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Caliber
 
 The quality of someone or something, especially someone’s ability
Causal body
 A relatively permanent aspect of the human constitution which survives the cyclic deaths or disintegration of all personality vehicles. It is created through the interaction of Spirit and matter. Formed of the substances of the highest mental subplanes, it is created through the cooperative interaction of the human Monad and the Solar Angel. The causal body is the material organ through which the “ahamkara principle,” the principle of individuality, (or “I-ness”), manifests. It is also the repository for all higher qualities and values garnered by the incarnating soul during the entire sequence of incarnations. The causal body is alternatively known as the “Soul body” and the “Egoic body.”
 
  
Causal Plane
 The Plane whereon all manifestations are created. A desire must reach this Plane in order to manifest on the physical plane. Theories abound on how exactly that happens.
Theos tells us it’s extremely important to remember that the Causal Plane is Soul’s Plane … and Soul is a Master on its own Plane.
A desire might easily reach the Causal Plane but the question still remains on whether or not that desire is in alignment with Soul’s goals and motives.
 
  
Center

A term denoting a vortex of force to be found in specific locations within each of the three personality vehicles (the mental, emotional and Etheric). Such centers are also called “chakras” which is a Sanskrit term generally signifying “wheel,”because the centers or chakras are always found in various states of rotary motion.

In the present literature of esoteric psychology the centers referred to are most frequently those to be found within the Etheric field. There are seven such centers, each corresponding to one of the major ductless glands of the physical body. The major chakras or centers are: the head center, the center between the eyebrows, the throat center, the heart center, the solar plexus center, the sacral center, and the center at the base of the spine.
 
  
Centering
 The psychospiritual process of abstracting the attention from the fluctuations of the personality fields, and fixing it first upon the “I,” which is the center of the personality awareness, and then upon the inner Self or Higher Self, which is a still more essential phase of identity. Ultimately, centering means SELF- realization as a Monad- an essential unit of life.
 
  
Centrifugal personality tendencies
 Actions and impulses within the personality leading the “I” or incarnated soul towards indentification with fluctuating personality states, rather than disidentification from such states.
 
  
Centripetal personality tendencies
 Actions or impulses within the personality leading towards disidentification from fluctuating personality states, and the establishment, first, of a centered “I-consciousness,” and than of a consciousness of the Higher Self.
 
  
Ceremony
 A ceremony is performed on a special occasion with the involvement of the group. Theos asks that we create ceremonies that reflect the occasion.
 
  
Chain (Planetary)
 An aggregation of seven planetary globes, each composed of a distinct quality of energy/substance. During the course of planetary evolution, the planetary life wave proceeds sequentially from globe to globe in a manner timed according to cyclic law.
 
  
Charge (emotional charge)
 This is a term we use for our emotional reactions to thoughts and ideas. We call them “charges” and “emotional charges” because they cause a physical reaction, great or small, in the body.
The greater the disharmony between the thought/idea and your beliefs in the “rightness” or “wrongness” of the thought or idea.
 
  
Chitta
 Chitta is one of the four aspects of Consciousness. The aspect of chitta allows for subjectivity, one’s emotional reaction, affected by what it sees and its own nature. For example, if a bitter taste affects one negatively, then one’s perception of a bitter tasting fruit will be negative. The other three aspects of mind are manas (perceiving mind) buddhi (intelligence), and ahankara (ego). In various translations of the yoga sutras, chitta is sometimes defined as “mind-stuff” or “the lower mind.”
 
  
Chohan
 An initiate of the sixth degree. One who has passed through the Initiation of Decision.
 
  
The Christ
 The world Teacher. The Leader of the Spiritual Hierarchy of the planet Earth. The term “Christ” refers more to an office of spiritual responsibility than to any particular individual. At present the office of the Christ is held by the Lord Maitreya, the great Individuality who overshadowed the Master Jesus in Palestine some two thousand years ago.
When the present Christ has completed His mission of service, the office of the Christ will be fulfilled by yet another great spiritual Individuality.
The present Christ is the embodiment of pure Love, the second Divine Aspect. He is considered “the eldest in a great family of brothers,” and the “first flower” of our Earth humanity. He is also known as the “World Savior,” “the Daughter of Sanat Kumara,” and “the Teacher alike of Angels and men.”
 
  
Clairaudience
 An inner sense giving the capacity to hear subtle sounds originating on planes of nature higher than the physical.
 
  
Clairvoyance
 An inner sense giving the capacity to register subtle visual impressions emanating from planes of nature higher than physical.
 
  
Complex
 A psychological term denoting an aggregation of well-established, semiautonomous energy forms within the mental/emotional fields of the personality. Complexes are most often unconscious, but not necessarily so; they condition behavior potently until recognized, neutralized or mastered by the “I”-the soul-in-incarnation.
 
  
Conscience
 Conscience is essentially the voice of the Soul. It is the guiding influence of the Transpersonal Self as that Self seeks to impose its values and standards upon the unit of consciousness submersed within the personality fields, i.e., upon the Soul-in-incarnation. Sensitivity to the voice of conscience often arises because of painful experiences accrued during former incarnations.
 
  
Conscious
 Aware, alert, in-the-moment. A state of being in which awareness is central.
 
  
Consciousness
 Soul is consciousness. Consciousness is awareness of and sensitivity to impact. In the triplicity of the Knower, the Knowing and the Known, consciousness is the process of Knowing; it is always the relation between the subject and the object. Essentially, and on a high level, consciousness and love are equivalent terms.
Consciousness in its fullness can only be expressed in the fullness of love. All is known because all is embraced; nothing is excluded. Consciousness and awareness have similar meanings, but consciousness is an intensification of awareness; in a truly conscious state, the center from which consciousness emanates (i.e., the subject) is in high focus, as is the object to which the subject is relating. Actually, the two (subject and object) merge and become indistinguishable.
 
  
Constitution of Man
 The physical and metaphysical anatomy of the human being. The structure of the human energy system includes (beginning with its “lowest” aspects) the physical vehicle, the Etheric vehicle, the astral vehicle, the lower mental vehicle, the Causal vehicle, the Spiritual Triad, and the Monad.
 
  
Control
 Control is an illusion … there is only Choice. Choice directs flow but does not control it, start it, or stop it.
 
  
Cusp
 The Sign by degree and minute that delineates the beginning of a Moon Phase or House in an astrological chart.