Dictionary - Plato: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Plato
Plato. An Initiate into the Mysteries and the greatest Greek philosopher, whose writings are known the world over. He was the pupil of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apocatastasis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Apocatastasis
Apocatastasis (Greek) Restoration, return; used by Plato and Plutarch for a return of the stars to the same places.   (See also...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atlantis
Atlantis (Ancient Greek) The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teachings and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solon
Solon (638?-559 BC) Greek sage, friend of Plato's grandfather. {SD; BCW 14:254}   (See also: Solon , Mysticism, Mysticism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Socrates: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Socrates
Socrates (469?-399 BC) Greek philosopher, immortalized in Plato's Dialogues. {SD; BCW}   (See also: Socrates , Mysticism, Myst...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noeton, Noetos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Noeton, Noetos
Noeton, Noetos (Greek) Intelligible of Plato. {SD 1:365, 461; FSO 194}   (See also: Noeton, Noetos , Mysticism, Mysticism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alogon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alogon
Alogon (Greek) Used by Pythagoras and Plato for the irrational soul in man, divided into the thymichon and epithymichon; the rational ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aistheton: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Aistheton
Aistheton (Greek) Sensible, perceived by the senses; used by Plato in contrast with noeton (intelligible) to indicate the visible aspe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Energeia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Energeia
Energeia (Greek) Act, actual existence; used by Aristotle in contrast to dynamis (potency, power); these correspond to Plato's aisthet...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agathon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Agathon
Agathon (Ancient Greek). Plato’s Supreme Deity. Lit., "The Good", our ALAYA, or "Universal Soul".   (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dunamis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dunamis
Dunamis (Greek) Potency; used by Aristotle in contrast to energeia (act), for the invisible aspect of the universe as opposed to the v...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Poseidonis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Poseidonis
Poseidonis (Ancient Greek). The last remnant of the great Atlantean Continent. Plato’s island Atlantis is referred to as an equi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ruta: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ruta
Ruta (Sanskrit). The name of one of the last islands of Atlantis, which perished ages before Poseidonis, the "Atlantis" of P...   » Read the article

Dictionary - To On: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On To On
To On (Ancient Greek). The "Being", the "Ineffable All" of Plato. He" whom no person has seen except the Son&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dodecahedron: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron (Ancient Greek). According to Plato, the Universe is built by "the first begotten" on the geometrical figure of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - To On: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On To On
To On (Greek) [from to the + einai to be]   That which is, the reality as opposed to the seeming; the essence or real nature of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orichalcum: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Orichalcum
ORICHALCUM "Mountain copper." The shiny metallic compound used in Atlantis, mentioned by Plato, said to be comprised of bron...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sankha-dvipa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sankha-dvipa
Sankha-dvipa (Sanskrit) Spoken of in the Puranas as one of the nine divisions of Bharata-varsha or India.   Blavatsky identifies...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Huperouranioi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Huperouranioi
Huperouranioi (Greek) Hyperuranii (Latin) Above the heavens, or in highest heaven; the name given by Plato, Proclus, and other Greek p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gnosis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gnosis
Gnosis (Greek) (cf Sanskrit jnana knowledge)   Knowledge; used by Plato and the Neoplatonists to signify the divine knowledge (gu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hun-desa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hun-desa
Huperouranioi (Greek) Hyperuranii (Latin) Above the heavens, or in highest heaven; the name given by Plato, Proclus, and other Greek p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agnoia, Anoia: Theosophy Dictionary On Agnoia, Anoia
Agnoia or Anoia (Greek) (cf Sanskrit jna; Latin gnosco, nosco; English know, etc.)   Mindlessness, folly; the opposite of nous. I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Archytas Of Tarentum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Archytas Of Tarentum
Archytas of Tarentum (flourished 400-365 BC) Greek Pythagorean philosopher, general, statesman, scientist, and mathematician, contempo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arithmomancy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Arithmomancy
Arithmomancy Interpretation by means of numbers, or divination by means of numbers. The Pythagoreans and Plato used the numerical key ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apeiros: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Apeiros
Apeiros (Greek) The boundless, infinite; frontierless expansion. Used by Anaximander and Anaximenes, and by Plato in Philebus; the equ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agathon: Theosophy Dictionary On Agathon
