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Dictionary - Reborn: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dream: I Am Healed, Born Or Reborn
Reborn : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dream: I am healed, born or reborn   Dream: I am healed, born or reborn   Desc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rebirth: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Healing Or Rebirth
Rebirth : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Healing or Rebirth   Healing or Rebirth The opposite to dreams of injury or death ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Attainment Of Buddhahood: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary On Attainment Of Buddhahood
Attainment of Buddhahood (Jpn.: jobutsu)   To become a Buddha. Several principles concerning the attainment of Buddhahood or enli...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiates: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Initiates
A Theosophical definition of Initiates :   Initiates Those who have passed at least one initiation and therefore those who unde...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eighth Sphere Or Planet Of Death: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Eighth Sphere Or Planet Of Death
A Theosophical definition of Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death :   Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death A term used in the more esot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Evil Paths: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Evil Paths
Evil Paths The paths of hells, hungry ghosts, animality. These paths can be taken as states of mind; i.e., when someone has a vicious...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Buddha
Buddha Skt., Pali, lit., Òawakened one.Ó    1. A person who has achieved the enlightenment that leads to release from the cy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Huien-tsang: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Huien-tsang
Huitzilopochtli Aztec war god, most important of the gods of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) and in all Mexico at the time of the Spanish c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Reincarnation
REINCARNATION Advanced minds seem to take reincarnation for granted: Plato, Emerson, Edison, Shaw, Jung -- even Nietzsche and Schopenh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Four Ranks Of Sages: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary On Four Ranks Of Sages
Four ranks of sages (Jpn.: shie)   Buddhist teachers to be relied upon after Shakyamuni Buddha's death. They are explained in the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amitabha (amida, Amita, Amitayus): Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Amitabha (amida, Amita, Amitayus)
Amitabha (Amida, Amita, Amitayus) Amitabha is the most commonly used name for the Buddha of Infinite Light and Infinite Life. A trans...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Irish Myth Dictionary: An Irish Myth Concordance
An Irish Myth Concordance The following concordance is based on 'Gods and Fighting Men' by Lady Augusta Gregory, first published in 1904...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anagamin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anagamin
Anagamin (Sanskrit) (from a not + agamin from a-gam to come, proceed toward)   One who does not come; in Southern or Theravada Bu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Buddhism
BUDDHISM Since we waste our youth suffering from boundless ignorance and unfulfilled desire and since age is mostly a time of physical...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Narada: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Narada
Narada (Sanskrit). One of the Seven great Rishis, a Son of Brahma This "Progenitor" is one of the most mysterious personages...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amba: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Amba
Amba (Sanskrit) Mother; a woman of respect or distinction. A name of Durga, consort of Siva; in the Mahabharata the eldest of the thre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alba Petra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alba Petra
Alba Petra (Latin) White stone; "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sebek: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sebek
Sebek (Egyptian) Also Sebeq and Sebeq-Ra. The planet Mercury in the Greco-Roman period in Egypt; also the crocodile-headed deity about...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amenti, Amentet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Amenti, Amentet
Amenti, Amentet (Egyptian) The underworld (Tuat), the hidden place or secret region. The 15th or last house (Aat) of the Tuat, called ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anagamin: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anagamin
Anagamin (Sanskrit). Anagam. One who is no longer to be reborn into the world of desire. One stage before becoming Arhat and ready for...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transmigration: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Transmigration
A Theosophical definition of Transmigration :   Transmigration This word is grossly misunderstood in the modern Occident, as al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology Q-s
A dictionary of parapsychology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nirvana: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Nirvana
NIRVANA As sickness, age and death impel us to recede ever more deeply into ourselves and we discover that the illusory world outside ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Soma
