Dictionary - Planetary Chain: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Planetary Chain
Planetary Chain Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or comet, atom or electron, is a composite entity comprised of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetary Chain: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Planetary Chain
A Theosophical definition of Planetary Chain :   Planetary Chain Every kosmic body or globe, be it sun or planet, nebula or com...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ascending Arc - Luminous Arc: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ascending Arc - Luminous Arc
A Theosophical definition of Ascending Arc - Luminous Arc :   Ascending Arc or Luminous Arc This term, as employed in theosophi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fourth Globe, Sphere: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fourth Globe, Sphere
Fourth Globe or Sphere The globe D of any planetary chain, especially of our earth-chain. The lowest of the chain, because it is by it...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetary Spirit (planetary Spirits): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Planetary Spirit (planetary Spirits)
A Theosophical definition of Planetary Spirit (Planetary Spirits) :   Planetary Spirit (Planetary Spirits) Every celestial body...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetary Spirits: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Planetary Spirits
Planetary Spirits Every celestial body is under the directing influence of a hierarchy of beings, spiritual, quasi-spiritual, and astr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Round
Round In connection with a planetary chain, when the life-wave of any planet passes through the seven root-races of one of its globes,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Round: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Round
A Theosophical definition of Round :   Round The doctrine concerning our planetary chain commonly called that of the seven roun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lunar Chain, Moon-chain: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Lunar Chain, Moon-chain
Lunar Chain, Moon-Chain The planetary chain of the solar system which, although now dead and in decay, was the former imbodiment of ou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Earth-chain: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Earth-chain
Earth-chain Our planet, like every visible cosmic body, is one of a composite chain or coadunated group formed of seven or twelve ener...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Outer Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Outer Round
Outer Round The passage of all the life-waves of a planetary chain to other planetary chains in serial order, at the completion of a s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sister Planet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sister Planet
Sister Planet "Every world has its parent star and sister planet. Thus Earth is the adopted child and younger brother of Venus&qu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Globe-round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Globe-round
Globe-round In theosophical terminology, the passage of one life-wave through seven root-races on one globe. Seven (or ten or twelve) ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma Savarna: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahma Savarna
Brahma Savarna (Sanskrit) One of the 14 manus of our planetary chain, said by Blavatsky to be the seed manu of the fifth round. {SD 2:...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inner Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Inner Round
Inner Round In theosophical literature, the passage of the ten classes or hosts of monads through all the globes comprising a planetar...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seventh Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seventh Round
Seventh Round The final manifested round in the evolutionary life cycle of the life-waves coursing around a planetary chain. While lit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karshvare: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Karshvare
Karshvare (Zend). The "seven earths" (our septenary chain) over which rule the Amesha Spenta, the Archangels or Dhyan Chohan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Circle Of Necessity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Circle Of Necessity
Circle of Necessity The general evolutionary cycle involving the cycles of reimbodiments which every monad has to undergo, whether on ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fohatic Magnetism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fohatic Magnetism
Fohatic Magnetism(s) The spiritual magnetism or electricity individual to each entity, from subatomic to galactic. The twelve signs of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Terra, Tellus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Terra, Tellus
Terra or Tellus (Latin) Equivalent to the Greek Gaia or Ge, earth; mother of the titans by Coelus -- Ouranos or heaven. Terra is often...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Root-race: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Root-race
Root-race The main serial divisions of the human life-wave on any globe of a planetary chain; for instance, the root-races on our glob...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sapta-samudra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sapta-samudra
Sapta-samudra (Sanskrit) [from sapta seven + samudra ocean]   The seven oceans of the Puranas, whether cosmic or terrestrial, the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Round-manvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Round-manvantara
Round-Manvantara Period of one circulation of the life-waves around the planetary chain from the first globe to the last globe, a peri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pushkara-dvipa, Puskara-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pushkara-dvipa, Puskara-dvipa
