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I CHING

The 64 hexagrams can be seen as 32 pairs of opposites and related to the 32 Atus of the Book of Thoth. McKenna believes the I Ching is but a fragment of a much larger device for prognostication, and bases his fractals of Timescape Zero upon its regular sequences. A simple way of casting the I Ching is to throw a single die six times. An even number indicates Yin, an odd number Yang. A 12-sided die is best, so that you may determine "movables".

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I.N.R.I.

The message affixed to X's crown of thorns, conventionally translated as Iesus Nazareth Rex Iudorum, but also "I Never Risk Inquiry." as well as Igni Natura Renovatur Integra ("All of Nature is Renewed by Fire") or Igne Regenerando Integrat ("...integrates in regenerating by fire"), and "Iron Nails Ran In." Also: Ingenio Numen Resplendet Iacchi ("The True God is Iacchus" (Dionysos)) and Isis Naturae Regina Ineffabilis ("Isis, Ineffable Queen of Nature"). Then there are In Nepenthe Revolvit Ixion ("Ixion Spins in Nepenthe") and Id Numquam Rogat Iterim ("The Id never asks the way.") Finally, Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa ("The Name itself is the Thing itself"). Freemasonry supplies two more variations: Igne Nitrum Roris Invenitur and the Hebrew Iammim Nour Rouah Iabescheh ("Water, Fire, Wind, Arid"). If Fire is the Will, then when we say "Nature is renewed by Fire," we mean that the Will alone has control over the universe.

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Kalmucks, Kalmuiks, or Calmucks A people of Mongolian race settled principally in Russia and China, but found in other parts of Central Asia. In China they are known as OlŸts or Elocts: their language is akin to Mongolian, and they use the same alphabet. Their religious beliefs are similar in character to those of Lamaism.

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Kosa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root kus to hold, enclose, embrace)

A sheath or covering; its primary meaning is of enfoldment or containment. Philosophically, it is generally rendered sheath or encasement, also sometimes principle by Blavatsky. Five are enumerated in Vedantic philosophy (the panchakosa), corresponding very closely with the theosophical sevenfold classification of human principles, as seen in the following table made by Subba Row:

Classification in Esoteric Buddhism ---- in Vedantic ---- in Taraka-Raja-Yoga

1. Sthula-sarira (physical body)---- Annamaya-kosa (sheath formed of food)

2. Prana (breath, life) ---- Pranamaya-kosa (sheath of life) ---- Sthulopadhi

3. Vehicle of Prana (linga-sarira)

4. Kama-rupa (Kama) ---- Manomaya-kosa ---- Sukshmopadhi

5. Mind

á      volitions (Sheath of mind and feelings)

á      Vijnana ---- Vijnanamaya-kosa (Sheath of intellect)

6. Spiritual Soul (buddhi) ---- Anandamaya-kosa (sheath of bliss) ---- Karanopadhi

7. Atman (Self) ---- Atman ---- Atman

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I't (Sanskrit) In the Puranas, a king (SD 2:406)

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Imhot-pou. See I-EM-HETEP

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Imothos, Imouthes. See I-EM-HETEP

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I Am That I Am 'ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh (Hebrew) A title given by Jehovah to himself, a variation of I-am-I, indicating that Jehovah, whatever he may claim to be, is merely one of the gods of the manifested world, a Demiourgos, and not the Supreme.

See also AHIYE

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Ch'i. See KHI

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I Hi Weu (Chinese) Appear in ch. 14 of Tao-te-Ching (SD 1:472)

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Iesus Hominum Salvator. See I. H. S.

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I. N. R. I. Four letters found at the head of pictures of Jesus on the cross, and generally interpreted as the initials of Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews) but according to others representing a Rosicrucian motto: Ingne natura renovatur integra (by fire, nature is renewed entire).

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I-am-ness Ahankara, self-hood, egoship; an evolution of consciousness centered in manas, by which manas becomes the field for the play of self-consciousness. Also, the illusion of separate selfhood.

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Jam-pe-yang 'jam dpa'i dbyangs (Tibetan) Equivalent of Sanskrit manjughosha, another name of the bodhisattva Manjusri.

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I H S Well-known Christian monogram, taken as being the initials of Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus Savior of Men); and the first three letters of the Greek Iesous ((Greek char), Jesus). It is also a monogram representative of Dionysos used in the Mysteries. As a Latin abbreviation, having mystic significance, it means acrostically, In hoc signo victor eris (in this sign thou shalt be victorious).

See also JESUS

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Jah-Veh YHVH (Hebrew) One transliteration of Jehovah, referring specifically to Genesis 4:26:

"then men began to call themselves Jehovah," i.e., they knew themselves to be then males and females.

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I-am, I-am-I I-am-I denotes self-consciousness in which the essential consciousness is reflected in a transmitting vehicle or soul. I-am denotes simple unadulterate being, and is used as a name for the cosmic self.

Thus the I-am-I is a lower manifestation of the I-am, which is abstract and incomprehensible to ordinary human mentality. Philosophically, I-am-I is a temporary production of Purusha working in and through the prakritis, or of the image-making power inherent in human consciousness called ahankara (the "I-creating" faculty); so that when evolution has been completed, the I-am-I or self-consciousness will have risen through its various higher forms to become at least for a manvantara the cosmic self.

The consciousness expressed into the phrase I-am is also, when compared with the cosmic self, the limited and therefore imperfect demiurgic state, the Demiurge being the production of that cosmic self. Hence, not only the I-am-I, but likewise the I-am, are withdrawn and become latent during pralaya in paramatman or the inexpressible divine.

See also EGO; SELF

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Khi (Chinese) Also Ch'i. Breath;

"The khi is the full manifestation of the shen" (I Ching), "while the bones and the flesh moulder in the ground, and imperceptibly become the earth of the fields, the khi departs to move on high as a shinning light" (Tsi i 11). Blavatsky compares it in its essential meaning to buddhi in the human constitution; in other ways it is equivalent to the Hindu prana.

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