THEOSOPHICAL
GLOSSARY
BY
H.
P. BLAVATSKY
First
Published 1892
Q, R.
Q._The seventeenth letter of the English Alphabet. It is
the obsolete Ćolian Qoppa and the Hebrew Koph. As a numeral it is
100, and its symbol is the back of the head from the ears to the neck. With the
Ćolian Occultists it stood for the symbol of differentiation.
Qabbalah (Heb.). The ancient Chaldean Secret Doctrine,
abbreviated into Kabala. An occult system handed clown by oral transmission;
but which, though accepting tradition, is not in itself composed of merely
traditional teachings, as it was once a fundamental science, now disfigured by
the additions of centuries, and by interpolation by the Western Occultists,
especially by Christian Mystics. It treats of hitherto esoteric
interpretations of the Jewish Scriptures, and teaches several methods of interpreting
Biblical allegories. Originally the doctrines were transmitted “from mouth to
ear” only, says Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, “in an oral manner from teacher to pupil
who received them; hence the name Kabbalah, Qabalah, or Cabbala from the Hebrew
root QBL, to receive. Besides this Theoretic Kabbalah, there was created a
Practical branch, which is concerned with the Hebrew letters, as types a like
of Sounds, Numbers, and Ideas.” (See “Gematria”, “Notaricon”, “ Temura”.) For
the original book of the Qabbalah—the Zohar—see further on. But
the Zohar we have now is not the Zohar left by Simeon Ben Jochai
to his son and secretary as an heirloom. The author of the present approximation
was one Moses de Leon, a Jew of the XIIIth century. (See “Kabalah” and
“Zohar”.)
Qadmon,
Adam, or Adam Kadmon (Heb.).
The Heavenly or Celestial Man, the Microcosm (q.v.), He is the
manifested Logos; the third Logos according to Occultism, or the
Paradigm of Humanity.
Qai-yin
(Heb.). The same as Cain.
Qaniratha
(Mazd.). Our earth, in the
Zoroastrian Scriptures, which is placed, as taught in the Secret Doctrine,
in the midst of the other six Karshwars, or globes of the terrestrial
chain.
(See Secret Doctrine, II. p. 759.)
Q’lippoth
(Heb.), or Klippoth.
The world of Demons or Shells; the same as the Aseeyatic World, called also Olam
Klippoth. It is the residence of Samâel, the Prince of Darkness in
the Kabbalistic allegories. But note what we read in the Zohar (ii.43a)
“For the service of the Angelic World, the Holy. . . . made Samâel and his
legions, i.e., the world of action, who are as it were the clouds to be
used (by the higher or upper Spirits, our Egos) to ride upon in their
descent to the earth, and serve, as it were, for their horses”. This, in
conjunction with the fact that Q’lippoth contains the matter of which stars,
planets, and even men are made, shows that Samâel with his legions is simply
chaotic, turbulent matter, which is used in its finer state by spirits to robe
themselves in. For speaking of the “vesture” or form (rupa) of the
incarnating Egos, it is said in the Occult Catechism that they, the
Mânasaputras or Sons of Wisdom, use for the consolidation of their forms, in
order to descend into lower spheres, the dregs of Swabhavat, or that
plastic matter which is throughout Space, in other words, primordial ilus.
And these dregs are what the Egyptians have called Typhon and modern Europeans
Satan, Samâel, etc., etc. Deus est Demon inversus—the Demon is the lining
of God.
Quadrivium
(Lat.). A term used by the Scholastics during the Middle
Ages to designate the last four paths of learning—of which there were
originally seven. Thus grammar, rhetoric and logic were called the trivium,
and arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy (the Pythagorean obligatory
sciences) went under the name of quadrivium.
Quetzo-Cohuatl (Mex.). The serpent-god in the Mexican
Scriptures and legends. His wand and other “land-marks” show him to be some
great Initiate of antiquity, who received the name of “Serpent” on account of his
wisdom, long life and powers. To this day the aboriginal tribes of
Quiche
Cosmogony. Called Popol Vuh;
discovered by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.