Soma (Sanskrit) In Hinduism, the moon astronomically; mystically, a sacred beverage of initiates, "made from a rare mountain plan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Papa-purusha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Papa-purusha
Papa-purusha (Sanskrit). Lit., "Man of Sin": the personification in a human form of every wickedness and sin. Esoterically, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holy Ghost: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Holy Ghost
Holy of Holies Equivalent to the Latin Sanctum sanctorum, referring to the sacred place in temples or churches from which all but the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phoenix: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Phoenix
Phoenix (Egyptian-House of Enoch) Egyptian mythological bird of gorgeous plumage, sacred to the sun, reborn from the ashes of the fune...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Womb: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Womb
Womb The productive and reproductive powers of nature have often been symbolized by peoples in world history; and as production or rep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holy Of Holies: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Holy Of Holies
Holy of Holies Equivalent to the Latin Sanctum sanctorum, referring to the sacred place in temples or churches from which all but the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yama: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Yama
Yama (Hebrew, Jewish). The personified third root-race in Occultism.   In the Indian Pantheon Yama is the subject of two distinc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avichi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Avichi
Avichi avici (Sanskrit) (from a not + vichi waves, pleasure)   Waveless, having no waves or movement; without happiness; without ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kerkes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kerkes
Kerkes (from Arabic)   The Phoenix of the Koran, described as living for a thousand years and then consuming itself in a self-gen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samhain: Pagan Holidays Wheel Of The Year Dictionary On Samhain (sowen) Oct. 31
Samhain (sowen) Oct. 31 Many know this day generically as Halloween. This day was a celebration traditionally of the end of summer. It...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dvija: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dvija
Dvija (Sanskrit) (from dvi two + the verbal root jan to be born)   Twice-born; nowadays in India used for any man of the first th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jayas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jayas
Jayas (Sanskrit), The twelve great gods in the Puranas who neglect to create men, and are therefore, cursed by Brahma to be reborn &qu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Spiritual Dictionary On Reincarnation
Reincarnation: Also known as transmigration of the soul, reincarnation is the belief that after a person dies that person’s pers...   » 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 - Yima: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Yima
Yima (Zend). In the Vendidad, the first man, and, from his aspect of spiritual progenitor of mankind, the same as Yama (q.v.).  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Korax: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Korax
KORAX <"Nicticorax" or Nicky Koracks = Lucifer/Christ, the "night-heron." In alchemical lore the Nigredo (or &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Soma-drink: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Soma-drink
Soma-drink. Made from a rare mountain plant by initiated Brahmans. This Hindu sacred beverage answers to the Greek ambrosia or nectar,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Initiation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Initiation
Initiation (from Latin initio entering into, beginning)   Generally, the induction of a pupil into a new way of living and into s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trailokya, Trilokya: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Trailokya, Trilokya
Trailokya, or Trilokya (Sanskrit). Lit., the "three regions" or worlds ; the complementary triad to the Brahmanical quaterna...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Devachan: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Devachan
DEVACHAN The Land where the Gods are reborn. Life's threshold, located between the manvataras and between earth-lives. The higher real...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pretas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pretas
Pretas (Sanskrit). "Hungry demons in popular folk-lore. " Shells", of the avaricious and selfish man after death; "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Marut-jivas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Marut-jivas
Marut-jivas (Sanskrit) [from marut a class of divine beings + jiva monad]   Those monads which have been, are, or will be during ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yama: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yama
Yama (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root yam to subdue, control]   A curb, rein, bridle; hence the act of curbing, suppression, self...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sugati: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Sugati
sugati (sugati): Happy destinations; the two higher levels of existence into which one might be reborn as a result of past skillful ac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vasishtha: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Vasishtha
