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Nadi

(Sanskrit; Tibetan tsa ) Nerve channel for subtle energies.

“The term Nadi comes from the root Nad which means motion. The body is filled with an uncountable number of Nadis. If they were revealed to the eye, the body would present the appearance of a highly-complicated chart of ocean currents. Superficially the water seems one and the same. But examination shows that it is moving with varying degrees of force in all directions.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

Naga

(Sanskrit नाग. In Tibetan: klu) Generally, “serpent.” Also, “serpent-demon, shark, not moving, one of the 5 airs of the human body, best or most excellent of any kind, number 7, cloud, tree, cruel man, Indian cobra, sun, elephant.” 1. Powerful water spirits who take the forms of serpents or serpent-humans. 2. A descriptive term referring to a master (whether white or black). “In the East, the Mahatmas are called “Nagas”—that is to say, “serpents.” This is why all of the guardians from the sacred crypts of the temples of mysteries have the figures of gigantic serpents who only allow initiates to enter.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

Nagarjuna

(Second century) A Buddhist master and scholar from India who founded the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, whose central doctrine is the comprehension of Emptiness. The Tibetan traditions consider him to be one of the most important figures of Indian Mahayana Buddhism. His name means “king of Nagas.”

“For the hereafter, there’s no better friend than generosity.” - Letter to a Friend

“This rebirth is suffering; that which is called craving is the wide-ranging originator of that; the stopping of this is liberation…” - Letter to a Friend

Nahasch

( Hebrew נחש) Literally, “serpent.” A very deep and multifaceted symbol in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, whose meaning is revealed in Kabbalah . Nahasch, meaning “serpent” and “a shining one,” comes from the root “to shine.” In Chaldee it means brass, because of its shine.

“Now the nachash was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” - Gen 3:1

“And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a nahasch; and Moses fled from before it.” - Ex 4:3

“And Moses made a serpent (nachash) of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.” - Numbers 21

Nahemah

Or Naamah. ( Hebrew נעמה‎) A symbol in Kabbalah related to lust, seduction, and the infernal worlds (Klipoth, hell).

“…she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah [נעמה].” - Genesis 4:22

“And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.” - 1 Kings 14

“Rabbi Chiya quotes, “And the sister of Tuval Kayin was Naamah” (Beresheet 4:22). Why do the scriptures mention her name, Naamah (tender)? It is because people were seduced by her, and spirits and demons . Rabbi Yitzchak said that the sons of Elohim, Aza, and Azael were seduced by her. […] Adam had intercourse with the female spirits for 130 years until Naamah came. Because of her beauty, she led the sons of Elohim, Aza and Azael astray. She bore them. Evil spirits and demons spread out from her into the world. They wander around the world during the night, deriding human beings and causing nocturnal pollution. Wherever they find men sleeping alone in their own homes, they hover over them and cling to them, arousing lustful desires and having offspring by them.” - The Zohar

“Nahemah is the mother of malignant beauty, passion and Adultery .” - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Another interesting appearance of this name is in Genesis 3:

“And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree נחמד [to be desired] to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” - Genesis 3

Naropa

(956-1041) A great mystic and meditator from India who is considered part of the lineage of the Kagyu school of Buddhism. He is most remembered for his Six Yogas, which include the famous Dream Yoga and Inner Heat Yoga.

Nastika

(Sanskrit नास्तिक) Literally, “atheist, unbeliever, freethinker.” In esotericism, this word is used to refer to the necessity to look beyond beliefs or physical things, such as a physical statue or idol of a divine being, to instead seek the reality of that being. In other words, those who seek the truth must reject idols, ideas, and beliefs. “Religious esotericism does not teach atheism of any kind, except in the sense that the Sanskrit word nastika encloses: no admission of idols, including that anthropomorphic God of the ignorant populace. It would be an absurdity to believe in a celestial dictator who is seated upon a throne of tyranny and throws lightning and thunderbolts against this sad human ant hill.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

Nativity

from Latin nativitatem (nom. nativitas) “birth.”

Nazarenes

As described by H.P. Blavatsky: The same as the St. John christians; called the Mendaeans or Sabeans. They designate Christ “a false Messiah” and only recognize John the Baptist, whom they call the “great Nazar.”

Negative Disclosure

(Egyptian) A prayer or testament found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead in which the Initiate describes in detail all of the sins he has not committed. See Chapter 48 of Cosmic Teachings of a Lama by Samael Aun Weor.

Nemesis

(Greek, Νέμεσις) Literally “distribution” (of what is due), related to νέμειν [némein], meaning “to give what is due, distribute, allot, apportion one’s due,” from root *nem- “to divide, distribute, allot, to take.” Nemesis is the law that balances nature, also called cause and effect, karma, which is managed by divine, awakened beings who balance the scales of Justice and Mercy. In Greek mythology, their work and intelligence was personified in the form of the goddess Nemesis, also called Adrasteia (“the Inescapable”).

