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The Basic Esoteric Dictionary
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
Ever since 1984 the Institute for Hylozoic Studies has worked to promote the study of
the esoteric knowledge of life, especially in its Western, hylozoic (Pythagorean) form.
At the very outset of our work, the publishing of an esoteric vocabulary appeared
particularly desirable, not least in order to counteract the confusion of ideas prevalent in
this sphere.
Without any claims whatever to treat of the subject-matter in its entire depth or to
describe exhaustively its terminology, the Institute in December 1986 published the firstSwedish edition of the present work to the Scandinavian readers. After this first edition
ran out of print 1991, the work at a new edition was begun, and in 1996 this second
edition was published. The present English edition is a translation of the 1996 Swedish
edition.
The Esoteric Dictionaryis primarily an inventory of the terminology used by Henry T.
Laurency, secondarily of the terminology used in theosophy and the works of Alice A.
Bailey. TheDictionaryis intended to be more than a mere vocabulary. It contains more
than 500 entries, the majority of which besides definitions of the terms also cite excerpts
fromThe Knowledge of RealityandThe Philosophers Stoneby Henry T. Laurency,
The Knowledge of Realityin particular, since it is the more important book where theelementary study is concerned. Actually, the main body of the text of the dictionary is
made up of such excerpts. When compiling this Dictionary, the selection of terms to be
entered as well as the formulation of the texts appended to them was made with a view
to presenting esoteric students with a practical tool that they would find interesting
enough to study as a work in its own right, beside the works of Laurency.
References to the works of Laurency are given using the same method as is consistently
used in the Internet edition of his works; that is, not by pages, but by sections, chapters,
and paragraphs. This has been sufficiently explained on the Official Website of the
Henry T. Laurency Publishing Foundation (Introduction to the works of Henry T.
Laurency).
References between entries are not very numerous. From an educational point of view,
it should prove more expedient that the students go through the Dictionary several times
over and so doing discover for themselves the natural, logical connections there are
between the entries.
The attention of the students is called to the fact that one and the same entry sometimes
is explained twice, as a Laurency term and as a theosophical and/or Bailey term.
MONAD and TRIAD are two such instances where the same terms have different
meanings in different authors. Esoteric students who study both Laurency andtheosophy/Bailey will appreciate the necessity of making such distinctions.
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TheEsoteric Dictionarycan be used by both beginners and more advanced students to
study hylozoics in a new and interesting way.
Abbreviations used in the Dictionary
K = The Knowledge of Reality
P = The Philosophers Stone
B. = term used by Alice A. Bailey
f = and the following paragraph
ff = and the following paragraphs
Gr. = Greek
Lat. = Latin
Skt = Sanskrit
T. = term used by theosophical authors
Tib. = Tibetan
Quotations from Laurency are surrounded by quotation marks.
If several continuous paragraphs are quoted, a quotation mark is put at the beginning of
each paragraph but only at the end of the last one.
Every quotation is accompanied by a reference, for example K 1.2.15, which means that
the quotation is from The Knowledge of Reality, section The Problems of Reality, Part
One, chapter two, paragraph 15.
In cases where the information given is taken from a Laurency text that is not literally
quoted, this is shown by putting the reference in brackets (K 1.2.15).
Texts not presented in quotes are written by me.
Needless to say, I am very grateful to receive suggestions from students and other
readers as to possible improvements or additions.
Skvde, Sweden, August 2000
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ACTIVATION, LAW OF "The law of activation says that individual development is
possible only through self-initiated consciousness activity." K 1.41.14
"All development is the result of work and toil." P 3.23.2
ACTIVATION AND OBJECTIVATION, METHODS OF Methods to activate higher,
as yet inactive consciousness, and to make subjective (emotional and mental)consciousness objective. "Those esoteric methods, which lead rapidly and without risks
to causal objective consciousness, remain the property of the planetary hierarchy." K
6.8.6
"Unlike the yogis methods of activation, the esotericone is a methodical and
systematical activation of passive consciousness in one after the other of up to then
superconscious molecular kinds. This is done by vitalizing the different chakras of the
different envelopes. Consciousness in each molecular kind is bound up with its
particular chakra. When a chakra is vitalized, subjective consciousness in that molecular
kind ensues. Objective consciousness is obtained by the subjective consciousness in the
chakra activating that molecular kind in the envelope. As has already been pointed out,
only the causal self can use emotional and mental objective consciousness correctly.Until then, the individual will be the victim of his own ignorance and will retard his
higher development." K 7.22.3
"In each new incarnation the individual in his new envelopes has to repeat the whole
process of activation. If the individual has once received the knowledge and has not
abused it, he will be given occasions to remember his old knowledge anew in new
lives." K 7.22.10
ACTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS "Consciousness activation in the three lowest
natural kingdoms is an unconscious and automatic process which gradually becomes a
conscious one in the human kingdom. In higher kingdoms it is the result of self-initiated
consciousness activity." K 1.28.4
ACTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SYSTEMATIC Systematic activation of
consciousness is done in four steps: concentration, meditation, contemplation and
illumination.
"Concentration is the keeping of attention on a certain thing. Meditation implies a
concentrated analysis of all relations pertaining to this subject-matter. Contemplation
entails the isolation of the problem until one begins to see the idea and can concentrate
attention on that single point. If thereby activity ceases, there is a risk of falling asleep
or into ordinary trance. If activity can be kept up long enough, illumination comes and
the individual will find what he has been seeking." K 7.17.9
ACTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS The self-active consciousness that becomes possible
through evolution. Having active consciousness the monads themselves initiate their
consciousness expressions.
In the vegetable and animal kingdoms this activation occurs in groups (through group-
souls). In the human kingdom consciousness becomes more and more self-active.
"Active consciousness is the ability of consciousness to let dynamis act through it." K
1.28.1
"The expressions of active consciousness induce matter to act as energy." K 1.28.2
ACTUALIZED CONSCIOUSNESS Awakened, functioning consciousness."The monad's potential consciousness is awakened to life (is actualized) in the cosmos."
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K 1.15.2
Actualized consciousness goes through different degrees of activation: passive, active,
self-active.
ADEPT Esoteric master, 45-self.
ADI (Skt, T.B.) World 43 and its consciousness.
AGGREGATE ENVELOPES All forms of nature are envelopes for monads. All forms
except organisms of the physical world are aggregate envelopes, molecules of the kinds
of matter of the respective worlds held together electro-magnetically. (K 1.13.2)
AGGREGATION, STATES OF Same as molecular kinds.
AGNI (Skt, T.B.) Deva raja of world 47. Symbol of the causal-mental world.
AGNICHAITANS (Skt, T.B.) Building devas of the physical eterical world.
AGNISHVATTAS (Skt, T.B.) Building devas of the causal-mental world.
AGNISURYANS (Skt, T.B.) Building devas of the emotional world.
AGNOSTIC One who denies the possibility of ascertaining superphysical facts. (K
1.2.15)
AJNA-CHAKRA (Skt, T.B.) Eyebrow centre.
AKASHA (Skt, T.) World 44 in the solar system.
"AKASHIC RECORDS" (Q.) Such globe memories as can be reached with emotional
clairvoyance (48:4-7). They do not contain the past of the planet, but what people in all
times have believed about this past. The real akasha, the akasha of the planetary
hierarchy, is world 44. (K 6.9)
ANAHATA-CHAKRA (Skt, T.B.) Heart centre.
ANANKE (Gr.) Necessity. Result of the activity of eternal, mechanical laws of nature.
ANGELS The gnostic and later also Christian term of devas. The archangels are the
seven highest devas of our planet (43-selves) who preside over their respective
departments in the deva hierarchy.
ANIMA MUNDI (Lat.) The "soul of the world", older esoteric term meaning the
collective consciousness in 4649.