Vasishtha A great sage, one of the mind-born sons of Brahma, reborn in a later age as a son of Mitra and Varuna. He served as priest f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tushita: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tushita
Tushita (Sanskrit). A class of gods of great purity in the Hindu Pantheon. In exoteric or popular Northern Buddhism, it is a Deva-loka...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Samhain: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Samhain
SAMHAIN: This is the Sabbat celebrated at what is now called Halloween, October 31. The Wiccan New Year. It marks the 'death' of the S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hod, Hodh: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hod, Hodh
Hoddmimir's Holt (Icelandic) (from hodd treasury + Mimir, Mimer a giant, the root of matter + holt grove)   In Norse myths the sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sotapanna: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Sotapanna
sotapanna (sotaapanna): Stream winner. A person who has abandoned the first three of the fetters that bind the mind to the cycle of re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Parapsychology Dictionary On Reincarnation
Reincarnation: The belief that some aspect of a person's being (e.g., consciousness, personality, or soul) survives death and can be ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enoch, Onech, Hanoch: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Enoch, Onech, Hanoch
Enoch, Onech hanoch (Hebrew) Initiation or initiated; hence also hierophant. In the Bible (Genesis 4, 5), "there are three distin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Scarabeus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Scarabeus
Scarabeus, In Egypt, the symbol of resurrection, and also of rebirth; of resurrection for the mummy or rather of the highest aspects o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Huitzilopochtli: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Huitzilopochtli
Huitzilopochtli Aztec war god, most important of the gods of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) and in all Mexico at the time of the Spanish c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Videhamukti: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Videhamukti
videhamukti: (Sanskrit) "Disembodied liberation."   Release from reincarnation through nirvikalpa samadhi - the realiz...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avitchi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Avitchi
Avitchi (Sanskrit) A state: not necessarily after death only or between two births, for it can take place on earth as well. Lit., &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kneph: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Kneph
Kneph (Egypt, Egyptian). Also Cneph and Nef, endowed with the same attributes as Khem. One of the gods of creative Force, for he is co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lotus Sect: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Lotus Sect
Lotus Sect A Buddhist sect founded by the great Master Hui Yuan about 390 A.D. at his monastery on Mount Lu in Kiangsi Province in Ch...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Horsusi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Horsusi
Horus (Latin) Heru (Egyptian) (from heru above)   Egyptian deity associated with the sun god Ra, equivalent in certain respects t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiranyagarbha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiranyagarbha
Hiranyakasipu (Sanskrit) (from hiranya golden + kasipu clothing, vesture)   Golden clothing; one of the most celebrated of the Hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ragnarok: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ragnarok
Ragnarok (Icelandic) [from ragna plural of regin ruler + rok sentence, judgment, reason, ground, origin]   In Norse mythology, th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Videhamukti: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Videhamukti
videhamukti: (Sanskrit) "Disembodied liberation." Release from reincarnation through nirvikalpa samadhi - the realization o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiquet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiquet
Hiram Abif, Huram Abif Huram 'abiu or 'abiv (Hebrew) (from hawar to become white or pale; or from harah to burn (as with ardor), be no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mara
Mara (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root mri to die]   That which kills, death, destroyer; in exoteric Indian literature, the repres...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Papa-purusha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Papa-purusha
Papa-purusha papa-purusha (Sanskrit) [from papa wicked, sinful + purusha man]   A wicked man; used as a personification of all si...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Egg: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Egg
Egg One of the most comprehensive symbols, equally suggestive in a spiritual, physiological, and cosmological sense. Among other thing...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Beltaine: Pagan Holidays Wheel Of The Year Dictionary On Beltaine - May 1
Beltaine - May 1 Beltaine is the fertility sabbat. It celebrates live above all. This is the final planting time. This is the time whe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saptarshis, Saptarsis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Saptarshis, Saptarsis
Saptarshis saptarsis [from sapta seven + rishi sage]   Seven sages or rishis; the seven great planetary spirits intimately connec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakadagami: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Sakadagami
