YU (Yeshiva University of New York)
university in New York City that was founded in 1886 under Jewish auspices
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(n.)
Jade.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Yu
[Chinese] Chinese hermaphrodite deity who made the earth suitable for life. He/she created the passes in the mountains by plowing a way through in the shape of a bear. As a snake, Yu led the waters of the Flood (the Yellow River) to the abyss. Yu's symbol is a double snake.
Yu
Yu (Chinese) Being; according to the Yi-shu-lu-chia-lun (translation of Nagarjuna's Ekasloka-sastra), " 'the Substance giving substance to itself,' also explain . . . as meaning 'without action and with action,' 'the nature which has no nature of its own' " (SD 1:61). Chinese mystics have made it the synonym of svabhavat or Father-Mother, corresponding to the Second Logos of theosophy.
Yu evidently refers to the primordial spiritual substance of the universe, which is at once intelligence and spiritual matter, life and consciousness, from which all proceeds as a fountain or source, and into which all will ultimately return when the great cosmic world period or manvantara reaches its end, and the cosmic pralaya begins. Yet this is not the highest in the cosmic hierarchical scale, because over, in, and throughout yu is the super-essential cosmic primordial abstract being, which the Pythagoreans spoke of as the all-embracing cosmic monad.
Yu Emperor of China, called "the Great" and considered a national hero. Founder of the Hsia dynasty, his reign has been assigned by scholars to the years 2205-2198 BC; he is one of the three so-called Good Emperors of the Shu Ching; son of Kun, his labors and feats are extolled in the Confucian account known as the Yu-kung (tribute to Yu).
Blavatsky mentions him as being "a pious mystic and great adept," said "to have obtained his knowledge from the 'great teachers of the Snowy Range' in Si-dzang" (Hsi Tsang or Tibet), these great teachers being called "brothers of the Sun in the Chinese records" (SD 1:271n).