Existence Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Existence: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Existence
Existence (from Latin exsisto standing forth, emerging)   Although often used interchangeably with being, in theosophy being refe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Existence: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Existence
existence: "Coming or standing forth." Being; reality; that which is. (See also: Existence , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Existence: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Existence
EXISTENCE That which calls itself into being out of the Void. Most metaphysical systems are agreed that matter is "dirt", or...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda is the oldest surviving complete medical system in the world. Derived from its ancient Sanskrit roots - ‘ayus' (life) a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pre-existence: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Pre-existence
A Christian theological definition of Pre-existence according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:   &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Six Planes Of Existence (six Paths): Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Six Planes Of Existence (six Paths)
Six Planes of Existence (Six Paths) The paths within the realm of Birth and Death. Includes the three Evil Paths (hells, hungry ghost...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agnosticism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Agnosticism
Agnosticism The claim that no one has knowledge of God or the origin of the universe. Some agnostics make the claim on a personal leve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nidana: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Nidana
Nidana (Sanskrit). The 12 causes of existence, or a chain of causation, "a concatenation of cause and effect in the whole range o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shad Darshana: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Shad Darshana
shad darshana: (Sanskrit) "Six views or insights; six philosophies."   Among the hundreds of Hindu darshanas known thr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Horses: Dream Interpretation - Horses
  Horses An astrologist from helenaparis.com analyses an iVillager's real dream   serendipity1980 says: Normally my dreams...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhism: Basic Buddhist Dictionary
Buddhism: Basic Buddhist Dictionary A basic dictionary of Buddhism terms. Please note that all words in grey like " Buddhism "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Buddha
Buddha Skt., Pali, lit., Òawakened one.Ó    1. A person who has achieved the enlightenment that leads to release from the cy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Satchidananda: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Satchidananda
Satchidananda (Sachchidananda): (Sanskrit) "Existence-consciousness-bliss."   A synonym for Parashakti. Lord Siva's Di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ego: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ego
A Theosophical definition of Ego :   Ego (Latin) A word meaning "I." In theosophical writings the ego is that which s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Three Worlds: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Three Worlds
three worlds: The three worlds of existence, triloka, are the primary hierarchical divisions of the cosmos. -    ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Preexistence: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Preexistence
A Theosophical definition of Preexistence :   Preexistence This term means that the human soul did not first come into being or...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  adhibhuta: Sanskrit Dictionary On  adhibhuta
 Adhibhuta: the principle of objective existence   (See also:  Adhibhuta , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Loka: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Loka
loka: (Sanskrit) "World, habitat, realm, or plane of existence."   From loc, "to shine, be bright, visible."...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvana: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Nirvana
Nirvana (Sanskrit). According to the Orientalists, the entire "blowing out", like the flame of a candle, the utter extinctio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fohat: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Fohat
A Theosophical definition of Fohat :   Fohat An extremely mystical term used in the occultism of Tibet for what in Sanskrit is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy ; in Arabic Ul-Khemi, is, as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. Ui-Khemi or Al-Kimia, however, is only an Arabianized...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Mysticism
Mysticism A word originally derived from the Greek and having a wide range of meaning in modern religion and philosophy. A mystic may ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nidana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nidana
Nidana (Sanskrit) [from ni down, into + the verbal root da to bind]   That which binds, to earth or to existence, philosophically...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhava: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bhava
Bhava (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root bhu to be, become)   Being; coming into existence, birth, production, origin; worldly exis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mulaprakriti, Mulaprakrti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mulaprakriti, Mulaprakrti
Mulaprakriti mulaprakrti (Sanskrit) [from mula root + prakriti nature]   Root-nature; undifferentiated cosmic substance in its hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Death: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Death
DEATH...is reference to the physical body NOT the Soul or Spirit, which is usually believed to go on to another body in the exercise o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Immortality: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Immortality
A Theosophical definition of Immortality :   Immortality A term signifying continuous existence or being; but this understandin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Animism: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Animism
ANIMISM (Latin, anima: "air, soul"):  The belief that all life is produced by a spiritual force separate from matter; ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nothing: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Nothing
NOTHING The ultimate origin of the universe. The entire panoply of the manifest world is but an expression or eversion of the primordi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jati: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jati
