A Theosophist's Point of ViewPress of the Pathfinder, 1901 - 235 pages |
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James Albert Clark. A THEOSOPHIST'S POINT OF VIEW BY JAMES ALBERT CLARK , President Theosophical Society , Washington , D. C. PRESS OF THE PATHFINDER . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA . COPYRIGHTED 1901 BY M. A. B. CLARK . 198 C593t.
James Albert Clark. A THEOSOPHIST'S POINT OF VIEW BY JAMES ALBERT CLARK , President Theosophical Society , Washington , D. C. PRESS OF THE PATHFINDER . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA . COPYRIGHTED 1901 BY M. A. B. CLARK . 198 C593t.
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... Theosophical Society founded at New York 1875 - First plank , Nucleus of Universal Brotherhood ; second , Study of ancient and modern religions , philosophies and sciences ; third , Investigation of the unexplained laws of nature and ...
... Theosophical Society founded at New York 1875 - First plank , Nucleus of Universal Brotherhood ; second , Study of ancient and modern religions , philosophies and sciences ; third , Investigation of the unexplained laws of nature and ...
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... Theosophical explana- tions clearer- " Soul a vehicle of Consciousness " -Prof . Clerk Maxwell on the " go " of a thing - Prof . Denton on the " Soul of Things " -Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt - Pope on Soul- Emerson's Oversoul ...
... Theosophical explana- tions clearer- " Soul a vehicle of Consciousness " -Prof . Clerk Maxwell on the " go " of a thing - Prof . Denton on the " Soul of Things " -Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt - Pope on Soul- Emerson's Oversoul ...
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... Theosophy - Oriental Wisdom Religions noted - The Law of Karma - We are in this world - Not to run away from it - Dr ... THEOSOPHIST'S ATTITUDE TO CHRISTIANITY . Bitter attacks from orthodox pulpits - Theosophists not iconoclasts ...
... Theosophy - Oriental Wisdom Religions noted - The Law of Karma - We are in this world - Not to run away from it - Dr ... THEOSOPHIST'S ATTITUDE TO CHRISTIANITY . Bitter attacks from orthodox pulpits - Theosophists not iconoclasts ...
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... THEOSOPHY . Theosophy admits all laws discovered - Asserts exist- ence of others - Ernest Haeckel on knowledge of the " Psy- che " -Law of Substance - Conservation of Matter - Con- servation of Energy - Conservation of Consciousness fol ...
... THEOSOPHY . Theosophy admits all laws discovered - Asserts exist- ence of others - Ernest Haeckel on knowledge of the " Psy- che " -Law of Substance - Conservation of Matter - Con- servation of Energy - Conservation of Consciousness fol ...
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Page 144 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 144 - A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Page 155 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 59 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 97 - These angels and men thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 97 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 53 - Before beginning, and without an end, As space eternal and as surety sure, Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure.
Page 60 - But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so rapid and yet so steady and purposelike in their succession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a skilled modeler upon a formless lump of clay.
Page 229 - As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of...
Page 155 - And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life — again I should point to India.