#theosophical

Blavatsky, Helena "The Theosophical Glossary" published originally in 1892, this version is a reprint of 1918. This posthumous work, purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabbalistic and Gnostic words. Defining occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature.

Most information are taken from the Kabbalah, which is illustrate Hermetic or Rosicrucian doctrines. Blavatsky also took definitions from "The Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary" by Eitel "The Hindu Classical Dictionary" by Dawson "The Vishnu Purâna" by Wilson "The Royal Masonic Cyclopoedia" of Kenneth Mackenzie

Russian mystic of German descent Madame Blavatsky is know for her esoteric works and co-founding of the Theosophical Society. Still today her meaning is moving between an enlighted Sage and charlatan, as we can not determine which biographical information is "true" (which is a northworthy fact, as the Theosophical Society claimed the Truth as the highest value... More information in the first lemma) or embellished to create an alluring myth. Despite the carefullness in which we should handle all spiritual world-views and explanatory principles, it is an undeniable polygot venture and can support to arouse a deeper understanding of the synthesis of religion, philosophy and science. Indisputable there is more between earth and space, as we can measure and see.

Actually I had photographed more, but due to the limit of a post, I have selected some exemplary and interesting pages... It is also sad, that Altaic Shamanism (Tengrism) or other spiritual ideas e.g. from southern Africa or South-East-Asia, are unregarded. Imagine how motifs, we thought tailored in our region, appear all around the world! What a fantastic conception, but also human-strenght exceeding project this would be !!!

The first divine Kings, who are said to have “redescended,” guided and instructed our Fifth Race after the last deluge.

The first three “divine or astronomical Dynasties,” who taught the Third Root-Race; and after having abandoned the Atlanteans to their doom, returned (or redescended, rather) during the third Sub-Race of the Fifth, in order to reveal to saved humanity the mysteries of their birth-place—the sidereal Heavens. The same symbolical record of the human races and the three Dynasties (Gods, Manes—semi-divine astrals of the Third and Fourth, and the “Heroes” of the Fifth Race), which preceded the purely human kings, was found in the distribution of the tiers and passages of the Egyptian Labyrinth.”