A Primer of TheosophyRajput Press, 1909 - 128 psl. |
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A Primer of Theosophy– A Very Condensed Outline Theosophical Society in America Visos knygos peržiūra - 1909 |
A Primer of Theosophy– A Very Condensed Outline Theosophical Society in America Visos knygos peržiūra - 1909 |
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
action Adept Adyar Annie Besant aspiration astral atom astral body astral light astral matter astral plane astral world Brotherhood Buddhic Buddhist C. W. Leadbeater called clairvoyance Colonel Olcott consciousness corpuscles death definite desire devachanic Divine earth etheric evil evolution existence fact fear feeling finer force gain give H. P. Blavatsky heaven heaven-world higher human investigate karma knowledge light lives Logos lower Madame Blavatsky man's manifest materialization means meditation mental mental plane nature Nirvana objects Occult Occultist once order of matter ordinary perfect person phenomena philosophy physical atom physical body physical matter physical plane physical world possible present progress psychic pupil race realize reincarnation religion Renunciation seance seen selfish shows soul spirilla spiritual student sub-planes Teacher teaching THEOSOPHIC STUDY Theosophical Society Theosophist Theosophy things thought thought-form tion trained trouble true truth vehicle vibrations vision whole
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113 psl. - To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. SECOND. — To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. THIRD. — To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
112 psl. - You and your colleagues may help to furnish the materials for a needed universal religious philosophy; one impregnable to scientific assault, because itself the finality of absolute science, and a religion that is indeed worthy of the name since it includes the relations of man physical to man psychical, and of the two to all that is above and below them.
3 psl. - Seek it not by any one road. To each temperament there is one road which seems the most desirable. But the way is not found by devotion alone, by religious contemplation alone, by ardent progress, by self-sacrificing labor, by studious observation of life. None alone can take the disciple more than one step onward. All steps are necessary to make up the ladder.
113 psl. - ... whatsoever their religious opinions, and by their desire to study religious truths and to share the results of their studies with others. Their bond of union is not the profession of a common belief, but a common search and aspiration for Truth. They hold that Truth should be sought by study...
47 psl. - On the morrow he came back, a little boy. And his teacher (who was God) put him in a class a little higher, and gave him these lessons to learn: Thou shalt do no hurt to any living thing. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not cheat.
13 psl. - ... power of changing their forms with Protean rapidity, and also of casting practically unlimited glamour over those with whom they choose to sport ; and secondly, that sight on that plane is a faculty very different from and much more extended than physical vision. An object is seen, as it were, from all sides at once, the inside of a solid being as plainly open to the view as the outside...
25 psl. - This entity ought not, strictly speaking, to be classified under the head "human'* at all, since it is only its outer vesture, the passive, senseless shell, that was once an appanage of humanity; such life, intelligence, desire, and will as it may possess are those of the artificial elemental animating it, and that, though in terrible truth a creation of man's evil thought, is not itself human.
47 psl. - A little boy went to school. He was very little. All that he knew he had drawn in. with his mother's milk. His teacher (who was God) placed him in the lowest class, and gave him these lessons to learn: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt do no hurt to any living thing. Thou shalt not steal.
104 psl. - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
4 psl. - ... a brotherliness for one's co-disciple, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction, a loyal sense of duty to the Teacher, a willing obedience to the behests of TRUTH, once we have placed our confidence in, and believe that Teacher to be in possession of it ; a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of...