Hylozoism is the philosophical doctrine that all material things possess life. The term was introduced by Ralph Cudworth in 1678. Some of the ancient Greek philosophers taught a version of hylozoism. Thales, Anaximenes, and Heraklitus all taught that there is a form of life in all material objects, and the Stoics believed that a world soul informed all things in the world. It is important to note that these philosophies did not necessarily hold that material objects had separate life or identity, necessarily, but only that they had life, either as part of an overrid ...

Read more here: » Hylozoism: Encyclopedia - Hylozoism

HYLOZOISM

Parapsychism, the universe is alive:

(See also: HYLOZOISM, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Hylozoism (from Greek hyle matter + zoe life)

A term used by Ralph Cudworth (1617-88); the doctrine that matter includes its own vitalizing principle. Contrasted in The Secret Doctrine with crude materialism on the one hand and anthropomorphic deism on the other, it is said to be tantamount to a kind of pantheism.

The Stoics, using the word matter to mean something that actually exists, argued that the vitalizing agents in matter, although spiritual in origin, must themselves be material in order to affect matter. The duality between spirit and matter, or the active and passive potencies, they regarded as formal and a concession to Aristotelianism. They recognized the mind and vitality inherent in nature:

"Nature is a habit moved from itself, according to seminal principles," says Laertius, after Zeno. This is equivalent to recognizing the hierarchies of gods, in contrast with the notion that one "Supreme Architect" concerns himself directly with the innumerable details of the inferior ranges of the universe.

(See also: Hylozoism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

In religion, the term "Animism" is used in a number of ways. Animism (from animus, or anima, mind or soul), originally means the doctrine of spiritual beings. It is often extended to include the belief that personalized, supernatural beings (or souls) endowed with reason, intelligence and volition inhabit ordinary objects as well as animate beings, and govern their existence (pantheism or animatism). More simply, the belief is that "everything is alive", "everything is conscious" or "everything has ...

Including:

• Animism - Overview
• Animism - Origins
• Animism - Plant souls
• Animism - Object souls
• Animism - Animism and death
• Animism - Evil spirits
• Animism - Differences between animism and religion
• Animism - Animism and the origin of religion
• Animism - Animism and mythology
• Animism - Animism in philosophy
• Animism - Tylor
• Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism
• Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia - Animism

Panpsychism does not necessarily imply idealism - the metaphysical view that mind is the fundamental constituent of reality (a view that reduces matter to mind - a type of monism). Eliminative Materialism, the view that there is no such thing as mind, but only matter- is incompatible with panpsychism. Materialism generally, the view that ultimately there is only matter, is compatible with panpsychism just in case the property of mindedness is attributed to matter. Hylopathism argues for just this att ...

See also:

Panpsychism, Panpsychism - Relation to metaphysical positions, Panpsychism - In the history of philosophy, Panpsychism - In the Psychoanalytic Tradition, Panpsychism - Other manifestations

Read more here: » Panpsychism: Encyclopedia II - Panpsychism - Relation to metaphysical positions

The view of the world as a macrocosm in relation to man (which is a microcosm, respectively) was a staple theme in Greek philosophy. In that view it was natural to think about the world in anthropomorphic terms. The view passed into the medieval period via Neoplatonism, and became shared by Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Schelling, and many others. Josiah Royce (1855-1916), the leading American absolute idealist, held to the panpsychist view, though he didn't necessarily attribute mental prope ...

See also:

Panpsychism, Panpsychism - Relation to metaphysical positions, Panpsychism - In the history of philosophy, Panpsychism - In the Psychoanalytic Tradition, Panpsychism - Other manifestations

Read more here: » Panpsychism: Encyclopedia II - Panpsychism - In the history of philosophy

Hyparxis (Greek) Essential nature; Neoplatonic term for the summit, beginning, or hierarch of a hierarchy:

"this army of beings in any one hierarchy is . . . more than a mere collective entity, because it is united in its apex, in what is actually the fount of that hierarchy. This fount is the hyparxis or spiritual sun from which all the other nine planes or classes of the hierarchy emanate . . . ; even as the hyparxis of any one hierarchy is the lowest class or plane of a superior hierarchy, and so practically ad infinitum" (Fund 108-9). Equivalent to the First Logos.

