Helena Blavatsky (EN) The Key To Theosophy

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are mystical. (See Mahayana.) Also in exoteric superstition, the lowest form
of transmigration.
Homogeneity From the Greek words homos, "the same," and genos, "kind." That
which is of the same nature throughout, undifferentiated, non-compound, as
gold is supposed to be.
Hypnotism (Gr.) A name given by Dr. Braid to the process by which one man of
strong will-power plunges another of weaker mind into a kind of trance; once
in such a state the latter will do anything suggested to him by the
hypnotist. Unless produced for beneficial purposes, the Occultists would
call it black magic or sorcery. It is the most dangerous of practices,
morally and physically, as it interferes with the nerve fluids.
Iamblichus A great Theosophist and an Initiate of the third century. He
wrote a great deal about the various kinds of demons who appear through
evocation, but spoke severely against such phenomena. His austerities,
purity of life, and earnestness were great. He is credited with having been
levitated ten cubits high from the ground, as are some modern Yogis, and
mediums.
Illusion In Occultism everything finite (such as the Universe and all in it)
is called Illusion or Maya .
Individuality One of the names given in Theosophy and Occultism to the human
Higher Ego. We make a distinction between the immortal and divine and the
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mortal human Ego which perishes. The latter or "Personality" (personal Ego)
survives the dead body but for a time in Kamaloka: the Individuality
prevails forever.
Initiate From the Latin Initiatus. The designation of anyone who was
received into and had revealed to him the mysteries and secrets of either
Masonry or Occultism. In times of antiquity they were those who had been
initiated into the arcane knowledge taught by the Hierophants of the
Mysteries; and in our modern days those who have been initiated by the
adepts of mystic lore into the mysterious knowledge, which, notwithstanding
the lapse of ages, has yet a few real votaries on earth.
Isvara (Sans.) The "Lord" or the personal god, divine spirit in man.
Literally Sovereign (independent) existence. A title given to Siva and other
gods in India. Siva is also called Isvaradeva, or sovereign deva.
Iu-Kabar Zivo Gnostic term. The "Lord of the Aeons" in the Nazarene system.
He is the procreator (Emanator) of the seven holy lives (the seven primal
Dhyani-Chohans or Archangels, each representing one of the cardinal
virtues), and is himself called the third life (third Logos). In the Codex
he is addressed as the Helm and Vine of the food of life. Thus he is
identical with Christ (Christos) who says: "I am the true vine and my Father
is the husbandman." It is well known that Christ is regarded in the Roman
Catholic Church as the "Chief of the Aeons," as also is Michael, "who is as
God." Such also was the belief of the Gnostics.
Javidan Khirad (Pers.) A work on moral precepts.
J�ana (Sans.) Knowledge: Occult Wisdom.
Josephus Flavius A historian of the first century; a Hellenized Jew who
lived in Alexandria and died at Rome. He was credited by Eusebius with
having written the 16 famous lines relating to Christ, which were most
probably interpolated by Eusebius himself, the greatest forger among the
Church Fathers. This passage, in which Josephus, who was an ardent Jew and
died in Judaism, is nevertheless made to acknowledge the Messiahship and
divine origin of Jesus, is now declared spurious both by most of the
Christian Bishops (Lardner among others) and even by Paley (See his Evidence
of Christianity). It was for centuries one of the weightiest proofs of the
real existence of Jesus, the Christ.
Kamaloka (Sans.) The semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible,
where the disembodied "personalities," the astral forms called Kamarupa,
remain until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects
of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of the lower animal
passions and desires. (See Kamarupa.) It is the Hades of the ancient Greeks
and the Amenti of the Egyptians-the land of Silent Shadows.
Kamarupa (Sans.) Metaphysically and in our esoteric philosophy it is the
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