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Dictionary - Brothers Of The Shadow: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Brothers Of The Shadow
A Theosophical definition of Brothers of the Shadow :   Brother(s) of the Shadow A term given in occultism and especially in mo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shastra, S’astra: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Shastra, S’astra
Shastra or S’astra (Sanskrit). A treatise or book; any work of divine or accepted authority, including law books. A Shastri mean...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Mysticism
Mysticism: (1) The doctrine or belief that direct knowledge of the God(s), o spiritual truth, of ultimate reality, or of comparable ma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaos Prediction: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Chaos Prediction
CHAOS PREDICTION Mathematical Chaos Prediction is the next step after Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, now used partly (in ignorance)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avalokitesvara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Avalokitesvara
A Theosophical definition of Avalokitesvara :   Avalokitesvara (Sanskrit) A compound word: avalokita, "perceived," &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Affa: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Affa
AFFA The name of an ET intelligence said to have contacted the U.S. Army sometime in the early 1980's, apparently not one of the guest...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Brahma
A Theosophical definition of Brahma :   Brahma (Sanskrit) A word of which the root, brih, means "expansion." It stand...   » Read the article

Article - Theosophy Sitemap I - S
This is a sitemap for Theosophy - S . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ammon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ammon
Ammon (Egypt, Egyptian). One of the great gods of Egypt. Ammon or Amoun is far older than Amoun-Ra, and is identified with Baal. Hammo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rupa: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Rupa
A Theosophical definition of Rupa :   Rupa (Sanskrit) A word meaning "form," "image," "similitude,&quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhism: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Buddhism
A Theosophical definition of Buddhism :   Buddhism The teachings of Gautama the Buddha. Buddhism today is divided into two bran...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atman: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Atman
A Theosophical definition of Atman :   Atman (Sanskrit) The root of atman is hardly known; its origin is uncertain, but the gen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Devachan: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Devachan
A Theosophical definition of Devachan :   Devachan [Tibetan, bde-ba-can, pronounced de-wa-chen] A translation of the Sanskrit s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elementaries: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Elementaries
A Theosophical definition of Elementaries :   Elementaries "Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaos: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Chaos
A Theosophical definition of Chaos :   Chaos (Greek) A word usually thought to mean a sort of helter-skelter treasury of origin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Clairaudience: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Clairaudience
A Theosophical definition of Clairaudience :   Clairaudience In its largest sense Clairaudience means simply "clear-hearin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Clairvoyance: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Clairvoyance
A Theosophical definition of Clairvoyance :   Clairvoyance In its largest sense Clairvoyance simply means "clear-seeing,&q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhyana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Dhyana
A Theosophical definition of Dhyana :   Dhyana (Sanskrit) A term signifying profound spiritualintellectual contemplation with u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Reincarnation
Reincarnation Reimbodiment; specifically reinfleshment, the repeated imbodiment of the reincarnating ego in vehicles of human flesh on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chhaya: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Chhaya
A Theosophical definition of Chhaya :   Chhaya (Chaya, Sanskrit) Literally a "shade," "simulacrum," or &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cause: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cause
Cause(s). See KARMA; NIDANA; FIRST CAUSE   (See also: Cause , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ansumat: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ansumat
Ansumat (Sanskrit). A Puranic personage, the "nephew of 60,000 uncles" King Sagara’s sons, who were reduced to ashes b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ain Soph: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ain Soph
Ain Soph (Hebrew, Jewish). The "Boundless" or Limitless; Deity emanating and extending.   Ain Soph is also written En ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kiyun: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kiyun
Kiyun (Hebrew, Jewish). Or the god Kivan which was worshipped by the Israelites in the wilderness and was probably identical with Satu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chakra: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Chakra
A Theosophical definition of Chakra :   Chakra (Cakra, Sanskrit) A word signifying in general a "wheel," and from thi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Deva (devas): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Deva (devas)
A Theosophical definition of Deva (Devas) :   Deva (Devas) (Sanskrit) A word meaning celestial being, of which there are variou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universe: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Universe
A Theosophical definition of Universe :   Universe The theosophical philosophy divides the universe into two general functional...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abraxas, Abrasax: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Abraxas, Abrasax
Abraxas or Abrasax (Gn.). Mystic words which have been traced as far back as Basilides, the Pythagorean, of Alexandria, AD. 90. He use...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aura: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Aura
A Theosophical definition of Aura :   Aura An extremely subtle and therefore invisible essence or fluid that emanates from and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avidya: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Avidya
A Theosophical definition of Avidya :   Avidya (Sanskrit) A compound word: a, "not"; vidya, "knowledge"; he...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dharmakaya: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Dharmakaya
A Theosophical definition of Dharmakaya :   Dharmakaya (Sanskrit) This is a compound of two words meaning the "continuance...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Age: Theosophy Dictionary On Age
Age(s). See HESIODIC AGES; YUGAS; AEONS   (See also: Age , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary) ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ego: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ego
A Theosophical definition of Ego :   Ego (Latin) A word meaning "I." In theosophical writings the ego is that which s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eighth Sphere Or Planet Of Death: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Eighth Sphere Or Planet Of Death
