Who can mend the broken Society?

Who can mend the broken Society? PDF Author: Dr. Franz Hartman and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Languages : en
Pages : 9

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Who can mend the broken Society?

Who can mend the broken Society? PDF Author: Dr. Franz Hartman and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 9

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Prerequisites to membership of the Theosophical Society

Prerequisites to membership of the Theosophical Society PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 13

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Let the Theosophical Society perish, than forsake the Cause of Truth

Let the Theosophical Society perish, than forsake the Cause of Truth PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Pages : 11

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The Theosophical Society is Disloyal to Theosophy and its Ennobling Purpose

The Theosophical Society is Disloyal to Theosophy and its Ennobling Purpose PDF Author: Bahman Pestonji Wadia
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Pages : 21

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Theosophical Society - Mission and Future

Theosophical Society - Mission and Future PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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True Buddhism is neither a sect nor a religion. It is rather a moral and intellectual reform, which excludes no belief, but adopts none. Yet the Buddhism of today is less a rather dogmatic religion, split into many and heterogeneous sects. Like true Buddhism, Theosophy asserts and maintains the truth common to all religions, pure truth undefiled by the concretions of ages of human passions and needs, and unveils Its majesty to all thinking men.

The Theosophical Society is not a nursery for budding adepts

The Theosophical Society is not a nursery for budding adepts PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Languages : en
Pages : 11

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The main cause of pain lies in our perpetually seeking the permanent in the impermanent, and the trouble that comes upon us is always just the one we feel to be the hardest that could possibly happen, the one thing we feel we cannot possibly bear. Evil is often the result of anxiety, in anticipation of recognition and personal reward. The mission of the Theosophical Society is to rekindle the torch of truth by the formation of a fraternal union of mankind, the only soil in which the good seed can grow. To those who are keen to acquire psychic powers for private advantage we have nothing to say. Beware of quick and easy ways of acquiring psychic “gifts.” If in each of our branches we were able to establish a homeopathic dispensary, with the addition of mesmeric healing, we might contribute towards putting the science of medicine in this country on a sounder basis, and be the means of incalculable benefit to the people at large.

The Adyar Theosophical Society belittled the Masters and banished Them from the Headquarters

The Adyar Theosophical Society belittled the Masters and banished Them from the Headquarters PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Pages : 29