“Hymn to Nemesis. Thee, Nemesis, I call, almighty queen, by whom the deeds of mortal life are seen: eternal, much revered, of boundless sight, alone rejoicing in the just and right: changing the counsels of the human breast for ever various, rolling without rest. To every mortal is thy influence known, and men beneath thy righteous bondage groan; for every thought within the mind concealed is to thy sight perspicuously revealed. The soul unwilling reason to obey, by lawless passion ruled, thine eyes survey. All to see, hear, and rule, O power divine, whose nature equity contains, is thine. Come, blessed, holy Goddess, hear my prayer, and make thy mystics’ life thy constant care: give aid benignant in the needful hour, and strength abundant to the reasoning power; and far avert the dire, unfriendly race of counsels impious, arrogant, and base.” - Orphic Hymn 61 to Nemesis (C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)

Nephesh Chaiah

( Hebrew נפש חיה) Literally, “living soul.” In Kabbalah , a soul (see Nephesh) who has acquired spiritual life (Chaiah), the soul.

“And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that [is] with you, for perpetual generations…” - Genesis 9:12

Nephesh

( Hebrew נפש; alternatively, nefesh) In Kabbalah , one of the three souls of the human being. The animal soul.

“And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath [נשמה neshamah] of life; and man became a living soul [nephesh נפש].” - Genesis 2:7

“The Initiate must descend into the infernal worlds during forty-days and has to recapitulate all of the evil deeds and frightful dramas of his past incarnations; little by little, the Initiate departs from these tenebrous regions. Before departing, the three souls, Nephesh (Animal Soul), Ruach (Thinking Soul) and Neshamah (Spiritual Soul) are submitted to ordeals. How interesting it is to see the animal soul submitted to ordeals, as well as the thinking soul and the Essence (Part of Neshamah) that also is submitted to ordeals. The Bible states, “Nephesh, Nephesh, blood is paid with blood.” Within the Hebrew words wisdom is hidden.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

Nephilim

( Hebrew נפלים) Translated in the Bible as “giants,” but actually derived from נפל, “abortion; fall; dud; to fail, to die, to be conquered.” “There were giants [נפלים] in the earth in those days…” - Genesis 6:4 “The land, through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants [נפלים], the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants [נפלים]: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” - Numbers 13 The term Nephilim refers to fallen angels or masters, who were “giants among men” but fell, becoming demons . The Zohar describes five types of such beings.

Neshamah

( Hebrew נשמת or נשימה, literally “breath”) In Kabbalah , one of the three souls of the human being, called the Spiritual Soul.

“And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath [neshamah] of life; and man became a living soul [nephesh].” ‐ Genesis 2:7

“The נשמת (neshamah) of אדם (Adam, man) is a lamp of יהוה (Jehovah)…” - Proverbs 20:27

“All the while my Neshamah is in me, and the Ruach of Eloah (goddess) is in my face, my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.” —Job 27

“Said Rabbi Jehudah: ‘How many garments (of the incorporeal man) are these which are crowned’ (from the day man was ‘created’)? Said R. El’eazar: ‘The mountains of the world (the great men of the generation) are in discussion upon it, but there are three: one to clothe in that garment the Rua’h spirit, which is in the garden (of Eden) on earth: one which is more precious than all, in which the Neshamah is clothed in that Bundle of Life, between the angels of the Kings … : and one outside garment, which exists and does not exist, is seen and not seen. In that garment, the Nephesh is clothed, and she goes and flies in it, to and fro in the world.” ( Zohar I., 119b. col. 475; Qabbalah, 412.)

Netzach

( Hebrew נצח means victory) The seventh sephirah of the Tree of Life ; the Mental World; the Mental body ; corresponds to the Fifth Dimension.

Netzach is the Mental World, the cosmic mind, the mind of the human being. There are some authors who suppose that the mind is Venusian; I have to disagree with them, because when properly observed the mind is found to be Mercurial. Anyone can realize that the mind is Mercurial, because Mercury gives wisdom, gives the word, etc. - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

Correspondences:

Gnostic: The 4th Aeon Represents: The intellect. Concrete mind. Body / World: Mental Dimension: Fifth Heaven of: Mercury Level of Consciousness : Elohim ( Kabbalah ), Archangels (Christian)

Learn more: Netzach , Tarot and Kabbalah

Neurasthenia

While the term “neurasthenia” has a highly variable history and is no longer in use, it was generally used to refer to a condition of nervous weakness or exhaustion. Samael Aun Weor provides an interesting description:

“The world is full of neurasthenic persons. The neurasthenic type is a faultfinder, irritable, and intolerable. There are many causes of neurasthenia: impatience, anger, egotism, arrogance, etc. There is a mediator between the Spirit and the body: the nervous system. Take care of your nervous system. When your nervous system is irritated by something that is exhausting you, it is better to flee from it. Work intensely but with moderation; remember that excessive work produces fatigue. If you do not pay attention to fatigue, if you continue with excessive work, then fatigue is replaced with stress. When stress turns morbid, it becomes neurasthenia. It is necessary to alternate work with pleasant rest so as to avoid the danger of falling into neurasthenia.” —Samael Aun Weor, Introduction to Gnosis

Nicholas Flamel

Nicolás Flamel, the famous medieval alchemist, still lives in India with his wife Perenelle.