A Theosophical definition of Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death :   Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death A term used in the more esot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dweller On The Threshold: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Dweller On The Threshold
A Theosophical definition of Dweller on the Threshold :   Dweller on the Threshold A literary invention of the English mystic a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asvattha: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Asvattha
A Theosophical definition of Asvattha :   Asvattha (Sanskrit) The mystical tree of knowledge, the mystical tree of kosmical lif...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bodhi: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Bodhi
A Theosophical definition of Bodhi :   Bodhi (Sanskrit) This word comes from the root budh, meaning "to awaken." It i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astral Body: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Astral Body
A Theosophical definition of Astral Body :   Astral Body This is the popular term for the model-body, the linga-sarira. It is b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chela: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Chela
A Theosophical definition of Chela :   Chela (Cela) An old Indian term. In archaic times more frequently spelled and pronounced...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Monad: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Monad
A Theosophical definition of Monad :   Monad A spiritual entity which to us humans is indivisible; it is a divine-spiritual lif...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fohat: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Fohat
A Theosophical definition of Fohat :   Fohat An extremely mystical term used in the occultism of Tibet for what in Sanskrit is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Kundalini
KUNDALINI Sex power (Hindu serpent). The goddess in the form of a fire-serpent, who lies sleeping at the base of the spine. It is the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Infinite: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Infinite
A Theosophical definition of Infinite :   Infinite A term meaning that which is not finite. The expression is used sometimes wi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asrama: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Asrama
A Theosophical definition of Asrama :   Asrama (Sanskrit) A word derived from the root sram, signifying "to make efforts,&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Auric Egg: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Auric Egg
A Theosophical definition of Auric Egg :   Auric Egg A term which appertains solely to the more recondite teachings of occultis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Asana
A Theosophical definition of Asana :   Asana according to Theosophy (Sanskrit) "A word derived from the verbal root as, si...   » 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 - Absorption: Theosophy Dictionary On Absorption
Absorption (from Latin absorbere to suck up, swallow)   In The Secret Doctrine, the reabsorption of all manifestation at the comi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avatara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Avatara
A Theosophical definition of Avatara :   Avatara (Sanskrit) The noun-form derived from a compound of two words: ava, prepositio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Emotion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Emotion
Emotion(s). See KAMA; SENSES   (See also: Emotion , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Svastika: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Svastika
Svastika (Sanskrit). In popular notions, it is the Jaina cross, or the "four-footed" cross (croix cramponnée). In Mas...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Daiviprakriti: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Daiviprakriti
A Theosophical definition of Daiviprakriti :   Daiviprakriti (Sanskrit) A compound signifying "divine" or "origi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Knowledge: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE "Knowledge is the excrement of experience." -- Austin Osman Spare.     (See also: KNOWLEDGE , Magick, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - West: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On West
WEST The Realm of the Dead, which is veiled by Isis.   (See also: WEST , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Antaskarana: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Antaskarana
A Theosophical definition of Antaskarana :   Antaskarana (Sanskrit) Perhaps better spelled as antahkarana. A compound word: ant...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ethics: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ethics
A Theosophical definition of Ethics :   Ethics The theosophical teachings are essentially and wholly ethical. It is impossible ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gods: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Gods
A Theosophical definition of Gods :   Gods The old pantheons were builded upon an ancient and esoteric wisdom which taught, und...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Soul
Mind   (See also: Spirit , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Ankh, Wudja, T, Seneb: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ankh, Wudja, T, Seneb
ANKH, (W)UDJA(T), SENEB "May he live, be prosperous, be healthy". A common Egyptian salutation appropriate for kings - abbre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ahankara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ahankara
A Theosophical definition of Ahankara :   Ahankara (Sanskrit) A compound word: aham, "I"; kara, "maker" or ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Esoteric Doctrine: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Esoteric Doctrine
A Theosophical definition of Esoteric Doctrine :   Esoteric Doctrine The body of mystical and sacred teachings reserved for stu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elemental (elementals): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Elemental (elementals)
A Theosophical definition of Elemental (Elementals) :   Elemental (Elementals) Nature-spirits or sprites. The theosophical usag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Akasa: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Akasa
A Theosophical definition of Akasa :   Akasa (Sanskrit) The word means "brilliant," "shining," "lumino...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rebirth: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Rebirth
A Theosophical definition of Rebirth :   Rebirth One of the several aspects or branches of the general doctrine of reimbodiment...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angels: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Angels
ANGELS Purely mental entities acting as messengers between biodes (flesh-entities) and theodes (spirit-entities)      ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alaya: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Alaya
A Theosophical definition of Alaya :   Alaya (Sanskrit) A compound word: a, "not"; laya, from the verb-root li, "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cosmic Egg: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cosmic Egg
Cosmic Egg. See EGG; HIRANYAGARBHA   (See also: Cosmic Egg , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adept: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Adept
