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id: 13142
author: Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
title: Self-Development and the Way to Power
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  Then we begin to discover that this very desire for greater spiritual power is generating a force that carries us forward and upward. Without desire man would be in a deathlike and dangerous condition--a condition in which further progress would be impossible.


id: 15545
author: Besant, Annie
title: The Basis of Morality
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  It is fixed, and therefore unprogressive; while man evolves, and at a later stage of his growth, the morality taught in the Revelation becomes archaic and unsuitable. Men have grown out of them; they no longer heed nor obey them, for man's reason performs its eclectic work on Revelation, chooses the good, rejects the evil.


id: 17009
author: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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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

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  For whether we take as an example the holy love of a mother for her child, or that of a husband for his wife, even in these feelings, when analysed to the very bottom, and thoroughly sifted, there is still _selfishness_ in the first, and an _égoisme à deux_ in the second instance. CONTENTS PAGE Practical Occultism 1 From _Lucifer_, April, 1888 Occultism versus the Occult Arts 17 From _


id: 11345
author: Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu)
title: Education as Service
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  It may be said that many boys could not be managed in this way. Many boys have failed to develop the necessary strength of character, because the teacher, by constant interference, has imposed on them his own knowledge as to right action, instead of trying to awaken their judgment and intuition.


id: 16269
author: Besant, Annie
title: Thought-Forms
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  Fig. 16, for example, is somewhat suggestive of a partially opened flower-bud, while other forms are found to bear a certain resemblance to shells or leaves or tree-shapes. Such forms remain as coherent erections for some considerable time--an hour or two at least; and during all that time they are radiating forth their characteristic vibrations in every direction, just as our thought-forms do; and if the music be good, the effect of those vibrations cannot but be uplifting to every man upon whose vehicles they play.


id: 12648
author: Bragdon, Claude Fayette
title: The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
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  [Illustration 78] [Illustration 79] [Illustration 80] [Illustration 81] Every building is a symbol of some number or group of numbers, and other things being equal the more perfect the numbers involved the more beautiful will be the building (Illustrations 76-82). It is the number of them which finds illustration within small compass, and the aptness and completeness of such illustration, which makes for beauty, because beauty is the fine flower of a sort of sublime ingenuity.


id: 57292
author: Judge, William Quan
title: Echoes From The Orient: A Broad Outline of Theosophical Doctrines
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  Here a great, a glorious civilization once flourished, only to disappear as the others did; and that a grand development of civilization is beginning here again is one of the operations of the just and perfect law of Karma to the eye of the Theosophist, but one of the mysterious workings of an irresponsible providence to those who believe in a personal God who giveth the land of other men to the good Christian. At the same time, too, one Nirmânakâya may have many different men--or women--whom he directs.


id: 18266
author: Besant, Annie
title: Death—and After?
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  Now the link between the Immortal Triad and the Perishable Quaternary is Manas, which is dual during earth life, or incarnation, and functions as Higher Manas and Lower Manas. Out of this normal state he plunges into physical life for brief periods in order that he may gain experiences otherwise unattainable, and bring them back to enrich his more abiding condition.


id: 21080
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
title: The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
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  Even when our imagination has fully grasped all that is comprehended in what has already been said, we do not yet understand half the complexity of the problem; for besides all these new forms of physical matter we have to deal with the still more numerous and perplexing subdivisions of astral matter. We must note first that every material object, every particle even, has its astral counterpart; and this counterpart is itself not a simple body, but is usually extremely complex, being composed of various kinds of astral matter.


id: 14599
author: Collins, Mabel
title: Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
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  Then comes the barrenness and lack of vitality,--that unhappy and disappointing state into which great men too often enter when middle life is just passed. It is the first test of his strength; he must suffer, must enjoy or endure, more keenly than other men, while yet he has taken on him a duty which does not exist for other men, that of not allowing his suffering to shake him from his fixed purpose.


id: 29399
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
title: Clairvoyance
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  So that though the physical eye or ear has undoubtedly always its counterpart of astral matter, that particular fragment of astral matter is no more (and no less) capable of responding to the vibrations which produce astral sight or astral hearing than any other part of the vehicle. It is hardly possible altogether to exclude these latter faculties, for astral sight necessarily has considerably greater extension than physical, and fragmentary pictures of both past and future are often casually visible even to clairvoyants who do not know how to seek specially for them; but there is nevertheless a very real distinction between such incidental glimpses and the definite power of projection of the sight either in space or time.


