COLLATION OF THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARIES
List of Title Abbreviations (in alphabetical order)
TG Z. -- The 26th letter of the English alphabet. It stands as a numeral for 2,000, and with a dash over it, equals 2,000,000. It is the seventh letter in the Hebrew alphabet -- zayin, its symbol being a kind of Egyptian sceptre, a weapon. The zayin is equivalent to number seven. The number twenty-six is held most sacred by the Kabbalists, being equal to the numerical value of the letters of the Tetragrammaton -- thus:
he vau he yod
5 + 6 + 5 + 10 = 26.
SD INDEX Z (letter), double seven (Ragon) II 582
SD INDEX Zablistanee (Zebulon), Afghan tribe II 200n
TG Zabulon (Heb.). The abode of God, the tenth Devachan in degree. Hence Zabulon, the tenth son of Jacob.
SD INDEX Zabulon [Zebulun] (Heb) son of Jacob, Pisces I 651
TG Zacchai (Heb.). One of the deity-names.
SD INDEX Zachar va Nakobeh [Zakhar uNegebah] (Heb)
male & female II 127, 467 &n
phallus & yoni I 390
TG Zadok (Heb.). According to Josephus (see Antiquities, x, 8, Sec. 6), Zadok was the first High-Priest Hierophant of Solomon's High Temple. Masons connect him with some of their degrees.
SD INDEX Zadok [Tsadoq] (Heb) righteous, made high priest by David II 541
SD INDEX Zadokites, or Sadducees II 541
SD INDEX Zakhar (Heb, sacr in tx)
phallus, lingam I 5n; II 465n
tau cross & I 5; II 467n
TG Zalmat Gaguadi (Akkad.). Lit., "the dark race", the first that fell into generation in the Babylonian legends. The Adamic race, one of the two principal races that existed at the time of the "Fall of Man" (hence our third Root-race), the other being called Sarku, or the "light race". (Secret Doctrine, II., 5.)
SD INDEX Zalmat-Gaguadi, Babylonian dark race II 5
SD INDEX ZAMA ZAMA OZZA RACHAMA OZAI (Gnos, Pistis Sophia) II 580
TG Zampun (Tib.). The sacred tree of life, having many mystic meanings.
SD INDEX Zampun, Tibetan Tree of Life II 97
SD INDEX Zamyad Yasht (Pers) re Amesha Spentas II 358
SD INDEX Zanoni (Lytton character) faces his Augoeides I 573
SD INDEX Zao (Gk) "I live" II 582
TG Zarathustra (Zend.). The great lawgiver, and the founder of the religion variously called Mazdaism, Magism, Parseeism, Fire-worship, and Zoroastrianism. The age of the last Zoroaster (for it is a generic name) is not known, and perhaps for that very reason. Xanthus of Lydia, the earliest Greek writer who mentions this great lawgiver and religious reformer, places him about six hundred years before the Trojan War. But where is the historian who can now tell when the latter took place? Aristotle and also Eudoxus assign him a date of no less than 6,000 years before the days of Plato, and Aristotle was not one to make a statement without a good reason for it. Berosus makes him a king of Babylon some 2,200 years B.C.; but then, how can one tell what were the original figures of Berosus, before his MSS. passed through the hands of Eusebius, whose fingers were so deft at altering figures, whether in Egyptian synchronistic tables or in Chaldean chronology? Haug refers Zoroaster to at least 1,000 years B.C.; and Bunsen (God in History, Vol. I., Book III., ch. vi., p. 276) finds that Zarathustra Spitama lived under the King Vistaspa about 3,000 years B.C., and describes him as "one of the mightiest intellects and one of the greatest men of all time". It is with such exact dates in hand, and with the utterly extinct language of the Zend, whose teachings are rendered, probably in the most desultory manner, by the Pahlavi translation -- a tongue, as shown by Darmsteter, which was itself growing obsolete so far back as the Sassanides -- that our scholars and Orientalists have presumed to monopolise to themselves the right of assigning hypothetical dates for the age of the holy prophet Zurthust. But the Occult records claim to have the correct dates of each of the thirteen Zoroasters mentioned in the Dabistan. Their doctrines, and especially those of the last (divine) Zoroaster, spread from Bactria to the Medes; thence, under the name of Magism, incorporated by the Adept-Astronomers in Chaldea, they greatly influenced the mystic teachings of the Mosaic doctrines, even before, perhaps, they had culminated into what is now known as the modern religion of the Parsis. Like Manu and Vyasa in India, Zarathustra is a generic name for great reformers and law-givers. The hierarchy began with the divine Zarathustra in the Vendidad, and ended with the great, but mortal man, bearing that title, and now lost to history. There were, as shown by the Dabistan, many Zoroasters or Zarathustras. As related in the Secret Doctrine, Vol. II., the last Zoroaster was the founder of the Fire-temple of Azareksh, many ages before the historical era. Had not Alexander destroyed so many sacred and precious works of the Mazdeans, truth and philosophy would have been more inclined to agree with history, in bestowing upon that Greek Vandal the title of "the Great".
