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HAD
Another name for Set.
HADIT
The Chaldean version of Set, according to Grant,
and the divine seed of manifestation (the divine spermatozoon or serpent). As
Nuit, according to Crowley, is "infinite space," so Hadit is the infinitely
small or atomic center. By extension, Hadit is the equivalent of Lucifer, who is
his own Holy Guardian Angel and the "seed" of our hell-world. Hadit can also be
the manifestation of Nuit, as the child, Horus, is the manifestation of the
Mother. The Isis-Horus connection to Xtian madonna and child, after all, is well
established.
Finally, Hadit can stand for the entire Aeon that humanity has just endured:
The Age of Pisces, Christ, Buddha, Mohammed and Osiris.
HADITH
The ancient narrative, prophetic tradition and
written code of Islam.
HADDO
Crowley's name in Somerset Maugham's roman à
clef, The Magician.
HAI
(Hé, or "window.") Another name for Yog-Sothoth, the
window to the other universe.
HALLELUJAH
Usually translated as "Praise the
Lord;" actually "Praise ye Jehovah."
HALLOWE'EN
Contemporary America has recently begun to reverse its saccharine
tendency to allow this holiday (see SAMUIN)
to degenerate into a nursery excursion for the amusement of two-year-olds. But
it still has far to go if it is to answer its deepest thanaterotic bloodcall.
For this is the night when the King of Death causes evil souls to assume animal
shapes and to offer horror as the antidote to fear. We would drink the cup of
henbane, dine with vampyre and hop with horned toad. We would go to any length
to avoid Middle America's vapid sop to carnivals past. We can sympathize with
Poe's need to inform us of the hapless M. Valdemaar who was hypnotized into
remaining alive, even though his body had already begun to rot. We can
understand Burroughs's compulsion to have us shudder deliciously over his
Cities of the Red Night and its corrupt fornications bred of death and
disease. If these be but scarecrows, why does real blood spurt from their
severed limbs? We see here (closed eyelids affording no obstruction of the inner
eye's vision) the fulfillment of all necrotic fantasy as we arrive at the other
extreme of this dark spectrum, in Sacheverell Sitwell's Journey to the Ends
of Time the 3-faced babe, the thing with no body but arms and legs growing
out of the head like a spider, the bewitching infans deformis bicorporeus
monocephalus et janiceps and all the other hideous postnatalities. So much
for children's holidays.
HANGED MAN, THE
The 12th Arcanum, lettered Mem.
This is the sacrificed God (Odin, Christ, etc.). We should observe that the
figure is upside-down: divine consciousness brought to earth. In other words the
sacrifice is the transformation of hell. Every magician is a Hanged Man. the
purpose of the Will is to surrender it to the service of higher energy. The
letter Mem refers to the "water" in which self is dissolved. Everything is
composed of twelve basic components, every act of twelve steps, every wheel of
12 spokes. Therefore, the Hanged Man is the crown of the earth experience.
Thirteen is the harvest of the completed twelve, the cosmic acceptance of the
sacrifice. Hereafter, the soul moves on the second half of the Tarot's wheel. In
Crowley's terms, this is the "Son Slain," one of the aspects of Life.
HANSA (KALAHAMSA)
White goose or swan, vehicle of the
Asvins. Corresponds in the West to the pelican of alchemy.
HAOMA
Ancient Persian divinity choosing to manifest as
a sacred (psychedelic?) plant (similar to, if not the same as) the Hindu soma.
Mixed with milk and water it conferred immortality.
HEALING
Once a conscious effort has successfully
warded off an impending disease, the disease will immediately seek re-entry via
the pathways of the unconscious, through some new area of neglect or even
through the very point of weakness whose sentry has just been discharged as "no
longer necessary." (Also see PREMISE.)
HEART
The heart was the center of instinct and the
precious kernel of immortality and it was this which was weighed in the balance
against the feather of truth, known as Maat. For the Ancient Egyptians the
purpose of life was the perception of Truth which could only be gained by the
cultivation of discernment and the guiding of the instincts. This was the whole
meaning of initiation. Everything served that end. So the heart of enlightenment
was the cultivation of discernment. To fail to develop this power of perception
was the greatest sin and carried the automatic penalty of that heart's immediate
and total annihilation. (Adapted from R. G. Torrens's The Golden Dawn, The
Inner Teachings.
HEAVEN
The positive spiral. The condition of the
world as seen through the lens of mysticism or magic mushroom. All infinite
connections bespeak a shimmering reflection of the holomovement in the
individual points of light. The celestial nature of the lesser worlds is clearly
seen to sparkle all the way through to their deepest, richest interiors.
