Dictionary - Theosophy: Parapsychology Dictionary On Theosophy
Theosophy: Religious and philosophical system of the Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 by Madame Blavatsky. Its paranormal claims...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophy: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Theosophy
A Theosophical definition of Theosophy :   Theosophy A compound Greek word: theos, a "divine being," a "god"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Theosophy
THEOSOPHY Society founded in 1875 by H.P. Blavatsky and Col. H.S. Olcott. Immediate divine illumination. Spiritual insight is superior...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophy: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Theosophy
THEOSOPHY:  Any philosophy that teaches the achievement of knowledge of God (s) by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or a spe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theosophy
Theosophy [from Greek theosophia from theos god, divinity + sophia wisdom]   Divine wisdom, the knowledge of things divine; often...   » Read the article

Dictionary - God-wisdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On God-wisdom
God-wisdom. See THEOSOPHY   (See also: God-wisdom , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - God-sparks: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On God-sparks
God-wisdom. See THEOSOPHY   (See also: God-sparks , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Theosophia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Theosophia
Theosophia.   See THEOSOPHY   (See also: Theosophia , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Z - Letter Z: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Z - Letter Z
Z - Letter Z. - The 26th letter of the English alphabet. It stands as a numeral for 2,000, and with a dash over it thus, Z, equals 2,0...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gupta-vidya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gupta-vidya
Gupta-vidya (Sanskrit) (from gupta from the verbal root gup to conceal, preserve + vidya knowledge, wisdom)   Secret knowledge, s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gupta-maya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gupta-maya
Gupta-vidya (Sanskrit) (from gupta from the verbal root gup to conceal, preserve + vidya knowledge, wisdom)   Secret knowledge, s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jnana-vidya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jnana-vidya
Jnana-vidya (Sanskrit) (from jnana knoweldge + vidya wisdom)   Equivalent to Brahma-vidya or theosophy, the wisdom-tradition or g...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Angelus Rector: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Angelus Rector
Angelus Rector (Latin) Ruling angel; according to Kepler, the angel or divine being who caused a planet to pursue its course around th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meta-spirit: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Meta-spirit
Meta-spirit That which is beyond spirit; used in The Key to Theosophy to denote atman, or paramatman (Brahman) cosmically, the word sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Individuality: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Individuality
Individuality (from Latin individuum undivided thing, unit)   In philosophy, as well as in theosophy, used for inherent selfhood:...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heart Doctrine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heart Doctrine
Heart Doctrine In Mahayana Buddhism, the hidden or esoteric teachings as opposed to the eye doctrine, the public or exoteric teachings...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flagae: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Flagae
Flagae Used by Paracelsus to denote an order of spiritual beings which correspond to the Christian guardian angels, or what would be c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heart: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heart
Heart Doctrine In Mahayana Buddhism, the hidden or esoteric teachings as opposed to the eye doctrine, the public or exoteric teachings...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Globe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Globe
Globe In theosophy, a unit in the constitution of every planet or sun, each of which is composed of several globes, in their entirety ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Saha
Saha (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root sah to endure, suffer]   One of the loka-dhatus or divisions of the world in Buddhist philo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Udbhijja: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Udbhijja
Udbhijja (Sanskrit) [from ud-bhid to divide, break forth + ja born]   Born by fission, separation, or sprouting; theosophy teache...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sakshin, Saksin: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sakshin, Saksin
Sakshin saksin (Sanskrit) [from sa together with + aksha eye]   That which is before the eyes; an observer, witness. In philosoph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spirit, Spirits: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spirit, Spirits
Spirit, Spirits Although of a wide and general use, in theosophy it means incorporeal intelligences of a high degree, such as dyanis o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Akasic Magnetism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Akasic Magnetism
Akasic Magnetism In theosophy both electricity and magnetism are considered as the vital fluids or effluxes of living beings, which fl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pot Amun: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pot Amun
Pot Amun (Coptic) A priest and hierophant of the early Ptolemaic dynasty. A term said by Diogenes Laertius to signify one consecrated ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychology
Psychology In philosophy, the systematic study of mind, as opposed to physics or the study of matter. Applied in theosophy to the attr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pretas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pretas
