- COLLATION OF THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARIES
Sc - Sj
- List of Abbreviations for Titles
- TG Scarabaeus. In Egypt, the symbol of resurrection,
and also of rebirth; of resurrection for the mummy or rather of
the highest aspects of the personality which animated
it, and of rebirth for the Ego, the "spiritual body"
of the lower, human Soul. Egyptologists give us but half of the
truth, when in speculating upon the meaning of certain inscriptions,
they say, "the justified soul, once arrived at a certain
period of its peregrinations (simply at the death of the physical
body) should be united to its body (i.e., the
Ego) never more to be separated from it".
(Rouge.) What is this so-called body? Can it be the mummy? Certainly
not, for the emptied mummified corpse can never resurrect. It
can only be the eternal, spiritual vestment, the EGO that never
dies but gives immortality to whatsoever becomes united with it.
"The delivered Intelligence (which) retakes its luminous
envelope and (re)becomes Daimon", as Prof. Maspero says,
is the spiritual Ego; the personal Ego
or Kama-Manas, its direct ray, or the lower soul,
is that which aspires to become Osirified, i.e., to
unite itself with its "god"; and that portion of it
which will succeed in so doing, will never more be separated
from it (the god), not even when the latter incarnates
again and again, descending periodically on earth in its pilgrimage,
in search of further experiences and following the decrees of
Karma. Khem, "the sower of seed", is shown on a stele
in a picture of Resurrection after physical death, as the creator
and the sower of the grain of corn, which, after corruption, springs
up afresh each time into a new ear, on which a scarabaeus beetle
is seen poised; and Deveria shows very justly that "Ptah
is the inert, material form of Osiris, who will become Sokari
(the eternal Ego) to be reborn, and afterwards be Harmachus",
or Horus in his transformation, the risen god. The
prayer so often found in the tumular inscriptions, "the wish
for the resurrection in one's living soul"
or the Higher Ego, has ever a scarabaeus at the end, standing
for the personal soul. The scarabaeus is the most honoured, as
the most frequent and familiar, of all Egyptian symbols. No mummy
is without several of them; the favourite ornament on engravings,
household furniture and utensils is this sacred beetle, and Pierret
pertinently shows in his Livre des Morts that
the secret meaning of this hieroglyph is sufficiently explained
in that the Egyptian name for the scarabaeus, Kheper, signifies
to be, to become, to build
again.
- TG Scheo (Eg.). The god who,
conjointly with Tefnant and Seb, inhabits Aanroo, the region called
"the land of the rebirth of the gods".
- TG Schesoo-Hor (Eg.). Lit., the
servants of Horus; the early people who settled in Egypt and who
were Aryans.
WW Scholastics You will remember that I said
that the Christians had no philosophy. They had none such in the
sense that the Hindu religions have a philosophy, which is a component
part, the greater and nobler part, of their religion. But during
all the Middle Ages the Christians had different schools of thinkers,
hairsplitting dialectitians and logicians they were, quarreling
about abstractions; the differences between them frequently so
minute that it is a marvel to a man of modern times how thinking
beings could indulge in such acrimonious and bitter controversies
over subjects so uninspiring. Some of these latter however, are
not unworthy of thought. Take an example which is often quoted
by modern writers as typical of the uselessness of abstract discussion:
How many angels or similar beings can find place on the point
of a needle? This is often quoted as a singularly efficient argument
against the scholastics, as the so-called philosophers and learned
men of the Middle Ages were called. But if we consider that even
from the standpoint of modern science and particularly from the
discoveries of late years there is a world of infinitesimal electrons
composing the atom of physics and chemistry -- the atom having
been shown by the latest researches to be composed of a multitude
of these smaller entities -- then perhaps we may see another way
of looking at it. The atom may be conceived of as an atomic solar
system. The electrons are conceived of as planets circling, as
our planets do, around our sun, around some mysterious and wonderful
center in the atom. Now this thought shows us that perhaps in
these strange speculations of the schoolmen or the scholastics
there may have been some instinctive notion of things as they
exist in other spheres, on other planes, if you like, on the lowest
etheric plane. When a man is asked to decide how many angels can
perform or evolve on the point of a needle, if his mind is not
thoughtful and inclined to reflection, he may take the inquirer
to be a lunatic. But what are angels? They are not men; they are
not creatures, according to the theory, below men. According to
the theory they are creatures above man. The point of a needle
as contrasted with an atom, is immense; it is an extensive universe;
armies of spiritual beings on their groups of electronic spheres,
might be conceived as executing their evolutions on the point
of a needle. Take our own world, our own solar system, our own
universe, which includes all that is visible to the eye; it is
conceivable, and I believe true, that it all can be thought of
as a point by some intelligence so infinitely superior to ours
that it conceives of and knows things which are utterly beyond
our ken. Sometimes the ideas of the scholastics (in fact usually,
rather than sometimes) were puerile. Their arguments seemed to
be principally to hair-split definitions. They indulged in vain
and empty speculations on abstract subjects, and it is small wonder
that the world since the decline and fall of scholasticism has
looked upon the huge and monumental tomes of their writings as
mental wilderness. Few men read, fewer still search them.
Scholasticism arose in Europe after a period of intellectual night
called the Dark Ages, which we may place between the 6th and 9th
centuries. Then, when Charlemagne had extended his conquests over
most of Europe, he began to found schools, and to strengthen those
which already existed, to enlarge their sphere of activities.
He was a great man, a bigot perhaps, but he had a love for the
arts, and a love of learning, and he knew his duty in the lofty
position which he held. And from that time we may date the rise
of scholasticism. The word scholastic itself meant, about the
time of the fall of the Roman Empire, a teacher of rhetoric in
the schools, and the scholastics were called so because they were
schoolmen, from schole, school. They were the
learned men of the times and naturally they were theologians.
Some specialized in the branches of philosophy which in their
barbarous and rude form had come down to them from the schools
of the Roman Empire; had slowly through the centuries, filtered
into the benighted intellects of the Europeans from the intellectual
splendor of Alexandria, early Constantinople, and Antioch. But
there was very little of it. They even knew little of Aristotle,
who later became their favorite. He became to them the model of
all a philosopher should be.
There were three of these scholastics who towered above their
fellows -- Albertus Magnus, a German born in Lauingen, in Suabia;
a Scot (or an Irishman, as some think) Duns Scotus; and a third,
an Italian, Thomas Aquinas or Aquino. Duns Scotus is usually supposed
to have been born in the town of Dunse in Scotland. From the name
of this man, by the way, has originated our word dunce.