HECATE
The goddess of the new moon or darkness (as
opposed to Diana, goddess of light of the full moon).
HEBDOMAD
(The sphere of the Demiurge, lower than
the Ogdoad.) Seven divides perfectly into the elemental quaternity from the 28
days of the lunar month. Set of seven, as the seven planets, the seven metals,
Shakespeare's seven ages of man. In Mithraism: the 7 ceremonial steps. The
Ziggurat of seven-metalled planes. Stairway of Alchemy: Quicksilver, Copper,
Iron, Tin, Lead, Silver, Gold -- corresponding to the successive triads of the
Tarot. The Gnostics and others claimed that the elohim were the seven gods of
Creation.
HEBREW ZODIAC
The names of the signs and
planets (with planetary angels) are as follows:
| Sign |
Planet and Planetary Angel |
| Aries Taleh |
Sun Shemesh -- MICHAEL |
| Taurus Shur |
Moon Levanah -- GABRIEL |
| Gemini Thomim |
Mercury Kokab -- RAPHAEL |
| Cancer Sartan |
Venus Nogah -- HANAEL |
| Leo Ariah |
Mars Madim -- ZAMAEL |
| Virgo B'thulah |
Jupiter Tzedek -- SACHIEL |
| Libra Moznaim |
Saturn Shabbathai -- CASSIEL |
| Scorpio Arqrav |
| Sagitarrius Qashat |
| Capricorn G'di |
| Aquarius D'li |
| Pisces Dagim |
HEKAU
The Egyptian word for "Magic." Hekau also are
the sacred words of banishment used by the sun god (or the dead person) in his
passage through the 12 dungeons of the Underworld. (From the Am tuat, or "Book
of the Gates," according to Drury). The word probably derives from h-,
"candle" (or wick), an artificial light for the ka, "soul or spirit."
HELL
The negative vortex. The state of the world as it
awaits the transmogrifying ourgos of the magician. In the infernal state, the
world contains an infinite number of physical, mental and spiritual torments
that usually pass unnoticed by the damned who have grown accustomed to them.
Only when some new and particularly hideous catastrophe strikes do the victims
remember where they are and where they have been all along.
Hell is as much an illusion as earth. There is a possibly apocryphal anecdote
related by Mrs. Melitta Rubia, a latterday disciple of HPB, in which she dreams
that she has been transported to a lovely, warm garden of dazzling beauty in
which all of her wants are provided. Here she dwells, day after halcyon day, in
sweet idleness and luxury. One evening, as she descends to the crystal clear
lake to drink the divine nectar that crowns her perfect existence, she suddenly
discovers that she has been living a hideous delusion. The truth is that she is
really a loathesome parasite whose lovely garden is simply her host's skin and
the crystal lake her host's bloodstream.
HELLEBORE
According to Pliny, an increaser of
intelligence, but latterly used in treatment of the mentally ill. The poisonous
root of this strange weed is also an extreme purgative, heart stimulant and
insecticide. It has various old world and new world names: Christmas rose,
stinking hellebore, American false hellebore, Indian Poke and Itch Weed.
HELL-HOUND
There have been many. Cerberus and
Orthos, the guardians of the Gates of Hell are notorious enough, but there was
also Garn, the Moon dog; the hellhound of Arwan; Falinis, the hound of Lush; the
Hound of the Baskervilles; the whelp of King Ioruaidhe (who turned water into
wine) -- and numerous others, from Egypt's most exalted Psychopomp of the Dead,
the Dog-God, Anubis, to Walt Disney's gentle pup, Pluto, who was indeed named
(tongue well in cheek) after the self-same God of the Underworld.
Dogs are quite naturally associated with death and the lower reaches. It is
fitting that it should be they, after death, who conduct us who led them in
life. Not only do our canine friends watch over us by night, guarding against
every intruder and nocturnal peril that menaces the sleeping household, but they
are quite at home in underground caves and even expert at digging. They are
unperturbed by corpses or corruption. And, although their vocabularies of human
words are exasperatingly limited, they are, as every dog owner knows, fluent in
the silent, non-linguistic communication of ESP.
For the above and many other reasons, demons were once believed to take the
form of dogs, especially black dogs. The Devil himself, in fact, has a black dog
as his companion. White dogs are more likely the companions of white magic.
HEMETHTERITH
The fifteenth sentinel of the
Qliphotic Tree. She is the mother or wet-nurse. Her magickal gift is astrology.
