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List of Title Abbreviations (in alphabetical order)


SD INDEX Scandinavia(n). See also Eddas, Norse, Wagner, W.

America settled by I 297
Ases, oracles, runes of II 97, 346 &n
cosmogony before Vedas (Muller) I 367
dragon, swastika in II 486, 557
legends begin w time & life I 427
Loki, falling god of II 486
mythology of II 754, 774
Odin of, one of 35 buddhas II 423
skull size of II 523
wars in heaven among I 202


SD INDEX Scapegoat

Azazel, of Israel II 387, 389n, 409
Jewish, for the Fall II 510
Satan as the I 412


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.

SD INDEX Scarab(aeus)

symbol II 552
winged, symbol of devachan I 365


SD INDEX Schamo. See Shamo


SD INDEX Schelling, Friedrich W. J. von II 461

Absolute of, & Vedanta I 50
accepted periodical avataras I 52n
believed many worlds inhabited II 706
derivation of word Osiris II 114
nature divinities of ancients I 463-4
serpent is evil II 209
----- Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur
illusion of matter I 510


SD INDEX Schemel. See Shemal


TG Scheo (Eg.). The god who, conjointly with Tefnant and Seb, inhabits Aanroo, the region called "the land of the rebirth of the gods".

SD INDEX Scheo (Egy). See Shoo


SD INDEX Scherer, C., saw a dragon II 207n


TG Schesoo-Hor (Eg.). Lit., the servants of Horus; the early people who settled in Egypt and who were Aryans.

SD INDEX Schesoo-Hor [Shesu-Heru] (Egy) "Sons of Horus," settled & built Egypt II 432


SD INDEX Schibb. See Ragon


SD INDEX Schiller, Johann Cristoph Friedrich

skull of II 523
----- "The Veiled Image at Sais"
poem re veil of Isis II 654-5


SD INDEX Schilling. See Schelling, F. W. J. von


SD INDEX Schindler, V., Lexicon Pentaglotton, defines Sod as Mysteries II 212n


SD INDEX Schlagintweit, Emil

----- Buddhism in Tibet
commentators justify dogmas I xxvii
Nagas II 26-7n


SD INDEX Schlegel, Dr Gustaf, Uranographie Chinoise, Chinese astronomy 18,000 years old I 658


SD INDEX Schliemann, Dr Heinrich

proved Troy existed II 236
----- Ilios
found prehistoric idols II 723
inscriptions in unknown languages II 440
swastika discs at Troy II 101, 586


SD INDEX Schmidt, Edward Oskar

----- The Doctrine of Descent & Darwinism . . .
American & African fauna alike II 792
ape grown more bestial II 646
Darwin & our human ancestors II 667n
difficulties of Darwinism II 734n
Gerland on Australians II 779 &n
hermaphrodite man II 172n, 184
language & Darwinism II 662
on Lemurian continent II 789 &n
man grows more human II 646
man's kinship w apes II 666n
North Africa peninsula of Spain II 8-9n
Paleolithic man not Pithecoid II 716n
root of ungulates unknown II 735-6
various types of reproduction II 166


SD INDEX Schmidt, J. F. J., discovered star in Cygnus I 596


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.


SD INDEX Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium, on Kabiri II 362


SD INDEX Scholia in Aristotelem. See Simplicius


SD INDEX Scholia in Euripides "Orestes" (Dindorf). See Euripides


SD INDEX Scholia Vaticanum ad Euripides Troades.See Euripides


SD INDEX School(s)

Buddhist: Mahayana, Hinayana I 39, 47-9 &nn
catechism of inner II 281-2
esoteric I xxn, xxiii, xliv, 94, 306
secret Buddhist, trans-Himalayan I xxn, xxi, xxiii
six Indian I 47n, 269, 278
war between initiates of two II 497-8


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.


SD INDEX Schopenhauer, Arthur I 96n

agnostic I 19n
echoes Zohar II 528
pessimism of II 156n, 304n


SD INDEX Schopfungsgeschichte. See Haeckel,History of Creation


SD INDEX Schott, Wilhelm, Entwurf einer Beschreibung . . . , Confucius a transmitter I xxxvii &n


SD INDEX Schottgen, Christian, Horae Hebraicae . . ., Adam not living soul II 162


SD INDEX Schwartze, Moritz Gotthilf, discovered & translatedPistis Sophia II 566n


SD INDEX Schwegler, Albert, A History of Philosophy, self-consciousness & Absolute I 51 &n


SD INDEX Schweinfurth, G. A.

