Oahspe:
A 921 page �scripture� written in 1881
by John B. Newbrough, a psychic and spiritualist who
is reported to have produced the entire book, including footnotes
and illustrations, working on a typewritten in a darkened room..
OAHSPE is translated �sky, earth, spirit.� See Universal
Faithists of Kosmon.
OBE:
- Out-of-body experience.
- Occult:
- Study and science of things
esoteric, secret, unseen and supernatural. From the Latin word,
hidden.
- Odin:
- In Norse mythology, the principal Aesir god, ruler of heaven
and Earth, and the god of war, wisdom, agriculture and poetry.
As god of
the dead, he presided over banquets of those slain in battle.
With his brothers Vili and Ve he had killed the primordial frost
giant Ymir and used Ymir's body to make all the different realms
of the world, as well as the sea and sky. The brothers also
created the first human beings, Ask and Embla. Odin was the
supreme chief of the Aesir, a society of warrior gods, and
though other gods were younger, more handsome, and even
physically stronger, Odin's powers and wisdom were foremost. In
war, Odin decided the fates of all warriors. He was master of
magic and discovered the runes.
He was also called All-Father Also called Othin, Wotan, Woden,
Wuotan, Voden, or Votan.
- Odinism:
- A return to the religion of the
ancient Vikings, Odin being the chief god, also known as Woden
or Wotan. Originally worshipped as the god of warriors or
leaders, it is his responsibility to delay, as long as possible, Ragnarok,
the day of doom. He gained use of the Runes and
passed their knowledge on to men.
- Ogham:
- The Celtic alphabet made up of
20 letters called fews, each representing a different kind of
tree.
- Old Religion:
- Term often used for the Wiccan
faith. Used because Wicca is a re-creation of what is believed
to be ancient paganism.
- Om: (Sanskrit)
- A mantram used in meditation.
Aum In the Upanishads it is often regarded as the seed of all
mantras, containing all origination and dissolution. It is known
as 'pranava', or 'reverberation', and is the supreme 'aksara',
or syllable
- Om Mane Padme Hum: (Sanskrit:
Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus)
- An ancient (Sanskrit) buddhist mantra. In Tibetan Buddhism
the most common prayer, found everywhere Related to the chant
"Namu Myoho Renge Kyo", used in some Japanese buddhist
sects."Myoho Renge Kyo" is the title of the Lotus Sutra,
tranlated into Chinese by Kumarajiva and then transliterated
into Japanese. Loosely translated, "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" becomes
"Hail to the Mystic Law(jewel) of the Lotus Sutra" Om
Mane Padme Hum
- Omega Directory:
- A publication of the New Age
Community Church, Originally called the Omega New Age
Directory. First published in 1971 At one time it had a
readership of 10,000.
Most people are unaware of the fact that psychic reading was
illegal in Phoenix since 1913. The Omega Directory got the City
Council to repeal the law and legalize psychic reading in 1978.
The Omega Directory has done much to open the eyes of the general
public to Metaphysics and the New Age. In 2013 is ceased circulation due to lack
of advertising. In 2015 in was reborn on-line at
www.omegadirectory.com
- Omega Group:
- The original study group, founded in the 1970s, that ultimately gave rise to the
New Age Community Church.
- Omega Vector:
- Founded
in 1978 by visionary George Addair, Omega Vector is an organization
that teaches the art of Self-Knowledge. Its flagship program
utilizes the centuries-old Socratic questioning technique, which
uncovers what defines you as an individual and what shapes your
worldview. Led by a veteran team of graduates, the core Omega
programs are free and typically take only one weekend to complete.
It requires a small and simple commitment to yourself.
- Omen:
- A sign
or event which
is interpreted as being a sign of good or evil in a
future event. Often it will
be small yet significant; for example.a vase falling over or a
cup of water spilling, There
are two basic kinds of omen: normal occurrences of nature (the
hooting of owls, or howling of dogs, for example), which are
interpreted in a specific context to augur good
or bad fortune; and unusual occurrences, such as flights of
sacred birds, or eclipses,
or comets,
that are believed to be direct manifestations of the gods.
-
Omnipotence:
- An
attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all power
God has the power to do anything he wants to. All that is done
is done by God.