SD INDEX Zarathustra, Zaratushta (Pers). See also Zoroaster
Amshaspend called II 6n
became ruler of fourth race II 610
dialogue of, w Ahura Mazda II 292
first, fr Atlantean Magas II 322-3
grotto of, & four cardinal pts I 464
invokes his fravashi II 480
invokes the Amesha Spenta II 384-5
septenary chain taught by II 757
TG Zarpanitu (Akkad.). The goddess who was the supposed mother, by Merodach, of Nebo, god of wisdom. One of the female "Serpents of Wisdom".
SD INDEX Zarpanitu (Bab)
Moon deity II 456
Nebo son of Merodach & II 210n
SD INDEX Zebulun. See Zabulon
SD INDEX Zechariah, Book of, seven eyes of Tetragrammaton II 626
SD INDEX Zedec or Melchizedek. See Tsaddiq
TG Zelator. The lowest degree in the exoteric Rosicrucian system; a kind of probationer or low chela.
SD INDEX Zenana [Zanana] (Hindi) women's quarters or penetralia I 382
FY Zend, the sacred language of ancient Persia.
TG Zend-Avesta (Pahl.). The general name for the sacred books of the Parsis, fire or sun worshippers, as they are ignorantly called. So little is understood of the grand doctrines which are still found in the various fragments that compose all that is now left of that collection of religious works, that Zoroastrianism is called indifferently Fire-worship, Mazdaism, or Magism, Dualism, Sun-worship, and what not. The Avesta has two parts as now collected together, the first portion containing the Vendidad, the Visperad and the Yasna; and the second portion, called the Khorda Avesta (Small Avesta), being composed of short prayers called Gah, Nyayish, etc. Zend means "a commentary or explanation", and Avesta (from the old Persian abashta, "the law". (See Darmsteter.) As the translator of the Vendidad remarks in a foot note (see Int. xxx.): "what it is customary to call 'the Zend language', ought to be named 'the Avesta language', the Zend being no language at all; and if the word be used as the designation of one, it can be rightly applied only to the Pahlavi". But then, the Pahlavi itself is only the language into which certain original portions of the Avesta are translated. What name should be given to the old Avesta language, and particularly to the "special dialect, older than the general language of the Avesta" (Darmst.), in which the five Gathas in the Yasna are written? To this day the Orientalists are mute upon the subject. Why should not the Zend be of the same family, if not identical with the Zen-sar, meaning also the speech explaining the abstract symbol, or the "mystery language," used by Initiates?
