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agalma
(Language: Greek)
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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
(Language: Greek)
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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
(Language: Greek)
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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)
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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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ba
(Language: ancient Egyptian)
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manifestation of certain divine qualities, arranged in the descending and ascending hierarchy
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bios
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life, or a way of life
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daimon
(Language: Greek)
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it is an occult power that drives man forward or acts against him
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demiourgike seira
(Language: Greek)
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the vertical series of gods, irradiating in time from the Creator
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demiourgos
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‘craftsman’
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diadochos
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successor
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dialektike
(Language: Greek)
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dialectic
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dianoia
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discursive reason, mind
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dikaiosune
(Language: Greek)
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justice
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doxa
(Language: Greek)
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opinion
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dunamis
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power, capacity
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eidolon
(Language: Greek)
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image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost
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eidos
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visible shape, form, a kind of thing, the intelligible Form, or the noetic Idea, of Platonism
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eikon
(Language: Greek)
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image, icon
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ellampsis
(Language: Greek)
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irradiation, shining forth, manifestation, illumination, flowing from the principle as a cause
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episteme
(Language: Greek)
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knowledge
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epistrophe
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reversion, return
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epopteia
(Language: Greek)
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beholding of the secret symbols or epiphanies of the gods
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eros
(Language: Greek)
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love, sometimes personified as a deity, daimon, or cosmogonical, pedagogical and soteriological force, manifested in the process of demiurgy and within domain of providence
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eusebeia
(Language: Greek)
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piety, meritorious piety
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gnosis
(Language: Greek)
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knowledge
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goeteia
(Language: Greek)
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magic
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hairesis
(Language: Greek)
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taking, choice, course of action, election, decision
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hen (to hen)
(Language: Greek)
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the one
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henas
(Language: Greek)
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henad, unit
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henosis
(Language: Greek)
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unity
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hermaike seira
(Language: Greek)
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Hermaic chain
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hermeneus
(Language: Greek)
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interprter
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hieratike techne
(Language: Greek)
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namely the priestly art
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hierophantes
(Language: Greek)
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he who shows sacred things
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hieros logos
(Language: Greek)
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sacred tale, sacred word or book
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homoiosis theo
(Language: Greek)
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likeness to God
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huparxis
(Language: Greek)
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pure existence of a thing, an essential foundation
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hupodoche
(Language: Greek)
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reception
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hupostasis
(Language: Greek)
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standing under, sediment, foundation
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hupothesis
(Language: Greek)
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proposal, intention, argument, hypothesis, the premiss of a syllogism
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idea
(Language: Greek)
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the visual aspect of anything
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katharsis
(Language: Greek)
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purification, purgation of passions
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kosmos noetos
(Language: Greek)
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the intelligible cosmos of divine Forms and intellects, located between the One and the Soul
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logismos
(Language: Greek)
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numerical calculation, the power of reasoning, reason.
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maat
(Language: ancient Egyptian)
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measure, harmony, canon, justice and truth, shared by the gods and humans alike
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mania
(Language: Greek)
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madness, frenzy
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mathema
(Language: Greek)
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any study which a person may learn
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methexis
(Language: Greek)
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participation
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mimesis
(Language: Greek)
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imitation, representation
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morphe
(Language: Greek)
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shape
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mustagogia
(Language: Greek)
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an initiation into a mystery
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musteria
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the proceedings of initiation and sacred rites are called mysteries
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muthos
(Language: Greek)
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myth, tale
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noesis
(Language: Greek)
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intellection, thought, intellectual intuition
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nous
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intelligence, immediate awareness, intuition, intuitive intellect
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ochema
(Language: Greek)
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vehicle
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onoma
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a noun as distinct from a verb
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ousia
(Language: Greek)
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being, substance, nature, essence
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paideia
(Language: Greek)
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education, culture
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paradeigma
(Language: Greek)
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exemplar, paradigm, archetype, pattern, model
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paradosis
(Language: Greek)
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transmission, tradition
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peras
(Language: Greek)
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limit, boundary
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phantasia
(Language: Greek)
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imagination
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philosophia
(alternate spellings: philosophy)
(Language: Greek)
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love of wisdom
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phronesis
(Language: Greek)
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thought, understanding, practical wisdom, sagacity, prudence
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phusis
(Language: Greek)
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nature as opposed to the artificial
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pragmata
(Language: Greek)
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things
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pronoia
(Language: Greek)
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providence
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proodos
(Language: Greek)
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procession
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psuche
(alternate spellings: psyche)
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soul; breath of life, life-stuff
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seira
(Language: Greek)
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chain, series; the term
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skopos
(Language: Greek)
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aim, purpose, target
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sophia
(Language: Greek)
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wisdom
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sumbolon
(Language: Greek)
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symbol
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sunthema
(Language: Greek)
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token, passport, parole, symbol
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taxis
(Language: Greek)
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order, series
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telestike
(Language: Greek)
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one of the Neoplatonic names for theurgy and hieratic rituals
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telete
(Language: Greek)
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initiation, the rite of initiation
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theios aner
(Language: Greek)
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divine man, a god-like sage
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theologia
(alternate spellings: theology)
(Language: Greek)
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divine science, theology
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theoria
(Language: Greek)
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contemplation, theory
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theos
(Language: Greek)
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god
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theourgia
(alternate spellings: theurgy)
(Language: Greek)
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theurgy
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