(Hebrew דעת means knowledge) This term is synonymous with the Greek Gnosis. The hidden sphere in the Tree of Life. Daath is the Tree of Knowledge, which is related to sexuality. To learn more about Daath, listen to: Daath: The Door to Knowledge (1)

"My son, hearken to my wisdom [חכמה Chokmah]; incline your ear to my understanding [בונה Binah], to watch [your] thoughts, and your lips shall guard knowledge [דעת Daath]. - Proverbs 5

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Daath-Gnosis): because thou hast rejected knowledge (Daath-Gnosis), I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4: 6 

(Greek) Not to be confused with the Christian term ‘demon.’ The Daemon of Socrates is the inner instructor, the Divine Spirit who guides the soul to perfection. In the original Hermetic works the name has a meaning identical with that of “god,” “angel,” or “genius.” The name was given by ancient people to all kinds of spirits, whether good or bad.

A title, which means "Ocean of Wisdom," given by a Mongol leader to the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is interesting to notice that in Hebrew "wisdom" is Chokmah, the Son, and that the initiates of the Straight Path incarnate the Christ (Chokmah, Wisdom) who is the same as Vishnu in Hinduism, the same as Avalokiteshvara. The Dalai Lamas are the lineage of spiritual and temporal leaders of Tibet, begun in the 14th century by Tsong Khapa. They are chosen by investigations into their inner identity, which is always determined by qualified lamas or priests. There have been fourteen Dalai Lamas.

"The Dalai Lamas have not always integrated completely with Divinity. However, the Dalai Lamas are adepts in the complete sense of the word." - Samael Aun Weor.

In The Story of Tibet, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama said, "If someone asks me whether I am the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama," he said, "Then I answer, without hesitation, yes. This does not mean that I am the same being as the previous Dalai Lama. Some Dalai Lamas are a manifestation of Mahjushri. Some are a manifestation of Chenrizi... I have a special connection with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Fifth Dalai Lama. I have felt some kind of karmic relations or connections even with the Buddha... we might have been born in the same time during a past life; a teacher and a student; or a ruler and a subject or we might even have been spiritual friends."

According to classical mythology, Damocles so persistently praised the power and happiness of Dionysius that the tyrant, in order to show the precariousness of rank and power, gave a banquet and had a sword suspended above the head of Damocles by a single hair. Hence the expression “the sword of Damocles” to mean an ever-present peril.

A French historian and linguist who lived in Tibet for fourteen years and became a Buddhist Lama during a period in which foreigners were not allowed into the country. She studied Tantrism with great enthusiasm, meeting yogis, hermits and lamas including the famous Thirteenth Dalai Lama. She spent many years in meditation retreats and wrote extensively of her experiences in many books.

The capital sins, whose combinations result in millions of various psychological problems.

"Analyze all the human defects and you will see that they all have their foundation in desire." - The Aquarian Message

There are two main types of demons: those who are aware they are demons, who are awakened in evil and for evil, and those who are not aware they are demons, who are asleep.

"Millions of women and distinguished gentlemen, who are presently living on this world, do not have their Innermost (Spirit), and are therefore perverse demons, even though they still have physical bodies. The human being becomes a demon when the psychological “I” attains absolute control of the four bodies of sin (physical, ethereal, astral and mental), then the Innermost (the Spirit) withdraws from him... When somebody who has a physical body enters into the abyss, the Antakarana, which is the thread that connects the fourth and fifth human principles, is broken. Those inferior quaternaries which are separated from the spiritual triad become demons.
When a soul is very perverse, the Spirit abandons that soul. These people without Spirit are demons. Therefore, when the Spirit definitively abandons the body, the person passes through death, even though he may still be physically alive. Then, the name of this Spirit figures in the book of the deceased. Presently, there are many people who already do not have the Spirit (the Innermost). Whosoever loses the Innermost becomes a demon, and every demon belongs to the abyss." - The Aquarian Message

(Sanskrit: pratityasamutpada) Twelve successive phases of the process of cause and effect. Also called the Twelve Nidanas. A full explanation can be found in our Online Karma Course.

In the lecture “The Mysteries of Life and Death ," Samael Aun Weor describes the Davachan as “a region of ineffable happiness in the World of the Universal Superior Mind.” And in "Mental Representations ," he says, "The dead commonly waste much time in the Devachan. I will not deny that this Devachan is a place of happiness and delights, but the figures that make life in the Devachan agreeable are merely living representations of the families, parents, and friends they left on Earth. In one word, the forms of the Devachan are living mental representations, or effigies. They result in a bizarre nature, that is why I say they waste too much time in the Devachan, but they are happy in this place. They feel accompanied by the loved ones they left on Earth. They do not even remotely notice that this world of happiness is full of mental effigies. If they noticed, they would lose the Devachan for themselves."

