Author: A Lay ChelaPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
A Lay Chela on Occult Study
Author: A Lay ChelaPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Studies of Occultism
Author: Helena. P. BlavatskyPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 177545441X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Interested in the supernatural, spells, seances, communicating with the Great Beyond? Spend some time with Studies of Occultism, a selection of works penned by Helena P. Blavatsky (also known as Madame Blavatsky), one of the key figures in the Theosophy movement that transfixed millions around the globe in the late-nineteeth and early-twentieth centuries. This fascinating volume explains many of the philosophical and spiritual principles behind occultism.
Eastern Occult Philosophy is the science of effects known by their causes, and vice versa.
Author: Alexander Wilder, Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Occult truth is Nature without the illusory veil of the senses
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
On the essence of Truth beneath and beyond external appearances. 1. The Beacon-Light of occult truth is Nature without the illusory veil of the senses. She is the Rainbow of Hope and our only hope. 2. True wisdom, being a projection of our perceptive consciousness, acts within without, and not vice versa, awakening the spiritual senses in us and the power to act. Brain power and logic, being outward looking, can only serve the interests of lower minds. 3. Inner Wisdom is the Wisdom of Love and code of sublime ethics. Its noble ideals alone can empower people to reject the parasitic plants of human fabrication which are choking all goodness and truth in the world. 4. The ancient Egyptians, the Ethiopians of the East who came from Lanka or Ceylon, were a colony of dark-skinned Aryans, the Dravidians of Southern India, who took an already existing civilization with them to Egypt. He who dissipates the darkness of ignorance by the torch of truth awakens in our benumbed souls the faculty of distinguishing the true from the false, and kindles a divine flame hitherto absent. 5. Theosophy is the white ray from which arise the seven colours of the solar spectrum, each human being assimilating one of these rays to a greater degree than the other six. Theosophy, or rather the occult sciences it studies, is something more than simple metaphysics: it is universal transcendentalism. 6. The numerical value of the names of old divinities was taught in the Lesser Mysteries. But Mystery Language itself was reserved for the high initiates alone. Envy, jealousy, and rivalry, reign supreme in a society whose principal object is brotherhood. Instead of helping one another, many look askance at each other, always ready to make fun of each other and criticise. 7. The Theosophical Society is a Republic of Conscience. Knowledge of Cosmogenesis is the key to All-knowledge. The Theosophical Society is the Tree of Brotherhood, grown from a kernel planted in the earth by the angel of Charity and Justice. It depends upon its members to make of their Society an ark destined, in a future not too distant, to transport the humanity of a new cycle beyond the vast muddy waters of the deluge of hopeless materialism. In the meantime, we all should seek to bring some peace on earth to the hearts of those who suffer, by lifting for them a corner of the veil which hides from them divine truth.
A Lay Chela on the Secret Doctrine
Author: A Lay ChelaPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
In the early days of the Theosophical Movement occult phenomena were taken as miracles
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Wonders today no longer arouse veneration and awe, but curiosity. It was in the hope of arousing and utilizing this spirit of curiosity that occult phenomena were shown. The Roman Catholic Church excuses itself from the examination of any occult phenomena on the plea that they are necessarily the work of the Devil, whenever they occur outside of its own pale, since it has a lawful monopoly of the legitimate miracle business. While Religion cannot grasp the idea of natural law as applied to the supersensuous Universe, Science does not allow the existence of any supersensuous universe at all to which the reign of law could be extended; nor can it conceive the possibility of any other state of consciousness than our present terrestrial one. Occult phenomena were claimed by the Spiritualists as the work of their dear departed ones, and the leaders of Theosophy declared to be mediums in disguise. What mean and unreasoning animals ignorant men become when their cherished prejudices are touched! Did not the history of scientific research teach us how, very like an ignorant man, a learned man can behave when the truth of his theories is called in question?
William Quan Judge on Theosophical Study and Work
Author: William Quan JudgePublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Tallapragada Subba Row defends Esoteric Buddhism
Author: Tallapragada Subba RowPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The Theosophist
Author: Archaic Theosophy is pre-Buddhist Wisdom-Religion
Author: William Quan JudgePublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Theosophy is the Aletheia of Occult Science and the Religion of Reason. Prerequisites and qualifications and for aspirants. The fundamental propositions of the Secret Doctrine. First proposition — Cosmogenesis. Second proposition — Law governs Cosmos and Man. Third proposition — Anthropogenesis. “Spiritual” nature cannot be “cultivated.” A sincere lover of the race can accomplish more in three incarnations during Kali-Yuga, than he could in a much greater number in any other age. What is the “moment of choice”? The elementals are spirits of the four elements of the terrestrial world. Our Earth is densely populated by these mystifying centres of energy. By coalescing around our thoughts, and being coloured by them, they act as impartial agents of karma. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. As universal law contains within itself the means for its own accomplishment, and the punishment for its violation, it requires no further authority to carry out its decrees. The origin of man, his “original sin,” and his destiny. The doctrine of reincarnation. The inner constitution of man. The real hell is life on earth. The bliss of “paradise” is a delusion of the lower self stemming from the “heresy of individuality,” which heresy determines the monad’s future birth. Upheld through Eternity, Karma decrees harmony across the Universe. Since Compassion is the Spirit of Truth, karma follows its behests and manifests as the Law of ethical causation. It is the One Law that governs the World of Being impartially, to Cosmos, Man, and Angel alike. The universal onward march of evolutionary progress proceeds along contrary directions — spirit falling gradually into matter, and matter ascending to its original condition, that of a pure spiritual substance. Greatness is measured by the standard of genuine spiritual (not psychic) development, i.e., the acquirement of soul-wisdom by personal effort and merit. Heart-wisdom and head-learning are divergent paths. A mountain abyss separates the two, so hopelessly impassable and obstructive to the traveller. The law of spiritual development supersedes the purely intellectual growth; the latter is more of an impediment than of help. Theosophy, being the only system of true religion and philosophy, offers lucid explanations and solutions to the puzzles of life. A rebuke to the Theosophical Publication Society: We are not seeking to cater to fiction readers and curiosity hunters, but to the pressing needs of earnest minds. The United States contain more theosophists and possible subscribers and readers than the whole of Europe. They do not want fiction. They want no padding in their search for truth. They are perfectly able to grasp that which the Theosophical Publication Society in London deems to be “too advanced.”