for the purpose of removing a
sickness from one person to another. 
     Soorya, the sun. 
     Souramanam, a method of calculating time. 
     Space, Akasa; Swabhavat (q.v.)
  Sraddha, faith. 
     Sravana, receptivity, listening. 
     Sthula-Sariram, the gross physical body. 
     Sukshmopadhi, fourth and fifth principles (Raja Yoga.)
     Sunyata, space; nothingness. 
     Suras, elementals of a beneficent order; gods. 
     Surpa, winnower. 
     Suryasiddhanta, a Sanskrit treatise on astronomy. 
     Sushupti Avastha, deep sleep; one of the four aspects of
Pranava. 
     Sutra period, one of the periods into which Vedic literature
has been divided. 
     Sutratman, (lit. “the thread spirit,”) the immortal
individuality upon which are strung our countless personalities. 
     Svabhavat, Akasa; undifferentiated primary matter;
Prakriti. 
     Svapna, dreamy condition, clairvoyance. 
     Swami (lit. “a master"), the family idol. 
     Swapna Avastha, dreaming state; one of the four aspects of
Pranava.

     Tama, indifference, dullness. 
     Tamas, ignorance, or darkness. 
     Tanha, thirst; desire for life, that which produces re-birth. 
     Tanmatras, the subtile elements, the abstract counterpart of
the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and ether, consisting of smell, taste, feeling, sight and sound. 
     Tantras, works on Magic. 
     Tantrika, ceremonies connected with the worship of the
goddess Sakti, who typifies Force. 
     Taraka Yog, one of the Brahmanical systems for the
development of psychic powers and attainment of spiritual
knowledge. 
     Tatwa, eternally existing “that;” the different principles
in Nature. 
     Tatwams, the abstract principles of existence or categories,
physical and metaphysical. 
     Telugu, a language spoken in Southern India. 
     Tesshu Lama, the head of the Tibetan Church. 
     The Laws of Upasanas, chapter in the Book iv. of Kui-te on
the rules for aspirants for chelaship. 
     Theodidaktos (lit.  “God taught “), a school of philosophers
in Egypt. 
     Theosophy, the Wisdom-Religion taught in all ages by the
sages of the world. 
     Tikkun, Adam Kadmon, the ray from the Great Centre. 
     Titiksha, renunciation. 
     Toda, a mysterious tribe in India that practise black magic. 
     Tridandi, (tri, “three,” danda, “chastisement"), name of
BrahmanicaI thread. 
     Trimurti, the Indian Trinity—­Brahma, Vishnu and Siva,
Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. 
     Turiya Avastha, the state of Nirvana. 
     Tzong-ka-pa, celebrated Buddhist reformer of Tibet, who
instituted the order of Gelugpa Lamas.