He was one of the most learned men of his age, a Franciscan
friar, and he was called the doctor subtilissimus,
or the most subtle (religious) teacher, on account of the
supposed intellectual subtlety of his writing. And consequently
after his death whenever a man showed unusual learning or unusual
ability in acquiring knowledge, he became "another Duns."
Afterwards the name was applied derisively, and to say "You
are a Duns" implied that the man addressed was of slow and
bovine intellect or what we call a dunce.
Now this man Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican. The two great orders
of the Roman Church, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, have
each their chosen intellectual philosophy. The Franciscan's authority
is Duns Scotus, naturally as he was a Franciscan friar; the Dominicans
recognized Thomas of Aquino as their philosophical head. Thomas
Aquinas was a close and earnest student of the writings of Dionysius
the Areopagite, so much so that later writers, most of them Roman
Catholic writers, have said that if the works of Thomas Aquinas
disappeared, they could reconstruct all he had ever written from
the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite. The writings of Thomas
Aquinas are of tremendous authority in the Roman Church. If I
am not mistaken, it is within three or four years that the Pope
issued an encyclical condemning the advance of modernism in that
church, and reiterated the necessity of holding to the theology
(the Apex or ne plus ultra of theology) of Thomas Aquinas. Now
as this work is considered in the church of Rome to be one of
the best guides of their priests, it practically represents the
standard of their theology, the touchstone of their faith. As
Thomas Aquinas' great work is derived to such a great extent from
the writings of the Greek Christian Dionysius the Areopagite,
whose works have been proved to have been derived from Neoplatonic
sources, that is to say from pagan sources, we have the paradox
that the Roman Church has chosen as its theological touchstone
a work based on pagan philosophy. It is of a piece with what Protestant
theologians have often pointed out, that Rome, Papal Rome, in
its theology as well as in its hierarchy, its institutions, and
its ritual, is a copy, more or less degraded, of pagan institutions,
pagan thought, and pagan temple ceremonial. Roman Catholic theologians,
to a certain extent, do not deny this. They ascribe it to the
greatness of their faith, its ability to absorb other faiths,
and to the fact that its own majesty never suffers diminution
by absorption, but absorbs to transmute, and much more in similar
vein.
- The scholastics had a curious reputation among later men.
It has been said of them that they discussed about everything
in heaven and in earth, and about some things besides -- de
omnibus rebus caelo terra, -- et de quibusdam
aliis. Possibly that is one of the reasons
why the Roman church boasts of itself as follows: quod
semper, quod ab omnibus, quod
ubique, -- i.e. that
"it is always, that it is recognized by everybody, that it
is everywhere" -- a proud boast indeed. The only thing, I
think, that will fit the description conveyed in that Latin saying
is the sublime science which we believe in, of which we may truly
say that it is always, that it is accepted by everybody, that
it is everywhere, because we can prove -- and it will be our effort
to prove it in our studies -- that in one form or other, in all
times, and under whatever names it may have been set forth, there
has been one Truth, as there has been one effort to reach the
truth by men, and that that Truth contains those principles of
being, those principal heads of thought, which we call Theosophy.
TG Schools of the Prophets. Schools established
by Samuel for the training of the Nabiim (prophets).
Their method was pursued on the same lines as that of a Chela
or candidate for initiation into the occult sciences, i.e.,
the development of abnormal faculties or clairvoyance leading
to Seership. Of such schools there were many in days of old in
Palestine and Asia Minor. That the Hebrews worshipped Nebo, the
Chaldean god of secret learning, is quite certain, since they
adopted his name as an equivalent of Wisdom.
- SCIENCE
- For a fuller description of this topic by articles, excerpts,
and possibly further links; hyperlink to the Science
section of another site.
- OG Science -- An operation
of the human spirit-mind in its endeavor to understand the how
of things -- not any particular science whatsoever, but the thing
in itself, science per se -- ordered and classified knowledge.
One phase of a triform method of understanding the nature of universal
nature and its multiform and multifold workings; and this phase
cannot be separated from the other two -- philosophy and religion
-- if we wish to gain a true picture of things as they
are in themselves.
- Science is the aspect of human thinking in the activity of
the mentality in the latter's inquisitive, researching, and classifying
functions.
- SEE PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION
- TG Seance. A word which has come to mean
with Theosophists and Spiritualists a sitting with a medium for
phenomena, the materialisation of "spirits" and other
manifestations.
- KT Seance. A term now used to denote a sitting
with a medium for sundry phenomena. Used chiefly among the spiritualists.
- SEASONS
- For a fuller description of this topic by articles, excerpts,
and possibly further links; hyperlink to the Sacred Seasons
section of another site.
- TG Seb (Eg.). The Egyptian
Saturn; the father of Osiris and Isis. Esoterically, the sole
principle before creation, nearer in meaning to Parabrahm than
Brahma. From as early as the second Dynasty, there were records
of him, and statues of Seb are to be seen in the museums represented
with the goose or black swan that
laid the egg of the world on his head. Nout or Neith, the "Great
Mother" and yet the "Immaculate Virgin", is Seb's
wife; she is the oldest goddess on record, and is to be found
on monuments of the first dynasty, to which Mariette Bey
assigns the date of almost 7000 years B.C.
- OG Second Death
-- This is a phrase used by ancient and modern mystics to describe
the dissolution of the principles of man remaining in kama-loka
after the death of the physical body. For instance, Plutarch says:
"Of the deaths we die, the one makes man two of three, and
the other, one out of two." Thus, using the simple division
of man into spirit, soul, and body: the first death is the dropping
of the body, making two out of three; the second death is the
withdrawal of the spiritual from the kama-rupic soul, making one
out of two. The second death takes place when the lower or intermediate
duad (manas-kama) in its turn separates from, or rather is cast
off by, the upper duad; but preceding this event the upper duad
gathers unto itself from this lower duad what is called the reincarnating
ego, which is all the best of the entity that was, all its purest
and most spiritual and noblest aspirations and hopes and dreams
for betterment and for beauty and harmony. Inherent in the fabric,
so to speak, of the reincarnating ego, there remain of course
the seeds of the lower principles which at the succeeding rebirth
or reincarnation of the ego will develop into the complex of the
lower quaternary. (See also Kama-Rupa)
- VS Open and the Secret (II 35) [[p. 41]]
The "Open" and the "Secret Path" or the one
taught to the layman, the exoteric and the generally accepted,
and the other the Secret Path the nature of which is explained
at initiation.