(See “Popol Vuh”.)
Quietists. A religious sect founded by a Spanish monk named
Molinos. Their chief doctrine was that contemplation (an internal state of
complete rest and passivity) was the only religious practice possible, and
constituted the whole of religious observances. They were the
Quinanes. A very ancient race of giants, of whom there are many
traditions, not only in the folk-lore but in the history of
Quindecemvir
(Lat.). The Roman priest who
had charge of the Sibylline books.
Qű-tamy
(Chald.). The name of the
mystic who receives the revelations of the moon-goddess in the ancient Chaldean
work, translated into Arabic, and retranslated by Chwolsohn into German, under
the name of Nabathean Agriculture.
R
.—The eighteenth letter of the alphabet;
“the canine”, as its sound reminds one of a snarl. In the Hebrew alphabet it is
the twentieth, and its numeral is 200. It is equivalent as Resh to the
divine name Rahim (clemency); and its symbols are, a sphere, a head, or
a circle.
Ra (Eg.). The divine Universal Soul in its
manifested aspect—the ever-burning light; also the personified Sun.
Rabbis
(Heb.). Originally teachers of
the Secret Mysteries, the Qabbalah; later, every Levite of the priestly
caste became a teacher and a Rabbin. (See the series of Kabbalistic Rabbis by
w.w.w.)
1
Rabbi Abulafia of
2
Rabbi Akiba. Author of a famous
Kabbalistic work, the “Alphabet of R.A.”, which treats every letter as a symbol
of an idea and an emblem of some sentiment; the Book of Enoch was
originally a portion of this work, which appeared at the close of the eighth
century. It was not purely a Kabbalistic treatise.
3
Rabbi Azariel ben Menachem (A.D.
1160). The author of the Commentary on the Ten Sephiroth, which
is the oldest purely Kabbalistic work extant, setting aside the Sepher
Yetzirah, which although older, is not concerned with the Kabbalistic
Sephiroth. He was the pupil of Isaac the Blind, who is the reputed father of
the European Kabbalah, and he was the teacher of the equally famous R. Moses
Nachmanides.
4
Rabbi Moses Botarel (1480). Author of
a famous commentary on the Sepher Yetzirah; he taught that by ascetic
life and the use of invocations, a man’s dreams might be made prophetic.
5
Rabbi Chajim Vital (1600) (
The great exponent of the Kabbalah as taught R. Isaac Loria : author of one of
the most famous works, Otz Chiim, or Tree of Life; from this
Knorr von Rosenroth has taken the Book on the Rashith ha Gilgalim,
revolutions of souls, or scheme of reincarnations.
6
Rabbi Ibn Gebirol. A famous Hebrew
Rabbi, author of the hymn Kether Malchuth, or Royal Diadem, which
appeared about 1050; it is a beautiful poem, embodying the cosmic doctrines of
Aristotle, and it even now forms part of the Jewish special service for the
evening preceding the great annual Day of Atonement (See Ginsburg and Sachs on
the Religious Poetry of the Spanish Jews). This author is also known as
Avicebron.
7
Rabbi Gikatilla. A distinguished
Kabbalist who flourished about 1300 : he wrote the famous books, The
8
Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquiero.
The first who publicly taught in
9
Rabbi Loria (also written Luria,
and also named Ari from his initials). Founded a school of the Kabbalah
circa 1560. He did not write any works, but his disciples treasured up his
teachings, and R. Chajim Vital published them.
10
Rabbi Moses Cordovero (A.D.1550). The
author of several Kabbalistic works of a wide reputation, viz., A
Sweet Light, The Book of Retirement, and The Garden of Pomegranates;
this latter can be read in Latin in Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbalah Denudata,
entitled Tractatus de Animo, ex libro Pardes Rimmonim. Cordovero
is notable for an adherence to the strictly metaphysical part, ignoring the
wonder-working branch which Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi practised, and almost perished
in the pursuit of.
