Mahatma, one who, according to the Theosophists, has passed through the complete cycle of incarnation, has thereby attained perfection of being, and acquired the rank of high priesthood and miraculous powers in the spirit world, one, it would seem, of “the spirits of just men made perfect.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mahánadé * Mahdi