- THE SECRET DOCTRINE
- Hyperlink to The Secret Doctrine
by H. P. Blavatsky; also the Index
to The Secret Doctrine
- Hyperlink to The Secret Doctrine Commentary,
and An Invitation to The Secret Doctrine
- Hyperlink to books on The Secret Doctine by G. de Purucker:
Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy,
and Fountain-Source of Occultism
- TG Secret Doctrine. The general name given
to the esoteric teachings of antiquity.
- SEE STANZAS OF DZYAN
- TG Sedecla (Heb.). The Obeah
woman of Endor.
- TG Seer. One who is a clairvoyant; who can
see things visible, and invisible -- for others -- at any distance
and time with his spiritual or inner sight or perceptions.
- TG Seir Anpin, or Zauir Anpin (Heb.).
In the Kabbalah, "the Son of the
concealed Father", he who unites in himself all the Sephiroth.
Adam Kadmon, or the first manifested "Heavenly Man",
the Logos.
- MO Sejd [[Norse]] (sayd) Prophecy
- TG Sekhem (Eg.). The same
as Sekten.
- TG Sekhet (Eg.). See "Pasht".
- TG Sekten (Eg.). Devachan;
the place of post mortem reward, a state of bliss,
not a locality.
- KT Self. There are two Selves in
men -- the Higher and the Lower, the Impersonal and the Personal
Self. One is divine, the other semi-animal. A great distinction
should be made between the two.
- VS Knower of All Self (I 9) [[p. 5]] The
Tatwagyanee is the "knower" or discriminator
of the principles in nature and in man; and Atmagyanee
is the knower of ATMAN or the Universal, ONE SELF.
- VS That way begins and ends outside of Self (II 28)
[[p. 39]] Meaning the personal lower "Self."
- VS unites thee to thy "silent Self"
(II 12) [[p. 30]] The "Higher Self" the "seventh"
principle.
- OG Self -- Man is a sheaf
or bundle of forces or energies and material elements combined;
and the power controlling all and holding them together, making
out of the composite aggregate a unity, is what theosophists call
the Self -- not the mere ego, but the Self, a purely spiritual
unit, in its essence divine, which is the same in every man and
woman on earth, the same in every entity everywhere in all the
boundless fields of limitless space, as we understand space. If
one closely examine his own consciousness, he will very soon know
that this is the pure consciousness expressed in the words, "I
am" -- and this is the Self; whereas the ego is the cognition
of the "I am I." Consider the hierarchy
of the human being growing from the Self as its seed -- ten stages:
three on the arupa or immaterial plane; and seven (or perhaps
better, six) on the planes of matter or manifestation. On each
one of these seven planes (or six planes), the Self or paramatman
develops a sheath or garment, the upper ones spun of spirit, or
light if you will, and the lower ones spun of shadow or matter;
and each such sheath or garment is a soul; and between the Self
and a soul -- any soul -- is an ego.
- TG Sena (Sk.). The female
aspect or Sakti of Karttikeya; also called Kaumara.
- TG Senses. The ten organs of man. In the
exoteric Pantheon and the allegories of the East, these are the
emanations of ten minor gods, the terrestrial Prajapati or "progenitors".
They are called in contradistinction to the five physical and
the seven superphysical, the "elementary senses". In
Occultism they are closely allied with various forces of nature,
and with our inner organisms, called cells in
physiology.
- TG Senzar. The mystic name for the secret
sacerdotal language or the "Mystery-speech" of the initiated
Adepts, all over the world.
- WGa Senzar, the Mystery-language of the ancient
Initiated Adepts, known to all schools all over the world.
- IN Senzar Mystic name for the secret sacerdotal
language, the "Mystery-speech" of initiated adepts;
original language of the Stanzas of Dzyan.
- SEE DEVANAGARI, SANSKRIT
- TG Sepher Sephiroth (Heb.).
A Kabbalistic treatise concerning the gradual evolution of Deity
from negative repose to active emanation and creation. [W.W.W.]
- TG Sepher Yetzirah (Heb.). "The
Book of Formation". A very ancient Kabbalistic work ascribed
to the patriarch Abraham. It illustrates the creation of the universe
by analogy with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet,
distributed into a triad, a heptad, and a dodecad, corresponding
with the three mother letters, A, M, S, the seven planets, and
the twelve signs of the Zodiac. It is written in the Neo-Hebraic
of the Mishnah. [W.W.W.]
- TG Sephira (Heb.) An emanation
of Deity; the parent and synthesis of the ten Sephiroth when she
stands at the head of the Sephirothal Tree; in the Kabbalah,
Sephira, or the "Sacred Aged", is the divine
Intelligence (the same as Sophia or Metis), the first emanation
from the "Endless" or Ain-Suph.
- TG Sephiroth (Heb.). The
ten emanations of Deity; the highest is formed by the concentration
of the Ain Soph Aur, or the Limitless Light, and each Sephira
produces by emanation another Sephira. The names of the Ten Sephiroth
are -- 1. Kether -- The Crown; 2. Chokmah -- Wisdom; 3. Binah
-- Understanding; 4. Chesed -- Mercy; 5. Geburah -- Power; 6.
Tiphereth -- Beauty; 7. Netzach -- Victory; 8. Hod -- Splendour;
9. Jesod -- Foundation; and 10. Malkuth -- The Kingdom.
- The conception of Deity embodied in the Ten Sephiroth is a
very sublime one, and each Sephira is a picture to the Kabbalist
of a group of exalted ideas, titles and attributes, which the
name but faintly represents. Each Sephira is called either active
or passive, though this attribution may lead to error; passive
does not mean a return to negative existence; and the two words
only express the relation between individual Sephiroth, and not
any absolute quality. [W.W.W.]
- KT Sephiroth. A Hebrew Kabalistic word, for
the ten divine emanations from Ain-Soph, the impersonal, universal
Principle, or DEITY. (Vide Theos. Gloss.)
- WGa Sephiroth, the ten emanations of Deity
in the Hebrew Kabalah. They are, Kether,
crown; Chokmah, wisdom;
Binah, understanding; Chesed,
mercy; Geburah, power;
Tiphereth, beauty; Netzach, victory;
Hod, splendor; Jesod,
foundation; Malkuth, the
kingdom.