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Ever since my forced departure from India, the true spirit of devotion to the Masters, and the courage to assert it, has steadily dwindled away. I was under the most solemn oath and pledge never to reveal the whole Truth to anyone, except to those who, like Damodar, had been finally selected and called by the Masters. As a Chela of one of Them, all that I was permitted to reveal was that such Great Living Men, proficient in Ancient Wisdom, do exist. Wild and ridiculous fancies soon grew up among Hindus, referring to Them as Mahatmas, belittling Them with weird pictures, and maintaining that such Great Souls were debarred from holding personal intercourse with mortals, particularly in Kali-Yuga. Still, the Masters have already bore good fruit in India by those who believe in Them, through their representative, Madame Blavatsky, who is not only the origin and fountainhead of the modern Theosophical Movement, she also has the means and the necessary knowledge to teach. Aye, my good unforgettable Hindu Brothers, the Name alone of the Holy Masters, which was at one time invoked with prayers for Their blessings from one end of India to the other — Their Name alone has wrought a mighty change for the better in your land. It is not to Colonel Olcott or to me that you owe anything but, verily, to our venerated Masters. So long as I remained at Adyar, things went on smoothly enough because one or the other of the Masters was constantly present among us, and Their Spirit protected the fledgling Theosophical Society from real harm. In 1884, Colonel Olcott and I left for a visit to Europe, and while we were away the Padri-Coulomb “thunderbolt descended” upon us. When I returned in November, I was taken most dangerously ill. It was during that time, coinciding with Colonel Olcott’s absence in Burma, that the seeds of future strifes and disintegration of the Theosophical Society, were planted by the enemies of Truth on fertile ground. What with the Patterson-Coulomb-Hodgson conspiracy, and the faintheartedness of the chief Theosophists, that the Society did not then and there collapse should be sufficient proof of how it was protected. No Adept of the Right Path is allowed to interfere with the just workings of Karma. Not even the greatest of Yogis can divert the progress of Karma or arrest the natural results of actions for more than a short period, and even in that case, the same results will only reassert themselves later with tenfold force, for such is the Unerring Law of Karma and the Nidanas. We all have to win our Moksha or Nirvana by merit, and not because a Guru or a Deva may absolve our shortcomings. Salvation by self-forgetfulness and personal merit are the cornerstones of Lord Buddha’s teachings. What merit can there be in an Immaculate Deva, unconnected with matter, who can claim no virtue for her purity? Yet the eternal bliss of Moksha is looming forth for the man who becomes God, by his self-induced and self-devised exertions. It is the mission of the Moral Law of Karma to punish the immoral, and not the duty of a Master, who is the servant of the Law and not the arbiter. Those who embrace the Masters’ teachings and live the life of which They are the best exemplars, will never be abandoned by Them and will always find Their beneficent help whenever needed — whether overtly or covertly. Had the leaders at Adyar stood shoulder-to-shoulder, firm in their conviction of the presence and power of the Masters, Theosophy would have come out more triumphantly than ever, and none of their fears would have ever been realised, however cunning the legal traps set for me, and whatever mistakes and errors of judgment I, their humble representative, might have made. But the loyalty and courage of the Adyar authorities, and of the few Europeans who had put their trust in the Masters, were not equal to the trial when it came. In spite of my protests, I was hurried away from headquarters like a persona non grata. Ill as I was, almost dying in truth, yet I protested and would have battled for Theosophy in India to my last breath, had I found loyal support. But some feared legal entanglements, while my friends were alarmed at the doctors’ dire prognosis if I were to remain in India. So I was sent to Europe to regain my strength, with a promise of speedy return to Adyar. When the S.P.R. Report was published and this soap bubble burst over our heads, it unleashed a long series of false charges, every mail bringing something new. With the exception of Colonel Olcott, everyone else ostracised the Masters from their thoughts and Their spirit from Adyar. Every imaginable incongruity was connected with Their Holy Names, and I alone was held responsible for every disagreeable event that took place, and every “mistake” made. I implored Colonel Olcott to let me return, promising that I would live at Pondicherry, should my presence not be desirable at Adyar. To this I received the ridiculous answer that, should I return, I would be sent to the Andaman Islands as a Russian spy, which of course Olcott subsequently found out to be absolutely untrue. The readiness with which such a futile pretext for keeping me from Adyar was seized upon, shows in clear colours the ingratitude of those to whom I had given my life and health. Vilified, slandered, persecuted, and thrashed by the ingrate and heartless mob at Adyar, I voluntarily exiled myself to Europe in spite of my ardent desire not to abandon my beloved Aryavarta. Since my departure, not only the activity of the Movement in India gradually slackened, but those for whom I had the deepest affections, regarding them as a mother would her own sons, have turned against me. Acting under the Master’s orders, I began a new Movement in the West on the original lines, founded “Lucifer,” and the Lodge that bears my name. Eventually, I was invited to return to India, but the invitation came too late: neither would my doctor permit it, nor could I, if I were to remain true to my solemn pledge and vows, live in a place from which the Masters and Their Spirit have been cast out. I could never return to India in any other capacity than as Their faithful agent, for no advice of mine on occult lines was likely to be accepted because of my association with the Masters was doubted, and even totally denied by some. Half-measures are worse than none. People have either to believe entirely in me, or to honestly disbelieve. No one, no Theosophist, is compelled to believe, but it is worse than useless for people to ask me to help them, if they do not trust me. My only reason for accepting the exoteric direction of European affairs, was to save those who really had Theosophy at heart and worked for it and the Society, without being hampered by those who not only do not care for Theosophy, as laid out by the Masters, but who are diligently working against both, endeavouring to undermine and counteract the influence of the good work done, (a) by open denial of the existence of the Masters, (b) by declared and bitter hostility to myself, and (c) by joining forces with the most desperate enemies of our Society. The only claim which India could ever have upon me would be strong only in proportion to the activity of the Fellows for Theosophy and their loyalty to the Masters. You should not need my presence among you to convince you of the Truth of Theosophy, any more than your American brothers need it. A conviction that wanes when any particular personality is absent is no conviction at all. Further proof and teachings I shall give only to the Esoteric Section, for the following reason: its members are the only ones whom I have the right to expel for open disloyalty to their pledge (not to me, H.P.B., but to their Higher Self and the Mahatmic aspect of the Masters) — a privilege that I cannot exercise with the Fellows at large, yet one which is the only means of cutting off a diseased limb from the healthy body of the tree, and thus save it from decay. The rest of my life is devoted only to those who believe in the Masters, and are willing to work for Theosophy and for the T.S. on the lines devised by the founders of the T.S., upon which they were originally established.