11 Rabbi Moses de Leon (circa 1290 A,D.). The editor and first publisher of the Zohar, or
“Splendour”, the most famous of all the Kabbalistic volumes, and almost the
only one of which any large part has been translated into English. This
Zohar is asserted to be in the main the production of the still more famous
Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, who lived in the reign of the Emperor Titus.
12
Rabbi Moses Maimonides (died 1304). A
famous Hebrew Rabbi and author, who condemned the use of charms and amulets,
and objected to the Kabbalistic use of the divine names.
13
Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi (born 1641). A
very famous Kabbalist, who passing beyond the dogma became of great reputation
as a thaumaturgist, working wonders by the divine names. Later in life he
claimed Messiahship and fell into the hands of the Sultan Mohammed IV. of
14
Rabbi Simon ben Jochai (circa A.D.
70-80). It is round this name that cluster the mystery and poetry of the origin
of the Kabbalah as a gift of the deity to mankind. Tradition has it that
the Kabbalah was a divine Theosophy first
taught by God to a company of angels, and that some glimpses of its perfection
were conferred upon Adam; that the wisdom passed from him unto Noah; thence to
Abraham, from whom the Egyptians of his era learned a portion of the doctrine.
Moses derived a partial initiation from the land of his birth, and this was
perfected by direct communications with the deity. From Moses it passed to the
seventy elders of the Jewish nation, and from them the theosophic scheme was
handed from generation to generation; David and Solomon especially became
masters of this concealed doctrine. No attempt, the legends tell us, was made
to commit the sacred knowledge to writing until the time of the destruction of
the second
Râdhâ (Sk.). The shepherdess among the Gopis
(shepherdesses) of Krishna, who was the wife of the god.
Râga
(Sk). One of the five Kleshas
(afflictions) in Patânjali’s Yoga philosophy. In Sânkhya Kârikâ, it is
the “obstruction” called love and desire in the physical or terrestrial sense.
The five Kleshas are: Avidyâ, or ignorance; Asmitâ,
selfishness, or “I-am-ness” ; Râga, love; Dwesha, hatred; and
Abhinivesa, dread of suffering.
Ragnarök (Scand.). A kind of metaphysical entity called
the “Destroyer” and the “Twilight of the Gods”, the two-thirds of whom are
destroyed at the “Last Battle” in the Edda. Ragnarök lies in chains on
the ledge of a rock so long as there are some good men in the world; but when
all laws are broken and all virtue and good vanish from it, then Ragnarok will
he unbound and allowed to bring every imaginable evil and disaster on the
doomed world.
Ragon, J. M. A French Mason, a distinguished writer and
great symbologist, who tried to bring Masonry back to its pristine purity. He
was born at Bruges in 1789, was received when quite a boy into the Lodge and
Chapter of the “Vrais Amis”, and upon removing to Paris founded the Society of
the Trinosophes. it is rumoured that he was the possessor of a number of papers
given to him by the famous Count de St. Germain, from which he had all his
remarkable knowledge upon early Masonry. He died at Paris in 1866, leaving a
quantity of books written by himself and masses of MSS., which were bequeathed
by him to the “Grand Orient”. Of the mass of his published works very few are
obtainable, while others have entirely disappeared. This is due to mysterious
persons (Jesuits, it is believed) who hastened to buy up every edition they
could find after his death. In short, his works are now extremely rare.
Rahasya
(Sk.). A name of the
Upanishads. Lit., secret essence of knowledge.
Rahat. The same as “Arhat”; the adept who becomes entirely
free from any desires on this plane, by acquiring divine knowledge and powers.
Ra’hmin
Seth (Heb.). According to the Kabala
(or Qabbalah), the “soul-sparks”, contained in Adam (Kadmon), went into
three sources, the heads of which were his three sons. Thus, while the “soul
spark” (or Ego) called Chesed went into Habel, and Geboor-ah into
Qai-yin (Cain)—Ra’hmin went into Seth, and these three sons were divided into
seventy human species, called “the principal roots of the human race”.