Grant says she was raped by a variant of the Holy Ghost and, whilst fleeing from
him, fell over backwards, whereupon her breasts became the two streams of
Aquarius. Corresponds to the Empress.
HEMLOCK SOCIETY
There are those who believe that
suicide is never an option and death "advice" is strictly black magic.
But this world is not the Garden of Eden. The Cathari were right to teach that
reproduction is a crime on this plane of reality. The Buddha was right to offer
Nirvana as an escape from the wheel of incessant life and rebirth. The only
reason for anyone to remain in Hell (which is what our world is) is if he is
capable of transforming it -- however slightly, however temporarily. Those who
merely suffer or who only make others suffer need not be encouraged to remain.
At any rate, the American Hemlock Society publishes a book entitled Let Me
Die Before I Wake containing accounts of those who chose suicide when they
had a fatal disease. The British Hemlock Society's publication, we've been told,
is quite explicit, but we understand that if we peruse the watered-down American
version carefully enough, we can extrapolate medications and dosages from it.
Datura, which is easily obtainable, is apparently the poison of choice. The
problem with most poisons is proper dosage. Too much may be rejected before it
does its job and too little can cause such permanent and incapacitating brain or
liver damage that further opportunities for experimentation may lie beyond the
subject's capacity. There is said to be an acupuncture point that can cause
instant death, but its secret is most fiercely guarded.
HENOTHEISM
Monolatry of a tribal God (Allah,
Jehovah, Christ).
HERMES
Since he connects all the others and serves as
a link between human and divine reality, he is the greatest of the Gods. His
counterpart occurs in all mythologies (Odin, Mercury, Thoth). Hermes is the God
of language, hence the inspiration of all writers (also frequently the pen-name
of ancient writers who felt they were merely the God's amanuensis). It was
Thoth-Hermes whom the scribes of Egypt always honored with a libation of ink
before beginning their day's work.
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
(Probably Apollonius
of Tyana.) His major teaching: "As above, so below." (Or as we can add, "As
within, without.")
HERMETICISM
(From Hermes Trismegistus.) The
Hermetic sciences are Astrology, Magic, Qabalah and (ultimately) Egyptology.
Hermetic philosophy is to be distinguished from Scholastic philosophy
("scholastic" meaning that which was taught in schools) derived from Aristotle,
who believed all questions could be resolved either by reason or by debate
stemming from a logic based on never-to-be-questioned premises (axioms). Science
as we know it today is neither scholastic nor hermetic, but is founded strictly
on empirical evidence. Hermetic science is based on universal symbols present
within the collective unconscious and therefore available to inner revelation,
rather than to ordinary objective experience. Hermes is, like the metal mercury,
the amalgamation and contradiction of scattered opposites, the divine marriage
(or hieros gamos) of polarities. As the God of messengers, he is a
fitting symbol also of the Western version of Eastern Taoism and Buddhism.
HERMIT, THE
The 9th Arcanum, lettered yod. As
the Yod (or "I") of IHVH it is the singularity of all things. It's evident that
there is only one being at the center and no other identity is real. The
dark-cloaked figure who, knowing that self outside the center is but illusion,
shuns outer reality in order to concentrate on the center of the cosmos within.
The Hermit (zodiacal sign of the Virgin) was to Crowley, " the hidden god"
that is present in every man, the dormant genius it was his hope eventually to
release. The Hermit of the Tarot is not just an ordinary wanderer nor does he
represent even a Holy Man, living in the desert, eating locusts and wild honey.
A true hermit has no need to set himself apart, even in a crowd there is only
himself.
Each of us is a hermit!
Or rather, each of us is the One Hermit, who is God, utterly without company
in the entire reaches of time and space. For our individual differences are but
illusion and the being who looks out of the million-windowed room is the One
Mind that inhabits all things. Teachers draw our attention to the endless line
of identical cowled monks marching single file up the icy mountains of
consciousness and then down into the valleys of death.
HERU/HRU
Heru, or Hru, is the "Great Angel of the
Tarot" and means Horus. (Harpocrates = Child of Horus).
HET CONSPIRACY
An uncommon belief amongst "homs"
(homosexuals), that the worst villians of history have been heterosexual and
have, through their wicked influence, imposed a heterosexual tyranny on the
world.
HEURESIS
In the Mysteries, this refers to the
"finding" of the lost body of Osiris. "Heuristic" now means "proceeding by
hunches, in the face of many possibilities or simply by general rules of
thumb..."