SD INDEX Zend Avesta (Pers)
Ahriman becomes devil II 93
ahura fr Vedic asura in II 92, 500
change of poles II 356
confirms old teachings I 307
on the elements I 125n
the Fall described in II 516
ferouer or fravashi in II 480
fire giving knowledge of future I 339
Fohat is Apam-Napat in II 400n
holy tree II 97
Mazdean Noah in II 290-2
sacred land in II 6
St Michael story in II 384-5
serpent w camel's neck II 205
sevenfold chain in II 757-9
sevens in II 35, 92
three-thirds of Earth explained II 757-8
Yima's rule II 270
SD INDEX Zen-Do (Jap, Dzenodoo in tx) seven jewels I 173
SD INDEX Zeno (Gk philosopher)
nature a habit II 159
universe fr fire, air, water I 76-7
KT Zenobia. The Queen of Palmyra, defeated by the Emperor Aurelianus. She had for her instructor Longinus, the famous critic and logician in the third century A.D. (See "Longinus.")
SD INDEX Zero
boundless circle or I 99
cipher of Arab origin I 360-1
egg-shaped, or kosmos I 91
laya state or I 545, 551
number one & II 114
unity within, symbol of deity II 587
SD INDEX Zeroana Akerne [Zervan Akarana] (Pers)
boundless time I 113; II 488
circle, chakra of Vishnu I 114
ever unmanifested principle II 233
Ormazd issues fr I 113
various equivalents of I 113
SD INDEX Zero Point. See also Laya
a condition or state I 145
TG Zervana Akarna, or Zrvana Akarna (Pahl.). As translated from the Vendidad (Fargard xix), lit., "Boundless", or "Limitless Time'', or "Duration in a Circle". Mystically, the Beginningless and the Endless One Principle in Nature; the Sat of the Vedanta; and esoterically, the Universal Abstract Space synonymous with the Unknowable Deity. It is the Ain-Soph of the Zoroastrians, out of which radiates Ahura Mazda, the eternal Light or Logos, from which, in its turn, emanates everything that has being, existence and form.
TG Zeus (Gr.). The "Father of the gods". Zeus-Zen is AEther, therefore Jupiter was called Pater Aether by some Latin races.
SD INDEX Zeus (Gk). See also Jupiter, Kronos
Astraea allegory & II 785
"beautiful virgin" I 72n
bisexual I 72n; II 135
born in & out of Kronos (Time) I 427
changed Niobe into fountain II 772
commands creation of new race II 519
creates third race of Ash tree II 181n
cruelty towards Prometheus II 411-12n
curses Prometheus II 244
deity of the fourth race II 776
desired to quench human race II 412
dethrones father Kronos II 269-70, 421
Deus among Boeotians II 582
disrespectful god (Hesiod) II 269-70
divides man in two II 134, 177
dual nature of II 419-20
"Father of all living" II 582
father of Castor & Pollux II 122
Greco-Olympian Don Juan II 420
host of primeval progenitors II 421-2
Kronos curses II 421
not highest god I 425-6
not perfection II 413
Pater, not phallic II 574
Prometheus rebelled against II 280n
reigns over fourth race II 766
reverences night (Iliad) I 425
of secondary creation I 427
as serpent, begat Dionysos II 415, 419-20
son of Kronos-Saturn I 72n
supreme being of heaven I 672
wanted man animal-like II 414
SD INDEX Zeus-Belos [Bel (or Marduk)] (Gk-Bab) II 210n
SD INDEX Zeus-Kataibates (Gk) Zeus descending aspect of Archaeus (Pausanias) I 338n
SD INDEX Zeus Triopios or Triopis, three-eyed colossus II 294n
SD INDEX Zeus-Zen (aether)
Chthonia & Metis wives of I 340-1
double-sexed creator II 130
FY Zhing, subtle matter; Kama Rupa, or fourth principle (Chinese).
SD INDEX Zi, Babylonian god II 5, 54
TG Zicu (Akkad.). Primordial matter, from Zi, spirit-substance, Zikum and Zigarum.
SD INDEX Ziku, Babylonian god II 5
TG Zio (Scand.). Also Tyr and Tius. A god in the Eddas who conquers and chains Fenris-Wolf, when the latter threatened the gods themselves in Asgard, and lost a hand in the battle with the monster. He is the god of war, and was greatly worshipped by the ancient Germans.
