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Dictionary - Excommunication: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Excommunication
Excommunication A religious sanction that removes an individual from the ritual and social community of the church when that member ha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Eagle: Dream Interpretation - Eagle
  Eagle The eagle is an important Native American symbol, as well as having a place in the ancient literature of Greeks and Hebre...   » Read the article

Article - Hindu Literature: Other Scriptures In The Hindu Literature
The Tevaram and the Tiruvachakam which are the hymns of the Saiva saints of South India, the Divya-Prabandham of the Alvar saints of Sout...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Self
Self Theosophical literature distinguishes between self and ego: self is a purely spiritual unit, divine in essence, the same in every...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Borj, Borz: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Borj, Borz
Borj or Borz (Persian), Bereznaiti (Avestan) (from the verbal root baresa to grow upright)   The mystical mundane mountain holdin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vedas
Vedas (Sanskrit). The "revelation". the scriptures of the Hindus, from the root vid, "to know ", or "divine k...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abbreviations: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials, which the general ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Revelation Of John, Apocalypse: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Revelation Of John, Apocalypse
Revelation of John or Apocalypse The last book in the New Testament, a specimen of apocalyptic literature, which in Christianity consi...   » Read the article

Article - Vedic Science: Understanding The Creation Of The Universe
Why should we understand how the universe was created? Because it gives us a clearer understanding of where we have come from, where we a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Master, Masters: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Master, Masters
Master, Masters Adopted in theosophical literature to designate those human beings further progressed on the evolutionary pathway than...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Brahmana
A Theosophical definition of Brahmana :   Brahmana (Sanskrit) A word having several meanings in Hindu sacred literature. Brahma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dreams About Milk: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Milk
  Milk Milk is a symbol of leaning, knowledge, plenty, fertility and immortality. Milk as a symbol of immortality may be found in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vohu-mano, Vohu-mana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vohu-mano, Vohu-mana
Vohu-Mano, Vohu-Mana (Avestan) Vahman (Pahlavi) Bahman (Persian) [from Avestan vohu goodness from the verbal root vah to love cf Sansk...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhyana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Dhyana
A Theosophical definition of Dhyana :   Dhyana (Sanskrit) A term signifying profound spiritualintellectual contemplation with u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agasti, Agastya: Theosophy Dictionary On Agasti, Agastya
Agasti, Agastya (Sanskrit) (from aga mountain + the verbal root as to throw, cast off)   Mountain-thrower; a celebrated muni and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Medicine
Medicine As the healing art, medicine is as old as thinking man. Before the latent fires of mind were lighted in the third root-race, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Loka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Loka
Loka (Sanskrit) Place, locality; in Brahmanic literature, heavens; in theosophical literature, world, sphere, plane. Used in the metap...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahabharata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahabharata
Mahabharata (Sanskrit) One of the two great epic poems of ancient India, the largest poetic work known to literature, consisting of 22...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angiras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angiras
Angiras (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ang to go, move tortuously (cf agni))   One of the Saptarshis (seven rishis) or manasapu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Antichrist: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Antichrist
Antichrist (from Greek anti against + christos anointed)   An adversary of Christ. The Epistles of John refers to the belief in t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Assurbanipal: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Assurbanipal
Assurbanipal (Chald.). The Sardanapalus of the Greeks, "the greatest of the Assyrian Sovereigns, far more memorable on account of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asrama: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Asrama
A Theosophical definition of Asrama :   Asrama (Sanskrit) A word derived from the root sram, signifying "to make efforts,&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Asana
A Theosophical definition of Asana :   Asana according to Theosophy (Sanskrit) "A word derived from the verbal root as, si...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heaven And Hell: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Heaven And Hell
A Theosophical definition of Heaven and Hell :   Heaven and Hell Every ancient exoteric religion taught that the so-called heav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elementaries: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Elementaries
A Theosophical definition of Elementaries :   Elementaries "Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inner Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Inner Round
Inner Round In theosophical literature, the passage of the ten classes or hosts of monads through all the globes comprising a planetar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bon