ANIMAL KINGDOM The third natural kingdom of evolution. In the animal kingdom
the monads have principally physical and emotional consciousness. Between
incarnations they are enclosed in common envelopes of mental matter, so-called group-
souls. "The higher up the scale of evolution an animal is, the fewer are the monads thatgo to its group." K 1.33.6
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"When the monad has been able for a long time to be affected by mental vibrations
(47:7) and has thus attained the highest animal species, it becomes possible for it to
transmigrate to the human kingdom." K 1.33.10
ANIMAL MONAD During its evolution in the animal kingdom the monad is called
animal monad."The vegetable monads become animal monads through acquiring emotional
consciousness. When their mental consciousness is sufficiently active, the animal
monads pass to the human kingdom." K 4.8.3
"Having developed so as to acquire an envelope of its own in the causal world, the
animal monad transmigrates to the human kingdom." K 4.8.4
ANTAHKARANA (Skt: "the inner organ", T.B.) That channel for energy and
consciousness which the evolutionary monad builds through its own activity between its
triad units and envelopes as a ladder to climb up to ever higher consciousness and
ability. The antahkarana has its lowest anchorage in the crown centre of the etheric
envelope. (K 7.3.15)
ANTIMETAPHYSICIAN Denier of the existence of superphysical reality. (K 1.2.15)
ANUPADAKA (Skt, T.B.) World 44 and its consciousness. Synonyms: akasha,
paranirvana.
A PRIORI (Lat.) In advance, i.e. without prior investigation or experience. Opposite: a
posteriori = afterwards, after investigation or experience.
"The correct explanation of the aprioristic in our apprehension was given long ago by
Platon. According to him, there is another kind of certainty than that of ordinary
experience. This certainty is the outcome of remembering anew concepts acquired in
previous incarnations. Everything aprioristic is thus obtained ultimately from
experience." K 5.28.14
ARHAT (Skt, T.B.) 46-self, initiate of the 4th degree.
ARUPA (Skt "without form", T.B.) All matter above 47:4 is said to be without form,
although all matter has form. In a restricted sense and most often arupa means 47:1-3,
the causal world and its kinds of matter; arupa devas are causal devas.
ASCENDING ARC (T.) Has two meanings:
1. Evolution in general.
2. The three last globe periods in an eon.
ASEKHA (Pali: one trained to completion, T.) Esoteric master, perfected 45-self,
initiate of the 5th degree.
ASHRAM (Skt, T.B.) That group which a member of the planetary hierarchy (at least a
46-self) forms of his disciples and with himself as the focus in the "power house". The
planetary hierarchy consists of seven greater ashrams led by 44-selves and representing
the seven departments, and 42 lesser ones led by 45- and 46-selves. The type energiesthese collective beings emit encompass the planet.
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ASTRAL BODY, WORLD etc. (T.B.) The same as emotional envelope, world etc.
However, in Blavatskys terminology, "astral" also means the etheric (49:1-4). (K
3.3.25, 3.5.7)
ASTROLOGY, ESOTERIC "The knowledge of the relations of our solar system and
our planet to other solar systems, of the exchange of interstellar and interplanetaryenergies, once was one of the most important sciences in mankind's possession. The
people that got farthest in this respect were the Chaldeans of some 30 000 years ago.
Fortunately, we can look forward to the time when the individuals who acquired this
knowledge in Chaldea will incarnate again and once more present mankind with the
esoteric astrology, thereby reviving the long-lost knowledge." K 2.13.11
ASTROLOGY, EXOTERIC "Exoteric astrology is not exact. It still lacks the
knowledge of a number of necessary facts. Even with its twelve zodiacal types and
seven planetary types to guide it, it still cannot state their relations to the existing types.
It cannot interpret all the possibilities of the horoscope. It knows nothing about the
horoscope of more than one of the individual's five envelopes."The fate of astrology is one of many examples of what will happen when esoteric
knowledge gets into the hands of the uninitiated... The result is superstition of a more or
less gross kind." K 2.13.13f
ATLANTIS Hemispherical continent and abode of the fourth root-race. It was situated
at the present location of the Atlantic and North America and was submerged into the
ocean in four stages: 800 000, 200 000, 75 025 and 9564 BC.
"The Atlanteans were physicalists of repulsive emotionality." K 6.5.7
ATMA (Skt, T.B.) World 45 and its consciousness, 45-envelope of the second self.
ATOM "Atoms are composed of primordial atoms. The lower the atomic kind, the more
primordial atoms enter into the atom." K 1.10.2
"There are two kinds of atoms: negative and positive. In the negative (receptive) atoms,material energy flows from a higher atomic kind to a lower; in the positive (propulsive)
atoms, from a lower to a higher. This current is the force that maintains the atoms,
molecules, material aggregates, in their given forms." K 1.27.1
ATOM OF SCIENCE "The chemical so-called atom of science is a physical etheric
molecule (49:4). This molecular kind, like all other molecular kinds, contains 49
different layers of matter. To reach the real physical atom (49:1), the nuclear physicistshave to work their way through 147 layers of matter, each in succession higher than the
other. No physical science will achieve that." K 1.10.8
ATOMIC CONSCIOUSNESS "Atomic consciousness is world consciousness. The
individual as a joint owner of a consciousness collective is like a cell in an organism.
The organism is an envelope of an individual in a higher kingdom. When in the
collective consciousness of his world the individual has so developed that he can take
over this material world as an envelope of his own, then he will be a god of this world.
"Atomic consciousness, world consciousness, omniscience (in that world) does not
mean that the individual knows everything about everything that is or happens. But it is
possible for him to find out more or less quickly everything he wishes to know,
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independently of space and past time in a given world, to ascertain all relations in the
three aspects (matter, motion, and consciousness) of that world." K 1.30.6f
ATOMIC ENERGIES The effect of dynamis through the 49 atomic kinds.
"The atomic energies act from world to world through the atomic kinds" K 1.29.3
ATOMIC MATTER Primordial atoms and matter composed of it is called atomic
matter in contrast to primordial matter. There exist 49 different kinds of atomic matter
called atomic kinds.
"Atomic matter is by nature dynamic." K 1.7.4
ATOMIC MEMORY The collective memory of all atoms in the respective worlds.
"Only the collective atomic memory of the emotional world is the one that cannot be
falsified, but reproduces exactly past events of the emotional and physical worlds, but
not those of higher worlds." K 6.9.4
ATOMIC KINDS "The cosmos consists of primordial atoms (called monads byPythagoras) which are composed to make 49 kinds of atoms, each in succession coarser
than the previous ones, in seven continuous series of seven atomic kinds in each. These
atomic kinds make up the 49 cosmic worlds.
"Each lower atomic kind is formed out of the next higher one (2 out of 1, 3 out of 2, 4
out of 3, etc.). The lowest atomic kind (49) thus contains all the 48 higher kinds. When
an atomic kind is dissolved, the next higher kind is obtained; out of the physical atom
are obtained 49 atoms of atomic kind 48." K 1.7.1f
"Each atomic kind has its own dimension." K 1.8.4
ATOMIZED MANIFESTATIONAL MATTER Matter consisting of the cosmic kinds
of matter 149, contrary to the homogeneous primordial matter. (P 2.60.1)
ATTRACTION Attraction characterizes the vibrations of the three higher kinds of
emotional matter (48:2-4). The pertaining consciousness is by the individual perceived
as noble feelings. (K 1.19.5, P 2.31.4ff)
AUGOEIDES (Gr.) Pythagorean term of a certain category of devas who are 46- and
45-selves. They make up collective beings and have tasks closely connected with the
evolution of our mankind. Among other tasks they administer the execution of the law
of destiny in mankind and take care of mens second triads as long as these are inactive.
Mans (greater) causal envelope is a gift from Augoeides.
AURA Mans emotional, mental, and causal envelopes "embrace and penetrate all the
lower ones. They are oval in shape and extend between 30 and 45 cm beyond the
organism, making the so-called aura. Approximately 99 per cent of the matter of these
envelopes is attracted to the organism and is held together within its periphery, so that
the aggregate envelopes form complete replicas of the former." K 4.9.1
AUTOMATIZATION The monad reaches the highest level of consciousness (objective
self-consciousness) in a kind of matter when it completely dominates the corresponding
envelope of the monad and its consciousness functions have been taken over by the next
higher envelope through automatization. (P 2.27.5, 2.41.5)
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AVATAR (Skt) Higher being, 45-self or even higher self, incarnating in mankind to
assist us.
