Dwarf

Iduna is raised from the Ocean when Bragi iq.v.), the Dreamer of Life, without spot or blemish, crosses asleep the silent waste of waters. Bragi is the divine ideation of Life, and Iduna living Nature — Prakrit i, Eve. Dwellers Mm tlie Threshold j. A term invented by Bulwer Lytton in Znuotii: but in Occultism the word "Dweller" is an occult term used by students for long ages pjist. and rt-ft-rs to o.rtain maleficent astral Doubles of defunct persons. Dwesa fSk.). An^'t-r. One of the three priiieii)al states ot nniKi (of which 63 are t'liunierated), which are Kdtja — pride or evil desire. Divesa — anger, of which hatretl is a part, and Moha — the ignorance of truth. These three are to be steadily avoided. Dwija (Sk.). "Twice-born ". In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahnians; l)ut now it is applied to every man Wlouging to the first of tlie four castes, who has und<'rgone a certain ceremony. Dwija Brahman (Sl:.j. The investure with the sacred thread that now constitutes the "second birth". Even a Hudra who chooses to pay for the honour becomes, after the ceremony of passing through a silver or golden cow — a dwija. Dwipa (^h.). An island or a continent. The Ilindus have seven \ Sapla dwipa) ; the Buddhists only four. This is owing to a misun- <lerstood reference of the Lord Buddha who. using the term m«'taphorically, applied the word dwipa to the races of men. The four Root-races which preceded our fifth, were compared by Siddhartha to four continents or isles which studded the ocean of birth and death — Samsara.