PV Zipacna [[Quiche]] Son of Vukup Cakix, brother of Caprakan. His mother is Chimalmat. These four are the primeval giants of the Popol Vuh, transformed into the four cosmic bearers after being vanquished by Hunahpu and Ixbalamque. Zipacna causes the death of the Four Hundred Boys (associated with the Pleiades), who are resuscitated by the divine twins.
TG Zipporah (Heb.). Lit., the shining, the radiant. In the Biblical allegory of Genesis, Zipporah is one of the seven daughters of Jethro, the Midianite priest, the Initiator of Moses, who meets Zipporah (or spiritual light) near the "well" (of occult knowledge) and marries her.
SD INDEX Zipporah (Heb)
Jethro's daughter II 465n
& Sippara (shining) I 385n; II 465n
town of Sippara (Bab) & I 319n
wife of Moses I 319n, 385n
TG Zirat-banit (Chald.). The wife of the great, divine hero of the Assyrian tablets, Merodach. She is identified with the Succoth Benoth of the Bible.
TG Ziruph (Heb.). More properly Tziruph, a mode of divination by Temura, or permutation of letters, taught by the mediaeval Kabbalists. The school of Rabbis Abulafia and Gikatilla laid the most stress on the value of this process of the Practical Kabalah. [W.W.W.]
KT Zivo, Kabar (or Yukabar). The name of one of the creative deities in the Nazarene Codex. (See Isis Unveiled.)
SD INDEX Zodh (Cain), slew his female brother II 43-4n
TG Zodiac (Gr.). From the word zodion, a diminutive of zoon, animal. This word is used in a dual meaning; it may refer to the fixed and intellectual Zodiac, or to the movable and natural Zodiac. "In astronomy", says Science, "it is an imaginary belt in the heavens 16 degrees or 18 degrees broad, through the middle of which passes the suns path (the ecliptic)." It contains the twelve constellations which constitute the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and from which they are named. As the nature of the zodiacal light -- that elongated, luminous, triangular figure which, lying almost in the ecliptic, with its base on the horizon and its apex at greater and smaller altitudes, is to be seen only during the morning and evening twilights -- is entirely unknown to science, the origin and real significance and occult meaning of the Zodiac were, and are still, a mystery, to all save the Initiates. The latter preserved their secrets well. Between the Chaldean star-gazer and the modern astrologer there lies to this day a wide gulf indeed; and they wander, in the words of Albumazar, 'twixt the poles, and heavenly hinges, 'mongst eccentricals, centres, concentricks, circles and epicycles", with vain pretence to more than profane human skill. Yet, some of the astrologers, from Tycho Brahe and Kepler of astrological memory, down to the modern Zadkiels and Raphaels, have contrived to make a wonderful science from such scanty occult materials as they have had in hand from Ptolemy downwards. (See "Astrology".) To return to the astrological Zodiac proper, however, it is an imaginary circle passing round the earth in the plane of the equator, its first point being called Aries 0 degrees. It is divided into twelve equal parts called "Signs of the Zodiac", each containing 30 degrees of space, and on it is measured the right ascension of celestial bodies. The movable or natural Zodiac is a succession of constellations forming a belt of 47 degrees in width, lying north and south of the plane of the ecliptic. The precession of the Equinoxes is caused by the "motion" of the sun through space, which makes the constellations appear to move forward against the order of the signs at the rate of 50 1/3 seconds per year. A simple calculation will show that at this rate the constellation Taurus (Heb. Aleph) was in the first sign of the Zodiac at the beginning of the Kali Yuga, and consequently the Equinoctial point fell therein. At this time, also, Leo was in the summer solstice, Scorpio in the autumnal Equinox, and Aquarius in the winter solstice; and these facts form the astronomical key to half the religious mysteries of the world -- the Christian scheme included. The Zodiac was known in India and Egypt for incalculable ages, and the knowledge of the sages (magi) of these countries, with regard to the occult influence of the stars and heavenly bodies on our earth, was far greater than profane astronomy can ever hope to reach to. If, even now, when most of the secrets of the Asuramayas and the Zoroasters are lost, it is still amply shown that horoscopes and judiciary astrology are far from being based on fiction, and if such men as Kepler and even Sir Isaac Newton believed that stars and constellations influenced the destiny of our globe and its humanities, it requires no great stretch of faith to believe that men who were initiated into all the mysteries of nature, as well as into astronomy and astrology, knew precisely in what way nations and mankind, whole races as well as individuals, would be affected by the so-called "signs of the Zodiac".
