Material Force Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Material Force: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Material Force
Material Force (ch'I, chi, qi or ki): Neo-Confucian term used by writers such as Chu Hsi who see it as a metaphysical principal in con...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chi: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Chi
Chi (Chinese, "ether," "matter-energy," "vital energy," "material force") An important and mu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Li: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Li
Li: Important philosophical term of varied meaning throughout Confucian history; Early Confucian writings depict li as ceremonial form...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantrism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Tantrism
tantrism: The enlightenment path outlined in the Tantra scriptures. 1)    Tantrism is sometimes considered a parallel ...   » Read the article

Article - Native American Spirituality: Native American Medicine Wheel Ceremony On May 8th 2004
In 1999, Bennie LeBeau of the Eastern Shoshone tribe began to experience a torrent of dreams and visions. The visions directed him to set...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dream About Dead: Dream Dictionary - Dead, Dead People, Dead Father, Dead Mother, Dead Relative, Dead Relatives
  Dead, Dead People, Dead Father, Dead Mother, Dead Relative, Dead Relatives To dream of the dead, is usually a dream of warning...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chu Hsi: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Chu Hsi
Chu Hsi (1130-1200): Most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher whose interpretation of Confucianism became the standard view until th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit Dictionary: A Sanskrit Dictionary From Advaita To Yoga
Sanskrit dictionary. From Advaita to Yoga.   Please note that all words in grey, like "enlightenment" or "kundalini&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Physical Body: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Physical Body
Physical Body [cf Sanskrit sthula-sarira, annamaya-kosa]   The most material sheath or instrument used by the forces manifesting ...   » Read the article

Article - The Vedas: Divine Scriptures Of Ancient India - The Vedas
The Vedas  The Vedas are the Divine scriptures of ancient India and in modern times can be traced as least as far back as 12,OOO B....   » Read the article

Article - What Is Spirituality: Spirituality 101 - An Evolutional View
What makes us human? Is it the ability to walk on two feet and think? Is it the complexity of emotion that permeates our lives like an o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Daksha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Daksha
Daksha (Sanskrit) A form of Brahma and his son in the Puranas But the Rig Veda states that "Daksha sprang from Aditi, and Aditi f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary: Dream Dictionary From; Dagger To Dead / Death
Dream Dictionary including the meaning of dreams about: Dagger, Dahlia, Dairy, Daisy, Damask Rose, Damson, Dance, Dancing Master, Dandeli...   » Read the article

Article - Three Gunas: Vedic Yoga And The Three Gunas
Vedic Yoga and the Three Gunas The Vedas present a vast pantheon of deities (devatas) on many different levels, often said to be innumer...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sanskrit Dictionary: Dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit Terms (d-k)
A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From Dadhicha to Kutichaka.   Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga&quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Set, Seth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Set, Seth
Set or Seth (Egyptian) According to the Heliopolitan mythology, the son of Seb and Nut, is the brother of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys; ...   » Read the article

Article - Vaastu Shastra: Reinterpreting Vaastu
 In India we must be grateful that the core beliefs, theoretical rigour and application of the Vaastu Shastras are still available, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pyramid Power: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Pyramid Power
PYRAMID POWER (Also cone headgear). In mimetic magic the pyramid serves as a parallel funnel or horn to draw down the powers of the he...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahma
Brahma (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root brih to expand, grow, fructify)   The first god of the Hindu Trimurti or triad, consistin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Energy Medicine: Natural Health Dictionary Ii On Energy Medicine
Energy Medicine: Energetic medicine as defined within the mind/body/spirit model, involves therapies that affect energy fields that de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taurus: Spiritual Dictionary On Taurus
Taurus: The best quality of Taurus is stability. The worst quality is stubbornness. A key phrase is “I have.” The Taurus p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kama: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kama
Kama (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root kam to desire)   Desire; the fourth substance-principle of which the human constitution is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sun-force: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sun-force
Sun-Force Adopted by Dr. B. W. Richardson (1828-96) from Metcalfe; also called caloric, to designate a universal active life principle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Crocodile: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Crocodile
Crocodile. "The great reptile of Typhon." The seat of its "worship" was Crocodilopolis and it was sacred to Set an...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  : Mysticism Magick Dictionary On  
WILL Another word for persistence and maintained attention. Will is one of the two natural human powers for altering reality (the othe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prana: Health And Healing Dictionary On Prana
PRANA the yogic concept of a cosmic energy or life force, similar to the Chinese idea of chi, that enters the body with the breath. Pr...   » 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 - Radiation: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Radiation
radiation Power existing in various wave rates and lengths. Believed to be the carrier of spirit communication with sensitives. This ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parabrahman: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Parabrahman
Parabrahman (Sanskrit) [from para beyond + Brahman (neuter) universal self or spirit]   That which is beyond Brahman; the self-en...   » Read the article

