Dictionary - At-teekah D'at-teekeen: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On At-teekah D'at-teekeen
At-teekah D'At-teekeen. See `ATTIQA' DE-`ATTIQIN   (See also: At-teekah D'At-teekeen , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occult...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pragna: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pragna
Pragna (Sanskrit) or Prajna. A synonym of Mahat the Universal Mind. The capacity for perception. (S. D., I. 139) Consciousness. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pralaya: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pralaya
Pralaya (Sanskrit). A period of obscuration or repose - planetary, cosmic or universal - the opposite of Manvantara (S. D., I. 370.). ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lalita Vistara: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Lalita Vistara
Lalita Vistara (Sanskrit). A celebrated biography of Sakya Muni, the Lord Buddha, by Dharmarakcha, A.D. 308.   (See also: Lali...   » Read the article

Dictionary - D: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On D
D. Both in the English and Hebrew alphabets the fourth letter, whose numerical value is four. The symbolical signification in the Kabb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cecco D’ascoli: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Cecco D’ascoli
Cecco d’Ascoli. Surnamed "Francesco Stabili." He lived in the thirteenth century, and was considered the most famous a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Athenagoras: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Athenagoras
Athenagoras (Ancient Greek) A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addressed to t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atma-matrasu: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atma-matrasu
Atma-matrasu (Sanskrit) To enter into the elements of the "One-Self". (See S. D. I.,334 Atmamatra is the spiritual atom, as ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aymar, Jacques: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Aymar, Jacques
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 ofte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adi-sanat: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Adi-sanat
Adi-Sanat (Sanskrit). Lit., "First Ancient". The term corresponds to the Kabalistic "ancient of days", since it is...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Avarasaila Sangharama: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Avarasaila Sangharama
Avarasaila Sangharama (Sanskrit). Lit., the School of the Dwellers on the western mountain. A celebrated Vihara (monastery) in Dhana-k...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panini: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Panini
Panini (Sanskrit). A celebrated grammarian, author of the famous work called Paniniyama; a Rishi, supposed to have received his work f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dabar: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dabar
Dabar (Hebrew, Jewish) D (a) B (a) R (im), meaning the "Word", and the "Words" in the Chaldean Kabbala, Dabar an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gemara: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Gemara
Gemara (Hebrew, Jewish) The latter portion of the Jewish Talmud, begun by Rabbi Ashi and completed by Rabbi Mar and Meremar, about 300...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Betyles: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Betyles
Betyles (Phœn.). Magical stones. The ancient writers call them the "animated stones" ; oracular stones, believed in and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neo-platonism: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Neo-platonism
Neo-platonism. Lit.,"The new Platonism" or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adam: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Adam
Adam (Hebrew, Jewish). In the Kabalah Adam is the "only-begotten", and means also "red earth". (See "Adam-Ada...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaturyoni: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Chaturyoni
Chaturyoni (Sanskrit) Written also tchatur-yoni. The same as Karmaya or "the four modes of birth" - four ways of entering on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlantide: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Atlantide
Atlantide (Ancient Greek) The ancestors of the Pharaohs and the forefathers of the Egyptians, according to some, and as the Esoteric S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Philo Judeus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Philo Judeus
Philo Judeus. A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, and a very famous historian and writer; born about 30 B.C, died about 45 A.D. He ought t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Proclus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Proclus
Proclus (Ancient Greek). A Greek writer and mystic philosopher, known as a Commentator of Plato, and surnamed the Diadochus. He lived ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Philo-judaeus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Philo-judaeus
Philo-Judaeus. A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, a famous historian and philosopher of the first century, born about the year 30 B. C., ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rosicrucians: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rosicrucians