Agathon, To (Greek) The good (principle), the highest or supreme good in a moral sense, summum bonum; Plato's name for that aspect of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gnome: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gnome
Gnosis (Greek) (cf Sanskrit jnana knowledge)   Knowledge; used by Plato and the Neoplatonists to signify the divine knowledge (gu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dianoia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dianoia
Dianoia (Greek) (from dianoia thought)   Used by Plato and Aristotle often in contrast with soma (body); synonymous with logos, i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Decussated: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Decussated
Decussated Crossed at an acute angle like the letter X; the decussated cross in a circle was used by Plato to symbolize "the Seco...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agnoia: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Agnoia
Agnoia (Ancient Greek). "Divested of reason", lit., "irrationality", when speaking of the animal Soul. According t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Machagistia: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Machagistia
Machagistia. Magic, as once taught in Persia and Chaldea, and raised in its occult practices into a religio-magianism. Plato, speaking...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Timaeus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Timaeus
Timaeus (Greek) A dialogue of Plato in which the Pythagorean philosopher Timaeus gives an account of aspects of cosmogenesis and anthr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thelemic Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Thelemic Magick
THELEMIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick developed by Aleister Crowley. Ceremonial Magick is Magick that calls upon the aid of ben...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantis: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Atlantis
ATLANTIS - sunken continent of myth and legend, generally located in the Atlantic Ocean, believed to have self-destructed through misu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thelemic Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Thelemic Magick
THELEMIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick developed by Aleister Crowley. Ceremonial Magick is Magick that calls upon the aid of ben...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Circle: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Circle
CIRCLE - 1. the sacred space where in all magick is to be worked and all ritual contained. The circle both contained raised energy and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ficino, Marsilius: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ficino, Marsilius
FICINO, MARSILIUS 15th Century philosopher best known for having translated Plato and the Neoplatonists, as well as Hermes Trismegisto...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypatia: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hypatia
HYPATIA A teacher of Neoplatonism who was dismembered and brutally murdered by a congregation of Xtians in 415 A.D. at the instigation...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Machagistia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Machagistia
Machagistia The divine theologic magic of ancient Persia and Chaldea; Magianism in its purest and highest form. Ammianus Marcellinus (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Konx-om-pax: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Konx-om-pax
Konx-om-pax (Greek) Mystic words used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, said to be an imitation of Egyptian words used in the mystical Isia...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kurios: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kurios
Kurios (Greek) Also Koros. Master, lord; used in the Septuagint for Jehovah, and in the New Testament for God, of Jesus, and likewise ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anamnesis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anamnesis
Anamnesis (Greek) (from ana back again + mimnesco remember)   Recollection; used by Plato in his theory of knowledge. He taught t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aristophanes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Aristophanes
Aristophanes (448?-380 BC) Athenian comedic playwright, of whose 44 plays 11 survive -- the only complete Greek comedies to reach mode...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dodecahedron: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron The regular solid with twelve pentagonal faces, or the rhombic dodecahedron of crystallography; in The Secret Doctrine us...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Poseidonis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Poseidonis
Poseidonis Plato's Timaeus gives a story related to Solon by Egyptian priests, that a great island called Atlantis with a numerous pop...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Platonic School: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Platonic School
Platonic School The philosophers of the Academy, who followed Plato and can be traced down to the days of Cicero, gradually undergoing...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Primum Mobile: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Primum Mobile
Primum Mobile (Latin) The first movable, signifying the first or original movement or motion; the tenth and outermost of the crystalli...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aristotle: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Aristotle
Aristotle (384-322 BC) One of the two most influential Greek philosophers, he studied under Plato, tutored Alexander the Great (c. 342...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anoia: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anoia
Anoia (Ancient Greek). "Want of understanding", "folly". Anoia is the name given by Plato and others to the lower ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Demiurgos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Demiurgos
Demiurgos (Ancient Greek) The Demiurge or Artificer; the Supernal Power which built the universe. Freemasons derive from this word the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gyges: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Gyges
