F FACTOR

The "F" stands for futility. It is the common sense (which negative thinking perpetuates), that everything is bound to fail unless unflagging energy, perseverance and will are brought to bear. The strong derive their strength from this. The weak derive their weakness from it.

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ANKH-F-N-KHONSU

"His life is in Khonsu" (that is, in the Moon God of Thebes), title of a high priest in Temple of Amen-Ra, the sun god, 26th dynasty. Crowley's former incarnation. His stele in the Cairo museum of 1904 was numbered "666".

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F  - The sixth letter of the English alphabet, for which there is no equivalent in Hebrew. It is the double F F of the Eolians which became the Digamma for some mysterious reasons. It corresponds to the Greek phi. As a Latin numeral it denotes 40, with a dash over the letter (F) 400,000.

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Ab Hati (Egyptian) The animal soul, heart, or feelings in F. Lambert's rendering of the Egyptian sevenfold human constitution (SD 2:633).

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FIBONACCI SERIES

1. . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 5 . . . 8 . . . 13 . . . etc. This is the number series by which things are generated of themselves. Here is a computer program (in Basic) to produce the series ad infinitum:

10 LET F = 0 + 1

20 LET N = N + F

30 PRINT N

40 LET F = F +  N

50 PRINT F

60 GOTO 20

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Vidblainn (Norse) Wide blue; one of the dwellings of the Norse gods, the third "heaven"; Blavatsky says it refers to the third globe of the earth chain on the ascending arc (globe F).{SD 2:100}

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FARADAY CAGE

Andrija Puharich's box for enclosing psychics. It screens out all electromagnetic waves except E.L.F. ("Extremely Low Frequency"). Used for increasing ESP ability up to approx. 1000x.

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Achthna acthna (Sanskrit?) An invisible subterrestrial fire, sometimes causing volcanic eruptions, an "element in the life of the 'great snake' Vasuki, that according to Hindu mythology encircles the world, and by whose movements earthquakes may be produced" (BCW 7:283). Also "a certain state of the 'soul' of the earth, a mixture of astral and material elements, perhaps of an electric or magnetic character" (F. Hartmann, ibid.).

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CHIROPS

Bat God - one of the mysterious "supreme" deities. (Cf. Satan's batwings and the triliteral Arab root kh-f-sh, which depending on the vowels can mean "bat" or "ruin", destruction"). In Mesoamerican religions, the bat stands for enlightenment, since it awakens in the darkness. The Mayan god is Camazotz.

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Audlang (Icelandic) (from audr void + langr long)

One of several heavens of the Norse Eddas; one of "the three gradually ascending planets of our 'Chain' " (SD 2:100), these unseen globes usually designated E, F, and G in theosophical literature. Audlang is evidently one of the "shelves" (planes) of substances different from our matter, of which these unseen globes are built. Beyond Audlang lie other heavens: Grimnismal in the Edda enumerates twelve mansions of the gods on their appropriate shelves.

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prayer (metaphysical healing): Any attempt to express sentiments to a supernatural focus of worship or veneration. The general categories of prayer are thanksgiving and petitionary prayer.

Forms of Christian prayer include:

(a)   private prayer, which is solitary and/or meditative;

(b)  liturgical prayer, wherein a priest or leader prays ceremonially for countless persons and spirits;

(c)   vocal prayer, characterized by holy utterances;

(d)  mental prayer, the turning of one's mind and heart to God;

(e)   mystical prayer, whose goal is mystical union with God; and

(f)   prophetic prayer, which is often public and extemporary.

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Fafnir A mythical dragon in the Norse Edda. In the long and involved saga of the Children of the Mist (Niflungar, best known as the Wagnerian Nibelungen), Fáfnir slew his father for his golden treasure, which had been cursed by the dwarf Andvari (from and spirit + vari watcher or guardian)

. Fáfnir assumed the form of a dragon and lay guarding the gold on Gnipaheden (high heath). His brother Regin, desiring to share the gold, persuaded his ward, the hero Sigurd, to kill the dragon and cook its heart for him. When Sigurd did so, he burnt his finger. Instinctively putting it in his mouth, he found that, as soon as the dragon's heart-blood touched his tongue, he became able to understand the language and messages of the birds.

This tale, like so many mythic stories, is an allegoric history of the early races of mankind, featuring their successive development of distinctive qualities and intelligence. Many myths feature the slaying of a dragon or serpent of wisdom to obtain a treasure of gold (wisdom), which in many cases carries with it a curse, indicating the need for discrimination in its use.

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Tiph'ereth (Hebrew) Beauty, glory, honor; the sixth Sephiroth which according to the Qabbalah is emanated from the five preceding Sephiroth, although this Sephirah is particularly regarded as the union of the two immediately preceding -- Mercy or Love, and Power or Judgment.

These three form the second triad or face, the so-called Microprosopus or Inferior Countenance, called in the Qabbalah Ze`eyr 'Anpin. Being thus regarded as the union of the masculine and feminine potencies, Beauty -- excluding Kether (Crown) -- forms the head of the central Pillar of the Sephirothal Tree.

Its Divine Name is commonly given as 'Elohim; in the Angelic Order it is represented as the Shin'annim. In its application to the human body, as corresponding to the Heavenly Man or 'Adam Qadmon, Tiph'ereth is regarded as the chest or region immediately beneath the heart, the second great center following upon the first, or that of the head, Kether. In its application to the seven globes of our planetary chain it corresponds to globe F (SD 1:200). From this Sephirah is emanated the seventh, Netsah.

