Qu-tamy (Chald.). The name of the mystic who receives the revelations of the moon-goddess in the ancient Chaldean work, translated into Arabic, and retranslated by Chwolsohn into German, under the name of Nabathean Agriculture.

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Sannyasi (Sanskrit). A Hindu ascetic who has reached the highest mystic knowledge; whose mind is fixed only upon the supreme truth, and who has entirely renounced everything terrestrial and worldly.

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Senzar. The mystic name for the secret sacerdotal language or the "Mystery-speech" of the initiated Adepts, all over the world.

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Srivatsa (Sanskrit). A mystical mark worn by Krishna, and also adopted by the Jains.

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Soham (Sanskrit). A mystic syllable representing involution: lit., "THAT I AM".

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Tara (Sanskrit). The wife of Brihaspati (Jupiter), carried away by King Soma, the Moon, an act which led to the war of the Gods with the Asuras. Tara personifies mystic knowledge as opposed to ritualistic faith. She is the mother (by Soma) of Buddha, "Wisdom ".

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Tantra (Sanskrit). Lit., "rule or ritual". Certain mystical and magical works, whose chief peculiarity is the worship of the female power, personified in Sakti. Devi or Durga (Kali, Siva’s wife) is the special energy connected with sexual rites and magical powers-The worst form of black magic or sorcery.

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Talmidai Hakhameem (Hebrew, Jewish). A class of mystics and Kabbalists whom the Zohar calls "Disciples of the Wise", and who were Sarisim or voluntary eunuchs, becoming such for spiritual motives. (See Matthew xix., 11-12, a passage implying the laudation of such an act.)

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Vallabacharya (Sanskrit). The name of a mystic who was the chela (disciple) of Vishnu Swami, and the founder of a sect of Vaishnavas. His descendants are called Goswami Maharaj, and have much landed property and numerous mandirs (temples) in Bombay. They have degenerated into a shamefully licentious sect.

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Vibhavasu (Sanskrit). A mystic fire connected with the beginning of pralaya, or the dissolution of the universe.

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Vishwatryarchas (Sanskrit) The fourth solar (mystic) ray of the seven. (See Secret Doctrine, I., p. 515, n.)

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Chakra, or Chakra (Sanskrit). A spell. The disk of Vishnu, which served as a weapon; the wheel of the Zodiac, also the wheel of time, etc. With Vishnu, it was a symbol of divine authority. One of the sixty-five figures of the Sripada, or the mystic foot-print of Buddha which contains that number of symbolical figures. The Tchakra is used in mesmeric phenomena and other abnormal practices.

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Thumi Sambhota (Sanskrit). An Indian mystic and man of erudition, the inventor of the Tibetan alphabet.

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Thor’s Hammer. A weapon which had the form of the Svastika; called by European Mystics and Masons the " Hermetic Cross", and also "Jaina Cross ", croix cramponnée ; the most archaic, as the most sacred and universally respected symbol. (See " Svastika".)

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Trividya (Sanskrit). Lit., "the three knowledges" or sciences".

These are the three fundamental axioms in mysticism  -

(a) the impermanency of all existence, or Anitya;

(b) suffering and misery of all that lives and is, or Dukha; and

(c) all physical, objective existence as evanescent and unreal as a water-bubble in a dream, or Anatma.

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Vaidyuta (Sanskrit). Electric fire, the same as Pavaka, one of the three fires which, divided, produce

forty-nine mystic fires.

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Zampun (Tibet, Tibetan). The sacred tree of life, having many mystic meanings.

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Dharmasmriti Upasthana (Sanskrit). A very long compound word containing a very mystical warning. "Remember, the constituents (of human nature) originate according to the Nidanas, and are-not originally the Self", which means - that, which the Esoteric Schools teach, and not the ecclesiastical interpretation.

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Devamatri (Sanskrit). Lit., "the mother of the gods". A title of Aditi, Mystic Space.

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Desatir. A very ancient Persian work called the Book of Shet. It speaks of the thirteen Zoroasters, and is very mystical.

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Bumapa (Tibet, Tibetan). A school of men, usually a college of mystic students.

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Cardan, Jérome. An astrologer, alchemist, kabbalist and mystic, well known in literature. He was born at Pavia in 1501, and died at Rome in 1576.

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