Nicolas Flamel is a tremendous alchemist, and he is still alive with the same body that he had at that time [15th century]! Nicolas Flamel lives [today] in India with his wife Perenelle. They live there and in good health. He achieved the perfect transmutation of lead into gold. He performed the Magnus Opus, and since he elaborated the Philosophical Stone, he got the Elixir of Long Life; with the Philosophical Stone one achieves that. “Whosoever has understanding let them understand because there is wisdom within…” You have all of that in front of you [here, in these teachings]. If you want it, it is ready. Work! And you can accomplish the same as Nicholas Flamel… I think that Nicolas Flamel went much further than Raymond Lully. Although Raymond Lully was an illuminated doctor, Nicolas Flamel was the most tremendous in the great work that one has seen… Nicolas Flamel did it. He was lucky, a book got in his hands… …a Jewish book. Someone sold it to him, and the one who sold it to him had stolen it from the Jews… Then, of course, he got in touch with that master, with that rabbi, and because he came to the rabbi, then the rabbi handed him the maximum key. The rabbi explained the book to him and handed the maximum key, which is the Great Arcanum, which now we are disclosing publicly for the good of humanity. And he received it, and what is interesting is that rabbi taught him the secret from lip to ear to Nicolas Flamel, and thereafter the rabbi died. Thus, Nicolas Flamel, with the key in his hands, started to work and performed the great work totally, completely. And his wife Perenelle collaborated very well with him. Today, Nicholas Flamel lives with the same body in India, he is an immortal…” - Samael Aun Weor

The Story of Nicolas Flamel

‘I, Nicholas Flamel, Scrivener, living in Paris in the year of our Lord 1399 in the Notary Street, near St. James of the Boucherie, though I learned not much Latin, because of the poverty of my parents who, notwithstanding, were even by those who envy me most, accounted honest and good people: yet by the blessing of God I have not wanted an understanding of the books of the philosophers, but learned them and attained to a certain kind of knowledge, even of their hidden secrets. For which cause’s sake, there shall not any moment of my life pass wherein, remembering this so vast good, I will not render thanks to this my good and gracious God. After the death of my parents, I Nicholas Flamel, got my living by the art of writing, ingrossing and the like, and in the course of time there fell into my hands a gilded book, very old and large, which cost me only two florins. It was not made of paper or parchment as other books are, but of admirable rinds, as it seemed to me, of young trees; the cover of it was brass, well bound, and graven all over with a strange sort of letters, which I took to be Greek characters, or some such like. This I know, that I could not read them; but as to the matter that was written within, it was engraven, as I suppose, with an iron pencil, or graven upon the said bark leaves; done admirably well, and in fair neat Latin letters, and curiously coloured. ‘The book contained thrice seven leaves, so numbered at the top of each folio, every seventh leaf having painted images and figures instead of writing. On the first of these seven leaves there was depicted a virgin who was being swallowed by serpents; on the second a Cross upon which a serpent was crucified; on the last a wilderness watered by many fair fountains, out of which came a number of serpents, running here and there. On the first written leaf the following words were inscribed in great characters of gold “Abraham the Jew, Prince, Priest, Levite, Astrologer and Philosopher, unto the Jewish nation scattered through France by the wrath of God, wishing health in the name of the God of Israel.” ‘Thereafter followed great execrations and maledictions, with the word Maranatha repeated over and over, poured forth against anyone who should glance within, unless he were priest or scribe. ‘The person who sold me this book must have known its value as much and as little as I who bought it. My suspicion is that it was either stolen from the miserable Jews or found hidden somewhere in the old place of their abode. On the second leaf the said Abraham consoled his people, praying them to avoid vices and idolatry more than all and await with patience the Messiah to come, who would vanquish all kings of the earth and thereafter reign, with those who were his own, in eternal glory. Without doubt this Abraham was a man of great understanding. On the third and rest of the written leaves he taught them the transmutation of metals in plain words, to help his captive nation in paying tribute to Roman Emperors and for other objects which I shall not disclose. He painted the vessels on the margin, discovered the colours, with all the rest of the work, but concerning the Prime Agent he uttered no word, advising them only that he had figured and emblazoned it with great care in the fourth and fifth leaves. But all his skill notwithstanding, no one could interpret the designs unless he was far advanced in Jewish kabalah and well studied in the book of the Philosophers. It follows that the fourth and fifth leaves were also without writing but full of illuminated figures exquisitely designed. On the obverse of the fourth leaf there was shewn a young man with winged feet having in his hand a caducean rod, encompassed by two serpents, and with this he stroke upon a helmet which covered his head. I took him to represent the Greek God Mercury. Unto him came running and flying with open wings a very old man, having an hour glass set upon his head and a scythe in his hands, like the figure of death, with which scythe he would have struck off the feet of Mercury. On the reverse of the fourth leaf a fair flower was depicted on the summit of a very high mountain, round which the North wind blustered. The plant had a blue stem, white and red flowers, leaves shining like fine gold, while about it the dragons and griffins of the North made their nests and their dwellings. On the obverse side of the fifth leaf there was a rose bush in flowers, in the midst of a fair garden, and growing hard by a hollow oak tree. At the foot bubbled forth a spring of very white water, which ran headlong into the depths below, passing first through the hands of a great concourse of people who were digging up the ground in search of it, save one person only, who paid attention to its weight. On the reverse side appeared a king carrying a great faulchion who caused his soldiers to destroy in his presence a multitude of little children, the mothers weeping at the feet of the murderers. The streams of blood were gathered by other soldiers into a great vessel, wherein the sun and moon bathe. Now, seeing that the history appeared to depict the slaughter of the innocents by Herod, and that I learned the main part of the Art in this book, it came about that I placed in their cemetery these hieroglyphic symbols of the Sacred Science. ‘I have now described the content of the first five leaves, but I shall say nothing of all that was written in fair and intelligible Latin on the other pages, lest God should visit me for a greater wickedness than that of him who wished that all mankind had but one head so that he could cut it oft at a blow. The precious book being in my possession I did little but study it night and day till I attained a fair understanding of all its processes, knowing nothing, however, respecting the matter of the work. I could therefore make no beginning and the result was that I became very sad and depressed. My wife Peronelle, whom I had married recently and loved as much as myself, was astonished and concerned greatly, endeavouring to comfort me and desiring earnestly to know whether she could not help me in my distress. I was never one who could hold his tongue and not only told her everything but showed her the book itself, for which she conceived the same affection as my own, taking great delight in the beautiful cover, the pictures and inscriptions, all of which she understood as little as I did. There was no small consolation, however, in talking with her about them and in wondering what could be done to discover their meaning. At length I caused the figures on the fourth and fifth leaves to be painted as well as I could and had them put up in my workroom, where I shewed them to many scholars in Paris; but these also could throw no light upon them. I went so far as to tell them that they had been found in a book about the Philosophers’ Stone, but most of them made a mock of it and also of me. An exception however was one named Anselm, a licentiate of medicine and a deep student of the Art. He desired earnestly to see my book and would have done anything to have his way in the matter, but I persisted in saying that it was not in my possession, though I gave him a full account of the process described therein. ‘He declared that the first figures represented time, which devours all things, while the six written leaves shewed that a space of six years was required to perfect the Stone, after which there must be no further coction. When I pointed out that according to the book the figures were designed to teach the First Matter he answered that the six years coction was like a second agent; that as regards the first it was certainly shewn forth as a white and heavy water, which was doubtless quicksilver. The feet of this substance could not be cut off, meaning that it could not be fixed and so deprived of volatility except by such long decoction in the pure blood of young children. The quicksilver uniting with gold and silver in this blood would change with them, firstly into a herb like that of the fair flower on the reverse of the fourth leaf, secondly by corruption into serpents, which serpents, being dried and digested by fire, would become Powder of Gold, and of such in truth is the Stone. ‘This explanation sent me astray through a labyrinth of innumerable false processes for a period of one and twenty years, it being always understood that I made no experiments with the blood of children, for that I accounted villainous. Moreover, I found in my book that what the philosophers called blood is the mineral spirit in metals, more especially in gold, silver and quicksilver to the admixture of which I tended always. The licentiate’s interpretation being more subtle than true, my processes never exhibited the proper signs at the times given in the book, so I was ever to begin again. At last, however, having lost all hope of understanding the figures, I made a vow to God and St. James that I would seek their key of some Jewish priest belonging to one of the Spanish synagogues. Thereupon, with the consent of Peronelle and carrying a copy of the figures, I assumed a pilgrim’s weeds and staff, in the same manner as you see me depicted outside the said arch in the said churchyard where I put up the hieroglyphic figures, as also a procession representing on both sides of the wall and successive colours of the Stone which arise and pass off in the work, and the following inscription in French: “A procession is pleasing to God when it is done in devotion.” These are the first words, or their equivalent, of a tract on the colours of the Stone by the King Hercules, entitled Iris, which opens thus “Operis Processio Multum Naturae Placet.” I quote them for the benefit of scholars, who will understand the allusion. Having donned my pilgrim’s weeds, I began to fare on the road, reaching Mountjoy and finally my destination at St. James, where I fulfilled my vow with great devotion. On the return journey I met with a merchant of Boulogne in Leon, and to him I was indebted for acquaintance with Master Candies, a doctor of great learning who was Jewish by nation but now a Christian. When I shewed him my copy of the figures he was ravished with wonder and joy, and asked with great earnestness whether I could give him news of the book from which they were taken. He spoke in Latin and I answered in the same language that if anyone could decipher the enigma there was good hope of learning its whereabouts. He began at once to decipher the beginning. ‘To shorten this part of the story he had heard much talk of the work but as of a thing that was utterly lost. I resumed my journey in his company, proceeding from Leon to Ovideo and thence to Sareson, at which port we set sail for France and arrived in due time, after a prosperous voyage. On our way to Paris my companion most truly interpreted the major or part of my figures, in which he found great mysteries, even to the points and pricks. But unhappily when we reached Orleans this learned man fell sick and was afflicted with extreme vomitings, a recurrence of those from which he had suffered at sea. He was continually in fear of my leaving him, and though I was ever at his side he would still be calling me. To my great sorrow he died on the seventh day, and to the best of my ability I saw that he was buried in the Church of Holy Cross at Orleans. There he still lies, and may God keep his soul, seeing that he made a good Christian end. ‘He who would see the manner of my arrival home and the satisfaction of Peronelle may look on us both as we are painted on the door of the Chapel of St. James of the Boucherie hard by my house. We are shewn on our knees, myself at the feet of St. James of Spain and she at those of St. John, to whom she prayed so often. By the grace of God and the intercession of the Holy and Blessed Virgin, as also of the Saints just mentioned, I had gained that which I desired, being a knowledge of the First Matter, but not as yet of its initial preparation, a thing of all else most difficult in the world. In the end, however, I attained this also, after errors innumerable through the space of some three years, during which I did nothing but study and work as you will see me depicted outside the arch at the Chapel of St. James and St. John, ever praying to God rosary in hand, engrossed in a book, pondering the words of the philosophers and proving various operations suggested by their study. The fact of my success was revealed to me by the strong odour, and thereafter I accomplished the mastery with ease indeed I could scarcely miss the work had I wished, given a knowledge of the prime agents, their preparation and following my book to the letter. On the first occasion projection was made upon Mercury, of which I transmuted a half pound or thereabouts into pure silver, better than that of the mine, as I and others proved by assaying several times. This was done on a certain Monday, the seventeenth day of January 1392, Peronelle only being present. Thereafter, still following—word for word—the directions of my book, about five o’clock in the evening of the twenty-fifth day of the following April I made projection of the Red stone on the same amount of Mercury, still at my own house, Peronelle and no other with me, and it was duly transmuted into the same quantity of pure gold, much better than that of the ordinary metal, softer and more pliable. I speak in all truth. I have made it three times, with the aid of Peronelle, for she helped me in all my operations and understood the subject as well as myself. She could have done it alone without doubt, had she desired, and would have brought it to the same term. The first occasion gave me all that I needed, but I took great delight in contemplating the wonderful works of Nature within the vessels, and to signify that I made three transmutations you have only to look at the arch and the three furnaces depicted thereupon, answering to those which served in our operations. ‘For a considerable time I was in no little anxiety lest Peronelle should prove unable to conceal her happiness and should let fall some words among her kinsfolk concerning our great treasure. I judged of her joy by my own, and great joy, like great sorrow is apt to diminish caution. But the most high God in His Goodness had not only granted me the blessing of the Stone, He had given me a chaste and prudent wife, herself endowed with reason, qualified to act reasonably, and more discreet and secret than other women are for the most part. Above all she was very devout and having no expectations of children, for we were now advanced in years, she began—like myself— to think of God and to occupy herself with works of mercy. Before I wrote this commentary, which was towards the end of the year 1413, after the passing of my faithful companion, whom I shall lament all the days of my life, she and I had already founded and endowed fourteen hospitals, had built three Chapels and provided seven Churches with substantial gifts and revenues, as well as restoring their cemeteries.’

Nicolaitans

“So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” - Revelation 2:16

“Only absolute saintliness and Chastity can convert us into Angels. The Nicolaitans spill the sacred wine of the temple. They waste the oil of the lamp and remain within the darkness. The Nicolaitans spill the raw matter of the Great Work in their practises of Sexual Alchemy . This is Black Tantrism… The Nicolaitans are submerging themselves into the abyss. The Nicolaitans converted themselves into terribly perverse demons .” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a hugely influential German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist, most known for his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885).

Ninth Sphere

In Kabbalah , a reference to the sephirah Yesod of the Tree of Life ( Kabbalah ). When you place the Tree of Life over your body, you see that Yesod is related to your sexual organs.

“The Ninth Sphere of the Kabbalah is sex.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

The Ninth Sphere also refers to Yesod and to the lowest sphere of the Klipoth.

“The great Master Hilarion IX said that in ancient times, to descend into the Ninth Sphere was the maximum ordeal for the supreme dignity of the Hierophant. Hermes, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Dante, Zoroaster, Mohammed, Rama, Krishna, Pythagoras, Plato and many others, had to descend into the Ninth Sphere in order to work with the fire and the water which is the origin of worlds, beasts, human beings and Gods. Every authentic white Initiation begins here.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

Nirguna

(Sanskrit) From nir (without) guna (quality).

“The impersonal aspect [of God ] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or ‘unknowable’ by Herbert Spencer, ‘will’ by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some ‘substance’ by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed ‘Ishvara’ or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.” - Swami Sivananda

Nirmanakaya

(Sanskrit) From निर्माण Nirmana, “creation, producing, formation, making, transformation,” and काय kaya, “body.” Also called “creation body” or “manifestation body.” In Buddhism, one of the “bodies” of a buddha corresponding to a very subtle level of manifested existence. As such, it corresponds to a level of nature that other beings can perceive or experience with training, specifically during dream state, and in preparation for the process of death, during which one who is prepared can recognize the Sambhogakaya experience and utilize it as a doorway to a better level of existence. Nirmanakaya corresponds in Kabbalah to the sephirah Binah .

Niruddha

Sanskrit निरुद्ध “restrained, stopped, withheld.” In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the fifth bhumika (stage of concentration). Vikshipta refers to the stage of concentration where the mind is under perfect control and is totally silent.

“Kshipta, Mudha, Vikshipta, Ekagra and Niruddha are the five Yogic Bhumikas. The Chitta or mind manifests itself in five different forms. In the Kshipta state, the rays of the mind are scattered on various objects. It is restless and jumps from one object to another. In the Mudha state, the mind is dull and forgetful. Vikshipta is the gathering mind. It is occasionally steady and, at other times, distracted. By practice of concentration, the mind struggles to gather itself. In the Ekagra state, it is one-pointed. There is only one idea present in the mind. The mind is under perfect control in the Niruddha state. Dharana is practised for stopping the modifications of the mind.” - Swami Sivananda

Nirvana

(Sanskrit निर्वाण, “extinction” or “cessation”; Tibetan: nyangde, literally “the state beyond sorrow”) In general use, the word nirvana refers to the permanent cessation of suffering and its causes, and therefore refers to a state of Consciousness rather than a place. Yet, the term can also apply to heavenly realms, whose vibration is related to the cessation of suffering. In other words, if your mind-stream has liberated itself from the causes of suffering, it will naturally vibrate at the level of Nirvana (heaven).

“When the Soul fuses with the Inner Master, then it becomes free from Nature and enters into the supreme happiness of absolute existence. This state of happiness is called Nirvana. Nirvana can be attained through millions of births and deaths, but it can also be attained by means of a shorter path; this is the path of “initiation.” The Initiate can reach Nirvana in one single life if he so wants it.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

“Nirvana is a region of Nature where the ineffable happiness of the fire reigns. The Nirvanic plane has seven sub-planes. A resplendent hall exists in each one of these seven sub-planes of Nirvanic matter where the Nirmanakayas study their mysteries. This is why they call their sub-planes “halls” and not merely “sub-planes” as the Theosophists do. The Nirvanis say: “We are in the first hall of Nirvana or in the second hall of Nirvana, or in the third, or in the fourth, or fifth, or sixth, or in the seventh hall of Nirvana.” To describe the ineffable joy of Nirvana is impossible. There, the music of the spheres reigns and the soul is enchanted within a state of bliss, which is impossible to describe with words.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

Nirvani

or Nirvanee (Sanskrit, locative of nirvana) Loosely, one who abides in nirvana, or who is “liberated” to some degree. The word Nirvani is used in Hinduism among various groups as a title of status. Nirvani is also used to describe those who awakened enough to reside in Nirvana, yet remain there, absorbed, and forget the suffering of those they left behind. In other words, they are “selfish gods.” “It is stated, “It is better to be a good man than a bad Angel.” When apprehending the most complicated characters of the “I,” we perceive that it becomes subtly covetous; here it no longer covets noble titles, but it covets divine titles and wants everyone to call it Master; it covets hierarchic and esoteric titles, and thus, one loses very long, infinite eternities entangled in the karma of the worlds. Here, it no longer covets gold or silver, but it covets occult powers; it no longer covets honors and greatness, but it covets initiations and degrees. Here, it no longer covets lordships or earthly kingdoms, but it covets internal kingdoms, lordships and majesties within the superior worlds. Here, it enjoys governing paradises, and moreover, although this may seem incredible to you, it even become jealous of its own divine hierarchy and thus, it transforms itself into an ineffable tempter, who enjoys governing worlds and suns, and thus offers its Edens to the bodhisattvas of compassion. Here, it no longer wants to rest on cushy beds within comfortable earthly mansions, but it longs to rest in the ineffable bliss of Nirvana. Yes, the “I” of the Nirvanis does not like the narrow, hard, and difficult path. It enjoys itself in Nirvanic, celestial rests, while wretched humanity suffers and cries. Notwithstanding, the Nirvanis offer unto the bodhisattvas of compassion their seductive paradises in order to impede the entrance into the Absolute. Verily, I tell you, beloved disciples, that it is better to renounce the bliss of Nirvana and to follow the path of long and bitter duty. The path of duty leads us directly to the Absolute. This is better than the bliss of Nirvana. Let us not fall into these divine, Nirvanic temptations.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries “The Nirvanis do not possess any of the four bodies of sin: physical, ethereal, astral, or mental. The Master takes only the psy- chic extracts from those bodies, which are absorbed and assimilated, before entering Nirvana.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

Nirvikalpa-samadhi

(Sanskrit, literally “changeless samadhi”) An ecstasy within the divine abode of the Gods. Originally a term from Vedanta, referring to the highest possible state of Consciousness , a state of no-mind, and non-dual union with Brahman.

“The Purusha experiences the transcendental state of independence - Kaivalya - in Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Now ignorance is destroyed. The Purusha realizes that it was only His Consciousness that gave Prakriti its power to please Him, to give Him joy, to delude Him, and to bind Him. He enjoys the bliss of His own nature and remains for ever independent and blissful. All thought ceases once for all in Nirvikalpa Samadhi.” —Swami Sivananda

Nishpanna

(Sanskrit, literally “perfect” or “complete”) Reality, actual existence, the natural state; a reference to the Absolute or Emptiness. Corresponds to the TIbetan word rdzogs, the ultimate nature of any thing, which is the Absolute.

Nisus formativus

(Latin. Nisus: effort, striving, struggle. ) A term possibly introduced by Friedrich Casimir Medicus in the late 1700’s (yet most known in relation with Blumenbach’s Bildungstrieb) that was utilized by scientists investigating Vitalism to explain the impulse of nature to create forms and how those forms were managed. Darwin accepted this concept and discussed it in his writings, as did Immanual Kant.

“These causes [the secret force (vis occulta) responsible for the non-voluntary movements of the body] made me to follow up my own opinion, and to suppose a simple substance in addition to the organised matter and the soul; a substance that the creator gave to all organic bodies as a force bringing life into them. This force is in the vegetable and in the animal kingdoms the only force giving life to the organised matter. It is present in the man, too, where it causes all animal, or as other authors express it, all mechanic life. But man has a reasonable soul in addition to this organised matter and to this simple substance, the vital force; a soul that thinks and wants within him. Thus I think the man to consist of two simple substances, a soul and a vital force, and of a third one, of the organised matter.’ ” - Medicus, lecture Von der Lebenskraft (On the vital force) 1774

The nisus formativus was therefore pointing towards the teachings of Aristotle, and what was already well known in esoteric mysticism, which is that physical dimension is a formation produced by the vital dimension, which in turn is a formation of the astral dimension, and so on into more and more subtle levels of nature. That is why the nisus formativus is variously described as pertaining to the vital body, the Astral body , etc, because each one is the “formative force” of the more dense form below it. Each tradition represents this is various ways, such as the aggrgates of Buddhism, the koshas of Hinduism, etc. and are reflected in Kabbalah by the relationships between the sephiroth, specifically Malkulth (physical), Yesod (vital), and Hod (astral).

“To sustain it, the human body needs a nisus formativus — as Mr. Immanuel Kant, the philosopher of Königsberg said. That nisus formativus is the vital body or linga sarira of the Hindustani, the vital seat of any living cell, the Yesod [“foundation”] of the Hebrew Kabbalah . Just as our physical body has its vital body for its maintenance, sustenance, conservation, so likewise plants and any organism that has life; thus, in general, the whole planet Earth has it. So all the terrestrial world has its own vitality, vital foundation, its Yesod . Yes, in that Yesod of this terrestrial world [fourth coordinate] is the life of our world.” - Samael Aun Weor, Alchemical Symbolism of the Nativity of Christ

Nitrogen

A symbol used in the tradition of Alchemy . “The Nitrogen of Alchemy is the sacred fire of the Kundalini . This Nitrogen is only achieved by working intensely with the Mercury of the secret philosophy. It is impossible to be an alchemist if one does not work with the Philosopher’s Stone.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

Niyama

The second step of Yoga , which consists of:

Saucha (purity, elimination of desire) Santosha (contentment with what one has) Tapas (austerities, spiritual practices) Svadhyaya (study of scriptures) Ishvarapranidhana (continual remembrance of God )

Noah

( Hebrew נח. Literally, adj. resting, incumbent, quiescent; n. Noah (first name); adj. silent (grammar)) A Kabbalistic symbol with many important meanings.

Physiologically and spiritually: the “Master atom” or Nous Atom located in the heart. A historical figure related to the end of the Atlantean epoch. “…the Four Thrones (Deities) said to the White Emperor Noenra (Noah), “Leave from this land, and pass to the Gobi desert, where you will find dry land, because God will sink this land.” Noah obeyed and departed with all his people towards the Gobi desert.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub. “The Savior-guide of the elected Atlanteans, the one who took them out of the country of ‘the hills of clay,’ was the Biblical Noah, the Manu Vaivasvatha, the founder of the Aryan Race…” - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains.

Nogah

( Hebrew נוגה) “Brightness, brilliance.” In the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the name of one of David’s sons. Esoterically, Nogah relates to: (1) the planet Venus, (2) the sephirah Hod (the Astral world), (3) the Astral body , (4) the Astral light, and more.

Nous Atom

A spiritual atom located in the left ventricle of the heart. This atom is also called the Master Atom and is directly related with the Christ.

“As we have already stated in our book entitled “The Perfect Matrimony or The Door to Enter into Initiation,” the heart of the Sun is constructed like the heart of our human organism. Just as Seven Hierarchs exist in the Sun, who direct the seven cosmic rays, seven brains exist in our heart which belong to the Seven Great Cosmic Hierarchies. The sun has an atomic central nucleus, which is the Atom Nous, and this atom is the dwelling of Brahma within us. This atom is the first vital center which functions in the fetus and also the last atom which stops living in our organism. This atom contains the mind, life, energy and will power of the human being. It has an opal-like luminous aura which irradiates and shines.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub.

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Nous

(Greek νοῦς or νόος) Nous is a philosophical term for the faculty of perception of what is true or real. Nous is a type of intelligent intuition, a form of perception that sees and understands truth. Nous is not the concrete, sensual mind that we commonly experience. Nous refers instead to Abstract Mind, the kind of mind that is fully developed in a person such as Buddha, Jesus, or Krishna. In esoteric psychology, nous is known as the Fourth State of Consciousness . “And be not conformed to this aeon: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your nous, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, thelema of God .” - Romans 12 From The Philokalia (writings of the Christian Desert Fathers): “[Nous] is the highest facility in man, through which - provided it is purified - he knows God or the inner essence or principles of created things by means of direct perception. Nous must be carefully distinguished from reason; nous does not formulate abstract concepts or argue them using deductive reasoning; but it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience or intuition. It dwells in the ‘depth of the soul’; it constitutes the innermost aspect of the heart.” “Nous is perfect awakened Consciousness . Nous is the state of Turiya, profound perfect interior illumination. Nous is legitimate objective clairvoyance. Nous is intuition. Nous is the world of the divine archetypes. Noetic thought is synthetic, clear, objective, illuminated. Whosoever reaches the heights of Noetic thought totally awakens Consciousness and becomes a Turiya. The lowest part of man is irrational and subjective and is related with the five ordinary senses. The highest part of man is the World of Intuition and objective spiritual Consciousness . In the World of Intuition, the archetypes of all things in nature develop. Only those who have penetrated into the World of objective Intuition, only those who have reached the solemn heights of Noetic thought, are truly awakened and illuminated.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Nukva

( Hebrew נוכבי. In Aramaic, “female”) A term in Kabbalah hidden behind many symbols and words in the scriptures, such as earth, land, body, bread, daughter, woman, bride, cup, throne, temple, tabernacle, and more. Nukva refers to the two aspects of our physical body, symbolized on the Tree of Life by Yesod and Malkuth . The Nukva is influenced by the Moon.

“When the Temple, which is the Nukva, was defiled, death was caused to the world for the period of time until the moon, which is the Nukva, is corrected and resumes her radiance.” - Zohar 3. Beresheet B : 57

“One needs to draw illumination into the Nukva.” - Zohar

“Whatever exists down on earth also exists above. There is nothing in this world, in the Nukva, be it ever so small, which does not depend on something appointed over it above, in Binah .” - Zohar 9. Vayetze : 23

“The mother of Solomon, as it is written: “Bat-Sheva the mother of Solomon” (I Melachim 1:11) is the Nukva…” - Zohar

Nun

The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes “a fish” (Aramaic).

Nun is written with the following letters: Nun , Vav , Nun -Sophit, which mean: the Light above, the Shechinah of the three primary forces hidden within the “ Nun ,” “the N” descending through “ Vav ” (spinal medulla) even through the final Nun in order to expand the Infinite Light below in the Ninth Sphere, the center of the Earth. In Yesod , the Solar Forces of Kether , Chokmah , and Binah (their Messiah or Solar-Light-Force), the Heir to the Throne (the Spinal Medulla) are hidden within Nun , the Sperm and the Ovum (the fish) that swims within the Mem , the waters of Yesod , the Ens Seminis.

Its Kabbalistic value is 50.