Râhu (Sk.). A Daitya (demon) whose lower
parts were like a dragon’s tail. He made himself immortal by robbing the gods
of some Amrita— the elixir of divine life—for which they were churning
the ocean of milk. Unable to deprive him of his immortality, Vishnu exiled him
from the earth and made of him the constellation Draco, his head being called
Râhu and his tail Ketu—astronomically, the ascending and descending nodes. With
the latter appendage he has ever since waged a destructive war on the
denouncers of his robbery, the sun and the moon, and (during the eclipses) is
said to swallow them. Of course the fable has a mystic and occult meaning.
Rahula (Sk.). The name of Gautama Buddha’s son.
Raibhyas
(Sk.). A class of gods in the
5th Manvantara.
Raivata
Manvantara (Sk.). The
life-cycle presided over by Raivata Manu. As he is the fifth of the fourteen
Manus (in Esotercism, Dhyan Chohans), there being seven root-Manus
and seven seed-Manus for the seven Rounds of our terrestrial chain of
globes (See Esot. Buddhism by A. P. Sinnett, and the
Secret Doctrine, Vol.1., “Brahminical Chronology”), Raivata presided
over the third Round and was its root-Manu.
Râjâ (Sk.). A Prince or King in India.
Râjagriha (Sk.). A city in Magadha famous for its
conversion to Buddhism in the days of the Buddhist kings. It was their
residence from Bimbisara to Asoka, and was the seat of the first Synod, or
Buddhist Council, held 510 B.C..
Râjârshis
(Sk.). The King-Rishis or
King-Adepts, one of the three classes of Rishis in India; the same as the
King-Hierophants of ancient Egypt.
Râjas (Sk.). The “quality of foulness” (i.e.,
differentiation), and activity in the Purânas. One of the three Gunas
or divisions in the correlations of matter and nature, representing form and
change.
Rajasâs
(Sk.). The elder Agnishwattas
— the Fire-Pitris, “fire” standing as a symbol of enlightenment and intellect.
Râja-Yoga
(Sk.). The true system of
developing psychic and spiritual powers and union with one’s Higher Self—or
the Supreme Spirit, as the profane express it. The exercise, regulation and
concentration of thought. Râja-Yoga is opposed to Hatha-Yoga, the physical or
psycho physiological training in asceticism.
Râkâ (Sk.). The day of the full moon: a day for
occult practices.
Râkshâ
(Sk.). An amulet prepared
during the full or new moon.
Râkshasas
(Sk.). Lit., “raw
eaters”, and in the popular superstition evil spirits, demons. Esoterically,
however, they are the Gibborim (giants) of the Bible, the Fourth Race or
the Atlanteans.
(See Secret Doctrine, II., 165.)
Râkshasi-Bhâshâ
(Sk.). Lit., the
language of the Râkshasas. In reality, the speech of the Atlanteans, our
gigantic forefathers of the fourth Root-race.
Ram
Mohum Roy (Sk.). The
well-known Indian reformer who came to England in 1833 and died there.
Râma
(Sk.). The seventh avatar or incarnation of Vishnu;
the eldest son of King Dasaratha, of the Solar Race. His full name is
Râma-Chandra, and he is the hero of the Râmâyana. He married Sîta, who
was the female avatar of Lakshmi, Vishnu’s wife, and was carried away by
Râvana the Demon-King of Lanka, which act led to the famous war.
Râmâyana
(Sk.). The famous epic poem
collated with the Mahâbhârata. It looks as if this poem was either the
original of the Iliad or vice versa, except that in Râmâyana
the allies of Râma are monkeys, led by Hanuman, and monster birds and other
animals, all of whom fight against the Râkshasas, or demons and giants
of Lankâ.
Râsa (Sk.). The mystery-dance performed by Krishna
and his Gopis, the shepherdesses, represented in a yearly festival to
this day, especially in Râjastan. Astronomically it is Krishna—the Sun—around
whom circle the planets and the signs of the Zodiac symbolised by the Gopis.
