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The Life Within
A Study in Mysticism
By
William Arthur Dunn
Published 1914
The advances
made in scientific knowledge in recent years, especially those growing out of
the momentous discovery that radio-activity is universally present in matter,
independent of external sunlight, will inevitably lead to the removal of
prevailing scepticism as to the permanent presence of a divine light and of an
invincible creative energy which permeate the inner nature of man.
The
humiliating notion that the arena of active life is restricted to the material
objects associated with the physical senses, must in no long time give way
before the vast array of discovered facts which prove man to be intimately
associated, throughout the many octaves of his inner spiritual being, with
every possible aspect of universal life, from an all-permeating spiritual radiance
down to the last analysis of minute physical cell, and outward association of
cells in various forms of organized matter.
The doctrine
of evolution, in that phase of its application that traces but a few selected
lines of individual development (like unaccompanied melodies in music) must be
amplified so as to include the powers that
supervise the
correlations between all evolving entities, like that demonstrated in the
harmonious association of many melodies woven into an orchestral symphony. Melody
is simply a line of single notes
successively
extended through time. Harmony is the association of many melodies welded into
a stream of mass chords organically related.
The keynote
and scale of evolution, which is usually thought of as progressing through long
periods of history, must be associated with the truth that on either side of
the process we happen to be aware of,
countless
other lines of special evolution are also active, the interweaving of which
with our lives makes man the complex being that he is. As a further
illustration of this, consider the phenomena of time. We think of time as
proceeding in successive moments, throughout the days and years. Yet this view
is but a relative one, bound up with the geographical location we personally
occupy on the surface of the globe.
Thinking of
time as it appears from the center of the earth or the sun, all time-units
appear as m11tltalry coexisting in a larger unity. Hence " divisions of
time," as we each perceive them, are
rhythmic
currents that mark our journeyings over the ocean of life when the heart-center
is lived from as at one with the Heart-center of Humanity, all " time
divisions " of past, present, and future, must appear as coexisting in the
present harmony of the spiritual consciousness. From a similar point of view
all forms of evolution mutually coexist in the total organism of Humanity,
their correlations as between nation and nation, man and man, being evidenced
in the events of history.
Within the
adult human body the evolutionary processes of nature, in their totality, are
simultaneously active from germ cell up to perfected organism. All stages of
life from birth to death -and from death to birth -never cease to operate in
some "corner " of our being. The dim light of the lower mind merely
reveals the objects of thought relating to the geographical station We occupy,
or to the plane of consciousness to which we are attuned -just as unthinking
minds will tacitly accept the religious creed that prevails in the place where
they are born. Hence the separation between the ordinary local consciousness
and the
all-inclusive consciousness of the spiritual self is a mere delusion, just as
our notions of " time divisions " cannot be thought of as actually
existing in Nature.
The vital
principle of life, the energies ever active within blood corpuscles, the
manifold functions and qualities of the bodily organs, the endless streams of
sensation and feeling, the electrical rivers coursing
through the
nerve fibers, the digestion and assimilation of food, the organic relations and
adjustments to heat, light, and other etheric forces, the marvelous processes
of thought that proceed in orderly sequence
as well as in
structural complexity, the tremendous power in polarized energy and intelligence
-are all processes simultaneously active and correlated in the bodily and
mental organisms (in tune, or in confusion, as the case may be), and are
largely independent of the restricted intelligence that surveys and controls a
few local interests. All these bodily activities bear a strong family
resemblance to the so called
"
external " forces of nature and give rise to the irresistible conviction
that nature within humanity is in very truth the soul of the world that gives
birth and life to the external aspect which is the arena of ordinary scientific
research. Hence the inner and outer aspects of life are hut two poles of one
supreme all-enveloping consciousness ; and no possible restriction can be
imposed on the mind that resolves to break down its local prison walls and
establish association with all other powers at work within and without human
nature. The antagonisms of those who believe that the present era is at the
prow-point of evolution cannot disturb the true testimony of the ages that innumerable
paths lead to the mountain-tops of life and have been traversed by countless
feet in ancient as well as in modern times.