- IN Sephiroth (Heb) In the Kabbalah, the ten
divine emanations from Ain Soph (the Boundless)
which form the Tree of Life or tenfold universe.
- WGa Septenary, the collection of six principles
synthesized in the seventh or Atman, and constituting man. The
first four are given under Quaternary,
and the remaining three under Triad.
The symbol of the septenary is a square and a triangle
combined.
- TG Septerium (Lat.). A great
religious festival held in days of old every ninth year at Delphi,
in honour of Helios, the Sun, or Apollo, to commemorate his triumph
over darkness, or Python; Apollo-Python being the same as Osiris-Typhon
in Egypt.
- TG Seraphim (Heb.). Celestial
beings described by Isaiah (vi., 2,) as of human form with the
addition of three pair of wings. The Hebrew word is ShRPIM, and
apart from the above instance, is translated serpents, and is
related to the verbal root ShRP, to burn up. The
word is used for serpents in Numbers and
Deuteronomy. Moses is said to have raised in the wilderness
a ShRP or Seraph of Brass as a type. This bright serpent is also
used as an emblem of Light.
- Compare the myth of AEsculapius, the healing deity, who is
said to have been brought to Rome from Epidaurus as a serpent,
and whose statues show him holding a wand on which a snake is
twisted. (See Ovid, Metam., lib. xv.). The Seraphim
of the Old Testament seem to be related to the
Cherubim (q.v.). In the Kabbalah the
Seraphim are a group of angelic powers allotted to the Sephira
Geburah -- Severity. [W.W.W.]
SEE CHERUBIM, THRONES, DOMINATIONS, VIRTUES, POWERS, PRINCIPALITIES,
ARCHANGELS, ANGELS, HIERARCHIES
- TG Serapis (Eg.). A great
solar god who replaced Osiris in the popular worship, and in whose
honour the seven vowels were sung. He was often made to appear
in his representations as a serpent, a "Dragon of Wisdom".
The greatest god of Egypt during the first centuries of Christianity.
- SERPENT -- SEE NAGA
- TG Sesha (Sk.) Ananta, the
great Serpent of Eternity, the couch of Vishnu; the symbol of
infinite Time in Space. In the exoteric beliefs Sesha is represented
as a thousand-headed and seven-headed cobra; the
former the king of the nether world, called Patala, the latter
the carrier or support of Vishnu on the Ocean of Space.
- WG Sesha, name of the thousand-headed serpent
-- also called Ananta -- sometimes represented as forming the
couch and canopy of Vishnu while he sleeps during the night of
Brahma. It is a symbol of eternal matter.
- TG Set or Seth (Eg.). The
same as the Son of Noah and Typhon -- who is the dark side of
Osiris. The same as Thoth and Satan, the adversary, not the devil
represented by Christians.
- OG Seven Principles
of Man -- Every one of the seven principles of man, as also every
one of the seven elements in him, is itself a mirror of the universe.
(See also Principles of Man)
- SEE PRINCIPLES OF MAN
- OG Seven Sacred
Planets -- The ancients spoke of seven planets which they called
the seven sacred planets, and they were named as follows: Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Moon. Each one of these
seven globes is a body like our own Earth in that each is a septenary
chain, sevenfold in composition: six other superior globes of
finer and more ethereal matter above the physical sphere or globe.
Only those globes which are on the same cosmic plane of nature
or being are physically visible to each other. For instance, we
can see only the fourth-plane planetary globe of each of the other
planetary or sidereal chains, because we ourselves are on the
fourth cosmic plane, as they also are. There is a very important
and wide range of mystical teaching connected with the seven sacred
planets which it would be out of place to develop here.
- TG Sevekh (Eg.). The god
of time; Chronos; the same as Sefekh. Some Orientalists
translate it as the "Seventh".
- TG Shaberon (Tib.). The Mongolian
Shaberon or Khubilgan (or Khubilkhans) are the reincarnations
of Buddha, according to the Lamaists; great Saints and Avatars,
so to say.
- TG Shaddai, El (Heb.). A
name of the Hebrew Deity, usually translated God Almighty, found
in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Ruth and Job.
Its Greek equivalent is Kurios Pantokrator; but by Hebrew
derivation it means rather "the pourer forth", shad
meaning a breast, and indeed shdi is also used
for "a nursing mother". [W.W.W.]
- VS O Victim of thy Shadows (II 13) [[p. 30]]
Our physical bodies are called "Shadows" in the mystic
schools.
- VS Thy shadows live and vanish (II 18) [[p.
31]]"Personalities" or physical bodies
called "shadows" are evanescent.
- SEE BROTHERS OF THE SHADOW
- VS Shakya-Thub-pa [[p. 37]] Buddha.
- TG Shamans. An order of Tartar or Mongolian
priest-magicians, or as some say, priest-sorcerers. They are not
Buddhists, but a sect of the old Bhon religion
of Tibet. They live mostly in Siberia and its borderlands. Both
men and women may be Shamans. They are all magicians, or
rather sensitives or mediums artificially developed. At present
those who act as priests among the Tartars are generally very
ignorant, and far below the fakirs in knowledge and education.
- IU Shamans, or Samaneans. An order of Buddhists
among the Tartars, especially those of Siberia. They are possibly
akin to the philosophers anciently known as Brachmanes,
mistaken sometimes for Brahmans. [From the accounts of Strabo
and Megasthenes, who visited Palibothras, it would seem that the
persons termed by him Samanean, or Brachmane priests, were simply
Buddhists. "The singularly subtile replies of the Samanean
or Brahmin philosophers, in their interview with this conqueror,
will be found to contain the spirit of the Buddhist doctrine,"
remarks Upham. (See the "History and Doctrine of Buddhism;"
and Hale's "Chronology," vol. iii., p. 238.)] They are
all magicians, or rather sensitives or mediums
artificially developed. At present those who act as priests among
the Tartars are generally very ignorant, and far below the fakirs
in knowledge and education. Both men and women may be Shamans.
- FY Shamanism, spirit worship; the oldest
religion of Mongolia.
- WGa Shamans, Tartar Magicians and priests,
male or female, of the ancient Bhon religion of
Thibet. They are found chiefly in Siberia.
- SHAMBHALA -- SEE SAMBHALA
- TG Shanah (Heb). The Lunar
Year.
- TG Shangna (Sk.). A mysterious
epithet given to a robe or "vesture" in a metaphorical
sense. To put on the "Shangna robe" means the acquirement
of Secret Wisdom, and Initiation. (See Voice of the Silence,
pp. 84 and 85, Glossary.)