----- In the Heart of Africa
African giants, dwarfs II 754
chasm between man & beast II 655n


SCIENCE

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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.

SD INDEX Science(s). See also Chemistry, Physics, Scientific, Scientists

adepts solved problems of II 451
aether, akasa, cannot analyze I 487
ancient, anticipated modern II 253
ancient nations pursued II 334
antagonism betw metaphysics & I 485n
approaches occult I 124, 548-9, 551-4, 600, 625-8
Atlantean II 49
Bible, Puranas & II 251-63
in Brahmanical chronology II 66-70, 73
calls Atlantis Lemuria II 314-15
can't answer what a man is I 636
compelled to accept ether I 485
conceit of our age I 133
contradictions in I 482-3
corroborates physical only I 164
could profit fr ancients I 586-7
denies violent axial changes, Atlantis II 314
dicta not necessarily proven I 279
dogmatic assertions of II 349
Donnelly put aside by II 334
esoteric & orthodox, on life II 711-15
esoteric figures & II 156
esoteric, profane, & astral body II 149
ever becoming like universe I 516
evolution thru blind force I 139
exoteric II 124
faithful to its ape ancestor II 329
fallibility of theories II 316n
fears to make man ancient II 347-8
force-matter unknown god of I 509-10
forces of, effects of elements I 342
foundation of, Grecian, Indian I 579
Genesis &, (Gladstone) II 252n
geology & evolution not exact II 656
Grove demanded reform of I 495
honeycombed w metaphysics I 485, 544
inductive I 298
inertia in I 511
infallibility of I 520
Kabiri taught man II 364
on Keely's work I 555-6
laws of, self-guiding I 506-7
laya zero point of I 148-9
Lemuro-Atlantean II 285
life an aspect of matter in I 602-3
ludicrous mistakes of II 439
on man as first mammal II 155
man's size & II 277
materialism of, & divine spirits I 276
materialism often miscalled I 279
mathematical abstraction basis of I 670
may ignore first 2-1/2 races II 685-6
men of true, defined I 514
metaphysics &, (Slack) I 588
modern, fr ancient I 507, 579
must study causes II 592
mystery is the fatality of I 670
mystified by fire I 121
mythology man's most ancient I 304
nature purposive & I 640-1
needs the spiritual & psychic I 588
new, hidden in old gods II 130
nothingness of, is a plenum I 148
occult & modern II 322n, 348, 449
occult, changeless traditions of I 516
occultism & I 477-81, 496, 636-7
occult, key to world problems I 341
occult teachings & I 506-7
one name for all substance I 510
"organized common sense" I 477
real, not materialistic I 518-19
recognizes only physical man II 315
rejects special creation II 731
relation betw mind & matter in I 124 &n
religion &, on Earth's age II 796
ridicules intelligent universe I 287
secure only in solar system I 601
seven liberal, & seven accursed II 641
sophisms of I 279
space, force, matter I 615
Stonehenge "explained" by II 344
studies effects, not causes I 262, 464-5
studies four elements only II 592
takes nothing on trust I 669
taught to man by gods II 366
theories of rotation I 500-6
theosophist realizes value of I 296
traces proximate causes I 515
true, described II 663-4
truth should be sole aim of I 509
turned fr theology to matter II 689
universal life & I 49
uses many things it does not know II 655
Vishnu as Kapila taught man II 572
walls of modern Jericho I 298-9

SEE ALSO; PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION


SD INDEX "Science and the Emotions." See Clodd, E.


SD INDEX Science occulte. See Salverte, E.


SD INDEX Science of Lang., Lectures on. See Muller


SD INDEX Science of Language, The. See Hovelacque, A.


SD INDEX Science of Rel., Intro. to. See Muller, F. M.


SD INDEX Science of Serpents (Upanishads) science of occult knowledge II 26n


SD INDEX Science of Thought. See Muller, F. M.


SD INDEX Scientific. See also Science, Scientists

conclusions fallible II 316n
confirmation of Lemuria II 324-34
data taken on faith II 438
discoveries & occult teaching I 546, 623
fictions on life on other worlds II 701
hypotheses unverifiable phantoms I 617
imagination of Tyndall I 483
must follow Hermetists I 625
teachings & occult compared II 348


SD INDEX Scientific American, USS Dolphin's findings II 793


SD INDEX Scientific Arena, A. W. Hall on force & energy I 146n


SD INDEX Scientific Letters. See Butlerof, A. M.


SD INDEX Scientific Religion. See Oliphant, L.