Article - Shiv-shakti: The Cosmic Force And Shiv-shakti
The Cosmic Force And Shiv-Shakti Before creation took place there was nothing but a pervading consciousness that had no name. Creation ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Blood: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Blood
Blood The vital fluid circulating through the heart, arteries, and veins, supplying nutritive materials to all parts of the body, and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Life
Life Life per se is conscious, substantial, spiritual force, manifesting in myriad ways as the various lives and as forms of energy, w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Earthquakes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Earthquakes
Earthquakes Physical phenomena such as earthquakes are generally the end-products of a chain of causation operating not only on the ph...   » 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 - Vitalism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vitalism
Vitalism The theory that the phenomena of organic life cannot be explained by the properties of physical matter alone, and that conseq...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vaisheshika: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vaisheshika
Vaisheshika (Sanskrit). One of the six Darshanas or schools of philosophy, founded by Kanada. It is called the Atomistic School, as it...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magic
MAGIC From Latin magi, pl. (Greek magoi, pl. of magos, a Magian, one of the Median tribe; also an enchanter, properly a wise-man who i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental, Elementals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Elemental, Elementals
Elemental (Elementals) Used by medieval European mystics, such as the Fire-philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Qabbalists, to signify th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Matter: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Matter
A Theosophical definition of Matter :   Matter What men call matter or substance is the existent but illusory aggregate of veil...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prana: Health And Healing Dictionary On Prana
Prana: The life force or energy which animates material forms. It is also present in breath. Also Chi, Ki or Mana in other belief syst...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fohat: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Fohat
A Theosophical definition of Fohat :   Fohat An extremely mystical term used in the occultism of Tibet for what in Sanskrit is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Physical Organs: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Physical Organs
Physical Organs Natural history reveals that the organs of the body acquire a greater individual importance, and in some cases occupy ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma’s Day: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Brahma’s Day
Brahma’s Day. A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahma having emerged out of his golden egg (Hiranyagarbha), creates ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini Or Kundalini-sakti: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Kundalini Or Kundalini-sakti
A Theosophical definition of Kundalini or Kundalini-Sakti :   Kundalini - Kundalini-Sakti (Sanskrit) A term whose essential mea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cell: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cell
Cell (from Latin cella a small room)   A small enclosed space; applied to the unit of organic life since the mid-17th century, wh...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini: The Mysterious Kundalini
Kundalini is the cosmic power in individual bodies. It is not a material force like electricity, magnetism, centripetal or centrifugal fo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rupa: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Rupa
A Theosophical definition of Rupa :   Rupa (Sanskrit) A word meaning "form," "image," "similitude,&quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Faith Healing, Drugless Healing: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Faith Healing, Drugless Healing
Faith Healing, Drugless Healing Apart from the regular medical and surgical practice, widespread forms of drugless healing are employe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wand: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wand
Wand The wand of Hermes or caduceus, the magician's wand, the rods of Moses and Aaron, the scepter of kings which shows the force of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sun: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sun
Sun The central focus of radiating energy, physical and spiritual, of any solar system. In our solar system the sun is one of several ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Logos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Logos
Logos (Greek) plural logoi. Word; expressive cosmic intelligence manifested in every rational being. With Plato, that power of the min...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shakta Tantrism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Shakta Tantrism
Shakta Tantrism: Brings a strong emphasis on the worship of the feminine force.   Depending on the school, this may be symbolic ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tsimtsum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tsimtsum
Tsimtsum (Chaldean) [from the verbal root tsaman to contract, press together]   Contraction; a Qabbalistic term containing the ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prana: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Prana
PRANA: the yogic concept of a cosmic energy or life force, similar to the Chinese idea of chi, that enters the body with the breath. P...   » 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 - Daiviprakriti: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Daiviprakriti
A Theosophical definition of Daiviprakriti :   Daiviprakriti (Sanskrit) A compound signifying "divine" or "origi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypnotism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hypnotism
Hypnotism (from Greek hypnos sleep)   One name for an artificially produced somnambulistic, entranced, or psychologized state. A ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cancer, Carcinoma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cancer, Carcinoma
Cancer, Carcinoma A malignant opithelial tumor composed of a connective tissue-stroma surrounding groups or nests of multiplying epith...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zodiac: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Zodiac
A Theosophical definition of Zodiac :   Zodiac The Greeks called the zodiac the "circle of life," and they divided it...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vira Saivism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vira Saivism
Vira Saivism (Saiva): (Sanskrit) "Heroic Saivism." Made prominent by Basavanna in the 12th century. Also called Lingayat Sai...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Belief: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Belief
BELIEF What KG calls a "primal obsession" and in Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, he says, "Every magician must dis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Epidemics: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Epidemics
Epidemics (from Greek epi upon + demos the people)   The causes usually assigned to epidemic diseases are: individual susceptibil...   » 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 - Mars: Spiritual Dictionary On Mars
Mars: Mars rules Aries. Mars is energy. It is the kind of energy that your body uses to contract muscles, to assimilate food, and to f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ch'i: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Ch'i
Ch'i: literally "breath," important philosophical term of varied meaning throughout Chinese history; early Chinese writings ...   » Read the article