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PISCES

(Also see FISH.) The dual sign of Past and Future, Flood followed by resurgence. The ending precessional Age that began with the invitation to join Christ and leave the Arietian Age behind ("Come, I will make you fishers of men...") Pisces is the sign of suffering, governing the 12th house of incarcerations, restrictions and bondage -- hospitals, nunneries, prisons, etc. It is ruled by Neptune, poisons, liquids and narcotics. Pisces always, in some way, manages to hobble the native so that his progress is crippled either by external or internal conditions.

Some well known Pisceans include: Ernest Renan, Frederic Chopin, Elizabeth Taylor, George Washington, Patty Hearst, Schopenhauer, Giuleta Masina, Meher Baba, Anthony Burgess, Jack Kerouac, B.F. Skinner, Ibsen, Nijinski, Einstein, Ravel, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Jean Harlow, Queen Mary I, Cyrano de Bergerac, Claire Trevor, L. Ron Hubbard.

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Surplus of Life Used in theosophy to express the original processes building the globes of a planetary chain, as well as the living beings forming the hierarchies of the chain. Applying the Christian analogy of the unrolling of a scroll to the manifestation of the globes of a chain, when the first globe (globe A) has come into manifestation, only 1/7th of the scroll has been unrolled or opened out, leaving 6/7ths of the scroll intact or unopened. The surplus of life applies to the 6/7ths still not manifested -- which would be globes B, C, D, E, F, and G. After the appearance of globe A, the surplus of life moves down a plane in order to develop globe B, and thus the scroll is opened another seventh, leaving 5/7ths intact; and so the process continues until all the seven globes of the planetary chain have appeared.

The analogy may also be applied to the seven principles composing the human being. Atman is the first principle to be unrolled, the other six principles (buddhi, manas, kama, prana, linga-sarira, and sthula-sarira) remaining infolded or involved. The surplus of life of the human constitution then unrolls another principle to manifest buddhi, the other five still being infolded, and so the process continues until all seven principles are unrolled or emanated.

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CRYSTAL SKULL

A replica of an ancient human skull hewn out of a single rock crystal and found by Anna Mitchell-Hedges in 1927 in the Mayan burial-ground, Labaantún, British Honduras. Light reflected from the zygomatic arch and funneled along the optic bridge causes the eye-sockets to shine brightly. The skull also emits concentrated pinpoints of light and serves as a magnifying glass and scrying ball. If suspended properly, the jaw will open and close, the eyes will flash and it will easily nod yes or no. Tests reveal that it was not carved by metal tools.

Small crystal skulls have throughout the past couple of centuries been unearthed in Central America and a large one, similar to the Michell-Hedges skull, was already in the British Museum. The M-H skull is of far superior quality, however, and the British version is derived from the former.

 CSICOP

"Committee for the Scientific Investigation Of the Paranormal," founded in 1976 by New York professor of philosophy, Paul Kurz. Its membership originally included many well-known, rigid authority figures from the scientific establishment, such as B.F. Skinner, Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. It is dedicated single-mindedly to the discrediting of any technically unsubstantiated, over-imaginative or simply "unscientific" point of view.

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Globe In theosophy, a unit in the constitution of every planet or sun, each of which is composed of several globes, in their entirety referred to as a planetary or solar chain. Furthermore, moons, nebulae, and comets also have a seven or twelvefold constitution, even as has man, who is a copy in the small of the universe.

These globes are analogous to the monadic centers in the human constitution. The seven manifested globes on the four lower cosmic planes for purposes of convenience are enumerated as A, B, C, D, E, F, G; but reference is sometimes made more mystically to the globes from "A to Z," plainly hinting at all the globes of the chain. When considering seven cosmic planes, twelve globes are given. These globes are related to the seven (or twelve) sacred planets and to the twelve zodiacal constellations (diagram from FSO 323).

The life-waves, the various hosts or kingdoms such as elemental, mineral, animal, human, or devas, circle around these globes in seven great cycles called rounds. Each life-wave in turn first enters globe A, runs through its life cycle there, and then passes in time on to globe B, the succeeding life-wave meanwhile entering globe A, and so onwards and forwards through the whole series. In our own planetary chain, globe D is our earth. Three globes precede it on the downward arc, and three follow it on the ascending arc of evolution -- referring here to the manifested seven globes. The passing through seven root-races of any kingdom or life-wave on any globe is called a globe-round.

The seven globes can be related to the Qabbalistic worlds and sephiroth, as Blavatsky did (SD 1:200):

See also PLANETARY CHAIN

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Yaho (Hebrew, Jewish). Fürst shows this to be the same as the Greek Iao. Yaho is an old Semitic and very mystic name of the supreme deity, while Yah (q.v.) is a later abbreviation which, from containing an abstract ideal, became finally applied to, and connected with, a phallic symbol - the lingham of creation.

Both Yah and Yaho were Hebrew "mystery names" derived from Iao, but the Chaldeans had a Yaho before the Jews adopted it, and with them, as explained by some Gnostics and Neo-Platonists, it was the highest conceivable deity enthroned above the seven heavens and representing Spiritual Light (Atman, the universal), whose ray was Nous, standing both for the intelligent Demiurge of the Universe of Matter and the Divine Manas in man, both being Spirit.

The true key of this, communicated to the Initiates only, was that the name of IAO was "triliteral and its nature secret ", as explained by the Hierophants. The Phœnicians too had a supreme deity whose name was triliteral, and its meanings secret, this was also IAO; and Y-ha-ho was a sacred word in the Egyptian mysteries, which signified "the one eternal and concealed deity" in nature and in man; i.e., the "universal Divine Ideation", and the human Manas, or the higher Ego.

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