B
BARBARISM, STAGE OF The first or lowest of mans five stages of development. It
is characterized by the fact that physical and the repulsive emotional consciousness are
the most important.
"The individual at the stage of barbarism as a physical self only, without emotional and
mental consciousness worth mentioning, belongs on the very lowest levels of the stage
of barbarism. Immediately after causalization he is little more than an animal, often not
even so intelligent." K 1.34.12
So primitive men do not incarnate in our humanity any longer. Even the least developed
have at least 30 000 incarnations in the human kingdom, yet they are at the stage ofbarbarism.
"On the higher levels of the stage of barbarism, his mental consciousness is activated to
the extent that he is able to draw simple conclusions." K 1.34.12
BASIC TENDENCIES OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER "In every individual
character two basic tendencies can be discerned, which pervade all nature; the
opposition of positive and negative, active and passive, attractive and repellent. One of
the two tendencies preponderates in every individual. In some, either tendency is driven
to extremes." P 3.48.7
"Development in monads of repulsive basic tendency can take a wrong course, this
showing already in parasitism of plants and in predacity of animals." K 4.11.4
BEING "Being bears on the consciousness aspect. All material forms with a unitary
consciousness are beings." P 2.11.2
Individual beings (monads) and collective beings (composed of monads) are
distinguished. Viewed individually, the monads material envelopes are beings. Man
consists of five beings, which it is the monads task to control.
BELIEF "is absolute, unreasonable emotional conviction, unamenable to correction or
reason. Everybody has his petty beliefs about almost any absurdity, and this is because
man is unable to truly know anything but definitively established facts in the visible
world. In contrast, assumption, is preliminary, valid only until one has come to know, inamenable to rational arguments, and desires correction." K 1.2.11
BHAGAVAN (Skt, "the lord") Title of the planetary ruler, the head of the planetary
government. (K 7.14.3)
BODHISATTVA (Skt, T.B.) SeeWORLD-TEACHER
BODY Older term of body. Envelope is a better term, since it indicates its purpose: to
envelop the monad.
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BRAHMA (Skt, T.B.) One of the aspects of Trimurti. The symbol refers generally to
the matter aspect; specifically to collective beings whose special task is the formation of
matter. Also a name of the deva raja of world 45.
BRAHMA, DAYS AND NIGHTS OF Periods of activity and passivity of a duration of
4320 million years. Also called kalpas or eons.
BRANCH-RACE SeeRACES
BUDDHA (Skt, "the awakened one") Title of a 42-self, initiate of the 8th degree.
Gautama Buddha is the fourth buddha in the current eon. His three predecessors were
called Krakucchanda, Kanakamuni, and Kashyapa (K 6.12.33)
BUDDHI (Skt, T.B.) World 46 and its consciousness, the 46-envelope of the second
self.
C
CAUSAL has reference to the material reality of the causal world (47:1-3), its
consciousness and energy. The causes of lower kinds of reality are found in this world,
hence its name.
CAUSAL CONSCIOUSNESS "Causal consciousness (47:1-3) is possible only for
those who have developed so far ahead of the rest of mankind that they can purposefully
prepare for their transition to the next higher kingdom. They have acquired the ability toassociate with everybody in the causal world, the meeting-place for the individuals
belonging to the fourth as well as the fifth natural kingdom.
"Casual consciousness is subjectively intuition, the experiencing of causal ideas, and
makes it possible to study objectively the physical, emotional, and mental worlds, and
makes omniscience in these worlds possible.
"To causal consciousness there is, in planetary respect (the worlds of man: 47 49),
neither distance nor past time." K 1.20.8ff
CAUSAL ENVELOPE The monads envelope of causal matter (47:1-3). The causal
envelope is the only envelope that is permanent throughout the monads sojourn in the
human kingdom. It was acquired at the monads transition from the animal to the humankingdom. It is the causal envelope that incarnates, together with human monad, which it
always encloses, into four lower envelopes, which are soon dissolved. (K 1.14.2, 1.34.2,
4.8.4)
The causal envelope "retains the memory of all the human incarnations and of the
experiences had, of insight and understanding gained, of qualities and abilities
acquired." K 1.34.35
"During incarnation the first self has two causal bodies. This condition lasts until the
monad becomes a causal self. At the time of involvation the causal body is divided into
two. The greater part, serving as a collector of matter supplied, remains in the causal
world. The smaller world (the triad envelope), containing the lowest triad, encloses the
lower bodies. When the involvation of the first self is concluded and the personality is
dissolved, the two separate parts amalgamate to form one single causal body. The four
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centres of the causal body do not belong to the involving triad envelope. It is these two
causal bodies that have been called the twin souls and have occasioned fantasies of all
sorts." P 2.23.6
CAUSAL LIFE BETWEEN INCARNATIONS "Upon the dissolution of the mental
envelope, the individual in his causal envelope sinks into dreamless sleep that will lastuntil the time comes for rebirth and an embryo has been formed for him in a physical
maternal body... There can be no conscious causal life unless the intuition of the causal
ideas has been acquired in physical existence... The monads continuity of
consciousness, made possible through the memory in its incarnation envelopes now
dissolved, has been lost." K 1.34.34f
CAUSAL-MENTAL WORLD Atomic world 47 in the cosmos and solar system and
molecular world 47:2-7 in the solar system.
CAUSAL SELF Monad that has its most important kind of subjective and objective
self-consciousness in atomic world 47:1 and molecular world 47:2,3 within the solarsystem. Causal selves belonging to mankind are at the stage of ideality and have
consciousness in 47:2,3, causal selves in the fifth natural kingdom have consciousness
in 47:1.
"The causal self is able to study all its previous lives as a man, is able independently and
quickly to acquire the facts necessary to comprehend all realities in the worlds of man,
achieving more in one hour (in 47:1) than the most efficient mental thinker could
manage in one hundred years. Fictions are precluded." K 1.20.10
The causal self can ascertain that the esoteric world view and life view agrees with facts
in the five worlds of man (47 49). (K 4.11.8)
CAUSAL WORLD Atomic world 47 (47:1) and molecular world 47:2,3 in the solar
system. The causal world (47:1-3) is the world of Platonic ideas and mans goal in the
human kingdom. The causal world is "the meeting place for the individuals belonging to
the fourth as well as the fifth natural kingdom." K 1.20.8
"The causal world, the world of Platonic ideas, belongs to the planetary hierarchy, being
accessible to those who have acquired causal consciousness. The causal ideas reproduce
reality such as it can be rendered in this kind of consciousness. The Indian elaborator of
the raja yoga system, Patanjali, called the idea content of the causal world the rain-
clouds of knowable things." K 2.17.5
CAUSAL WORLD, IDEAS OF SeeIDEAS OF THE CAUSAL WORLD
CAUSALIZATION "By acquiring a causal envelope the monad transmigrates from the
animal kingdom to the human kingdom. To term this process causalization is
preferable to individualization, since the monad is an individual in all kingdoms."
"Only the monkey, elephant, dog, horse, and cat, which belong to group-souls of very
few monads, are able to causalize." K 1.33.6
CENTRES OF AGGREGATE ENVELOPES (= CHAKRAS) "All higher envelopes,
like the organism, have their special organs (made of atoms), which are the seats of the
different kinds of functions of consciousness and of motion. These atomic organs in the
etheric, emotional, mental, and causal envelopes are in contact with each other."K 1.14.6
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"Each molecular kind has its own characteristic kind of consciousness, which in mans
envelopes is perceptible through special organs of perception (chakras). The physical
sense organs have their counterparts in the centres of perception and activity in mans
aggregate envelopes.
"It is by means of the chakras that man is able in his organism to perceive subjectively
the vibrations in his higher envelopes and thereby experience feelings and thoughts, etc.In order to acquire objective consciousness through these chakras special methods of
activation are required." K 6.8.3f
"Chakras have positions that can be given in reference to the organism.
"The seven most important chakras in the etheric, emotional, and mental envelopes,
receiving their energies from the seven departments, are:
above the diaphragm: crown (1st dep.), eyebrow (4th dep.), throat (3rd dep.), heart (2nd
dep.).
below the diaphragm: solar plexus (navel, 6th dep.), sacral (5th dep.), basal (7th dep.)."