Article - Medical Astrology: What Is Medical Astrology? Ii
Medical Astrology: In this second part of the article, Ingrid Naiman further explain the dynamics of Medical Astrology.    » Read the article

Dictionary - Conservation Of Energy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Conservation Of Energy
Conservation of Energy A scientific theory that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which cannot be increased or dec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ama: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Ama
Ama: Poorly digested food material that accumulates in the body.   (See also: Ama ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Consciousness: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Consciousness
A Theosophical definition of Consciousness :   Consciousness In all its forms and protean manifestations, consciousness is spir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seal Of The Theosophical Society: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seal Of The Theosophical Society
Seal of the Theosophical Society   Composed of a serpent in the form of a circle (Ananta-sesha) biting its tail -- standing for ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vach: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Vach
A Theosophical definition of Vach :   Vach (Sanskrit) A term which means "speech" or "word"; and by the sam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kama: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Kama
A Theosophical definition of Kama :   Kama (Sanskrit) "Desire"; the fourth substance-principle of which man's constit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakti: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Sakti
A Theosophical definition of Sakti :   Sakti (Sanskrit) A term which may be briefly defined to mean one of what in modern Occul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kena Upanisad: Vedic Hindu Scriptures Dictionary On Kena Upanisad
Kena Upanisad "The Kena Upanishad ...concerns itself only with the relation of mind-consciousness to Brahman-consciousness and d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit (in Reference To Matter): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Spirit (in Reference To Matter)
A Theosophical definition of Spirit (in reference to Matter) :   Spirit (in reference to Matter) The theosophist points out tha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Man: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Man
A Theosophical definition of Man :   Man Man is in his essence a spark of the central kosmic spiritual fire. Man being an insep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Principles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Principles
Principles A beginning, foundation, source, or essence from which things proceed; principles are thus the fundamental essences out of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sakti
Sakti (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root sak to be powerful, energetic, have force]   Universal energy, the feminine aspect of foha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vaisesika: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Vaisesika
Vaisesika - a later division of the nyaya school of philosophy, also known as vaisesika-darsana. It was founded by Kanada Rsi and diff...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Dictionary: Spiritual Hinduism Dictionary
A spiritual dictionary of the 280 most common words in Hinduism. Also see these links: Hinduism, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Spiritual D...   » Read the article