SD INDEX Scientist(s). See also Science, Scientific

anticlerical enthusiasm of II 645
attack spiritual beliefs II 664
blind force, mechanical nature of II 298
blind theories of, "miraculous" II 664
confirm periodic submergences II 325-6
deride metaphysics II 664
do not believe in Atlantis II 429
do not know Earth's ages II 66
failure of, due to materialism I 600
fallacies of I 487-8
future, will discover marvels I 297
know matter only skin deep I 147
modes of motion confuse I 491
mysterious help given a few I 612
often as bigoted as clergy I 509
restate ancient ideas I 117-18
see only what they wish II 752
75% evolutionists II 645
some great, referred to I 517-20
unable to understand Svabhavikas I 3-4
will be driven out of materialism I 620
will not become anti-Cartesian I 627
worship force-matter I 509-10


SD INDEX Scinde. See Sind


SD INDEX Scintillas. See also Sparks

souls of gods, monads, atoms I 619
sparks, worlds or I 98-9
of three upper & four lower worlds I 618
worlds that came & died II 704


SD INDEX Sclater, Philip Lutley

invented name Lemuria II 7, 171
opposed by Wallace II 8n


SD INDEX Scorpio

Aries, Mars &, (Skinner) II 392
desert rains &, (Job) I 648
heart of, & beginning of kali-yuga I 663
reproductive organs, sign of II 129
Virgo becomes II 129
Virgo-, or Dan I 651
Virgo-, separated II 502n


SD INDEX Scorpion, reference in Egyptian Book of Dead II 588n


SD INDEX Scotland

cup-like markings on stones in II 346n
sinking II 787n


SD INDEX Scribe(s)

lipika means I 103-4, 128-9n
Thot is sacred, of Amenti I 385


SD INDEX Scripture(s)

all allegorical II 77, 409-10
astronomy, cosmolatry & II 77
Chaldean, mutilated by Eusebius I xxvi &n
chanted, rationale of I 94
double origin of Hebrew II 202-3
every, has seven aspects II 496
exoteric I 165, 278, 306-7
great, convey truth II 409-10
impudence of modern translators II 537
man once luminous, incorporeal in II 112
man's parent-gods in every II 358
national, for exoteric use I 229
no, contains the whole I 318
numbers, figures in every I 320-1
old, constantly altered II 657-8
prove antiquity of teachings II 449
seven primeval races in all I 248
sevens in biblical II 747-8
tree, sacred knowledge, or I 128n


SD INDEX Scrolls of Wisdom (Norse) II 100


SD INDEX Scythia(ns) II 7

of Herodotus II 416
Hyperborea beyond II 11
one-eyed race of II 769n


SD INDEX Scyths

descend fr Atlantean subrace II 774
Mongolians should be called II 203


SD INDEX Sea(s). See also Ocean, Space

chalk deposits on, bottom II 325
dragon of, (Tiamat) I 357; II 503
of fire or noumenal light I 75
glacial, gloomy in tradition II 398
inland, of Gobi II 5, 220, 502-3, 637
of milk & Lakshmi I 380
North Asian, called Saturnine II 777n
Polar II 12
of sorrow or Earth life II 505
of Space, Akkadians, Babylonians II 477
Thalatth, Thalassa & II 65n
Venus-Aphrodite personifies I 458n
of wine, butter, curds II 321
Zohar on serpent of II 504


SD INDEX Sea Anemone, reproduces by budding II 166


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.


SD INDEX Seang of Wai [Hsiang of Wei] (Chin), Bamboo Books & II 302


SD INDEX "Sea of Knowledge," once on Gobi Desert II 502-3


SD INDEX Sea Serpent II 207, 477


SEASONS

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SD INDEX Seasons

angle of pole causes II 356
Arab year of six II 621
eternal spring in third race II 201, 356
on Jupiter & Venus II 706-7
Kabiri & the I 642n
no changes greater than I 441
procreation & II 412nn
Titan-Kabirim regulate II 363


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.

SD INDEX Seb (Egy). See Keb


SD INDEX Sebakh or Sevekh (Egy) seventh

defunct man, crocodile, dragon I 219-20
Kronos or I 408


SD INDEX Sebti (Egy), Kep, Kepti & I 408


SD INDEX Secchi, Father Pietro Angelo

----- Le soleil
estimates Sun's heat I 484n
on sunspot activity I 541 &n


SD INDEX Second Adam, septenary, seven races II 1-2n


SD INDEX Secondary Age (geology). See also Primordial-, Primary-, Tertiary-, & Quaternary Age

age of reptiles II 713
animals bisexual at end of II 594n
cataclysms destroyed third race in II 714
civilization back to II 266n
mammalia of II 684
man in II 10, 157, 219, 288, 687n, 714n, 734
reptiles preponderated in II 254
rocks of, 15,000 feet thick II 709
science denies man in II 713
strata of, twice the Tertiary II 715n
table II 710
third race appeared in II 713
third race Titan of II 9
Wealden river bed Lemurian II 333