"The chakras below the diaphragm were already developed in Lemurians and now fulfilall their requisite functions automatically as organs of apprehension and activity. In
contrast, the chakras above the diaphragm are but little developed at mankinds present
stage of development and mostly only slightly active.
"Of the chakras in the causal envelope of the normal individual', which form a lotus-
like organ, only those three are slightly developed which during incarnations are in
contact with the heart and crown chakras of the etheric, emotional, and mental
envelopes.
"Normally, the throat chakra is developed at the stage of civilization, the heart chakra at
the stage of culture, the eyebrow chakra at the stage of humanity, and the crown chakra
at the stage of ideality. But full functional capacity is achieved only when the causal self
succeeds in becoming an essential self. Until then only few petals are active." K 7.22.4ff
CHAKRAS (Skt, "wheels") Centres in mans physical etheric, emotional, mental, and
causal envelopes; centres which are organs for specialized energy and consciousness.
SeeCENTRES OF AGGREGATE ENVELOPES
CHELA (Hindi, T.B.) Disciple
CHOHAN (Tibetan and Mongolian, T.B.) Perfected 44-self, initiate of the 6th degree.
Title of the head of one of the seven departments of the planetary hierarchy.
CHRISTOS (Gr.) Gnostic symbol for the fifth natural kingdom and especially essential
consciousness. Title of the head of the second department of the planetary hierarchy, the
world teacher.
CIVILIZATION, STAGE OF The second of mans five stages of development.
"The emotional consciousness of the civilizational individual seldom extends beyond
the lower three or four molecular kinds, his mental consciousness seldom over the
lowest two. With this modest intellectual capacity he intellectualizes his desires into
such emotions as normally exist in the lower regions of the emotional world. Generally,
they are of the repulsive kind." K 1.34.15
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CLAN Group of monads that are at the same stage of development and incarnate
together. (K 1.34.10, 5.5.1)
CLAIRVOYANCE Objective consciousness in the emotional and mental worlds. "So-
called clairvoyance does not provide any real knowledge, since man lacks the
prerequisites of judging the reality content of his experiences in the emotional andmental worlds. This is also obvious from the fact that all clairvoyants have dissimilar
views." K 3.8.3
"The planetary hierarchy has repeatedly warned against the use of emotional or mental
clairvoyance. What one gets to know in the emotional world is not the knowledge of
existence, reality, and life. Like the mental world, it is intended to be a sojourn of rest
pending a new incarnation. It is only in the physical and causal worlds that man is able
to ascertain real facts, not in the emotional and mental worlds. In these worlds one
cannot know whether what one sees is natures enduring reality or not." K 6.9.6 (K
6.12.26)
CLASSES "Classes are the natural order of things. The natural classes indicate differentclasses of age, in the human kingdom as well as in all other natural kingdoms, both
lower and higher ones." K 4.11.1 (K 5.48.16)
COLLECTIVE BEINGS In all natural kingdoms the monads form collective beings. In
the three subhuman kingdoms, non-self-conscious monads form group-souls. In the
human kingdom, the development of self-consciousness becomes the essential purpose,
and so mans consciousness of the collective beings he is part of (groups, clans, etc.)
remains passive (according to the law of separation). In the superhuman kingdoms, the
monad, with its self-consciousness preserved, enters into ever larger collectives and has
common consciousness with the monads entering into them.
"Every world, every planet, solar system, etc., thus has its own collective consciousness,
and constitutes a unitary collective being having one monad as the superior dominant.
The higher the kingdom attained by the monad, the greater its participation in the
cosmic total consciousness. When the monad has acquired planetary consciousness it is
a planetary being. When, finally, it has actualized its potential universal consciousness,
it has become an individual unit in cosmic omniscience and omnipotence." K 4.7.3
COLLECTIVE BEINGS, TASKS OF "All essential and higher beings are part of
expanding collective beings." P 2.51.1 "The tasks of these collective beings can be
summed up in three main groups on the basis of the three aspects: the matter aspect, the
consciousness aspect, and the will aspect. Accordingly we have formers of matter,supervisors of evolution, and restorers of balance." P 2.52.1
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS "All consciousness is at the same time collective
consciousness. This is so because there is no personal isolation, although only those
who have acquired essential consciousness (46) can live in the collective consciousness.
"There are innumerable kinds of collective consciousness: atomic, molecular, aggregate,
world, planetary, systemic, and after these, different kinds of cosmic consciousness. The
higher the kingdom attained by the monad, the more is embraced by the collective
consciousness in which the self, with its self-consciousness preserved, experiences other
selves as its own larger self.
"Or, to put it differently, all consciousness in the whole cosmos constitutes a common,inevitable, indivisible unity in which every individual has a smaller or greater part,
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depending on the level of development he has attained." K 1.16.3ff
"The collective consciousness is the primary and common one; the individual self-
consciousness the individual must acquire by himself throughout ever higher natural
kingdoms, this being possible because of his very participation in the collective
consciousness." K 2.4.2
"Anything that can form a collective consciousness by reason of some kind ofrelatedness, automatically constitutes one." K 2.4.4
COMMON SENSE is the individuals synthetic instinct of life acquired through his
incarnations. It is his highest sense which he should strive to develop. (K 1.2.11)
"Common sense is critical reason, everybodys highest reason. Common sense
relativizes, strives for objectivity, corrects itself, hardly ever expresses final opinions,
and does not base opinions on incomplete facts and insufficient experience." P 1.1.17
COMPREHENSION SeeUNDERSTANDING
CONCENTRATION SeeACTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SYSTEMATIC
CONSCIENCE "So-called conscience is a complex of fear, superstition, prejudice,
vanity, habits, and other qualities, the proportions varying according to aptitude,
upbringing, and influence from the environment." K 5.33.10
CONSCIOUSNESS One of the three aspects of existence. Consciousness in the
primordial atoms is from the beginning potential (unconscious), is gradually awakened
in the process of manifestation to actualized passive consciousness subsequently to
become ever more active in the ever higher worlds of ever higher natural kingdoms.
The most important insight about the nature of consciousness is that all consciousness is
simultaneously collective consciousness. (K 1.16.3)
"There is only one consciousness is the cosmos, the cosmic total consciousness, of
which every monad has an inalienable part. This consciousness is an amalgamation of
the consciousness of all monads in the cosmos." K 2.4.1
CONSCIOUSNESS, CONTINUITY OF Mans continuity of consciousness is made
possible through the memories in the envelopes of incarnation (47:4 49:7).
Consciousness is lost after each incarnation because of the dissolution of these
envelopes. In contrast, the causal envelope retains the memory of all human
incarnations. When man, at the stage of ideality, acquires causal self-consciousness in
the waking consciousness of his brain, he has a possibility of unbroken continuity ofconsciousness for all time to come. (K 1.34.35)
CONSCIOUSNESS, CONTROL OF Process in which the monad by its active self-
consciousness gradually acquires full mastery of the passive consciousness of its
envelopes. As a result, the monad can itself determine what feelings and thoughts, etc. it
wants to have or not to have. (K 7.17, P 3.71f)
CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT "Mechanical events, being in accordance with
eternal laws of nature, serve the great cosmic purpose: the development of every atomic
consciousness from unconsciousness to omniscience. The experiences of the individual
consciousness and the working up of these are added to that fund of latent experience inthe subconscious which is steadily increased throughout the incarnations and makes it
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possible for the individual to comprehend and understand more and more, to acquire
knowledge of reality and life, discover the laws of existence and learn to apply them
rationally. Being purposeful, the laws of life make consciousness development
possible." K 5.35.3
CONSCIOUSNESS, DIFFERENT KINDS OF "One must distinguish between self-consciousness (individual consciousness, self-consciousness in the envelopes),
collective consciousness, and ultimate self consciousness. (Technically, cosmic,
systemic, and planetary consciousness can be distinguished.)" K 1.16.1
"There are as many different kinds of consciousness as there are kinds of matter. Each
world has its own total consciousness, as each monad envelope has its own." K 4.7.2
CONSCIOUSNESS, HIGHER AND LOWER KINDS OF "As a higher kind of matter
penetrates lower consciousness. On the other hand, a lower kind cannot apprehend
higher kinds, which always appear non-existent." K 2.4.1
CONSCIOUSNESS TYPES, HUMAN "The seven planetary types only exist in theworlds of the planetary hierarchy (43 46).
