of creative Force, for he is co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Initiation
Initiation (from Latin initio entering into, beginning)   Generally, the induction of a pupil into a new way of living and into s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mastaba: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mastaba
Mastaba (Egypt, Egyptian). The upper portion of an Egyptian tomb, which, say the Egyptologists, consisted always of three parts: namel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aten: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Aten
Aten (Egyptian) The disk of the sun and its vivifying, light-giving beams. Extended during the 18th dynasty to become the basis of a n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pasht: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pasht
Pasht (Egypt, Egyptian). The cat-headed goddess, the Moon, called also Sekhet. Her statues and representations are seen in great numbe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ra: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ra
Ra (Egypt, Egyptian). The divine Universal Soul in its manifested aspect - the ever-burning light; also the personified Sun.   ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Boat Of The Sun: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Boat Of The Sun
Boat of the Sun. This sacred solar boat was called Sekti, and it was steered by the dead. With the Egyptians the highest exaltation of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Death: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Death
DEATH The 13th Arcanum, lettered Nun, "The World of Truth". In esoteric philosophy, Death is considered a gateway between mo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Name: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Name
NAME Nomen est numen. No name ever does justice to the person or thing designated by it and so, in the strictest sense, to call anythi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eggs: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Eggs
Eggs (Easter). Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the "Mundane Egg", in which Brahma gestated, with the Hind...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lunar Gods: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Lunar Gods
Lunar Gods. Called in India the Fathers, "Pitris" or the lunar ancestors.   They are subdivided, like the rest, into s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Balahala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Balahala
Balahala The fifth degree in the inferior Egyptian Mysteries; instruction in alchemy under the tuition of Horus was the principal feat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amenti: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Amenti
Amenti (Egypt, Egyptian). Esoterically and literally, the dwelling of the God Amen, or Amoun, or the "hidden", secret god. E...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ank, Ankh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ank, Ankh
Ank, Ankh (Egyptian) The symbol of life in ancient Egypt, represented as the tau-cross surmounted by a circle, and often called crux a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ma'at: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ma'at
MA'AT The divine feather and balance, as well as the Goddess of Truth and Justice. In the judgment of the dead, Ma'at weighs the feath...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mysteries
Mysteries. Greek teletai, or finishings, celebrations of initiation or the Mysteries.   They were observances, generally kept se...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noot: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Noot
Noot (Egypt, Egyptian). The heavenly abyss in the Ritual or the Book of the Dead. It is infinite space personified in the Vedas by Adi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Khons, Chonso: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Khons, Chonso
Khons, or Chonso. (Egypt, Egyptian) The Son of Maut and Ammon, the personification of morning. He is the Theban Harpocrates, according...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anouki: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anouki
Anouki (Egypt, Egyptian). A form of Isis; the goddess of life, from which name the Hebrew Ank, life. (See "Anuki.")  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nile-god: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Nile-god
Nile-God (Egypt, Egyptian). Represented by a wooden image of the river god receiving honours in gratitude for the bounties its waters ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aahla: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Aahla
Aahla (Egypt, Egyptian). One of the divisions of the Kerneter or infernal regions, or Amenti ; the word means the "Field of Peace...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taoer: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Taoer
Taoer (Egypt, Egyptian). The female Typhon, the hippopotamus, called also Ta-ur, Ta-op-oer, etc. ; she is the Thoueris of the Greeks. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neter, Neteru: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Neter, Neteru
Neter, Neteru (Egyptian) Egyptian "gods" or powers. "Elohim" of the Egyptians. {SD 1:675; BCW 14:218}   (Se...   » Read the article

Dictionary - God: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On God
GOD Anything from a psychic projection to a full macrocosmic individual. Einstein, shunning Judeo-Xtian pleadings, defined God as the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pschent: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pschent
Pschent (Egypt, Egyptian). A symbol in the form of a double crown, meaning the presence of Deity in death as in life, on earth as in h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Magi