SD INDEX Secondary Creation

atoms issue fr laya-center in I 453
begins I 449-50
cataclysms of II 312 &n
of darkness, matter I 450
dhyani-chohans, rishis in I 453
Earth grew opaque in II 312 &n
every cosmogony begins w II 59
first elemental differentiation I 452
Hindu I 452-3
manifested universe emanates I 446
mineral, vegetable in II 312
Primary & II 53n, 107, 113, 312n, 446, 447
second hierarchy of manus in I 453


SD INDEX Second Birth (Skt). See also Dvija

janna signifies I xxn


SD INDEX Second Continent. See also Hyperborean Continent

destruction of II 138
eternal spring of, became Hades II 138


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)


SD INDEX Second Logos. See also Adam-Kadmon

Ampsiu-Ouraan (Gnostic) or II 569n
androgyne dual force I 437
creative subordinate powers II 544
demiurge II 22, 478
First &, or Avalokitesvara I 72n
first begotten ogdoad I 448
First Cause manifests thru I 214
manifested Logos I 448; II 25
Microprosopus I 240
purusha-prakriti I 16
role of II 478
Sephiroth, Adam Kadmon II 544
spirit-matter I 16
Sun, Marttanda, eigth son of Aditi I 448
Tetraktys of Greeks II 599
Vajrasattva I 571


SD INDEX Second Race. See Root-Race -- 2nd


SD INDEX Second Round. See Round, Second


SD INDEX Secrecy. See also Secret

about life & death II 451
re certain symbols I 306, 363
Egyptian priests pledged to II 763
esoteric catechism on I 299
except to pledged chelas I 164
fear of desecration II 124
of initiates II 586
millenniums of, re Secret Doctrine I xxii
re mysteries of nature II 518
Neoplatonists bound by oaths of II 763
Plato pledged to II 266, 763
reasons for I xxxiii-v; II 451
reticence in giving truth I 167; II 571
rules on, strict I 163-4, 168, 170
Sepher-Jezirah I 299
since Plato's Atlantis sank II 124


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.

SD INDEX Secret(s)

Asuramaya confirmed in, records II 50
Atlantean, cycles II 49
books about man II 444
books in temple libraries II 529
catechism of Druses II 27
complete, record of Lemurians II 334-5
data fr generations of adepts II 700
description of, Lemurian records II 334-5
documents hidden, knowledge not I xxxv
dual power of, wisdom II 364
figures kept I 163-4, 168, 170; II 251
Kabbala's secret of II 282n
knowledge confined to temples II 532-3
"Mirror of Futurity" one of, records II 49
of nature II 319
records & seven keys to man's genesis I 323
sciences, history of II 503
teachings, portion only given I 480
works & esoteric cycles II 70
works unknown in Europe II 439


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 Doctrine 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.

SD INDEX Secret Doctrine. See also Esoteric, Occultism

accumulated wisdom of ages I xxii, 272-3
avoids miraculous, materialistic II 153
basis & source of all things I 46
Buddhism, Upanishads rest on I 47
choice betw, & Darwinism, Bible II 157
Church Fathers tried to destroy I xl
common property of mankind II 794
on cosmogenesis (Isis Unveiled) I 4
dates incompatible w science II 794
defined & described I 272-3
difficulties in describing II 794-8
of the East II 127
esoteric Zoroastrianism same as II 356
found in thousands of Sanskrit manuscripts I xxiii
generations of seers checked I 272
Hermetic fragments part of I 287
Hindu philosophy older than Egy I 387
intelligent powers rule universe I 287
interprets archaic symbols II 96-7
key to theogonies & sciences II 767
looked upon as hoax II 441-2
loses caste II 275
manus, races, etc II 307
millions of beings around, in us I 604-5
more given each century I xxxvii-viiin
Nabathean Agriculture & II 455
New World, before Buddhism II 424n
preserved in Vatican I xliv
proofs of its diffusion I xxxiv, 307
Rosicrucian pelican symbol fr I 19-20
state the, & bear consequences I 323
synonyms of Hindu gods in I 92
teaches no atheism I 279
teaches progressive development I 43
teaches reliable history I 267
three fundamental propositions I 14-18
three fund prop re evolution II 1, 274-5
universally diffused religion of mankind I xxxiv
Word: one number fr no number I 94

SD INDEX Secret Doctrine, The. See Blavatsky, H. P.