"The pure human types do not exist in the human kingdom at its present stage of
development. They will not appear until in the last or seventh root-race."
"Mans five envelopes can belong to five different departments. The incarnation
envelopes can belong to five different departments. The incarnation envelopes usually
change in departments in each new life, so that the individual is continually changing
type. He can have something of all the five types."
"Only 46-selves can ascertain to which department the five different envelopes belong.
Accordingly, there is no point in speculating as to the type to which an individual
belongs." K 2.7.1f,4,7
CONTEMPLATION SeeACTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SYSTEMATIC
CONTINUOUS CONSCIOUSNESS SeeCONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
CONTROL OF ENVELOPES "Mans five envelopes all have their own
consciousnesses and their own tendencies. Those of the organism are inherited from
ones parents. The qualities and abilities, etc. that the self acquires in its emotional and
mental envelopes have their correspondences in a cluster of atoms (Sanskrit: skandhas),
are preserved by the causal envelope, and used at reincarnation. It is the task of the self
to learn to master its envelopes, so that they submit to its will. This is no easy task, sincethe tendencies of the envelopes are the result of habits from thousands of incarnations.
At mankinds present stage of development, the emotional controls the physical. Man
still has to learn to control the emotional by the mental. And more than good resolutions
is needed to do that. It can take many lives once one has seen the need for it." K 1.34.24
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS Different kinds of omniscience in worlds 1 42
belonging to the cosmos (atomic worlds 43 49 make up the material of the solar
system, and that is why they are not counted as being part of the cosmos). The lowest
kind of cosmic consciousness (42) thus has the highest kind of solar systemic
consciousness (43) as its precondition. The cosmic consciousness of diverse
clairvoyants (Steiner, Martinus, etc.) is objective consciousness in the emotional world(48). It affords no knowledge of reality.
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COSMIC IDEAS "The entire process of manifestation proceeds in accordance with
cosmic ideas." K 2.15.4
"It is our planetary government which is entrusted with the cosmic ideas pertaining to
the maintenance and development of life in the planet and which also sees to it that they
are realized in accordance with the laws." K 2.16.3
COSMIC KINGDOMS "All we know about these six successively higher divine
kingdoms in the 42 higher atomic worlds is that they exist, that they constitute a perfect
cosmic organization working with unfailing precision in accordance with all existence's
laws of nature and life.
"In the cosmos, the individual does not acquire any envelopes of his own. He succeeds
to some high function and, finally, to the highest in his world with its collective
consciousness, and identifies himself with this world as his own envelope.
"The individuals of the second divine kingdom aspire towards omniscience in the
worlds 36 42 (only now cosmic consciousness), those of the third divine kingdom
towards omniscience in the worlds 29 35, etc." K 1.37.1ff
COSMIC MOTION "Cosmic motion (in the 49 atomic kinds) is the result of a constant
current of primordial atoms (primary matter) flowing down from the highest atomic
world through the atoms of all the worlds unto the lowest world. These primordial
atoms then return to the highest world to begin their circulation anew, and this continues
as long as the existence of the lower worlds is necessary. There are two kinds of atoms:
negative and positive. In the negative (receptive), material energy flows from a higher
atomic kind to a lower; in the positive (propulsive), from a lower to a higher. It is this
current that maintains the atoms, molecules, material aggregates, in their given forms."
K 1.27.1 (P 2.57.2, 2.12.7)
1) In P, the opposite polarity is stated because the starting-point is the opposite and so
the terminology is adapted to this condition.
COSMIC PHYSICAL etc. (T.B.) Worlds 43 49 are called cosmic physical (and so 49
is cosmic dense, 48 cosmic liquid, 47 cosmic gaseous, etc.); worlds 36 42, cosmic
astral; 29 35 cosmic mental; 22 28 cosmic buddhic, etc.
COSMOS, THE A cosmos is a globe in primordial matter, a globe made up of
primordial atoms.
"Its original dimensions are small, but, being supplied with primordial atoms from the
inexhaustible store of primordial matter, it grows incessantly until it has reached the
requisite size.""A fully built out cosmos, such as ours, consists of a continuous series of material
worlds of different degrees of density, the higher penetrating all the lower. The highest
world thus penetrates everything in the cosmos.
"The worlds are built out from the highest world, each higher world supplying material
for the next lower world which is formed in and out of the higher ones.
"These are seven series of seven cosmic material worlds, making 49 in all (1 7, 8 14,
15 21, 22 28, 29 35, 36 42, 43 49), in accordance with the constant division intoseven departments. These atomic worlds occupy the same space in the cosmos. All the
higher worlds embrace and penetrate the lower worlds."
"All the 49 worlds differ from each other as to dimension, duration, material
composition, motion, and consciousness; due to differences in density of primordialatoms.
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"The seven lowest cosmic worlds (43 49) contain billions of solar systems. The lowest
world (49) is the physical world.
"Our cosmos is a perfect organization." K 1.6.1ff
COSMOS, BUILDERS OF THE "The cosmos has been built out by a collectivity of
monads who have acquired consciousness in a cosmos and have themselves workedtheir way up through all its 49 worlds. They wish, in their turn, to awaken to
consciousness the unconscious monads in primordial matter and make to possible for
them to acquire omniscience and omnipotence in the cosmos." K 2.2.9
"When a sufficient number of monads have succeeded in working their way from the
lowest natural kingdom up to the highest divine kingdom, this collective being is able to
leave its cosmic globe in order to begin to build out a cosmic globe of its own inprimordial matter, the material being primordial atoms taken from the inexhaustible
store of primordial matter." K 4.5.5
CULTURE "Culture in the esoteric sense of word is only achieved through purposeful,
conscious or unconscious, application of the laws of life. In order to be discovered theymust first have been applied." K 5.7.13
"Cultures are built up by clans at the stages of culture and humanity. When their work is
taken over by clans at lower stages, a more or less swift decline sets in." K 5.5.1
"Emotional and mental culture are the kinds of culture most important for the realization
of unity. Material culture will follow as a matter of course when the good will to mutual
assistance is made the highest value and norm." P 1.1.14
"We shall have social culture when individuals feel that they exist for the community,
and the community feels that it exists for the individual; when everybody regards
service as his foremost task." P 1.1.12
CULTURE, STAGE OF The third of mans five stages of development. "It is at the
cultural stage that the three highest molecular kinds of the emotional envelope are
activated. The pertaining vibrations in the emotional world are mainly attractive.
Having once attained these regions, the individual can gradually free himself from the
tendency, since long acquired, to a repellent attitude to the surrounding world and to
himself. His feelings become more and more ennobled with each higher level and
supersede his previous receptivity to the countless expressions of hatred of the repellent
vibrations. For everything that is not love is hatred." K 1.34.16 Synonyms: higher
emotional stage, stage of the mystic.
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"DEATH" "The monads are the only indestructible things in the universe. There is no
death, just new forms for the monad consciousness. Whenthe form has fulfilled its
temporary purpose for the consciousness development of the monad, it is dissolved." K
4.4.2
DEATH PROCESS The process at the end of incarnation, when the monad in the
superphysical envelopes leaves the two physical envelopes (organism and etheric
envelope), after the tie that unifies the monad with these, the sutratma, is severed
definitively.
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Even during profound sleep, the emotional envelope along with the higher envelopes is
separated from the physical ones. The difference here is that the sutratma upholds the
connection between the monad and the physical. (K 1.34.26f, 3.5.11)
"At the same time as the etheric envelope frees itself from the organism in the so-called
process of death, the emotional envelope frees itself from the etheric envelope which
remains near the organism and dissolves along with it." K 1.34.26
DEDUCTION The method of concluding the less general or the individual case from
knowledge of the more general (the system). Opposite: induction (K 5.17.1,8)
DEPARTMENT One of the seven omnipresent fundamental types of existence.
