Hidden Wisdom in the Holy Bible, Vol. 1Quest Books, 2015 M04 8 - 230 pages This first of a two-volume abridgement of a Theosophical classic explains how a literal reading of the Bible misses rich concealed meaning, how Biblical symbols encode esoteric truths, and how Christ's life can be seen as an initiatory journey. |
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... vehicles for the transmission to later peoples of their knowledge of cosmogony , cyclic involution and evolution , and the true nature and destiny of humanity . Modern scientists have also found in ancient myths appropriate symbols for ...
... vehicles for the transmission to later peoples of their knowledge of cosmogony , cyclic involution and evolution , and the true nature and destiny of humanity . Modern scientists have also found in ancient myths appropriate symbols for ...
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... vehicles and powers of human beings - the need for secrecy is far greater . In wrong hands the power which such knowledge makes available is far more dangerous than physical atomic energy . The products of nuclear fission and fusion can ...
... vehicles and powers of human beings - the need for secrecy is far greater . In wrong hands the power which such knowledge makes available is far more dangerous than physical atomic energy . The products of nuclear fission and fusion can ...
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... vehicle for hidden wisdom , the sacred language can prove helpful in solving otherwise insoluble biblical problems . While belief or faith in the possibility of supernatural in- tervention makes some scriptural statements credible ...
... vehicle for hidden wisdom , the sacred language can prove helpful in solving otherwise insoluble biblical problems . While belief or faith in the possibility of supernatural in- tervention makes some scriptural statements credible ...
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... vehicle of the reincarnating Ego at the formless levels of the mental plane . Literal or Symbolic ? If it be objected that too much is being deduced from so simple and so briefly described an incident as the withering of the fig tree ...
... vehicle of the reincarnating Ego at the formless levels of the mental plane . Literal or Symbolic ? If it be objected that too much is being deduced from so simple and so briefly described an incident as the withering of the fig tree ...
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... vehicles . Interior Healing Grace The " heal " for every wound is , as an old English medical maxim says , " within the wound . " It consists of the Christ principle , power and life which form the second aspect of the threefold ...
... vehicles . Interior Healing Grace The " heal " for every wound is , as an old English medical maxim says , " within the wound . " It consists of the Christ principle , power and life which form the second aspect of the threefold ...
Contents
3 | |
17 | |
25 | |
32 | |
The Reality Behind the Shadow | 51 |
Four Keys of Interpretation | 59 |
Part Four | 65 |
A Rosetta Stone for | 71 |
3 | 147 |
The Life of Christ | 148 |
6722 | 176 |
The Way of Holiness | 185 |
Index | 199 |
25 | 201 |
111 | 207 |
The Symbolism of Numbers | 111 |
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