Pretas (Sanskrit) [from pra away + the verbal root i to go]   Gone ahead, departed; the remains in the astral light of the human ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panspermic, Panspermy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Panspermic, Panspermy
Panspermic, Panspermy [from Greek pan all + sperma seed]   The theory that the so-called spontaneous generation of life is due to...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fourteen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fourteen
Fourteen A septenate in which each member is dual. In the Hindu Laws of Manu, fourteen manus are enumerated; and in theosophy a root-m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Family Race: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Family Race
Family Race In theosophy, each of the main seven racial cycles is first divided into seven primary subraces, each of which is again di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atom, Atomos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atom, Atomos
Atom atomos (Greek) Indivisible, individual, a unit; among the Greek Atomists what in theosophy is called a monad. Atomic theories of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amsa, Amsu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Amsa, Amsu
Amsa, Amsu (Sanskrit) Fragment, particle, part; name of one of the adityas in the Mahabharata; also of Surya (the sun) whose solar ene...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alaya-vijnana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alaya-vijnana
Alaya-vijnana (Sanskrit) (from alaya abode, dwelling from a-li to settle upon, come close to + vijnana discernment, knowledge from vi-...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yod-heva: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yod-heva
Yod-heva, Yodh-heva, Yod-hewa, Yod-havvah (Hebrew) [from yod a Hebrew letter, the number 10, and the masculine generative power + heva...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zachar: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zachar
Zachar (Hebrew) A male; used in "male-and-female [zachar u neqebah]   created he them" (Genesis 1:27). This refers not ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sura, Suras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sura, Suras
Sura, Suras (Sanskrit) Used in the Vedas for gods in general, equivalent to devas; originally solar deities, as is shown by the name s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Teth Teith: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Teth Teith
Teth teith (Hebrew) The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, standing for the number nine. In the Qabbalah, used as a symbolic device ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mysticism
Mysticism The doctrine that the nature of reality can be known by direct apprehension, by faculties above the senses, by intuition. &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Divine Rulers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Divine Rulers
Divine Rulers The nations of antiquity, such as the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, had traditions of early racial divine rulers and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Religion: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Religion
Religion [from Latin religare to bind back, implying obligation; or from relegere to select, distinguish among various elements for th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wisdom-religion, Wisdom-science: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wisdom-religion, Wisdom-science
Wisdom-Religion, Wisdom-Science.   See THEOSOPHY   (See also: Wisdom-Religion, Wisdom-Science , Mysticism, Mysticism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Primates: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Primates
Primates In modern zoology, the highest order of mammalia, which includes man, apes, monkeys, and lemurs. Divided by some scientists i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heterogeneity And Homogeneity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heterogeneity And Homogeneity
Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Heterogeneity applies in theosophy to the immensely differentiated and variegated emanations of the cosm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Perfection, Perfectibility: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Perfection, Perfectibility
Perfection, Perfectibility Absolute perfection is applicable, not to infinity, but to the Absolute of a universe, and theosophy teache...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Philosophy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Philosophy
Philosophy The Greek philosophia meant love of wisdom, but with equal power of significance, although perhaps not etymologically as co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kosmos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kosmos
Kosmos (from Greek kosmos order, universe)   The universe, equivalent to the Latin mundus. Theosophy contemplates an infinite ser...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Levitation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Levitation
Levitation (from Latin levis light in weight)   The act of rising in the air at will or unconsciously, in opposition to gravitati...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Keherpas; Karpas: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Keherpas; Karpas
Keherpas; Karpas (Persian), Kalpadh (Pahlavi) A cloth made of cotton; In Persian literature, used in the sense of a white cotton gown....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jnana, Jnanam: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jnana, Jnanam
Jnana (Jnanam) (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root jna to know, have knowledge, understand)   Intelligence, understanding, knowledge...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Existence: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Existence
Existence (from Latin exsisto standing forth, emerging)   Although often used interchangeably with being, in theosophy being refe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Epithumia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Epithumia