Bon (Tibetan) (possible variation of bod Tibet, or an ancient word meaning invoker)   Also pon and bhon. The Tibetan religion bef...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Square: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Square
Square In theosophical literature, occasionally used to represent the quaternary, the four lower principles of nature or of man, the t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tala
Tala (Sanskrit) Lower or inferior portions of a series, inferior world; also a chasm, abyss, floor. All these ideas suggest lower or i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arrhetos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arrhetos
Arrhetos (Gnostic) Ineffable, unspeakable or, as used in Greek mystical philosophy, not to be divulged. Connected with the Greek Myste...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Berosus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Berosus
Berosus (Chald.). A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as taught in the Tem...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Om - Aum: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Om - Aum
A Theosophical definition of Om - Aum :   Om - Aum A word considered very holy in the Brahmanical literature.   It is a s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seven: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seven
Seven The fundamental number of manifestation, frequently found in the different cosmogonies as well as in many religious dogmas and o...   » 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

Article - Brahmanas And Aranyakas: The Brahmanas And The Aranyakas In The Hindu Scriptures
The Brahmanas and the Aranyakas: There are two Brahmanas to the Rig-VedaÑthe Aitareya and the Sankhayana. - The Rig-Veda, - says Max Mull...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Baresma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Baresma
Baresma(n) (Avestan), Barsum (Pahlavi), Barsam (Persian) (from the verbal root bares to grow upright; cf Sanskrit barh)   A wand ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agastya: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Agastya
Agastya (Sanskrit). The name of a great Rishi, much revered in Southern India; the reputed author of hymns in the Rig Veda, and a grea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Palingenesis: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Palingenesis
A Theosophical definition of Palingenesis :   Palingenesis (Greek) A compound which means "coming again into being," ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahabharata: Vedic Hindu Scriptures Dictionary On Mahabharata
Mahabharata "[The Mahabharata] is...probably the longest single poem in the world's literature. Traditionally the author of the p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ahu: Theosophy Dictionary On Ahu
Ahu (Avestan) (from the verbal root ah consciousness of life; cf Sanskrit asu)   Sometimes Ahum, Akhum. The most aware and theref...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zervan Akarana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zervan Akarana
Zervan Akarana (Avestan) [from zervan time (cf Pahlavi zervam, zarvan, zurvan) + arana, akrana boundary]   Also Zeruana Akerne. B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Angels: Dream Interpretation - Angels
  Angels Jacob wrestled the angel, and the angel was overcome. - Bono, U2, Rattle and Hum   The word 'angel' literally mea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thrones: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Thrones
Thrones An angelic group in the Christian celestial hierarchy, as outlined by the pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The Thrones rank th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedas: Vedic Hindu Scriptures Dictionary On Vedas
Vedas Veda is a generic name for the most ancient Indian sacred literature, i.e. the Rg-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda and Atharva-veda. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dugpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dugpa
Dugpa 'drug pa dug-pa (Tibetan) Adherents of the Buddhist religion of Tibet who, previous to the reform by Tsong-kha-pa in the 14th ce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hinduism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Hinduism
Hinduism (Hindu Dharma): (Sanskrit) India's indigenous religious and cultural system, followed today by nearly one billion adherents, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jesus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jesus
Jesus (Latin of Greek Iesous from Hebrew Yeshua` contraction of Yehoshua` a proper name meaning savior or helper, or that which is spa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solomon, King Of Israel, Judah, Shelomoh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solomon, King Of Israel, Judah, Shelomoh
Solomon, King of Israel and Judah shelomoh (Hebrew) [from shalom prosperous cf Arab zuleima, Greek Salomon Latin solomo, genitive solo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bharata, Bharata-varsha , Bharata-varsa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bharata, Bharata-varsha , Bharata-varsa
Bharata, Bharata-varsha bharata-varsa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root bhri to uphold, bear, carry, supporting, producing + varsha pla...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atlantis
Atlantis In Theosophical literature the fourth great land-massif or continental system which composed the land area of this globe seve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Repercussion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Repercussion
Repercussion Striking back, as when a wave rebounds from a surface.   In theosophical literature, applied to the phenomenon in w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trailokya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Trailokya
