Dictionaries and Glossaries
Various resources to aide the serious Theosophist.
The following reading list attempts to achieve a balance between the older classical books and modern expositions:
- Apte, V.S. The Student’s English-Sanskrit Dictionary (Motilal Banarsidass 1974)
- Blavatsky, H. P. Theosophical Glossary (1892/1974)
- de Purucker,Gottfried Occult Glossary: A Compendium of Oriental and Theosophical Terms (1933/1969)
- Hall, M. P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages — An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (Philosophical Research Society, Inc. 1977)
- Harris, Philip (Gen. Ed.) Theosophical Encyclopedia (TPH Philippines 2006)
- Macdonell, Arthur Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (Oxford University Press 1924/1999)
- Monier-Williams, Sir M. Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Motilal Banarsidass 1899/OUP)
- Tyberg, Judith Sanskrit Keys to the Wisdom Religion: An Exposition of the Philosophical and Religious Embodied in the Sanskrit Terms Used in Theosophical and Occult Literature (Point Loma Publications 1940/1976)