SEE ALSO; STANZAS OF DZYAN; KUI-TE, BOOKS OF


SD INDEX Secretion(s)

fr divine bodies & atoms I 568
spiritual, of alchemists I 509


SD INDEX "Secret of Satan." See Kingsford,The Perfect Way


SD INDEX Secret Science. See also Gupta-Vidya

dual power of II 364
Gandharvas instructors in II 584
known to initiates, adepts I 611-12
new teacher of, in twentieth century I xxxviii
not a fairy tale II 795
portions of, concealed I xxxv
works on, destroyed I xxiii-iv


SD INDEX Secret Work (of Chiram or King Hiram) perfect man culmination of II 113


TG Sedecla (Heb.). The Obeah woman of Endor.


SD INDEX Sedimentation (ary)

animal evolution & II 325n
carbonic acid & II 157
first, 320 million years ago II 710, 715n
preparation for, fouth round II 715n
various scientists on beginning of II 694


SD INDEX Sedu (Sadu in tx) Chaldean class of spirits II 248n


SD INDEX Seed(s)

becomes a golden egg I 333, 350
brought by first "Seven" II 590
design of future evolution in II 653-4
every, a potential god I 201
force which informs I 291
ideal prototype within I 63
Incomprehensible drops a I 350
latent potentialities of II 653
lotus, symbol of II 472
man storehouse of all II 289-90 &n
must die to live as a plant I 459n
Mysteria Specialia, of anything I 283n
preserved in an ark II 307n
racial II 444
self-existent Lord cast a I 333
serpent's, & woman II 411
of undying wisdom II 282
world germ or I 200-1 &n


SD INDEX Seed-Manu(s)

divine sishta II 164, 308
each round closes w II 308
Noah symbol of root- & II 597
table of II 309
twenty-one manus explained I 235n
Vaivasvata, root-manus & II 321


SD INDEX Seeman, Prof B.

----- "Australia & Europe . . ."
Australian race & Eocene man II 779
confirms horseshoe continent II 333
floral evidence of Atlantis II 781
relegated man to Eocene II 288


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.

SD INDEX Seer(s). See also Adepts, Initiates

Apollo god of II 770
can commune w higher beings II 281n
catastrophe predicted by I 646
cosmic forces seen by I 633-4
Dangma or I 46n
data fr generations of II 700
eye of, sees pregenetic protyle I 46n, 617-18
flashing eye of I 272
generations of, checked Secret Doctrine I 272
generic names of II 361-75, 529-35
life on other stars & II 703
observe interstellar shoals I 633-4
of the open eye, Enoichion or II 530
perceive mysteries of motion I 116n
physiological purity of II 295
recorded the soul of things I 272
Siva eye of II 284
spiritual eagle eye of I 605; II 67
sushumna ray & trance of I 515
trace sound beyond matter I 633
vision limited to solar system II 700n
visions of, checked I 273


SD INDEX Seer of Patmos. See also John, St.

sought to improve Book of Enoch II 510


SD INDEX Sefekh Abu (Egy) I 408


SD INDEX Seiffarth. See Seyffarth, G.


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


SD INDEX Seket (Egy, Sokhit in tx) cat sacred to II 552n


TG Sekhem (Eg.). The same as Sekten.

SD INDEX Sekhem (Egy)

devachan or I 220-1, 237
mysterious face concealed in I 220


TG Sekhet (Eg.). See "Pasht".


TG Sekten (Eg.). Devachan; the place of post mortem reward, a state of bliss, not a locality.


SD INDEX Seldenus [John Selden], De Diis Syriis, divination by the teraphim I 394


SD INDEX Select Specimens of the Hindu Theater.See Wilson, H. H.


SD INDEX Selenic, Selenognosis, Selenography I 305, 396


SD INDEX Seleucus of Seleucia, taught heliocentic theory I 117 &n


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.

