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Wisdom Religion - Wisdom Religion. The one religion which underlies all the now-existing creeds. That "faith" which, being primordial, and revealed directly to human kind by their progenitors and informing EGOS (though the Church regards them as the "fallen angels"), required no "grace", nor blind faith to believe, for it was knowledge. (See "Gupta Vidya", Hidden Knowledge.) It is on this Wisdom Religion that Theosophy is based.

Paths Of Wisdom - Paths of Wisdom or Ways of Wisdom Used in the Hebrew Qabbalah, especially in the Sepher Yetsirah (the book of formation) in which formation or creation is set forth in a series of numbers. The Zohar (iii, 290a), as well as the Sepher Yetsirah (1, i), state that Wisdom (Hochmah) generates or arranges all things by means of "thirty-two wonderful paths of wisdom." The number 32 consists of the ten Sephiroth added to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet -- the latter represented in the Zohar as the 22 utterances of the Divine Speech. Again man is regarded as being the synthesis of the 22 letters, which with the addition of the ten Sephiroth makes the complete synthesis of creation.

The idea in this curious mixing of alphabetic characters and numbers with living beings, such as the world or man, is that just as alphabetic characters are the structure of vocal speech, words, sounds, and therefore of the communication of intelligence made by words built of the alphabetic characters, so these characters symbolically stand for the elements of the universe: in either case in, above, and around the elements and principles of the universe there is the divine hierarchy, of which the element-principles are the outward manifestations or expressions.

Four Wisdom - The forms of wisdom of a Buddha.
the Great- Mirror wisdom of Aksobhya;
the Universal Wisdom of Ratnaketu;
the Profound Observing Wisdom of Amitabha;
the Perfecting Wisdom of Amoghsiddhi.

Dragon Of Wisdom - Dragon of Wisdom Commonly an adept, one of the wise; also popularly a skilled magician -- whether of the right or left path. Referring to the earliest stages of cosmogony, dragon is a term often used for the sun in its various cosmologic functions, also for the One or Logos. An important significance of the phrase is that the real initiator of humanity, or of the individual neophyte, is the person''s own higher ego.

In Chinese Buddhism the term is used for the genii of the four quarters, called in China the Black Warrior, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Azure Dragon -- the Four Hidden Dragons of Wisdom. In her rendering of the Stanzas of Dzyan, Blavatsky uses Dragon of Wisdom as an equivalent of Oeaohoo the Younger -- the germ and overseer of all things to the end of the life cycle.

Sons Of Wisdom - Sons of Wisdom.

See MANASAPUTRAS

The Seven Jewels Of Wisdom - The Seven Jewels of Wisdom Theosophical term for seven fundamental teachings explanatory of the universe, its structure, laws, and operations. As enumerated with their Sanskrit names, they are: 1) reimbodiment (punarjanman); 2) the doctrine of consequences, results, or of causes and effects (karma); 3) hierarchies (lokas and talas); 4) individual characteristics involving self-generation or self-becoming (svabhava); 5) evolution and involution (pravritti and nivritti); 6) the two paths (amritayana and pratyekayana); and 7) the knowledge of the divine self and how the One becomes the many (atma-vidya).

Esoteric Wisdom - Esoteric wisdom characteristically concerns little-known laws of nature, extraordinary psychic and spiritual abilities latent in human beings, and superhuman hierarchies of gods, spirits, and masters.
(See Ancient Wisdom, Esoteric Movements)

Gates Of Wisdom - Gates of Wisdom Qabbalistic term meaning, among other things, that a candidate for occult wisdom must pass through successive gates in order to attain the highest knowledge possible to human beings. A common figure of speech in the ancient world, e.g., Egypt. In the Qabbalah fifty gates are enumerated, but

"the number is a blind, and there are really 49 gates, . . . These ''gates'' typify the different planes of Being or Ens. They are thus the ''gates'' of life and the ''gates'' of understanding or degrees of occult knowledge. These 49 (or 50) gates correspond to the seven gates in the seven caves of Initiation into the Mysteries of Mithra (see Celsus and Kircher).

The division of the 50 gates into five chief gates, each including ten -- is again a blind. It is in the fourth gate of these five, from which begins, ending at the tenth, the world of Planets, thus making seven, corresponding to the seven lower Sephiroth -- that the key to their meaning lies hidden. They are also called the ''gates of Binah'' or understanding" (TG 120).

Thirty-two Ways Of Wisdom - Thirty-two Ways of Wisdom (Kab.). The Zohar says that Chochmah or Hokhmah (wisdom) generates all things "by means of (these) thirty- two paths". (Zohar iii., 290a The full account of them is found in the Sepher Yezirah, wherein letters and numbers constitute as entities the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, by which the Elohim built the whole Universe.

