Macroprosopus (Latin) (from Greek makros great + prosopon face)

Also Long Face, Great or Vast Countenance. Coined by medieval Qabbalists to translate the Chaldee phrase 'Arich 'Anpin (great face), one of the names of the first emanation of the Sephirothal Tree, Kether the Crown. Generally regarded as the universe in its totality, "in the Chaldean Kabal, a pure abstraction; the Word or logos, or dabar (in Hebrew), which Word, though it becomes in fact a plural number, or 'Words' -- d(a)B(a)Rim, when it reflects itself, or falls into the aspect of a Host (of angels, or Sephiroth, 'numbers') is still collectively One, and on the ideal plane a nought -- 0, a 'No-thing.' It is without form or being, 'with no likeness with anything else' " (SD 1:350). The originator of the succeeding nine emanated Sephiroth which, flowing forth from the Crown, are collectively called Microprosopus.

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Madan (Tamil) One that looks like a cow; wicked elementals or other astral and subastral sprites or nature spirits, half-brutes or half-monsters. They are particularly helpful to sorcerers of evil intent, as they are used for striking people and cattle with sudden illness and even death.

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Madbhava (Sanskrit) (from mad base of the first person singular pronoun + bhava being, nature, essence)

My essence, my nature.

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Maddena Nag (Chaldean) Venus. (SD 2:759n)

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Maddin Nag (Irish) Morning star. (SD 2:759n)

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Madhava (Sanskrit) A name of Vishnu because of his slaying of the asura Madhu; applied to Krishna as an avataric manifestation of Vishnu; also the month corresponding to April-May.

As a feminine noun, Madhavi, a title of Lakshmi, consort of Vishnu.

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Madhavacharya madhavacarya (Sanskrit) (from Madhava + acharya teacher, preceptor)

Celebrated religious teacher and scholar of the 14th century, one of the main teachers of the Dvaita-Vedanta school of pronounced dualism. It teaches the existence or permanent reality of two fundamental principles in universal nature: spirit and matter, or divinity and the universe. This dualism is in direct contrast with the unity doctrine taught in the Advaita-Vedanta or nondualistic system of Sankaracharya.

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Madhavas (Sanskrit) In the plural, the descendants of Madhu, men of the race of Yadu, and hence often called Yadavas.

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Madhavi (Sanskrit) A spring flower; a name of Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu.

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Madhu (Sanskrit) An asura; in the Mahabharata and the Puranas, Madhu and Kaitabha sprang from the ear of Vishnu while he was asleep at the end of a kalpa.

Brahma was also lying asleep on the lotus springing from Vishnu's navel, and the two asuras were on the point of slaying Brahma, when Vishnu awoke and slew them -- hence he was called Kaitabhajit and Madhusudana.

The Harivansa relates that the bodies of the asuras were cast into the sea and produced an immense amount of marrow, out of which Narayana formed the earth. Krishna also killed a demon named Madhu.

As an adjective, delicious, sweet.

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Madhusudana (Sanskrit) The slayer of Madhu; a title of Vishnu, who slew the asura Madhu; and of Krishna as an avatara of Vishnu because he slew the demon Madhu.

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Madhva (Sanskrit) Also Madhava. The founder of a sect of Vaishnavas called Madhvas after their founder who lived in southern India.

Regarded by his followers as an incarnation of Vayu, said to have been born about 1200, his doctrine is known by its chief characteristic called Dvaita (duality), and stands in opposition to the system of Advaita (nonduality) of Sankaracharya, a follower of the Siva-form of philosophic thought.

He was a follower of the Vishnu-form of religious philosophy, and his special teaching of Dvaita was based on the supposition that the supreme soul of the universe and the human soul are distinct entities, thus being in sharp contrast with the Advaita, which teaches that the spiritual essence of individual beings is identic with that of the universe.

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Madhya (Sanskrit) The middle; as an adjective, middle, center, interior as contrasted with outer; also intermediate as contrasted with either extreme or end. As a neuter noun, 10,000,000 trillions or 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000).

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Madhyama (Sanskrit) The fourth or middle tone of the seven primary notes of the Hindu musical scale.

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Madhyama (Sanskrit) (feminine of madhyama)

One of the states of vach (mystic speech), which is of four kinds according to its differentiation: para, pasyanti, madhyama, and vaikhari. The madhyama vach is the link between the mental form (in the Logos) and the manifested form (in matter). It corresponds mystically to the Light of the Logos. Vach, though often equivalent to Logos, is the feminine counterpart of Brahma, the masculine side of the Logos. Thus Vach is the spiritual aspect of prakriti.

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Keshvar. See KARSHVAR

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Kesil (Hebrew) (from kasal to be heavy, sluggish, stupid, foolish)

Fool, dullard; the constellation Orion. In the plural, constellations.

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Kesin, Kesim (Sanskrit) A demon slain by Krishna, the eighth avatara of Vishnu.

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Kether (Hebrew) Crown; in the Qabbalah, the name of the first Sephirah which is regarded as the first condensation of spiritual substance around the monadic center, this gathering together being the first reflection -- the number 1 -- from manifested nonbeing or 'eyn soph, the mystical kosmic womb of being represented figuratively as the Zero. Kether is termed the Primordial Point (nequdah ri'shonah) and the Expanded or Evolved Point (nequdah peshutah) because when the first reflection from above or condensation from 'eyn soph occurred, it was figurated as a point or monadic garment.

This first Sephirah contains involved within itself all the other nine Sephiroth, which it proceeds in regular serial order to emanate forth. It is considered in the Qabbalah as a sexless yet androgynous potency. Kether is original spiritual Light in comparison with divine Darkness or the absolute Light of 'eyn soph, this divine Darkness being beyond human conception and hence termed the Concealed of the Concealed -- a title also applicable to Kether itself.

Being the oldest or first of the Sephiroth it is termed the Most Holy Ancient One (`Attiqa' Qaddisha'), the Ancient of Days (`Attiq Yomin), and the White Head (Reisha' Hiwwara') as containing within itself all colors. As head of the Sephirothal Tree, Kether is termed the Great Aspect, Macroprosopus, or Long Face ('Arich 'Anpin) as it contains all the attributes of the other nine Sephiroth. Its Divine Name is 'Ehyeh (I am), the first manifested existence or cosmic being. Applied to man, Kether is represented by the head. Its first emanation became the second Sephirah, Hochmah.

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Keto. See CETUS

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Ketu (Sanskrit) The descending node of the moon in astronomy; in Hindu mythology, the tail of the celestial dragon who is supposed to attack the sun during eclipses; also a comet or meteor.

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Kha or Khat (Egyptian) (from khaa to set aside, cast away)

The physical body, whether alive or dead. It refers to the unimportance of the physical body in the human constitution, abandoned or cast off at death, or indeed temporarily abandoned in the case of initiates who were elsewhere than in the body.

Also the sacred plant of the Egyptians corresponding to the Hindu soma.

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