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akasa, akasha Hindu Philos.|ɑːˈkɑːʃə|
[Skr. ākāśá- ether, atmosphere.]
One of the five elements: ether (see quot. 18581). Hence aˈkasic, aˈkashic adjs., of, pertaining to, or existing in the akasa.
1858H. T. Colebrooke Relig. & Philos. Hindus vi. 154 Five elements, produced from the five elementary particles or rudiments... A diffused, etherial fluid (ácáśa), occupying space: it has the property of audibleness, being the vehicle of sound, derived from the sonorous rudiment or etherial atom. Ibid. x. 253 The Bauddhas do not recognise a fifth element, ácáśa, nor any substance so designated. 18851st Rep. Comm. Soc. Psychical Res. 30 The akâsic substratum of ponderable things. 1917‘Ramacharaka’ 14 Lessons in Yogi Philos. vi. 105 These akasic records contain the ‘memory’ of all that has passed. 1938M. Firth tr. F. Werfel's Hearken unto Voice i. 17 In some incomprehensible way..akâsha contains in each of its particles, simultaneously and pervading the whole of space, all the phenomena and happenings of the cosmos. 1962F. Banks Frontiers of Revel. v. 66 An ‘akashic record’, that showed me..the truth of the assertion that ‘the universal ether is the recording angel of the Christian terminology’. |
