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 |
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action Adept Ancient Wisdom Annie Besant application aspiration astral atom astral body astral matter astral plane astral world aura Brotherhood Brothers Buddhic C. W. Leadbeater called Christ clairvoyance Colonel Olcott consciousness corpuscles death definite desire devachanic Divine earth etheric evil evolution existence fact fear feel finer gain give H. P. Blavatsky hearts heaven heaven-world higher human karma knowledge light living lodges Logos lower Madame Blavatsky man's manifest means mental mind nature Nirvana Occult Occultist once order of matter ordinary person phenomena philosophy physical atom physical body physical matter physical plane physical world possible progress psychic pupil realize reincarnation religion Renunciation seance Seek seen selfish shows sophical soul spirilla spiritual student study of Theosophy sub-planes teacher teaching Theosophical Society Theosophist things Thou thought thought-form tion trouble true truth understand vehicle vibrations Weller Van Hook
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108 psl. - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
128 psl. - step onwards. All steps are necessary to make up the ladder. The vices of men become steps in the ladder, one by one, as they are surmounted. The virtues of man are steps indeed, necessary not by any means to be dispensed with. Yet, though they create a fair
128 psl. - to reach to the life beyond individuality. When he knows that for this his wonderful complex separated life exists, then, indeed, and then only, he is upon the way. Seek it by plunging into the mysterious and glorious depths of your
128 psl. - inmost being. Seek it by testing all experience, by utilizing the senses in order to understand the growth and meaning of individuality, and the beauty and obscurity of those other divine fragments which are struggling side by side
24 psl. - which he creates are strong enough to materialize themselves to ordinary sighta fact which accounts for the periodicity of some manifestations of this class. Another point in reference to such phenomena is, that wherever any tremendous mental disturbance has taken place, wherever overwhelming terror, pain, sorrow, hatred, or indeed any kind of
2 psl. - for all, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction, a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of those
23 psl. - moulds it instantly -into a living being of appropriate forma being which when once thus created is in no way under the control of its creator, but lives out a life of its own, the length of which is proportionate to the intensity of the thought or wish which called it into existence.
18 psl. - it must be understood that after death the true man is withdrawing into himself, and just as at the first step of that process he casts off the physical body, and almost directly afterwards the etheric double, so it is intended that he should as soon as possible cast off also the astral or desire
128 psl. - of nature, the laws of the supernatural; and seek it by making the profound obeisance of the soul to the dim star that burns within.
86 psl. - and gives us rest and refreshment, so between these days of labour here on earth which we call lives, there comes the long night of astral and of heavenly life to give us rest and refreshment and to help us on our way. To the Theosophist death is