OG Zodiac -- The Greeks called the zodiac the "circle of life," and they divided it into twelve houses or signs, named as follows: Aries, the Ram; Taurus, the Bull; Gemini, the Twins; Cancer, the Crab; Leo, the Lion; Virgo, the Virgin; Libra, the Scales; Scorpio, the Scorpion; Sagittarius, the Archer; Capricornus, the Goat; Aquarius, the Water-bearer; Pisces, the Fishes. The entrance of the sun into each one of the twelve zodiacal constellations or signs brings with it a new cosmic force into operation, not merely on our earth, but distributively speaking throughout our own individual lives. The entering into the present astrological era which is now under way will inaugurate the development in the human race, in a certain line, of powers to come that will be nobler than were those of the last astrological zodiacal era. There is a strict and close correspondence between each one of the globes of our earth-chain, and a respective one of the constellations of the zodiac -- each such constellation being one of the "houses of the circle of life."
SD INDEX Zodiac(s). See also Dendera Zodiac, Zodiac (Signs of)
ancient, discussed II 66, 431
antiquity of, (Bailly) I 648-9
Aryan initiates built II 750
Bailly re Hindu II 332, 435
Chinese, divided into twenty-four parts II 620-1
clearly mentioned in 2 Kings I 649
discussed I 647-8
Egyptian & Hindu, immensely old I 650
Egyptian, antiquity of II 332, 431-2, 435-6
Egyptian, fr India II 435-6
Greek, age of II 436 &n
heirloom fr Atlantis II 431-3
Hindu, fr Greeks (Muller) II 225, 332
Hindu, older than Greeks I 657-8
history contained in II 438
Indian, fr Greeks (Weber) I 647; II 50
Indian, not fr Greeks I 650; II 50
lords of, now rebellious angels I 577
Old Testament reference I 649
reddened w solar blaze II 357
sidereal prophecies of I 653
traces to Argonauts (Newton) I 652
universality of I 648-9
Volney re origin of I 658; II 436n
SD INDEX Zodiac (Signs of)
animals of Genesis are II 112n
archaic nations knew I 320
on body of Karttikeya II 619
descend, ascend (explained) I 658; II 357
"Fiery Lions" & Leo I 213
kumaras connected w II 576
Makara (Capricorn) I 384; II 268n, 576-80
man's past, future in II 431-3
mentioned in Homer I 648
Mother of God surrounded by I 400
patriarchs connected w I 651
reflected on Earth II 502-3
regents of, minor gods II 358
sacred animals of II 23, 181n
seven planets & twelve I 79
ten, twelve, among ancients II 502 &n
tribes of Israel & I 400, 651; II 200n
twelve great orders & I 213
twelve rulers, kings or I 651
twelve, seven planets & races I 573 &n
twelve, cakes, stones (Philo) I 649
two mystery II 502 &n
when, vertical to pole II 357
world builders II 23
worshiped (2 Kings) I 649
SD INDEX Zodiacal
allegory is historical II 353
Aryan, calculations II 436 &n
records (Atlantean) cannot err II 49
ring, relic in Gobi II 503
TG Zohak, or Azhi Dahaka. The personification of the Evil One or Satan under the shape of a serpent, in the Zend Avesta. This serpent is three-headed, one of the heads being human. The Avesta describes it as dwelling in the region of Bauri or Babylonia. In reality Zohak is the allegorical symbol of the Assyrian dynasty, whose banner had on it the purple sign of the dragon. (Isis Unveiled, Vol. II., p. 486, n.)