The same as the “circle-dance” of the Amazons around the priapic image, and the
dance of the daughters of Shiloh (Judges xxi.), and that of
King
David around the ark. (See Isis Unveiled, II., pp. 45, 331 and 332.)
Râshi (
Rashi-Chakra
(Sk.), The Zodiac.
Rasit (Heb.). Wisdom.
Rasollâsâ
(
Rasshoo
(Eg.). The solar fires formed
in and out of the primordial “waters”, or substance, of Space.
Ratnâvabhâsa
Kalpa (
Râtri
(
Raumasa
(
Ravail. The true name of the Founder of modern Spiritism in
Râvana
(
Ravi
(Sk.). A name of the Sun.
Rechaka
(Sk.). A practice in Hatha Yoga, during the performance
of Prânâyâma or the regulation of breath : namely, that of opening one nostril
and emitting breath therefrom, and keeping the other closed; one of the three
operations respectively called Pűraka, Kumbhaka and Rechaka—operations very
pernicious to health.
Red
Colour. This has always been
associated with male characteristics, especially by the Etruscans and Hindoos.
In Hebrew it is Adam, the same as the word for “earth” and “the first man”. It
seems that nearly all myths represent the first perfect man as white. The same
word without the initial A is Dam or Dem, which means Blood, also of red
colour. [w.w.w.]
The
colour of the fourth Principle in man—Kâma, the seat of desires is
represented red.
Reincarnation. The doctrine of rebirth, believed in by Jesus and the
Apostles, as by all men in those days, but denied now by the Christians. All
the Egyptian converts to Christianity, Church Fathers and others, believed in
this doctrine, as shown by the writings of several. In the still existing
symbols, the human-headed bird flying towards a mummy, a body, or “the soul
uniting itself with its sahou (glorified body of the Ego, and also the kâmalokic
shell) proves this belief. “The song of the Resurrection” chanted by Isis
to recall her dead husband to life, might be translated “Song of Rebirth”, as
Osiris is collective Humanity. “Oh! Osiris [here follows the name of the
Osirified mummy, or the departed], rise again in holy earth (matter), august
mummy in the coffin, under thy corporeal substances”, was the funeral prayer of
the priest over the deceased. “Resurrection” with the Egyptians never meant the
resurrection of the mutilated mummy, but of the Soul that informed it,
the Ego in a new body. The putting on of flesh periodically by the Soul or the
Ego, was a universal belief; nor can anything be more consonant with justice
and Karmic law. (See “Pre-existence”.)
Rekh-get-Amen (Eg.). The name of the priests, hierophants,
and teachers of Magic, who, according to Lenormant, Maspero, the Champollions,
etc., etc., “could levitate, walk the air, live under water, sustain great
pressure, harmlessly suffer mutilation, read the past, foretell the future, make
themselves invisible, and cure diseases” (Bonwick, Religion of Magic).
And the same author adds: “Admission to the mysteries did not confer magical
powers. These depended upon two things: the possession of innate capacities,
and the knowledge of certain formulć employed under suitable circumstances”.
Just the same as it is now.
Rephaim (Heb.). Spectres, phantoms. (Secret
Doctrine, II., 279.)
Resha-havurah (Heb., Kab.). Lit., the “White Head”, from
which flows the fiery fluid of life and intelligence in three hundred and
seventy streams, in all the directions of the Universe. The “White Head” is the
first Sephira, the Crown, or first active light.
Reuchlin, John. Nicknamed the “Father of the
Reformation”; the friend of Pico di Mirandola, the teacher and instructor of
Erasmus, of Luther and Melancthon. He was a great Kabbalist and Occultist.
Rig
Veda (Sk.). The first and most
important of the four Vedas. Fabled to have been “created” from the
Eastern mouth of Brahmâ; recorded in Occultism as having been delivered by
great sages on Lake Man(a)saravara beyond the Himalayas, dozens of thousands of
years ago.
