Pentacle: A five-pointed star, the points of which represent earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. Pentacles are frequently set within a circle, which can represent the wheel of life, the encircling of the divine, or the union of the material and spiritual realms. Despite Hollywood's insistence otherwise, the pentacle is not a symbol of Satan or evil.

(See also: Pentacle, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

transformation-oriented bodywork (transformational bodywork): Combination of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual processes related to energetic balancing (see energy balancing), psychotherapy, spiritual counseling, and touch therapy. Transformation-oriented bodywork descends from bioenergetics, massage, the personal/spiritual growth movement, and Reichian Therapy. its fundamental principles include the following. (a) Constricted muscles block energy in the body. (b) Constriction shows up as pettiness. (c) The Highest Ideal lies in the realm of Divinity, the Source of both life and meaning for humans and the earth.

(See also: Transformation-oriented bodywork, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

The Immaterium is a dimension of the spiritual, created and influenced by mortal emotion and action. The mind of every sentient creature leaves an imprint within the Immaterium, and although the signature of one mind is almost indistinguishable, when the imprints of an entire race are combined they have a huge impact on the very nature of the Warp. (This seems to imply that the Immaterium is not chaotic by nature, but has been made so by the chaos and war in the material realm) When an emotion or faith grows strong enough, it becomes one of ...

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Immaterium Warhammer 40000, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Warp Travel, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Necessities of Warp Travel, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Dangers of Warp Travel, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - The Realm of Chaos, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - The Psychic Realm, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Psykers, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Warp/Realspace Overlays, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Warp Storms, Immaterium Warhammer 40000 - Controlling the Warp

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Nox (Latin) Nux (Greek) In Hesiod Chaos produces Erebos and Nux (darkness and night), from whose union under the action of Eros spring Aether and Day.

Mystically darkness precedes light and generates it, because what we even in the highest reaches of our spiritual imagination refer to as light is a phenomenon, however sublime, belonging to the realms of manifestation; whereas darkness is that primordial essence of cosmic spirit-consciousness so utterly beyond even the highest ranges of our spiritual conception that it seems to us to be dark. Actually from one standpoint, this darkness is absolute light, and the light of all manifested realms is its shadow.

(See also: Nox, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Mjotudr (Icelandic) [from mjot measure + udr out of, exhausting]

In Norse mythology, the dying phase of a Tree of Life, the second half of its existence when the energies are retreating from the material back toward the spiritual realm. Applies to any world tree, large or small.

See also MJOTVIDR

(See also: Mjotudr, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Azure Seats (from Persian lazhward lapis lazuli)

Azure means a blue color, also the sky, hence celestial, referring to the causal realms of being, where the gods of kosmic intelligences function. Thus the azure seats of the gods conveys the abode of the spiritual forces that govern the universe in its manifold operations.

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A Christian theological definition of Great White Brotherhood   according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Great White Brotherhood

See also: Great White Brotherhood  , Christianity, Body Mind and Soul)

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Emotional Energetic Healing (E.E.H., E.E.H. Healing methodology): Mode of holistic healing founded by Mari Angelique Raphael. It includes hands-on energy work and spiritual counseling. , E.E.H. utilizes the divine healing energy of the Angelic Realm, activates the client's Lightbody, and clears past, present, and future lifetimes.

(See also: Emotional Energetic Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Dimension

According to popular belief, another realm or reality other than this one. Many envision an infinite number of "dimensions' coexisting side-by-side like envelopes in a tray.

Travel between the various "dimensions" is accomplished through super scientific devices or spiritual or psychic power. In reality, a dimension is the measurable quality of something. It is neither a place nor location.

Time is the fourth dimension. It is used to measure motion. Dimensions greater than four measure qualities that only physicists and mathematicians can understand.

(See also: Dimension, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

TRIAX

The proposed "fifth suit" of Tarot used by Drnec and Lanphere in their Viennese Deva deck (there is also a 23rd Trump called "The Separator," thus making 93 cards in all). Triax represents the akashic tattwa, or etheric realm in which spiritual events take place. Triax is an abstract symbol representing a tripartite moebius strip. It represents the link between the lower three (emotional, physical and astral) bodies and the upper three etheric bodies (mental, spiritual and divine).

(See also: TRIAX, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Exoteric Christianity - N

A form of Christianity identified with historic or orthodox Christianity that New Agers would describe as being devoid of all spiritual authenticity;

Fall of Man - N

Refers to the fall of man's consciousness. A fallen consciousness is one that recognizes the existence of only the material realm. The Christ is believed to have "redeemed" man in the sense that he enabled man to perceive the spiritual world behind the material world.

(See also: Exoteric Christianity, New Age, Body mind and Soul)

The second faculty is located in the left of Chest and is associated with red color. In Latifa-e-Qalbi man witnesses his deeds. By awakening it man also gets the knowledge of the realm of Jins. The word Qalb, stands for heart. In Sufi terminology, this spiritual heart (not to be confused with the blood pumping organ) is again variously described. For some, it is the seat of beatific vision. Others consider it the gate of Ishq or Divine love. Yet, for the majority, it is the battleground of two warring armies: those of See also:

Lataif-e-sitta, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Nafsi, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Qalbi, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Ruhi, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Sirri, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Khafi, Lataif-e-sitta - Latifa-e-Akhfa, Lataif-e-sitta - External link

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Merkabah

(also Merkabah) Developed from Jewish mysticism:

(1)  the divine light vehicle used by the Masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. The Mer-Ka-Ba is the vehicle of Light mentioned in the Bible by Ezekiel.