Epithumia (Greek) In Greek metaphysics, equivalent in the human constitution to kama or the desire principle. Psyche or soul was a uni...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Essenes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Essenes
Essenes (probably from Hebrew asa to heal)   Described by Josephus as one of three principal sects among Jews from about the midd...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heteremeroi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heteremeroi
Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Heterogeneity applies in theosophy to the immensely differentiated and variegated emanations of the cosm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Duodenary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Duodenary
Duodenary (or Dodecad) The number 12, or a group of 12. A most important number in cosmic symbology, as in the 12 signs of the zodiac,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Duration: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Duration
Duration As used in theosophy, clearly distinguished from time. Duration is; it has neither beginning nor end, nor is it broken up int...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Duration: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Duration
Duration As used in theosophy, clearly distinguished from time. Duration is; it has neither beginning nor end, nor is it broken up int...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kingdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kingdom
Kingdom(s) In natural history, a large group, department, or domain, marked off from others by characteristic qualities, three being g...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Conservation Of Energy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Conservation Of Energy
Conservation of Energy A scientific theory that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which cannot be increased or dec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Force: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Force
Force Used in two senses: an effect produced in matter, and the unknown cause of that effect. In the former sense it is a definite mea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fundamental Propositions: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fundamental Propositions
Fundamental Propositions In theosophy, the three fundamental religio-philosophic principles or propositions which Blavatsky states in ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ananta-sesha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ananta-sesha
Ananta-sesha ananta-sesa (Sanskrit) (from an not + anta end + the verbal root sish to leave remainders)   Endless sishtas or rema...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ancestor Worship: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ancestor Worship
Ancestor Worship A cult widely observed among peoples and usually defined as the cult of the spirits of parents and forefathers. It im...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abhimanin, Abhimani: Theosophy Dictionary On Abhimanin, Abhimani
Abhimanin, Abhimani (Sanskrit) (from abhi towards + the verbal root man to think, reflect upon)   Longing for, thinking upon; nam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aanroo, Aanre: Theosophy Dictionary On Aanroo, Aanre
Aanroo, Aanre (Egyptian) More fully, Sekhet-Aanre (the fields of the reeds); more often called Aarru or Sekhet-Aarru; also Aanru, Aaru...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avalokitesvara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Avalokitesvara
Avalokitesvara (Sanskrit) (from ava down, away from + the verbal root lok to look at, contemplate + isvara lord)   The lord who i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Universe
Universe [from Latin universum combined into one from unus one + versus turned]   The sum total of all that is. Theosophy disting...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Srichakra, Sricakra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Srichakra, Sricakra
Srichakra sricakra (Sanskrit) [from sri light, radiance + chakra wheel, mystical center or plexus]   A magical diagram or circle,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Supporters: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Supporters
Supporters The cosmocratores, rectores mundi, Pillars of the World, exemplifying the Scandinavian ases and the planetary spirits of ce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transformism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Transformism
Transformism Adopted from the French, it is the process of evolution as understood by Lamarck and Darwin, as distinguished from evolut...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sapta-ratnani: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sapta-ratnani
Sapta-ratnani (Sanskrit) [from sapta seven + ratnani jewels]   Seven jewels; applied by the ancient esoteric schools of the Orien...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rector: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rector
Rector (Latin) Ruler, regent; the seven hierarchies of the creative Logos have each its rector or chief dhyanis, and these may be call...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mimansa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mimansa
Mimansa (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root man to think]   Profound thought, profound consideration; one of the six Darsanas or Hin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mindless: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mindless
Mindless In theosophy most commonly applied to entities which are not yet endowed with human self-conscious mind; applied to the first...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mantrika-sakti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mantrika-sakti
Mantrika-sakti (Sanskrit) The power or occult potency of mystic words, sounds, numbers, or letters -- the power of the mantras. The vi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nagarjuna: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna (Sanskrit) A Buddhist arhat or sage born in Western India about 223 BC, generally recognized in Northern Buddhism as a bodhi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ethics: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ethics
