Easter. The word evidently comes from Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring. She was the symbol of the resurrection of all nature and was worshipped in early spring.

It was a custom with the pagan Norsemen at that time to exchange coloured eggs called the eggs of Ostara. These have now become Easter-Eggs. As expressed in Asgard and the Gods: "Christianity put another meaning on the old custom, by connecting it with the feast of the Resurrection of the Saviour, who, like the hidden life in the egg, slept in the grave for three days before he awakened to new life".

This was the more natural since Christ was identified with that same Spring Sun which awakens in all his glory, after the dreary and long death of winter. (See "Eggs".)

(See also: Easter, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Adi-buddhi (Sanskrit) (from adi first, original + buddhi from the verbal root budh to know, perceive, awaken)

Original or primordial buddhi; the cosmic essence of divine intelligence imbodied in adi-buddha, the divine-spiritual head of the cosmic hierarchy of compassion, "the spiritual, omniscient and omnipotent root of divine intelligence" (SD 1:572). Adi-buddhi or dharmakaya is "the mystic, universally diffused essence . . . the all-pervading supreme and absolute intelligence with its periodically manifesting Divinity -- 'Avalokiteshvara' . . . the aggregate intelligence of the universal intelligences including that of the Dhyan Chohans even of the highest order" (ML 90).

(See also: Adi-buddhi, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Augoeides (from Greek auge bright light, radiance + eidos form, shape)

Bulwer-Lytton in Zanoni adopted the term from Marcus Aurelius (who says that the sphere of the soul is augoeides), using it to denote the radiant spiritual-divine human soul-ego. In Isis Unveiled it denotes the spiritual monad, atma-buddhi, and is collated with the Persian ferouer or feruer, the Platonic nous, etc. In a high degree of initiation the initiant comes face to face with this radiant presence, the luminous radiation streaming from the divine ego at the heart of the monad. When the Augoeides touches with its rays the inferior monads in the human constitution and awakens them to activity, these then becomes the various lower egos or manifested children of the divine ego.

(See also: Augoeides, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Kundalini-shakti:

Kundalini-shakti ("coiled power"): according to Tantra and hatha yoga, the serpent power or spiritual energy, which exists in potential form at the lowest psycho-energetic center of the body (i.e., the mula-adhara-cakra) and which must be awakened and guided to the center at the crown (i.e., the sahasrara-cakra) for full enlightenment to occur

(See also: Kundalini-shakti, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing: Holistic approach to healing and wellness that encompasses breathwork, energy field work, Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods, and remedies (e.g., the apple diet) related to the readings of clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945).

Its theory posits reincarnation and a triune body (physical body, mental body, and spiritual body) and defines healing as the process of awakening the God-pattern within humans.

(See also: Cayce Approach to Health and Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Pathwork (The Pathwork): Personal growth process whose design is to awaken one's Greater Consciousness. It encompasses core energetics. The teachings in 258 lectures delivered by the Guide,a spirit entity, through Eva Pierrakos from 1957 until her death in 1979 constitute the basis of The Pathwork. Its theory posits God, the soul, and spiritual blocks.

(See also: Pathwork, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Bragi (Scandianvian Norse). The god of New Life, of the re-incarnation of nature and man. He is called "the divine singer" without spot or blemish. He is represented as gliding in the ship of the Dwarfs of Death during the death of nature (pralaya), lying asleep on the deck with his golden stringed harp near him and dreaming the dream of life.

When the vessel crosses the threshold of Nain, the Dwarf of Death, Bragi awakes and sweeping the strings of his harp, sings a song that echoes over all the worlds, a song describing the rapture of existence, and awakens dumb, sleeping nature out of her long death-like sleep.

(See also: Bragi, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Pleiadian Lightwork: A means of opening ka channels, pullers of energy from multidimensional holographic selves into the physical body. According to Pleiadian theory, alignment of one's divine self and one's physical body increases one's vibratory rate, restores youthfulness, quickens spiritual evolution, and stimulates emotional healing. A major promoter of the method is psychic Amorah Quan Yin, author of The Pleiadian Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ka (Bear & Company, 1995) and Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolution (Bear & Company, 1996).