(See also: Hylozoism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Panpsychism and emergentism can be seen as alternative ways to bridge the more extreme positions of crude reductionism and crude holism. Panpsychism differs from emergentism in that according to panpsychism, even the smallest physical particles have mental characteristics. Emergentism claims that though the particles be mindless, some systems formed by them, and by nothing but them, do posses ...

See also:

Panpsychism, Panpsychism - Relation to metaphysical positions, Panpsychism - In the history of philosophy, Panpsychism - In the Psychoanalytic Tradition, Panpsychism - Other manifestations

Read more here: » Panpsychism: Encyclopedia II - Panpsychism - Other manifestations

In some animistic worldviews found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with animals, plants, and natural forces. Therefore, it is morally imperative to treat these agents with respect. In this worldview, humans are considered a denizen, or part, of nature, rather than superior to or separate from it. In such societies, ritual is considered essential for survival as it wins the favor of the spirits of one's source of food, shelter, and fertility and wards off malevolent spirits. In more ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Overview

Early ideas on the subject of the soul, and at the same time the origin of them, can be illustrated by analysis of the terms applied to them. Readers of Dante know the idea that the dead have no shadows. This was no invention of the poet's but a piece of traditional lore. Among the Basutus it is held that a man walking by the brink of a river may lose his life if his shadow falls on the water, for a croc ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Origins

Just as human souls are assigned to animals, so too are trees and plants often credited with souls, both human and animal in form. All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Wilhelm Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles. In Europe the corn spirit sometimes immanent in the crop, sometimes a presiding deity whose life does not depend on that of the growing corn, is conceived in some districts in the form of an ox, hare or cock, in others as an old man or woman. In the East Indies and Amer ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Plant souls

Some cultures do not make a distinction between animate and inanimate objects. Natural phenomenon, geographic features, everyday objects, and manufactured articles may also be attributed with souls. In the north of Europe, in ancient Greece, in China, the water or river spirit is horse or bull-shaped. The water monster in serpent shape is even more widely found, but it is less strictly the spirit of the water. The spirit of syncretism manifests itself in this department of animism too, turning the immanent spirit into the pres ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Object souls

In many parts of the world it is held that the human body is the seat of more than one soul. On the island of Nias four are distinguished: the shadow and the intelligence, which die with the body, a tutelary spirit, termed begoe, and a second spirit, which is carried on the head. Similar ideas are found among the Euahlayi of southeast Australia, the Dakotas and many other tribes. Just as in Europe the ghost of a dead person is held to haunt the churchyard or the place of death, so do other cultures assign different abodes to the multi ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Animism and death

Side by side with the doctrine of separable souls with which we have so far been concerned, exists the belief in a great host of unattached spirits. These are not immanent souls that have become detached from their abodes, but have instead every appearance of independent spirits. These spirits are at first mainly malevolent. Side by side with them we find the spirits of the dead as hostile beings. At a higher stage the spirits of dead kinsmen are no longer unfriendly, nor yet all non-human spirits. As fetishes, naguals (see totem), fa ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Evil spirits

Animism is commonly described as the most primitive form of religion, but properly speaking it is not a religion at all. Animism is in the first instance an explanation of phenomena rather than an attitude of mind toward the cause of them, a philosophy rather than a religion. The term may, however, be conveniently used to describe the early stage of religion in which people endeavour to set up relations between themselves and the unseen powers, conceived as spirits, but differing in many particulars from the gods of polytheism. As an example ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Differences between animism and religion

Two animistic theories of the origin of religion have been put forward. The one, often termed the "ghost theory," mainly associated with the name of Herbert Spencer, but also maintained by Grant Allen, refers the beginning of religion to the cult of dead human beings. The other, put forward by Dr. E. B. Tylor, makes the foundation of all religion animistic, but recognizes the non-human character of polytheistic gods. Although ancestor-worship, or, more broadly, the cult of the dead, has in many cases overshadowed other cults or even e ...