Ethics In theosophy, a philosophy of moral conduct based on the inner structure and operations of the universe itself, not a mere code...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universals: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Universals
Universals A philosophical and logical term, used in opposition to particulars. For example, matter may be called a universal, and mat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unconsciousness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Unconsciousness
Unconsciousness The universe being a vast aggregation of conscious beings, only the one source of all is unconscious, paramartha is de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Radioactivity: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Radioactivity
Radioactivity Scientific discovery has done much to verify the occult axiom that there are no permanent bodies, but that everything is...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ramanujacharya, Ranmanujacarya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ramanujacharya, Ranmanujacarya
Ramanujacharya Ranmanujacarya (Sanskrit) A celebrated Vaishnava reformer, founder of a Vedantic school which taught the doctrine of Vi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purva-mimansa: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Purva-mimansa
Purva-mimansa (Sanskrit) [from purva prior + mimansa profound or striving thought or meditation from the verbal root man to think] &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Planetesimal Hypothesis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Planetesimal Hypothesis
Planetesimal Hypothesis A modification of the nebular hypothesis -- put forward by Lockyer and See, and developed by Chamberlin and Mo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pit: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pit
Pit In theosophy, the pit has a profound and wide range of meaning, in all cases referring to places (lokas) into which sink, because ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guides: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guides
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantheism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pantheism
Pantheism [from Greek pan all + theos god]   According to Plato, theos is derived from theein (to move); hence pantheism may be d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Day Of Judgment,: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Day Of Judgment,
Day of Judgment, In theosophy, a testing of the soul of a candidate for initiation, as in the judgment of the soul before Osiris in th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Daeva: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Daeva
Daeva (Avestan) Dev (Pahlavi) Div (Persian) In the Avesta, beings of malicious intent popularly regarded as fiends or demons under the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Banyan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Banyan
Banyan (Banian) The Indian fig tree (Ficus bengalensis of the Urticaceae), a shade tree remarkable for the enormous area that a single...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fall: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fall
Fall With reference to Christian theology and thought, the fall of the angels; or the fall of man.   The former in theosophy ref...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fohat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fohat
Fohat (Tibetan-Mongolian) (from Mon pho, fo buddha, buddhi)   Cosmic life or vitality; in theosophy, bipolar cosmic vital electri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Guhya-vidya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Guhya-vidya
Guides Spiritualistic term for supposed invisible helpers and instructors belonging to the Spirit-land communicating with people eithe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Time: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Time
Time Theosophy speaks of absolute undivided time or duration, and of manifested or divided time: the former as causal or noumenal, the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occultism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Occultism
Occultism [from Latin occultus hid]   The science of things behind the veils of nature both visible and invisible, things hidden ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Will-born: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Will-born
Will-born Used in The Secret Doctrine as equivalent to mind-born -- referring specifically to those beings in the early third root-rac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Whirlwind: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Whirlwind
Whirlwind A gyrating wind; in theosophy, when applied to the movements of a universe, a name for the moving of the Great Breath and fo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Via Straminis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Via Straminis
Via Straminis (Latin) The way of straw, the wispy way; the Milky Way, the name evidently referring to the wisps of light with which th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yogacharya, Yogacarya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yogacharya, Yogacarya
Yogacharya yogacarya (Sanskrit) [from yoga union + acharya teacher]   A teacher of yoga; a mystic and highly esoteric school foun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Yu
Yu (Chinese) Being; according to the Yi-shu-lu-chia-lun (translation of Nagarjuna's Ekasloka-sastra), " 'the Substance giving sub...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Supernatural: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Supernatural
Supernatural Beyond or above nature; but, as nature in its esse is space, the Boundless both inner and outer, the term is meaningless....   » Read the article

Article - Theosophy Sitemap I - Z
This is a sitemap for Theosophy - Z . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article