Nimitta (Sanskrit). 1. An interior illumination developed by the practice of meditation. 2. The efficient spiritual cause, as contrasted with Upadana, the material cause, in Vedanta philosophy. See also Pradhana in Sankhya philosophy.

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Occultist. One who studies the various branches of occult science. The term is used by the French Kabbalists (See Eliphas Lévi’s works). Occultism embraces the whole range of psychological, physiological, cosmical, physical, and spiritual phenomena. From the word occultus hidden or secret. It therefore applies to the study of the Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy, and all arcane sciences.

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Mahatma. Lit., "great soul". An adept of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower principles are thus living unimpeded by the "man of flesh", and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats.

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Pratyaksha (Sanskrit). Spiritual perception by means of senses.

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Principles. The Elements or original essences, the basic differentiations upon and of which all things are built up. We use the term to denote the seven individual and fundamental aspects of the One Universal Reality in Kosmos and in man. Hence also the seven aspects in the manifestation in the human being - divine, spiritual, psychic, astral, physiological and simply physical.

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Prakriti (Sanskrit). Nature in general, nature as opposed to Purusha -  spiritual nature and Spirit, which together are the "two primeval aspects of the One Unknown Deity". (Secret Doctrine, I. 51.)

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Samadhana (Sanskrit). That state in which a Yogi can no longer diverge from the path of spiritual progress; when everything terrestrial, except the visible body, has ceased to exist for him.

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Purusha (Sanskrit). "Man", heavenly man. Spirit, the same as Narayana in another aspect.

"The Spiritual Self."

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Raja-Yoga (Sanskrit). The true system of developing psychic and spiritual powers and union with one’s Higher Self - or the Supreme Spirit, as the profane express it. The exercise, regulation and concentration of thought. Raja-Yoga is opposed to Hatha-Yoga, the physical or psycho physiological training in asceticism.

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Sanjna (Sanskrit). Spiritual Consciousness. The wife of Surya, the Sun.

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Sana or Sanaischara (Sanskrit). The same as Sani or Saturn the planet. In the Hindu Pantheon he is the son of Surya, the Sun, and of Sanjna, Spiritual Consciousness, who is the daughter of Visva-Karman, or rather of Chhaya the shadow left behind by Sanjna. Sanaischara, the "slow- moving ".

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Seer. One who is a clairvoyant; who can see things visible, and invisible - for others - at any distance and time with his spiritual or inner sight or perceptions.

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Substance. Theosophists use the word in a dual sense, qualifying substance as perceptible and imperceptible; and making a distinction between material, psychic and spiritual substances

(see "Sudda Satwa"), into ideal (i.e., existing on higher planes) and real substance.

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Sudda Satwa (Sanskrit). A substance not subject to the qualities of matter; a luminiferous and (to us) invisible substance, of which the bodies of the Gods and highest Dhyanis are formed. Philosophically, Suddha Satwa is a conscious state of spiritual Ego-ship rather than any essence.

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Taraka Raja Yoga (Sanskrit). One of the Brahminical Yoga systems for the development of purely spiritual powers and knowledge which lead to Nirvana.

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Talmidai Hakhameem (Hebrew, Jewish). A class of mystics and Kabbalists whom the Zohar calls "Disciples of the Wise", and who were Sarisim or voluntary eunuchs, becoming such for spiritual motives. (See Matthew xix., 11-12, a passage implying the laudation of such an act.)

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Vajrapani (Sanskrit), or Manjushri, the Dhyani-Bodhisattva (as the spiritual reflex, or the son of the Dhyani.Buddhas, on earth) born directly from the subjective form of existence; a deity worshipped by the profane as a god, and by Initiates as a subjective Force, the real nature of which is known only to, and explained by, the highest Initiates of the Yogacharya School.

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Chakchur (Sanskrit). The first Vidjnana (q.v.). Lit., "the eye", meaning the faculty of sight, or rather, an occult perception of spiritual and subjective realities (Chakshur).

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Tri-bhuvana, or Tri-loka (Sanskrit). The three worlds - Swarga, Bhumi, Patala, or Heaven, Earth, and Hell in popular beliefs; esoterically, these are the Spiritual and Psychic (or Astral) regions, and the

Terrestrial sphere.

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Tirthankara (Sanskrit). Jaina saints and chiefs, of which there are twenty-four. It is claimed that one of them was the spiritual Guru of Gautama Buddha. Tirthankara is a synonym of Jaina.

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Trishna (Sanskrit). The fourth Nidana; spiritual love.

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Vajracharya (Sanskrit). The spiritual acharya (guru, teacher) of the Yogacharyas, The "Supreme Master of the Vajra".

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