Magi (Latin). The name of the ancient hereditary priests and learned adepts in Persia and Media, a word derived from Maha great, which...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Frog: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Frog
Frog One of the oldest symbols in Egypt, for although associated particularly with the frog goddess Heqet, the four primeval gods of E...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noo: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Noo
Noo (Egypt, Egyptian). Primordial waters of space called "Father-Mother"; the "face of the deep" of the Bible; for...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Scarabeus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Scarabeus
Scarabeus, In Egypt, the symbol of resurrection, and also of rebirth; of resurrection for the mummy or rather of the highest aspects o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hatha Yoga: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hatha Yoga
Hathor (Greek) Het-Hert (Egyptian) (from het-hert the house above)   One of the oldest known Egyptian deities. Het-Hert refers to...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Batria: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Batria
Batria (Egypt, Egyptian). According to tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh and the teacher of Moses.   (See also: Batria , Theo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ark Of Isis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ark Of Isis
Ark of Isis In ancient Egypt deities were frequently associated with a boat in the temple ceremonies. "At the great Egyptian annu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bubasté: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bubasté
Bubasté (Egypt, Egyptian) A city in Egypt which was sacred to the cats, and where was their principal shrine. Many hundreds of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taht Esmun: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Taht Esmun
Taht Esmun (Egypt, Egyptian). The Egyptian Adam; the first human ancestor.   (See also: Taht Esmun , Theosophy, Spirituality, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Benoo: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Benoo
Benoo (Egypt, Egyptian). A word applied to two symbols, both taken to mean "Phœnix". One was the Shen-shen (the heron),...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aanroo, Aanre: Theosophy Dictionary On Aanroo, Aanre
Aanroo, Aanre (Egyptian) More fully, Sekhet-Aanre (the fields of the reeds); more often called Aarru or Sekhet-Aarru; also Aanru, Aaru...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cynocephalus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cynocephalus
Cynocephalus (from Latin canus dog + cephalus head)   The dog-headed ape (Simia hamadryas) which in Egyptian mythology was called...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ra
Ra (Egyptian) In the dynastic period, the deity of the sun, regarded as the maker of all visible things, of heaven and all its gods, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Konx-om-pax: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Konx-om-pax
Konx-om-pax (Greek) Mystic words used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, said to be an imitation of Egyptian words used in the mystical Isia...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiquet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiquet
Hiram Abif, Huram Abif Huram 'abiu or 'abiv (Hebrew) (from hawar to become white or pale; or from harah to burn (as with ardor), be no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ma, Mut: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ma, Mut
Ma, Mut (Egypt, Egyptian). The goddess of the lower world, another form of Isis, as she is nature, the eternal mother. She was the sov...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Maat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Maat
Maat (Egyptian) The goddess personifying physical and moral law, order, and truth, regarded as the feminine counterpart of Thoth (Tehu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sarcophagus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sarcophagus
Sarcophagus (Ancient Greek). A stone tomb, a receptacle for the dead; sarc = flesh, and phagein = to eat. Lapis assius, the stone of w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Serapis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Serapis
Serapis (Egypt, Egyptian). A great solar god who replaced Osiris in the popular worship, and in whose honour the seven vowels were sun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iamblichus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iamblichus
Iamblichus (Ancient Greek). A great Theurgist, mystic, and writer of the third and fourth centuries, a Neo-Platonist and philosopher, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neith: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Neith
Neith (Egypt, Egyptian). Neithes. The Queen of Heaven; the moon-goddess in Egypt. She is variously called Nout, Nepte, Nur. (For symb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phtah: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Phtah
Phtah (Egypt, Egyptian). The God of death; similar to Siva, the destroyer. In later Egyptian mythology a sun-god. It is the seat or lo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Horus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Horus
Horus (Egypt, Egyptian). The last in the line of divine Sovereigns in Egypt, said to he the son of Osiris and Isis.   He is the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Copts: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Copts
Copts (from Arab from Greek Aigyptioi)   The early native Christians of Egypt and their successors of the Monophysite sect, and n...   » Read the article

Article - New Age Spirituality: The Roots Of The New Age Movement Ð Part I
The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a ...   » Read the article