Kama Loka, abode of desire, the first condition through
which a human entity passes in its passage, after death, to Devachan. It corresponds to purgatory.
Kama, lust, desire, volition; the Hindu Cupid.
Kamarupa, the principle of desire in man; the fourth
principle.
Kapila, the founder of one of the six principal systems of
Indian philosophy—viz., the Sankhya.
Karans, great festival of the Kolarian tribes in honour of
the sun spirit.
Karana Sarira, the causal body; Avidya; ignorance; that
which is the cause of the evolution of a human ego.
Karma, the law of ethical causation; the effect of an act
for the attainment of an object of personal desire, merit and demerit.
Karman, action; attributes of Linga Sarira.
Kartika, the Indian god of war, son or Siva and Parvati; he
is also the personification of the power of the Logos.
Kasi, another name for the sacred city of Benares.
Keherpas, aerial form; third principle.
Khanda period, a period of Vedic literature.
Khi (lit, breath); the spiritual ego; the sixth principle
in man (Chinese).
Kiratarjuniya of Bkaravi, a Sanskrit epic, celebrating the
encounters of Arjuna, one of this heroes of the Maha-bharata with the god Siva, disguised as a forester.
Kols, one of the tribes in Central India.
Kriyasakti, the power of thought; one of the six forces in
Nature.
Kshatriya, the second of the four castes into which the
Hindu nation was originally divided.
Kshetrajnesvara, embodied spirit, the conscious ego in its
highest manifestation.
Kshetram, the great abyss of the Kabbala; chaos; Yoni,
Prakriti; space.
Kumbhaka, retention of breath, regulated according to the
system of Hatha Yoga.
Kundalinisakti, the power of life; one of the six forces of
Nature.
Kwer Shans, Chinese for third principle; the astral body.
Lama-gylongs, pupils
of Lamas.
Lao-teze, a Chinese
reformer.
Macrocosm, universe.
Magi, fire worshippers;
the great magicians or wisdom-
philosophers of old.
Maha-Bharata, the celebrated
Indian epic poem.
Mahabhashya, a commentary
on the Grammar of Panini by
Patanjali.
Mahabhautic, belonging
to the macrocosmic principles.
Mahabhutas, gross elementary
principles.
Mahaparinibbana Sutta,
one of the most authoritative of the
Buddhist sacred writings.
Maha Sunyata, space
or eternal law; the great emptiness.
Mahat, Buddhi; the
first product of root-nature and
producer of Ahankara (egotism), and manas (thinking
principle).
Mahatma, a great soul;
an adept in occultism of the highest
order.
Mahavanso, a Buddhist
historical work written by the Bhikshu