Basileus or Archon Basileus (Greek) King; when the archon at Athens was replaced by a board of nine archons, the official functions were divided, and the second archon held the presidency of religious observances, including those of the Eleusinian Mysteries. His functions should not be confounded with those of the chief hierophant, the true presider over the inner rites.

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Definition and meaning of Gerald Ford:

Ford, Gerald

Ford was a longtime Republican congressman from Michigan. When Vice President Agnew resigned in 1973, Ford replaced him, and when President Nixon resigned the presidency, Ford became president. He was defeated in the 1976 presidential election by Democrat Jimmy Carter.

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Raivata Manvantara (Sanskrit). The life-cycle presided over by Raivata Manu. As he is the fifth of the fourteen Manus (in Esotercism, Dhyan Chohans), there being seven root-Manus and seven seed-Manus for the seven Rounds of our terrestrial chain of globes (See Esot. Buddhism by A. P. Sinnett, and the

Secret Doctrine, Vol.1., "Brahminical Chronology"), Raivata presided over the third Round and was its root-Manu.

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Todas. A mysterious people of India found in the unexplored fastnesses of Nilgiri (Blue) Hills in the Madras Presidency, whose origin, language and religion are to this day unknown. They are entirely distinct, ethnically, philologically, and in every other way, from the Badagas and the Mulakurumbas, two other races found on the same hills.

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Dadouchos (Ancient Greek) The torch-hearer, one of the four celebrants in the Eleusinian mysteries. There were several attached to the temples but they appeared in public only at the Panathenaic Games at Athens, to preside over the so-called "torch-race". (See Mackenzie’s R.M, Cyclopedia.)

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Dei termini (Latin). The name for pillars with human heads representing Hermes, placed at cross-roads by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Also the general name for deities presiding over boundaries

and frontiers.

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Loka Palas (Sanskrit). The supporters, rulers and guardians of the world. The deities (planetary gods) which preside over the eight cardinal points, among which are the Tchatur (Four) Maharajahs.

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THOUERIS

Or Taueret, Ta-Urt. The highly decorated and ornate Hippo goddess of fertility who is actually an aspect of Isis. She is not only the goddess of pregnancy, but the magical creative principle in all things. She presides over the difficult births of all kinds of fragile things.

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Vrinda (-devi)

A principal gopi, a direct expansion of Srimati Radharani. She is the presiding deity of Vrindavana forest, and the tulasi plant is her expansion. She and grandmother Paurnamasi make all the behind-the-scenes arrangements for Radha and Krishna’s daily pastimes.

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Siva

The special expansion of the Supreme Lord who is uniquely neither God nor jiva. He energizes the material creation and, as the presiding deity of the mode of ignorance, controls the forces of destruction.

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Lakshmi (-devi)

The eternal consort of the Supreme Lord Vishnu. She presides over the infinite opulences of Vaikuntha, and her partial expansion dispenses opulences in the material world; money.

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Radha-Damodara party

a large group of ISKCON preachers who traveled throughout the United States during the 1970s, named for the presiding Deities who traveled with them.

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TIR NA NOG (TEER-nah-nohk) - “Land of the Forever Young” This is the Irish Land of the Dead or as it is usually called, the Otherworld. Tir-na-nog is presided over by the crone and her cauldron to which all life returns to await rebirth. (CMM)

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guna-avataras

The empowered incarnations of the Supreme Lord who preside over the three modes of nature. Brahma, the secondary creator, directs the mode of passion. Siva, the destroyer, directs ignorance. And Vishnu, the maintainer, primary creator, and Supreme Lord Himself, directs goodness.

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Sakti -

(1) power or potency.

(2) the wife of Lord Siva, also known as Durga, who presides over the material energy; one of the five deities worshiped by the pancopasakas.

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Raka (Sanskrit) The 14th day of the waxing moon, when the moon is full; the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon. This day, as also the two quarters and new moon, was considered as appropriate for occult practices not only in India, but over all the ancient world.

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sacred psychology: Experiential psychology developed by psychologist Jean Houston, former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

Its theory posits three realms of experience: ordinary reality, a collective unconscious, and the realm of God, which is immanent in the High Self.

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Definition and meaning of John Adams:

Adams, John

Adams was Washington's vice-president and defeated Jefferson for the presidency in the election of 1796. He resisted his party's demand for war with France during his term.

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Definition and meaning of John Quincy Adams:

Adams, John Quincy

Adams was President Monroe's very successful secretary of state, but, after winning the Election of 1824, had a very troubled and unsuccessful single term in the presidency.

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Definition and meaning of Albany Regency:

Albany Regency

The Albany Regency was the well-organized political machine of New York Senator Martin Van Buren, a future vice-president and president. Members of the Regency were intensely loyal to Van Buren.

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Definition and meaning of Venustiano Carranza:

Carranza, Venustiano

Carranza, a supporter of representative government, became president of Mexico in 1914. President Wilson extended his government diplomatic recognition as a way to help Mexico's constitutionalists regain order in the country.

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Definition and meaning of Jimmy Carter:

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, a former governor of Georgia, was elected president in 1976. He was inexperienced in national politics and had a troubled one-term presidency.

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