id: 12902
author: Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
title: A Textbook of Theosophy
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  Isis Unveiled_ 15 was a founder of the T.S. 14 was an apprentice to a Master 14 Bliss of the higher worlds 89-91 Books, oriental sacred 18 Brain, connection with astral body 59 connection with ego 59 connection with mental body 49 etheric part of 62 Branch-races 104-5, 125 Bridges to ego 59, 61 Brotherhood, the Great, of Adepts 12-4, 116-9, 132 entry into 119 Great White, the 12 Head of 12 Lords of the Flame hold highest office in 132 man may join in 116 Brotherhood of humanity, the universal 138-9 Bubbles in space 19-21 aggregations of 19-22, 23-4 form material of nebula 19 Casual body, the, abstract thoughts arouse 46 appearance of 45-9 bad qualities do not affect 47, 58 colours in 46-8 composition of 45 is the vehicle of ego 42 life in 95-6 mental body reacts upon 58 of Adept 45, 48 of developed man 48 of primitive man 46 of saint 48 of savage 48 only good affects 47, 58 permanent vehicle of ego 45 unselfish emotions arouse 47 Cause and effect, law of 100-7 adjustment of 101 angels connected with 101 cannot be modified 101 exactness of 100-1 explains problems of life 100-1 Cause and effect, is universal 100 simile of debts and 102-7 Cell-life of astral body 65 of mental body 65 of physical body 65 Centres of force 60 Ceremonial, angels approach men through 85 Chain, a, consists of seven rounds 124 life-wave of a 121, 123-5 lunar, the 123, 126-7 periods 125 Chains of globes 121 descent of, into matter 121-4 incarnation of 121-5 Character and simile of muscles 114 how, is formed 111-5 Chemical elements 21, 28 Children of the Fire-mist 131 (also see Lords of Flame) Christ, the, learning the lesson of 96 spoke of the æonian condemnation 119, 133 Church, the angels approach men through 85 Clairvoyant sight 46 character seen by 50 force-centres seen by 60 Colours of astral body 56-8 of causal body 46-8 of mental body 48 of thoughts 54 Consciousness, development of 45-6 of developed man 62-3 states of 64 Corpse, astral 86 physical 86 the Moon is a 123 Counterparts, astral 73-4 of globes 122 Crookes, Sir William 22 Dead, the, can be helped 77-9 can continue studies 77 can help their fellowmen 77 communicate with living 74 cravings of the 75-7 first feeling of 76 friends of, in mental world 93-4 have no measurement of time 75 in astral world 73-89 in mental world 89-95 in the three sections of astral world 74-5, 78-83 most of, are happy 76 period in astral world, 64-5, 82 period in mental world 64 relation of, to Earth 73-4 some seize other bodies 88 thought-creations of 80 what they see 73 Death, a second 63, 89 artists after 77 average men after 64-5 character not changed by 74 conditions of life after 74 cultured men after 65 etheric double at 87 happiness after 74, 76 in astral world 68, 89 lovers of music after 77 misery after 75 philanthropists after 77 primitive men after 63 sensualists after 75-6 spiritual men after 65 students of science after 77 what is 3, 63, 137, 144 Deity (see Solar Deity) Demons, tempting 53, 67 Departments of the world 11 Devas, hosts of 11 (also see Angels) Discrimination 118 Divine Life 29 ensouls matter 29-40 responds to vibrations 33 Divine world, extent of 26-7 first plane named 23, 41 Door, shutting the 131 Dreams 62 Earth, Adepts from Venus come to 131 astral globe of 26-7 -chain 121 first men of the 125-30 nature spirits of the 85 purpose of life on 142 Earth-chain, the 121 animal-men build early forms on 127-8 explained 121-4 incarnation of 122-5 Moon-animals come to 128 Education, department of 11-2 Ego, the, assumes bodies 42, 61 bridges of to physical body 58, 61 connection of, with brain 59 desire of, for vivid life 97 drops lower bodies 43 ensouls fragment of group-soul 42 fills mental images of himself 93 gains qualities 43 habitat of 94 is a part expression of Monad 61 is the manifestation of the triple Spirit in man 42 life of, in causal body 95-7 life of, in lower bodies 63-4 lives for millions of years 97 loses part of his life sometimes 86 object of descent of 45, 98 only good affects 47-8, 58, 112 origin of 39, 109 passes to mental world 85 remembers past lives 44 sheaves of 61 sight of 45 the, simile of day at school and 98 succession of personalities of 109 withdraws from astral plane 82 Elemental kingdoms, the three 29-30 seven types of each of 37 Elemental creatures 37 Elements, chemical 21, 28 proto- 21 Emotions affect life after death 64, 67-8 of the living react on the dead 74 selfish and unselfish 110 should be developed in fourth round 131 the home of the 71 Emotional world (see astral world) Entity, astral body 66-8 Etheric, bodies of early humanity 129 bodies of nature spirits 84 matter 25 Etheric double, the 59 at death 87-8 force-centres in 60 is a bridge 59 is not a vehicle 87-8 some dead cling to 88 vitality flows through 59 Evil, is transitory 48, 58, 135-6 is utilized for progress 135 man's powers of, are restricted 102 simile of Niagara Falls, and 135 Evolution, additional, for animals 131 advanced state of 131 animal 31-40 break in regularity of 130 central point of 125, 130 early stages of, for backward entities 127 examining scenes of early 3 is the Will of the Deity 11, 142 ladder of 17 man restrains law of 105 mineral 30-1 object of human 99 of human forms 129-30 of life 28-40 other schemes of 121, 123 pressure of 99, 105 resistless stream of 136 scheme of, a 32, 122-5 summit of human 13 super-human 13, 119 Theosophy explains laws of 99 three stages of 108-9 vegetable 30-1 Eye-brows, force-centre between 60 Failure is impossible 5 Fairies (see Nature-spirits) 'Fetters' to be cast off 120 Fire-mist, Children of the 131 Fire, nature-spirits of 84 Sparks of divine 10, 41, 61 Flame, Lords of the 131 Fohat 19 Forces, the higher, Adepts' knowledge of 14 Force-centres 60 Founder of each race 11 Founders of the Theosophical Society 14 Fragment of life of the Logos 9 of group-soul 39, 42 of the Monad 61 Freemasonry, angels approach men through 85 Free-will 99 Free-will, limitation of unbounded 102-3 _