The
thoughtful mind will ask in amazement : " How is it possible for man,
whose body, mind, and soul are inextricably interwoven with universal nature,
to be removed from a radiant essence that is the living principle of the very
air he breathes and of the food he assimilates? " Radiant matter can no
longer be thought of as a far off metaphysical theory, but as an ever-present,
all-penetrating life essence that perpetually bombards every cell of our being.
It is now known that every particle of matter is a living world in itself, as
luminous and as harmonious as the solar system. Though but one unit to the
outer perception, its correlated forces represent every degree of substance
from primordial matter down to its molecular constitution.
Within each
molecule are congregated the atoms known to science. The atoms themselves have
their internal constitution of electrical corpuscles, which obey fixed laws of
relationship as infallibly as those which govern chemical affinities. A
celebrated scientist has computed that with every breath we breathe, we take in
enough energy imprisoned within the particles of air sufficient to run the machinery
of the world,
if it could be released and utilized.
It is small
wonder, therefore, that earnest-minded men and women, who have lived in
obedience to the higher laws of life, should speak of the actual revelation to
them of the Light Within. The power to assimilate the deeper and purer elements
of the life in which we exist, whether through food, air, thought, or feeling,
must surely be possible of growth and expansion as self-conscious power and
efficient knowledge is obtained through assertion of the divine energy that
exists at the summit of all our faculties and attributes. Like the chemist at
work upon crude material, an active application of superior knowledge
is necessary
to unfold the divine properties locked up in the grosser aspects of our lives.
The discovery of radium and other radio-active substances is perhaps the most
important ever known to chemical science.
Their
properties are so startling as to demand a reconstruction of all theories as to
the construction of matter. Radioactivity is known to be diffused throughout
substances that hitherto were thought of as " dead." Yet this radium
is more intensely living than the energies attributed to all other elements.
Sh:::tll we exclude man alone from these radiant forces of life? Is it utopian
to believe that within the depths of his thought and feeling an unfading
radiance is present that is hidden from physical sight ?
History
demonstrates that such a light does exist. The spiritual teachers of all time
have proved themselves as transmitters of that Light, which was manifestly as
clear to them as sunlight to the eyes. Reflection will convey to any earnest
and sincere mind that within the entangled elements of commonplace human life
the higher properties of spiritual existence must somewhere be present ; and
that a process of readjustment and purification will surely lead to that
condition in which the light stands revealed.
History
presents many examples of thoughtful men who have sensed the spiritual light
that overshadows the race. They all speak of the same truth, and corroborate to
the fullest the teachings of Theosophy. To take a few modern instances :
Alfred
Tennyson, the poet, speaking of his own experiences, says :
Individuality
itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being ; and this not a
confused state but the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond
words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility -the loss of
personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true life.
The American
poet James Russell Lowell wrote in one of his letters:
I had a
revelation last Friday evening. . . . . . Mr. Putnam entered into an argument
with me on spiritual matters. As I was speaking, the whole system rose up
before me like a vague destiny looming from the abyss. I never before so
clearly felt the spirit of Goel in me and around me. . . . . . I spoke with the
calmness and clearness of a prophet.
From
Professor Starbuck's collection the following is taken :
I remember
the night, and almost the very spot on the hillside, where my soul opened out,
as it were, into the Infinite ; and there was a rushing together of the two
worlds, the inner and the outer. It was deep calling unto deep -the deep that
my own struggle had opened up within being answered by the unfathomable deep
without, reaching beyond the stars. I stood alone with Him who had made me. . .
. . . I did not seek Him, but felt the perfect unison of my spirit with His.