(2)  the soul / body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of Light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports soul / body from one dimension to another.

(See also: Merkabah, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

John Knox

(ca. 1514-72) Scottish Christian reformer, an ordained Catholic priest who became a Protestant and was an influential and founding figure in the Church (Kirk) of Scotland. Knox wrote or participated in the writing of the Scottish Confession (1560), the First Book of Discipline (1560), and The Book of Common Order (1556-64). He also wrote the History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland (first complete edition, 1644).

(See also: John Knox, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Visualization

The practice of

1)    Forming clear mental images often used in magick to focus and direct energy to a visualized goal.

2)    Imagining a scene, a person, or an object with intense clarity. This is often done through a meditation with a written "visualization journey" which allows the practitioner to enter an imagined place to make personal discoveries. Also known as "guided imagery," It involves the attempt to bring about change in the material realm by the power of the mind.

(See also: Visualization, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Merkabah

(also Merkabah) Developed from Jewish mysticism:

(1)  the divine light vehicle used by the Masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. The Mer-Ka-Ba is the vehicle of Light mentioned in the Bible by Ezekiel.

(2)  the soul / body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of Light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports soul / body from one dimension to another.

(See also: Merkabah, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

John Knox

(ca. 1514-72) Scottish Christian reformer, an ordained Catholic priest who became a Protestant and was an influential and founding figure in the Church (Kirk) of Scotland. Knox wrote or participated in the writing of the Scottish Confession (1560), the First Book of Discipline (1560), and The Book of Common Order (1556-64). He also wrote the History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland (first complete edition, 1644).

(See also: John Knox, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Mediator An agent who stands or goes between, specifically one who acts as the conscious agent or intermediary of special spiritual power and knowledge.

Most often applied to highly-evolved characters who mediate, not only between superhuman spiritual entities and ordinary men, but who also themselves consciously unite their own spiritual nature with their merely human souls. Such people attain to this lofty state by the great sanctity and wisdom of their lives, aided by frequent interior ecstatic contemplation. They radiate a pure and beneficent atmosphere which invites, and is congenial to, exalted spiritual beings of the solar system.

Evil entities of the astral realms cannot endure their clean and highly magnetic aura, nor are they able to continue obsessing other unfortunate persons if the mediator be present and will their departure, or even approaches the sufferer.

This powerful spiritual self-consciousness of the individual who is a mediator reaching upwards to superior spiritual realms, is in sharpest possible contrast with the passive, unconscious, weak-willed medium who, through ignorance or folly, becomes the agent for the use of any astral entity that may be attracted to the entranced body. Apollonius, Iamblichus, Plotinus, and Porphyry are examples of mediators: "but if the temple is defiled by the admission of an evil passion, thought or desire, the mediator falls into the sphere of sorcery. The door is opened; the pure spirits retire and the evil ones rush in. This is still mediatorship, evil as it is; the sorcerer, like the pure magician, forms his own aura and subjects to his will congenial inferior spirits" (IU 1:487).

(See also: Mediator, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Nivritti nivrtti (Sanskrit) [from ni back + the verbal root vrit to roll, turn, unfold]

Involution of matter and the consequent evolution of spirit, used to express the process by which matter rebecomes spirit, ascending along the luminous arc back to the spiritual worlds. It is the process of inwrapping or infolding of monads into matter, or of matter-lives back into the spiritual realms.

See also PRAVRITTI

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It is often suggested that religion is a response to humanity's need to simply stop being confused, or to the fear of death (and the concomitant desire not to die). By defining a realm outside of life (the spiritual realm), these needs are fulfilled by providing a meaning, purpose, and hope for our otherwise pointless, directionless, and finite lives. Most people who believe in a personal God would agree that it is God "in whom we live and move and have our being". The notion here is that we ought to seek a higher authority who will give our ...

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Superspiritual Those realms and spheres of the cosmic being and life which are the causal noumena even of the spirit; and hence we may speak of the superspiritual as being the divine, out of which the spiritual flows during the course of cosmic evolution.

The spheres of action of the combined forced of evolution and karma are the superspiritual or noumenal, the spiritual, the psychological, the astro-ethereal, the subastral, the vital, and the purely physical.

Man in the first round and first root-race on globe D was a highly ethereal being, nonintelligent in our sense, but spiritual, and the offspring of superspiritual monadic essences; and the same rule applied, but less forcibly, in the first root-race of the fourth round.

(See also: Superspiritual, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Traditionalists accord a high value to the intellectual activities of the pre-modern world and non-Western societies and a good deal of their work lies in the sciences of metaphysics and symbolism, as well as the discussion and elucidation of the various spiritual traditions. Where they venture into such realms as social criticism it is clearly from a Traditionalist perspective which turns the Progressivist/Evolutionist assumptions of modernist theorists (both "left" and "righ ...

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Traditionalist School, Traditionalist School - Fundamental tenets, Traditionalist School - Values, Traditionalist School - Books and Resources

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