\DEVI or Maheswari or Parasakti is the Supreme Sakti or Power of the Supreme Being. When Vishnu and Mahadeva destroyed various Asuras, the power of Devi was behind them. Devi took Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra and gave them necessary Sakti to proceed with the work of creation, preservation, and destruction. Devi is the Creatrix of the universe. She is the Universal Mother. Durga, Kali, Bhagavati, Bhavani, Ambal, Ambika, Jagadamba, Kameswari, Ganga, Uma, Chandi, Chamundi, Lalita, Gauri, Kundalini, Tara, Rajeswari, Tripurasundari, etc., are all Her forms. She is worshipped, during the nine days of the Dusserah as Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati. Devi is the Mother of all. The pious and the wicked, the rich and the poor, the saint and the sinner—all are Her children. Devi or Sakti is the Mother of Nature. She is Nature Itself. The whole world is Her body. Mountains are Her bones. Rivers are Her veins. Ocean is Her bladder. Sun, moon are Her eyes. Wind is Her breath. Agni is Her mouth. She runs this world show. - Swami Sivananda, Devi

(Sanskrit) In Patajali's Yoga, dharana is the fourth step, "concentration."

“When a Bodhisattva renounces all of his psychic powers, when he radically eliminates the false idea that in order to be happy he needs something external, then a particular knowledge, a marvelous resplendence, will come upon him. In occultism this is called Dharma Megha (“cloud of virtue”).  These types of Bodhisattvas can no longer fall; these types of Bodhisattvas possess within themselves all of the basis of knowledge; they enjoy the most profound peace, and from their hearts spring the substance of love.” - The Doomed Aryan Race

"Only those who possess the Dharmakaya body, the Law-body, the body which is Substance-Being, can enter into the Temple of the Unmanifested Cosmic Mother... Those who enter into the bosom of the Great Reality possess the glorious body of Dharmakaya. Those who possess the body of Dharmakaya submerge themselves within the joy of life, free in its movement." - from The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

See also "Kayas."

(Sanskrit, "Guardian of the teaching") "Precisely the Dharmapalas, or legion of great Masters of Strength, are intensely working in order to eject the Chinese Communists from Tibet." - Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

(Sanskrit; Tibetan sampten; Pali: jhana; Chinese: Ch’an; Japanese: zenna or zen) The Sanskrit term refers to “meditation,” but is used to mean mental stability and active meditative contemplation on the nature of an object.

1. In Hinduism, Dhyana is the fifth of the six stages of Patanjali’s yoga, and refers to state of conscious stillness, with perfect concentration on the object of meditation.  From this, the sixth stage of Samadhi can be reached.

2. In Buddhism, Dhyana is the fifth of the six Paramitas (perfections). In Tibetan, the term sampten or bsam gtan means “definitive” or “established,” because this is the basis from which all conscious realizations are reached.

(Sanskrit) “Meditation Buddha.” Any one of the five symbolic aspects of the Buddha, often presented as “enlightened families” of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. These five Buddha families symbolize the fully developed consciousness related to the purified skandhas.

Polyvision; the eye of omniscience that awakens when the sacred fire opens the Seventh Church called Laodicea; the crown of the saints.

(Greek) In esoteric psychology, the third of the Four States of Consciousness. In the Fourth Way schools, it is called Self-remembering, and is a state of actively directed conscious attention.

"Dianoia" was used by Plato to signify "understanding or intellectual activity" as a discursive process, in contrast with the immediate apprehension characteristic of noesis (related to Nous, the Fourth State of Consciousness).

"Dianoia is the intellectual revision of beliefs, analysis, conceptual synthesis, cultural-intellectual consciousness, scientific thought etc. Dianoetic thought studies phenomena and establishes laws. Dianoetic thought studies the inductive and deductive systems with the purpose of using them in a profound and clear way. " - The Perfect Matrimony

Ever since the Divine Comedy was written, some seven centuries ago, there have been piles of books written commenting upon the works of Dante, but especially the Divine Comedy. Dante Alaghieri was born in 1265 in Florence, Italy. What is known of his life is based on scraps of documentary evidence: a little note here, a reference there. Otherwise, all that is known is what scholars have assumed based on his works. While many scholars and readers have noticed that Dante seems particularly mystical, none identified him as an initiate of the mystery schools. For until very recently, only those who were initiated into such schools could recognize the works of another educated in those esoteric sciences. Dante was in fact writing a work that would have gotten him killed had he written it openly. Dante himself said that the “letter is fiction, and the truth is found in the allegory alone.” Thus for centuries scholars and philosophers have expounded theory upon theory attempting to understand this complex and deeply woven poem, and most, if not all, agree that they appreciate it’s beauty, but never managed to penetrate it’s inner meaning. None have captured the truth of his allegory. The Divine Comedy, as the greatest work produced by Dante, is then a great work of initiatic wisdom. In it we can find an outline of the complete path of the Bodhisattva, a path traveled by very few beings of this humanity. In this work he describes in depth the path that one must walk in order to redeem the soul and claim a place in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is not a ‘comedy’ in the way we understand it: the term used to mean something that had a happy ending, and that was written in a humble and everyday style.