DESCENDING ARC (T.) Means involution in general, but also the three first globe
periods of an eon.
DESCENT OF SPIRIT INTO MATTER (T.) A symbolic expression meaning many
things, i.e. involution and the different kinds of involvation. (K 3.4.9)
DESTINY, LAW OF "The law of destiny indicates what forces influence the individual
in consideration of necessary experiences." K 1.41.12
DEVACHAN (Tib. "state of joy", T.B.) The state in the mental world (47:4-7) between
incarnations. Synonyms: tushita (Skt).
DEVA EVOLUTION Line of evolution parallel to the "human evolution". The deva
monads pursue their own path after the mineral kingdom, which is common to all
evolutionary beings, and thus they do not become humans although they reach the
corresponding kinds of active self-consciousness. Branches reach the deva evolution
even from the vegetable and animal kingdoms of the "human evolution". Deva monads
at evolutionary stages corresponding to the vegetable and animal kingdoms are called
nature beings (or nature spirits), those at stages corresponding to the human kingdom
and higher kingdoms are called devas.
DEVA RAJAS (T.B.) The seven highest devas within the solar system. Each one isresponsible for matter in someone of the seven solar systemic worlds. In Sanskrit they
are called: Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Indra, Agni, Varuna, Kshiti.
DEVAS (Skt, "the shining ones") Evolutionary beings belonging to an evolutionary lineparallel to the "human" evolution from mineral via man to 43-self. The majority of
devas have never been and will never become human. Their lowest consciousness
corresponds to that of man; their highest is 43-consciousness. Lower beings than devas
on this evolutionary path are called nature beings. The devas lack a triad chain. Their
lowest envelope is the etheric. They make up two major groups of collective beings:
those who work especially with the motion aspect and are agents of the laws of life;
those who particularly work with the matter aspect and supervise form-building in
nature. The highest deva for an entire material world within the solar system is called a
deva raja.
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DEVELOPMENT, LAW OF "The law of development says that all monads develop
their consciousness, that there are forces acting in different ways towards the final goal
of life." K 1.41.10
DHARMA "Dharma is the innermost nature of every individual, that which constitutes
his true being. Dharma is what is given in the interdependent arrangement of things...Dharma is the meaning of life for every individual.
"Mans dharma is different at different stages of development, in different
circumstances of life. Everybody has his special dharma, his problems of life to solve,
his duties to perform. Man lives in a state of insecurity and uncertainty when he is not
acting at the best of his ability, in accordance with his dharma. The dharma of mankind
is humanity." K 7.9.3f
DIMENSION "Each atomic kind has its own dimension. Thus there are 49 dimensions
in the cosmos. In the cosmic sense, dimension means kind of space. Physical matter has
one dimension (line and area are not counted), the highest kind of matter has forty-nine.
With the 49th dimension, the cosmos becomes a point to primordial atomicconsciousness." K 1.8.4
DISCIPLESHIP "In order to attain the fifth natural kingdom in just a few incarnations,
the aspirant must strive after discipleship under the planetary hierarchy. Only those who
have acquired the physical, emotional, and mental prerequisites can be accepted as
disciples. Physically and dietetically, the athlete training for the Olympic Games may
serve as an example. Emotionally, they must discard all manifestations of repulsion
(hatred) and acquire the qualities of attraction. Mentally, they must acquire perspective
consciousness and a well-developed ability to meditate in the correct way. All qualities
and abilities have to be put solely at the service of evolution, since their egoistic use
counteracts evolution." K 7.22.12
DISCURSIVITY The quality of the lower mental (47:6,7) of not being able to survey
wholes but having to deal with isolated parts in succession.
DIVINE KINGDOMS The seven higher of the twelve natural kingdoms of the cosmos
are called divine kingdoms. The first, or lowest, divine kingdom is made up of monads
that have envelopes and are omniscient and omnipotent in the two highest worlds of the
solar system (43,44); the six higher divine kingdoms are made up of monads that are
omniscient and omnipotent in worlds 36 42, 29 35, 22 28, 15 21, 8 14, 1 7. (K
1.37, 4.5.3)
DOMINANT The highest developed individual in a some permanent collective
consciousness (i.e. planetary ruler).
"There must be one dominant (being one eon ahead of those following next in
consciousness development, consciousness expansion), since final decisions must be
unambiguous and divergence be impossible." K 2.16.7
"Every world, every planet, solar system, etc., thus has its own collective consciousness,
and constitutes a unitary collective being having one monad as the superior dominant."
K 4.7.3
DREAMS Consciousness activity during the organisms sleep may have five differentcauses: discharge of memory pictures of the previous day from the organisms brain;
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impressions from without (during sleep) on the etheric brain; experiences of the monad
in the separated emotional envelope (together with higher envelopes) in the emotional
world; the corresponding in the mental world; glimpses of causal consciousness (the
two last mentioned cases occur seldom before the stage of humanity).
DURATION Time-lapse
DYNAMIC ENERGY OF PRIMORDIAL MATTER SeeDYNAMIS
DYNAMIS "The original cause of motion, the source of all power, the one primordial
force, the universes total energy, is the dynamic energy of primordial matter, which
Pythagoras called dynamis. It is eternally active, inexhaustible, unconscious, absolute
omnipotence.
"Dynamis acts in every primordial atom, and only in the primordial atoms, which
penetrate all matter.
"Dynamis is the fundamental cause of the perpetuum mobile of the universe." K
1.25.1ff
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EGO (SELF, HIGHER SELF, T.B.) Term meaning, according to the context:
1. The second triad and its (activated) consciousness in general
2. Causal consciousness (in the second triad mental atom) in particular.
3. Non-involving greater causal envelope (P 2.23.6), in contrast to the triad envelope(which B. calls the "personality").
4. Augoeides.
ELEMENT "The elements of the ancients namely, earth, water, air, fire, and quinta
essentia were their terms of the five lowest molecular kinds, or states of aggregation." K
1.10.9
ELEMENTAL "Involutionary beings, or elementals, are aggregates of involutionary
atoms and molecules. Permanent, semipermanent, and shortlived elementals are
distinguished. The permanent ones are material envelopes of evolutionary beings, the
temporary ones are other vibrational products." P 2.11.3
ELEMENTAL MATTER Matter whose constituent monads, atoms, and molecules are
in involution down to world 49. Elemental matter has passive consciousness. It is
incapable of self-activity but is unsurpassably sensitive to all kinds of vibrations. (K
2.9.2) Synonyms: involutionary matter, secondary matter.
ELEMENTARY (T.) Envelope, shell, abandoned by an evolutionary monad, a man,
for instance, at the end of incarnation. It is mostly elementaries that appear at spiritist
sances, which explains the deficient intelligence of the "spirits" and their robotism.
ELITE THINKING The second highest kind of thinking in the mental envelope (47:5)
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consistent relativizing and percentualizing thinking, partly perspective thinking and
system thinking." K 1.20.5
EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness of the monad, in the emotional
envelope (48:2-7).
"By nature emotional consciousness is exclusively desire, or what the individual at theemotional stage perceives as dynamic will. At the stage of barbarism, before the
individuals consciousness in the mental envelope has been activated, desire is
manifested as more or less uncontrolled impulses. When the mental envelope,
influenced by the vibrations of the emotional envelope, is attracted to and woven
together with the emotional envelope, mental consciousness is awakened to life, and
desire and thought merge. If desire then preponderates, there ensues feeling, which is
desire coloured with thought. If thought preponderates, imagination ensues, which is
thought coloured with desire.
