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
A Lay Chela on the Secret Doctrine
Author: A Lay ChelaPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Madame Blavatsky on the Origin and Source of The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The Book of Dzyan is the first volume of Commentaries upon the seven secret folios of Kiu-te, and a Glossary of the public works of the same name. The thirty-five volumes of Kiu-te ought to be termed “the popularised version of the Secret Doctrine.” They are full of myths, blinds, and errors. On the other hand, the fourteen volumes of Commentaries — with their translations, annotations, and glossaries of Occult terms, worked out from one small archaic folio, the “Book of the Secret Wisdom of the World” — contain a digest of all the Occult Sciences. It is from the texts of all these works that the Secret Doctrine has been given in 1888.
Chelas and Lay Chelas
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
How may it be possible for anyone, who has no independent means, to subsist upon entering Chelaship? Reply by H.P. Blavatsky. During the eleven years of the existence of the Theosophical Society I have known, out of the seventy-two regularly accepted chelas on probation and the hundreds of lay candidates — only three who have not hitherto failed, and one only who had a full success. Can the Mahatmas be selfish? True knowledge consists in getting at the root of all phenomena, and thus arriving at a correct understanding of the primal cause, the “rootless root,” which is not an effect in its turn but THAT, the ever incomprehensible Causeless Cause (Be-ness) of both spirit and matter, and the oldest dogma in Occultism. Is the desire to live selfish? The only difference between an ordinary man, who works along with Nature during the course of cosmic evolution, and an Occultist, is that the latter, by his superior knowledge, adopts such methods of training and discipline as to quicken the process of his evolution, and thus ascend in a comparatively short period of time to that apex of physical and spiritual perfection (a god on earth) towards which the ordinary man may take billions of years to reach. Beyond the Hall of Learning is the Great White Lodge, the magnificent hierarchy of Masters, Gurus and Chelas all over the world. Every aspirant to chelaship has a Guru, although he many not be aware of it. Guru is the chela’s benefactor. If we have reverenced our teacher, we will now revere our unknown Guru. We must place our hand in his hand with all love, and trust, and confidence, for it is to mighty Karma we have appealed, and the Guru is an agent of Karma. The faith and love between Guru and chela act as a stimulus to both, and as a purifier to the mind of the chela. The business of the Guru is to keep adjusting the chela’s progress, and not to submerge him with knowledge, or push him forward. The Guru–chela affinity is sacred and precious, not lightly taken up or lightly dropped.
Reminiscences of H. P. Blavatsky and "The Secret Doctrine"
Author: Constance WachtmeisterPublisher:
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Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The third volume of the Secret Doctrine is an unworthy companion to the first two
Author: Boris Mihailovich de ZirkoffPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A survey of the contents and authenticity of “The Secret Doctrine, Volume III,” as published in 1897.
The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Secret Doctrine
Author: H.P. BlavatskyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101992581
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Madame Blavatsky's Victorian-era masterpiece is now scaled down to its essentials, providing the most readable, accessible experience ever of one of history's seminal occult works. The Secret Doctrine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's masterwork on the origin and evolution of the universe and humanity itself, is arguably the most famous, and perhaps the most influential, occult book ever written. Published since 1888 only in expensive, two-volume editions of some 1,400 pages, it has long eluded the grasp of modern readers- until now. This single-volume edition, abridged and annotated by historian and Theosophical scholar Michael Gomes, places the ideas of The Secret Doctrine within reach of all who are curious. In particular, Gomes provides a critical sounding of the book's famous stanzas on the genesis of life and the cosmos- mysterious passages that Blavatsky said originated from a primeval source and which form the heart of The Secret Doctrine. Gomes scrupulously scales down the book's key writings on symbolism to their essentials, and offers notes and a glossary to illuminate arcane references. His historical and literary introduction casts new light on some of the book's sources and on the career of its brilliant and elusive author, one of the most intriguing personages of the nineteenth century. At once compact and representative of the work as a whole, this new edition of The Secret Doctrine brings unprecedented accessibility to the key esoteric classic of the modern era.
The Secret Doctrine
Author: H. P. BlavatskyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A three-volume 'synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy' by one of the nineteenth century's most controversial spiritualists.
The Divine Essence and Principles are Vistas of Virtue and Truth
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
What the masses call gods, are simply the First Principles of a Divine Essence permeating the creative and intelligent forces of Nature, and being diffused throughout the universe which is infinite. Theosophy is the spiritual as well as the physical science of that Truth, the very essence of deistic and philosophical research. We point to new intellectual horizons; we outline unexplored routes leading to the amelioration of humanity; and we offer a word of consolation to all the disinherited of the earth, whether suffering from starvation of soul or from lack of physical necessities. If one does not work for others one has no right to be called a Theosophist. The strife will be terrible between brutal materialism and blind fanaticism on the one hand, and philosophy and mysticism on the other — mysticism, that veil of more or less translucency, which hides Eternal Truth.