HEXAGRAM
Apart from its association with the Star
of David, the 6 points remind us of the 3 dichotomies: Will and Passivity;
Rejection and Choice; Light and Dark.
HEXOR
The demon of self-hatred (most human-looking).
HEZBOLLAH
"Army of Allah." It should be noted that
though this translates as "The party of Allah," the Hezb- is also a
chapter of the Koran, so it is, thus, a "chapter" of Allah. This would be the
equivalent of our calling the U.S. Army "The Army of God."
HIEROGLYPHICS
(From Greek: "sacred carvings.")
To the ancients all writing was magical or sacred, insofar as it could relate or
influence events happening at distances of time (past, present, future) and
space (heaven or earth). But to the Egyptians, particularly, their language was
sacred already and Thoth-given. Pharaoh himself was "The Great Word." Indeed it
is from the Egyptians that the Greek Logos ("word") came to have its
occult meaning. The Egyptian word for "word," medu, also meant a
"sceptre," "magic wand" or "sacred staff." Medu-Neter = "hieroglyph."
HIEROPHANT
The 5th Enigma, lettered vav.
The power of the priest and established religion. We should not discredit
established religion entirely. Without tradition, distorted and perverted though
it may be after the passage of millenia, there would be no vehicle of
transmission for the most ancient wisdom. Tradition is essential if we are not
continuously to repeat the same mistakes. By this yardstick we can commend the
Vatican and the Orthodox Rabbinical libraries, but cannot criticize Islam enough
for its arrogant destruction of historical material.
But popes and priests are only lowly mediators, after all, go-betweens
representing human greed as often as divine inspiration. It is not their job to
transform the world, but merely to maintain the status quo. Imagination is not
their strong suit. Crowley presents the papal figureas pointing downwards rather
than upwards, to show that the pope is a curse, rather than a blessing to
mankind.
HIGH PRIESTESS
The 2nd Arcanum, lettered
gimel. She stands above the Abyss on the Tree of Life, between Kether and
Tiphareth, but her path crosses Daäth, as does none other; thus she
herself represents the Abyss. Since Daäth is a trackless desert, it is fitting
that she be associated with Gimel, the "camel." Two is the unholy number of the
split between heaven and earth. The High Priestess has been equated with the
lunar goddess, but principally suggests Isis, the Goddess of the Occult. We must
never forget, however, that Isis is a fluid Goddess who changes identity,
analogically, with many other divinities. Such fluid changeability is a basic
characteristic of the Moon.
HOCHSTETTER
A person who narrows his skepticism
to a single person or object and decides that that person or object is too
dangerous for the public. Nothing, apparently, can exist without its opposite
number. John A. Keel, in his Disneyland of the Gods, writes at length of
a man named Hendershot who, in 1928, produced a small machine that ran on "the
earth's magnetic field." He demonstrated that it worked without wires, fuel or
batteries and he managed to win substantial support for the device, until a
certain Dr. Frederik Hochstetter, from his own home town, began to follow him
about, hound and harass him. Finally he succeeded in forcing Hendershot and his
machine to disappear forever underground. Keel makes the interesting point that
whenever anyone attempts to make an impact on the world, to promote a new idea
or demonstrate some unusual achievement, whetehr it be in science, metaphysics,
culinary art or stamp collecting, there inevitable arises along with the
champion a personal, sinister shadow-enemy or crank in the form of a Hochstetter
who will make it his business to discredit him at every opportunity. The same
uniqueness that produces the innovator also produces his mirror-imaged,
tailor-made destroyer.
HOD
The 8th qabalistic power chakra on the Tree of Life.
It is intelligence and reason, abode of Mercury. It means "splendor," that is,
the bedazzlement of the mind.
HOLOGRAMMATON
"The part contains the all."
Man, for instance, is a hologram of the earth. What we do to the earth we do to
ourselves. A cancer cell is a hologram of the body. In a short time it can
transfer its qualities to all the normal cells of the body, thus making them
cancerous as well.
HOLOMOVEMENT
Boehm's word for things being
enfolded in themselves: all consciousness is "implied" by any mind, all time in
one nanosecond, all matter in any atom, &c. The universe and mind are the
same substance. The holomovement embraces insight, implicate and explicate
orders of being plus potentiality. The parts reach out to the whole and thereby
create events. At the same time, for instance, the whole mind is
available to any individual, but only explicitly. The brain is the medium for
insights from the implicate order, as a radio is a medium for a speech or a
song. Mind requires a brain for its perception of physical existence, but
physical existence is only one manifestation of mind.
HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL
When magi speak of "the knowledge
and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," they refer to that particular
manifestation of spirit which is their own experience. The principle is the
same, whether it is the great Aumakua of the Hawaiian Hunas or the visitation of
the Archangel Gabriel for someone in our culture. The purpose of M/magic(k) is
not worship, but transformation. And the purpose in evoking the Holy Guardian
Angel is to obtain information that is essential to the work of transformation.
(See AUGOEIDES.)
HOMOPLASMATE
Another of Philip K. Dick's words.
It is the template of the universal healed man, a god in his own right. (See PLASMATE.)
HOMUNCULUS
A "little man" (less than a foot high)
artificially created. The magician's sperm, along with other materials such as
bones and fur, is placed in a vessel and buried in a heap of mare dung for forty
days. At the end of this period the vessel is removed, opened and fed more
blood. It is then replaced for an additional 40 days, with the heat from the
decomposing dung providing the heat to begin spontaneous generation. This should
produce an embryo. In Crowley's version of the Hermit, the wheat germ is a
symbol of the homunculus seed. The medieval homunculus obsession finds its
counterpart in modern man's attempt to create artificial intelligence and
robots.
Throughout history, moreover, there has been a constant search for the
"perfect image". This led to all the schools of painting and sculpture. With the
invention of photography in the 19th Century, the quest took a new turn and the
image became more and more subjective with cubism, futurism, abstract art, etc.
With the cinema the image not only assumed exactness but also acquired motion
and sound. The image, now perfected at last, turned to cartoons and animated
film in which the perfected image could not be extended into the fantastic and
bizarre. Attempts to create "realistic" cartoons and animations is a mistake
because that interferes with the creative and experimental character of the
image.
We should recognize that virtual reality has, in the last few years, produced
homunculus-like images of more certain creation. Cloning plus genetic
re-scripting could in actuality create a homunculus of exactly the sort that
medieval alchemy struggled to produce.
HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT
(The Blind Horus.) Represents
ordinary consciousness.
HORIZONTAL TIME
The future. So designated because
"vertical" time is thought of as traversing simultaneous tiers of eternity
hinging on all dimensions. The future lies on the horizontal plane, because it
extends circularly in infinite directions from the center of the Herenow. The
past is not located in horizontal time, since it is no longer potential, but
completed. The historical past, however, extends in all directions also, so that
in one dimension Lincoln was never shot and in another Washington was never
born, etc. (See TIME.)
HORUS
As god of the rising sun, he is the Egyptian
version of the Greek god, Apollo (Ra is the noon-day sun). His eye, lost in
avenging Seth's murder of his brother, Osiris, is the symbol of his sacrifice
(the sun is endlessly self-sacrificing). As Seth imprisons us, Horus liberates
us.
HOUDINI
The American stage illusionist (1874 -
1926). It is commonly believed that Houdini's pact with his wife, that, if
possible, he would manage to communicate with her after his death, was never
fulfilled. Her failure to receive Houdini's message is frequently offered as
proof that all spritualism is bunk. According to Dr. Clifford Wilson, The
Alien Agenda (Signet, 1988), one Rev. Arthur Ford was the medium of a spirit
called "Fletcher", who did convey a message to Mrs. Houdini after all. She
acknowledged it as being in a code known only to her and to her husband.
HOUSES OF MERCURY
(Domarum Mercurii.) A series
of sigils presented by Crowley, distinguished from the "Prisons of the Qlipoth."
Since for Crowley the Atus of Tahuti are the "Houses of Thoth," which
make up the ordinary deck of Tarot, and the Carcerum Qlipoth are the
"dark tarot" -- then the Houses of Mercury might suggest a mysterious third deck
of the Tarot (a higher level, perhaps?). However, it's necessary to remember
that Thoth is simply the Mercury of Egypt, therefore the domarum mercurii
are nothing more than the Latin equivalent of the "Houses of Thoth." The sigils
so depicted, therefore, comprise an additional and very helpful key to the
Tarot, which as far as I can tell, has been ignored.
For an account of the Domarum Mercurii, see AC's Liber CCXXXI (Gems
from the Equinox), but the numbers 0, infinity, 3, 10 and 8 are not
explained. (See V.V.V.V.V..)
Apparently the study and/or invocation of the Qlipoth is illuminating in the
Lower Grades -- but then ultimately abandoned. The glyphs of light, however, can
be further understood only by their shadows, hence the carcerum. (See TUNNELS
OF SET.)