See also:

Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

Read more here: » Animism: Encyclopedia II - Animism - Animism and the origin of religion

Hylozoism (from Greek hyle matter + zoe life)

A term used by Ralph Cudworth (1617-88); the doctrine that matter includes its own vitalizing principle. Contrasted in The Secret Doctrine with crude materialism on the one hand and anthropomorphic deism on the other, it is said to be tantamount to a kind of pantheism.

The Stoics, using the word matter to mean something that actually exists, argued that the vitalizing agents in matter, although spiritual in origin, must themselves be material in order to affect matter. The duality between spirit and matter, or the active and passive potencies, they regarded as formal and a concession to Aristotelianism. They recognized the mind and vitality inherent in nature:

"Nature is a habit moved from itself, according to seminal principles," says Laertius, after Zeno. This is equivalent to recognizing the hierarchies of gods, in contrast with the notion that one "Supreme Architect" concerns himself directly with the innumerable details of the inferior ranges of the universe.

(See also: Hylo-idealism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

This is a sitemap for Theosophy - H . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.

H - Letter H, Habal de Garmin, Habel, Hachamim, Hachoser, Hadad, Hades, Haenir, Hagadah, Hagar, Hahnir, Ha-Hoser, Ha-'Idra' Zuta' Qaddisha', hailal, Haima, Haimavatas, Ha-'Indra' Rabba' Qaddisha', Hair, Hajaschar, Hakem, Hakim, Halachah, Halleluiah, Halloween, Hallowmas, Hallucination, Halo, Haltiat, Ham, Hamadryad, Hamingja, Hamitic Races, Hammer of Creation, Hamsa, Hangsa, Hanoch, Hanokh, Hansa, Hansa-Vahana, Hanukkah, Hanuman, Hanumat, Haoma, Hapi, Happy Fields, Hara, Hare, Hare-Worship, Hari, Hari-ashvas, Harikesa, Haris, Harischandra, Harivamsa, Harivansa, Harmachis, Harmachus, Haroeris, Haroiri, Harpocrates, Har-Ru-Bah, harsana, Harshana, Harviri, Haryasva, Haryaswas, Hasoth, Hatchet, Hatha Yoga, Hathor, Haunted Houses, Hauvah, Hava, Havas, Havvah, Havyavahana, Hawk, Hawwah, Hayah, Hayo Bischat, Hayyah, Hay-yah, Hay-yoth ha Qadosh, Hayyoth Haq-Qadosh, Hazim, Hdu-Byed, He', Heabani, Hea-bani, Head of all Heads, Hearing, Heart, Heart Doctrine, Heat, Heathen, Heaven and Hell, Heavenly Adam, Hebdomad, Hebdomas, Hebe, Hebel, Hebel de-Germin, Hebron, Hecate, Hedone, Hedonism, Heh, Hei, Hekat, Hekate, Heket, Hela, Helanos, Helel, Helen of Troy, Helena of Troy, Helenos, Helheim, Helhem, Heliocentric, Heliolatry, Helion, Helios, Helius, Hellen, Hemadri, Hemera, Hennu, Henoch, Henry, Henry Steel, Hephaestus, Hephaistos, Heptachord, Heptad, Heptakis, heptaktys, Heqet, Heqtit, Hera, Heracles, Heraclitus, Herakies, Herakleitos, Herakles, Heranasikha, Herbs, Hercules, Heredity, Heresy of Separateness, Hermanubis, Hermaphrodite, Hermas, Hermes, Hermes Sarameyas, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermes-fire, Hermes-Fire, Hermetic, Hermetic Axiom, Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Hermetic Chain, Hermetic