Rosicrucians (Mys.). The name was first given to the disciples of a learned Adept named Christian Rosenkreuz, who flourished in German...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hay-yah: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hay-yah
Hay-yah (Hebrew, Jewish) One of the metaphysical human "Principles". Eastern Occultists divide men into seven such Principle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ar-abu Nasr-al-farabi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ar-abu Nasr-al-farabi
Ar-Abu Nasr-al-Farabi, called in Latin Alpharabius, a Persian, and the greatest Aristotelian philosopher of the age. He was born in 95...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alexadrian School: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alexadrian School
Alexadrian School (of Philosophers). This famous school arose in Alexandria (Egypt) which was for several centuries the great seat of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thothori Nyan Tsan: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Thothori Nyan Tsan
Thothori Nyan Tsan (Tibet, Tibetan) A King of Tibet in the fourth century. It is narrated that during his reign he was visited by five...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tzool-mah: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tzool-mah
Tzool-mah (Kab.). Lit., "shadow". It is stated in the Zohar (I., 218 a, i. fol. 117 a, col. 466.), that during the last seve...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Head Of All Heads: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Head Of All Heads
Head of all Heads (Kab). Used of the "Ancient of the Ancients" Atteehah D’atteekeen, who is the "Hidden of the Hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhadrakalpa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bhadrakalpa
Bhadrakalpa (Sanskrit). Lit., "The Kalpa of the Sages". Our present period is a Bhadra Kalpa, and the exoteric teaching make...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Surplus Of Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Surplus Of Life
Surplus of Life Used in theosophy to express the original processes building the globes of a planetary chain, as well as the living be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Porphyry, Porphyrius: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Porphyry, Porphyrius
Porphyry, or Porphyrius. A Neo-Platonist and a most distinguished writer, only second to Plotinus as a teacher and philosopher.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zohar, Sohar: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Zohar, Sohar
Zohar, or Sohar. A compendium of Kabbalistic Theosophy, which shares with the Sepher Yetzirah the reputation of being the oldest extan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Venus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Venus
Venus The second visible planet from the sun in our solar system, and the brightest orb in the heavens except the sun and moon: regard...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mendeans: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mendeans
Mendeans (Ancient Greek). Also called Sabians, and St. John Christians.    The latter is absurd, since, according to all acc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jerusalem: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Jerosalem (Septuag.) and Hierosolyma (Vulgate). In Hebrew it is written Yrshlim or "city of peace",but the ancien...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rabbis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Rabbis
Rabbis (Hebrew, Jewish). Originally teachers of the Secret Mysteries, the Qabbalah; later, every Levite of the priestly caste became a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Yeheedah: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Yeheedah
Yeheedah (Hebrew, Jewish). Lit., "Individuality "; esoterically, the highest individuality or Atma-Buddhi-Manas, when united...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aryasangha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Aryasangha
Aryasangha (Sanskrit) The Founder of the first Yogacharya School. This Arhat, a direct disciple of Gautama, the Buddha, is most unacco...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astrology: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Astrology
Astrology (Ancient Greek) The Science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy ; in Arabic Ul-Khemi, is, as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. Ui-Khemi or Al-Kimia, however, is only an Arabianized...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemists: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemists
Alchemists; From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of Egypt.   The Rosicrucians of the middle a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - St: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On St
St. Germain, the Count of. Referred to as an enigmatical personage by modern writers. Frederic II., King of Prussia, used to say of hi...   » 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 - Will: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Will
Will The ensouling creative essence of abstract, eternal motion throughout the kosmos. As an eternal principle it is neither spirit no...   » Read the article

