It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. †...

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Shoggoth, Shoggoth - Shoggoths in the mythos, Shoggoth - Origin and history, Shoggoth - Other connections to the mythos, Shoggoth - Shoggoths in other fiction

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ζ1 Reticuli is slightly less massive and luminous than the Sun. Spectral class of the star is G2.5 V. ...

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Zeta Reticuli, Zeta Reticuli - ζ1 Reticuli, Zeta Reticuli - ζ2 Reticuli, Zeta Reticuli - Trivia, Zeta Reticuli - UFOlogy, Zeta Reticuli - ζ Reticuli in fiction

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There are three main elements to Castaneda's description of Toltec beliefs: a. mastery of awareness - nagual (2nd attention) and tonal (1st attention), art of dreaming, description of the seers perception of luminous energy and bubbles of energy around living things (luminous cocoon) and ultimately the source of these energetic lines which are consciousness itself. b. art of self-stalking - dealing with the world and actions in it. c. mastery of intent - dealing with the primary force of ...

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Carlos Castaneda, Carlos Castaneda - Biography, Carlos Castaneda - Castaneda's account of Toltec knowledge, Carlos Castaneda - Brief Description of Books, Carlos Castaneda - Interpretation and criticism the Castaneda controversy, Carlos Castaneda - Significant characters In Castaneda's works, Carlos Castaneda - Related authors, Carlos Castaneda - Notable works, Carlos Castaneda - Books by other authors

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Digital color cameras generally use a Bayer mask over the CCD. Each square of four pixels has one filtered red, one blue, and two green (the human eye is more sensitive to green than either red or blue). The result of this is that luminance information is collected at every pixel, but the color resolution is lower than the luminance resolution. Better color separation can be reached by three-CCD devices (3CCD) and a dichroic beam splitter prism, that splits the image into red, green and blue components. Each of the three CCDs is arranged to respond to a particular color. Some semi-professional digital video ...

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Charge-coupled device, Charge-coupled device - History, Charge-coupled device - Applications, Charge-coupled device - Color cameras, Charge-coupled device - Competing technologies

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A refracting telescope is an instrument that is constituted of one or several lenses and that focuses the luminous rays toward one point called focus. The role of the eyepiece situated after the focus is to shape the picture so that it is visible for the eyes as well as to enlarge this one. A good refracting telescope is an instrument that one retains all his or her life, even after the acquisition of a bigger telescope. The refracting telescope, by its reduced opening (therefore little luminous), is especially adapted to the observat ...

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Skygazing, Skygazing - Naked eye skygazing, Skygazing - Diurnal observation, Skygazing - Nocturnal observation, Skygazing - Binocular gazing, Skygazing - Choice of binoculars, Skygazing - Advice on observational techniques, Skygazing - Observations with a refracting telescope, Skygazing - Choice of the refracting telescope, Skygazing - Advice of usage, Skygazing - The observation with a reflecting telescope, Skygazing - Types of reflecting telescope

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Just as the other color standards adopted for broadcast usage over the world, SÉCAM is a compatible standard, which means that Monochrome television receivers predating its introduction are still able to show the programs, although only in black and white. Because of this compatibility requirement, color standards add a second signal to the basic monochrome signal, and this signal carries the color information, called chrominance or C in short, while the black and white information is called the luminance (Y in short). Old TV receivers only see the luminance, ...

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Assyrian Church of the East - The consolidation of the Church. Christian communities existed in the regions of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia as early as the second century. A council is known to have been held at Seleucia around 325 to deal with jurisdictional conflicts among the leading bishops. At a subsequent Council of Seleucia in 410 the Christian communities of Mesopotamia renounced all subjection to Antioch and the "Western" bishops and the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon assumed the rank of Catholicos. ...