Jati (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root jan to be born, come forth from intrinsic inner vital power)   Birth, production, the form ...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  adhidaiva: Sanskrit Dictionary On  adhidaiva
 Adhidaiva: the principle of subjective existence   (See also:  Adhidaiva , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Pluralism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Pluralism
pluralism (pluralistic): Doctrine that holds existence to be composed of three or more distinct and irreducible components, such as Go...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yggdrasil: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil (Scandinavian, Icelandic) [from ygr fierce, awesome, brooding + drasill steed, gallows]   The Norse Tree of Life, on wh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Creation: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Creation
creation: The act of creating, especially bringing the world into ordered existence. Also, all of created existence, the cosmos. Creat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anirvachaniya: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary Iv On Anirvachaniya
Anirvachaniya: Anirvachaniya: indescribable; neither  existence nor non-existence.   (See also: Anirvachaniya , Hindui...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Monistic Theism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Monistic Theism
monistic theism: Advaita Ishvaravada.   Monism is the doctrine that reality is a one whole or existence without independent part...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naraka: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Naraka
Naraka (Sanskrit). In the popular conception, a hell, a "prison under earth". The hot and cold hells, each eight in number, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Immortality: Parapsychology Dictionary On Immortality
Immortality: Various beliefs based on the assumption that some aspect of personal existence survives death.   (See also: Immo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reality: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Reality
Reality Words such as reality, truth, and good are understood in reference to their opposites; and the opposite of reality is appearan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Science: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Science
Science [from Latin scientia from scire to know]   In its widest sense formulated knowledge, a knowledge of structure, laws, and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ancestor Worship: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Ancestor Worship
ANCESTOR WORSHIP: The belief inherent in some religions, such as Shintoism, that asserts the continued existence of the deceased and t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Svarupa-sakti: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Svarupa-sakti
Svarupa-sakti - Sri Bhagavan’s divine potency. It is called svarupasakti because it is situated in His form. This potency is cin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Esse: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Esse
Esse (Latin) Being, essence; in esse is sometimes contrasted with in posse, as actual existence is contrasted with potential existence...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Animate-inanimate: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Animate-inanimate
animate-inanimate: From the Latin animatus, "to make alive, fill with breath." These terms indicate the two poles of manifest ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abhava: Theosophy Dictionary On Abhava
Abhava (Abhâva) (Sanskrit) (from a not + bhava being from the verbal root bhu to be, become)   Nonexistence, nonentity, neg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayatana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ayatana
Ayatana (Sanskrit) (from a towards + the verbal root yat to rest in or on, make effort in or on)   A resting place, seat, or abod...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paramarthika: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Paramarthika
Paramarthika (Sanskrit) [from parama highest + arthika true substance of a thing, real]   Relating to a high or spiritual object ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adhibhuta: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary V On Adhibhuta
adhibhuta: adhibhuta - the principle of objective existence   (See also: adhibhuta , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Beelzebub, Beelzebul, Ba`al Zebub: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Beelzebub, Beelzebul, Ba`al Zebub
Beelzebub, Beelzebul ba`al zebub (Hebrew) (from ba`al lord + zebub fly)   Lord of the flies; a god of the Philistines, popularly ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Reincarnation
reincarnation: "Re-entering the flesh." Punarjanma; metempsychosis. The process wherein souls take on a physical body throug...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvana: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Nirvana
NIRVANA As sickness, age and death impel us to recede ever more deeply into ourselves and we discover that the illusory world outside ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychic Powers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychic Powers
Psychic Powers Powers pertaining to the lower intermediate human nature -- i.e, between the mental-emotional and the physical -- inclu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occultism: Parapsychology Dictionary On Occultism
Occultism: Esoteric systems of belief and practice that assume the existence of mysterious forces and entities.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Idealism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Idealism
Idealism Philosophical systems based fundamentally on consciousness, as contrasted with systems based on sensation or materialism. It ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naimittika Pralaya, Naimittika Manvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Naimittika Pralaya, Naimittika Manvantara
Naimittika Pralaya and Naimittika Manvantara (Sanskrit) [from naimittika occasional, unusual, due to external cause from nimitti] &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Magic
Magic. The great "Science". According to Deveria and other Orientalists, "magic was considered as a sacred science inse...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Knowledge: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Natural Knowledge
A Christian theological definition of Natural knowledge according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Suspended Animation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Suspended Animation