The ordinary sense of things around me faded. For the moment nothing but an
ineffable joy and exaltation remained. It is impossible fully to describe the
experience. It was like the effect of some great orchestra when all the
separate notes have melted into one swelling harmony that leaves the listener
conscious of nothing save that his soul is being wafted upwards.
J. Trevor, in
his book My Quest for God, writes :
Suddenly,
without warning, I felt that I was in heaven -an inward state of peace and joy
and assurance indescribably intense, accompanied with a sense of being bathed
in a warm glow of light, as though the external condition had brought about the
internal effect -a feeling of having passed beyond the body, though the scene
around me stood out more clearly and as if nearer to me than before, by reason
of the illumination in the midst of which I seemed to be placed ..... . The
spiritual life justifies itself to those who live it.
J. A.
Symonds, the English poet, states :
My soul
became aware of God, who was manifestly dealing with me in an intense present
reality. I felt Him streaming in like light upon me. I cannot describe the
ecstasy I felt.
In another
letter Symonds writes :
Suddenly,
in company or when reading, I felt the approach of the mood. Irresistibly it took
possession of my mind and will. . . . . . It consisted in a gradual but swiftly
progressive obliteration of ... ..the multitudinous factors of experience which
seem to qualify what we are pleased to call our self. In proportion as these
conditions of ordinary consciousness were subtracted the sense of an underlying
or essential consciousness acquired intensity.
These .modern
instances, that bear witness to the reality of " The inner light,"
are substantially similar to references made by ancient writers. In the ancient
Hindu writings this Light is described as
Daiviprakriti,
the Light of the Logos, a conscious power and energy whose presence is the
condition of all life. In the Egyptian Book of Hermes it is written :
I am that
Light, the mind, thy God, who am before the moist nature that appeared out of
darkness, and that bright lightfol word is the Son of God .... . . God and the
Father. is Light and Life, of which man is made. If therefore thou learn and
know thyself to be of the Light and Life, thou shalt again pass into Life.
Shining stedfastly upon and around the whole mind, it enlighteneth the Soul,
and loosening it from the bodily senses and motions it draweth it from the body
and changeth it wholly into the essence of God. For it is possible, O Son, to
be deified while yet it lodgeth in the body of man, if it contemplate on the
beauty of
God.
A famous
Chinaman who lived seven hundred years ago, wrote :
There is
in the universe an Aura which permeates all things and makes them what they are
; below, it shapes forth land and water ; above, the sun and the stars. In man
it is called spirit, and there is nowhere where it is not. In times of national
tranquillity this spirit lies dormant in the harmony which prevails, only at
some great crisis is it manifested widely abroad.
From the Life
of Dr. Henry 1Vlore, published in 1710, the following extracts are taken :
I say that
a free, divine, universalized Spirit is worth all. How lovely, how magnificent
a state is the soul of man in, when the Life of God, in actuating her, shoots
her along with Himself through Heaven and Earth ; makes her unite with, and
after a sort feel herself animate the whole world. . . . . . This is to become
Deiform,
to be thus suspended, not by imagination, but by union of Life, joining centers
with God, and by a sensible touch to be held up from the dotty, dark
personality of this compacted body. Here is love, here is freedom, here is
justice and equity, in the superessential causes of them. He that is here,
looks upon all
things as
one ; and on himself, if he can then mind himself, as a part of the whole. . .
. . . Nor am I out of my wits ..... for God ..... converseth with me as a
friend, and speaks to me in such a dialect as I understand fully, and can make
others understand that have not made shipwreck of the faculties the God hath
given them, by superstition and sensuality. . . . . . For God hath permitted to
me all these things, and I have it under the Broad Seal of Heaven. . . . . . He
hath made me full Lord of the four elements. . . . . . All these things are
true in a sober sense. . . . . . 'vVe may reach to the participation in the
Divine nature, which is a simple, mild, benign light that seeks nothing for
itself as self. .....
