Castration - History. The practice of castration has roots before recorded human history. Castration was frequently used in certain cultures, such as in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa or China, for religious or social reasons. After battles, winners castrated their captives or bodies of the defeated to symbolise their victory and 'seize' their power. Castrated men - eunuchs - were often admitted to special social classes. Eunuchs were also often used to guard harems. Castration also figured in a number of ...

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Censer

A container in which incense is smoldered or burned. It symbolises the element of air. Often a censer is used during ritual to "cense" an area, generally by moving the censer around the area and especially around the circle as a means of purification.

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Philosopher’s Stone. Called also the "Powder of Projection". It is the Magnum Opus of the Alchemists, an object to be attained by them at all costs, a substance possessing the power of transmuting the baser metals into pure gold. Mystically, however, the Philosopher’s Stone symbolises the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest and divine.

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Rasa (Sanskrit). The mystery-dance performed by Krishna and his Gopis, the shepherdesses, represented in a yearly festival to this day, especially in Rajastan. Astronomically it is Krishna - the Sun - around whom circle the planets and the signs of the Zodiac symbolised by the Gopis. The same as the "circle-dance" of the Amazons around the priapic image, and the dance of the daughters of Shiloh (Judges xxi.), and that of King David around the ark. (See Isis Unveiled, II., pp. 45, 331 and 332.)

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Whip of Osiris. The scourge which symbolises Osiris as the "judge of the dead ". It is called the nekhekh, in the papyri, or the flagellum. Dr. Pritchard sees in it a fan or van, the winnowing instrument. Osiris, "whose fan is in his hand and who purges the Amenti of sinful hearts as a winnower sweeps his floor of the fallen grains and locks the good wheat into his garner ". (Compare Matthew, 12.)

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Theli (Chald.). The great Dragon said to environ the universe symbolically. In Hebrew letters it is TLI= 400+30+10 = 440 when "its crest [ letter] is repressed", said the Rabbis, 40 remains, or the equivalent of Mem; M=Water, the waters above the firmament. Evidently the same idea as symbolised by Shesha - the Serpent of Vishnu.

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Humanity. Occultly and Kabbalistically, the whole of mankind is symbolised, by Manu in India; by Vajrasattva or Dorjesempa, the head of the Seven Dhyani, in Northern Buddhism; and by Adam Kadmon in the Kabbala.

All these represent the totality of mankind whose beginning is in this androgynic protoplast, and whose end is in the Absolute, beyond all these symbols and myths of human origin.

Humanity is a great Brotherhood by virtue of the sameness of the material from which it is formed physically and morally. Unless, however, it becomes a Brotherhood also intellectually, it is no better than a superior genus of animals.

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H - Letter H , - The eighth letter and aspirate of the English alphabet, and also the eighth in the Hebrew. As a Latin numeral it signifies 200, and with the addition of a dash 200,000; in the Hebrew alphabet Chath is equivalent to h, corresponds to eight, and is symbolised by a Fence and Venus according to Seyffarth, being in affinity and connected with He, and therefore with the opening or womb. It is pre-eminently a Yonic letter.

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Ladder Used symbolically in many cultures, to represent a means of ascending or descending to different worlds or the structure of the universe.

"The Brahmanical Ladder symbolises the Seven Worlds or Sapta Loka; the Kabalistical Ladder, the seven lower Sephiroth; Jacob's Ladder is spoken of in the Bible; the Mithraic Ladder is also the 'Mysterious Ladder.' Then there are the Rosicrucian, the Scandinavian, the Borsippa Ladders, . . . and finally the Theological Ladder which, . . . consists of the four cardinal and three theological virtues" (TG 185).

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Ladder. There are many "ladders" in the mystic philosophies and schemes, all of which were, and some still are, used in the respective mysteries of various nations.

The Brahmanical Ladder symbolises the Seven Worlds or Sapta Loka; the Kabalistical Ladder, the seven lower Sephiroth; Jacob’s Ladder is spoken of in the Bible; the Mithraic Ladder is also the "Mysterious Ladder". Then there are the Rosicrucian, the Scandinavian, the Borsippa Ladders, etc., etc., and finally the Theological Ladder which, according to Brother Kenneth Mackenzie, consists of the four cardinal and three theological virtues.

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Dream Interpretation Knife

Looking at a knife foretells an unpleasant situation and you have created it. A sharp knife is symbol of separation or a difficult decision. Seeing a knife and fork denotes a friendly invitation. For a woman, a knife in the dream symbolises a hidden aggression or a phallic symbol.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Dream Interpretation Cannon

The cannon is a symbol of male aggression and reckless sexual passions. If you see a lot of cannons in your dream: arguments and deception will make your life miserable. A firing cannon signifies an unpleasant situation or an accident. If you hear cannon shots: there is good news on the way. Seeing a cannon ball means that you will be able to get out of a dangerous situation. In a woman's dream the cannon may symbolise her fears towards the male aggression and sexual abuse.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Camping

Who are you camping with, how do you feel about them and what are the physical surroundings like? Another real question is how is your accommodation and did you plan to camp or just end up in the middle of nowhere without provisions? Most archetypal hero-quest journeys include a time of testing in a man-against-nature conflict. As such, it can often symbolise a time of purification to get back in touch with the earth

Source: iVillage, http://www.ivillage.co.uk

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Camping

Who are you camping with, how do you feel about them and what are the physical surroundings like? Another real question is how is your accommodation and did you plan to camp or just end up in the middle of nowhere without provisions? Most archetypal hero-quest journeys include a time of testing in a man-against-nature conflict. As such, it can often symbolise a time of purification to get back in touch with the earth

Source: iVillage, http://www.ivillage.co.uk

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After initial successes in space, many people saw intensive space exploration as inevitable. In the minds of many people, such exploration was symbolised by wide public access to space, mostly in the form of space tourism. Those aspirations are best remembered in science fiction works, such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Larry Niven's Known Space stories; however, during the 1960s and 1970s, it was common belief that space hotels would be launched by 2000. Many futurologists around the middle of the 20th century speculated that the average family of the early 21st century ...

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