- VS Shangna robe (II 22) [[p. 32]] The Shangna
robe, from Shangnavesu of Rajagriha the third great Arhat or "Patriarch"
as the Orientalists call the hierarchy of the 33 Arhats who spread
Buddhism. "Shangna robe" means metaphorically, the acquirement
of Wisdom with which the Nirvana of destruction (of personality)
is entered. Literally, the "initiation robe" of the
Neophytes. Edkins states that this "grass cloth" was
brought to China from Tibet in the Tong Dynasty. "When an
Arhan is born this plant is found growing in a clean spot"
says the Chinese as also the Tibetan legend.
- TG Shastra or S'astra (Sk.). A
treatise or book; any work of divine or accepted authority, including
law books. A Shastri means to this day, in India, a man learned
in divine and human law.
- WG Sastra, a religious or scientific treatise,
any sacred book or standard authority.
- SKo Sastra A scripture; a religious or scientific
writing; derived from the verb-root sas --
to rule, to teach, to proclaim.
- SP Sastra -- a Sanskrit scholastic text or
treatise, meant to instruct students in a specialized area of
knowledge.
- WG Shat-kona, a symbol consisting of two
interlaced triangles, one pointing up, the other down -- "Indra's
thunderbolt" with the Hindus, "Solomon's seal"
with the Jews. (shat, six; kona,
angle, point.)
- TG Shedim (Heb.). See "Siddim".
- TG Shekinah (Heb.). A title
applied to Malkuth, the tenth Sephira, by the Kabbalists;
but by the Jews to the cloud of glory which rested on
the Mercy-seat in the Holy of Holies. As taught, however, by all
the Rabbins of Asia Minor, its nature is of a more exalted kind,
Shekinah being the veil of Ain-Soph, the Endless and the Absolute;
hence a kind of Kabbalistic Mulaprakriti. [W.W.W.]
- TG Shells. A Kabbalistic name for the phantoms
of the dead, the "spirits" of the Spiritualists, figuring
in physical phenomena; so named on account of their being simply
illusive forms, empty of their higher principles.
- TG Shemal (Chald.). Samael,
the spirit of the earth, its presiding ruler and genius.
- TG Shemhamphorash (Heb.).
The separated name. The mirific name derived from the substance
of deity and showing its self-existent essence. Jesus was accused
by the Jews of having stolen this name from the Temple by magic
arts, and of using it in the production of his miracles.
- TG Sheol (Heb.). The hell
of the Hebrew Pantheon; a region of stillness and inactivity as
distinguished from Gehenna, (q.v.).
- TG Shien-Sien (Chin.). A
state of bliss and soul-freedom, during which a man can travel
in spirit where he likes.
- TG Shiites (Pers.). A sect
of Mussulmen who place the prophet Ali higher than Mohammed, rejecting
Sunnah or tradition.
- TG Shila (Pali). The second
virtue of the ten Paramitas of perfection. Perfect harmony in
words and acts.
- TG Shinto (Jap.). The ancient
religion of Japan before Buddhism, based upon the worship of spirits
and ancestors.
- TG Shoel-ob (Heb.). A consulter
with familiar "spirits"; a necromancer, a raiser of
the dead, or of their phantoms.
- TG Shoo (Eg.). A personification
of the god Ra; represented as the "great cat of the Basin
of Persea in Anu".
- VS to the other shore (III 7) [[p. 47]] "Arrival
at the shore" is with the Northern Buddhists synonymous with
reaching Nirvana through the exercise of the six and the ten Paramitas
(virtues).
- TG Shudala Madan (Tam.).
The vampire, the ghoul, or graveyard spook.
- TG Shule Madan (Tam.). The
elemental which is said to help the "jugglers" to grow
mango trees and do other wonders.
- TG Shutukt (Tib.). A collegiate
monastery in Tibet of great fame, containing over 30,000 monks
and students.
- TG Sibac (Quiche). The reed
from the pith of which the third race of men was created, according
to the scripture of the Guatemalians, called the Popol
Vuh.
- TG Sibika (Sk.). The weapon
of Kuvera, god of wealth (a Vedic deity living in Hades, hence
a kind of Pluto), made out of the parts of the divine splendour
of Vishnu, residing in the Sun, and filed off by Visvarkarman,
the god Initiate.
- WG Siddha, one who has attained psychic powers
by proficiency in occult sciences; perfect; one who has attained
perfection; he who has acquired siddhis.
- TG Siddhanta (Sk.). Any learned
work on astronomy or mathematics, in India.
- TG Siddhartha (Sk.). A name
given to Gautama Buddha.
- WG Siddhartha, a title of Gautama Buddha.
- SP Siddhartha -- the personal
name of Sakyamuni or Gautama Buddha.
- TG Siddhas (Sk.). Saints
and sages who have become almost divine also a hierarchy of Dhyan
Chohans.
- WG Siddhas, demi-gods, with superhuman powers.
- GH Siddhas A class of semi-divine beings
of great purity and perfection, represented as possessing the
eight supernatural faculties (the Siddhis), and inhabiting Bhuvar-loka
(the region between earth and heaven). In later mythology they
are often confused with the Sadhyas (q.v.). "According
to the Occult teachings, however, Siddhas are the Nirmanakayas
or the 'spirits' (in the sense of an individual, or conscious
spirit) of great sages from spheres on a' higher plane
than our own, who voluntarily incarnate in mortal bodies in order
to help the human race in its upward progress. Hence their innate
knowledge, wisdom and powers." (Secret Doctrine,
II, p. 636) (The following word is derived from the verbal root:)
sidh, to attain; hence 'the perfected ones.' Bhagavad-Gita,
W. Q. Judge, p. 81)
- TG Siddhasana (Sk.). A posture
in Hatha-yoga practices.
- FY Siddhasana, one of the postures enjoined
by the system of Hatha Yoga.
- WG Siddhasana, a particular posture in religious
meditation, described as putting the left heel under the body
and the right heel in front of it.
- TG Siddha-Sena (Sk.). Lit.,
"the leader of Siddhas"; a title of Karttikeya, the
"mysterious youth" (kumara guha).
- TG Siddhis (Sk.). Lit., "attributes
of perfection"; phenomenal powers acquired through holiness
by Yogis.
- FY Siddhi, abnormal power obtained by spiritual
development.
- WG Siddhi, magic power; extraordinary power
that may be acquired by man through spiritual development.