In the late 1970s Yin experienced cellular awakening (the soul's remembrance of itself) triggered by light beings from the Pleiades (a cluster of stars in Taurus). The Pleiadian Emissaries work through her. (The Egyptian expression ka means astral body or double.)

(See also: Pleiadian Lightwork, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Buddha (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root budh to perceive, awaken, recover consciousness)

Awakened, enlightened; one who is spiritually awakened, who has become one with the supreme self (paramatman).

"To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the real self and learn not to separate it from all other selves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness" (TG 64-5).

"A Buddha in the esoteric teaching is one whose higher principles can learn nothing more in this manvantara; they have reached Nirvana and remain there. This does not mean, however, that the lower centers of consciousness of a Buddha are in Nirvana, for the contrary is true; and it is this fact that enables a Buddha of Compassion to remain in the lower realms of being as mankind's supreme Guide and Instructor, living usually as a Nirmanakaya" (OG 33-4).

See also GAUTAMA

(See also: Buddha, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Dream FAQ Dictionary: Is there a way to prevent yourself from awakening right after becoming lucid?

Is there a way to prevent yourself from awakening right after becoming lucid?

 A. At first, beginners may have difficulty remaining in the dreamafter they attain lucidity. This obstacle may prevent many people fromrealizing the value of lucid dreaming, because they have notexperienced more than the flash of knowing they are dreaming, followedby immediate awakening. Two simple techniques can help you overcomethis problem. The first is to remain calm in the dream. Becoming lucidis exciting, but expressing the excitement can awaken you. Suppressyour feeling somewhat and turn your attention to the dream. If thedream shows signs of ending, such as the disappearance, loss ofclarity or depth of the imagery, "spinning" can help bring the dreamback. As soon as the dream starts to "fade," before you feel your realbody in bed, spin your dream body like a top. That is, twirl aroundlike a child trying to get dizzy (you probably will not get dizzyduring dream spinning because your physical body is not spinningaround). Remind yourself, "The next scene will be a dream." When youstop spinning, if it is not obvious that you are dreaming, do areality test. Even if you think you are awake, you may be surprised tofind that you are still dreaming!

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

(See also: Lucid dreaming, Dream Interpretation FAQ, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Meaning of Dreams)

Parmahansa Yogananda:

Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India, he is considered as a pioneer of bringing the Yoga system to the West. His life and teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures and creeds. Sri Parmahansa Yogananda emphasized the underlying unity of the world's great religions, and taught universally applicable methods for attaining direct personal experience of God. To serious students of his teachings he introduced the soul-awakening techniques of Kriya Yoga, a sacred spiritual science originating millenniums ago in India, which had been lost in the Dark Ages and revived in modern times by his lineage of enlightened masters.

(See also: Parmahansa Yogananda, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Bragi (Icelandic) (from bragr best)

One of the twelve aesir, gods of the Norse Eddas. Representing poetic inspiration of the highest order, he is called the divine singer. It is said he lay sleeping on the ship of the dwarfs (kingdoms of the elements -- earth, water, air, fire, aether), and when the vessel crossed the threshold of death, he awoke and sang the worlds into life. The sound of his joyfilled song and golden harp reverberates through the nine worlds awakening the music of all the spheres.

Bragi is synonymous with spiritual intuition which, united with the mind (Loki), is the means of human liberation. His consort, the goddess Idun, daily gives the gods the apples of immortality.

(See also: Bragi, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Solar Lhas [from solar + Tibetan lha a celestial being]

Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan to indicate the higher beings derivative from the spiritual side of our sun who endowed the human monads of our planetary chain with the spirit of life. The solar Lhas warm and invigorate the protohuman shadows (SD 2:109), although they do not quicken their mind principle -- except insofar as the life-energy reaches the manasic element in the constitution. These solar lhas refer particularly to the pranic activity in the individual human being; the solar lhas of a far higher class are equivalent to the agnishvattas, manasaputras, and kumaras who awaken the human mind.

