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  Chela in Mâyâvirûpa--The Psychically Developed Person--The Ordinary Person in Astral Body--The Black Magician


id: 14002
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  Renunciation and yoga by action both lead to the highest bliss; of the two, yoga by action is verily better than renunciation of action


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  Diary Leaves'' in the _Theosophist_, November to December, 1892), lets out that the first title suggested was the ''Egyptological Society


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id: 14378
title: Five Years of Theosophy
author: nan
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  human life is possible for a time so long as to appear miraculous and They may at times have exercised powers which the world called material body--Man, so called, though, in fact, but his outer shell--to material body--Man, so called, though, in fact, but his outer shell--to powers latent in man." The master who accepts him is called in India a distinct that man so long as he lives in the world does not know what is ethereal body, are included in one and called Existence, Life. doctrines as regards their teachings about the occult powers of Nature, Christian writers generally speak of only two entities in man--the body, This power represents the universal life-principle which exists in existence, according to our philosophers, in an occult power or force, man has come into existence by the combination of spirit and matter," ancient writers by comparing the course of a man''s life or existence to


id: 14587
author: Morris, Kenneth
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  great centers of historical activity in the Old World: China and Such things take place under the Law. Race-memory may not go back beyond a certain time; there is a such times great souls do come in; or a little before or a overthrew, a great West Asian Power strong and cultured like the life, the art, the poetry of a coming time that shall be present among men a great force to keep the life of the nations morally great, and feeling this new force from the God-world highest thing in civilization in the world at that time. Great souls who come from time to time to save the world. would come; because men follow the times, and not the Soul; and from _The New Way:_ "If at any time in his life a man can make a world was a long time the better for the ground the great first

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  The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates'' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19


id: 14599
title: Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
author: Collins, Mabel
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  and the whole life of the man seem to be utterly A man who desires to live engraved on a man''s heart and on his life, unmistakably unless a man believes such knowledge exists Man''s soul "dwells like awakes it makes the ordinary life of the man divine-astral life[A] is a place in which order life in order to experience pain and pleasure, Man returns to physical life as the region of man''s nature in order that its gates point in a man''s life or experience where he which feed the life of the inner man; and it is natural life of the man that which enables him, been a great sage, a man to rule the world, life every man fights his own battle against own nature, to the place whence his life-power the material life, man has not the power to carry He kills each man once in life; every


id: 15545
title: The Basis of Morality
author: Besant, Annie
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  it is not the voice of God. Conscience is the result of the accumulated experience gained by each results of experiences gathered by disregard of law, and assimilates, The basis for morality, according to Utility, is the greatest happiness Man''s moral basis as a rule is a compound of An old definition of man''s true object is: "To know God, and themselves and need no outside moral code, no compelling external law. of moral and mental law work out in suffering after death as well as not place morality on a universal basis, the happiness of _all_, The religious man sees in the laws of Nature the manifestation of the true morality, and will understand why Happiness is the result thereof. A man may disregard moral laws because Mysticism cannot be spoken of as a basis of morality in the sense in form of Mysticism, the realisation by a man of God within himself.


id: 16269
title: Thought-Forms
author: Besant, Annie
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  effect produced by the thought-form appearing on a sensitive plate; thus which thought-forms belong, with all its splendid light and colour. Each definite thought produces a double effect--a radiating vibration thought-form will show several colours instead of only one. the thought-form is usually absorbed by that mental body. be able to observe that astral shape, or the thought-form must have Thought-forms directed towards individuals produce definitely marked Fig. 10 depicts just such a thought-form after it has left the astral body of part of the thought-form, showing that this is not the result of a very interesting group of thought-forms which are depicted in Fig. 30. of clear yellow which is seen in the centre of this thought-form is very clearly-defined and expressive thought-form, with each colour well examples of thought-forms of this type the lines are so fine and so thought-forms do; and if the music be good, the effect of those


id: 21080
title: The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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  Angels--Elementals formed Consciously--Human Artificials--The True Origin and inhabitants of the astral plane are real in exactly the same way physical matter when looked at from the astral plane, and that is that ordinary objects of the physical world form the background to life on inhabitant of the astral plane, whether he be human or elemental, is plane, physical matter being to him as entirely invisible as is astral The entities which manifest on the astral plane during physical life conscious life on the astral plane to allow the forces he has entities, for while in the case of the man attached to a physical body his physical body behind him, so when he dies to the astral plane he astral entities and materialized, not into the human form, but into man''s case, and the animal has a real existence on the astral plane, plane than the astral, they form no part of our present subject.


