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Atma-jnani (Sanskrit) The Knower of the World-Soul, or Soul in general.

 
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Artufas. A generic name in South America and the islands for temples of nagalism or serpent worship.

 
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Angirasas (Sanskrit). The generic name of several Puranic individuals and things; a class of Pitris, the ancestors of man ; a river in Plaksha, one of the Sapta dwipas (q.v).

 
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Enneagram system (Enneagram, Enneatype system): System of spiritual psychology based on an ancient Sufi typology of nine (ennea in Greek) personality types or primary roles:
(1)           the achiever (reformer) - orderly, rational, and self-righteous;
(2)           the helper - generous, manipulative, and possessive;
(3)           the succeeder (motivator, status-seeker) - ambitious, hostile, and pragmatic;
(4)           the individualist (artist) - intuitive, self-absorbed, and sensitive;
(5)           the observer (thinker) - analytic, original, and provocative;
(6)           the guardian (loyalist) - defensive, engaging, and responsible;
(7)           the dreamer (generalist) - accomplished and manic;
(8)           the confronter (leader) - combative, dominating, and self-confident; and
(9)           the preservationist (peacemaker) - easygoing and receptive.
 
Each type has a prime psychological addiction (fixation or blind spot), respectively: anger, pride, deceit, envy, greed, fear, gluttony, lust for life and power, and laziness. These addictions include Christianity's seven deadly sins.
 
(a)           Recognition of one's type is tantamount to spiritual awakening. in the process of neutralizing the prime addiction:
(b)          achievers become pathfinders,
(c)           helpers become partners, succeeders become motivators,
(d)           individualists become builders,
(e)           observers become explorers,
(f)             guardians become stabilizers,
(g)           dreamers become illuminators,
(h)           confronters become philanthropists, and
(i)             preservationists become universalists.

 
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Adhyatmika duhkha (Sanskrit). The first of the three kinds of pain; lit., "Evil proceeding from Self ", an induced or a generated evil by Self, or man himself.

 
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Acharya (Sanskrit). Spiritual teacher, Guru; as Sankar-acharya, lit., a "teacher of ethics". A name generally given to Initiates, etc., and meaning "Master".

 
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Ajnana (Sanskrit) or Agyana (Bengali). Non-knowledge; absence of knowledge rather than "ignorance" as generally translated. An Ajnani means a "profane".

 
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Ye-damma, Ye-dhamma (Pali) Ye-dharmah (Sanskrit) Generally, laws or established procedures in nature, meaning by extension the phenomenal world.

 
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Vitatha (Sanskrit) In the Harivansa (generally regarded as an addition to the Mahabharata), one name of the rishi Bharadvaja, regarded as the author of many Vedic hymns.

 
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Arani (Sanskrit). The "female Arani" is a name of the Vedic Aditi (esoterically, the womb of the world).
Arani is a Swastika, a disc-like wooden vehicle, in which the Brahmins generated fire by friction with pramantha, a stick, the symbol of the male generator. A mystic ceremony with a world of secret meaning in it and very sacred, perverted into phallic significance by the materialism of the age.

 
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Yod-heva, Yodh-heva, Yod-hewa, Yod-havvah (Hebrew) [from yod a Hebrew letter, the number 10, and the masculine generative power + heva from the verbal root hawah to have life, breathe, desire or long for, signifying the feminine generative power]
 
A Qabbalistic phallic term used by Blavatsky to allow theosophy to represent the androgynous aspect of the Hebrew creative deity Jehovah (Yehovah). It also in a sense represents the Tetragrammaton.
 
See also YOD

 
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Upadvipa (Sanskrit) [from upa adjacent, near + dvipa island]
 
Generally, a small adjacent island or minor island. In explaining about the various dvipas, however, Blavatsky wrote: "Let us bear in mind that Upadwipas means ''root'' islands, or the dry land in general" (SD 2:404n); hence one meaning of upadvipa is an island of larger or smaller size which is destined to be the root or nucleus for a vast land-tract to appear in a far later time period.

 
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