SD INDEX Self. See also Atman, Egos, Higher Self

divine, perceived by human I 471
divine, wisdom of II 569
-guidance longed for II 484
higher I 266, 445, 610n, 638-9; II 95, 103, 109-10
higher, & dreamless sleep I 266
higher, crucified by man II 36
higher, goaded by personal II 109
humanizing the II 246
memory generates notion of I 292
merging the, w the II 639 &n
must emancipate, fr seven senses I 87, 534
paralyzing the lower I 276
parent-source of ego I 129
passions of terrestrial II 268
sacrifice of II 94n, 243
seat abiding in the, (Anugita) II 495
voice of, within II 640
which is & is not I 333-4
-worship leads to phallicism II 273
yoga inhalation & higher I 96


SD INDEX Self-born I 203, 450

beings born thru will II 120-1
chhayas II 120, 138, 164, 198
first race called II 198
Kasyapa the I 366; II 382n
Logos I 363; II 355
materialists reject II 151
Sons of Wisdom rejected, (boneless) II 171
Svayambhuva or II 311


SD INDEX Self-conscious(ness). See also Agnishvattas, Asuras, Kumaras, Lucifer, Man, Prometheus, Root-Race--3rd

absolute, not the Unconscious I 50-1
ahamkara or I 335 &n
animals lack I 234
atoms are potentially I 107
becomes egoism, selfishness II 639n
buddhi plus, is Christos II 231n
development of, in mindless II 79-81, 103, 167
dhyani-chohans endow man w II 233n
efforts toward divinity II 93
evolution I 416
Fallen Angels key to II 274
instinct & I 210, 234
lunar men had to become II 45
Mahat, manas & I 75
Mahat root of II 58-9
makes human evolution different I 175
manas springs fr I 334
man is a brute without II 163
no, in early races I 210, 539n
no, in pure spirit II 80
organizing principle or ego II 654
paramartha or I 48n
spirit becomes, explained I 192-3
tortures of, (Prometheus) II 421
unconscious becomes, (Hegel) I 106
voice of self within II 640
won thru experience I 106


SD INDEX Self-existent. See also Svayambhuva

absolute divine essence I 56
angelic spiritual essence II 242 &n
Atma-bhu or the II 176, 578
eternal in essence only I 88
Heavenly Man & II 128
Ibn Gebirol on the I 439n
Lord I 52, 85, 333
not the universal One I 88
One, Reality I 2, 18
projected their shadows II 242-3
Svayambhuva or I 80-1


SD INDEX Selfishness

intellect &, dangerous II 163
moves lower man II 422
of personality II 110
pride chief prompter of II 237


SD INDEX Semele (Gk)

ascends to heaven I 400
had Bacchus by Jupiter II 362-3


SD INDEXa Semelen tremousi daimones I 400 (Gk) "Semele made the spirits tremble."


SD INDEX Semite(s), Semitic. See also Arabs, Jews

Adam of, fr Aryans II 452
age of, empire II 691
ancient, language II 755
Aryan &, cosmogony II 241
Aryan &, on initiation II 470-4
belong to fifth race II 266
borrowed their theology II 203
branchlet of fouth & fifth subraces I 319
chasm betw Aryan &, religion I 383
common religion before separation I xxix
creation not emanation II 54
creation story sinful II 53
descend fr red Adam II 426
exalt God over all others II 507-8
family race II 147n
-Hebrews 8,000 years old II 470-1
introduced phallicism II 54
invented temptation of flesh I 383
Kabbala &, on God & man I 444-5
language fr Sanskrit II 200
later Aryans II 200
Moon once masculine & Sun feminine w I 397
obsessed w procreation II 543
original unity of, & Aryans (Bunsen) I 115n
paradox of the, mind I 383
Seth primitive god of II 82n
sin, esoteric & exoteric view of I 383
triadic deities of II 54
womb Holy of Holies w II 457n


TG Sena (Sk.). The female aspect or Sakti of Karttikeya; also called Kaumara.

SD INDEX Sena (Skt) [spear, army], fem/male aspect of Karttikeya II 619


SD INDEX Senary (six) II 580

discussed II 582-3
hieroglyphical (Ragon) II 591


SD INDEX Seneca

----- Epistles
Earth shall return to chaos II 757
----- Hercules Oetaeus
dissolution, birth of worlds II 757
----- Quaestiones Naturales
Berosus on cataclysms I 649-50
dissolution of worlds II 757


SD INDEX Senectute, De (On Old Age).See Cicero


SD INDEXa Senior occultatus est et absconditus; Microprosopus manifestus est, et non manifestus I 214-15 (Lat) "The Ancient One is hidden and concealed; the Microprosopus is manifested, and is not manifested." -- Rosenroth, Kabbala Denudata, Liber Mysterii (Siphra' di Tseniutha, "Book of Concealed Mystery"); see Mathers, Kabbalah Unveiled, p. 91 (4.1)

SD INDEX "Senior occultatus est . . ." I 214-15


SD INDEX Sensation

animal lives life of II 525n
every atom has, (Haeckel) II 673
mind ultimately rests upon I 2n
nerve molecules & 134n
space & I 555n


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.