-
Omnipresence:
- An
attribute of God alone. It is the quality of being present in
all places at all times God is not bound by time and space
because he is external to them.
-
Omniscience:
- An
attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all
knowledge- past, present and future.
- One Worlder:
- One who advocates the abolition
of independent nations, working to establish a single world
government similar in structure to the present United Nations.
- Oneness Pentecostalism:
- A schism that emerged from the
mainstream Pentecostal movement during the years 1914�1916.
Unlike traditional Pentecostals, �Oneness� followers maintain
view similar to Monarchianism.
In addition, most Oneness Pentecostal organizations also teach
that speaking in tongues, baptism, and maintaining various moral
�standards� are necessary for salvation.
- Oneiromancy
- Divination through dreams.
- Ontology: (sometimes
onotology)
- The study of being, of consciousness. Descartes'
ontological argument. "I think, therefore I am"
- Oracle
- A person through
which otherworldly entities speak, similar to
channeling. Classically the oracle goes into a trance. The word
also refers to the message received. People often see oracles
to ask questions or to be given insights to their future. In
ancient Greece,
the voices or mediums of the oracles were sybils, women priests,
who lived in caves regarded as the shrines of deities.The
most famous Roman oracles
were at Dodua, where Zeus was
thought to give answers through the rustling of the oak leaves,
and at Delphi,
where Apollo supposedly
spoke through a priestess. In both cases, oracular responses
came in such ambiguous ways that it was difficult to prove them
wrong. A famous Roman oracle was at Cumae, where the sibyl was
said to have drawn inspiration from Apollo. Oracles may also be
dreams and visions. The Urim and Thummim is called an oracle.
- Order of Omega:
- The name of the New Age
Community Church until 1982. It was changed from the Omega
Group.
- Ordination:
-
The formal bestowal of ministerial office, with the
authority of the Church publicly given by its agents competent
to ordain (bishop, presbytery). Since the Reformation wide
divergence has prevailed alike as to the form and theory of the
ministry, the liturgical forms used in ordination, and the
proper person to administer ordination. In the Eascern and Roman
Catholic Churches ordination is held to confer grace and
indelible character, and therefore not to he repeated. Many
Anglicans share this position. In churches of Catholic order
ordination is set in the framework of the Eucharistic liturgy
and restricted to bishops of historic succession, as was the
universal rule from the second to the 16th-century. The
essential form of ordination consists of the laying on of hands�
with prayer. Admission to minor orders is by the giving of the
appropriate symbol of office (out of which has developed the porrecijo
isssts-um e,sto rum). This
primitive simplicity has been retained by the Eastern Church,
and to it the Reformed Churches have returned. The practice of
laying-on-of-hands for ordination comes first from the very
ancient practice of the father laying his hands upon his sons to
confer upon them their various parts of inheritance. (Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph). Since the Bible says that Christians are
inheritors of Abraham's blessing through Jesus, it seemed
appropriate to confer these blessings in the same way.
- Ordo Templi Orientis:
- See Crowley,
Aleister.
- Orgone Accumulator or Orgone
Box:
- Wilhelm Reich's inventiona, which was claimed to be able to
collect and store "orgone",
a hitherto unknown form of energy described by Reich as "the
basic life-stuff of the universe." Reich believed this energy
was normally evenly distributed about the body, but gathered
into the genital area during orgasm, then was redistributed
after that event. He also preached that cancer was caused by the
lack of orgone
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Original Sin:
-
Primarily a Christian term used to describe the effect of
Adam's sin on his descendants According to some, it is our
inheritance of a sinful nature from Adam.
- Orr, Leonard:
- Creator of Rebirthing
- Orthodox Christianity:
- Generically the term orthodox
refers to traditional, conservative forms of Christianity,
upholding the traditional Christian beliefs about God as a Trinity and
about Jesus as
taught in the Catholic Church�s early creeds. In this sense
orthodox Christianity includes conservative Roman Catholics,
Eastern Orthodaox and Protestant Christianity
More specifically, the term Orthodox (with a capital O) refers
to the state churches of Eastern Europe and the eastern
Mediterranean (Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Greek
Orthodox, etc.) who split with Roman
Catholicism of
the West largely over the issue of papal authority.