Rik
(Sk.). A verse of Rig-Veda.
Riksha
(Sk.). Each of the
twenty-seven constellations forming the Zodiac. Any fixed star, or constellation
of stars.
Rimmon
(Heb.). A Pomegranate, the
type of abundant fertility; occurs in the Old Testament; it figures in Syrian
temples and was deified there, as an emblem of the celestial prolific mother of
all; also a type of the full womb. [w.w.w.]
Rings,
Magic. These existed as talismans in
every folk-lore. In Scandinavia such rings are always connected with the elves
and dwarfs who were alleged to be the possessors of talismans and who gave them
occasionally to human beings whom they wished to protect. In the words of the
chronicler: “These magic rings brought good luck to the owner so long as they
were carefully preserved ; but their loss was attended with terrible
misfortunes and unspeakable misery”.
Rings
and Rounds. Terms employed by
Theosophists in explanation of Eastern cosmogony. They are used to denote the
various evolutionary cycles in the Elemental, Mineral, &c., Kingdoms,
through which the Monad passes on any one globe, the term Round being used only
to denote the cyclic passage of the Monad round the complete chain of seven
globes. Generally speaking, Theosophists use the term ring as a synonym of
cycles, whether cosmic, geological, metaphysical or any other.
Riphćus
(Gr.). In mythology a mountain
chain upon which slept the frozen-hearted god of snows and hurricanes. In
Esoteric philosophy a real prehistoric continent which from a tropical ever
sunlit land has now become a desolate region beyond the Arctic Circle.
Rishabha (Sk.). A sage supposed to have been the first
teacher of the Jain doctrines in India.
Rishabham (Sk). The Zodiacal sign Taurus.
Rishi-Prajâpati (Sk.). Lit., “revealers”, holy sages in
the religious history of Âryavarta. Esoterically the highest of them are the Hierarchies
of “Builders” and Architects of the Universe and of living things on earth;
they are generally called Dhyan Chohans, Devas and gods.
Rishis
(Sk.). Adepts; the inspired
ones. In Vedic literature the term is employed to denote those persons through
whom the various Mantras were revealed.
Ri-thlen. Lit., “snake-keeping”. It is a terrible kind
of sorcery practised at Cherrapoonjee in the Khasi-Hills. The former is the
ancient capital of the latter. As the legend tells us : ages ago a thlen
(serpent-dragon) which inhabited a cavern and devoured men and cattle was put
to death by a local St. George, and cut to pieces, every piece being sent out
to a different district to be burnt. But the piece received by the Khasis was
preserved by them and became a kind of household god, and their descendants
developed into Ri-thlens or “snake keepers”, for the piece they
preserved grew into a dragon (thlen) and ever since has obsessed certain
Brahmin families of that district. To acquire the good grace of their thlen
and save their own lives, these “keepers” have often to commit murders of women
and children, from whose bodies they cut out the toe and finger nails, which
they bring to their thlen, and thus indulge in a number of black magic
practices connected with sorcery and necromancy.
Roger
Bacon. A very famous Franciscan monk
who lived in England in the thirteenth century. He was an Alchemist who firmly
believed in the existence of the Philosopher’s Stone, and was a great
mechanician, chemist, physicist and astrologer. In his treatise on the
Admirable Force of Art and Nature, he gives hints about gunpowder and
predicts the use of steam as a propelling power, describing besides the
hydraulic press, the diving-bell and the kaleidoscope. He also made a famous brazen
head fitted with an acoustic apparatus which gave out oracles.
Ro and Ru (Eg.). The gate or
outlet, the spot in the heavens whence proceeded or was born primeval light;
synonymous with “cosmic womb”.
Rohinilâ (Sk.). The ancient name of a monastery visited
by Buddha Sâkyamuni, now called Roynallah, near Balgada, in Eastern Behar.
