Tactica Adversa
Tactically taking the most adverse conditionings into account in one’s planning. In the book Letters of Helena Roerich, Volume 2, (page 174) Mrs. Roerich states that
“The Great Minds, before carrying out a certain plan, foresee and take into consideration all the worst possible circumstances and conditions with which they may have to deal. Thus, when both the active ill will and the wavering free will of the fireflies, or the “lukewarm” ones, have been taken into account, there can be no failure. The plan is then fulfilled regardless of any circumstances. The evil ones and the dark ones, while thinking that they construct a prison, actually build a temple. Verily the Jinn build temples. Thus, we can say – praise to the enemies.”
Tamas
Ignorance, inertia, darkness. One of the three Gunas. See Gunas.
Tanmatras
The essence of the five elements, of which the type of perceptions associated with the five senses are aspects. Also, a measure of That, one of the changes in the Divine Consciousness producing a plane or tattva.
Tantra
The interrelation between male and female elements in yogic practices. Often debased into types of sex-yoga, especially in Hinduism where the Shakti or female element (desire for power) is especially espoused, thus they here serve as a basis for left hand practices. The objective of the Buddhist form of Tantricism concerns the union of the male-female (yin-yang) forces within the body so as to evoke the Wisdom (prajna) principle, not psychic powers. By this means the highest spiritual awareness is obtained. Tantras involve rituals, visualisation practices and mantrams, these are of a higher or a lower order.
Tao
Explained in the ancient Chinese text The Tao Te King. It is the basis to the Taoist philosophy, and can be equated with Moksha in the Buddhist philosophy.
Tapas
Generally taken to mean the austerities that are productive of contemplative insights, meditation. However, it literally refers to the practices that kindle the Inner Fires, the creative Fires or principle, that sustain the sum of the contemplative life of a being, rather than mere austerities and asceticism. Its equivalent in the Tibetan language is Tum-mo, meaning “psychic heat”.
Tara
The consort of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Alaya Avalokitesvara, the “downward looking One”. There are generally depicted two Taras, a green one and a white one, with slightly different qualities. Tara is the Buddhist equivalent of the Holy Mary of Catholics, and is the most popular of all the Deities to the Tibetan laiety. The word can be translated as “Mother of mercy, of sympathetic and compassionate understanding”. Tara has a specific concern for the sufferings of all women.
Tat, That
The immutable, the unfathomable, the essence of all Being or Non-Being.
Tatagatha
The highest epithet of the Buddha.
Tattva
The categories or principles of existence, the five elements, senses, etc.
Tau
The Tau cross (T), the symbol of the third Root Race. It is the base or support for the life principle.
Teraphim
Basically, a teraph is a talisman that is saturated with precipitations of psychic energy. They often acted as oracles in the past, if charged with the magnetised thought energy of a Seer. Charms laced with magical spells, oracle bones, crystals etc., can all act as teraphim. They can be embodied with astral entities of a low order, or else be charged with the highest fires and Dævic lives, according to the level of the knowledge of the Seer. Their use to psychically protect beings from nefarious psychic influences, dark brotherhood emanations, as well to effect healing effects should be noted. Of course, the dark brotherhood also have their own versions of such magical aids.
Teros
Synonymous with spirit, motion, light, which opposes Tamas, meaning inertia, matter or ignorance.
Tetragrammaton
The four lettered name of God, in Hebrew, Yod-He-Vau-He. (Yehovah).
Tetraktys
The “Sacred Four” in Pythagorean mathematics. When added together, the numbers add to the number ten, the number of God.
THAT Logos
(From the word Tat, or That, explained above.) This can be considered the Supreme God, from the perspective that He embodies the sum of the (88) Constellations that can be seen in the Night sky and which are depicted in any map of the heavens. He can be considered the Grand Heavenly Man, and is equated with “the One about whom Naught may be Said”. For all Solar Logoi, and the Logoi of the various Constellations are but Chakras within the Nadi System of this Great Being, to which the highest enlightened Being on this Earth is still aspiring to travel. Nought may be Said about the Purpose or Cosmic Direction of That Logos, but much can be Said concerning the Internal constitution of His Body of Manifestation, for this is indeed within the ken of all who have taken their fourth Initiation or greater. This concerns the Realms of Monadic evolution, and the Cosmic Paths that liberated Beings from our Solar System must travel once they have evolved past the conditionings associated with Solar Evolution. Like all incarnate Beings, THAT Logos Reincarnates from cycle to cycle, and as He does so, so All within His Body of manifestation go through their many cycles of birth and death. The Monad evolves in accordance to the Durations associated with Those Grand Incarnations.
THAT Logos is but a member of a Cosmic Humanity of similar Beings that together constitute the sum of our Galactic cluster. There are thus even Greater Logoi (Absolute God?), but they are so far removed from even our Monadic Lives that consideration of them serves little purpose, except in terms of Universals and Abstractions. The word That implies that which is not the “personal” self, and has an esoteric inference to the qualities of a Throne or seat of Power which becomes the basis for the ability of a Logos to incarnate into a dense form (the created Universe).
Thaumaturgy
Miracle making by means of the use of magic.
Theurgia
Knowledge, or communication with the Deva (angelic) kingdom, or of any of the Deities or forms of Life in the inner realms.
Thoth
The Ibis headed Egyptian God of Wisdom, the scribe of the Gods, the recorder of their Words of Power, identified with Hermes, from whence the appellation Hermes Trismegistes, “Hermes thrice Greatest.”
Three Worlds
The mental, astral, and physical realms, wherein the sum of the human personality finds scope for evolutionary attainment.
Throat Centre
See Visuddha Chakra.
Tiphereth
In Kabbalism, Beauty, the sixth of the ten Sephiroth.
Titans
The Giants of the ancient Greek religion. They were the elemental cosmic Forces who who made war against the Gods (who embodied formed Space). Prometheus was one of them.
Tree of Life
(See the book of Genesis.) This represents the central spinal column, with the nerves radiating from it. But more specifically, it represents the nadi system that roughly corresponds to this network of nerves.
Treta Yuga
The second of the great ages (yugas). A period said to be of 1,296,000 years.
Tri-dasha
Three times ten, making the number thirty.
Trikaya
The three Bodies of a Buddha or liberated Being. They are Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya, as explained previously.
Trimurti
The three forms or faces of Deity in One, in the Hindu philosophy – Brahma, the Mother/Creator, Vishnu the Son/Preserver, and Shiva the Father/Destroyer.
Trinity
The three aspects of God in One, the Father-Son-Mother Unity. Can also be seen as the three aspects of the Spiritual Triad – atma-buddhi-manas; or any other triplicity, such as Spirit-Soul-Personality.
Triratna
The three “precious jewels” in Buddhism, the Buddha (or spiritual teacher), the Dharma (the teaching) and the Sangha, the community of monks.
Trishna
The eighth Nidana. It can be considered the energy that is directed by karma and strives to create a new being. Taken as the thirst for sentient existence.
Trishula
Shiva’s three-pronged trident. Compare this to Neptune’s trident. It is a symbol of yogic prowess.
Turiya
A state of deepest meditative trance.
Typhon
The Egyptian serpent Deity that was the shadow of Osiris, often made to be the personification of evil.
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