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Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, Boris de Zirkoff
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, Boris de Zirkoff
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, H.T. Patterson, Annie Besant, William Quan Judge
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Part 1. Madame Blavatsky provides space to the protestations of Mr. H.T. Patterson, F.T.S. The Esoteric Section is the outer form of an Inner School. It has no official or corporate connection with the Theosophical Society. Thus the qualification “of the T.S.” should be dropped altogether, and the Section referred to as “The Esoteric School of Theosophy”. Part 2. Mrs. Besant protests against the petty criticisms levelled against Madame Blavatsky. Part 3. The protestations of Mr. H.T. Patterson, annotated by Madame Blavatsky. Do not forget, even for an instant, who you really are. You must lead, not force, people toward the Spirit of Truth, and do so with all tenderness, all gentleness, all patience, all sweetness. Part 4. Freedom from the wax of prejudice, ignorance, and the slavery of dogma, by William Quan Judge.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Inflamed by the abnormal fancies and uncanny dreams of an acting Editor of “The Theosophist.” The Esoteric Section of The Theosophical Society is wholly apart from the latter, and owes no allegiance to it. Madame Blavatsky alone is responsible for its members. Let the Theosophical Society break away from the original lines, and show disloyalty in its policy to the Cause and the Original Programme, and Madame Blavatsky will shake it off like dust from her feet. There is no such a thing as “Parent Society”; it has been abolished and replaced by an aggregate body of Theosophical Societies, all autonomous as the States of America are, and all under one Head-President who, together with Madame Blavatsky, champions the Cause against the whole world. Madame Blavatsky does not owe the slightest allegiance to a Council which is liable at any moment to issue silly and untheosophical commands. No more than Madame Blavatsky has Col. Olcott the right of exercising autocracy or papal powers, for both Founders of the Theosophical Society have sworn allegiance to the Fellows, whom they vowed to protect, and teach those who want to be taught; they are not to tyrannize and rule over them. “The sun of truth fears no light and needs no lies.” In his zeal hunting the mare’s nest, the esteemed acting Editor of “The Theosophist” has become more Catholic than the Pope himself. Let the General Council expel Madame Blavatsky for “disloyalty,” if Col. Olcott should be so blind as to fail to see where the loyal friend and his duty lie. Enough of theosophical dogmatism and intolerance! If you want to know yourself ask your enemies, not your friends, and you will find more truth, and profit more by their opinion than by that of those who love you. Plus, an explanation important to all Theosophists introduced by Boris de Zirkoff, a Statement by Madame Blavatsky, and a Joint Note by Col. Olcott and Madame Blavatsky.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Alexander Wilder
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Part 1. Lucid glimpses of the fathomless Mysteries of Zoroaster. By Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Zoroaster is a generic title: there were several prophets of that name; and so is Thoth-Hermes. There were several Zarathushtras or Zertusts, the Dabistan alone enumerating thirteen; but these were all reincarnations of the first one. It was on the new continent of Atlantis that Zarathushtra became the law-giver and ruler of the Fourth Race. Zoroaster was the founder of Magian religion and reformer of Magic, as practiced by the Chaldeans and the old Egyptians, however, not the founder of Divine Magic or Theurgy. The last Zarathushtra, of the Desatir, compiled the Vendidad. The prehistoric Zoroastrian Gheber Temple of Baku was a study centre for generations of Zoroastrian hermits, overseen by a High Mobed. The Zoroastrians, the Mazdeans, and the Persians borrowed their conceptions from India; the Jews borrowed their theory of angels from Persia; and the Christians borrowed theirs from the Jews. The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in evil, or darkness, being co-eternal with Good or Light. The Hebrew Elohim are Forces and Generative Powers of Nature, but are involved in material creation only; they are identical with the Aryan Asuras. The Zoroastrian Amshaspends create the world in six “days” or periods, and rest on the seventh; the latter is the first period or “day,” i.e., the Primary Creation in the Aryan Cosmogony. Zoroaster, the renowned Sage of remote Antiquity, is transformed by Christian bigots into a “slave of Daniel;” and by one Christian writer, as contemporary of Darius Hystaspes. The doctrines of the Desatir are identical with those of the Secret Doctrine and the Greek Philosophers. With select Gems from the Book of Prophet Jemshid. Part 2. Spiritual insights into the Universal Wisdom-Religion of Zoroaster. By Professor Alexander Wilder, M.D., Vice-President of the Theosophical Society.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Alfred Percy Sinnett, Tallapragada Subba Row, Boris de Zirkoff
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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The Secrets of Nature and of Occult Sciences cannot be revealed to the profane, who will desecrate them and turn into a weapon against humanity. They can only be imparted to a regular chela of many years’ standing, pledged to silence and secrecy during his successive initiations. Such Secrets do exist and are defended with one’s life. Occult Truth is Nature without the illusory veil of the Five Senses. Reason is purely human; instinct, an endowment of Deity. Sixth Sense is Reason over instinct, i.e., Mental Fire perceiving and registering the other Five. The Sixth Sense is spiritual clairvoyance, as opposed to psychic. The former is normal and real; the latter, abnormal and counterfeit. Not before developing his Sixth Sense, will the man of science concede the error of his theories as to the solar spectrum, unless he retracts his marked weakness for conditional and disjunctive syllogisms ending in eternal dilemmas. Appearances are deceitful, says a Master of Wisdom. While the astronomer has elucidated the visible relations of the orbs of space, he knows nothing of their inner constitution. Similarly, the knowledge of geologist and physiologist is confined to man’s outer shell. The Adept cannot cross bodily the limits of the solar system, yet he knows that far stretching beyond the telescopic power of detection there are systems upon systems, the smallest of which would, when compared with the system of Sirius, make the latter seem like an atom of dust imbedded in the great Gobi desert. Divine Wisdom alone can carry us to the perfect state of Jivanmukta, by teaching us what is true and what is false. Till then, the next best thing to learning what is true is to ascertain what is not true. With biographical notes on Frederick W.H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.
Author: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
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Category : Biography
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Pages : 1108
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Author: De Robigne Mortimer BENNETT
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Author: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
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Category : Free thought
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Pages : 532
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Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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