Esoteric
Glossary
O – P
Occultist The true occultist is a scientist and a
devotee; where these two are not merged we have the mystic, as well as the
individual in danger of black magic, being governed by the intellect and not by
selflessness; the occultist is only the mystic functioning on a higher plane -
that of the mind.
Path (The) The "linking light" or
"bridging radiance" created between the higher and the lower;
communion or interplay between the personality and the Soul, and later between
the personality and Spirit; "Before the person can tread the path, they
must become that path themself"; The antahkarana is the Path symbolically.
This is one of the paradoxes of the esoteric science. Step by step and stage by
stage, we construct that Path just as the spider spins its thread. It is that
"way back" which we evolve out of ourselves; it is that Way which we
also find and tread.
Permanent atom Small force centres on each of the
planes which hold the memory of all incarnations, and which the reincarnating
soul draws upon when building new bodies of manifestation.
Personality The sumtotal of the threefold lower self:
physical, astral, mental: a blend of mental energy, of emotional energy and of
vital force, and these three are masked, hidden or revealed (note this
terminology) by an outer shell or form of dense physical matter. This outer
crust is in itself a form of negative energy. The result of this union of three
energies in an objective form is self-consciousness and their fusion produces
that sense of individuality which justifies the use of the wword "I,"
and which relates all occurrences to a self; where this central conscious
entity exists, utilising the mind, reacting sensuously through the emotional
body, and energising the dense physical (via the vital body), then one has a
personality; awareness of identity in relation to other identities - true of
God or man; sense or identity persists only during the creative process; a
state of awareness which has its conditioning factor in the mind stuff and this
can be transcended when the mind stuff no longer controls.
Plan The expression of Purpose in time and space; all
we really know is the fact of the Plan and that it is very good; that we are
enfolded within it and subject to it; the objective of the Plan is to reproduce
upon the plane of the earth the inner kingdom of the soul.
Plane (of Perception) A level of existence. There are
seven planes of perception on this, the "cosmic physical" plane -
physical, astral, mental, buddhic, atmic, monadic and Adi. These planes are
subdivided into seven subplanes each, making 49 subplanes in all. An essential
part of "septenaries" in occultism that can be applied, with the 7
rays, to broaden understanding.
Planetary Logos This term is generally applied to the
seven highest spirits corresponding to the seven archangels of the Christian.
They have all passed through the human stage and are now manifesting through a
planet and its evolutions, in the same way that man manifests through his
physical body. The highest planetary spirit working through any particular
globe is, in reality, the personal God of the planet. The Being Who is the life
of our planet; the One in Whom we live and move and have our being; the
sumtotal of all organized life; the informing, ensouling life of this planet
earth; the life which integrates the planet as a whole, and pours through all
forms - great or small - which, in their aggregate, constitute the Planetary
form; our planetary Logos has been given the name of the "experimenting
divine physicist." A planetary logos is the informing entity of any
planetary scheme, which is made up of many other globes and chains - the
physical planet just being one expression of the great life incarnate in a
scheme. The Kumara for our planet, Sanat Kumara, is simply the personality
expression of this great being.
Prakriti That which caused the universe to manifest
itself.
Prana The Life principle, the breath of life.
Pranayama The science of rhytmic breathing as applied
in meditation.
Prayer The dim, faint and inadequate expression of the
Science of Invocation and Evocation; affirmation of divinity in order to attain
material well-being.
Precipitation An aggregation of energies arranged in a
certain form, in order to express the idea of some creative Thinker, and
qualified or characterised by the nature of his thought and held in that
peculiar form as long as thought remains dynamic.
Principle The embodiment of some aspect of truth on
which this system of ours is based; that which governs always the action of the
ego on its own plane. The basic differentiations, essential qualities or types
of energy upon which all things are built; they give the distinctive nature of
all forms. Principles are eternal, personalities temporal. Principles are to be
viewed in the light of eternity, personalities from the standpoint of time. The
trouble is that, in many situations, two principles are involved, one of which
is secondary. The difficulty lies in the fact that (both being principles) both
are right. It is a rule for safe guidance always to remember that usually basic
principles (for their wise comprehension and fruitful working out) call for
play of intuition whilst secondary principles are more purely mental. The
methods hence necessariy differ. While holding to the basic principles, the
wisest methods are silence and a joyful confidence that the Law works.
Principle of Expansion That which brings about the
development of consciousness so that the latent germ of sentiency or of
sensitive response to environment may be fostered in the living unit.
Principle of Liberation Closely linked with that of
the problem of limitation; death is governed by the Principle of Liberaton, and
not by that of Limitation. Death is only recognised as a factor to be dealt
with by self-conscious lives and is only misunderstood by human beings, who are
the most glamoured and deluded of all incarnated lives. (See Death)
Principle of Limitation The outcome of the purposeful
will and formulated desire of some thinking Being, and governs consequently the
form-taking process of all incarnated lives; controls the scope of an
incarnation, sets its measure and rhythm, determines the radius of its influence,
and brings about that illusory appearance of reality which we call
manifestation. (see Principle of Liberation)
Principle of Periodic Manifestation The Law of Cycles;
a beneficent operation of the love-wisdom of innate divinity; produces that
sequence of the states of consciousness which we term Time; produces in the
world field of awareness a gradual and slow growth towards self-expression,
self-appreciation, and self-realisation.
Purpose The motivating Life behind all that emanates
from Shamballa; impulses all the activities of the Hierarchy; the task of the
Hierarchy is to formulate the Plan for all forms of life in the three worlds
and the four kingdoms in nature; the Purpose of God is that which implements
the Plan; God reveals His purpose through the activity of the mind - which in
turn impresses the brain, attuned to receptivity. Later again, the mind becomes
responsive to an illumination, emanating from the Spirit aspect. Purpose is an
energy, released within the confines of the Council Chamber (Shamballa) and
there it takes shape. Behind it looms that which has brought it into being.
(see Plan)
Purusha The spiritual self. The embodied self. The
word literally means "The dweller in the city" - that is, in the
body. It is derived from the Sanskrit "pura" which means city or
body, and "usha" a derivative of the verb "vas," to dwell.
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मूल थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1875 फाउंडेशन
पहले थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी को न्यूयॉर्क में स्थापित किया गया था
17 नवंबर Helena Petrovna Blavatsky द्वारा 1875,
कर्नल Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge
और दूसरों.
थियोसोफिकल आंदोलन अब एक विविध रेंज के होते हैं
आगे थियोसोफिकल परंपरा ले जो संगठनों.
कार्डिफ थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1908 के बाद से ब्रह्मविद्या को बढ़ावा देने की गई है
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Mūla thiyōsōphikala
sōsāyaṭī 1875 phā'uṇḍēśana
Pahalē thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī kō
n'yūyŏrka mēṁ sthāpita kiyā gayā thā
17 Navambara Helena Petrovna Blavatsky dvārā 1875,
Kamala Henry Steel Olcott, aura dūsarōṁ.
Thiyōsōphikala āndōlana aba ēka vividha
rēn̄ja kē hōtē haiṁ
Āgē thiyōsōphikala paramparā lē jō
saṅgaṭhanōṁ.
Kārḍipha thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī 1908
kē bāda sē brahmavidyā
kō
baṛhāvā dēnē kī ga'ī hai
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