Spirit, Spirits Although of a wide and general use, in theosophy it means incorporeal intelligences of a high degree, such as dyanis or planetary spirits, those hosts of arupa (bodiless) monads or egos which spring more or less directly from the universal consciousness or cosmic spirit. Thus the spiritual monad in man is, strictly speaking, a spirit as derivative directly from the cosmic intelligence, mahat or mahabuddhi manifesting through mahat. Spirits exist in almost limitless ranges of hierarchical classes, highest, intermediate, and lower.

A great distinction is drawn between spirit and soul, the vehicle of an ego. Theosophy objects to its use for astral kama-rupas of the seance room.

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Spirit:

1. Adiscarnate entity.
2. Soul.
3. Divine essence.

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Spirit Cure:

Healing that is believed to result from the intervention of spirits.

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spirit of a grain crop, embodied in an entity, person, or animal

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The world of spirit beings, who exist in a nonordinary reality.

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Spirit

The energy forces in nature, both the identified and the unidentified

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spirit

1.    The animating force within living beings; one's intangible being; the will; the essential and activating principle of an entity whether within or separated from the physical body; the active, indestructible life essence continuing through life, death and eternity in whichever body it endures. Spirit is accepted as being qualitative, as the human mind, rather than quantitative like the human body. Spirit is a generating force of will. Spirit and will are soul; all three may be, in the ultimate sense, the sub-conscious.

2.    A discarnate, an entity of the spirit world

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SPIRIT SUBJECTS: other words having to do with Spirit or Soul, are WRAITH (Raith) which is Spirit ECTOPLASM; ETHEREAL which is Spirit Matter or Ectoplasm.  A Spirit emits these substances when it manifests in this dimension.

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SPIRITISM: The Brazilian form of Vodoun and Santería. Spiritism is not in itself a religion but the umbrella for the two principal forms of African spirit worship in Brazil: Candomblé and Umbanda. Spiritism is sometimes used to refer to harmful magick, but that is more properly called Quimbanda. Spiritism is also called Macumba.

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A being or entity who has no physical or bodily form and is believed to exist in the spirit world. An essential element of shamanism is being able to contact and communicate with these spirit beings.

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SPIRIT

Soul and body are what the world sees. The mind connects them. The spirit, however, is one's own thing. It can be connected to the Cosmic Spirit or partly to itself and others on a lower level.

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SPIRITS OF THE STONES: the naturally inherent elemental energies, of the four corners of a Circle, personified. They are linked to the Elements.

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AKASHA SPIRIT: The fifth element, the omnipresent spiritual power that permeates the universe.

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Elemental Spirit:

A spirit associated with one of the classical four elements (fire, earth, air and water).

See also Animism.

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Spirit Photography:

Photographs of figures or faces, believed by some to be those of deceased persons.

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Stellar Spirits.

See PLANETARY SPIRITS

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Meta-spirit That which is beyond spirit; used in The Key to Theosophy to denote atman, or paramatman (Brahman) cosmically, the word spirit being reserved for emanated manifestations of this meta-spirit.

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Holy Spirit:

The Holy Spirit is the Presence of God that makes God knowable and known. The Holy Spirit carries that Presence and Personality outward so that one may become baptized 'In' it, saturated within it and refreshed within God so that one might live with God. The Holy Spirit is the Water of Life Itself that washes over all levels of Creation and Manifestation so that Life can Happen.

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Holy Spirit. See HOLY GHOST

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spirit releasement: A form of exorcism that removes negative energy from persons and property. causes of symptoms clearable with spirit releasement include curses, ghosts, and Ouija.

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