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Japa: (or Japam) A spiritual discipline in which a devotee repeats a mantra or the name of the God. The repetition can be aloud or just the movement of lips or in the mind. This spiritual practice is present in the major religions of world. This is considered as one of the most effective spiritual practices.
Archdemon, a powerful demon in some spiritual writings; Argenteum Astrum; Aries, an astrological sign; Ariolation, soothsaying or prophecy; Ariosophy; Arithmancy; Armanen runes, runes created by the Nazi occultist Guido von List, which he claimed to represent a series of alleged Aryan mythical kings; Armomancy, divination through a person's arm ...
It is presided over by a specific deity and imbued with spiritual and occult powers. The term came to denote any weapon that was released from the hand (such as an arrow), compared to holding it (such as a sword). The bearer of an astra is an astradhari (Sanskrit: अस्त्रधारी, romanized: astradhārī). [1]
A magical alphabet, or magickal alphabet, [1] is a set of letters used primarily in occult magical practices and other esoteric traditions.These alphabets serve various purposes, including conducting rituals, creating amulets or talismans, casting spells, and invoking spiritual entities. [2]
Holmes, Ernest (2010) New Thought Terms and Their Meanings: A Dictionary of the Terms and Commonly Used in Metaphysical and Psychological Study. Martino Publishing. Fillmore, Charles (1997). The Revealing Word: a dictionary of metaphysical terms. Unity Books. ISBN 0-87159-006-9
Lexically, chakra is the Indic reflex of an ancestral Indo-European form *kʷékʷlos, whence also "wheel" and "cycle" (Ancient Greek: κύκλος, romanized: kýklos). [10] [3] [4] It has both literal [11] and metaphorical uses, as in the "wheel of time" or "wheel of dharma", such as in Rigveda hymn verse 1.164.11, [12] [13] pervasive in the earliest Vedic texts.
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Peirce divided metaphysics into (1) ontology or general metaphysics, (2) psychical or religious metaphysics, and (3) physical metaphysics. Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) – French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson considered change to be the fundamental nature of reality.