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Assyrian Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East - Early history, Assyrian Church of the East - The consolidation of the Church, Assyrian Church of the East - Schism with the Western Church, Assyrian Church of the East - Subsequent history, Assyrian Church of the East - Southern expansion, Assyrian Church of the East - Eastern expansion, Assyrian Church of the East - Modern times

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In the 15th century, the church decreed that the title of Patriarch could pass only to relatives of then-patriarch Mar Shimun IV. This upset many in the church's hierarchy, and in 1552 a rival Patriarch, Mar Yohanan Soulaqa VIII was elected. This rival Patriarch met with the Pope and entered into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Assyrian Church now had two rival leaders, a hereditary patriarch in Alqosh (in modern-day northern Iraq), and a Papal-appointed patriarch in Diyarbakir (in modern-day eastern Turkey). This situation las ...

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Assyrian Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East - Early history, Assyrian Church of the East - The consolidation of the Church, Assyrian Church of the East - Schism with the Western Church, Assyrian Church of the East - Subsequent history, Assyrian Church of the East - Southern expansion, Assyrian Church of the East - Eastern expansion, Assyrian Church of the East - Modern times

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self-luminous: Producing its own light; radiating light.

(See also: Self-luminous, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Luminous Phenomena:

The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people.

(See also: Luminous Phenomena, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Luminous Arc. See ARC, ASCENDING AND DESCENDING

(See also: Luminous Arc, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of luminous flux:

luminous flux - the rate of flow of light energy

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

Also see these pages: Oceanography, Oceanography Sitemap, Coral Reef, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change,

Self-luminous Matter Matter which shines from itself and not by reflected light; the existence of such matter in interstellar space was believed in by Halley, and The Secret Doctrine states that matter in several phases of the nebulous condition, before it condenses into solar or planetary bodies, is self-luminous; and that the planets are also self-luminous before they become materially concreted globes. Science has long recognized self-luminosity in phosphorus, radium, and in some other bodies.

Philosophically, it is a mere matter of choice whether to regard light as primordial and rudimentary and deduce other phenomena from it, or to consider luminosity as a result of the vibration of molecules -- since light is both. But theosophy agrees with archaic thought in placing light as the first of all manifested things, regarding light as the very essence of matter, not as a decoration of it. Nor is light necessarily associated with heat, as even the humble glow worm attests.

Theosophy teaches that self-luminosity, with or without heat, is of natural necessity a characteristic of everything that is, although this self-luminosity is by no means always visible to our human physical senses. Every entity anywhere, great or small, as well as every aggregate of atoms, is continuously and uninterruptedly self-luminous, continually emanating forth because of the energies ever active within itself an unceasing stream of radiation; and this radiation is of several different kinds, usually enumerated as sevenfold, of which ordinary or physical light is but one manifestation. Everything is radiant, radiating; radiant here meaning not only luminous, but self-luminous, generating radiation of many kinds from within itself. It is the imperfect ability of our organ of vision to

See these many forms of radiation that causes us to be unconscious of them; our eyes have been evolved to sense only one small gamut in the great scale of radiation of the universe surrounding us. Science, with its various kinds of radiation, is becoming keenly cognizant of this ancient fact and scientists are pointing out that not only is visible light but a short stretch of the scale of radiation, but are envisaging the high probability that matter itself in all its forms is but concreted radiation or crystallized light.

(See also: Self-luminous Matter, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

A Theosophical definition of Ascending Arc - Luminous Arc :

Ascending Arc or Luminous Arc

This term, as employed in theosophical occultism, signifies the passage of the life-waves or life-streams of evolving mon ads upwards along, on, and through the globes of the chain of any celestial body, the earth's chain included. Every celestial body (including the earth) is one member in a limited series or group of globes. These globes exist on different kosmic planes in a rising series. The life-waves or life-streams during any manvantara of such a chain circle or cycle around these globes in periodical surges or impulses. The ascent from the physical globe upwards is called the ascending arc; the descent through the more spiritual and ethereal globes downwards to the physical globe is called the descending arc. (See also Planetary Chain)

See also: Ascending Arc - Luminous Arc , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

aura: The luminous colorful field of subtle energy radiating within and around the human body, extending out from three to seven feet. The colors of the aura change constantly according to the ebb and flow of one's state of consciousness, thoughts, moods and emotions. Higher, benevolent feelings create bright pastels; base, negative feelings are darker in color. Thus, auras can be seen and "read" by clairvoyants.

