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Glossary
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Abstract ideas Embodied thoughts of the divine mind,
carrying the energy of their creator and consequently the cause of phenomenal
effects in the three worlds.
Abstraction (right) A mental activity, an attitude of
mind which affects primarily the entire life-attitude of the personality. It
involves not only the detachment from long habit, but it involves also a
complete readjustment of the entire threefold person to the world of souls.
Abstract mind The interpreting agent for the Monad,
and the lowest aspect of the Triad; the pattern-building facility, or the mind
that works with the blue prints upon which the forms are modeled; the intuition
or pure reason.
Abstract thought A function of the Self expressing
itself through the higher mental or causal body.
Active intelligence The energy which animates the form
aspect and which creates forms in line with the subjective purposes of the
presiding intelligence - God or man, human or divine, the third ray energy.
Adept A Master of Wisdom who, having traversed the
path of evolutionand entered upon the final stage of this Path of Initiation,
has taken five of the initiations and passed into the fifth or spiritual
kingdom, from the fourth or human kingdom.
Agni Lord of Fire and one of the oldest and most
revered gods in the Vedas. Symbol of the mental plane - the fires of mind or
manas.
Agnichaitans The devas who construct and build in
matter of the densest kind in connection with logoic manifestation. They
function on the seventh subplane of the cosmic physical plane, and are the
producers of the greatest concretion. In the planetary body of our planetary
Logos, the agnichaitans are the builders of the earth, His densest form, and
throughout the entire solar system they are the sumtotal of that activity and
vibration which demonstrates what we call the "solid substance."
Agnishvattas The builders on the fifth or gaseous
subplane of the cosmic physical and, from the human standpoint they are the
builders of the body of consciousness per se. From the psychic standpoint of
occult psychology, they have a close connection with the physical brain, the
seat or empire of the Thinker.
Agnisuryans The builders on the sixth subplane of the
cosmic physical plane, our systemic astral plane. They represent the
sympathetic nervous system in the logoic physical body.
Air Air is the symbol of the higher life in which the
Christ principle dominates, in which freedom is experienced and the soul comes
to full expression.
Akasha (1) Sanskrit root "kas" - to radiate
or shine. Higher correspondence of ether and relates to the substance which is
Buddhi. (2) Vitalized matter, or substance animated by latent heat. The akasha
is everywhere, in it we live and move and have our being.
Akashic Records Records of all karmic action
"impressed" upon the ethers. Most psychics perceive the distorted
reflections on the astral plane.
Alignment (Occultly) means that a lower state has been
brought into contact with something still higher; correct, unimpeded
relationship; the establishment of a direct channel, not only between the one
source, the Monad, and its expression, the purified and controlled personality,
but also between the seven centers in the human etheric vehicle.
Alta Major center The nerve center at the top of the
spine where the cranium and the spine make approximate contact; the synthesis
of that which might be called nervous energy. It is the physical correspondance
to the antahkarana on higher levels.
Angel See "Deva".
Angel of the Presence The devic aspect of the
"causal body" of a person. The Soul whose nature is love and light
and inclusive understanding.
Antahkarana (also Antaskarana) Path or bridge between
higher and lower mind, serving as a medium of communication between the two.
Built through meditation/visualisation, service to humanity and study of
occultism. Connects the threefold personality and the Spiritual Triad.The
Antahkarana embodies the response of the consciousness within the form to the
steadily expanding range of contacts within the environing whole. It is built
by the aspirant themself in mental matter and is the first creation of the
soul-infused personality acting as a unitary being.
Appearance Expresses that which we call matter, or
form, or objective expression; it is that illusory tangible outer appearance
which is animated by life. This is the third aspect, the Mother, oveshadowed
and fertilized by the Holy Ghost, or Life, united with intelligent substance.
Archetype The original pattern or model; the
prototype; "Archos" means first and "typos" means model; a
perfect example; the blue print, the basic pattern, smelling is the faculty of
keen perception that eventually brings a person back to the source from whence
they came, the archetypal plane, the plane where their true home is to be
found; forms originate upon the archetypal planes, through the agency of divine
thought, and from thence (through directed streams of intelligent energy)
acquire substance as they are reproduced upon each plane, until eventually (on
the physical plane) the form stands revealed at its densest point of
manifestation.
Ashram A centre to which the Master gathers aspirants
and disciples for personal instruction and where nothing of the personality is
allowed to enter. The state of consciousness of a spiritual group.
Ashrams of Loving Intent Ashrams closest to the aura
or periphery of Shamballa.
Aspect Expression; that of which quality is an
emanation.
Aspiration From the Latin "ad" - to and
"spirare" - to breathe, to breathe towards. Aspiration must precede
inspiration, a burning desire and a fiery determination.
Astral Emotion; sentient reactions.
Astral body The emotional or feeling body. Watery in
nature and the seat of our desires. One of the most difficult bodies to
control.
Astral plane Simply a name given to that sumtotal of
sentient reactions, of feeling-responsiveness, and of emotional substance which
humanity has created. The plane of the emotions, including the polar opposites
such as hope and fear, sentimental love and hate, happiness and suffering. The
plane of illusion.
Astrology Essentially the purest presentation of
occult truth in the world at this time because it is the science which deals
with those conditioning and governing energies and forces which play through
and upon the whole field of space and all that is within that field.
Atlantis A continent now submerged in the Atlantic
ocean, according to occult teaching and Plato. Home of the Atlantean or fourth
rootrace.
Atma Universal spirit. The divine Monad. The seventh
principle, so-called in the septenary constitution of man.
Atman Man's originating source; the essential immortal
"spark" or divine essence.
Atom Part of the greater whole; a center of energy or
electric forc; a living entity; a little vibrant world.
Aura A subtle or invisible essence or fluid which
emanates from human and animal bodies and even things. It is psychic effluvium,
partaking of both mind and body. It is electo-vital and electro-mental.
Etheric, astral, mental bodies. The sumtotal of the attractive forces in the
field of individual activity; the quality of a sphere of radiatory activity
(see Magnetic Aura).
Avatar A special emissary of Light and Love that
incarnates for the benefit of humanity, having technically no karmic obligation
to incarnate. There are many types of avatars, from the earthly to the cosmic.
One who has a peculiar capacity (besides a self-initiated task and a
pre-ordained destiny) to transmit energy or divine power, and who is capable of
reflecting some cosmic Principle or divine quality and energy which will
produce the desired effect upon humanity, evoking reaction and producing needed
stimulation.
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