Dumah (Hebrew) The land of silence, the regions of the dead; in the Qabbalah used for the Angel of Silence or of Death. It has somewhat the same significance as the Greek Hades; another term for the same astral regions is She'ol.

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Dumah (Hebrew, Jewish). The Angel of Silence (Death) in the Kabbala.

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nir-vikalpa-mounam:

nir-vikalpa-mounam. Silence without agitation or ideation.

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Dakhma (Avestan) (from dag to burn, cremate, brand)

A funeral or cremation building of the Parsis; the Tower of Silence.

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Sige (Ancient Greek). "Silence"; a name. adopted by the Gnostics to signify the root whence proceed the Eons of the second series.

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Earth:

One of the main “elements” in occultism; associated in the West with matter, brown, black, pentacles, passivity, inertness, silence, food fertility, wealth, practicality, cold, dryness, etc.

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Nada (Sanskrit) Sound; used by Blavatsky mystically for the voice of the silence or soundless voice: "Literally perhaps this would read 'Voice in the Spiritual Sound,' " (VS 73).

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Ampsiu-Ouraan or -Auraan (Gnostic) The sempiternal depth and silence; a pair of aeons in the Valentinian system as given by Epiphanius, the first emanation of the eternal bythos (depth), from which the other 14 pairs of aeons eminate, equivalent to the Second Logos (SD 2:569n).

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Raudive Voices:

Intelligible voices recorded on magnetic tape under conditions of silence or white noises, which are, heard only when the tape is played. A phenomenon discovered by Konstantin Raudive.

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Shangna (Sanskrit). A mysterious epithet given to a robe or "vesture in a metaphorical sense". To put on the "Shangna robe" means the acquirement of Secret Wisdom, and Initiation.

(See Voice of the Silence, pp. 84 and 85, Glossary.)

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Guardian Wall. A suggestive name given to the host of translated adepts (Narjols) or the Saints collectively, who are supposed to watch over, help and protect Humanity. This is the so-called "Nirmanakaya" doctrine in Northern mystic Buddhism. (See Voice of the Silence, Part III.)

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Harpocrates (Ancient Greek). The child Horus or Ehoou represented with a finger on his mouth, the solar disk upon his head and golden hair. He is the "god of Silence" and of Mystery. (See "Horus"). Harpocrates was also worshipped by both Greeks and Romans in Europe as a son of Isis.

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Key. A symbol of universal importance, the emblem of silence among the ancient nations. Represented on the threshold of the Adytum, a key had a double meaning: it reminded the candidates of the obligations of silence, and promised the unlocking of many a hitherto impenetrable mystery to the profane.

In the "Œdipus Coloneus" of Sophocles, the chorus speaks of "the golden key which had come upon the tongue of the ministering Hierophant in the mysteries of Eleusis", (1051). "The priestess of Ceres, according to Callimachus, bore a key as her ensign of office, and the key was, in the Mysteries of Isis, symbolical of the opening or disclosing of the heart and conscience before the forty-two assessors of the dead".

(R. M. Cyc1opedia).

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Arcana (Latin) Secrets, mysteries; in ancient times almost invariably what was secret, sacred, and taught in silence and privacy in the Mysteries, whether such teachings comprised the revelation of truth, the explanation of difficult points regarding ceremonies, or the hidden wisdom.

Arcanum (singular) sometimes meant in medieval and modern Europe, an elixir, philosopher's stone, or magical agent, whether physical or spiritual.

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Bythus, Bythos (Greek) The depth; chaos, the primeval deep, frequently used by the Gnostics. For example, with Valentinus it was the cosmic source whence emanated two by two the series of aeons. Sometimes it was considered as one member of a primordial cosmic mystic square -- sige (silence), bythos (depth), nous (intellect), and aletheia (truth); sometimes bythos was paired by Gnostics with sige as composing a primordial cosmic binary.

See also ABYSS

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Sais (Greek) Saut (Egyptian) An important ancient city of Lower Egypt, the capital of the fifth nome: the residence of kings of the 26th dynasty. Only ruins mark the famous temple of Neith wherein was kept the ever-veiled statue of Neith-Isis, Neith being the principal deity of Sais, regarded as Athena by the Greeks. Festivals in honor of Osiris were held regularly as well.

"At Sais, also, in the sacred precinct of Minerva, behind the chapel and joining the whole of the wall, is the tomb of one whose name I consider it impious to divulge on such an occasion; and in the inclosure stand large stone obelisks, and there is a lake near, ornamented with a stone margin, formed in a circle, and in size, as appeared to me, much the same as that in Delos, which is called the Circular. In this lake they perform by night the representation of that person's adventures, which they call mysteries. On these matters, however, . . . I must observe a discrete silence; and respecting the sacred rites of Ceres, which the Greeks call Thesmophoria although I am acquainted with them, I must observe silence, . . . " (Herodotus 2:170-1).

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Definition and meaning of RNAi, RNA-mediated interference:

RNAi (RNA-mediated interference) - a technology based on the silencing of specific genes by double stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNAi has great potential for treating many diseases, including ocular, viral diseases and cancers by silencing RNA messages, thereby preventing the production of disease causing proteins

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Sambhogakaya (Sanskrit). One of the three "Vestures" of glory, or bodies, obtained by ascetics on the "Path". Some sects hold it as the second, while others as the third of the Buddhahshetras; or forms of Buddha. Lit., the "Body of Compensation" (See Voice of the Silence, Glossary iii). Of such Buddhakshetras there are seven, those of Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakáya and Dharmakaya, belonging to the Trikaya, or three-fold quality.

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Sigalions [from Greek sigao to be silent]

Images of Harpocrates, the deity borrowed by the Greeks from one aspect of the Egyptian Horus, said to have been born with his finger on his lips and so represented in his statues. He thus becomes the emblem of both neophyte and initiate who seals in silence of both mind and voice what has been learned in the initiation crypts.

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Neophyte [from Greek neophytos newly-grown]

One who, precisely because he has newly grown, is newly reborn, signifying one who has already passed successfully at least the first degree in initiation. Used for a novice in the Greek Septuagint and the New Testament, and often used for a candidate for initiation into the Mysteries, though not found in Greek literature in that sense; mystae, for example, describes neophytes or beginners who have already passed the first stages in initiation and who are therefore sworn to silence.

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Harpocrates (Greek) Heru-pa-khart (Egyptian) Horus the Younger, or Horus the Babe. Representations of his mother Isis with an infant are common in Egypt, and with his father, Osiris, a trinity is formed of Father-Mother-Son.

Harpocrates came to be regarded as the type of new birth and life, thus the first hours of the day, the first days of the month, and the first days of the year, were especially associated with him. He was the god of silence or of the Mysteries, and little has come down to the present day with regard to this aspect of the deity.

Finally, at least in some important aspects of his characteristics and worship, he was adopted by both Greeks and Romans, albeit recognized as being a foreign divinity.

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