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| Appropriate action, ritual, propriety, etiquette |
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| The legendary founder of Taoism |
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| Empathy, consideration for others, humaneness, a Confucian virtue |
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| The active aspect of reality that expresses itself in speech, light and heat |
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| An ancient Confucian book of divination, one of the Five Classics, still in use today |
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| A Chinese school of philosophy that taught universal love |
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| Family devotion, filial piety, a Confucian virtue |
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| The Classic scripture of Taoism |
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| The receptive aspect of the universe that expresses itself in silence, darkness, coolness and rest |
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| Cultural refinement, a Confucian virtue |
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| Reciprocity, a Confucian virtue |
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| The major Confucian books |
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| The book of saying of Confucius |
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| The scrictest of the Chinese philosophical schools, which advocated strong laws and punishments |
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| The Classical literature of the time preceding Confucius, including poetry, history and divination |
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| The mysterious orgin of the universe which is present and visible in everything |
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| "Noble Person"; the refined human ideal of Confucianism |
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| "Saint-thing" or "Saint-way" |
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| "Oak-tree wisdom", a follower of the modern recreation of Druidism |
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| In Scientology, the human soul |
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| A religion that began in Jamaica in the 1920's to emphasize African pride |
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| A diety in Voodoo, also spelled Iwa |
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| "Knowledge-Study" (Latin and Greek); a modern religion that promotes a process of focusing thought and clarifying life goals |
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| A general name for a diety in the Yoruba tradition religions |
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| In Scientology, a person who is not yet spiritually liberated and who is just beginning to undergo the auditing process |
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| In Scientology, an electric machine that reads galvanic skin response |
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| A first-level initiate in Druidism |
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| A Contemporary-Pagan movement that emphasizes feminine expressions of the divine |
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| In Scientology, a fully liberated person, also referred to as OT |
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| In Scientology, the state of mental liberation |
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| A female diety in Santeria who is associated with love, fertility, and marriage |
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| "Summers-end"; in Wicca, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new (October 31st) |
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| "Law-Wheel" (Chinese); a modern Chinese religion that uses meditation and physical exercises |
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| In Santeria, a popular god associated with lightning, thunder and powerful storms |
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| In Scientology, a diagram of the stages toward personal liberation |
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| "Energy Force" (Chinese); a type of martial art that is thought to increase health and strength |
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| "Law-Wheel" (Chinese); an invisible spiritual wheel |
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| In Wicca, the time of the full moon |
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| A modern monotheistic religion that grew out of Islam that emphasizes unity and equality of individuals, cultures and religions, a follower of the Baha'i religion |
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| "Door", "Gate"; a prophet who was the forerunner of the Bahau'llah, the founder of Baha'i |
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| A second-level initiate in Druidism |
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| In Scientology, an experience of earlier suffering - that keeps a person from relating healthily to the present |
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| A religion that blends elements from French Catholicism and African religions |
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