Olga

Thank you Tamiko,
H.P.B. gives in SD, v. I, p. 291:
EXTRACTS FROM A PRIVATE COMMENTARY,* hitherto secret: —
(d) To man, it gives all that it bestows on all the rest of the manifested units in nature; but develops, furthermore, the reflection of all its FORTY-NINE FIRES in him. Each of his seven principles is an heir in full to, and a partaker o…[Read more]

Chitkala (Sanskrit) Citkala [from cit abstract thought or consciousness + the verbal root kal to urge on, impel, stimulate] The inciters or stimulators of consciousness or intelligent thought; manasaputras.
Chitti (Sanskrit) Citti [from the verbal root cit to fix the mind upon, design, be intent upon] Thinking, reflection, intention, wisdom;…[Read more]

Sanskrit term traidha, threefold, is almost the same as the Greek term: τριάς, trias, genitive τριάδος, triados, in Latin tres.

For, as soon as DARKNESS – or rather that which is ”darkness” for ignorance – has disappeared in its own realm of eternal Light, leaving behind itself only its divine manifested Ideation, the creative Logoi have their understanding opened, and they see in the ideal world (hitherto concealed in the divine thought) the archetypal forms of all, an…[Read more]

The meaning of the figure of the Agathodaimon is clearly denoted by the Chaldee legend frequently accompanying it. CЄMЄCЄIΛAM “The Everlasting Sun”; which is sometimes followed by ΨΕ, probably used as sacred numerals, for they have the power in Greek arithmetic of 705. C. KING

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. —Plutarch

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel —Socrates

Khechara खेचर or “sky-walker” or “goer.” “He who moves” (chara) “in heaven” (khe). One of the powers (Siddhi) of the Yogī is the possibility to “fly”, or to move in space at will, in his astral form (T.G.).

The Zohar: 249. “Come and behold. In the flame that rises, there are two lights. One is the white light (khivra), which shines, and one is the light that connects to it: black (uchma) or blue (tichla). That white light, it is on the top, and rises by straight (mishor). And beneath it is that light blue or black, which is the throne (…[Read more]

A fragment from Helena Petrovna’s poem “The Woman of Fashion”, written in Russian and published in 1871 in St.Petersburg:
To cradle of her little daughter
With her flushing cheek low she bent,
And whispering, praying still hotter:
“Will you, child, take path that I went.

And waste all your power not knowing
That there’s a better wide roa…[Read more]

Yes, I think, it is.

Bodhi (Pali) is used to express the lofty knowledge of an ascetic, and the stage of enlightenment.
The meaning of citta (Pali) is best understood when explaining it by expressions familiar to us, as: with all my heart; heart and soul; I have no heart to do it; all of which emphasize the emotional & conative side or ” thought ” more than its mental…[Read more]