Flashcards: Theosophy

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767, Ganges, Hérault – March 25, 1825, Paris) was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi, Gerard Encausse and Édouard Schuré.

Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian.

Man: whence, how and whither, a record of clairvoyant investigation, published in 1913, is a theosophical book compiled by the second President of the Theosophical Society Annie Besant and by a member of the T.

(For the Morgana Lefay album, see The Secret Doctrine (album).) The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888 written by Helena Blavatsky.

In Hinduism, a chakra (Sanskrit cakra, "wheel") is thought to be an energy point or node in the subtle body.

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

The ouroboros (/ˌjʊərəˈbɒrəs, ˌjʊəroʊ-/; Ancient Greek: οὐροβόρος [ὄφις] < οὐρά (tail) + βόρος (devouring) "tail-devouring snake") is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.

Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 – 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books.

Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 – October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art.

Mahābhūta is Sanskrit and Pāli for "great element.

Albert Steffen (December 10, 1884, Wynau, Switzerland – July 13, 1963, Dornach, Switzerland) was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist.

The Key to Theosophy is an 1889 book by Helena Blavatsky, expounding the principles of theosophy in a readable question-and-answer manner.

In Buddhism, Avīci (Sanskrit and Pali for "without waves" – Japanese and Chinese: 無間地獄, Wújiàn dìyù and 阿鼻地獄, Ābí dìyù) or Avichi, is the lowest Level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn.

Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds is a book written by Annie Besant, C.

Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic.

Mitrofan Vasilyevich Lodyzhensky (Russian: Митрофа́н Васи́льевич Лоды́женский, in some sources Лады́женский (Ladyzhensky); February 27 [O.S. February 15] 1852 – May 31 [O.S. May 18] 1917) was a Russian religious philosopher, playwright, and statesman, best known for his Mystical Trilogy comprising Super-consciousness and the Ways to Achieve It, Light Invisible, and Dark Force.

Abraham von Franckenberg (24 June 1593 – 25 June 1652) was a German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer.

Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (in the nominative case γνῶσις f.).

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton.

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 (or 25) February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist.

Kalakshetra, now officially known as the Kalakshetra Foundation, is an arts and cultural academy dedicated to the preservation of traditional values in Indian art and crafts, especially in the field of Bharatanatyam dance and Gandharvaveda music.

Mickushina, Tatyana Nickolaevna (born in 1958) is the founder of the ethical Teaching which, according to the author, is aimed at the restoration of the moral norms in society.

Johann Friedrich von Meyer (12 September 1772 – 28 January 1849) was a senator of Frankfurt, who published a translation of the Bible in 1819 (Die heilige Schrift in berichtigter Übersetzung mit kurzen Anmerkungen; 2nd ed. 1823; 3rd ed., 1855).

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Ali Puli, also known as Alipili, is the attributed author of a number of 17th-century alchemical and hermetic texts.

Hussain Sha (September 9, 1905 – September 24, 1981) was the seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram.

Kenneth Paul Johnson (born 1953) is a retired public library director from southern Virginia, and a writer on modern Western esotericism as well as North Carolina history.

Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (28 February 1885, in Pithapuram – 23 January 1945, in Narsapur) was the sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram, India.

Louis William Rogers (May 28, 1859 – April 18, 1953), commonly known as "L.

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The Order of the Star in the East (OSE) was an international organization based at Benares (Varanasi), India, from 1911 to 1927.

Cyrus Field Willard (August 17, 1858 – January 17, 1942) was an American journalist, political activist, and theosophist.

The Pranava-Vada of Gargyayana (pranava-vāda is the Sanskrit for "uttering of Pranava (AUM)") is a book by Bhagavan Das, published in three volumes in years 1910-1913 by the Theosophical Society, Adyar with notes by Annie Besant.

Sri Mohiddin Badsha II was( born on 1933-07-11 at Pithapuram to Sri Brahmarishi Hussain Sha and Ajeemunnisa Begum. He was a scholar in Telugu, Arabic, Urdu, Sanskrit, Parsee and English. He married Fatima Jaharunnisa Begum on 1963-05-19. He had six sons and three daughters. He took over the Lordship of Peetham as 8th Head on 1981-09-25. Due to the old age and ill health of his father Brahmarishi Hussain Sha Sathguru and as a future Head of the Institution, he had undertaken the preceptive of the Peetham’s philosophy from 1969.He delivered speeches at many villages of Andhra Pradesh to promote Jnana yoga.

Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (1908 – 9 April 1999) was a British author who is principally known for her authoritative biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao, also known as Master C.

Serapis Bey, sometimes written as Serapis, is regarded in Theosophy as being one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom; and in the Ascended Master Teachings is considered to be an Ascended Master and member of the Great White Brotherhood.

In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India is a 1995 book by Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley in which they argue against the theories that Indo-European peoples arrived in India in the middle of the second millennium BC (Indo-Aryan migration) and support the concept of "Indigenous Aryans" and the Out of India theory.