"Man's emotional life is in the main the life of emotional illusions. He is the victim of
desire's wishful thinking, of the illusions of emotional thinking. The individual is
completely free of the illusions of only after he has acquired causal consciousness."The vibrations of the three lower emotional molecular kinds are largely repellent, the
three higher, attractive. Noble feelings are manifestations of attraction." K 1.19.5
"Sense perceptions excepted, emotionality can be said to include everything
psychological that does not belong to the purely rational, and the purely rational does
not embrace much." P 1.2.2
EMOTIONAL CULTURE "The stage of emotional culture has been reached when
everybody serves and nobody feels like a master. When everybody serves something
higher, something beyond himself, something for several, for many, for all together,
then that harmony will present itself which is the expression of cultured emotion. The
present intellectual possibilities of man have been overrated, and his emotional ones
undervalued and neglected. It is also easier to realize emotional culture, with the sense
of unity as its highest value." P 1.1.11
EMOTIONAL ENVELOPE The monads envelope of emotional matter (48:2-7). In the
mineral and vegetable kingdom the emotional envelope belongs to the group-soul; in
the animal and human kingdoms the monad has an individual emotional envelope. The
emotional envelope is the seat of desires. In the human kingdom, when the mental
envelope is activated, the emotional envelope coalesces with the mental so that the two
make up, from the functional point of view, one envelope. Through this originate the
two emotional-mental kinds of consciousness: feeling and imagination.
EMOTIONAL EON Current eon of our planet (lasting 4320 million years). It is chiefly
intended to activate emotional consciousness.
EMOTIONAL LIFE BETWEEN INCARNATIONS "Mans life in the emotional world
can prove completely different for different individuals, depending on their
developmental level.
"Like the physical world, the emotional world has six successively higher regions. Most
people are nowadays objectively conscious from the beginning in the three regions
(48:5-7) that correspond to the three lowest regions of the physical world (49:5-7)...
Objects in those regions are material counterparts of the material forms of the physicalworld, which fact often causes the newcomer to think that he still lives in the physical
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world."
"The emotional envelope dissolves gradually: first its lowest molecular kind, then the
lowest but one, etc. When the three lowest are dissolved it is not possible for the
individual to contact the visible physical world."
"In the three higher regions of the emotional world, the existing material forms are
imaginative formations made by the individuals in those regions. For emotional matterforms itself in accordance with the slightest hint from consciousness, the ignorant
neither understanding the cause nor being able to grasp how it happened. The individual
seldom learns anything really new while in the emotional world and in the mental world
never.
"The life of the emotional envelope can vary as greatly as that of the organism." K
34.27ff
EMOTIONAL SELF Monad whose most important kind of self-consciousness is within
the molecular worlds 48:2-7 of the solar system. Human emotional selves are at the
stages of civilization and culture.
EMOTIONAL STAGE "As an emotional self (at the stages of civilization and culture),
the individual is in his thinking and acting determined by emotional motives. The
emotional stage is the most difficult stage of development. Man must by himself acquire
consciousness in all six molecular kinds of his emotional envelope and in the two
lowest of his mental envelope. To the emotional stage belongs almost everything that
man today regards as civilization and culture." K 1.34.13
EMOTIONAL THINKING "At his present stage of development, man is an emotional
being with a possibility of intermittent use of his still undeveloped reason.
"Sense perception excepted, emotionality can be said to include everything
psychological that does not belong to the purely rational, and the purely rational does
not embrace much. Our consciousness is centred in emotionality, which colours sense
perceptions as well as thoughts. Our consciousness is centred in emotionality, which
colours sense perceptions as well as thoughts." P 1.2.1f
"Emotional thinking rules in all domains that can directly or indirectly affect personal
interests." P 3.16.3
EMOTIONAL WORLD Atomic world 48 in the cosmos and solar system, molecular
world 48:2-7 in the planets of the solar system. The molecular emotional world can be
said to be the particular world of animals where consciousness is concerned. (K 1.11.5)
"What one gets to know in the emotional world is not the knowledge of existence,reality, and life. Like the mental world, it is intended to be a sojourn for rest pending a
new incarnation. It is only in the physical and causal worlds that man is able to ascertain
real facts, not in the emotional and mental worlds. In these worlds one cannot know
whether what one sees is nature's enduring reality or not.
"In the emotional world one has confirmation of all ones illusions and fictions, ones
hypotheses and theories, and all other fancies." K 6.9.6f
EMOTIONALIST Man at the emotional stage (stages of civilization and culture).
ENERGY "In the scientific sense of the word, energy is matter in motion. All higher
kinds of matter (atomic kinds, molecular kinds) are energy in relation to all lower kinds."Matter in not dissolved into energy, but into higher matter.
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"When matter ceases to move, its quality of being energy ceases.
"All forces of nature are matter." K 1.26.1ff
"The energies that become manifest are the effects of the next higher molecular kinds
upon the next lower ones in each world." K 1.29.3
ENERGY, EXCHANGE OF All atoms in all material aggregates receive and in theirturn emit energies.
"The energies coming in from without have their own types and individual characters.
The energies transmitted further always have their individual characters coloured to a
certain degree in the new aggregates they flow through." K 2.13.10
ENVELOPES, MONAD ENVELOPES The consciousness of the monads develops in
envelopes. It is by acquiring consciousness in its envelopes and in the ever higher
molecular kinds of these envelopes that the monad attains ever higher natural kingdoms.
"All forms of nature are envelopes. In every atom, molecule, organism, world, planet,
solar system, etc., there is one monad at a higher stage of development than are the
other monads in this form of nature." K 1.13.1f"Each envelope of the individual has its consciousness, its memory: the subconscious
collective consciousness of its different molecules." K 1.23.1
"The self develops in and through envelopes, from the lowest physical etheric envelope
to the highest cosmic world. It constantly acquires new envelopes in one world after
another. Step by step it acquires self-consciousness in the ever higher molecular kinds
of its envelope by learning to activate the consciousness in these. By this it finally
becomes master in its envelope. Until then it is disoriented in the consciousness chaos
of this envelope, and it is the victim of vibrations from without." K 1.30.4
EONS The most comprehensive of the solar systemic cycle, 4320 million years. One
eon is equal to a seven-globe period, the time of the monads evolution round the seven
globes of the seven-globe. Our seven-globe presently runs through its fourth eon, the
emotional eon (K 2.13.4).
ESOTERICS That knowledge of reality and life from the greatest possible perspective
which can only be communicated to a prepared lite of mankind. Esoterics is in the
possession of the planetary hierarchy and was taught, up to 1875, in its secret
knowledge orders only, after 1875 partially in public. As a rule, only those understand
esoterics who possess the knowledge latently from previous incarnations.
ESOTERICS, BASIC AXIOM OF: "There are laws in everything and everything isexpressive of law." K 4.11.7
ESOTERIC HISTORY BEFORE 1875 "Members of this planetary hierarchy incarnated
in mankind, eventually to make up what in the esoteric history has been called the
higher priesthood.This happened in Lemuria. As soon as consciousness had
developed sufficiently for men to be able to learn, they were given such necessary
instruction and knowledge of reality as they were able to grasp. In both Lemuria and
Atlantis, temple schools were set up in which the human lite were given the education
suited to their ability to comprehend... The lite were trained to be teachers of the rest of
mankind, eventually to form the lower priesthood."
Later, a large part of the "lower priesthood", who had acquired a knowledge of magic,rebelled against the "higher priesthood". The planetary hierarchy was banished first in
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Lemuria, later in Atlantis.
"Abuse of knowledge leads to the loss of knowledge, and ever since the planetary
hierarchy was driven out of Atlantis mankind has had to look after its own affairs."
"However, not everybody took part in the black priesthood's revolt against the higher
priesthood. Those individuals who had reached the stage of culture, and who were on
the side of good, did not forfeit the right to remember anew their old knowledge. Fortheir benefit the planetary hierarchy instituted secret knowledge orders among all
nations that had reached such a stage of development that cultural individuals could
incarnate among them."
The planetary hierarchy made two attempts to awaken man to see the rationality of life
and to counteract the dreadful hatred between men In India Buddha incarnated to try
and impress the people with what has been called the "religion of wisdom". And
Christos incarnated to awaken people to understand what has been called the "religion
of love".
"As we know, both attempts failed. Buddhas disciples were driven out of India, and
Christos message of love was taken care of by individuals who had belonged to the
black priesthood of Atlantis."The planetary hierarchy had no other choice but to continue instituting new knowledge
orders, as for the rest trying to vitalize mens emotional and mental consciousness, so
that these could develop into greater understanding of reality."
