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When moving from a dense to a less dense medium (i.e. n1 > n2), it is easily verified that the above equation has no solution when θ1 exceeds a value known as the critical angle: When θ1 > θcrit, no refracted ray appears, and the incident ray undergoes total internal reflection from the interface. ...

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Omoroka (Chald.). The "sea" and the woman who personifies it according to Berosus, or rather of Apollodorus. As the divine water, however, Omoroka is the reflection of Wisdom from on high.

 
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Svasam Vedana (Sanskrit). Lit., "the reflection which analyses itself "; a synonym of Paramartha.

 
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Ulom (Pœnic.) The intelligible deity. The objective or material Universe, in the theogony of Mochus. The reflection of the ever-concealed deity; the Pleroma of the Gnostics.

 
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Vajrapanin (Sanskrit) [from vajra diamond, thunderbolt + pani hand]
 
Holder of the diamond-thunderbolt, an epithet of the dhyani-bodhisattvas, the guardians and Silent Watchers of the globes of our planetary chain, the spiritual reflections or sons of the dhyani-buddhas. They are born directly from their predecessors subjectively, and have a subjective form of existence.
 
Also a title given a buddha because of his power over evil spirits and elementals. By the profane, a vajrapanin is worshiped as a god, but by initiates it is considered a subjective force.
 
See also MANJUSRI

 
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Uttara-Mimansa (Sanskrit) [from mimansa profound thought, profound consideration, striving after truth by means of philosophic reflection from the verbal root man to think + uttara latter, later, inquiry into the latter portion of the Veda -- the Upanishads]
 
The last of the six Darsanas or schools of Hindu philosophy, and called the Vedanta.
 
See also VEDANTA

 
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Worlds, Inferior and Superior. The Occultists and the Kabbalists agree in dividing the universe into superior and inferior worlds, the worlds of Idea and the worlds of Matter. "As above, so below", states the Hermetic philosophy. This lower world is formed on its prototype - the higher world; and "everything in the lower is but an image (a reflection) of the higher". (Zohar, ii., fol. 2oa.)

 
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Manas (Sanskrit). Lit., "the mind", the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral
being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of Mahat. Esoterically, however, it
means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists Buddhi-Manas or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection - Kama-Manas.

 
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Astral Body, or Astral "Double". The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The Linga Sharira, the "Doppelgäinger". The reader must not confuse it with the ASTRAL SOUL, another name for the lower Manas, or Kama-Manas so-called, the reflection of the HIGHER EGO.

 
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Vajra (Sanskrit) Diamond or thunderbolt; one possessing this scepter, or diamond-thunderbolt, possesses great spiritual, intellectual, and psychic powers; among others, the occult ability to repel evil influences by purifying the air, as ozone does in chemistry.
 
The vajra mystically refers to indestructibility and to the wondrous reflective powers of the diamond. One who possesses the vajra reflects the suffering, joys, and sorrows -- and beauties -- of the world, but can never be injured by them. It has been said that the heart of the perfect person is a mirror: it reflects all things, but holds nothing for self alone. Thus also is the heart of one wielding the scepter of the vajra.
 
In Hindu literature this vajra is the scepter of Indra (similar to the thunderbolt of Zeus), with which he as the god of the skies was said to slay evildoers. In mystical Buddhism it is the magic scepter of priest-initiates and adepts, the symbol of the possessions of siddhis (superhuman powers), wielded during certain mystical ceremonies by initiated priests and theurgists. It is also the symbol of the Buddha''s power over evil spirits or elementals. The possessors of this scepter are called vajrapanins.

 
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Ogdoad (Ancient Greek). The tetrad or "quaternary" reflecting itself produced the ogdoad, the "eight", according to the Marcosian Gnostics. The eight great gods were called the "sacred Ogdoad".

 
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Worlds, the Four. The Kabbalists recognise Four Worlds of Existence: viz., Atziluth or archetypal ; Briah or creative, the first reflection of the highest; Yetzirah or formative; and Assiah, the ‘World of Shells or Klippoth, and the material universe. The essence of Deity concentrating into the Sephiroth is first manifested in the Atziluthic World, and their reflections are produced in succession in each of the four planes, with gradually lessening radiance and purity, until the material universe is arrived at. Some authors call these four planes the intellectual, Moral, Sensuous, and Material Worlds.

 
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Ulom (Phoenician) The intelligible deity, the intellectual reflection of the ever-concealed divine; and in the theogony of Mochus also the intellectual universe expressing itself in the objective or material universe. Equivalent to the pleroma of the Gnostics. In the theogony of Mochus, aether or cosmic space is manifested first, followed by air (cosmic spirit) from which Ulom is born out of the mundane egg. Identical with the Hebrew `olam, meaning both hid or occult, the duration or perpetuity of cosmic time, and the universe or world in general. Thus `olam and ulom both are connected with the physical and metaphysical cosmos and all that is in these.
 
See also `OLAM

 
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