Rohit (Sk.). A female deer, a hind; the form assumed
by Vâch (the female Logos and female aspect of Brahmâ who created her out of
one half of his body) to escape the amorous pursuits of her “father”, who
transformed himself for that purpose into a buck or red deer (the colour
of Brahmâ being red).
Rohitaka
Stupa (Sk.). The “red stupa”,
or dagoba, built by King Asoka, and on which Maitribala-râjâ fed starving
Yakshas with his blood. The Yakshas are inoffensive demons (Elementaries)
called pynya-janas or “good people”.
Rosicrucians
(Mys.). The name was first
given to the disciples of a learned Adept named Christian Rosenkreuz, who
flourished in Germany, circa 1460. He founded an Order of mystical students
whose early history is to be found in the German work, Fama Fraternitatis (1614),
which has been published in several languages. The members of the Order
maintained their secrecy, but traces of them have been found in various places
every half century since these dates. The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia is
a Masonic Order, which has adopted membership in the “outer”; the Chabrath
Zereh Aur Bokher, or Order of the G. D., which has a very complete scheme of
initiation into the Kabbalah and the Higher Magic of the Western or Hermetic
type, and admits both sexes, is a direct descendant from medićval sodalities of
Rosicrucians, themselves descended from the Egyptian Mysteries.
Rostan. Book of the Mysteries of Rostan; an occult work in
manuscript.
Rowhanee
(Eg.) or Er-Roohanee. is the
Magic of modern Egypt, supposed to proceed from Angels and Spirits, that is
Genii, and by the use of the mystery names of Allah; they distinguish two
forms—Ilwee, that is the Higher or White Magic; and Suflee and Sheytanee, the
Lower or Black Demoniac Magic. There is also Es-Seemuja, which is deception or
conjuring. Opinions differ as to the importance of a branch of Magic called
Darb el Mendel, or as Barker calls it in English, the Mendal: by this is meant
a form of artificial clairvoyance, exhibited by a young boy before puberty, or
a virgin, who, as the result of self-fascination by gazing on a pool of ink in
the hand, with coincident use of incense and incantation, sees certain scenes
of real life passing over its surface. Many Eastern travellers have narrated
instances, as E. W. Lane in his Modern Egyptians and his Thousand and
One Nights, and E. B. Barker; the incidents have been introduced also into
many works of fiction, such as Marryat’s Phantom Ship, and a similar
idea is interwoven with the story of Rose Mary and the Beryl stone, a poem by
Rossetti. For a superficial attempt at explanation, see the Quarterly Review,
No.117.
Ruach (Heb.). Air, also Spirit; the Spirit, one of
the “human principles” (Buddhi-Manas).
Ruach
Elohim (Heb.). The Spirit of
the gods; corresponds to the Holy Ghost of the Christians. Also the wind,
breath and rushing water.
Rudra (Sk.). A title of Siva, the Destroyer.
Rudras
(Sk.). The mighty ones; the
lords of the three upper worlds. One of the classes of the “fallen” or
incarnating spirits; they are all born of Brahmâ.
Runes
(Scand.). The Runic language and
characters are the mystery or sacerdotal tongue and alphabet of the ancient
Scandinavians. Runes are derived from the word rűna (secret).
Therefore both language and character could neither be understood nor
interpreted without having the key to it. Hence while the written runes
consisting of sixteen letters are known, the ancient ones composed of marks and
signs are indecipherable. They are called the magic characters. “It is clear”,
says E. W. Anson, an authority on the folk-lore of the Norsemen, “that the
runes were from various causes regarded even in Germany proper as full of
mystery and endowed with supernatural power”. They are said to have been
invented by Odin.
Rűpa (Sk.). Body; any form, applied even to the
forms of the gods, which are subjective to us.
Ruta
(Sk.). The name of one of the
last islands of Atlantis, which perished ages before Poseidonis, the
“Atlantis” of Plato.
Rutas
(Sk.). An ancient people that
inhabited the above island or continent in the Pacific Ocean.
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