Mysteries Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Mysteries: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mysteries
Mysteries. Greek teletai, or finishings, celebrations of initiation or the Mysteries.   They were observances, generally kept se...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Mysteries
Mysteries: Secret rituals usually involving the display of sacred mandalas and other objects to, and the performance of various mudras...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orphism, Orphic Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Orphism, Orphic Mysteries
Orphism, Orphic Mysteries [from Greek orphikos]   Orphism originally taught of the Causeless Cause on which all speculation is im...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mysteries
Mysteries, The [from Greek mysteria Mysteries from mystes one initiated into the Mysteries from mueo to initiate from muo to close the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Betrayal Of The Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Betrayal Of The Mysteries
Betrayal of the Mysteries Ancient writers affirm that the prime requisite of every candidate seeking entrance into the Mysteries was a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eleusinia, Eleusinian Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Eleusinia, Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinia or Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek) (from eleusinia things that are to come)   The most famous Mysteries in ancient Greece ...   » Read the article

Article - New Age Spirituality: The Roots Of The New Age Movement Ð Part I
The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystery: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Mystery
MYSTERY From Gk. myein, "to keep the mouth shut". Mysteries are occult truths to be deliberately kept from the uninitiated. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Mystery: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Mystery
  Mystery To find yourself bewildered by some mysterious event, denotes that strangers will harass you with their troubles and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Mysteries
A Theosophical definition of Mysteries :   Mysteries The Mysteries were divided into two general parts, the Less Mysteries and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Mysticism
mysticism: Spirituality; the pursuit of direct spiritual or religious experience. Spiritual discipline aimed at union or communion wit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orphic Mysteries, Orphica: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Orphic Mysteries, Orphica
Orphic Mysteries or Orphica (Ancient Greek). These followed, but differed greatly from, the mysteries of Bacchus.   The system o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystery Cult: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Mystery Cult
Mystery Cult: A group of people who get together regularly to perform sacred mysteries and to study their meanings.   (See also...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystery Schools: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mystery Schools
Mystery Schools Adopted in theosophical literature from Classical writings, to designate centers which were consecrated to the teachin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystery Language: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mystery Language
Mystery Language. The sacerdotal secret jargon employed by the initiated priests, and used only when discussing sacred things. Every n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermetic Chain: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Hermetic Chain
A Theosophical definition of Hermetic Chain :   Hermetic Chain Among the ancient Greeks there existed a mystical tradition of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries Of The Tarot: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Mysteries Of The Tarot
MYSTERIES OF THE TAROT     (See also: MYSTERIES OF THE TAROT , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eleusinian Mysteries: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries A Greek initiatory cult honoring Demeter and Persephone celebrated in the town of Eleusis from prehistoric times ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Communion: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Communion
Communion The Lord's Supper The central rite of Christian worship, called variously the Eucharist, Holy Communion, Divine Mysteries (E...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siphra' Di-tseni`utha': Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Siphra' Di-tseni`utha'
Siphra' Di-tseni`utha' (Chaldean) "Their counting or telling of the concealed mysteries," the Book of Secrets or Mysteries; ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iao: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Iao
Iao (Gnostic) A three-letter mystery-name, parallel in one sense with the Sanskrit pranava, and reminiscent of triune deities represen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wicca: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Wicca
WICCA (Old English wicca, "male witch",  wicce,  "female witch", and wiccan,  "witchcraft"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rune: Spiritual Dictionary On Rune
Rune: A character of the Germanic/Scandinavian alphabet.   The original meaning of the word "rune" in most of the Germ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Incarnation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Incarnation
Incarnation Imbodiments of an entity or monad in a body of flesh, usually human. It is also used of avataras, buddhas, etc., in treati...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rabbis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rabbis
Rabbis (Hebrew, Jewish). Originally teachers of the Secret Mysteries, the Qabbalah; later, every Levite of the priestly caste became a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theurgy Theurgia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theurgy Theurgia
Theurgy theurgia (Greek) [from theos god + ergon work]   Mystery-term popularized by Iamblichus for a method of individual commun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiation: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Initiation
Initiation. From the same root as the Latin initia, which means the basic or first principles of any Science. The practice of initiati...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hierophant: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hierophant
Hierophant (from Greek hierophantes from hieros sacred + phainein to show)   A revealer of sacred mysteries; title given to the h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hierogrammatists: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hierogrammatists