See also LHA

(See also: Solar Lhas, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Oomancy [from Greek oon egg + manteia divination]

The ancient art of divination by eggs was taught to mankind by Orpheus (SD 1:362); and the diviner was able by inspecting the contents of the egg to perceive whatever the bird born from it would have seen, had it ever been born.

The possibility of divination is a logical deduction from the principle of universal correspondences and the interrelation and interpenetration of all parts of the universe. It is therefore only a question of esoteric knowledge and skill. The germ of the future lies concealed in the present, making prediction possible by one whose spiritual faculties have been awakened.

(See also: Oomancy, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Aroueris (Ancient Greek). The god Harsiesi, who was the elder Horus. He had a temple at Ambos. if we bear in mind the definition of the chief Egyptian gods by Plutarch, these myths will become more comprehensible; as he well says: "Osiris represents the beginning and principle; Isis, that which receives; and Horus, the compound of both. Horus engendered between them, is not eternal nor incorruptible, but, being always in generation, he endeavours by vicissitudes of imitations, and by periodical passion (yearly re-awakening to life) to continue always young, as if he should never die."

Thus, since Horus is the personified physical world, Aroueris, or the "elder Horus", is the ideal Universe; and this accounts for the saying that "he was begotten by Osiris and Isis when these were still in the bosom of their mother" - Space. There is indeed, a good deal of mystery about this god, but the meaning of the symbol becomes clear once one has the key to it.

(See also: Aroueris, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Eve Hawwah (Hebrew) (from hawah to breathe, live)

Mystically the mother of all living, an allegorical yet actual figure in all archaic cosmogonies. Genesis describes three Eves:

1)    the archetypal Eve, the feminine aspect of the divine androgyne which is on the one hand `Adam Qadmon, and on the other hand Sephirah-Eve (ch. l);

2)    the Eve of the early third root-race, after the separation of the sexes but before the awakening of mind (ch. 2); and

3)    Eve the mother of Abel and of Seth, here beginning the course of human history after the awakening of mind.

The first Eve was no woman but, like the first Adam, the spiritual feminine aspect of an archetypal spiritual host; the second was no woman but womankind; while the third was woman and mother as now known. They companion and correspond to the three Adams: the first, the spiritual albeit masculine type of the archetypal host; the second, the mindless first human race; and the third, "the race that (had fully)

separated, whose eyes are opened" (SD 2:46n). Between the Eve of Genesis and Eve the mother of Seth (Genesis 4) passed long ages, involving millions of years during which the archetypal preparation of the globe for human habitation was followed by distinct root-races and three Edens, with millions of years between even these latter.

The original from which the Hebrew Genesis was later compiled is lost. Yet even as the latter has reached us -- first veiled, then probably remodeled by Ezra with shiftings that confuse the chronology -- despite important words and clauses mistranslated by European scholars, its resemblance to the esoteric account is unmistakable. For Jehovah, who gave the human body and (physical) breath of life, is the hyparxis of Saturn and an earthly, not a celestial, hierarchy.

The human mind and spirit are essentially emanations from the immortal spiritual monad coeval with the universe, and subsequent human evolutionary development was both from and aided by the elohim, a spiritual host. Adam and Eve, once mind appeared in them, enter the path of self-directed evolution, a reference to the second and third Eves mentioned above. The eating of the fruit of the tree is the awakening or lighting of mind in man. It shows Eve as consorting with spiritual, not demoniacal, forces and incidentally reconciles the two creation stories.

Like the serpent, the tree is an ancient and universal symbol of sacred and esoteric knowledge. To eat of its fruit is to acquire the knowledge that only the gods possess, and the possession confers immortality under the law.

There is neither relationship nor historic nor philosophic resemblance between Eve and Lilith, Adam's "first wife."

(See also: Eve, Hawwah, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Karshipta, Karshift (Pahlavi) The holy bird of the Zoroastrians who brought the law of Mazda into the Vara (man).

