A Theosophist's Point of ViewPress of the Pathfinder, 1901 - 235 pages |
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... desire . All sentient existence is gov- erned by this principle , and sad it is to relate , that man , who should have evolved above animal desire should still , as a rule , be functioning on the lowest vibrations of this plane . So ...
... desire . All sentient existence is gov- erned by this principle , and sad it is to relate , that man , who should have evolved above animal desire should still , as a rule , be functioning on the lowest vibrations of this plane . So ...
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... desire ( for better things ) strong enough to induce active effort for its satisfaction . " The four Principles above enumerated , constitute the Personality of Man , and they are designated in Theosoph- ical literature as the ...
... desire ( for better things ) strong enough to induce active effort for its satisfaction . " The four Principles above enumerated , constitute the Personality of Man , and they are designated in Theosoph- ical literature as the ...
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... desire , no , not a wife , far less houses , sons , friends , lands and wealth . I am the witness only , the perceiving inner - self , the support of the whole world , and blessed . " The profound meditative thought of the Eastern sages ...
... desire , no , not a wife , far less houses , sons , friends , lands and wealth . I am the witness only , the perceiving inner - self , the support of the whole world , and blessed . " The profound meditative thought of the Eastern sages ...
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... desires and tastes and impulses rooted in bodily needs or processes . Animals share this nature in common with us , for they possess bodies , and etheric , or lower psychical matter , vitality , and a nature created by desires and needs ...
... desires and tastes and impulses rooted in bodily needs or processes . Animals share this nature in common with us , for they possess bodies , and etheric , or lower psychical matter , vitality , and a nature created by desires and needs ...
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... Desire , for desire is the animating force , the soul of that Principle , the " go " of it . Man , then , as the Thinker , is formed of attributes , and not according to the materialistic - cabalistic formula- CHON - carbon , hydrogen ...
... Desire , for desire is the animating force , the soul of that Principle , the " go " of it . Man , then , as the Thinker , is formed of attributes , and not according to the materialistic - cabalistic formula- CHON - carbon , hydrogen ...
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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.