Dictionary - S: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On S
S - The nineteenth letter; numerically, sixty. In Hebrew it is the fifteenth letter, Samech, held as holy because "the sacred nam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Will: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Will
Will. In metaphysics and occult philosophy, Will is that which governs the manifested universes in eternity. Will is the one and sole ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - To On: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On To On
To On (Ancient Greek). The "Being", the "Ineffable All" of Plato. He" whom no person has seen except the Son&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - In: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On In
In (Chin.). The female principle of matter, impregnated by Yo, the male ethereal principle, and precipitated thereafter down into the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - To On: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On To On
To On (Greek) [from to the + einai to be]   That which is, the reality as opposed to the seeming; the essence or real nature of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - This: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On This
This When translating the Sanskrit idam, used of the manifested kosmos, in contradistinction to that (Sanskrit tat, tad).   (Se...   » Read the article

Dictionary - That: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On That
That Translating the Sanskrit tat or tad, the nameless or ineffable. Beyond the utmost that can be defined must necessarily be postula...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - Will-less: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Will-less
Will-less A condition of beings who have not yet evolved forth free will, hence without initiative or self-determination. A specific i...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - Wind: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wind
Wind Often used synonymously with spirit and breath, which are denoted by similar or identical words in many languages. In the New Tes...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wine
Wine Used as an emblem of life and spirit, as in the Mysteries, where at one stage of the initiatory rites wine and bread were offered...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wing, Wings: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wing, Wings
Wing, Wings Often signifying flight, but more accurately the soaring power of the spirit, literally or metaphorically, as in the wings...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Winged Globe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Winged Globe
Winged Globe.   See GLOBE, WINGED   (See also: Winged Globe , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Winged Wheel: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Winged Wheel
Winged Wheel Used in mystic philosophy worldwide, depicted under many forms, whether as a winged wheel, globe, egg, disk, etc. The Sta...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - Wisdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wisdom
Wisdom.   See ATMA-VIDYA; BODHI; HOCHMAH; SOPHIA, ETC.   (See also: Wisdom , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White
White Regarded as the source whence the seven prismatic colors diverge, it stands for the Logos of a hierarchy. Nearly all the archaic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White Island: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White Island
White Island Translation of the Sanskrit seta-dvipa; an island mentioned frequently in ancient Hindu Puranic accounts of the various c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White Lotus Day: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White Lotus Day
White Lotus Day May 8; commemorating H. P. Blavatsky's death in 1891.   (See also: White Lotus Day , Mysticism, Mysticism Dic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White Magic, White Magicians: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White Magic, White Magicians
White Magic, White Magicians.   See MAGIC, MAGICIAN   (See also: White Magic, White Magicians , Mysticism, Mysticism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - White Stone: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On White Stone
White Stone "To him that overcometh will I give of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Widow's Son: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Widow's Son
Widow's Son "A name given to the French Masons, because the Masonic ceremonies are principally based on the adventures and death ...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - Wigred: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wigred
Wigred.   See VIGRIDSSLATTEN   (See also: Wigred , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » 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 - Waters Of Space: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Waters Of Space
Waters of Space Chaos, the great deep, the great cosmic Mother, the universal cosmic matrix. According to Thales and other ancient phi...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - Week: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Week
Week The period of seven days was known to the Hindus, Egyptians, Hebrews, and other ancient nations, but not used by the Greeks or Ro...   » Read the article

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

Dictionary - West: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On West
West The forces of the four cardinal points have each a distinct occult property, and are ruled over by the four regents.   Blav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wheat: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wheat
Wheat Brought to earth by Lords of Wisdom from other spheres, as were all the grains, and indeed all plants and animals. Yet wheat is ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wheel: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wheel
Wheel Perpetual gyratory motion; a vortex, a center of revolving force. Matter is not only motion itself in low ranges of the cosmos, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Whip Of Osiris: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Whip Of Osiris
Whip of Osiris The nehbet (scepter), represented as a flail; one of the three instruments of power held by Osiris in the Egyptian repr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Whirling Souls: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Whirling Souls
Whirling Souls Used in reference to the Hebrew Gilgulim, the cyclic journeys or whirlings of the monad, and the Qabbalistic teaching t...   » 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 - Wisdom-eye: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wisdom-eye
Wisdom-eye.   See PINEAL GLAND   (See also: Wisdom-eye , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » 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 - Witch Of Endor: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Witch Of Endor
Witch of Endor The wise woman of Endor or 'Eyn-dor, mentioned in the Bible as having "a familiar spirit" (Sam 28:7-25), who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Witches' Sabbath: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Witches' Sabbath
Witches' Sabbath [from Anglo-Saxon wicca from wit-ga seer, prophet; later, wizard, witch]   A gathering of witches for the purpos...   » Read the article

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

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

Dictionary - Wolf: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wolf
Wolf {Fund 273-4}   (See also: Wolf , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Woman: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Woman
Woman In philosophy, symbolizes the mother aspect of nature or feminine characteristic of the universe always found in the triads of F...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Womb: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Womb
Womb The productive and reproductive powers of nature have often been symbolized by peoples in world history; and as production or rep...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wondrous Being: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wondrous Being
Wondrous Being Often equivalent to Silent Watcher, the supreme head of a hierarchy; and since hierarchies are innumerable, there are i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Word: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Word
Word In religious and philosophical usage, a translation of the Greek logos or Latin verbum. Its meaning here is that of reason manife...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wordpassing, Passwords: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wordpassing, Passwords
Wordpassing, Passwords Communication or passing of the word or words in two contexts: 1) in the sacred Mysteries, by one hierophant ju...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World
World Frequently used to signify various facts of nature: a cosmic plane or subplane, a cosmic sphere, or less accurately an entire co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World Egg, Mundane Egg: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World Egg, Mundane Egg
World Egg, Mundane Egg The virgin or eternal egg is chaos, which is fecundated by the ray from spirit, and yet remains immaculate. Acc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World-germs: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World-germs
World-germs A metaphor for cosmic monads, fundamental elementary principles of all ancient religious and philosophical systems. Each m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World Of Action: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World Of Action
World of Action.   See `ASIYYAH   (See also: World of Action , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul) &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World Of Emanations: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World Of Emanations
World of Emanations.   See 'ATSTSILOTH   (See also: World of Emanations , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - World Of Formation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On World Of Formation
World of Formation.   See YETSIRAH   (See also: World of Formation , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)...   » Read the article

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