SD INDEX Zohak, Persian usurper II 398
TG Zohar, or Sohar. A compendium of Kabbalistic Theosophy, which shares with the Sepher Yetzirah the reputation of being the oldest extant treatise on the Hebrew esoteric religious doctrines. Tradition assigns its authorship to Rabbi Simeon ben Jochai, A.D. 80, but modern criticism is inclined to believe that a very large portion of the volume is no older than 1280, when it was certainly edited and published by Rabbi Moses de Leon, of Guadalaxara in Spain. The reader should consult the references to these two names. In Lucifer (Vol. I., p. 141) will be found also notes on this subject: further discussion will be attainable in the works of Zunz, Graetz, Jost, Steinschneider, Frankel and Ginsburg. The work of Franck (in French) upon the Kabalah may be referred to with advantage. The truth seems to lie in a middle path, viz., that while Moses de Leon was the first to produce the volume as a whole, yet a large part of some of its constituent tracts consists of traditional dogmas and illustrations, which have come down from the time of Simeon ben Jochai and the Second Temple. There are portions of the doctrines of the Zohar which bear the impress of Chaldee thought and civilization, to which the Jewish race had been exposed in the Babylonish captivity. Yet on the other hand, to condemn the theory that it is ancient in its entirety, it is noticed that the Crusades are mentioned; that a quotation is made from a hymn by Ibn Gebirol, A.D. 1050; that the asserted author, Simeon ben Jochai, is spoken of as more eminent than Moses; that it mentions the vowel-points, which did not come into use until Rabbi Mocha (A.D. 570) introduced them to fix the pronunciation of words as a help to his pupils, and lastly, that it mentions a comet which can be proved by the evidence of the context to have appeared in 1264. There is no English translation of the Zohar as a whole, nor even a Latin one. The Hebrew editions obtainable are those of Mantua, 1558; Cremona, 1560; and Lublin, 1623. The work of Knorr von Rosenroth called Kabbala Denudata includes several of the treatises of the Zohar, but not all of them, both in Hebrew and Latin. MacGregor Mathers has published an English translation of three of these treatises, the Book of Concealed Mystery, the Greater and the Lesser Holy Assembly, and his work includes an original introduction to the subject. The principal tracts included in the Zohar are: -- "The Hidden Midrash", "The Mysteries of the Pentateuch", "The Mansions and Abodes of Paradise and Gaihinnom", "The Faithful Shepherd", "The Secret of Secrets", "Discourse of the Aged in Mishpatim" (punishment of souls), "The Januka or Discourse of the Young Man", and "The Tosephta and Mathanithan", which are additional essays on Emanation and the Sephiroth, in addition to the three important treatises mentioned above. In this storehouse may be found the origin of all the later developments of Kabbalistic teaching. [W.W.W.]
KT Zohar (Heb.) The "Book of Splendour," a Kabalistic work attributed to Simeon Ben Iochai, in the first century of our era. (See for fuller explanation Theos. Gloss.)