sakadagami (sakadaagaamii): Once-returner. A person who has abandoned the first three of the fetters that bind the mind to the cycle o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pretas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pretas
Pretas (Sanskrit) [from pra away + the verbal root i to go]   Gone ahead, departed; the remains in the astral light of the human ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gungnir: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gungnir
Gungnir (Scandinavian) (from gunga to swing)   In Norse myths, the spear wrought for Allfather Odin by the giant-god Loki and the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Scarab: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Scarab
Scarab [from Latin scarabaeus cf Greek karabos a beetle, Sanskrit sarabha a locust, Egyptian khepera from kheper to become, come into ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tolerance Of Non-birth: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Tolerance Of Non-birth
Tolerance of Non-Birth "Tolerance" (insight) that comes from the knowledge that all phenomena are unborn. Sometimes transla...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gullinbursti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gullinbursti
Gullveig, Gultweig (Icelandic) (from gull gold + veig thirst, drink)   The Norse Edda's principal poem, Voluspa, contains a crypt...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brighu: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Brighu
Brighu: Brighu. A son of Brahma and a great sage. He had two incarnations. The second was when he was reborn from fire at Varuna's ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neophyte: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Neophyte
Neophyte [from Greek neophytos newly-grown]   One who, precisely because he has newly grown, is newly reborn, signifying one who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lif And Lifthrasir: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Lif And Lifthrasir
Lif and Lifthrasir (Icelandic) (from lif to live, live on, remain (when others are gone on); lifthrasir tough, hard to kill from thras...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pure Land School: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Pure Land School
Pure Land School When Mahayana Buddhism spread to China, Pure Land ideas found fertile ground for development.   In the fourth ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pure Land: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Pure Land
Pure Land Generic term for the realms of the Buddhas.   In this text it denotes the Land of Ultimate Bliss or Western Land of A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gunavat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gunavat
Gungnir (Scandinavian) (from gunga to swing)   In Norse myths, the spear wrought for Allfather Odin by the giant-god Loki and the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Druze: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Druze
Druze/Druse Adherents of a heterodox Ismaili Shiite sect, called Duruz after Muhammad al-Darazi (d. ca. 1919), an Ismaili missionary. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Horus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Horus
Horus (Latin) Heru (Egyptian) (from heru above)   Egyptian deity associated with the sun god Ra, equivalent in certain respects t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magga: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Magga
magga (magga): Path. Specifically, the path to the cessation of suffering and stress. The four transcendent paths - or rather, one pat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Four Stages Of Hinayana Enlightenment: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary On Four Stages Of Hinayana Enlightenment
Four stages of Hinayana enlightenment (Jpn.: shi-ka)   Also, four stages of enlightenment or four fruits. Four levels of enlighte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phoenix: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Phoenix
Phoenix [from Greek phoinix phoenix, date palm, Phoenician]   The sacred bird possibly taken from the Egyptian benu. The most fam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Marut, Maruts: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Marut, Maruts
Marut, Maruts (Sanskrit) A class of spiritual or highly ethereal beings, properly classed as belonging to the middle sphere between he...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiranyakasipu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiranyakasipu
Hiranyakasipu (Sanskrit) (from hiranya golden + kasipu clothing, vesture)   Golden clothing; one of the most celebrated of the Hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiram Abif, Huram Abif: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiram Abif, Huram Abif
Hiram Abif, Huram Abif Huram 'abiu or 'abiv (Hebrew) (from hawar to become white or pale; or from harah to burn (as with ardor), be no...   » Read the article

Article - Meaning Of Dream About Death: The Dreamscape Of Death - Meaning Of Dreams And Dreaming About Death
ef:body> Meaning of dreams and dreaming about death When we dream of death, our emotions run high. Feelings of terror, anxiety or ev...   » Read the article

Article - Mahashivratri: Celestial Marriage Of Shiva And Shakti  
There is an interesting legend connected with Mahashivratri, the day Shiva got married a second time to Shakti, his divine consort. &...   » Read the article

Article - Avatars: Sages, Saints And Avatars
 An Avatar is an incarnation of a fragment of God on Earth. Avatars that are known of in the West include Christ, Buddha, Rama and K...   » Read the article