A Theosophist's Point of ViewPress of the Pathfinder, 1901 - 235 pages |
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... according to their ideal of God such has been the character of the people , and the same is true of each indi- vidual . Prof. John Fiske's idea at one time when under the suffocating effects of dogmatic teaching was that of a judge on ...
... according to their ideal of God such has been the character of the people , and the same is true of each indi- vidual . Prof. John Fiske's idea at one time when under the suffocating effects of dogmatic teaching was that of a judge on ...
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... according to the inward light with which he is endowed . And this endowment is an emanation , a ray , from the Great All , an activity of the Great Breath which forever moves through the dense infinitudes of a universe , or count- less ...
... according to the inward light with which he is endowed . And this endowment is an emanation , a ray , from the Great All , an activity of the Great Breath which forever moves through the dense infinitudes of a universe , or count- less ...
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... according to our reasoning thrown aside many a natural covering in its long pilgrimage through space and time , through a long series of incarnations . Looked at in its physiological aspect , the personality is a shifting gar- ment ...
... according to our reasoning thrown aside many a natural covering in its long pilgrimage through space and time , through a long series of incarnations . Looked at in its physiological aspect , the personality is a shifting gar- ment ...
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... according to the belief of the Theosophist , fully conscious on this plane . The highest principle is Atma , the Higher Self , neither your spirit nor mine , but like sunlight , shines on all . It is the universally diffused divine ...
... according to the belief of the Theosophist , fully conscious on this plane . The highest principle is Atma , the Higher Self , neither your spirit nor mine , but like sunlight , shines on all . It is the universally diffused divine ...
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... according to a man's deeds and acts thus he becomes ; he whose deeds are evil becomes evil ; he becomes holy through holy works and evil through evil works . ” St. John on the Isle of Patmos , a student of the ancient esoteric lore ...
... according to a man's deeds and acts thus he becomes ; he whose deeds are evil becomes evil ; he becomes holy through holy works and evil through evil works . ” St. John on the Isle of Patmos , a student of the ancient esoteric lore ...
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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.