Gyges (Ancient Greek) "The ring of Gyges" has become a familiar metaphor in European literature.   Gyges was a Lydian ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Stoicheia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Stoicheia
Stoicheia (Greek) [plural of stoichos a row of steps, succession of similar things]   First principles, elements as used by Plato...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thumoeides: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Thumoeides
Thumoeides (Greek) [from thymos passional soul + eidos form]   The name given by Plato to a division of the psychomental nature, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosebeia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theosebeia
Theosebeia (Greek) Reverence for divinity; used by Plato and others as the adjective theosebes (plural theosebeis), "those who kn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eclectic Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Eclectic Magick
ECLECTIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick which  is Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits  and is based up...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eclectic Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Eclectic Magick
ECLECTIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick which is Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is based upon a blend o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iamblichus: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Iamblichus
IAMBLICHUS Neoplatonic magus (250-325) of whom Julian the Apostate said, "He is posterior to Plato only in time, not in genius.&q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Golden Age: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Golden Age
Golden Age The first of the four Hesiodic Ages -- Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron -- signifying the beginning of a new root-race and, on a ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phoebus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Phoebus
Phoebus (Greek) Pure, bright, radiant, beaming; the solar regent, and in Latin mystic mythology the sun god, offspring of Zeus and Lat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angels Of The Presence: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angels Of The Presence
Angels of the Presence In Christianity, the seven Virtues or personified attributes of God, which were created by him and became the a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantidae: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atlantidae
Atlantidae (Greek) Descendants of Atlantis; "The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to som...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Formless: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Formless
Formless Equivalent to the Sanskrit arupa (without body or form). Because an absolutely formless thing on its own plane would have no ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Epithumia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Epithumia
Epithumia (Greek) In Greek metaphysics, equivalent in the human constitution to kama or the desire principle. Psyche or soul was a uni...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gold: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gold
Golden Age The first of the four Hesiodic Ages -- Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron -- signifying the beginning of a new root-race and, on a ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ideation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ideation
Ideation The faculty, power, or process of forming ideas. Cosmic ideation denotes an abstraction, being one aspect of cosmic egoity, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantide: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atlantide
Atlantide (Ancient Greek) The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Esoteric S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Proclus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Proclus
Proclus (Ancient Greek). A Greek writer and mystic philosopher, known as a Commentator of Plato, and surnamed the Diadochus. He lived ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - X - Letter X: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On X - Letter X
X - Letter X. - This letter is one of the important symbols in the Occult philosophy. As a numeral X stands, in mathematics, for the u...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Circle: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Circle
Circle. There are several "Circles" with mystic adjectives attached to them. Thus we have: (1) the  "Decussated o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantis: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Atlantis
ATLANTIS Plato's legendary continent "West of the Pillars of Hercules" which achieved great technological heights of civiliz...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rector: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rector
Rector (Latin) Ruler, regent; the seven hierarchies of the creative Logos have each its rector or chief dhyanis, and these may be call...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gyges: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gyges
Gyges (Greek) One of three giants having a dual aspect as a god and a mortal, imprisoned by Kronos for their rebellion against him. Th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantheism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pantheism
Pantheism [from Greek pan all + theos god]   According to Plato, theos is derived from theein (to move); hence pantheism may be d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gyan
Gyges (Greek) One of three giants having a dual aspect as a god and a mortal, imprisoned by Kronos for their rebellion against him. Th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ark Of Isis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ark Of Isis
