agalma
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image, cult-statue, ornament, shrine, object of worship, something in which one takes delight
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aisthesis
(Language: Greek)
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sensation, perception, as an opposite of intellection (noesis), understanding and pure thought; more loosely – any awareness
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akh
(Language: Ancient Egyptian)
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the ancient Egyptian term for intelligence, spiritual light, illumination, irradiation
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anagoge
(Language: Greek)
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ascent, elevation, bringing up
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anamnesis
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literally, a "lifting up of the mind"
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anthropos
(Language: Greek)
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man
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apatheia
(Language: Greek)
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impassivity or freedom from emotions, understood as a philosophical virtue
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apeiron
(Language: Greek)
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(apeiros, apeiria): lacking of limit, unlimitted
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aporrhetos
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secret, prohibited, unspeakable
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apotheosis
(Language: Greek)
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divinization; in the esoteric sense it is accomplished by the philosophical purification and theurgical anagoge which reveals one’s primal and true identity with the divine principles
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arche
(Language: Greek)
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beginning, starting point, authority, government, heart, principle
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arete
(Language: Greek)
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exellence, goodness, virtue
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arithmos
(Language: Greek)
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number
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arrhetos
(Language: Greek)
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ineffable, unspeakable
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ascesis
(alternate spellings: askesis)
(Language: Greek)
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"exercise, practice, training," as of an athlete; spiritual exercises
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autozoon
(Language: Greek)
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essential living Being
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