The whole
life of man upon earth, day and night, is but a slumber and a dream, in
comparison of that awaking of the soul that happens in the recovery of her
etherial or celestial body. . . . . . I profess I stand amazed while I consider
the ineffable advantage of a mind thus submitted to the Divine Will. How calm,
how comprehensive, how quick and sensible she is, how free, how sagacious. . .
. . .
There is a
kind of sanctity of Soul and Body, that is of more efficacy for the receiving
and retaining of Divine truths, than the greatest pretenses to discussive
demonstration.
In the fourth
volume of Lucifer, Madame Blavatsky gives the following extract from the
teachings of Iamblichus :
There is a
faculty of the human mind which is superior to all which is born or begotten.
Through it we are enabled to attain union with the superior intelligences, of
being transported beyond the scenes and arrangements of this world, and of
partaking of the higher life and peculiar powers of the heavenly ones.
By this
faculty we are made free from the dominations of Fate [Karma] and are made, so
to speak, the arbiters of our own destinies. For, when the most excellent parts
of us become filled with Energy, and the Soul is elevated to natures loftier
than itself, it becomes separated from those conditions which keep it under the
dominion of the present everyday life of the world, exchanges the present for
another life, and abandons the conventional habits belonging to the external
order of things, to give and mingle itself with that order which pertains to
higher life.
Many long
centuries separate the ancient author just quoted and our modern poet Walt
Whitman, yet that they would be brothers-inarms and fellow-students in life's mysteries
could they meet face to face, is evidenced from the follovving, taken from Walt
Whitman's Specimen Days and Collect:
There is
..... in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wonderful something
that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education
(though I think it the goal of and apex of all education deserving the name) an
intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of
this
multifariousness, this revel of fools and incredible make-believes and general
unsettledness we call the world; a soul-sight of that divine clue and unseen
thread which holds the whole congeries of things, all history and time, and all
events, however trivial, however momentous, like a leashed dog in the hands of
the hunter. Of such soul-sight and root-center for the mind mere optimism
explains only the surface.
Considered
apart from the different styles of literary expression peculiar to ancient and
modern Teachers, there is an undoubted identity between them as regards the
subject matter they treat of. It is a far cry between Hermes Trismegistus and
Iamblichus, Dr. Henry More and Walt Whitman, yet upon consideration of their
writings side by side, who can doubt the identity of fundamental thought and
feeling that
exists between them? This remarkable identity of thought common to the Teachers
of every race and age, is an intuition of the Wisdom-Religion from which all
exoteric creeds and sects have sprung.
More or less
hidden from age to age by the rise and fall of ecclesiasticism and exclusive
dogma, its unbroken perpetuation is demonstrated in the lives of the pure in
heart, who have purified their minds to such a pitch as to be at one with the
higher laws of life.
No one would
suspect the Enclopaedia Britannica of partiality towards the teachings of
Theosophy, yet under the heads of Mysticism and Neoplatonism it gives the
following testimony as to the religious
philosophy
taught in the early centuries of the Christian era :
By
Plotinus, the One is explicitly exalted above the void, and the ideas ; it
transcends existence altogether, and is not cognizable by reason. Remaining
itself in repose, it rays forth, as it were, from its own fullness, an image of
itself which is called void, and the soul of its motion begets corporeal
matter. The Soul thus
faces two
ways -towards the void from which it springs and towards life which is its own
product. . . . . . On the practical side mysticism maintains the possibility of
direct intercourse with the Being of beings. . . . . .
God ceases
to be an object to him and becomes an experience. . . . . . The thought that is
most
intensely
present with the mystic is a supreme, all-pervading and indwelling power, in
whom all things are one. . . . . . The mystic is animated not merely by the
desire of intellectual harmony ; he seeks the deepest ground of his own being,
in order that he may cast aside whatever separates him from the true life
The writer in
the Encyclopaedia Britannica, after stating, "It
is undeniable that the very noblest and choicest minds of the 4th century are
to be found in the ranks of the Neoplatonists”
proceeds :
Neoplatonism
seizes on the aspiration of the human soul after a higher life, and treats this
psychological fact as the key to the interpretation of the universe. Hence the
existing religions, after being refined and spiritualized, were made the basis
of philosophy. The doctrine of Plotinus ..... consists of two main
divisions.
