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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Nephesh

Nephesh (Hebrew, Jewish). Breath of life. Anima, Mens, Vita, Appetites. This term is used very loosely in the Bible. It generally means prana "life"; in the Kabbalah it is the animal passions and the animal Soul.

Therefore, as maintained in theosophical teachings, Nephesh is the synonym of the Prana-Kamic Principle, or the vital animal Soul in man. [H. P. B.]

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Baldur

Baldur (Scandianvian Norse). The "Giver of all Good". The bright God who is "the best and all mankind are loud in his praise; so fair and dazzling is he in form and features, that rays of light seem to issue from him (Edda).

Such was the birth-song chanted to Baldur who resurrects as Wali, the spring Sun. Baldur is called the "well-beloved", the "Holy one", "who alone is without sin". He is the "God of Goodness", who"shall be born again, when a new and purer world will have arisen from the ashes of the old, sin-laden world (Asgard)".

He is killed by the crafty Loki, because Frigga, the mother of the gods, "while entreating all creatures and all lifeless things to swear that they will not injure the well-beloved", forgets to mention "the weak mistletoe bough", just as the mother of Achilles forgot her son’s heel.

A dart is made of it by Loki and he places it in the hands of blind Hodur who kills with it the sunny-hearted god of light. The Christmas misletoe is probably a reminiscence of the mistletoe that killed the Northern God of Goodness.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil (Scandinavian, Icelandic) [from ygr fierce, awesome, brooding + drasill steed, gallows]

The Norse Tree of Life, on which Odin, Allfather of the universe, is mounted or hanged during a period of manifestation. From the tree drops the honeydew which feeds all creatures. The squirrel Ratatosk (intelligence) runs up and down its trunk, while on its topmost bough perches an eagle with a hawk seated between its eyes.

The tree has three roots watered by three wells. One is in Asgard, home of the gods, where it is watered by the three norns: the past (Urd, origin), the present (Verdandi, becoming), and the future which is created by them -- owing (Skuld, debt). A second root penetrates the world of matter, where it is watered from the well of the giant Mimer whose waters are experience of life. Odin gave one eye as forfeit in order to receive a draft of that well, while Mimer has the use of Odin's eye which is sunk in the bottom of the well. The third root is watered by Hvergelmir, source of all the rivers of lives (kingdoms of nature) which rises in Niflheim, the world of mists (nebulae) where worlds are born.

Yggdrasil is not immortal. Its lifetime is coeval with the hierarchy the tree is used to represent. Its leaves are constantly being eaten by four stags, its bark is nibbled by two goats, and its roots are gnawed by the serpent Nidhogg which, in due course, will topple the "noble ash tree." During the first half of its life, the tree is named Mjotvidr (measure increasing); during the latter half Mjotudr (measure diminishing). When in due course the tree dies, its indwelling consciousnesses (Life and Lifthrasir), the human race, will be secreted in the "memory hoard of the sun" until their next emergence into a new existence.

(See also: Yggdrasil , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Al, El

Al or El (Hebrew, Jewish). This deity-name is commonly translated "God’, meaning mighty, supreme. The plural is Elohim, also translated in the Bible by the word God, in the singular.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva (Sanskrit). Lit., "he, whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)"; those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect Buddhas, i.e., to be entitled to Nirvana. This, as applied to Manushi (terrestrial) Buddhas. In the metaphysical sense, Bodhisattva is a title given to the sons of the celestial Dhyani Buddhas.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary III on Vedic (Vedhik)

Vedic:

Vedic (Vedhik). Of or pertaining to the Vedas.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Adi-Buddha

Adi-Buddha (Sanskrit). The First and Supreme Buddha - not recognised in the Southern Church. The Eternal Light.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Asathor

Asathor (Scandianvian Norse). The same as Thor. The god of storms and thunder, a hero who receives Miolnir, the "storm-hammer", from its fabricators, the dwarfs. With it he conquer Alwin in a "battle of words" breaks the head of the giant Hrungir, chastises Loki for his magic; destroys the whole race of giants in Thrymheim; and, as a good and benevolent god, sets up therewith land-marks, sanctifies marriage bonds, blesses law and order, and produces every good and terrific feat with its help. A god in the Eddas, who is almost as great as Odin. (See "Miolnir" and "Thor’s Hammer".)

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Alpha Polaris

Alpha Polaris (Latin). The same as Dhruva, the pole-star of 31,105 years ago.

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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Ajnana

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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Hinduism Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Atma

Atma (or Atman) (Sanskrit). The Universal Spirit, the divine Monad, the 7th Principle, so-called, in the septenary constitution of man. The Supreme Soul.

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