Dr. Franz Hartmann on the Harmonical Society

Dr. Franz Hartmann on the Harmonical Society PDF Author: Dr. Franz Hartmann and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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The aims and mission of the Theosophical Society fulfilled

The aims and mission of the Theosophical Society fulfilled PDF Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Progress review of the aims and mission of the Theosophical Society, September 1889, on the occasion of the fifth volume of “Lucifer.” 1. To establish a nucleus of universal brotherhood of man. The Indian National Congress was planned by our Anglo-Indian and Hindu members after the model and on the lines of the Theosophical Society, and has from the first been directed by our own colleagues, men among the most influential in the Indian Empire. From Ceylon the religion of Gautama streamed out to Cambodia, Siam, and Burma; and from this holy land the message of Brotherhood reached Japan. We depicted the chromatic vibrations of the aura of Gautama in the Buddhist Flag — sapphire blue, golden yellow, crimson, white, and scarlet. 2. To promulgate the study oriental philosophy and literature. Our magnificent achievements in India. The revival of Buddhism in Ceylon. Neither race, nor creed, nor colour, nor social class, nor old antipathies are irremovable obstacles to the grand ideals of altruism and brotherhood. 3. To investigate the occult laws and principles in nature and man. We work on the basis that the Higher Self in every man is colourless, cosmopolitan, unsectarian, sexless, and pre-eminently altruistic. The early fruits of the Theosophical Tree, August 1890, a year later. The Theosophical Society arose to defend true science and true religion against a sciolism that was becoming more and more arrogant, and to stem the headlong descent to materialism. The popularity of theosophical and mystical literature indicates the despair and hope of the churches — despair that science will ever read the puzzle of life; hope that the solution may be found in the secret doctrine. The modern Theosophical Movement is a necessity of the age. It has spread under its own inherent impulsion, and owes nothing to adventitious methods. Its strongest allies are the yearnings for light upon the problem of life, and for a nobler conception of the origin, destiny, and potentialities of the human being. Alone the organs of disembodied “angels” poured as unsuccessfully as ever their vials of wrath, mockery, and brutal slander, upon us. However, the utmost malignity and basest treachery have not been able either to controvert our ideas, belittle our objects, disprove the reasonableness of our methods, or fasten upon us a selfish or dishonest motive. The Adyar Library, founded by the loving labour of Colonel Olcott, is the crown and glory of the Theosophical Society. Progress review of the three objects of the Theosophical Society. The clear note of universal brotherhood was struck and the evangel of religious tolerance declared in India, where previously there had been only sectarian hatred and selfish class egotism. And by bringing the people of Ceylon, Burma, Siam, and Japan, into fraternal relations with the Hindus, and creating channels for international intercourse upon religious and educational subjects. In the East End of London we have founded the first Working-Women’s Club, wholly free from theological creeds and conditions. We have revived the study of oriental literature across the globe, thus opening up the vista of a new spiritual day for the world, the harbinger of a new marriage between science and religion, and of peace between the people of the most incongruous sects. We have placed before the thinking public a logical, coherent, and philosophical scheme of man’s origin, destiny, and evolution — a scheme pre-eminent above all for its rigorous adherence to justice. Theosophy, the universal solvent, is fulfilling its mission. For many a long year humanity, the “great orphan,” has been crying aloud in the darkness for guidance and light — but no more!

Epitaphs of a Broken Society

Epitaphs of a Broken Society PDF Author: Brennan Chadwick Emerson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595141137
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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This version of the book is old. It has since been revised. It should no longer be for sale.