Nava Nidhi (Sanskrit). Lit., "the nine Jewels"; a consummation of spiritual development, in mysticism.

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Oeaihu, or Oeaihwu. The manner of pronunciation depends on the accent. This is an esoteric term for the six in one or the mystic seven. The occult name for the "seven vowelled" ever-present manifestation of the Universal Principle.

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Onech (Hebrew, Jewish). The Phœnix so named after Enoch or Phenoch. For Enoch (also Khenoch) means literally the initiator and instructor, hence the Hierophant who reveals the last mystery. The bird Phœnix is always associated with a tree, the mystical Ababel of the Koran, the Tree of Initiation or of knowledge.

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Nahbkoon (Eg) The god who unites the "doubles", a mystical term referring to the human disembodied "principles".

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Mu (Senzar). The mystic word (or rather a portion of it) in Northern Buddhism. It means the "destruction of temptation" during the course of Yoga practice.

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Mudra (Sanskrit). Called the mystic seal. A system of occult signs made with the fingers. These signs imitate ancient Sanskrit characters of magic efficacy. First used in the Northern Buddhist Yogacharya School, they were adopted later by the Hindu Tantrikas, but often misused by them for black magic purposes.

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Mahayana (Pal.). A school; lit., "the great vehicle". A mystical system founded by Nagarjuna. Its books were written in the second century B.C.

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Maha Maya (Sanskrit). The great illusion of manifestation. This universe, and all in it in their mutual relation, is called the great Illusion or Mahamaya It is also the usual title given to Gautama the Buddha’s Immaculate Mother - Mayadevi, or the "Great Mystery", as she is called by the Mystics.

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Makara (Sanskrit). "The Crocodile." In Europe the same as Capricorn; the tenth sign of the Zodiac. Esoterically, a mystic class of devas. With the Hindus, the vehicle of Varuna, the water-god.

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Makaram or Panchakaram (Sanskrit). In occult symbology a pentagon, the five-pointed star, the five limbs, or extremities, of man. Very mystical.

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Mantrika Sakti (Sanskrit). The power, or the occult potency of mystic words, sounds, numbers or letters in these Mantras.

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Maruts (Sanskrit). With the Orientalists Storm-Gods, but in the Veda something very mystical. In the esoteric teachings as they incarnate in every round, they are simply identical with some of the Agnishwatta Pitris, the Human intelligent Egos. Hence the allegory of Siva transforming the lumps of flesh into boys, and calling them Maruts, to show senseless men transformed by becoming the Vehicles of the Pitris or Fire Maruts, and thus rational beings.

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Pavaka (Sanskrit). One of the three personified fires eldest sons of Abhimanim or Agni, who had forty-five sons ; these with the original son of Brahma, their father Agni, and his three descendants, constitute the mystic 49 fires. Pavaka is the electric fire.

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Pentacle (Ancient Greek). Any geometrical figure, especially that known as the double equilateral triangle, the six-pointed star (like the theosophical pentacle) ; called also Solomon’s seal, and still earlier "the sign of Vishnu" ; used by all the mystics, astrologers, etc.

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Per-M-Rhu (Egypt, Egyptian). This name is the recognised pronunciation of the ancient title of the collection of mystical lectures, called in English The Book of the Dead. Several almost complete papyri have been found, and there are numberless extant copies of portions of the work.

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Phta-Ra (Egypt, Egyptian). One of the 49 mystic (occult) Fires.

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Pippala (Sanskrit). The tree of knowledge: the mystic fruit of that tree "upon which came Spirits who love Science". This is allegorical and occult.

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Philosopher’s Stone. Called also the "Powder of Projection". It is the Magnum Opus of the Alchemists, an object to be attained by them at all costs, a substance possessing the power of transmuting the baser metals into pure gold. Mystically, however, the Philosopher’s Stone symbolises the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest and divine.

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Samothraces (Ancient Greek). A designation of the Five gods worshipped at the island of that name during the Mysteries. They are considered as identical with the Cabeiri, Dioscuri and Corybantes. Their names were mystical, denoting Pluto, Ceres or Proserpine, Bacchus and Esculapius, or Hermes.

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Sadik. The same as the Biblical Melchizedec, identified by the mystic Bible-worshippers with Jehovah, and Jesus Christ. But Father Sadik’s identity with Noah being proven, he can be further identified with Kronos-Saturn.

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Safekh (Egypt, Egyptian). Written also Sebek and Sebakh, god of darkness and night, with the crocodile for his emblem. In the Typhonic legend and transformation he is the same as Typhon. He is connected with both Osiris and Horus, and is their great enemy on earth. We find him often called the "triple crocodile ". In astronomy he is the same as Makara or Capricorn, the most mystical of the signs of the Zodiac.

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Pythagorean Pentacle (Ancient Greek). A Kabbalistic six-pointed star with an eagle at the apex and a bull and a lion under the face of a man; a mystic symbol adopted by the Eastern and Roman Christians, who place these animals beside the four Evangelists.

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