Ark of Isis. At the great Egyptian annual ceremony, which took place in the month of Athyr, the boat of Isis was borne in procession b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ether: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ether
Ether. Students are but too apt to confuse this with Akasa and with Astral Light. It is neither, in the sense in which ether is descri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermetic: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hermetic
Hermetic. Any doctrine or writing connected with the esoteric teachings of Hermes, who, whether as the Egyptian Thoth or the Greek Her...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tiryns: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tiryns
Tiryns A city in Argolis, belonging to the Achaean age, said to have been founded by Proetus, brother of Acrisius, who was succeeded b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Archetype: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Archetype
ARCHETYPE – 1. Archetypes are universal symbols defined by Funk & Wagnall as a "standard pattern" or a "prot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Carpocrates: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Carpocrates
CARPOCRATES A 2nd Century Gnostic, who advocated promiscuity and thereby earned the hatred of orthodox Xtianity, which in turn delight...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manticism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Manticism
Manticism [from Greek mantis seer from mainomai to act ecstatically under a divine impulse]   A seer, one inspired with divine ec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ogygia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ogygia
Ogygia An island inhabited by the nymph Calypso, far from Greece to the west, on which Odysseus was shipwrecked. Despite her promise o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atlantis
Atlantis In Theosophical literature the fourth great land-massif or continental system which composed the land area of this globe seve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inductive Method, Induction: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Inductive Method, Induction
Inductive Method, Induction In logic, the process of reasoning from the parts to the whole, from the particular to the general, or fro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neoplatonism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Neoplatonism
NEOPLATONISM By the 3rd Century A.D., an eclectic occultism composed of Neoplatonism and Qabalah seriously rivalled Christianity. All ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Privations: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Privations
Privations The ideal types of corporeal beings and things. These types are not abstractions, but actual entities or existences which a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Peripatetics: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Peripatetics
Peripatetics [from Greek peri about + patein to pace, walk]   The followers of Aristotle (384-322 BC), either because he paced up...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aeschylus: Theosophy Dictionary On Aeschylus
Aeschylus One of the three greatest Greek tragic poets, born at Eleusis (525-456 BC), the seat of the Mysteries of Demeter, into which...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Associationism: Social Studies Dictionary - Associationism
Definition and meaning of Associationism   Associationism - [Psychology] The principals of associationism derived from the wri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Associationism: Social Studies Dictionary - Associationism
Definition and meaning of Associationism   Associationism - [Psychology] The principals of associationism derived from the wri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wheat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wheat
Wheat Brought to earth by Lords of Wisdom from other spheres, as were all the grains, and indeed all plants and animals. Yet wheat is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Universals
Universals A philosophical and logical term, used in opposition to particulars. For example, matter may be called a universal, and mat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manticism, Mantic Frenzy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Manticism, Mantic Frenzy
Manticism, or Mantic Frenzy. During this state was developed the gift of prophecy. The two words are nearly synonymous. One was as hon...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ceremonial Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Ceremonial Magick
CEREMONIAL MAGICK:  Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ceremonial Magick is based upon...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ritual Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Ritual Magick
RITUAL MAGICK:  Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ritual Magick is based upon a blend...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  high Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On  high Magick
 HIGH MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. It is called theurgy, from theourgia ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theurgic Magick, Theurgy: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Theurgic Magick, Theurgy
THEURGIC MAGICK, THEURGY (Greek, theourgia, "working things pertaining to the gods"):  Magick that calls upon the aid o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ceremonial Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Ceremonial Magick
CEREMONIAL MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ceremonial Magick is based upon a ble...   » Read the article

Dictionary - High Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On High Magick
HIGH MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. It is called theurgy, from theourgia "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldine Press: Encyclopedia Ii - Aldine Press - Initial Innovations
The press was started by Aldus based on his love of classics, and at first printed new copies of Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek and La...   » Read the article