Glossary of Spiritual and Religious Terms: Letter C

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Cabeiri: [Cabiri, Kabeiroi, Kabirs] "The eight Kabirs, those powerful, semitic, ineffable, and terribly divine Gods (who were later worshiped by the Greeks and Romans, and whose principal sanctuary was found always in Samothrace) are intimately related with the holy eight, with the sacred symbol of the infinite. The eight Kabirs are the children of Ephestus or Vulcan and an adorable daughter of Proteus. They were born from the sacred fire (that manifests itself within the terrible profundities of the Earth) by the forging action of Proteus upon that universal substance that naturally has the property of taking any form. These eight Kabirs are the fundamental intelligences of this Nature. They are the extraordinary regents of the great mysteries of life and death. According to a very ancient esoteric tradition, one of those eight Kabirs was assassinated by one of his own brothers; however, later on he was resuscitated with the help of Hermes. This reminds us of the symbolic death and resurrection of Hiram, Osiris, and Jesus that must be comprehended in depth by the M. M." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race
Cagliostro: "Cagliostro was a disciple of Count Saint Germain. Cagliostro was an alchemist; he transmuted the lead into gold and made genuine diamonds. This Master was known in the distinct places of the world, under different names in different countries. He was known with the following names: Tis-chio, Milissa, Belonte, DÌanna, Fenix, Pellegrini, Balsamo, Mesmer, Harut and Cagliostro. This famous historical lineage was recorded by Alexandre Dumas in his work entitled, The Queens Necklace. Cagliostro had many Alchemist disciples in Strasbourg. He was judged and persecuted by the Inquisition, sent into the bastille and later into the fortress of Leone. The Inquisition condemned him to death, but the enigmatic and powerful Count Cagliostro mysteriously disappeared from the prison. Death could not do anything to Cagliostro." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message
Caiaphas: The High Priest of the Christian Gospels who pushed for the crucifixion of Jesus. He symbolizes the Demon of Evil-will, one of the Three Traitors, and is related to the emotional center and the Lunar Astral Body.
Cain: (Hebrew קין) Kain, Qayin or Kayin. Son of Adam and Eve. The name Kahyin literally means, “to possess.” Cain, like all esoteric symbols, carries different meanings.

"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, saying, I have acquired a man from the Lord." - Genesis / Beresheet 4:1

"The mind is called Cain. The mind is a hunter. The mind is hunting for fortunes, social positions, fame. This mind is utilized by the know-it-all-scoundrels in order to triumph; they feel they are wise and powerful with that animal lunar mind that is well-cultivated. [...] We must kill Cain, which is the lunar mind. This mind is worthless and it must be eliminated. It must be killed because it is animalistic." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The third Root Race, the Lemurian people, arose (always by modification) from the Hyperborean. This race was the separating hermaphrodite Cain and Abel, which lived upon the gigantic continent of Mu, or Lemuria as it was later called, that was situated in the Pacific Ocean." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes

קין (Kuf, Iod, Nun-Sophit) means ‘smith’, as in metal-smith, or more precisely as in blade-smith, a required skill (or kenning = knowing) of Alchemy (the melting of metals). Thus the name (Cain) in the Book of Genesis is a descriptive appellation to Alchemists.
Cancer (illness): "(The zodiacal influence of) Cancer produces the sickness that carries its name. Cancer (the illness) is the Karma of fornicators." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

Universal Gnosticism presents to humanity several cures for the horrible illness of cancer. See the book Occult Medicine and Practical Magic by Samael Aun Weor.
Cancer (zodiac): (June 21 to July 22) The fourth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by the moon and related to the element water.

“The natives of Cancer are tenacious, and like the crab, they prefer to lose a leg than to lose their prey. The natives of Cancer triumph on long trips. During the first quarter of the moon and during full moons their enterprises are carried out successfully. The character of the natives of Cancer varies according to the cycles of the Moon. The natives of Cancer are romantic and sentimental but when they get angry, their anger is terrible.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic
Candlesticks: "The seven candlesticks which the Saint of Revelation saw are the seven churches of the spinal medulla." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony
Capricorn: (December 22nd to January 19th) The tenth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by the Saturn and related to the element earth.

“The natives of Capricorn are pessimistic and melancholic. The natives of Capricorn have a great aptitude for earning their daily bread. The natives of Capricorn are hardworking and industrious, and have a high sense of their own moral responsibility. A Judas who betrays them is never lacking during their lives. Every Capricorn has to go through a tragedy in love... a terrible betrayal of love.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic
Cathexis: A term commonly used by Sigmund Freud that refers to the psychic (sexual) energy invested in any particular mental formation.

