Dictionary - Pythagoras: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Pythagoras
Pythagoras Greek philosopher from Samos noted for his doctrine of the Harmony of the Spheres and teaching that all is number. (-6th c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoras: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Pythagoras
PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher, born circa 572 B.C. on the island of Samos. Taught mathematics, reincarnation, meditation, psychic immor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ten Pythagorean Virtues: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ten Pythagorean Virtues
Ten Pythagorean Virtues. Virtues of Initiation, &c., necessary before admission. (See " Pythagoras ".) They are identic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoreans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pythagoreans
Pythagoreans The school founded at Crotona, Italy in the 6th century BC by Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras was an initiate not only in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jesus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jesus
Jesus (Latin of Greek Iesous from Hebrew Yeshua` contraction of Yehoshua` a proper name meaning savior or helper, or that which is spa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seven: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seven
Seven The fundamental number of manifestation, frequently found in the different cosmogonies as well as in many religious dogmas and o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Music Of The Spheres: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Music Of The Spheres
Music of the Spheres An extremely archaic teaching repeated by Pythagoras, and therefore in the West commonly associated with his doct...   » 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 - Shechinah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Shechinah
Shechinah (Hebrew) [from the verbal root shachan to settle down or around, dwell]   An emanation, a dwelling; referring both to t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apo Pantas Kakodaimones!: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Apo Pantas Kakodaimones!
APO PANTAS KAKODAIMONES! False banishing mantram ("Away all evil demons!")   APOCALYPSE We are aware that the muslims i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tetraktys: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tetraktys
Tetraktys (Greek) The number four or a group of four, a tetrad or quaternary. The Tetraktys of Pythagoras, as an emblem, consisted of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Deus Emnim Et Circulus Est: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Deus Emnim Et Circulus Est
Deus Emnim et Circulus Est (Latin) "For God is indeed a circle"; a Hermetic axiom ascribed to Pherecydes, a Greek philosophe...   » 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 - Numerology: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Numerology
NUMEROLOGY - science of numbers, associated with Pythagoras, the Kabbalah and witchcraft. (NAD)   (See also: NUMEROLOGY , Wicc...   » 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 - Pythagorian Numerology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Pythagorian Numerology
Pythagorian numerology: System of numerology originated by the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras; the Western form of num...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Akousmatikoi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Akousmatikoi
Akousmatikoi (Greek) Hearers, listeners; probationers in the school of Pythagoras (Wind of the Spirit 309, 111).   (See also: ...   » 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 - Voice: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Voice
Voice The concrete expression of an abstract thought; a creative power that has quality besides energy, given as a septenate of logoi ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angelology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angelology
Angelology A hierarchical system of angels, messengers, celestial powers or emanations, especially those of the Jews and Christians. T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arithmancy: Parapsychology Dictionary On Arithmancy
Arithmancy: Alternatively 'Arithmomancy' and 'Arithomancy'. The term comes from the Greek 'arithmos' (number) and 'manteia' (divinati...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Arithmomancy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Arithmomancy
Arithmomancy (Ancient Greek). The science of correspondences between gods, men, and numbers, as taught by Pythagoras.   (See a...   » 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 - Curetes, Kouretes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Curetes, Kouretes
Curetes Kouretes (Greek) The priests in the Mysteries of Rhea Cybele in Crete, and in Classical mythology daemons or demigods to whom ...   » 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 - Soulless Beings: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Soulless Beings
A Theosophical definition of Soulless Beings :   Soulless Beings "We elbow soulless men in the streets at every turn,"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unlucky Numbers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Unlucky Numbers
Unlucky Numbers Even numbers, and preeminently the binary, have been regarded by Pythagoras, Gnostics, and others as pertaining to mat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Curetes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Curetes
Curetes. The Priest-Initiates of ancient Crete, in the service of Cybele. Initiation in their temples was very severe ; it lasted twen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Druids: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Druids
Druids Members of a priestly hierarchy among the ancient Celts of Britain, Gaul, and Ireland, composed of the three Orders of Druids, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ahura-mazda: Theosophy Dictionary On Ahura-mazda
Ahura-Mazda (Avestan) Aura-Mazda (Old Persian) Auhr-Mazd (Pahlavi) Hormazd, Hormoz, Ormazd, Ormuzd (Persian) (from Avestan ahura lord ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysteries: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mysteries
Mysteries, The [from Greek mysteria Mysteries from mystes one initiated into the Mysteries from mueo to initiate from muo to close the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vibration, Vibrations: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vibration, Vibrations