Pushkara-dvipa puskara-dvipa (Sanskrit) Blue lotus flower; in the Puranas, the seventh of the seven dvipas (continents or islands) of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hvaniratha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hvaniratha
Hvaniratha (Avestan) Also Khvaniratha, Qaniratha. In the Avesta, the name of globe D of our earth planetary chain, the six other globe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Horchia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Horchia
Horchia (Chaldean) A goddess of fire, and hence of the hearth, whether of the State or the family, and thus equivalent in some respect...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Partsuphin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Partsuphin
Partsuphin (Chaldean) Faces, visages, aspects; used in the Qabbalah as an equivalent for 'Anaph (plural 'Anpin), signifying manifested...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hor-ammon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hor-ammon
Horchia (Chaldean) A goddess of fire, and hence of the hearth, whether of the State or the family, and thus equivalent in some respect...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hutukhtu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hutukhtu
Hvaniratha (Avestan) Also Khvaniratha, Qaniratha. In the Avesta, the name of globe D of our earth planetary chain, the six other globe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kusa-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kusa-dvipa
Kusa-dvipa (Sanskrit) One of the seven dvipas (island-continents) into which the globe is divided, according to the occult geography o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Round Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Round Theosophy - The Theosophical Concept Of Rounds
In Theosophy, the whole process is very complex. A round is a part of a planetary chain, according to which a life cycle or life-wave of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life
Brahma's Day, Night, Age, Year, Life A Day of Brahma, a cosmic manvantara or out-breathing of Brahma, represents a period where worlds...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manu: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Manu
A Theosophical definition of Manu :   Manu Manu in the esoteric system is the entities collectively which appear first at the b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seven Sacred Planets: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Seven Sacred Planets
A Theosophical definition of Seven Sacred Planets :   Seven Sacred Planets The ancients spoke of seven planets which they calle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kalpa: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Kalpa
A Theosophical definition of Kalpa :   Kalpa (Sanskrit) This word comes from a verb-root klrip, meaning "to be in order&qu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lunar Pitri (lunar Pitris): Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Lunar Pitri (lunar Pitris)
A Theosophical definition of Lunar Pitri (Lunar Pitris) :   Lunar Pitri (Lunar Pitris) Lunar of course means "belonging to...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahmas Day, Night, Age, Year, Life
Brahma's Day, Night, Age, Year, Life A Day of Brahma, a cosmic manvantara or out-breathing of Brahma, represents a period where worlds...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cosmocratores, Kosmokratores: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cosmocratores, Kosmokratores
Cosmocratores Kosmokratores (Greek) (from kosmos world + kratores lords)   World lords; it occurs in Orphic literature, and in th...   » 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

Dictionary - Chain: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chain
Chain Used in modern theosophy to designate the visible and invisible globes which form the interior and exterior structure of any cel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jambu-dwipa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jambu-dwipa
Jambu-dwipa (Sanskrit). One of the main divisions of the globe, in the Puranic system. It includes India. Some say that it was a conti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Surplus Of Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Surplus Of Life
Surplus of Life Used in theosophy to express the original processes building the globes of a planetary chain, as well as the living be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhaumika Pralaya, Bhaumika Manvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bhaumika Pralaya, Bhaumika Manvantara
Bhaumika Pralaya, Bhaumika Manvantara (Sanskrit) (from bhumi earth, land from the verbal root bhu to become, grow)   The terrestr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahamanvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahamanvantara
Mahamanvantara (Sanskrit) [from maha great + manvantara period of manifestation]   A great cycle of cosmic manifestation and acti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kinnara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kinnara
Kinnara (Sanskrit) (from kim what + nara man)   Also Kim-nara.   "What sort of a man?" -- a mythical being suppose...   » 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 - Svayambhu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Svayambhu
Svayambhu (Sanskrit) Also Swayambhuva. Self-generating, self-evolving; in Hindu metaphysics the cosmic primordial beginnings of the so...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Life-wave: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Life-wave
A Theosophical definition of Life-Wave :   Life-Wave This is a term which means the collective hosts of monads, of which hosts ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Manvantara
Manvantara (Sanskrit) [from manu + antara between]   Between two manus; a period of activity or manifestation. Manu is the entiti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mercury: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mercury
Mercury For the Latin god,   See HERMES   Also the closest visible planet to the sun. Irregularities discovered in its orbit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vajrapanin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vajrapanin