"The psychic energy, cathexis, processing itself as an executive force, is formidable. The reserves of intelligence are the different parts of the Being and are denominated as bound cathexis or psychic energy in a potential and static state. The bound cathexis orients us in the work related with the disintegration of the ego and with the liberation of the mind. The bound cathexis, contained within the mind, guides us in the work related with Revolutionary Psychology and with Integral Revolution. The values of the Being constitute the bound cathexis. Only the bound cathexis can liberate the mind through the disintegration of the undesirable psychic elements which have been segregated by means of structural and transactional analysis. Bound cathexis is different from loose cathexis, since the latter is the psychic energy which the ego utilizes to dominate the mind and the body for its manifestation. We have to permit the bound cathexis (which is the dynamic psychic energy) to be the one to direct our existence. We have to work psychologically in order for the bound cathexis to enter into activity to dominate and govern the free cathexis. This free cathexis is the energy of the body which has always been pitifully dominated by the loose cathexis, which is the ego." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic
Causa Causarum: (Latin) "Cause of causes."
Causal Body: The Body of Conscious Will, related to Tiphereth and the Human Soul. And finally, it will be necessary to create the Egoitoorasiana body or the body of Will of the Being, which is the Causal body. - from Questions of Importance to Women
Causal World: The World of Causality or Conscious Will, which is related to the Sephirah Tiphereth in the region of the Sixth Dimension.
Celibacy: An unmarried state. Nowadays, this term is used incorrectly to refer to a state of renouncing sex.
Cellular Region: The physical world. (1st-3rd dimensions)
Centers, Seven: The human being has seven centers of psychological activity. The first five are the Intellectual, Emotional, Motor, Instinctive and Sexual Centers. However, through inner development one learns how to utilize the Superior Emotional and Superior Intellectual Centers. Most people do not use these two at all.
Chac-Mool: The Mayan god of rain, thunder, and abundance. This deity is seen carved on the footsteps of temples in a position that is useful for Astral travel. This is the Mayan deity associated with the Third Logos or Holy Spirit. It is the Mayan equivalent of Tlaloc. See: Tlaloc.
Chakra: (Sanskrit) Literally, "wheel." The chakras are subtle centers of energetic transformation. There are hundreds of chakras in our multi-dimensional physiology, but seven primary ones related to the awakening of consciousness.

"The chakras are points of connection through which the divine energy circulates from one to another vehicle of the human being." - Samael Aun Weor, Aztec Christic Magic
Chambers: In Universal Gnosticism, there are three levels of help and instruction. First Chamber is the public, introductory teaching. Second Chamber is for those who have committed themselves to Gnosis and the death of the ego. Second Chamber is kept secret as it is a sacred and profound trust. Third Chamber is an even more advanced level of help, which is also kept Hermetically Sealed. These Three Chambers reflect the universal nature of all true Initiatic Colleges: in Masonry the initiates of each level were called (1) Apprentice, (2) Journeyman or Craftsman, and (3) Master. In Tibet, the same system is preserved. It is important to note that Samael Aun Weor emphasized the necessity for the Three Chamber system and any school that does not maintain this structure is lacking the connection to the Logos Samael. Only those Institutions who maintain the Chambers can be said to be true Gnostic Schools, wherever they may be.

"We are therefore working, my dear brethren, to initiate the Era of Aquarius. We are working in order to save what is possible, meaning, those who allow themselves to be saved. This is why it is necessary that we shape our Gnostic Movements and that we organize them each time better; that we establish the Three Chambers. Our Gnostic Movements must have exactly Three Chambers. Each Lumisial must have Three Chambers for the instruction of our students. Our Gnostic Centers receive a name in a very pure language that flows like a river of gold that runs under the thick jungle of the sun; that name is LUMISIALS." - Samael Aun Weor, from a lecture entitled The Final Catastrophe and the Extraterrestrials

See also: The Three Chambers
Chaos: (Greek) There are three primary applications of this term.

"The first Chaos from which the cosmos emerged is between the Sephiroth Binah and Chesed. The second Chaos, from where the fundamental principles of the human being emerged, exists within Yesod-Mercury, which is the sexual human center. The third Chaos, the Infernal Worlds, exists below the Thirteenth Aeons in the region of Klipoth, in the underworld." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The Abyss (not the Inferior Abyss), or the "Great Deep." Personified as the Egyptian Goddess Neith. The Great Mother, the Immaculate Virgin from which arises all matter. The Chaos is WITHIN the Ain Soph. The primitive state of the universe. Esoterically, a reference to the semen, both in the microcosm and the macrocosm. Alchemically, it is said to be a mixture of water & fire, and it holds the seeds of the cosmos.
Charity: Sacrifice for suffering humanity. Loving-kindness towards all beings. One of the three primary factors for spiritual development.

"Charity is a matter of common sense. To give food to the hungry is something very humane, because even the prisoners have to eat, otherwise they would die of hunger. To give drink to the thirsty is something very logical, since it would be cruel to deny a glass of water to a thirsty person. To give a shirt to the naked is something very natural; to console the afflicted one is very humane; so, we do not needed judges for that. Nevertheless, it would be an absurdity to give alcohol to the drunkard, or to lend a weapon to an assassin. Love is law, but love with cognizance!" - Samael Aun Weor, Beyond Death
Chasmalim: (Hebrew) According to Kabbalah, a being related to the sephirah Chesed, equivilent to the Christian hierarchical levels of “Dominions” and “Powers.”
Chastity: Alchemical transmutation of the sexual energy while renouncing animal desire and the orgasm. Absolute chastity is perfectly clean and virtuous, free of lust and animal desire.
Chavajoth: "Chavajoth directs the negative ray of the Moon... Chavajoth has a physical body. Chavajoth is now reincarnated in Germany; he poses as a war veteran and works for the Great Black Lodge. In the inner worlds, the black magician Chavajoth dresses in a red tunic and wears a red turban. This demon cultivates the mysteries of black sexual magic in a tenebrous cavern. He has many European disciples." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

In relation with our personal psychology, Chavajoth, Chavayoth, or Chavayot is Kabbalistically read Chava-Iod; this means that Chava (the female power of the Holy Spirit - Eve, “the Mother of the Living” - the sexual organs) is through fornication rebelling against the “Iod” (the male willpower of the Holy Spirit in the pineal gland of Adam, the brain). Thus sex is dominating the brain.
Chela: (Sanskrit, from cheta, "servant") Literally, "child." A disciple, the pupil of a guru or sage.
Chemical Ether: One of the four ethers of the Ethereal Body. The chemical ether is related with all the processes of organic assimilation and nourishment.