HU
Deity personifying authoritarian utterances
(therefore, sometimes signifying the Sphinx). In the Egyptian religion, Hu
refers specifically to the god Thoth in his aspect as the "Tongue of Ptah and
Ra."
HUBAL
The old God of Mecca.
HUBBARD, L. RON
Founder of Scientology. Perhaps his
most useful and important teaching was that we can extinguish things by focusing
our attention upon them. That derives from the psychological fact that when we
make things enter ourselves they become unreal, because things are our
world, not the world.
HUGIN AND MUNIN
Odin's ravens ("Thought and Memory")
which fly out over the world every day and report to him the news every evening:
"I fear for Thought, that he come not back,
But I fear yet more
for Memory."
They are the sides of the mind of the magician as it is
propelled into "astral" experience. (See ODIN.)
HUMAN SACRIFICE
Nothing horrifies civilized
society more than the notion of human sacrifice. Only the most ignorant and
illiterate cults practice the secret ritual killing of men or animals in the
name of primitive gods. No initiate of any degree of enlightenment could
possible condone such a thing, for it violates the entire concept of sacrifice,
which can only be self-administered and voluntary.
Even self-sacrifice must serve a legitimate, clear purpose. It must somehow
better the world. In practice, sacrifice is more likely to involve the humble
dedication of one's life in some act of noble heroism. The Aztecs and their
bloody dawn rites, the children thrown to Moloch and the cannibals of the
Philippines are no more. We no longer, like the Druids, burn victims in wicker
baskets, nor like the Romans, condemn criminals to the gladiatorial arena. Gone
are the medieval witch burnings and dunking stools. We congratulate ourselves
that we have sublimated our violence with football, but the 20th Century has
known both genocide and political terrorism.
Meanwhile, you and I believe sanctimoniously that our collective bloodlust
and sadism have been set aside. We think our shadow is no longer there. But
there are still the gas chamber and the electric chair -- there is even, for
that matter, the constant toll of automobile and airplane. We need look only to
the millions of lives sacrificed daily to slave labor, to unjust penal
institutions, to miserable, cruel communities and wretched families from which
they can never escape. We need only think of how we persecute whole segments of
our society so devilishly that we drive them to suicide or drug addiction. We
allow the medical machine to decide who is to live and who is to die. And aren't
we still prepared to send adolescent boys to war, if it comes to that? Don't we
continue to poison one another with lethal pesticides and radioactivity? Don't
we eagerly turn to television's murders for entertainment, night after grisly
night?
HUMWAWA (or HUMBABA, HUWAWA)
A Babylonian demon, a
son of Pazuzu. A monster set to guard the forests of cedars. His beard was
composed of human entrails. His breath had the odor of death and excrement, and
he was the future corruption of all living things. In becoming a demon he was
decapitated by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
HYLISM
Materialism, the worship of which is called
"Hyleticism".
HYLOZOISM
Parapsychism, the universe is alive:
- Each object is independently alive;
- Everything is one unitary entity, i.e., the entire universe is alive with
one mind.
In short: "There is no God but Matter" = Hylotheism; "All matter is
alive" = Hylozoism; "All matter is sentient" = Hylopathism.
HYPARXIS
J. G. Bennett's term from The Dramatic
Universe. Defined as "will-time" or the "region in which the will is free to
make decisions to introduce something new and uncaused into the world process."
From Greek hyparcho, "make a beginning."
HYPATIA
A teacher of Neoplatonism who was
dismembered and brutally murdered by a congregation of Xtians in 415 A.D. at the
instigation of Bishop Cyril. She taught the liberating philosophy of Plato and
Plotinus to the detriment of Xtian progress. The bishops had borrowed freely
what they needed from the Greeks to justify Xtian nonsense, while rejecting what
was difficult or detrimental to their beliefs. Hypatia ran into trouble when she
proceeded to complete the lessons the lessons of Plato in their entirety, thus
revealing how Xtianity as then constructed was a flimsy hodge-podge of borrowed
half-truths.
HYPERSPACE
The space around us that contains all
the parallel universes.
HYPERSTEREOPSIS
The flashing of one's life
history at the moment of death.
HYPOSTASIS
Literally, an "underlying principle."
Specifically, of the same Divine substance, but separate, like the persons of
the Xtian Trinity. It should be distinguished from "nature" (as "the two natures
of X: human and divine"). In the early days of Xtianity, Wisdom or Sophia
was a hypostasis of God.
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