Philosophy, Hermetica, Hermod, Herod, Herodotus, Heroes, Heru-aa-abu, Heru-amen, Heru-pa-khart, Heru-sa-Ast, Heru-Shemsu, Heru-ur, Hesed, heshmon, Hesiodic Cosmogony, Hesperides, Hesperos, Hestia, Hetaerae, Heteremeroi, Heterogeneity and Homogeneity, Hetu, Heva, Hexad, Hexagon, Hexagram, Hezekiah, Hgrasena, Hhachamim, Hhanoch, Hhawwah, Hhayo Bishah, Hhayyah, Hhayyim, Hhayyoth Haq-Qadosh, Hhesed, Hhiwyai' Bisha', Hhochmah, Hiarchas, Hien, Hierarchies, Hierarchy of Compassion, Hierogrammatists, Hierophant, Higher Ego, Higher Manas, Higher Self, Higher Triad, Hiisi, Hilaeira, Hilaira, Hilasira, Hilkiah, Hillel, Hillus Hyllos, Hilqiyyah, Hilqiyyahu, Himachala Himadri, Himalayas, Himavan, Himavat, Hinayana, Hindu, Hindu Schools, Hindu Trinity, Hiouen Thsang, Hippocentaurs, Hippocrates, Hippopotamus, Hiquet, Hiram, Hiram Abif, Hiram Abiff, Hiranya, Hiranya Garbha, Hiranyagarbha, Hiranyakasipu, hiranyaksa, Hiranyaksha, Hiranyapura, Hisi, Hitopadesa, Hiuen-Tsang, Hivim, hiwwiyim, Hiwyai' Bisha', Hizqiyyah, Hler, Hlidskjalf, Hlun-chub, Hoang Ty, Hobilgans, Hochmah, Hod, Hoddmimir's Holt, hodh, Hodur, Hoener, Hokhmah, Holy City, Holy Flame, Holy Ghost, Holy Grail, Holy Mountains, Holy of Holies, Holy Spirit, Holy Water, Homeopathy, Homer, Homoeomerian, Homoiomerian, Homunculi, Honavar, Honer, Honey, Honey-dew, Honir, Hononer, Honover, Hoong, Ho-pahme, Hor Ammon, Horaeus, Horaios, Hor-Ammon, Horchia, Horizontal Line, Hor-Jared, Hormig, Horns, Horos, Horoscope, Horse, Horsusi, Hoshang, Host, Hostes, Hostia, Hotri hotr, Hotris, Houah, Houen, Houris, Houtouktou, Hovah, hozim, Hozim, Hozyain, Hpho-wa, Hrada, Hrimthursar, Hrimthurses, Hrishikesa, Hrossharsgrani, hrsikesa, Hsien-Chan, Hsin, Hsing, Hsi-tsang, Hu', Hu Gadarn, Huan, Huang Ti, Hubilgan, Huen, Hugin, Huien-Tsang, Huitzilopochtli, Human Ego, Human Monad, Human Soul, Humanity, Humors, Hun-desa, Huperouranioi, Huram Abif, Huschenk, Hushang, Hutukhtu, Hvaniratha, Hvanuatha, Hvergalmer, Hvergelmir, Hwan, Hwergelmir, Hwun, Hwyl, Hyades, Hydra, Hydranos, Hydrogen, Hydromancy, Hygea, Hygeia, hygieia, Hyksos, Hyle, Hylo-idealism, Hylozoism, Hyparxis, Hypatia, Hyperborean, Hyperion, Hypnotic, Hypnotism, Hypocephalus, Hypophysis Cerebri, Hypostasis, Hysterema,

More sitemaps here:

Theosophy Dictionary

Theosophy Dictionary - A, Theosophy Dictionary - B, Theosophy Dictionary - C,
Theosophy Dictionary - D, Theosophy Dictionary - E , Theosophy Dictionary - F,
Theosophy Dictionary - G, Theosophy Dictionary - H, Theosophy Dictionary - I,
Theosophy Dictionary - J, Theosophy Dictionary - K, Theosophy Dictionary - L,
Theosophy Dictionary - M, Theosophy Dictionary - N, Theosophy Dictionary - O,
Theosophy Dictionary - P, Theosophy Dictionary - Q, Theosophy Dictionary - R,
Theosophy Dictionary - S, Theosophy Dictionary - T, Theosophy Dictionary - U,
Theosophy Dictionary - V, Theosophy Dictionary - W, Theosophy Dictionary - X,
Theosophy Dictionary - Y, Theosophy Dictionary - Z,

Also see these pages for material related to Theosophy:

Sanskrit Dictionary , Hinduism Dictionary , Buddhism Dictionary, Mysticism Dictionary , Spiritual Dictionary

Read more here: » Theosophy Sitemap I - H