If a man put his hand on a bar of red-hot iron, under ordinary circumstances he would be badly burnt; yet it would not occur to him to say that God had punished him for[…]
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Tag: metaphysics
DEATH AND THE DYING PROCESS
Q. I have always been afraid of death and dying. What will happen to me when I die, according to the teachings of Madame Blavatsky and the Masters presented in Theosophy? What did they say about it?[…]
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WHAT IS THE INFINITE?
If something is truly infinite, it cannot have a form, an appearance, a body, a location, a sense of favouritism, a name, gender, feelings, or even the faculties of will, mind, or intention. These are[…]
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THEOSOPHICAL EXERCISE – part 2
This is the trick of compassion, and it is the reason why brotherhood is the first essential to wisdom. It is not because the unbrotherly will displease the god or go to hell or something[…]
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THEOSOPHICAL WRITINGS AND THOUGHTS
At the Kalachakra Initiation given by the Dalai Lama, he stressed that all religions are valid, in their bringing to the fore the truth of these things namely brotherhood and compassion. And in order to stay[…]
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – PART 11
For an exhaustive disquisition upon Adepts, Mahatmas and Nirmanakayas, more than a volume would be needed. The development illustrated by them is so strange to modern minds and so extraordinary in these days of general[…]
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – PART 9
In dealing with these doctrines, one is compelled now and then to greatly extend the scope and meaning of many English words. The word “race” is one of these. In the Theosophical scheme, as given[…]
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – PART 6
While studying these ancient ideas, we may as well prepare ourselves to have them clash with many long-accepted views. But since Science has very little save conjecture to offer when it attempts to solve the[…]
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – PART 5
The ancient doctrine of the constant, eternal change of every atom from state to state, is founded upon, or rather grows out of, another which postulates that there is no such thing as dead matter.[…]
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – PART 4
The records to which in my last paper I referred, as having been kept by the Adepts and now in the possession of their present representatives and successors — Adepts also — relate not only[…]
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WHAT WE TRULY WANT
“The bliss of striving, in essence is illumination. The life of the Absolute is our life, there is only one life is there not? And this life is the life of all and it is[…]
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