For, as said elsewhere, the brain "hath an outlet from Zeir Anpin, and therefore it is spread and goes out to thirty-two ways". Zeir Anpin, the "Short Face" or the "Lesser Countenance", is the Heavenly Adam, Adam Kadmon, or Man. Man in the Zohar is looked upon as the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet to which the decad is added and hence the thirty-two symbols of his faculties or paths.

Agasha Temple Of Wisdom - An organization founded by channel and author William Eisen in Los Angeles, CA which teaches the universal consciousness of god, reincarnation, pyramidology, and the Ascended Masters.

Fifty Gates Of Wisdom - Fifty Gates of Wisdom. See GATES OF WISDOM

Ancient Wisdom - Ancient Wisdom. See WISDOM-RELIGION

Fifty Gates Of Wisdom - Fifty Gates of Wisdom (Kab.). The number is a blind, and there are really 49 gates, for Moses, than whom the Jewish world has no higher adept, reached, according to the Kabbalas, and passed only the 49th. These "gates" typify the different planes of Being or Ens.

They are thus the "gates" of Life and the "gates" of understanding or degrees of occult knowledge. These 49 (or 50) gates correspond to the seven gates in the seven caves of Initiation into the Mysteries of Mithra (see Celsus and Kircher). ‘I’he division of the 50 gates into five chief gates, each including ten - is again a blind. It is in the fourth gate of these five, from which begins, ending at the tenth, the world of Planets, thus making seven, corresponding to the seven lower Sephiroth - that the key to their meaning lies hidden. They are also called the "gates of Binah" or understanding.

Crest Jewel Of Wisdom - Crest Jewel of Wisdom (Sankaracharya) (SD)

Wisdom - The timely application of knowledge. The power of judging the best course of action, based on understanding, knowledge and experience.

Tarot Cards -
1. Set of 78 cards which have pictures and symbols which is used to connect the diviner, with the collective unconscious. (TRASB)
2. used to determine the past, present and future of an event or person and can become powerful tools in magickal working and rituals. (NAD)
3. deck of 78 cards with archetypal symbols 15th C. (From Italian tarocchi)
0. The Fool-choice; folly/wisdom 1. Magician-creative power
2. High Priestess-hidden influence 3. Empress-material wealth
4. Emperor-leadership 5. Hierophant-organized rule
6. Lovers-choice between opposites 7. Chariot - conquest
8. Strength - courage 9. Hermit-opening of the path
10. Wheel of Fortune-destiny 11. Justice-harmony
12. Hanged Man-reversal, wisdom 13. Death-transformation
14. Temperance-growth 15. Devil-bondage to material
16 Tower-end of selfishness 17. Stars-hope
18. Moon-deception 19. Sun-success
20. Judgment-spirtual renewal 21. World-freedom, success

Wisdom-eye - Wisdom-eye.

See PINEAL GLAND

Wisdom - Wisdom. The " very essence of wisdom is contained in the Non- Being ". say the Kabbalists; but they also apply the term to the WORD or Logos, the Demiurge, by which the universe was called into existence. "The one Wisdom is in the Sound ", say the Occultists; the Logos again being meant by Sound, which is the substratum of Akasa. Says the Zohar, the " Book of Splendour" "It is the Principle of all the Principles, the mysterious Wisdom, the crown of all that which there is of the most High". (Zohar, iii., fol. 288, Myers Qabbalah.) And it is explained, "Above Kether is the Ayin, or Ens, i.e., Ain, the NOTHING". "It is so named because we do not know, and it is impossible to know, that which there is in that Principle, because . . . it is above Wisdom itself." (iii., fol. 288.) This shows that the real Kabbalists agree with the Occultists that the essence, or that which is in the principle of Wisdom, is still above that highest Wisdom.

Jnana - ("knowledge/wisdom"): both worldly knowledge or world-transcending wisdom, depending on the context; see also prajna; cf. avidya

Wisdom-religion - Wisdom-Religion, Wisdom-Science.

See THEOSOPHY

Wisdom - Wisdom.

See ATMA-VIDYA; BODHI; HOCHMAH; SOPHIA, ETC.

Wisdom - Intuitive knowledge of the mind of love and clarity that lies beneath one''s ego-driven anxieties and aggressions.
An advanced level of comprehension. Steps taught in spiritual understanding areinformation (data and concepts), knowledge (use of), and wisdom (the ability to synthesize, to see spiritual relationships). The dedicated observation and practice of knowledge results in wisdom

Wisdom-life - The life of a Buddha or Bodhisattva, which is sustained by wisdom, just as the life of an ordinary being is sustained by food.