"Karshipta is the human mind-soul, and the deity thereof, symbolized in ancient Magianism by a bird, as the Greeks symbolized it by a butterfly. No sooner had Karshipta entered the Vara or man, than he understood the law of Mazda, or Divine Wisdom. . . . With the Kabalists it was a like symbol. 'Bird' was a Chaldean, and has become a Hebrew synonym and symbol for Angel, a Soul, a Spirit, or Deva; and the 'Bird's Nest' was with both Heaven, and is God's bosom in the Zohar" (SD 2:292). The Egyptians also spoke of the spiritual swallow, the soul-bird -- manas.

This allegory describes the descent of the manasaputras during the third root-race: a high intelligence able to wing its way in the celestial realms entering man's constitution and awakening the faculty enabling him to understand and to recite "the Law" as imbodied in the highest divinities to and for the human species.

(See also: Karshipta, Karshift, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Kalki-avatara (Sanskrit) (from kalkin white horse + avatara divine descent)

The white-horse avatara, the 10th and last descent of Vishnu, in the form of a white horse at the end of kali yuga.

"When the close of the Kali-age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature . . . shall descend on Earth . . . endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. . . . He will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali-Yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed . . . shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita-age, the age of purity" (VP 4:24).

Equivalent to Maitreya-Buddha of Northern Buddhism, Sosiosh of the Zoroastrians, and the Faithful and True on the white horse of Revelations.

(See also: Kalki-avatara, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Bodhi (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root budh to acquire understanding, awaken)

Perfect wisdom or enlightenment; true divine wisdom. A state of consciousness in which one has so emptied the mind that it is filled only with the selfless selfhood of the eternal. In this state one realizes the ineffable visions of reality and of pure truth. Bodhi is a name for the enlightened intellect of buddha. " 'Bodhi' is likewise the name of a particular state of trance condition, called Samadhi, during which the subject reaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge" (SD 1:xix). The bodhi state is called a buddha, and the organ in and by which it is manifested is termed buddhi.

Bodhi is also a name for the mystical tree under which legend says Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, known as the sacred fig tree of India.

See also Asvattha

(See also: Bodhi, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Chang-chub byang chub (jang-chub, chang-chub) (Tibetan) Also Byang-tzyoobs, Tchang-chub.

Translation for Sanskrit bodhi (enlightenment, awakening). Byang chub sems dpa' (jang-chub-sem-pa) translates the Sanskrit bodhisattva, one who has attained a high degree of spiritual knowledge and mystic power; "An adept who has, by the power of his knowledge and soul enlightenment, become exempt from the curse of UNCONSCIOUS transmigration -- may, at his will and desire, and instead of reincarnating himself only after bodily death, do so, and repeatedly -- during his life if he chooses.

He holds the power of choosing for himself new bodies whether on this or any other planet -- while in possession of his old form, that he generally preserves for purposes of his own" (ML 285).

(See also: Chang-chub, byang chub, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Resurrection

The word resurrection has positive and miracles implications. Jesus resurrected on the third day, and he also resurrected Lazarus. The theme of resurrection is explored in all cultures and religions. It is always something awesome and wondrous. Dreaming about resurrection may point to the awakening of your spiritual nature. If you came into knowledge or "enlightenment" that you never had before, the dream could be referring to the resurrection of the spirit. This dream could also represent insight a new energy. Some think that dreams about resurrection are symbolic of reincarnation.

Source: Dream Lover Incorporated, http://www.dreamloverinc.com

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Resurrection, Meaning of Dreams about Resurrection, Dream Interpretation Resurrection)

Food

People often dream about food. All types of food are a consistent part of a dream life. Anything from meat to elbow macaroni comes up through our unconscious and leaves vivid memories upon awakening. Food is symbolic of a large variety of things. It could symbolize pleasure and indulgence. To the perpetual dieter, the dream could have a "compensatory" function where the food that is denied to the individual during the day shows up in the dream state. Dreams could additionally symbolize physical, mental, spiritual and emotional nourishment.

Source: Dream Lover Incorporated, http://www.dreamloverinc.com

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Food, Meaning of Dreams about Food, Dream Interpretation Food)