Trailokya (Sanskrit) [from tri three + loka world, sphere]   Also Triloka. The three worlds -- heaven, earth, and the lower regio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dreams About Apple: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Apple
  Apple This simple and basic fruit is a powerful symbol in religious writings, literature and in dreams. It fundamentally repres...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transmigration: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Transmigration
A Theosophical definition of Transmigration :   Transmigration This word is grossly misunderstood in the modern Occident, as al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seasons: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seasons
Seasons The seasons are at least in part due to the inclination of the earth's axis, and wholly according to this explanation in moder...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asura: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Asura
Asura (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root as to breathe)   A title frequently given to the hierarch or supreme spirit of our univers...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ahura-mazda: Theosophy Dictionary On Ahura-mazda
Ahura-Mazda (Avestan) Aura-Mazda (Old Persian) Auhr-Mazd (Pahlavi) Hormazd, Hormoz, Ormazd, Ormuzd (Persian) (from Avestan ahura lord ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Therapeute: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Therapeute
Therapeute (Ancient Greek) or Therapeutes. A school of Esotericists, which was an inner group within Alexandrian Judaism and not, as g...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pneumo-acupuncture: Alternative Health Dictionary On Pneumo-acupuncture
pneumo-acupuncture: Technique described in ancient Chinese literature. It involves injecting air under the skin.   (See also: ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophists: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Theosophists
Theosophists. A name by which many mystics at various periods of history have called themselves.   The Neo-Platonists of Alexand...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahatma: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Mahatma
A Theosophical definition of Mahatma :   Mahatma (Mahatman, Sanskrit) "Great soul" or "great self" is the m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rabbi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rabbi
Rabbi (Hebrew) [from rab great, a chief, leader]   My master, my teacher; the master was addressed by his pupils with the word ra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yima, Yam, Yama: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yima, Yam, Yama
Yima (Avestan) Yam (Pahlavi) Yama (Sanskrit) Jam, Jamshid (Persian) The son of Vivanghan (the brilliant light of the good, father of d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Druids: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Druids
Druids Members of a priestly hierarchy among the ancient Celts of Britain, Gaul, and Ireland, composed of the three Orders of Druids, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hierarchies: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hierarchies
Hierarchy of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy The hierarchy of spiritual beings extending from the highest solar or galac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fourfold Classification: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fourfold Classification
Fourfold Classification There are many different ways of dividing the constitution of the universe or of any integral entity within it...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Higher Self: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Higher Self
Higher Triad In theosophical literature a distinction is often made between that part of human nature which is immortal and that which...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chitta-smriti-upasthana, Citta-smriti-upasthana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chitta-smriti-upasthana, Citta-smriti-upasthana
Chitta-smriti-upasthana citta-smriti-upasthana (Sanskrit) (from chitta intelligence, thought, knowledge + smriti remembrance + upastha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oracle: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Oracle
Oracle A divine saying, or the place or means by which a divine message is communicated. The soul, according to Plato, has a certain i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Smriti: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Smriti
smriti: (Sanskrit) "That which is remembered; the tradition."   Hinduism's nonrevealed, secondary but deeply revered s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhyani-chohans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dhyani-chohans
Dhyani-chohans (Sanskrit-Tibetan) (from Sanskrit dhyani contemplation + Tibetan chohan lord)   Lords of meditation. In theosophic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Morning Star: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Morning Star
Morning Star Astronomically, any star which rises after midnight, although referring particularly to Jupiter and especially Venus as t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manasa, Manasas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Manasa, Manasas
Manasa, Manasas (Sanskrit) [from manasa intelligent from manas mind]   Adjective of manas; in theosophical literature, title for ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Khe-chara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Khe-chara
A Theosophical definition of Khe-Chara :   Khe-Chara (Khecara, Sanskrit) "Ether-goer" or sometimes rendered as "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Svaraj: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Svaraj
Svaraj (Sanskrit) The self-ruling, the self-resplendent; one of the seven principal rays of the sun, "the last or seventh (synthe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sibylline Oracles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sibylline Oracles