SD INDEX Zohar (Heb) II 2, 215n
Ain-soph I 349; II 290
allegory of man w heavy load I 393-4
antiquity of II 461n
astral first race II 137
astral light, Magic Head I 424
Balaam's birds were serpents II 409
birth starts w a point I 337
black fire in II 162
b'ne-aleim, Ischin II 375-6
book of Hanokh & II 532 &n
Chaldean Book of Numbers & I 214, 230
Christian Gnostics influenced II 461n
circle w point found in I 19
cosmogenesis in, described I 214-15
creation of man II 490-1
creations, several in II 53, 54
creator delighted in creation II 126
divine beings, descending order II 111
Earth seventh globe I 241
Eden called bird's nest II 292
edited by Gnostics, Christians I 214, 352
elements, forces form Word I 346
elohim called Echod or one I 112
everything shadow of divine II 268
fall of the angels II 487
first Adam II 503-4
flying camels II 205
fountain of life I 356
garment of man II 315
Iachin chained to mountain II 376
indivisible point, world fr I 355
key to, in the names II 536
light II 39
Lord rebukes Satan II 478 &n
man emanated fr septenary group I 230
modern views of, mistaken II 461
more occult than Books of Moses II 626n
Moses de Leon, Ibn Gebirol & II 461n
Moses de Leon re-edited I 214
Nahash (the "deprived") rebels II 247
occult work (Levi) II 536
phallic, cruder than Puranas II 625n
quotes Book of Enoch II 535
real man is soul, not body II 290
repeats Puranic expressions II 126
roots of human race II 315
rotation of Earth II 28n
St Michael called Jehovah in II 479
Sephirah, Shekhinah or Aditi in I 53n
seven seas, mountains II 603
Shekhinah II 293
six-month night, day in II 773
soul put on earthly garment II 112
spirit & matter II 528
Sun moves in circuits II 553
on ten sephiroth I 239
three heads in II 25
Tree of Life II 216
Unknown Light I 356
visible types, invisible prototypes II 120
white hidden fire I 339
will of the king expl in I 356
SD INDEX Zollner, Prof J. K. F.
----- [Transcendental Physics]
believed phenomena of spiritualism I 520
on fourth dimensional space I 251 &n
SD INDEX Zone(s)
globe divided into seven II 403
seven, of indestructible continent II 400 &n
seven, rishis, creations II 612
SD INDEX Zonoplacental Mammals II 668, 713n
SD INDEX Zoomancy, Orpheus taught, (Suidas) I 362-3
TG Zoroaster. Greek form of Zarathustra (q.v.).
FY Zoroaster, the prophet of the Parsis.
SD INDEX Zoroaster. See also Chaldean Oracles, Zarathustra
addressed as "Son of God" II 772
forbade killing of birds I 362
the last II 6n
the original II 6
twelve, fourteen of II 359
"When you doubt, abstain" II 442
KT Zoroastrian. One who follows the religion of the Parsis, sun, or fire-worshippers.
SD INDEX Zoroastrian(s, ism). See also Ahura Mazda,
Amshaspends, Mazdeans, Ormazd, Vendidad, Zend Avesta
Ahriman made devil in II 93
antiquity of, scriptures II 356
asura(s) & ahura II 59, 92-3, 500
Catholic &, astrolatry I 402
caves I 126
Central Asian region of II 416n
change of pole II 356
did not believe evil eternal II 488
dualism of I 196, 235, 239
esotericism & SD II 356
on ether I 331
Hyde on Kabiri & II 363n
"I am that I am" I 78
living fire of I 338n
made devils of Hindu devas I 73
manuscripts on flying camel II 205
Ormazd of II 358, 420
septenary in II 607-10, 757-9
seven Amshaspends I 127
seven Devs I 577
similar to Hindu tenets II 757-9
star-yazatas of II 358
Taurus sacred to I 657
universal mind manifests as Ahura Mazda I 110
SD INDEX Zotiko Zotike(Gk) life of life (Massey) II 586
SD INDEX Zu, Babylonian god II 283-4n
TG Zumyad Yasht (Zend.). Or Zamyad Yasht as some spell it. One of the preserved Mazdean fragments. It treats of metaphysical questions and beings, especially of the Amshaspends or the Amesha Spenta -- the Dhyan Chohans of the Avesta books.
TG Zuni. The name of a certain tribe of Western American Indians, a very ancient remnant of a still more ancient race. (Secret Doctrine, II., p. 628.)
SD INDEX Zuni Indians
Cushing lived among II 629
septenary principle among II 628-9