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Libra Esoterica

The theosophical glossary

by Елена Петровна Блаватская, George Robert Stow Mead & Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • Content type: Primary source
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This is a classic collection of theosophical terms defined by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky for use in study of her many books and articles on theosophy and esoteric topics, including particularly Sanskrit and other ancient and not-so-ancient languages, as well as religious terms, including Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Gnostic, Egyptian, Greek, and others. Edited and published posthumously by G.R.S. MEAD specificly for the Theosophical Society.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.

  • Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “gnostic” in the description and “gnostic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Gnosticism”· via Open Library
    • “gnostic”· in description
    • “gnostic”· in subject
  • Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Theosophy”. Retained metadata contains “theosophical” in the title, “theosophical” in the description, “Theosophy” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Theosophy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Theosophy”· via Open Library
    • “theosophical”· in title
    • “theosophical”· in description
    • “Theosophy”· in description
    • “Theosophy”· in subject

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Editions

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Open Library record

1918Theosophical Publishing HouseEnglish—Public

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1892London : Theosophical Pub. Society; Theosophical Publishing SocietyEnglish—Public

Subjects

15 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Internet Archive
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL19577196W
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