Sibylline Oracles Early Christian ecclesiastical literature written in imitation of the archaic Sibylline Books, containing apparently...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Udana: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Udana
Udana (Sanskrit) Extemporaneous speeches; also Sutras. In philosophy the term applies to the physical organs of speech, such as tongue...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Religion: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Religion
RELIGION The word "religion" derives from the Latin prefix, re (an intensive) + ligio, "to tie, to bind," hence &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahman: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Brahman
A Theosophical definition of Brahman :   Brahman (Sanskrit) A word of which the root, brih, means "expansion." It is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma-samaj, Brahmo-samaj: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahma-samaj, Brahmo-samaj
Brahma-Samaj, Brahmo-Samaj (Sanskrit) A religious and theistic movement in India, originating with Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who began teach...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hierarchy Of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hierarchy Of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy
Hierarchy of Compassion, Spiritual-psychological Hierarchy The hierarchy of spiritual beings extending from the highest solar or galac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avesa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Avesa
Avesa (Sanskrit) (from a-vis to enter into)   An entering, entrance, or taking possession of, as in the instance of an obsession;...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Life-atom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Life-atom
Life-atom In theosophical literature, the vital ensouling power or vital entified unit in every primary or ultimate physical particle,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ritucharya: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Ritucharya
Ritucharya   Given that the term prakriti denotes both body constitution and nature, it is only expected that with the changing s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taliesin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Taliesin
Taliesin (Welsh) He of the radiant brow; a transformation of Gwion, eaten as a barley-grain by Ceridwen as an old black hen. She bore ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cauldron Of Ceridwen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cauldron Of Ceridwen
Cauldron of Ceridwen (Welsh) Symbol of initiation in Welsh Druidic literature; a Bard was one who had been in the Cauldron of Ceridwen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dreams About Fruit: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Fruit
  Fruit Fruit represents abundance and prosperity. As a result of the seeds that they carry, they may also represent new beginnin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Khuddaka-patha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Khuddaka-patha
Khuddaka-patha (Pali) (from khuddaka little one + patha reading, text)   A Buddhist scripture given to neophytes upon joining the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aditattva: Theosophy Dictionary On Aditattva
Aditattva (Sanskrit) (from adi first + tattva thatness, essence)   Original principle; used in theosophical literature to denote ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neophyte: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Neophyte
Neophyte [from Greek neophytos newly-grown]   One who, precisely because he has newly grown, is newly reborn, signifying one who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adept: Theosophy Dictionary On Adept
Adept (from Latin adeptus from ad toward + apiscor to reach, attain)   One who has attained; in theosophical literature, one who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Suka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Suka
Suka (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root subh to shine]   The bright one; applied to several Hindu mythological characters. In Buddh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Book Of Dzyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Book Of Dzyan
Book of Dzyan (probably from Sanskrit dhyana intense spiritual meditation, wisdom, divine knowledge)   An archaic work of enormou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manjusri: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Manjusri
Manjusri (Sanskrit) [from manju beautiful + sri an epithet of holiness, dignity, and reverence]   The holy beautiful one; a name ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kashmir Saivism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Kashmir Saivism
Kashmir Saivism: (Sanskrit) In this mildly theistic and intensely monistic school founded by Vasugupta around 850, Siva is immanent an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Druid: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Druid
Druid (Celtic, "true seer") A member of the priestly and intellectual elite of the Celts.   Druids were the religious ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qabbalah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Qabbalah
Qabbalah (Hebrew) [from qabal to receive, hand down]   Also Cabala, Kabala, Kabbalah, etc. Tradition, that which is handed down; ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Palingenesis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Palingenesis
Palingenesis [from Greek palin again + genesis becoming]   One type of reimbodiment or self-generation, the transmission of an id...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sarpa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sarpa
Sarpa (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root srip to wriggle, creep, crawl]   Serpent; the serpent has ever symbolized in occultism wis...   » 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