Hierophant (from Greek hierophantes from hieros sacred + phainein to show)   A revealer of sacred mysteries; title given to the h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - King's Chamber: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On King's Chamber
King's Chamber (Pyramid of Cheops) An initiation chamber and holy of holies of the Egyptian Mysteries, a symbol of the womb of nature ...   » 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 - Basileus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Basileus
Basileus (Ancient Greek). The Archon or Chief who had the outer super-vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dionysos
Dionysos (Greek) (from dio from dis old form of Zeus + Nysa)   Also Dionysius. Zeus of Nysa, a mountain variously placed in Thrac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Initiation
Initiation (from Latin initio entering into, beginning)   Generally, the induction of a pupil into a new way of living and into s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arcana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arcana
Arcana (Latin) Secrets, mysteries; in ancient times almost invariably what was secret, sacred, and taught in silence and privacy in th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - British Traditional Wicca: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On British Traditional Wicca
BRITISH TRADITIONAL WICCA: The groups of Wiccan Traditions that trace their lineage to Gerald Gardner, and/or to Alex and Maxine Sande...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Remission Of Sins: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Remission Of Sins
Remission of Sins Remission in the New Testament (Greek aphesis, Latin remissio) means sending away, discharge. The original meaning o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthesteria: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anthesteria
Anthesteria (Greek) (from anthos flower)   Flower festival; part of the Dionysion Mysteries celebrated from the 11th to the 13th ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cabeiri, Kabiri: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Cabeiri, Kabiri
Cabeiri or Kabiri (Phœn) Deities, held in the highest veneration at Thebes, in Lemnos, Phrygia, Macedonia, and especially at Samo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Magi
Magi (plural of Old Persian magus a wise man from the verbal root meh great; cf Sanskrit maha; cf Avestan mogaha, Latin plural magus, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Labyrinth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Labyrinth
Labyrinth (from Greek labyrinthos probably from laura crypt)   The complex prison built for King Minos of Crete by Daedalus to ho...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iamblichus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iamblichus
Iamblichus (Ancient Greek). A great Theurgist, mystic, and writer of the third and fourth centuries, a Neo-Platonist and philosopher, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Axieros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Axieros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos
Axieros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos, (Greek) Also Aschieros, Achiosera, Achiochersus. In ancient Greek mythology, three divinities whose My...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos
Zagreus, Zagreus-Dionysos (Greek) Dionysos was an earlier name for Bacchus. The mythos concerning Zagreus belongs to the cycle of teac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heresy Of Separateness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heresy Of Separateness
Hermanubis (Greek) Heru-em-Anpu (Egyptian) (Anubis in connection with Horus)   The aspect of Anubis (Anpu) connected with the wis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - British Traditional Wicca: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On British Traditional Wicca
BRITISH TRADITIONAL WICCA: The groups of Wiccan Traditions who can trace their lineage to Gerald Gardner, and/or to Alex and Maxine Sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hierophant: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hierophant
Hierophant. From the Greek "Hierophantes"; literally, "One who explains sacred things ". The discloser of sacred l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mithraism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mithraism
Mithraism The worship of Mithras, a remarkable and highly mystical religion which existed long before Zoroaster as the Society of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Astrology
A Theosophical definition of Astrology :   Astrology The astrology of the ancients was indeed a great and noble science. It is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Catharsis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Catharsis
Catharsis (from Greek katharsis cleansing from katharos pure)   Cleansing, purgation; used by Aristotle for the cleansing of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eleusis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Eleusis
Eleusis (Greek) (from eleusis a coming, advent from eleusomai will come)   Seat near Athens of one of the most renown Mystery cen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iamblichus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Iamblichus
Iamblichus (255?-333) Neoplatonic theurgist, mystic, and reviver of the practical mysteries outside of Mystery schools or temples. Stu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermanubis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermanubis
Hermanubis (Greek) Heru-em-Anpu (Egyptian) (Anubis in connection with Horus)   The aspect of Anubis (Anpu) connected with the wis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hydra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hydra
Hydranos (Greek) Baptizer:   "a name of the ancient Hierophant of the Mysteries who made the candidate pass through the 'tri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zodiac: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Zodiac
Zodiac (Ancient Greek). From the word zodion, a diminutive of zoon, animal.   This word is used in a dual meaning; it may refer ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sankaracharya, Sankaracarya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sankaracharya, Sankaracarya
Sankaracharya Sankaracarya (Sanskrit) [from Sankara a personal name + acarya teacher]   The beneficent teacher; one of the greate...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Soma
Soma (Sanskrit) In Hinduism, the moon astronomically; mystically, a sacred beverage of initiates, "made from a rare mountain plan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiquet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiquet
Hiram Abif, Huram Abif Huram 'abiu or 'abiv (Hebrew) (from hawar to become white or pale; or from harah to burn (as with ardor), be no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Konx-om-pax: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Konx-om-pax
Konx-om-pax (Greek) Mystic words used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, said to be an imitation of Egyptian words used in the mystical Isia...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agyrmos: Theosophy Dictionary On Agyrmos
Agyrmos (Greek) A collection of men, assembly; referred to initiation into the Mysteries, synonymous with synaxis. Hesychius called th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Epoptes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Epoptes
Epoptes (Greek) (from epi at, upon + opt to see)   Sometimes epopt. In the Eleusinian Mysteries, seer, overseer, master mason, on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermanubis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hermanubis
Hermanubis (Ancient Greek). Or Hermes Anubis" the revealer of the mysteries of the lower world " - not of Hell or Hades as i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hydranos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hydranos
Hydranos (Ancient Greek). Lit., the "Baptist". A name of the ancient Hierophant of the Mysteries who made the candidate pass...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orpheus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Orpheus
Orpheus (Greek) An early religious teacher and reformer in Greece about whom clustered so many legends that in course of time his hist...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ajnana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ajnana
Ajnana (Sanskrit) (from a not + jnana knowledge from the verbal root jna to know, perceive, understand)   More often absence of k...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agrae: Theosophy Dictionary On Agrae
Agrae A small town on the banks of the Ilissus near Athens, where in ancient Greece in the spring were celebrated the Minor Mysteries,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Merkabah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Merkabah
Merkabah (Hebrew) A chariot, vehicle; used in two senses: first, as a chariot, the Qabbalists saying that the Supreme forms and then u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bodhi Tree, Bo Tree: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bodhi Tree, Bo Tree
Bodhi Tree or Bo Tree The tree of wisdom or knowledge; the tree (Pippala or Ficus religiosa) "under which Sakyamuni meditated for...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Advent: Theosophy Dictionary On Advent
Advent (from Latin ad to, toward + venio to come)   Arrival; in Christianity a period of some four weeks preceding Christmas. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Easter: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Easter
Easter (from Eostre or Ostara goddess of spring)   In the northern hemisphere, the time of the renewal of life in nature, and the...   » 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

Dictionary - Aeschylus: Theosophy Dictionary On Aeschylus
Aeschylus One of the three greatest Greek tragic poets, born at Eleusis (525-456 BC), the seat of the Mysteries of Demeter, into which...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tammuz, Thammuz: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tammuz, Thammuz
Tammuz or Thammuz A Syrian and Phoenician deity corresponding to Adonis. In Babylonia, the Greek story of Venus and Adonis is repeated...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Demeter: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Demeter
Demeter (Greek) (possibly from Doric da earth + meter mother)   The Earth-Mother; one of the great Olympian deities, in popular m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Teth Teith: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Teth Teith
Teth teith (Hebrew) The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, standing for the number nine. In the Qabbalah, used as a symbolic device ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Masonry: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Masonry
Masonry Operative masonry, the art of building in stone; speculative and emblematic Freemasonry, called such since 1717 when four Engl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystagogy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mystagogy
Mystagogy [from Greek mystes an initiated person + agogos a conductor]   Initiation into the Mysteries; also the teachings and pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Okhal: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Okhal
Okhal (Arab.). The "High"priest of the Druzes, an Initiator into their mysteries.   (See also: Okhal , Theosophy, Sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trikaya: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Trikaya
Trikaya (Sanskrit) Lit., three bodies, or forms. This is a most abstruse teaching which, however, once understood, explains the myster...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Curetes, Kouretes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Curetes, Kouretes
Curetes Kouretes (Greek) The priests in the Mysteries of Rhea Cybele in Crete, and in Classical mythology daemons or demigods to whom ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bee: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bee
Bee(Bees) Greek and Roman writers, having in mind the terminology of the Mysteries, used the term bees (melissai) to denote both pries...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anastasis: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Anastasis
ANASTASIS The resurrection of Osiris in the mysteries.     (See also: ANASTASIS , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Christos: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Christos
A Theosophical definition of Christos :   Christos (Greek) Christos or "Christ" is a word literally signifying one wh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Astrology
Astrology Universal analogy provides a key to occult mysteries by studying the nature and motions of the celestial orbs. The heavenly ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Pyramid: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Pyramid
  Pyramid To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you. If you scale them, you will journey along before y...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Mysteries
MYSTERIES: profound, metaphysical facts which underlie life, death, the nature of the world and the universe. Such truths must be perc...   » Read the article