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THEOSoPHICAL
AiD Soph (Heb.). The H Boundless" or Limitless; Deity emanating
and extending. [w. w. wo]
Ain Soph is also written En Soph and A in Supk, no one, not even
Rabbis, being sure of their vowels. In the religious metaphysics of the
old Hebrew philosophers, the ONE Principle was an abstraction, like
Parabrahmam,. though modern Kabbalists have succeeded now, by dint of
mere sophistry and paradoxes, in making a "Supreme God" of it and
nothing higher. But with the early Chaldean Kabbalists Ain Soph is
"without form or being", having "no likeness with anything else"
(Franck, Die Kabbala, p. 126); That Ain Soph has never been considered
as the H Creator" is proved by even such an orthodox Jew as Philo
calling the" Creator" the Logos, who stands next the H Limitless One ",
and the" Second God ". U The Second God is its (Ain Soph's) wisdom ",
says Philo (Quaest. et Solftt.). Deity is NO-THING; it is nameless, and
therefore called Ain Soph j the word Ain meaning NOTHING. (See
F1anck's Kabbala, p. '53 If.)
Ain Soph Anr (Heb.). The Boundless Light which concentrates
into the First and highest Sephira or Rether, the Crown. {w. w. w.]
Airyamen Vaego (Zend). Or Airyana Vaego; the primeval land of
bliss referred to in the Vendiddd, where Ahura Mazda delivered his 'laws
to Zoroaster (Spitama Zarathustra).
Airyana-ishejil (Zend). The name of a prayer to the "holy
Airyamen ", the divine aspect of Ahriman before the latter became a
dark opposing power, a Satan. For Ahriman is of the same essence
with Ahura Mazda, just as',Typhon-Seth is of the same essence with
Osiris (q.v.).
Aish (Heb.). The wOld for" Man ".
Aisvarikas (Sk.). A theistic school of Nepaul, which sets up Adi
Buddha as a supreme god (Isvara), instead of seeing in the name that
of a principle, an abstract philosophical symbol.
Aitareya (Sk.). The name of an Aranyaka (Brahmana) and a
Upanishad of the Rig Veda. Some of its portions are purely VedAntic.
Aith-ur (Chald.). Solar fire, divine lEther
Aja (Sk.). "Unborn ", uncreated;' an epithet belonging to many of
the primordial gods, but especially to the first Logos-a radiation of the
Absolute on the plane of illusion.
Ajitas (Sk.). One of the Occult names of the twelve great gods in·
carnating in each Manvantara. The Occultists identify them with the
Kumaras. They are called jnana (or Gnfma) Devas. Also, a form of
Vishnu in the second Manvantara. Called also Jayas.
Ajnana (Sk.) or Agyana (Sellgali). Non.knowledge; absence of