SD INDEX Sense(s). See also Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch

Aindri personified evolution of II 614
barrier to spiritual development II 296
beings w more or less I 608n
buddhi is seventh II 639
came in third creation I 453
characteristics of matter & I 251
developed w physical man II 298
die before the body I 459n
evolution of outer II 294
evolved fr astral prototypes II 295
fire (self) burns lower five, away II 639
five, & illusion I 329-30
five, born fr elements II 106-7
five, six, seven, explained I 535n
freedom fr thralldom of I 329-30
inner, atrophied in early races II 294
jnanasakti & I 292
knowledge fr five, & four elements I 462
laborious knowledge of I 279
loss of physical II 370n
organs of, originate fr elements I 284-5
pentacle symbol of five I 125
physical, of a lower creation II 106
rudimentary, produced 1st I 447
Self beyond perception of II 568
seven, & causes of action I 535 &n
seven, & seven priests I 87, 96; II 630
seven, in older Upanishads I 268 &n
seven spiritual & physical I 534
sixth, & permeability I 251, 258
Vedic Aryans & double set of I 534


SD INDEX Sensitives, hallucinations & II 370n


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.

SD INDEX Senzar (secret sacerdotal language)

catechism on Space I 9
early, hieroglyphic cipher II 439
origin & universality of I xliii
used betw master & chelas I 23

SEE ALSO; DEVANAGARI, SANSKRIT


SD INDEX Separation of Sexes. See also Root-Race -- Third, Sexes

animals separated first II 184
began in egg stage II 197
in Bronze Age (of myth) II 520n
circle w vertical line or I 5
Daksha allegorized II 275
diagram II 688
early mankind & II 2-3
gradual II 84, 132, 197, 201
history begins w II 312
in mammals before man II 736 &n
man astral before II 736
man generated sexually after II 173
monosyllabic speech after II 198
Naudin on II 119-20, 181
Noah story & I 444n
part of natural evolution II 217, 275
"polar cells" & II 117
Pymander on II 96
rib of Adam legend & II 193
Schmidt on II 172n, 184
Tahitian myth of II 193-4
in third root-race II 132, 135, 147, 177, 248, 715n
third round Indra & II 615n
Virgo-Scorpio separated w II 502n


SD INDEX Sephar (Heb, Saphar, S'phor in tx). See also Sepharim

one of three seraphim [sepharim] I 92


SD INDEX Sepharim (Heb, sephrim in tx) ciphers, numbers, letters I 361n; II 39-40, 234


SD INDEX Sepher (Heb). See also Sepharim

implies numeration II 39
one of three seraphim [sepharim] I 92


SD INDEX Sepher Jezirah. See Sepher Yetsirah


SD INDEX Sepher M'bo Sha-arim [Sepher M'ro Shearim], Superior emanates into inferior II 116


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.]

SD INDEX Sepher Yetsirah (Heb, Jezirah orJetzirah in tx)

air, water, fire I 447
alhim, sephrim II 39-40
compiled fr "very old book" I xliii
cosmic elements I 338 &n
cosmogenesis I 337
Divine is eternal Boundless I 447
dual light II 36-7
incomplete now II 536-7
miracles performed w I xliiin
occult work (Levi) II 536
q by Rabbi [Halevi] in Al-Chazari II 234
rules of secrecy in I 299
sacred animals, Holy Four I 92 &n
spirit of the elohim I 130n
Word of I 94


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.

SD INDEX Sephira[h] (Heb, sing). See also Sephiroth

Adam Kadmon & I 98, 137, 215-16n, 337, 430-2
Adi-Sanat, Brahma I 98 &n
Aditi I 53n, 357; II 43
becomes androgyne I 246n, 354-5
Chaldean I 357
emergence of I 354-5
-Eve or Aditi-Vach I 355-6
first, the Crown I 215n; II 39
Hindu Vach anticipated I 137
Hokhmah, Binah & I 98n
Kether or I 215n
light or I 337
mother in all religions I 215-16 &n
mother of sephiroth I 53n, 355
Point or II 111
sephiroth & I 89-90
sephiroth later II 111
Shekinah or I 53n, 355, 430
shown as a woman I 352
Tiamat, Aditi or I 357
universal soul I 352-3
Vach, Kwan Yin, etc I 431n
wife, daughter, mother I 430


SD INDEX Sephirah Djenioutha. SeeSiphra di-Tseni`utha'


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.

