GREEK ASTROLOGICAL TERMS

The spellings are somewhat different from  what you might expect:

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FIRE CIRCLE

Egyptian term for UFO.

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TELESTIC/TELIC

Denoting a final end or purpose. > "Telestic madness" (Platonic term) = mania for mysticism.

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Mau (Egyptian) Term for cat, seer. {SD 1:305}

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Fersendajian Zoroastrian term or people (BCW 4:508).

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Mysticism The doctrine that the nature of reality can be known by direct apprehension, by faculties above the senses, by intuition.

"Mysticism demands a faculty above reason, by which the subject shall be placed in immediate and complete union with the object of his desire -- a union in which the consciousness of self has disappeared, and in which therefore subject and object are one" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed. "Mysticism"). It overlaps in meaning such terms as the Neoplatonic ecstasis, and the theosophy of Iamblichus.

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Al-Tamimi Druse term for the supreme wisdom or universal spirit. (BCW 3:181)

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SACRED APES OF BENARES

Schopenhauer's term for women.

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VALLEY OF THORNS

HPB's term for the material world in which man has been exiled.

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GALILEAN

Preferred term for "christian" by non-christians, since it avoids the messianic designation.

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LHA

Tibetan gods. Also, a term for the highest spirits. Saints and yogins are sometimes respectfully addressed as "lhas". (See LOA).

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NEW AGE

The current renaissance of mystical awareness, beginning circa 1968 and now largely given over to commercial enterprises designed to take advantage of a phenomenal growth of popular interest in the occult. Proper term should be "New Aeon."

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Kalpa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root klrip to be in order)

A generalizing term for a period or cycle of time.

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Daimonion Photi (Greek) Neoplatonic term for spiritual illumination {BCW 2:92}.

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Choos (Gno) Valentinian Gnostic term for Earth (BCW 13:26, 28).

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Agyrmos (Greek) A collection of men, assembly; referred to initiation into the Mysteries, synonymous with synaxis. Hesychius called the first day of the initiation into the Mysteries of Ceres, goddess of the harvest, by these terms. The term synaxis was eventually dropped by Christians in favor of missa or mass. (BCW 11:99&n)

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NOOSPHERE

Term from Teilhard de Chardin's evolutionary theory. The expanding omnidimensional structure of all reality-labrynths on this planet; sum total of all human thoughts, feelings and (apparent) sense impressions.

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ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM

Hakim Bey's term for overcoming Taoism's excessive passivity and withdrawal. He feels that to be really different invites repression by the Establishment. One should not think of oneself as a Liberal, but as a criminal.

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BOOK OF THOTH

Crowleys term for the Tarot. He didn't necessarily, however, assume an Egyptian origin for the Tarot, as some believe. Thoth is interchangeable with Hermes and Tarot is part of the Hermetic Tradition.

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HYPARXIS

J. G. Bennett's term from The Dramatic Universe. Defined as "will-time" or the "region in which the will is free to make decisions to introduce something new and uncaused into the world process." From Greek hyparcho, "make a beginning."

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