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Osiris:
- The mythical Egyptian divine
king and judge in the netherworld. Following his death at the
hands of his brother, Seth, Osiris fathered the royal god Horus.
In funerary ritual, the dead became Osiris. First limited to the
royal dead, from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom (2052 BC)
this hope was extended to all the deceased.
- Osiris/Dionysus:
- A manufactured name used to indicate the dying and
resurrecting god-man from about 300 BC in Egypt(Osiris),
Greece(Dionysus), Asia Minor(Attis) and Syria(Adonis)..
- Ostara:
- The Pagan holiday or Wiccan
sabbat which occurs to celebrate the onset of spring. The
Christian holiday of Easter derrives from Ostara, a celebration
named after the goddess of Spring and rebirth, hence the egg and
the rabbit as the primary symbols.
- Osteopathy:
- An form of medical
treatment purporting to cure a wide variety of diseases
primarily by manipulation of the joints of the body. This is
based on the assumption that disease is due chiefly to skeletal
deformation and its effects on nerves, blood vessels, etc. Over
the decades it has come to more and more like allopathic
medicine.
- Ouija Board:
- A board and pointer
used for divination and to contact the spirit world. The name is
said to come from the French for 'yes', oui, and the German for
'yes', ja - th9ough there are other claims. The board, which
has the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0 to 9, and the
words 'yes' and 'no' printed on it, is placed on a table.
Participants rest their fingertips lightly on the pointer, a
heart-shaped device with three felt-tipped legs. One person
poses a question, and the pointer is then supposed to move to
answer the question. Similar board-type instruments were used
for divination in ancient China and Greece. In the
mid-nineteenth century a similar device, the planchette, came
into use in Europe. The modern Ouija board is marketed as a
game, originally called 'Ouija Talking Board', and was developed
in the late 1890s by an American, William Fuld, who sold the
patent to the Parker Brothers game company in 1966. Ouija boards
became popular during and after World War I, when many people
were desperate to communicate with friends and loved ones killed
in the fighting. Parapsychologists regard the Ouija board as a
means to tap into the subconscious; critics of its use claim
that it is dangerous in that users have no control over
repressed material, which may lead to psychological trauma. Most
fundamentalist Christians condemn the Ouija board as dangerous
tinkering with potentially harmful occult forces and a tool of
the Devil.
- Ouroboros: (Greek Ουροβόρος,
from ουροβόρος
όφις "tail-devouring
snake", also spelled Uroboros in English)
- An ancient
symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and
forming a circle. Plato described it as as self-eating, circular
being as the first living thing in the universe—an immortal,
perfectly constructed animal. "The living being had no need of
eyes when there was nothing remaining outside him to be seen;
nor of ears when there was nothing to be heard; and there was no
surrounding atmosphere to be breathed; nor would there have been
any use of organs by the help of which he might receive his food
or get rid of what he had already digested, since there was
nothing which went from him or came into him: for there was
nothing beside him. Of design he was created thus, his own waste
providing his own food, and all that he did or suffered taking
place in and by himself. For the Creator conceived that a being
which was self-sufficient would be far more excellent than one
which lacked anything; and, as he had no need to take anything
or defend himself against any one, the Creator did not think it
necessary to bestow upon him hands: nor had he any need of feet,
nor of the whole apparatus of walking; but the movement suited
to his spherical form was assigned to him, being of all the
seven that which is most appropriate to mind and intelligence;
and he was made to move in the same manner and on the same spot,
within his own limits revolving in a circle. All the other six
motions were taken away from him, and he was made not to partake
of their deviations. And as this circular movement required no
feet, the universe was created without legs and without feet."
- .Out-of-Body
Experience:
- Experience which occurs when
the astral body or etheric body leaving the physical body while
the individual is at rest, asleep, near death, or temporarily
dead.
- Oversoul:
-
1)The Oversoul is
an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. He
uses the term to denote a supreme underlying unity which
transcends duality or plurality.
2) it is the closest English language equivalent to the Vedic
term Paramatman.
3)In the Western vernacular the term "Over-soul"
is understood as the collective indivisible Soul, of which all
individual souls or identities are included. 4)
Jane Roberts, in her books, uses the term to describe one of
many higher consciousnesses, but not the ultimate.
- Ozone Therapy:
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