SD INDEX Sephiroth. See also Sephirah

Adam Kadmon synthesis of I 427, 432; II 2n, 544, 704n
Alhim created six I 342
architect generic name for I 579n
become creators, patriarchs I 355
builders of physical universe I 375
circle w diameter is ten I 391
creative secondary powers II 544
dbrim [debarim] or the ten I 432
deity manifests thru ten I 239
dhyani-chohans or I 339, 579n
elements stand for I 339
elohim or I 230; II 388
fourth in descent I 614
heavenly man synthesis of I 337; II 704n
host of, first Adam II 46n
Jehovah one of lower I 197-8, 438
Jehovah third of, or Binah I 6n
Kabbala rests on II 37
later than Sephirah II 111
led on by Adam Kadmon II 129
man created by II 44
metaphysical, not Jehovah I 438-9
not abstractions I 632n
Osiris as chief I 437
prajapatis or I 355
Pythagorean Tetraktys symb II 111
relation of, to man (Kabbala) I 230
second & third of, or Microprosopus II 626
Sepher Yetsirah on II 39-40
sephrim [sepharim] & I 361n; II 39-40, 234
seven & upper triad I 98n, 128, 130; II 97
seven centers of energy II 604n
seven, channels of intelligence I 239
seven creative hosts I 72
seven limbs or I 239, 352
seven lower, or second Adam II 1-2n, 595
seven, or builders I 128
seven, or pillars II 293
seven, or prajapati I 89-90
seven splendors or II 603
six, of construction (builders) I 375
ten, & kingdoms I 176
ten & seven classes of I 90, 215, 239, 352, 355, 361n, 391, 432; II 111
ten, limbs of heavenly man I 215, 239
Tetragrammaton head of seven lower I 344
three II 39-40
three attributes of II 234
three orders of I 438
various names for I 375
Zohar on I 241


SD INDEX Sephirothal Tree II 25

Adam Kadmon is I 352; II 4, 293, 625n
Brahma or universe I 352
four unities, three binaries of I 237n
seven, ten & twelve parts II 36
Tetragrammaton, IHVH or II 625n
Tree of Life I 619; II 97
two triads & quaternary form II 595
universe sprang fr II 625n


SD INDEX Sephirothal Triad, Triangle I 619

emanates quaternary II 595
Fiery Breaths same as upper I 213
first II 269n
Sephirah, Hokhmah, Binah or I 98n


SD INDEX Sephra Dzenioutha. SeeSiphra di-Tseni`utha'


SD INDEX Sephrim. See Sepharim


SD INDEX Sepolture dei Giganti, prehistoric Sardinian tombs II 752


SD INDEX Sepp, Dr J. N.

----- Vie de Notre-Seigneur . . .
dwarfing of Hindu yugas I 655; II 619-20
Hindus borrowed fr Christians I 655
Messiah born in lunar year 4320 I 654
plagiarized Wilford I 655
satanic origin of pagan saviors II 482


SD INDEX Septarshis. See Saptarshis


SD INDEX Septempartite, Earth is, explained II 758


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.

SD INDEX Septenary. See also Hebdomad, Septenate(s), Seven(s)

anima mundi is a II 562
arrangement infallible I 586n
cosmic & human principle II 616
cycle a law of nature II 623
diagram of kosmos I 200
discussed II 582-3, 622-30
division of solar forces I 290
division of stars, men, once esoteric I 168
division preceded fourfold I 408 &n
Earth must become II 312n
evolution I 267-8
highest triad, quaternary & II 595
Jah-Noah lowest II 596
law governs sound II 628
law of periodicity II 627
man clue to, powers I xxxv
man's principles II 79, 592-3, 604, 627
matter, in esotericism I 10n
meaning of dragon II 208
nature of life, disease II 622-3 &n
Oeaohoo six in one I 68
pre-, manvantara II 308n
principle universal I 241; II 628-30
refers to our world only I 333
system best for occultism II 592-3n
teaching ancient II 604, 640
teaching in Egypt I 236n; II 632-3


SD INDEX "Septenary Division in Different Indian Systems."See Subba Row


SD INDEX "Septenary Principle in Esotericism." See Blavatsky, H. P.


SD INDEX Septenate(s). See also Septenary, Seven(s)

abstract nature a II 595-6
Bartlett on, in nature II 595
every man a II 29, 603-4
Second Adam as a II 2n
sidereal II 551
stands for physical realm II 603
the universal II 598-9
various II 616-18
in Vedas II 605-6


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.


SD INDEX Sept leccons de physique generale. See Cauchy


SD INDEX Septuagint (Gk version Old Testament)

disagrees w Protestant Bible I 576
Jewish law in Greek II 200n
rendering of Joshua (8:29) II 558


SD INDEX "Sepulture des Tartares." See Tooke, Wm.