- SKv Siddhi, Iddhi The Siddhis are psychic
faculties; derived from the verb-root sidh --
to attain. H. P. Blavatsky warns in The
Voice of the Silence:
There are two kinds of Siddhis. One group embraces the
lower, coarse, psychic and mental energies; the other is one which
exacts the highest training of Spiritual powers. -- Fragment I,
note 1
- Krishna says to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita:
He who is engaged in the performance of Yoga, who has subdued
his senses and who has concentrated his mind in me, such Yogins
all the Siddhis stand ready to serve.
- Iddhi is the Pali word for the Sanskrit Siddhi.
- SEE IDDHI
- TG Siddim (Heb.). The Canaanites,
we are told, worshipped these evil powers as deities, the name
meaning the "pourers forth"; a valley was named after
them. There seems to be a connection between these, as types of
Fertile Nature, and the many-bosomed Isis and Diana of Ephesus.
In Psalm cvi., 37, the word is translated "devils",
and we are told that the Canaanites shed the blood of their sons
and daughters to them. Their title seems to come from the same
root ShD, from which the god name El Shaddai is derived. [W.W.W.]
- The Arabic Shedim means "Nature Spirits",
Elementals; they are the afrits of modern Egypt
and djins of Persia, India, etc.
- TG Sidereal. Anything relating to the stars,
but also, in Occultism, to various influences emanating from such
regions, such as "sidereal force", as taught by Paracelsus,
and sidereal (luminous), ethereal body, etc.
- TG Si-dzang (Chin.). The
Chinese name for Tibet; mentioned in the Imperial Library of the
capital of Fo Kien, as the "great seat of Occult learning",
2,207 years B.C. (Secret Doctrine, I.,
p. 271.)
- IN Sien-Tchan (Chin) The material universe,
world of illusion.
- PV Sierpe Spanish, "serpent." A
sacred term for the Seven Ahpu, the serpent being their divine
nahual. It is also the totem of the Mayas (chan).
The sierpes are in eternal opposition to the culebras.
- MO Sif [[Norse]] (seev) [sif
affinity, the sanctity of marriage] An Asynja: Thor's wife. Her
golden hair is the harvest
- TG Sige (Gr.). "Silence";
a name adopted by the Gnostics to signify the root whence proceed
the AEons of the second series.
- TG Sighra or Sighraga (Sk.). The
father of Moru, "who is still living through
the power of Yoga, and will manifest himself in the beginning
of the Krita age in order to re-establish the
Kshattriyas in the nineteenth Yuga"
say the Puranic prophecies. "Moru" stands here
for "Morya", the dynasty of the Buddhist sovereigns
of Pataliputra which began with the great King Chandragupta, the
grandsire of King Asoka. It is the first Buddhist Dynasty. (Secret
Doctrine, I., 378.)
- TG Sigurd (Scand.). The hero
who slew Fafnir, the "Dragon", roasted his heart and
ate it, after which he became the wisest of men. An allegory referring
to Occult study and initiation.
- MO Sigyn [[Norse]] (seeg-in) Loki's wife
- GH Sikhandin A son of Drupada, king of Panchala,
who accomplished the death of Bhishma in the great conflict. The
story regarding Sikhandin, is one of the specific instances portraying
reincarnation, with which the Mahabharata is
studded. The epic relates that the eldest daughter of
the king of Kasi Amba (q.v.), was rejected by
her betrothed through the fault of Bhishma, whereupon she retired
into the forest and by severe penances and sacrifices obtained
a boon from Siva promising her immediate rebirth as a man in order
to mete out judgment upon her wrongdoer, Bhishma. She thereupon
ascended her funeral pyre and was forthwith reborn as Sikhandin.
(Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 4)
- WGa Sila, morality.
- SEE PARAMITAS
- OG Silent Watcher
-- A term used in modern theosophical esoteric philosophy to signify
a highly advanced spiritual entity who is, as it were, the summit
or supreme chief of a spiritual-psychological hierarchy composed
of beings beneath him and working under the Silent Watcher's direct
inspiration and guidance. The Silent Watchers, therefore, are
relatively numerous, because every hierarchy, large or small,
high or low, has as its own particular hierarch or supreme head
a Silent Watcher. There are human Silent Watchers, and there is
a Silent Watcher for every globe of our planetary chain. There
is likewise a Silent Watcher of the solar system of vastly loftier
state or stage, etc. "Silent Watcher" is a graphic phrase,
and describes with fair accuracy the predominant trait or characteristic
of such a spiritual being -- one who through evolution having
practically gained omniscience or perfect knowledge of all that
he can learn in any one sphere of the kosmos, instead of pursuing
his evolutionary path forwards to still higher realms, remains
in order to help the multitudes and hosts of less progressed entities
trailing behind him. There he remains at his self-imposed task,
waiting and watching and helping and inspiring, and so far as
we humans are concerned, in the utter silences of spiritual compassion.
Thence the term Silent Watcher. He can learn nothing more from
the particular sphere of life through which he has now passed,
and the secrets of which he knows by heart. For the time being
and for ages he has renounced all individual evolution for himself
out of pure pity and high compassion for those beneath him.
- IN Silent Watcher The summit of a hierarchy;
the terrestrial Silent Watcher is the Mahaguru, the Great Sacrifice,
who renounces nirvana and individual progress for the sake of
all lower sentient beings.
- TG Simeon-ben-Jochai. An Adept-Rabbin, who
was the author of the Zohar, (q.v.).
- TG Simon Magus. A very great Samaritan Gnostic
and Thaumaturgist, called "the great Power of God".
- TG Simorgh (Pers.). The same
as the winged Siorgh, a kind of gigantic griffin, half phoenix,
half lion, endowed in the Iranian legends with oracular powers.
Simorgh was the guardian of the ancient Persian Mysteries. It
is expected to reappear at the end of the cycle as a gigantic
bird-lion. Esoterically, it stands as the symbol of the Manvantaric
cycle. Its Arabic name is Rakshi.
- TG Sinai (Heb.). Mount Sinai,
the Nissi of Exodus (xvii., 15), the birthplace
of almost all the solar gods of antiquity, such as Dionysus, born
at Nissa or Nysa, Zeus of Nysa, Bacchus and Osiris, (q.v.).
Some ancient people believed the Sun to be the progeny of the
Moon, who was herself a Sun once upon a time. Sin-ai is
the "Moon Mountain", hence the connexion.
