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.

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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.

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Four Wisdom

The forms of wisdom of a Buddha.

(1)  the Great- Mirror wisdom of Aksobhya;

(2)  the Universal Wisdom of Ratnaketu;

(3)  the Profound Observing Wisdom of Amitabha;

(4)  the Perfecting Wisdom of Amoghsiddhi.

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

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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.

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Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita): In Mahayana Buddhism, an early collection of writings beginning about 100 BCE which focuses on the importance of wisdom among the ten ideal perfections (paramitas); emphasizing the notion of emptiness (sunyata), the most famous of these works are the Diamond Cutter Sutra (vajracchedika-prajnaparaita) and the Heart Sutra (prajnaparamita-hydaya).

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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)

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wisdom teachings

A collection of wisdom; a body of knowledge about the hidden nature of humanity and the world held sacred through all time

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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.

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Marga (Sanskrit) Path; in Buddhism the noble eightfold path that leads to nirvana.

There are four commonly recognized margas, forms of yoga or spiritual and intellectual training:

1)    karma yoga (path of action);

2)    bhakti yoga (path of faith or love);

3)    raja yoga (path of kingly yoga); and

4)    jnana yoga (wisdom path).

These four pathways correspond with the four Hindu castes: Sudra (the agricultural); Vaisya (commercial); Kshattriya (administrative, military, ruler); and Brahmana (philosopher, sage).

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Pansophia [from Greek pan all + sophia wisdom]

All-wisdom, omniscience.

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JNANA: Knowledge; wisdom.

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Jnana:

knowledge, understanding, wisdom

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saraswati:

goddess of speech, learning, knowledge and wisdom

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para:

transcendental spiritual wisdom. Beyond. Distant. Far.

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prajna:

True wisdom. a higher mode of knowing.

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Zarpanitu (Akkad) The goddess who was the supposed mother, by Merodach, of Nebo, god of Wisdom. One of the female "Serpents of Wisdom".

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God-wisdom. See THEOSOPHY

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Gotra-Bhu-Jnana (Sanskrit) (from gotra race, family + bhu earth + jnana knowledge, wisdom)

Wisdom of the races of the earth.

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JNANI(N): the sage of wisdom

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prajna:

prajna - wisdom

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