id: 39986
author: Steiner, Rudolf
title: The Way of Initiation; or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
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  _Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D._ Arranged from the translation by _Max Gysi_. _Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D._ 1.00 23010 Initiation of a Candidate--6 copies (_Burlesque_) 5.00 22991 Indian Masonry.


id: 30134
author: Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
title: Elementary Theosophy
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  It is commonly said that we can do nothing more for them when they have passed away from physical plane life, but a greater error could not easily be made. The breaking down of the body under the ravages of disease may cause pain, but that belongs to physical life, not death.


id: 44349
author: Evans, Henry Ridgely
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title:
  Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy

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  After Slade's departure from Hamburg, spirit mediums sprang up like toadstools in a single night. Spirit legs, spirit hands, he gives table and chair; Gravitation defying, he flies in the air; But the fact to which henceforth his fame should be pinned, Is his power to raise, not himself but the wind!-- _Home, Home, Dan.


id: 14002
author: McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
title: Cosmic Consciousness The Man-God Whom We Await
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  In truth Tennyson had so fixed his consciousness in the spiritual rather than in the external, that he looked out from that inner self, as through the windows of a house; he was prepared, as he said, to believe that his body was but an imaginary symbol of himself, but nothing and no one could persuade him that the real Tennyson, the _I am_ consciousness of being which was he, was other than spiritual, eternal, undying. The numerous instances of Illumination, or cosmic consciousness which are forcing attention at the present time, prove that there is a _race-awakening_ to a realization of our unity with Om.


id: 21533
author: Pascal, Théophile
title: Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution
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  The visible bodily sheath has had its atoms scattered to the four elements; the etheric body[263] has become separated from the physical molecules whose vital support it formed; the body of passions and desires (_astral body_) has lived for a few years in what Catholics call _Purgatory_, Greeks, _Hades_, and Hindus, _Kâmaloka_; after which, only germs have been left behind; then the intelligence (_mental body_) has been dispersed in turn and endures only in a germinal state. The improvements subsequently effected by human bodies did not then exist; the difference, or distinction, which has now widened into a gulf, was scarcely perceptible, and in the early incarnations of these rudimentary human souls back-slidings and falls were so frequent that some of them, thus enfeebled, might find it to their advantage[194] to become incarnate, at times, in highly-developed animal bodies.


id: 5772
author: Russell, George William
title: AE in the Irish Theosophist
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  When the soul has many lives Fettered by Forgetfulness, Hands that burst its long-worn gyves Cruel seem and pitiless. There it was born and well born, and grew downwards into earth, and all our hopes and efforts and achievements here but vaguely reflect what was true and perfect in intent above, a compact of many hearts to save the generations wandering to their doom.


id: 14378
title: Five Years of Theosophy
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  Many members of the Society who would not have been otherwise called to Chelaship became convinced by practical proof of the above points, and rightly enough thinking that if other men had hitherto reached the goal, they too, if inherently fitted, might reach it by following the same path, importunately pressed to be taken as candidates. Statistics of wars and of the periods (or cycles) of the appearance of great men--at least those who have been recognized as such by their contemporaries; statistics of the periods of development and progress of large commercial centres; of the rise and fall of arts and sciences; of cataclysms, such as earthquakes, epidemics; periods of extraordinary cold and heat; cycles of revolutions, and of the rise and fall of empires, &c.: all these are subjected in turn to the analysis of the minutest mathematical calculations.


id: 14587
author: Morris, Kenneth
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title:
  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

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  Great men simply will not incarnate in malarial territory; because they would have no chance whatever of doing anything, with that oppression and enervation sapping them. These Chow ages seem like the winking of an eye; but they were crowded with great men and small, great deeds and trivialities, like our own.