- MO Sindre [[Norse]] (sin-dreh) [dross] A
dwarf: the vegetable kingdom
- TG Sing Bonga. The Sun-spirit with the Kollarian
tribes.
- FY Sing Bonga, sun spirit of the Kolarian
tribes.
- TG Singha (Sk.). The constellation
of Leo; Singh meaning "lion".
- TG Sinika (Sk.). Also Sinita
and Sanika, etc., as variants. The Vishnu Purana
gives it as the name of a future sage who will be taught by him
who will become Maitreya, at the end of Kali Yuga, and adds that
this is a great mystery.
- TG Sinivali (Sk.). The first
day of the new moon, which is greatly connected with Occult practices
in India.
- MO Sinmara [[Norse]] (sin-mah-ra) Hag who
guards the caldron of matter, experience in the underworld
- TG Siphra Dtzeniouta (Chald.).
The Book of Concealed Mystery; one division of the Zohar.
(See Mathers' Kabbalah Unveiled.)
- TG Sirius (Gr.). In Egyptian,
Sothis. The dog-star: the star worshipped in Egypt
and reverenced by the Occultists; by the former because its heliacal
rising with the Sun was a sign of the beneficent inundation of
the Nile, and by the latter because it is mysteriously associated
with Thoth-Hermes, god of wisdom, and Mercury, in another form.
Thus Sothis-Sirius had, and still has, a mystic and direct influence
over the whole living heaven, and is connected
with almost every god and goddess. It was "Isis in the heaven"
and called Isis-Sothis, for Isis was "in
the constellation of the dog", as is declared on her monuments.
"The soul of Osiris was believed to reside in a personage
who walks with great steps in front of Sothis, sceptre
in hand and a whip upon his shoulder." Sirius is also Anubis,
and is directly connected with the ring "Pass me not";
it is, moreover, identical with Mithra, the Persian Mystery god,
and with Horus and even Hathor, called sometimes the goddess Sothis.
Being connected with the Pyramid, Sirius was, therefore, connected
with the initiations which took place in it. A temple to Sirius-Sothis
once existed within the great temple of Denderah. To sum up, all
religions are not, as Dufeu, the French Egyptologist, sought to
prove, derived from Sirius, the dog-star, but Sirius-Sothis is
certainly found in connection with every religion of antiquity.
- TG Sishta (Sk.). The great
elect or Sages, left after every minor Pralaya (that
which is called "obscuration" in Mr. Sinnett's Esoteric
Buddhism), when the globe goes into its night or rest,
to become, on its re-awakening, the seed of the next humanity.
Lit. "remnant."
- WG Sishta, chastened, corrected, taught,
instructed, ruled.
- OG Sishta(s) -- (Sista,
Sanskrit) This is a word meaning "remainders," or "remains,"
or "residuals" -- anything that is left or remains behind.
In the especial application in which this word is used in the
ancient wisdom, the sishtas are those superior classes -- each
of its own kind and kingdom -- left behind on a planet when it
goes into obscuration, in order to serve as the seeds of
life for the inflow of the next incoming life-wave when
the dawn of the new manvantara takes place on that planet. When
each kingdom passes on to its next globe, each one leaves behind
its sishtas, its lives representing the very highest point of
evolution arrived at by that kingdom in that round, but leaves
them sleeping as it were: dormant, relatively motionless, including
life-atoms among them. Not without life, however, for everything
is as much alive as ever, and there is no "dead" matter
anywhere; but the sishtas considered aggregatively as the remnants
or residuals of the life-wave which has passed on are sleeping,
dormant, resting. These sishtas await the incoming of the life-waves
on the next round, and then they re-awaken to a new cycle of activity
as the seeds of the new kingdom or kingdoms -- be it the three
elemental kingdoms or the mineral or vegetable or the beast or
the next humanity. In a more restricted and still more specific
sense, the sishtas are the great elect, or sages, left behind
after every obscuration.
- SKf Sishta Sishtas literally mean 'remainders';
derived from the verb-root sish -- to remain.
Mystically the Sishtas refer to those entities from every kingdom
who remain behind on a Globe or a Planet when the main stream
of lives moves on, and whose duty it is to become the 'remainder-forms'
or 'seeds of life' so that when the hosts of lives of all classes
return they will find appropriate bodies ready for them. These
Sishtas are always from among the highest representatives of each
kingdom or class of beings. Thus they are able to provide for
the more evolved entities returning in the next cycle.
- IN Sishta(s) (Skt) "Residue, remainders,"
those left behind; the most evolved representatives of each kingdom
which remain behind at the end of a cycle to serve as seeds for
that kingdom in the next cycle.
- SP Sista [sishta] -- residue, remains of
one manvantara as seeds for the next.
- TG Sisthrus (Chald.). According
to Berosus, the last of the ten kings of the dynasty of the divine
kings, and the "Noah" of Chaldea. Thus, as Vishnu foretells
the coming deluge to Vaivasvata-Manu, and, forewarning, commands
him to build an ark, wherein he and seven Rishis are saved; so
the god Hea foretells the same to Sisithrus (or Xisuthrus) commanding
him to prepare a vessel and save himself with a few elect. Following
suit, almost 800,000 years later, the Lord God of Israel repeats
the warning to Noah. Which is prior, therefore? The story of Xisuthrus,
now deciphered from the Assyrian tablets, corroborates that which
was said of the Chaldean deluge by Berosus, Apollodorus, Abydenus,
etc., etc. (See eleventh tablet in G. Smith's Chaldean
Account of Genesis, page 263, et seq.). This
tablet xi. covers every point treated of in chapters six and seven
of Genesis -- the gods, the sins
of men, the command to build an ark, the Flood, the destruction
of men, the dove and the raven sent out of the ark, and finally
the Mount of Salvation in Armenia (Nizir-Ararat); all is there.
The words "the god Hea heard, and his liver was angry, because
his men had corrupted his purity", and the story of his destroying
all his seed, were engraved on stone tablets many thousand years
before the Assyrians reproduced them on their baked tiles, and
even these most assuredly antedate the Pentateuch, "written
from memory" by Ezra, hardly four centuries B.C.
- TG Sistrum (Gr.). Egyptian
ssesh or kemken. An instrument, usually
made of bronze but sometimes of gold or silver, of an open circular
form, with a handle, and four wires passed through holes, to the
end of which jingling pieces of metal were attached; its top was
ornamented with a figure of Isis, or of Hathor. It was a sacred
instrument, used in temples for the purpose of producing, by means
of its combination of metals, magnetic currents, and sounds.