By the year 1775 mankind had reaped the last of its bad sowing from Atlantis. "The
knowledge of reality could thus in that respect be permitted to become common
property"... "The problem of how mankind, totally disoriented, was best to assimilate
the knowledge had long been under discussion in the planetary hierarchy, and vast
preparations had been made."
"It was at the conclave of the planetary hierarchy in 1775 that two of its members (the
then 45-selves M. and K.H.) offered to take immediate steps to publicize some part of
the knowledge of the consciousness and matter aspects of existence which hitherto had
been imparted in the esoteric knowledge orders."
"All the other members of the planetary hierarchy voted against the proposal, since they
considered that far too few people had attained the necessary stage of mental
development for the undertaking to have any prospect of success. The emotional
illusions of the prevailing religions and the mental fictions of philosophy were so
remote from the real conception of reality that any attempt to communicate
superphysical knowledge to the so-called educated, either would be rejected out of
hand, or would give rise to new imaginative excesses. They considered that one ought
to wait until at least those furthest developed had acquired physical etheric objective
consciousness. Then they would see the fictitiousness of the prevailing idiologies andprove readier to examine, at least, the reality content of the esoteric mental system.
"As unanimity could not be reached, the matter was referred to the president of the
government, the planetary ruler, who considered: "as these two brothers of ours have
offered to prepare the spread of the knowledge and have expressed their willingness
themselves to bear the consequences and know what this means, they should be allowed
to make the attempt."
"The time for the publication of the knowledge was fixed for 1875. In the meantime
everything was to be done to raise the general level of education and to spread literacy."
K 3.1.4ff
ESOTERIC HISTORY AFTER 1875 The instrument the planetary hierarchy hadchosen for the task of publicizing the knowledge which had been kept secret since
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Atlantis was H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891). "Blavatsky was enjoined not to give out any
esoteric facts without special permission in each individual case. She was not to
mention anything about the planetary hierarchy."
"The truth, or the knowledge of reality, is only to be given gradually, with sparing facts,
to a mankind unprepared to receive it. It is necessary to find connections to established
fictions of which people have heard enough for them to believe that they comprehendwhat it all is about. A new, revolutionary system of ideas would be rejected off hand as
a mere fantastic invention. It could not be comprehended, let alone understood, without
careful preparation.
"The most important reason, which probably only esotericians are able to understand, is
the fact of the dynamic energy of ideas."
"Once the esoteric knowledge was permitted to be published there was no longer any
need of initiation into the old knowledge orders, nobody having been initiated into
anyone of them since 1875. Although those initiated in previous incarnations were not
given the opportunity to revive all their old knowledge, enough was made known, and
besides hinted at, for them to be able to discover the most essential by themselves."
"The most important esoteric facts to be found in the works of Sinnett, Judge, andHartmannwho received them from the planetary hierarchy through Blavatsky up to
1891are: reincarnation, karma, or the law of sowing and reaping (the law of reaping),
the individuals pre-existence and post-existence (hence immortality), the existence of
the worlds 4549, knowledge of the individuals envelopes in higher worlds, knowledge
orders in times past, and lots of historical facts." K 3.2.1ff
Blavatsky was a causal self. In 1875 she contributed to the founding of the
Theosophical Society, which was intended to become a platform for the esoteric
teaching. In 1877 Blavatsky publishedIsis Unveiled, which in two volumes criticized
the dogmas of science and religion.
"Blavatskys second standard work of her vast literary production, The Secret
Doctrine... contains the symbols of Dzyan (the oldest of the planetary hierarchy). It
gives an account of the different symbolic presentations of the cosmos and of the
evolution of life as by several knowledge orders, showing how these agree." K 3.3.28ff
"With the death of Blavatsky in 1891, this first phase of the publication of new esoteric
facts ended." "The second phase, which lasted 1894-1920, was characterized by the
close collaboration of two esoteric capacities: Annie Besant (1847-1933) and C.W.
Leadbeater (1847-1934)." Both were causal selves.
Leadbeater "was the foremost systematician and historian of esoterics up to 1920...
Nobody before him has given so many new facts." Of these facts the following are the
most important: "the composition of matter, the difference between atomic and
molecular matter, the seven atomic worlds of the solar system, the molecular worlds ofthe planetary system, involutionary matter, the evolution of the natural kingdoms, the
consciousness expansion..., mans three atomic worlds and five molecular worlds of
man, mans five material envelopes and consciousness in these, mans permanent atoms
(the triad), the planetary hierarchy, the division of the planetary hierarchy into seven
departments, the planetary government."
"The third and latest phase of the publication of the esoteric knowledge falls during
1920-1950."... "The planetary hierarchy had appointed a secretary who was to be the
actual link between the esotericians and the planetary hierarchy, and had decided that,
for the time being at least, new facts were to be imparted only through him: the 45-self
D.K." K 3.2.10ff
The works of D.K., published under the name of Alice A. Bailey, are fundamentalimportance for the esoteric teaching of our times. They deepen the teaching previously
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given, correcting and amplifying it in many places, and provides much knowledge.
Main points in D.K.s presentation are: evolution in the solar system as principally a
manifestation of the will and man as a phenomenon of will and energy within it, the
seven departments (types) as the basis of a new psychology, the activation of mans
passive causal consciousness as the most important feature of both white magic and
the future system of education, the significance of Augoeides for mans evolution,mankinds relation to the planetary hierarchy and planetary government, discipleship
and the initiations, the reappearance of the planetary hierarchy in the physical world
(externalization) under the guidance of the world teacher, the new group of world
servers which ever more consciously collaborateswith the hierarchys plan for the
evolution of mankind.
"D.K. points out that the individual has not been given the knowledge to enjoy it with a
pleasant feeling of superiority. It entails responsibility, as does all knowledge." K 3.9.2
D.K. says expressly that he writes for disciples (individuals at the stage of humanity).
His works cannot be understood without a suitable preparation.
1. The solution of the mystery of trinity: the three equivalent aspects of existence, theessential of the absolute knowledge system, the basis of the philosophy and science of
the future.
2. Matter (the atoms) as the vehicles of consciousness and consciousness development
as the meaning of existence.
3. The self as a monad, a primordial atom. (The selves described in the older esoteric
literature are the triads of the monad, its envelopes in higher ever higher kingdoms. The
monad of T. and B. is the third triad.)
4. The indication of objective grounds of the different stages of development
5. The formulation of laws of life with particular emphasis on the essential ones for our
times as an introduction to the Aquarian epoch of law.
ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW "The esoteric world view can never, of
course, be anything else for mankind but a working hypothesis. But the further mankind
develops, the more evident the incomparable superiority of this hypothesis will become.
The causal self is able to ascertain its accordance with facts in the five worlds of man."
K 4.11.8
ESOTERICIAN "The esoterician has once and for all left the world of illusions and
fictions, which mankind prefers living in, to enter into the world of reality." K 1.43.6
"The mystic thinks that mans reason cannot explain existence, which, it is true, it
cannot. The esoterician knows this, but then is not content with the ability of humanreason to ascertain superphysical facts, but seeks that higher reason which can achieve
contact with the Platonic world of ideas. Until then, he will accept no other
superphysical facts than those from the planetary hierarchy. Proof that facts really are
facts he gets from their having their given places in the Pythagorean hylozoic mental
system, and their being the simplest and most general explanations of previously
inexplicable realities." K 3.6.5
"On the whole it can be said that in the conditions prevailing at the present time, true
esotericians do not join any societies, but are to be found outside all kinds of
organizations. They can be recognized by their understanding of all things human, and
they strive after truly human relations between all irrespectively of race, nationality,
sex, religion, politics, and all other things that separate man from man." K 3.7.12
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ESSENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, 46-CONSCIOUSNESS "The consciousness of the
essential envelope is that of unity. The individual knows that he is his own self having a
self-identity that will never be lost, but also a larger self together with all the monads in
the five natural kingdoms and, when he so desires, he can experience others'
consciousness as his own. The drop-consciousness has become one with the ocean-
consciousness. The union with god is the self's acquisition of the consciousness ofunity."
"The 46-self is omniscient in the worlds 46-49."
"Only essential consciousness can become conscious in the physical, emotional, and
mental atoms.
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