At-teekah D'At-teekeen. See `ATTIQA' DE-`ATTIQIN

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Pragna (Sanskrit) or Prajna. A synonym of Mahat the Universal Mind. The capacity for perception.

(S. D., I. 139) Consciousness.

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Pralaya (Sanskrit). A period of obscuration or repose - planetary, cosmic or universal - the opposite of Manvantara (S. D., I. 370.).

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Lalita Vistara (Sanskrit). A celebrated biography of Sakya Muni, the Lord Buddha, by Dharmarakcha, A.D. 308.

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D. Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbolical signification in the Kabbala of the Daleth is "door". It is the Greek delta D, through which the world (whose symbol is the tetrad or number four,) issued, producing the divine seven. The name of the Tetrad was Harmony with the Pythagoreans, "because it is a diatessaron in sesquitertia". With the Kabbalists, the divine name associated with Daleth was Daghoul.

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Cecco d’Ascoli. Surnamed "Francesco Stabili." He lived in the thirteenth century, and was considered the most famous astrologer in his day. A work of his published at Basle in 1485, and called Commentarii in Sphaeram Joannis de Sacrabosco, is still extant. He was burnt alive by the Inquisition in 1327.

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Athenagoras (Ancient Greek) A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addressed to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, to prove that the accusations brought against them, namely that they were incestuous and ate murdered children, were untrue.

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Atma-matrasu (Sanskrit) To enter into the elements of the "One-Self". (See S. D. I.,334 Atmamatra is the spiritual atom, as contrasted with, and opposed to, the elementary differentiated atom or molecule.

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Aymar, Jacques. A famous Frenchman who had great success in the use of the Divining Rod about the end of the 17th century; he was often employed in detecting criminals; two M.D’s of the University of Paris, Chauvin and Garnier reported on the reality of his powers. See Colquhoun on Magic.

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Adi-Sanat (Sanskrit). Lit., "First Ancient". The term corresponds to the Kabalistic "ancient of days", since it is a title of Brahma - called in the Zohar the Atteekah d’Atteekeen, or "the Ancient of the Ancients", etc.

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Avarasaila Sangharama (Sanskrit). Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihara (monastery) in Dhana-kstchaka, according to Eitel, "built 600 B.C., and deserted A.D. 600".

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Panini (Sanskrit). A celebrated grammarian, author of the famous work called Paniniyama; a Rishi, supposed to have received his work from the god Siva. Ignorant of the epoch at which he lived, the Orientalists place his date between 600 B.C. and 300 A.D.

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Dabar (Hebrew, Jewish) D

(a) B

(a) R (im), meaning the "Word", and the "Words" in the Chaldean Kabbala, Dabar and Logoi. (See Sec.Doct. I. p. 350, and "Logos", or "Word".)

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Gemara (Hebrew, Jewish) The latter portion of the Jewish Talmud, begun by Rabbi Ashi and completed by Rabbi Mar and Meremar, about 300 A.D.  Lit., to finish. It is a commentary on the Mishna.

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Betyles (Phœn.). Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the "animated stones" ; oracular stones, believed in and used both by Gentiles and Christians. (See S.D. II. p. 342).

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Neo-platonism. Lit.,"The new Platonism" or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandria by Ammonius Saccas, of which his disciple Plotinus was the head (A.D. 189-270). It sought to reconcile Platonic teachings and the Aristotelean system with oriental Theosophy. Its chief occupation was pure spiritual philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism. Theurgy was introduced towards its later years. It was the ultimate effort of high intelligences to check the ever-increasing ignorant superstition and blind faith of the times; the last product of Greek philosophy, which was finally crushed and put to death by brute force.

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Adam (Hebrew, Jewish). In the Kabalah Adam is the "only-begotten", and means also "red earth". (See "Adam-Adami" in the S.D. II p. 452.) It is almost identical with Athamas or Thomas, and is rendered into Greek by Didumos, the "twin" - Adam, "the first", in chap. 1 of Genesis, being shown, "male-female."

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Chaturyoni (Sanskrit) Written also tchatur-yoni. The same as Karmaya or "the four modes of birth" - four ways of entering on the path of Birth as decided by Karma:

(a) birth from the womb, as men and mammalia

(b) birth from an egg, as birds and reptiles;

(c) from moisture and air-germs, as insects; and

(d) by sudden self-transformation, as Bodhisattvas and Gods (Anupadaka).

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Atlantide (Ancient Greek) The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Esoteric Science teaches. (See S.D., Vol. II., and Esoteric Buddhism.) Plato heard of this highly civilized people, the last remnant of which was submerged 9,000 years before his day, from Solon, who had it from the High Priests of Egypt. Voltaire, the eternal scoffer, was right in stating that "the Atlantide (our fourth Root Race) made their appearance in Egypt It was in Syria and in Phrygia, as well as Egypt, that they established the worship of the Sun." Occult philosophy teaches that the Egyptians were a remnant of the last Aryan Atlantide.

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