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."Mediumship" is a kind of vulgarizedmediatorship in which one afflicted with this faculty is supposed to becomean agent of communication between a living man and a departed "Spirit."There exist regular methods of training for the development of thisundesirable acquirement.Page 161 The Key To Theosophy - HP Blavatsky.txtMerkabah (Heb.)A chariot.The Cabalists say that the Supreme, after he had established theten Sephiroth-which, in their totality, are Adam Kadmon, the Archetypal Man,used them as a chariot or throne of glory in which to descend upon the soulsof men.Mesmerism The term comes from Mesmer, who rediscovered this magnetic forceand its practical application toward the year 1775, at Vienna.It is a vitalcurrent that one person may transfer to another; and through which heinduces an abnormal state of the nervous system that permits him to have adirect influence upon the mind and will of the subject or mesmerized person.Metaphysics From the Greek meta, beyond, and physica, the things of theexternal material world.It is to forget the spirit and hold to the deadletter, to translate it beyond nature or supernatural, as it is ratherbeyond the natural, visible, or concrete.Metaphysics, in ontology andphilosophy is the term to designate that science which treats of the realand permanent being as contrasted with the unreal, illusionary, orphenomenal being.Microcosm The "little" Universe meaning man, made in the image of hiscreator, the Macrocosm, or "great" Universe, and containing all that thelatter contains.These terms are used in Occultism and Theosophy.Mishnah (Heb.) Lit., "a repetition" from the word Shânâh, "to repeat"something said orally.A summary of written explanations from the oraltraditions of the Jews and a digest of the Scriptures on which the laterTalmud was based.Moksha (Sans.) The same as Nirvana; a postmortem state of rest and bliss ofthe "Soul-pilgrim."Monad It is the Unity, the One; but in occultism it often means the unifiedduad, Atma-Buddhi-or that immortal part of man which incarnating in thelower kingdoms and gradually progressing through them to Man, finds thenceway to the final goal-Nirvana.Monas (Gr.) The same as the Latin Monad, "the only," a Unit.In thePythagorean system the Duad emanates from the higher and solitary Monas,which is thus the First Cause.Monogenes (Gr.) Literally, the "only-begotten," a name of Proserpine andother gods and goddesses, as also of Jesus.Mundakya Upanishad (Sans.) Lit., the "Mundaka esoteric doctrine." A work ofhigh antiquity; it has been translated by Raja Ram Mohun Roy.Mysteries, Sacred They were enacted in the ancient temples by the initiatedHierophants for the benefit and instruction of candidates.The most solemnand occult were certainly those which were performed in Egypt by "the bandof secret-keepers," as Mr.Bonwick calls the Hierophants.Maurice describestheir nature very graphically in a few lines.Speaking of the Mysteriesperformed in Philae (the Nile-island), he says:It was in these gloomy caverns that the grand mystic arcana of the goddess(Isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn ofinitiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses.The word mystery is derived from the Greek mu , "to close the mouth," andevery symbol connected with them had a hidden meaning.As Plato and many ofthe other sages of antiquity affirm, these mysteries were highly religious,moral, and beneficent as a school of ethics.The Grecian Mysteries, those ofPage 162 The Key To Theosophy - HP Blavatsky.txtCeres and Bacchus, were only imitations of the Egyptian, and the author ofEgyptian Belief and Modern Thought informs us that our own word "chapel orcapella is said to be the caph-el or college of El, the solar divinity." Thewell-known Cabiri are associated with the mysteries.In short, the Mysteries were in every country a series of dramaticperformances, in which the mysteries of Cosmogony and nature in general werepersonified by the priests and neophytes, who enacted the parts of variousgods and goddesses, repeating supposed scenes (allegories) from theirrespective lives.These were explained in their hidden meaning to thecandidates for initiation and incorporated into philosophical doctrines.Mystery Language The sacerdotal secret "jargon" used by the initiatedpriests, and employed only when discussing sacred things.Every nation hadits own "mystery" tongue, unknown to all save those admitted to theMysteries.Mystic From the Greek word mysticos.In antiquity, one belonging to thoseadmitted to the ancient mysteries; in our own times, one who practicesmysticism, holds mystic, transcendental views, etc.Mysticism Any doctrine involved in mystery and metaphysics, and dealing morewith the ideal worlds than with our matter-of-fact, actual universe.Nazarene Codex The Scriptures of the Nazarenes and of the Nabotheans also
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