A Theosophical definition of Adept :   Adept The word means one who is "skilled"; hence, even in our ordinary life, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reality: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Reality
REALITY "Reality" is illusion only in the sense that there is more than one version. You can alter this aeon's reality, but ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Absolute: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Absolute
A Theosophical definition of Absolute :   Absolute A term which unfortunately is much abused and often misused even in theosoph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aspect: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Aspect
ASPECT One of the forms or faces of a god (Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva or "Father Son and Holy Ghost). A human being's aspect can be cons...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Existence: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Existence
EXISTENCE That which calls itself into being out of the Void. Most metaphysical systems are agreed that matter is "dirt", or...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anarchs Of The New Paradigm: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Anarchs Of The New Paradigm
ANARCHS OF THE NEW PARADIGM (Hakim Bey's term). The quantum social paradigm, with decidedly anti-authoritarian flavor. The old "m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prajapati: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Prajapati
A Theosophical definition of Prajapati :   Prajapati (Sanskrit) A word meaning "governor" or "lord" or &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Race, Races: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Race, Races
Race, Races During evolution on each of the globes of the earth-chain, the human life-wave passes through seven evolutionary stages ca...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Spirit
SPIRIT Soul and body are what the world sees. The mind connects them. The spirit, however, is one's own thing. It can be connected to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atom: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Atom
A Theosophical definition of Atom :   Atom This word comes to us from the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus, Leucippus, and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alhim: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alhim
Alhim 'elim (Hebrew) (plural of 'el god)   One method of transliterating 'elim, although the insertion of the h is incorrect. The...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Air: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Air
AIR In physics, vacuum interference. In metaphysics, air is the element that pertains to dimensions and represents the tendency toward...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthropoids: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anthropoids
Anthropoids The larger or manlike apes. During the period when the fourth root-race of mankind in this fourth round on globe D (our ea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sound: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Taste
Sight   (See also: Sound , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Death: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Death
DEATH The 13th Arcanum, lettered Nun, "The World of Truth". In esoteric philosophy, Death is considered a gateway between mo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Evolution: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Evolution
A Theosophical definition of Evolution :   Evolution As the word is used in theosophy it means the "unwrapping," &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Difference: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Difference
DIFFERENCE All things are one and separation is an illusion, but we are "separated" from reality for the purpose of maximizi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chnouphis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Chnouphis
Chnouphis (Ancient Greek). Nouf in Egyptian. Another aspect of Ammon, and the personification of his generative power in actu, as Knep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Age Of Osiris: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Age Of Osiris
AGE OF OSIRIS Equivalent to the dying Age of Pisces. God of vegetation and cycles. Osiris is very earthy (compare the Capricorn birth ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self-applied Health Enhancement Methods: Alternative Health Dictionary On Self-applied Health Enhancement Methods
Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods (SAHEM): Variation of self-healing developed by Roger Jahnke, C.A., O.M.D., author of The Heal...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Faith: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Faith
FAITH Current sloppiness of language attaches the same simple-minded and lackluster meaning to "belief" and "faith"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Porphyry, Porphyrius: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Porphyry, Porphyrius
Porphyry, or Porphyrius. A Neo-Platonist and a most distinguished writer, only second to Plotinus as a teacher and philosopher.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magician: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magician
MAGICIAN, THE Th first arcanum of the Tarot, letter Beth (because Beth, not Aleph, is the first letter in the bible). One is the essen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Death: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Death
DEATH "Mental materiality". Life becomes more and more "mental" until death (even as death becomes more and more p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Individuality: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Individuality
A Theosophical definition of Individuality :   Individuality Theosophists draw a sharp and comprehensive distinction between in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heart: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Heart
HEART The heart was the center of instinct and the precious kernel of immortality and it was this which was weighed in the balance aga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Reincarnation
REINCARNATION Advanced minds seem to take reincarnation for granted: Plato, Emerson, Edison, Shaw, Jung -- even Nietzsche and Schopenh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Airyana-vaego, Airyamen Vaego, Airyana-varsedya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Airyana-vaego, Airyamen Vaego, Airyana-varsedya
Airyana-Vaego, Airyamen Vaego, Airyana-Varsedya. See AIRYANMEN VAEJA   (See also: Airyana-Vaego, Airyamen Vaego, Airyana-Varse...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ankh-f-n-khonsu: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ankh-f-n-khonsu
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, t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abbreviations: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials, which the general ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Animal Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Animal Magic
ANIMAL MAGIC Jacob von Uexküll has shown that animals live in quite separate numinous worlds defined by the nature of their speci...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Death: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Death
A Theosophical definition of Death :   Death Death occurs when a general break-up of the constitution of man takes place; nor i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zodiac: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Zodiac
A Theosophical definition of Zodiac :   Zodiac The Greeks called the zodiac the "circle of life," and they divided it...   » Read the article