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GLOSSARY 7
Adikrit (5k.). Lit., the" first produced" or made. The creative Force
eternal and uncreate, but manifesting periodically. Applied to Vishnu
slumbering on the U waters of space" during II pra-Iaya" (q.f).).
Adi·ndtha (5k.). The" fir'st" Lord "-Adi "first" (masc.), ndtk.
II Lord".
Adi.nidana (5k.). First and Supreme Causality, from Adi, the first,
and Niddna the principal cause (or the concatenation of cause and
effect).
A'di-Sakti (Sk.).. Primeval, divine Force j the female creative power,
and aspect in and of every male god. The Sakti in the Hindu Panthean
is always the sponse of some god.
Adi.Sanat (5k.). Lit., "First Ancient ". The term corresponds to the
Kabalistic U ancient of days ", since it is a title of BrahmA-ealled in the
Zohar the Atttekah d'Atteekeen, or II the Ancient of the Ancients ", etc.
Aditl (5k.). The Vedic name for the MaI.prakriti of the Vedftntists;
the abstract aspect of Parabrahman, though hath unmanifested and
unknowable. In the Vedas Aditi is the II Mother-Goddess", her terrestrial
symbol being infinite and shoreless space.
tditi-Gma. A compound term, Sanskrit and Latin" meaning dual,
nature in theosophical writings-spiritual and physical, as G.ea is the
goddess of the earth and of objeetive nature.
Aditya (5k.). A name of the Sun; as Mil:rttftnda, he is the Son of
Aditi. . ,
Adltyas (5k.). The seven sons of Aditi; the seven planetary gods.
:Adi Yarsha (5k.). The first land; the primordial country in which
dwelt the-first races.
Adonal (Reb.). The same as Adonis. Commonly translated II Lord ".
Astronomically-the Sun. \\'hen a Hebrew in reading came to the name
IHVH,'which is called Jehovah, he paused and substituted the word
II Adonai ", (Adni); but when written with the points of Alhim, he
called it II Elohim ". rw. w. ·w.]
Adonlm-Adonal, Adon. The ancient Chaldeo-Hebrew names for the
Elohim or creative terrestrial forces, synthesized by Jehovah.
Adwalta (5k.). A Ved1nt. sect. The non·dualistic (A.dwaita) school
of VedA-ntic philosophy founded by Sankarfl.cho.rya, the greatest of the
historical Brahmin sages. The 1\\'0 other schools are the Dwaita
(dualistic) and the Visishtadwaita; all the three call themselves Vedl\ntic.
Adwaltln (5k.). A follower of the said school.
Adytnm (Gr.). The Holy of Holies in the pagan temples. A name
for the secret and sacred precincts or the inner chamber, into which no