The general nature of auras varies according to individual unfoldment. Great mystics have very bright auras, while instinctive persons are shrouded in dull shades. The aura consists of two aspects, the outer aura and the inner aura. The outer aura extends beyond the physical body and changes continuously, reflecting the individual's moment-to-moment panorama of thought and emotion. The inner aura is much more constant, as it reflects deep-seated subconscious patterns, desires, repressions and tendencies held in the sub-subconscious mind. Those colors which are regularly and habitually reflected in the outer aura are eventually recorded more permanently in the inner aura. The colors of the inner aura permeate out through the outer aura and either shade with sadness or brighten with happiness the normal experiences of daily life.

The inner aura hovers deep within the astral body in the chest and torso and looks much like certain "modern-art" paintings, with heavy strokes of solid colors here and there. In Sanskrit, the aura is called prabhamandala, "luminous circle," or diptachakra, "wheel of light."

See: mind (five states of mind), papa, punya.

(See also: Aura, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

aura: The luminous colorful field of subtle energy radiating within and around the human body, extending out from three to seven feet. The colors of the aura change constantly according to the ebb and flow of one's state of consciousness, thoughts, moods and emotions. Higher, benevolent feelings create bright pastels; base, negative feelings are darker in color. Thus, auras can be seen and "read" by clairvoyants.

The general nature of auras varies according to individual unfoldment. Great mystics have very bright auras, while instinctive persons are shrouded in dull shades. The aura consists of two aspects, the outer aura and the inner aura. The outer aura extends beyond the physical body and changes continuously, reflecting the individual's moment-to-moment panorama of thought and emotion. The inner aura is much more constant, as it reflects deep-seated subconscious patterns, desires, repressions and tendencies held in the sub-subconscious mind. Those colors which are regularly and habitually reflected in the outer aura are eventually recorded more permanently in the inner aura. The colors of the inner aura permeate out through the outer aura and either shade with sadness or brighten with happiness the normal experiences of daily life.

The inner aura hovers deep within the astral body in the chest and torso and looks much like certain "modern-art" paintings, with heavy strokes of solid colors here and there. In Sanskrit, the aura is called prabhamandala, "luminous circle," or diptachakra, "wheel of light."

See: mind (five states of mind), papa, punya.

(See also: Aura, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

DIVYA - divine, celestial, heavenly, luminous. (Sanskrit) (NAD)

(See also: DIVYA, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

 Jyotir Dhyana:

luminous contemplation

(See also:  Jyotir Dhyana, Body Mind and Soul)

illustrious: Very luminous or bright; distinguished, famous; outstanding.

(See also: Illustrious, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

incandescent: Glowing with heat; white-hot. Radiant; luminous; very bright.

(See also: Incandescent, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Augoeides (Ancient Greek). Bulwer Lytton calls it the "Luminous Self ", or our Higher Ego. But Occultism makes of it something distinct from this. It is a mystery. The Augocides is the luminous divine radiation of the EGO which, when incarnated, is but its shadow - pure as it is yet. This is explained in the Amshaspends and their Ferouers.

(See also: Augoeides, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Mirror. The Luminous Mirror, Aspaqularia nera, a Kabbalistic term, means the power of foresight and farsight, prophecy such as Moses had. Ordinary mortals have only the Aspaqularia della nera or Non Luminous Mirror, they see only in a glass darkly: a parallel symbolism is that of the conception of the Tree of Life, and that only of the Tree of Knowledge.

(See also: Mirror, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )