All Discussions Tagged 'Dâkini' - Theosophy.Net2024-03-28T08:51:09Zhttps://theosophy.net/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=D%C3%A2kini&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat we can understand about Lilith...tag:theosophy.net,2012-02-25:3055387:Topic:1088672012-02-25T01:39:46.608ZLady Linehttps://theosophy.net/profile/LadyLine
<p>Hello again!</p>
<p>Well, here I am again at the "Controversy" page! First I want to thank everybody that answered my previous discussions.</p>
<p>So let's start! Lilith is considered nowadays to be a goddess or a demon. And Blavatsky shared two different views about her. One of them is from the Theosophical Glossary:</p>
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<p>"<span class="st"><em>Lilith</em> (Heb.). By Jewish tradition a demon who was the first wife of Adam, before Eve was created: she is…</span></p>
<p>Hello again!</p>
<p>Well, here I am again at the "Controversy" page! First I want to thank everybody that answered my previous discussions.</p>
<p>So let's start! Lilith is considered nowadays to be a goddess or a demon. And Blavatsky shared two different views about her. One of them is from the Theosophical Glossary:</p>
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<p>"<span class="st"><em>Lilith</em> (Heb.). By Jewish tradition a demon who was the first wife of Adam, before Eve was created: she is</span> <span class="st">supposed to have a fatal influence on mothers and newly-born infants. Lil is night, and Lilith is also the owl ; and in mediaeval works is a synonym of Lamia or female demon."</span></p>
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<p>Another work by Blavatsky, The Secret Doctine, shares another perspective:</p>
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<p>"But with the Fourth Race we reach the purely human period. Those who were hitherto semi-divine Beings, self-imprisioned in bodies which were human only in appearance, became physiologically changed and took unto themselves wives who were entirely human and fair to look at, but in whom <em>lower</em>, <em>more material</em>, though sideral, beings had incarnated. These beings in female forms (Lilith is the prototype of these in the Jewish traditions) are called in the esoteric accounts "Khado" (Dâkini, in Sanskrit). Allegorical legends call the chief of these Liliths, <em>Sangve Khado</em> (Buddha Dâkini, in Sanskrit); all are credited with the art of "walking in the air", and the greatest <em>kindness to mortals</em>; but <em>no mind</em> - only animal instinct."</p>
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<p>Well, so here starts the confusion. In the Theosophical Glossary, Blavatsky says that Lilith is a terrible demon, but in the Secret Doctrine she says that the Liliths have the greatest kindness to mortals. And to make things worst, in the Tibetan <span class="mw-headline" id="In_Tibetan_Buddhism">Buddhism</span> is said that:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Although dakini figures appear in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> and in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6n" title="Bön" class="mw-redirect">Bön</a> tradition, dakinis are particularly prevalent in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a> Buddhism and have been particularly conceived in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a> where the <i>dakini</i>, generally of volatile or wrathful temperament, act somewhat as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse" title="Muse">muse</a> (or inspirational <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtform" title="Thoughtform">thoughtform</a>) for spiritual practice. Dakinis are energetic beings in female form, evocative of the movement of energy in space. In this context, the sky or space indicates <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunyata" title="Shunyata" class="mw-redirect">shunyata</a></i>, the insubstantiality of all phenomena, which is, at the same time, the pure potentiality for all possible manifestations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dakinis, being associated with energy in all its functions, are linked with the revelation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuttara_Yoga_Tantra" title="Anuttara Yoga Tantra" class="mw-redirect">Anuttara Yoga Tantras</a> or Higher Tantras, which represent the path of transformation, whereby the energy of negative emotions or <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kle%C5%9B%C4%81_%28Hinduism%29" title="Kleśā (Hinduism)" class="mw-redirect">kleshas</a></i>, called poisons, are transformed into the luminous energy of enlightened awareness (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnana" title="Jnana">jnana</a>) yielding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa" title="Rigpa">rigpa</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When considered as a stage on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a> Path, the dakini is the final stages</span>" From Wikipedia.</p>
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<p>So, what are your thoughts about this subject? Is Lilith a neutral entity or energy that can be manipulated?</p>
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