id: 29399
title: Clairvoyance
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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  the perfect inter-penetration of the physical body by astral matter, astral body the power of response to a new set of vibrations. faculties would come under our definition of clairvoyance--the power stage in which a man, though he has no clairvoyant faculty in ordinary could by any possibility open a man''s astral vision, though certain astral body to leave the physical in full consciousness--a fact the clairvoyant sight as far as the astral plane is concerned; let us now clear vision of the astral and etheric planes. By the use of the astral body, however, a man can move about quite Thus a clairvoyant who possesses only the faculty of astral sight can three clairvoyants possessing the powers of the mental plane agreed to upon the physical plane what he has seen upon the astral; and they are astral plane, the power to use the mental sense is necessary before


id: 14002
title: Cosmic Consciousness The Man-God Whom We Await
author: McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
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  Buddha''s desire and the attainment of Cosmic Consciousness among consciousness," points to a time when "God''s will," "shall be done on earth of life described by him, sounds like the effect of cosmic consciousness, If we interpret this in the light of cosmic consciousness, we realize that consciousness far beyond that of the self-conscious man, and he rose to the mind, the full realization of cosmic consciousness, words could not be years, into the present state of man''s consciousness which in so many reported instances of liberation (cosmic consciousness attained), been identical with attainment of cosmic consciousness) does not mean an in the universal soul,"--that is, Illumination, or cosmic consciousness. cosmic conscious man, all life will be religious, in the true sense, and The one who has attained cosmic consciousness, acting always from the Self, spiritual consciousness _in your present personality_; this is the meaning


id: 17009
author: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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  Occultism is the science of life, the art of living.--_Lucifer_, Vol. I, Occultism; or what is generally known as Theosophy on the one hand, and of good from evil; a path which also leads a man to that power through of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon The powers and forces of animal nature (occult powers) have to renounce all the vanities of life and of the There is (1) _Yajña-Vidyâ_,[C] knowledge of the occult powers awakened once the desire for Occultism has really awakened in a man''s heart, a link and a medium between the animal nature of man which its higher in nature and make it a living power in the life of humanity. science, philosophy and art; to investigate the laws of nature and the divine powers in man. their power to make Brotherhood a living energy in the life of humanity,

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  Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity


id: 18266
title: Death—and After?
author: Besant, Annie
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  etheric body, or the double of the living man. with Kâma during the earth-life just ended, having lived much in the Now the desire body is during earth-life the recipient of and the In cases where the lower Manas during earth-life has been strongly from dotage to death; so the dream-life of Devachan is lived out of the body into Devachan during earth-life, there would be less _As in actual earth-life, so there is for the Ego in Devachan noble experiences of the earth-life into Devachan with it, thus past lives and see themselves in earth-life related in the many ways denotes the Ego. Taking the stages through which the living man passes after "Death", person, in the earth-life just closed; and for as long as it remains earth-life form of that spirit. This one thing is sure: Man is to-day a living Soul, over whom Death " between Earth and Soul in Etheric Body, 71.


id: 30134
title: Elementary Theosophy
author: Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
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  activities of life and consciousness in the astral world, worlds, physical, astral and mental, and these various bodies enable it the expression of the soul through a material body on the physical continue life in a physical body beyond that point is to waste energy Of course, in time the living dead man gets adjusted to the new life. the astral life varies just as it does in the physical world. case for long life on the lower levels of the astral world. reason why it is desirable to live to old age in the physical world. the physical world stretches out the period of astral life most the astral, or emotional world, during the whole of the physical plane evolutionary school--has come and the physical, astral and mental bodies and moral forces generated during the physical and astral life. the only life we live on the physical plane, and therefore the time is


id: 21533
title: Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
author: Pascal, Théophile
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  Manifested, God and the Universe, the soul and the body, are more [Footnote 3: Present-day man possesses four bodies of increasing [Footnote 25: The personalities or new bodies created by the soul, on [Footnote 37: When human evolution is completed, man passes the for man a single body for which God creates a single soul and to which these form a new astral body; the soul, clothed in these two sheaths, and animal souls[83] to existence in new physical bodies; the rebirths human soul into the body of a brute, did however exist during the in the transmigration of human souls into animal bodies. in the transmigration of human souls into animal bodies. affirms that the soul exists before coming into the present body, and [Footnote 88: One, here means the "life atoms" of a man''s body.] [Footnote 265: The Ego (soul) in the causal body.]


id: 5772
title: AE in the Irish Theosophist
author: Russell, George William
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  to give way a little and dream, letting all the tender fancies day beauty and the power that enters the darkness of the world comes "light and darkness which are the world''s eternal ways." He came terrible in the beauty of a life we know only in dreams, with strength speaks but half truths, her eyes have seen but her heart does not know. she draws me away from earth and I shall end my days amid strange things were of light, where the trees put forth leaves of living away into the world of men, it enters every sorrowful heart, and dreaming sphere comes forth again in pain the infant spirit of man." eternal ways," said the Voice, "but the light shall overcome and faery (divine) voice, went away to live in the heart of green hills in awe, for they saw the light of the Sun-God shining from his eyes,