Vajrapanin (Sanskrit) [from vajra diamond, thunderbolt + pani hand]   Holder of the diamond-thunderbolt, an epithet of the dhyani...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Uranus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Uranus
Uranus The planet discovered by William Herschel in 1781. It was not enumerated as one of the seven sacred planets of the ancients, no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Star: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Star
Star Popularly, all points of light in the firmament; more accurately, the so-called fixed stars or suns, as distinct from planets. Al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahayuga: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahayuga
Mahayuga (Sanskrit) [from maha great + yuga age, period of time]   Great age; in Hindu works, the 1000th part of a kalpa or Day o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Earth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Earth
Earth Besides being our terrestrial globe, earth is a comprehensive symbol, meaning the matter or vehicular side of manifestation as w...   » 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 - Races: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Races
A Theosophical definition of Races :   Races During evolution on our earth (and on the other six manifest globes of the planeta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sapta-sindhavas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sapta-sindhavas
Sapta-sindhavas (Sanskrit) [from sapta seven + sindhu river from the verbal root syand to flow, trickle, pour forth]   The seven ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sapta-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sapta-dvipa
Sapta-dvipa (Sanskrit) [from sapta seven + dvipa island, continent]   The seven islands or continents of the world as described i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mater Terra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mater Terra
Mater Terra (Latin) Mother earth; used for an eighth planet after the seven great planets or gods (SD 2:393). Earth was called mother ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Androgyne Ray: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Androgyne Ray
Androgyne Ray An expression for the second stage of manifestation -- the Second Logos in the system of emanations of the logoi; the Fa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahma Pralaya, Brahma Manvantara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahma Pralaya, Brahma Manvantara
Brahma Pralaya or Brahma Manvantara (Sanskrit) The death (or life) of Brahma, which takes place at the close of the Life or Age of Bra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brahmadikas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Brahmadikas
Brahmadikas (Sanskrit) The earliest emanations from Brahman; also a general name for the higher solar pitris or dhyani-chohans, whethe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhutatman: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bhutatman
Bhutatman (Sanskrit) (from bhuta has been + atman self)   The "self of that which has been," the reincarnating ego. Com...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dvipa
Dvipa (Sanskrit) A zone, region, land, or continent; those in Hindu mythology refer esoterically to the seven globes of the earth's pl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Globe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Globe
Globe In theosophy, a unit in the constitution of every planet or sun, each of which is composed of several globes, in their entirety ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Obscuration: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Obscuration
A Theosophical definition of Obscuration :   Obscuration This is a word coined by A. P. Sinnett, one of the pioneers in theosop...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Life-wave: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Life-wave
Life-wave Each of the different classes or hosts of monads, whether considered as seven, ten, or twelve. Each class consists of monads...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Obscuration: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Obscuration
Obscuration A state of sleep or dormancy of greater or less extent, that prevails between two successive periods of activity on a glob...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dweller On The Threshold: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dweller On The Threshold
Dweller on the Threshold (Dweller of the Threshold) Coined by Bulwer-Lytton in his romance Zanoni, where it represents a malevolent en...   » Read the article

Dictionary - First Round: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On First Round
First Round The first evolutionary cycling of the monadic hosts through all the globes of the planetary chain. A globe-round consists ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Globe: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Globe
A Theosophical definition of Globe :   Globe Every one of the physical globes that we see scattered over the fields of space is...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solar System: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solar System
Solar System Commonly, the Sun with the nine principal planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and P...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universal Solar System: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Universal Solar System
Universal Solar System The sum-total on all planes of all the bodies, visible or invisible, which pertain to the inclusive Brahmanda (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Loka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Loka
Loka (Sanskrit) Place, locality; in Brahmanic literature, heavens; in theosophical literature, world, sphere, plane. Used in the metap...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karshvar: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Karshvar