Summary of The Divine Comedy: “In exposition, says Dante, "always the literal must come first"; and he adds, describing his interpretation of his own canzoni, "I shall discourse first of the literal meaning, and after that shall treat of the allegorical, that is, the hidden truth." We may pursue the same course. Literally, then, the Divina Commedia is the narrative of a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The poet, in the middle of his life, finds himself astray at night in a dark wood. He tries to save himself by climbing a mountain whose top is lit by the rays of the rising sun; but three beasts, besetting his path, are about to drive him back, when Virgil, summoned to Dante's help by Beatrice, at the bidding of Mary and St. Lucia, appears and offers to guide him. They can escape from the wood only by going through the earth from side to side. This path leads them through the whole of Hell, where Dante sees the punishment of every kind of sin and converses with the damned. Hell ends at the earth's center, and from that point the poets climb out by a dark, undescribed channel to the opposite hemisphere. They emerge in the middle of the ocean, on the shore of an island which consists mainly of a colossal mountain. Cato of Utica, the guardian of the place, meets and directs them. Up the steep mountain-side Dante drags himself, still accompanied by Virgil. On the ledges are repentant souls preparing themselves by discipline for the heavenly life. As Dante and Virgil are approaching the summit, they are joined by Statius, who has just completed his penance. The three mount together to the top, where they find the Garden of Eden, and in it a fair, happy, amorous young maiden, Matelda, who seems to embody the spirit of the place. Amid the trees and flowers they witness a pageant of the Church, or Triumph of Revelation, whose culmination is the appearance of Beatrice in a shower of lilies thrown by angels. Now Virgil vanishes, and presently Statius is mentioned for the last time. Beatrice it is who leads Dante up from earth through the revolving heavens into the real Paradise, which is the presence of the Almighty, and consigns him to St. Bernard, the great mystic. The poem ends with a vision of the Trinity.” The Divine Comedy reflects, according to Dante himself, a previous work of similar nature: the Aenied, written by the Roman poet Virgil, who in Dante’s time was universally regarded as the wisest man in history. And in the sixth book of the Aeneid, the hero must travel through the regions of the underworld.

The feminine aspect of the Monad, related to the sephirah Geburah. Also called Buddhi.

The obligation of the Tithe, in its Exoteric or public aspect... is the universal obligation which all the brethren of the Path have, which is to loyally contribute part of their income (that should not be inferior to the Tithe) in a Free And Eligible Way, according to what the brethren judge to be more opportune and effective in order to support the Cause of Truth and Justice...

The tithe in its Esoteric or secret aspect symbolizes the Scale of payments in the Sphere of Neptune...

It is unquestionable that here we have to arrange affairs with the enemies of the King Licos (the Lords of KARMA).

It is indubitable that we assassinated the God Mercury, HIRAM, and it is not possible to resuscitate him within ourselves, without previously having paid for this abject crime...

Therefore, the Tithe becomes a practical and necessary complement of the dynamic principle which emanates from the profound study of the Tenth Commandment, in other words: We must consider the mysterious YOD which is hidden in the middle of the Central Delta of the Sanctuary of our Being, as a fountain, spring and spiritual Providence of all the interior and divine centers of our life...

This point of the Tithe is clarified with the words of the Gospel: “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also... - (Matthew 6: 20-21)

Malachi: 3: 10 says: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now here-with, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” – The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor

(Sanskrit) The destructive or ferocious aspect of the Divine Mother.

The Highest Yoga Tantra of the Tibetan tradition, and synonymous with Universal Gnosticism. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, "According to the Nyingma tradition, Dzogchen is the most profound of all the vehicles leading to enlightenment... but unless the practitioner has the capacity to understand the teachings properly, mistaken views can easily develop... Without a deep intellectual and experiential foundation...[it] can easily lead to confusion." The same may be said of Gnosis.

Padmasambhava said, "[Dzogchen] is the secret, unexcelled cycle of the supreme vehicle [of Tantra], the true essence of the definitive meaning; the short path for attaining Buddhahood in one life." Based in developing the powers of visualization in meditation, and rooted in the establishment of perfect control over attention, Dzogchen harnesses the nature of all experience through profound conscious transformation of all impressions, and is enforced and realized through the supreme methods of White Tantrism, or the perfect transformation of the vital energies.