To this day it has survived in Christian Abyssinia, under
the name of sanasel, and the good priests use
it to "drive devils from the premises", an act quite
comprehensible to the Occultist, even though it does provoke laughter
in the sceptical Orientalist. The priestess usually held it in
her right hand during the ceremony of purification of the
air, or the "conjuration of the elements",
as E. Levi would call it, while the priests held the Sistrum in
their left hand, using the right to manipulate the "key of
life" -- the handled cross or Tau.
- TG Sisumara (Sk.). An imaginary
rotating belt, upon which all the celestial bodies move. This
host of stars and constellations is represented under the figure
of Sisumara, a tortoise (some say a porpoise!),
dragon, crocodile, and what not. But as it is a symbol of the
Yoga-meditation of holy Vasudeva or Krishna, it must be a crocodile,
or rather, a dolphin, since it is identical with the zodiacal
Makara. Dhruva, the ancient pole-star, is placed at the tip of
the tail of this sidereal monster, whose head points southward
and whose body bends in a ring. Higher along the tail are the
Prajapati, Agni, etc., and at its root are placed Indra, Dharma,
and the seven Rishis (the Great Bear), etc., etc. The meaning
is of course mystical.
- TG Siva (Sk.). The third
person of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti). He is a god of the
first order, and in his character of Destroyer higher than Vishnu,
the Preserver, as he destroys only to regenerate on a higher plane.
He is born as Rudra, the Kumara, and is the patron of all the
Yogis, being called, as such, Maha-Yogi, the great ascetic,
His titles are significant: Trilochana, "the
three-eyed", Mahadeva, "the great
god", Sankara, etc., etc., etc.
- FY Siva, one of the Hindu gods, with Brahma
and Vishnu, forming the Trimurti or Trinity; the principle of
destruction.
- WG Siva, one of the Hindu trinity (Brahma,
Vishnu and Siva), the destroyer, or transformer. (Literally, "the
gracious one," an euphemism for Rudra, "the howler,"
"the horrible one.")
- GH Siva The third aspect of the Hindu Trimurti
commonly called the destroyer, but with the idea intimately associated
therewith of regeneration, hence also the regenerator. The name
Siva does not appear in the Vedas, nor does the concept of the
Trimurti; but the deity Rudra does occur (associated in the Vedas
with Agni the fire god), and in later times Siva is known under
the name of Rudra, hence the association of the two has been made.
Rudra is hailed in the Rig-Veda as the lord of
songs and sacrifices, the lord of nourishment, he who drives away
diseases and removes sin -- the beneficent aspect of Siva. In
the Mahabharata, Siva's place in the Trimurti
is maintained, although he is not quite as prominent as Vishnu
(the preserver), nevertheless the deity comes in for his share
of reverence.
- Siva is described as the beautiful white deity with a blue
throat -- blue because of the poisons he drinks in order to preserve
mankind thereby; his hair is of a reddish color and piled on his
head in matted locks -- for Siva is the patron deity of ascetics.
He is depicted with three eyes, one placed in the center of his
forehead, representing the eye of wisdom (Called by Occultists
the eye of Siva or the third eye): the three eyes represent Time,
present, past, and future. A crescent moon above his forehead
indicates Time measured by the phases of the moon, while a serpent
around his neck indicates the measure of Time by cycles: a second
necklace (of human skulls) refers to the races of men which Siva
continuously destroys in order to regenerate new races. The serpents
which surround him represent the deity as king of the Nagas (q.v.),
standing also for symbols of spiritual immortality. Siva is often
represented with five faces -- representing the five manifested
elements.
- In many of the Puranas Siva is regarded as the greatest of
deities, hence he is called Mahadeva (the great god). He is also
spoken of as the patron deity of Esotericists and as the divine
protector of the mystic Occultists. For Siva is "the howling
and terrific destroyer of human passions and physical senses,
which are ever in the way of the development of the higher
spiritual perceptions and the growth of the inner eternal
man -- mystically," (Secret Doctrine, I,
p. 459).
- Siva, although the destroying deity, is Evolution and Progress
personified, he "is the regenerator at the
same time; who destroys things under one form but to recall them
to life under another more perfect type." (Secret
Doctrine, II, p. 182)
- In the Bhagavad-Gita Siva is referred to under
his alternative name of Sankara (Bhagavad-Gita,
W. Q. Judge, p. 73).
- SEE TRIMURTI
- TG Siva-Rudra (Sk.). Rudra
is the Vedic name of Siva, the latter being absent from the Veda.
- FY Sivite, a worshipper of Siva, the name
of a sect among the Hindus.
- VS six (I 27) [[p. 10]] The six principles;
meaning when the lower personality is destroyed and the inner
individuality is merged into and lost in the Seventh or Spirit.
- List of Abbreviated Titles (in alphabetical
order)
FY | Five Years of Theosophy - 1885
| H. P. Blavatsky, ed.
GH | Gods and Heroes of the Bhagavad Gita - 1939
| Geoffrey A. Barborka
IN | An Invitation to the Secret Doctrine - 1988
| Grace F. Knoche, ed.
IU | Isis Unveiled - 1877 |
H. P. Blavatsky
KT | Key to Theosophy - 1889
| H. P. Blavatsky
MO | The Masks of Odin - 1985 | Elsa-Brita Titchenell
OG | Occult Glossary - 1933, 1996
| G. de Purucker
PV | Esotericism of the Popol Vuh - 1979 | Raphael
Girard (glossary by Blair A. Moffett)
SK | Sanskrit Keys the Wisdom Religion - 1940
| Judith Tyberg
- SKo Sanskrit terms from The Ocean of
Theosophy, by William Q. Judge, 1893.
- SKv Sanskrit terms from The Voice of the Silence, by
H. P. Blavatsky, 1889.
- SKf Sanskrit terms from Fundamentals of the Esoteric
Philosophy, by G. de Purucker, 1932.
- SKs Sanskrit terms from The Secret Doctrine, by
H. P. Blavatsky, 1888.
SP | Sanskrit Pronunciation - 1992
| Bruce Cameron Hall
TG | Theosophical Glossary - 1892
| H. P. Blavatsky
VS | Voice of the Silence - 1889
| H. P. Blavatsky
WG | The Working Glossary - 1892
| W. Q. Judge
- WGa Terms from The Working Glossary Appendix
-
- WW | Word Wisdom in the Esoteric Tradition - 1980
| G. de Purucker