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| Ka |
An Egyptian definition of the spirit and life-force.
During life, the Ka remains separate from the body, then at death a person is said to have gone to his/her Ka. The Ka acts as a protecting
spirit and guards its dead against the dangers of the after life. See Dennis Wheatley's The Ka of Gifford Hilary. |
| Kabbalah |
Kabbalah is an
esoteric Jewish mystical tradition that places mystical significance
on letters and numbers, and their interrelationships. Kabbalah means received or tradition and its symbolism has influenced
Christianity,
Ritual Magick,
Wicca,
Freemasonry and many other faiths and traditions. |
| Karma |
Originating in Hindu philosophy, Karma is a concept that is
used to explain injustice and retribution. Through karma, a crime committed in this life may be punished in the next. This is because
every action, no matter how big or small, has its inescapable consequence. In other words, sooner or later each good deed is repaid by
good and each bad deed by bad. |
| Kerub |
See
Cherub. |
| Kether |
Kether is the first Sphere (Sephirah) of divine
emanation according to Kabbalah, representing the beginning of creation. The word Kether means crown. See also
The Sephiroth. |
| Khepera |
 Khepera
(from the Egyptian
word kheprer) means ‘to become’. With the attribute of self-generation and self-renewal, he is a form of the sun-god Re or Ra, and would roll
the sun across the sky, much as the dung beetle rolls a ball of dung in front of itself (sometimes he was also depicted pushing the moon through
the sky). Khepera was self-produced and usually depicted as a human with a scarab beetle on his head, or sometimes with the beetle as his head. |
| Klippoth |
In Lurianic Kabbalah,
the purpose of man is to restore the original harmony in the universe that was destroyed with the breaking of the Vessels (also known as
the 'Fall'). The original vessels shattered and fell to earth as the evil Klippoth. Many worlds were created and destroyed prior to the present creation.
These are compared with sparks which fly out from a red hot iron beaten by a hammer, and which are extinguished according to the distance they are removed from the burning
mass. These creations, which have been succeeded by the present order of things, are indicated in Genesis, chapter 36, verses 31 – 40. The kings of Edom,
who reigned before the monarchs of Israel, are mentioned as having died one after the other. They are the primordial worlds which were successively destroyed, the
worlds of the Klippoth. |
| Kundalini |
She who is coiled; the female energy
that lies coiled at the base of the yogic body. Through combined techniques, the Kundalini is 'awakened' and made to rise through the
Chakras
to the sahasrara (the thousand-petalled spiritual energy centre at the crown of the head) where the individual soul merges into the
supreme Self and attains the state of self-realisation. |
| Kundalini Yoga |
A form of meditation used to awaken the energy of
awareness (Kundalini), who is made to rise through the Chakras
to the sahasrara (the thousand-petalled spiritual energy centre at the crown of
the head) where the individual soul merges into the supreme Self to attain full awareness of the Soul. |
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