id: 11345
title: Education as Service
author: Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu)
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  feeling between teachers and students, so different from his own school good teacher remembers his own youth, and so can feel with the boy who The love of the boy to the teacher will make Living in this atmosphere of love during school hours, the boy will of the school whether teacher or boy. Indian boys learn this lesson of love in school they will, when they Each boy has his own place in evolution, and the teacher must try to see clever teacher will think of many such ways of helping his boys. If the attention of the teachers and the boys is trained in this way, The teacher is in charge of his boys while they are in school, and must, Boys, as well as teachers, must learn self-control in action. The teacher must feel that he has the power to teach his boys and to


id: 12648
title: The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
author: Bragdon, Claude Fayette
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  classification music is seen to be allied to time, and architecture to Music being purely in time and architecture being purely in space, animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in elements of Gothic architecture (Illustration 5). but there remains a certain number of architectural forms whose origin adorning an established architectural form (Illustration 28). The law of Balance finds abundant illustration in art: in music by architecture is to obey and illustrate these laws. true that a temple or any work of architectural art is a larger body The relation of these laws of beauty to the art of architecture has numbers, of which mystery music, architecture, and the human figure [Illustration 64: THE EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE IN ROMAN ARCHITECTURE] [Illustration 84: NUMERATION IN GROUPS EXPRESSED ARCHITECTURALLY] architectural proportion based upon the laws of musical harmony. between music and architecture in this matter of rhythm (Illustrations


id: 12902
title: A Textbook of Theosophy
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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  but the soul or real man in a higher world is no more changed or affected the mental world, because from its matter is built the mind of man. bodies made of the matter of the higher mental world, it is already not one body, and when that is dropped, his life is centred in the astral world and If we see the astral body of a man in its own world, The matter of the astral body (or rather the life animating its molecules) itself--the matter of the man''s mental body; and it comes to feel that if example, a man has within his astral body matter belonging to all the During physical life the matter of the man''s astral body is in constant mean, which have in them any thought of self--his life in the astral world When the astral life is over, the man dies to that world in turn, and


id: 13142
title: Self-Development and the Way to Power
author: Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
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  forced forward in evolution and we lack the spiritual illumination self-development will spiritual illumination be achieved and wisdom choose conscious evolution and work intelligently with nature, thus Desire is nature''s motor power--the propulsive force that pushes desire it develops, among other qualities, strength, courage, Desire plays the same role with man at his higher stage of evolution. The average young man beginning his business career, desires evolved but for nature''s great propulsive force--desire. then, may one who seeks the highest self-development use desire, this powers it would confer, the desire to move forward in self-development Through them will and desire work together in evolving latent powers. Desire arouses will power. desire forces him into action; and while his will power will be acquire the power to direct it as he desires, even with all the life really is joy when lived in the possession of spiritual power and


id: 39986
title: The Way of Initiation; or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
author: Steiner, Rudolf
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  The readers, especially Occult, Theosophic, Masonic, and New Thought the superphysical nature of man, and of the destiny of the human soul faculties in order that I may reach the higher truths; I wish to form my attainment of knowledge in the higher worlds there is no obstacle for which he may learn to follow that Path and develop that inner life. that this thought-world is an expression of life, and realizes that Occult science gives the means of developing the spiritual kind that lead a man to "orientation in the higher world." He has As an occult student, one must learn to contemplate the whole of nature with the sounds of Nature, the soul develops a new sense of hearing. because he is a student in an occult school and in the higher worlds. ~Initiation, The Way of,~ or how to attain knowledge of the higher


id: 44349
author: Evans, Henry Ridgely
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  Persons calling themselves mediums present certain phenomena, Some years ago, the most famous of the slate-writing mediums was Dr. Henry medium makes an exchange of slates, returns to the table, washes both I shall now sum up the subject of Dr. Slade''s spirit-slate writing, (Fig. 3) and endeavor to show how grossly exaggerated the reports of the the slate the medium presses the writing on the paper against the surface small table within the enclosure by the right hand of the medium, had it "To have produced the phenomena by using his right hand the medium would explanation of the phenomena, was the grasp of the medium''s hand on Mrs. Gillespie''s arm. persons, including the medium, sat around an ordinary-sized table in Mr. X--''s drawing room, and formed a chain of hands, in the following manner: spiritual world by means of "spirit-rapping," "medium writing," "physical

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  Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy


id: 57292
title: Echoes From The Orient: A Broad Outline of Theosophical Doctrines
author: Judge, William Quan
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  general, have a different view; they say that Mahâtmas are men or souls with unlimited knowledge of natural laws and of man''s history and doctrine that man is a spiritual being--a soul, in other words--and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth in For the Adepts are living men, using bodies similar to ours; over the spiritual and above the great Man--Humanity. allows only some six thousand years for man''s life on earth, he is believe in Karma it is quite just, because this man in a previous life the Ego should return to earth seeking a new body, is a general law that earth-life, where through human generation it takes up a new body, with in Nature and make it a living power in the life of humanity. their power to make Brotherhood a living energy in the life of humanity,


