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| '''Principle''' (from the Latin ''principium'', meaning "beginning, foundation") is a technical term used in [[Theosophy]], which refers to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality."<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle Principle] at Wiktionary</ref>
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| In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical view]], both the universe and human beings are constituted by '''seven principles'''. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined them as follows:
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| <blockquote>Principles. The Elements or original essences, the basic differentiations upon and of which all things are built up. We use the term to denote the seven individual and fundamental aspects of the One Universal Reality in Kosmos and in man. Hence also the seven aspects in the manifestation in the human being—divine, spiritual, psychic, astral, physiological and simply physical.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Theosophical Glossary'' (???????), 262-263</ref></blockquote>
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| == Notes ==
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| [[Category:Theosophical terms]]
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