Karshvar (Avestan) Kishvar (Pahlavi) Keshvar (Persian) Also karshvare(s). A globe of the earth-chain, seven being enumerated in the Ve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Coadunation, Coadunition: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Coadunation, Coadunition
Coadunation or Coadunition (from Latin coadunare to unify)   Union; used in theosophical literature to define the interrelation o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mars: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mars
Mars Next to Jupiter, probably the chief Roman divinity, the oldest form among the Italians being Maurs, which became Mars. Identified...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Noah
Noah (Hebrew) [from nuah to come to rest, be at rest, reach rest, settle down into repose]   Biblical patriarch, son of Lamech, c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manvantara: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Manvantara
A Theosophical definition of Manvantara :   Manvantara (Sanskrit) This word is a compound, and means nothing more than "be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saka-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Saka-dvipa
Saka-dvipa (Sanskrit) According to the Puranas, the sixth of the seven dvipas (continents or islands) which compose the globe. Esoteri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Salmala, Salmali-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Salmala, Salmali-dvipa
Salmala, Salmali-dvipa (Sanskrit) According to the Puranas, the third of the seven dvipas (continents or islands) which compose the wo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shem, Shem: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Shem, Shem
Shem shem (Hebrew) Name; eldest of the three sons of Noah (Genesis 10), reputed founder of the Shemitic race. The Hebrew legend of Noa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solar Lhas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solar Lhas
Solar Lhas [from solar + Tibetan lha a celestial being]   Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan to indicate the higher beings derivative f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qui Circumambulat Terram: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Qui Circumambulat Terram
Qui Circumambulat Terram (Latin) Who walks around the earth -- said of the Devil by medieval theologians; but there is no reason for r...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Plaksha-dvipa, Plaksa-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Plaksha-dvipa, Plaksa-dvipa
Plaksha-dvipa plaksa-dvipa (Sanskrit) According to the Puranas, the second of the seven dvipas, the continents or islands which make u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Promised Land: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Promised Land
Promised Land Exoterically, the so-called Holy Land of Palestine, which was promised to the Hebrews as the goal of their wanderings. A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hod, Hodh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hod, Hodh
Hod hodh (Hebrew) Splendor, glory, majesty; the eighth Sephirah, regarded in the Qabbalah as the emanation of the seven preceding Seph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hesed: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hesed
Hesed (Hesedh) or Chesed (Hebrew) Love, kindness; the fourth Sephirah, Mercy, Love, or Compassion, also called Gedulah (greatness, mag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manjusri: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Manjusri
Manjusri (Sanskrit) [from manju beautiful + sri an epithet of holiness, dignity, and reverence]   The holy beautiful one; a name ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naraka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Naraka
Naraka (Sanskrit) In mythology, a place of torment, a hell, but such popular understandings are but exoteric blinds. The narakas are r...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Netsah, Netsahh, Netzah, Netzach: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Netsah, Netsahh, Netzah, Netzach
Netsah, Netsahh, Netzah, Netzach (Hebrew) Firmness, permanence, sincerity; the seventh Sephirah, also called Victory, regarded by Qabb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hochmah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hochmah
Hod hodh (Hebrew) Splendor, glory, majesty; the eighth Sephirah, regarded in the Qabbalah as the emanation of the seven preceding Seph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anda: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anda
Anda (Sanskrit) An egg; a name of Siva, because of his connection and identification with brahmanda, the egg or world of Brahma. Just ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arc: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arc
Arc(s), Ascending and Descending Also Luminous and Shadowy Arcs. A cycle of development, such as that of a planetary chain, can be div...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bumi Haptaiti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bumi Haptaiti
Bumi Haptaiti (Avestan), Haft Keshvar (Persian) (from bumi earth (cf Sanskrit bhumi) + haptaiti septempartite (cf Sanskrit sapta)) &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Geburah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Geburah
Geburah (Hebrew) Strength, might, power; the fifth Sephirah, also called Pahad (fear) and Din (judgment, justice), emanated from the f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heru-ur: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heru-ur
Hesed (Hesedh) or Chesed (Hebrew) Love, kindness; the fourth Sephirah, Mercy, Love, or Compassion, also called Gedulah (greatness, mag...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhyani-buddha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dhyani-buddha
Dhyani-buddha (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root dhyai to meditate, contemplate + buddha awakened one)   Buddhas of contemplation o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ring-pass-not: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ring-pass-not
A Theosophical definition of Ring-Pass-Not :   Ring-Pass-Not A profoundly mystical and suggestive term signifying the circle or...   » Read the article