Suspended Animation Cases of extreme insensibility where the vital activity has temporarily ceased, and the person appears to be dead....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Liberation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Liberation
Liberation In theosophy, freedom from conditioned existence; in its strictest sense the state of a monad which has become the Brahman ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aleuromancy: Parapsychology Dictionary On Aleuromancy
Aleuromancy: From the Greek 'aleuron' and 'manteia' (divination), the divinatory practice of utilizing flour to forecast future event...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pneumatology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pneumatology
Pneumatology The study of gases; the study of beings intermediate between God or other divinity and man, including in the lower ranges...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvana: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Nirvana
Nirvana - extinction, disappearance, dissolution; final emancipation from matter and re-union with the Supreme Spirit; Mayavada concep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mundane: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Mundane
MUNDANE: refers to the everyday, such as Mundane or 'civil' 'Name' would be your birthname of JOHN; nickname JOHNNY; Magick Name SEAHA...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Being: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Being
Being: When capitalized being refers to God's essential divine nature- Pure Consciousness, Absolute Reality and Primal Soul (God's nat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trisharana: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Trisharana
Trisharana (Sanskrit). The same as" Triratna "and accepted by both the Northern and Southern Churches of Buddhism.   A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gold: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gold
Golden Age The first of the four Hesiodic Ages -- Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron -- signifying the beginning of a new root-race and, on a ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abraxas, Abrasax: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Abraxas, Abrasax
ABRAXAS (or Abrasax) Being the unreachable, unknowable and unmanifested "God" beyond existence and non-existence, beyond goo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bardo: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Bardo
Bardo The intermediate existence between death and reincarnation -- a stage varying from seven to forty-nine days, after which the Ka...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Time: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Time
TIME Adeste, O Tempora Omnia! ("Be now, All Ye Times!") According to Merlin and others, mortals tend to face the opposite di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Embryo: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Embryo
Embryo In general, the vitalized germ of an organism in its earlier stages, and sometimes applied to it until it leaves the egg or wom...   » 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 - Bhava-sagara: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Bhava-sagara (bhaava-saagara)
bhava-sagara: bhava-sagara (bhaava-saagara). Ocean of worldly existence.   (See also: bhava-sagara , Hinduism, Hinduism Dic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chakra System: Alternative Health Dictionary Ii On Chakra System
Chakra System The chakras are the bodies centres of energy and vital to the well being of the whole person. They are the energy centre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Baddha-dasa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Baddha-dasa
Baddha-dasa - the state of bondage; the state of the jivas in material existence.   (See also: Baddha-dasa , Bhakti, Bhakti Y...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atattva: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Atattva
atattva: (Sanskrit) "Noncategory; beyond existence." Atattva is the negation of the term tattva, and is used to describe the i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ain Sof: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ain Sof
AIN SOF The Infinite or Unlimited Absolute. Qabalistically, that which cannot be encompassed by understanding, but whose existence we ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhava-roga: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Bhava-roga
bhava-roga the disease of material existence.   (See also: bhava-roga , Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mukti: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Mukti
Mukti - liberation from material existence.   There are five types of liberation: ·      sarupy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karma: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Karma
Karma - (1) any activity performed in the course of material existence. (2) pious activities leading to material gain in this world ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritualism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritualism
Spiritualism Properly, the philosophy, religion, or pneumatological science held by those who believe in the universal spirit as the c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trigunas: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Trigunas
The Trigunas   Just as the doshas are the essential components of the body, the three gunas - Satwa, Rajas and Tamas - are the th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ginnungagap: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ginnungagap
Ginnungagap (Icelandic) (from ginn vast, wide + unga bring to birth, hatch (as an egg) + gap chasm, maw)   The gaping void of Nor...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhism Beliefs: The Three Marks Of Conditioned Existence
The three marks of conditioned existence According to the Buddhist tradition all phenomena (dharmas) are marked by three characteristics...   » Read the article

Article - Psychic Abilities: Should You Develop Your Psychic Abilities?
Each and every person has psychic abilities that vary in terms of intensity and strength. The strength of your abilities will depend on...   » Read the article

Article - Hinduism Vs Buddhism: Hinduism And Buddhism Compared
Hinduism and Buddhism Compared Similiarities and differences between Hinduism and Buddhism.      » Read the article

Article - Hinduism: Hinduism Lexicon On A
Hinduism Lexicon on A From aadheenam to axis.      » Read the article

Article - Hinduism: Hinduism Lexicon On B
Hinduism Lexicon on B From backbiting to buddhi chitta.    » 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