Vibration, Vibrations Motion is a fundamental principle in universal nature, coeval with boundless space, ceasing not even during pral...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iamblichus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iamblichus
Iamblichus (Ancient Greek). A great Theurgist, mystic, and writer of the third and fourth centuries, a Neo-Platonist and philosopher, ...   » 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 - Unity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Unity
Unity Kosmic unity, incomprehensible to humans, implies wholeness, homogeneity, uniformity, indivisibility -- individuality. Its prima...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anaxagoras: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (Ancient Greek) A famous Ionian philosopher who lived 500 B.C., studied philosophy under Anaximenes of Miletus, and settled...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Two: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Two
Two The prime religious and mystical meaning in the science of numeration is finite completion, involving defined limits, and hence st...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Numerology, Numeromancy: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Numerology, Numeromancy
NUMEROLOGY, NUMEROMANCY: The system of magick and divination developed by Pythagoras. In numerology, all words, names and numbers may ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Daiviprakriti, Daiviprakrti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Daiviprakriti, Daiviprakrti
Daiviprakriti daiviprakrti (Sanskrit) (from daivi divine from the verbal root div to shine + prakriti original substance or nature) &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seal Of The Theosophical Society: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Seal Of The Theosophical Society
Seal of the Theosophical Society   Composed of a serpent in the form of a circle (Ananta-sesha) biting its tail -- standing for ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qabbalah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Qabbalah
Qabbalah (Hebrew) [from qabal to receive, hand down]   Also Cabala, Kabala, Kabbalah, etc. Tradition, that which is handed down; ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tetrad: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tetrad
Tetrad [from Greek tetras four]   The number four; a collection of four. "The Tetrad is esteemed in the Kabala, as it was by...   » 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 - Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zagreus, Zagreus-dionysos
Zagreus, Zagreus-Dionysos (Greek) Dionysos was an earlier name for Bacchus. The mythos concerning Zagreus belongs to the cycle of teac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Empedocles: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Empedocles
EMPEDOCLES (5th Century BC, of Acraga). The last of the Presocratic Shamans, whose company included Parmenides, Zeno, Xenophanes, Hera...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Numa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Numa
Numa Second of the so-called legendary kings of ancient Rome who, with Romulus, belongs to the class of eponymous ancestors, heroes, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Helheim, Helhem: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Helheim, Helhem
Heliocentric The heliocentric system was universally known in antiquity as a part of the teaching of the Mysteries, and certain eminen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sol: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sol
Sol (Latin) Sun; it is said that the Latin solus (the only) was used of the One Good, and that this word afterwards became sol, the su...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vach, Vac: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vach, Vac
Vach vac (Sanskrit) Sound, voice, word, the mystic sound (svara) or essence of spirit of the divine creative activity, the vehicle of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantacle: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pantacle
Pantacle (Ancient Greek). The same as Pentalpha; the triple triangle of Pythagoras or the five-pointed star.   It was given the ...   » 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 - 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 - Three-in-one: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Three-in-one
Three-in-One In the order of succession of cosmic principles, as represented by numbers, two Ones are spoken of: the unmanifested One ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kabalist: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kabalist
Kabalist. From Q B L H, KABALA, an unwritten or oral tradition.   The kabalist is a student of "secret science", one w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enneagram: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Enneagram
Enneagram an ancient system of spiritual psychology used for centuries to understand the development of the soul. Although the familia...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Empedocles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Empedocles
Empedocles (c 490-430 BC) Greek philosopher and poet, whose system was based on the interaction of the four elements (fire, air, earth...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soulless Beings: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Soulless Beings
Soulless Beings Men and women who are still connected, but usually quite unconsciously, with the monad, the spiritual essence within t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Harmony Of The Spheres: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Harmony Of The Spheres
Harmony of the Spheres The cosmos as a vast musical harmony (Pythagoras)   (See also: Harmony of the Spheres , Body Mind and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heliocentric: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heliocentric
Heliocentric The heliocentric system was universally known in antiquity as a part of the teaching of the Mysteries, and certain eminen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoras: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pythagoras
Pythagoras (Ancient Greek). The most famous of mystic philosophers, born at Samos, about 586 B.C. He seems to have travelled all over ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afterlife: Encyclopedia Of Afterlife Mythology In Different Cultures
Afterife - Life After Death An encyclopedia of different cultures mythology  around afterlife, including : Adiri, Ama-No-Hashidate...   » Read the article