The first or theoretical part deals with the high origin of the human soul, and
shows how it has departed from its first estate. In the second, or practical
part, the way is pointed out by which the soul may again return to the Eternal
and Supreme. . . . . . Along the same road by which it descended, the Soul must
retrace its steps back to the Supreme Good. It must first of all return to
itself. This is accomplished by the practice of Virtue, which aims at likeness
to God, and leads up to God. . . . . . The lowest stage is that of the civil
virtues, then follow the purifying, and last of all the divine virtues. The
civil virtues merely
adorn the
life, without elevating the soul. That is the office of the purifying virtues,
by which the Soul is freed from sensuality, and led back to itself, and thence
to the uouV . But
there is a still higher attainment ; it is not enough to be sinless. . . . . .
This is reached through contemplation of the Primeval Being, the One. . . . . .
Then it may see God, the fountain of life, the source of Being, the origin of
all Good, the root of the soul. In that state it enjoys the highest
indescribable bliss ; it is as it were, swallowed up of Divinity, bathed in the
Light of Eternity.
How
inspiring, how profoundly true and sincere must have been the lives of those
early Theosophists, is evidenced by the fact that a representative modern
scholar should write so impressively of the spirit that animated them. And what
a glowing contrast they present with the ecclesiastical discord that prevailed
in the early Christian Church. This " inner " and " outer "
aspect of Religion have moved side by
side
throughout all history -the " inner " aspect ever remaining constant
because true to Life ; the " outer " rising and falling with changing
material conditions and sectarian love of dogmatic power. The same thought is
to be found in the teaching of Jakob Bohme when he wrote :
Within
myself will be the paradise. All that God the Father has and is, is to appear
in me as in his own image. I am to be myself a revelation of the Spiritual
divine world.
The late
Professor William James of
Mystical
states when well developed, usually are, and have a right to be, absolutely
authoritative over the individuals to whom they come. . . . . . They break down
the authority of the non-mystical or rationalistic consciousness based upon the
understanding and the senses alone. They open out the possibility of other
orders of
Truth, in which, so far as anything in us vitally responds to them, we may
freely continue to have faith ...... 'fhe mystic is, in short, invulnerable . .
. . . . I repeat once more, the existence of mystical states absolutely
overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate
dictators of what
we may
believe. . . . . . It must always remain an open question whether mystical
states may not possibly be such superior points of view, windows through which
the mind looks out upon a more extensive and inclusive world .... . .
The counting
in of that wider world of meanings, and the serious dealing with it might, in
spite of all the perplexity, be indispensable stages in our approach to the
final fulness of the Truth. . . . . . They tell of the supremacy of the Ideal,
of vastness, of union, of safety, and of rest.
The great
German philosopher Immanuel Kant taught, in the interpretation given by Josiah
Royce, a sometime colleague of Professor James at Harvard :
Your world
is ..... glorious ..... if only you actively make it so. Its spirituality is
your own creation, or else it is nothing. Awake, arise, be willing, endure,
struggle, defy evil, cleave to good, strive, be strenuous, be devoted, throw
into the face of evil and depression your brave cry of resistance, and then
this dark
universe
of destiny will glow with a divine light. Then you will commune with the
Eternal. For you have no relations with the Eternal world save such as you make
for yourself. . . . . . This determination of ours it is that seizes hold upon
God, then, just as the courage of the manly soul makes life good, introduces
into
life
something that is there only for the activity of the hero, finds God because
the Soul has wrestled for His blessing, and then has found after aII that the
wrestling is the blessing. God is with us because we choose to serve our ideal
of Him as if he were present to our sense. His kingdom exists because we are
resolved
that it shall come. This is the victory that overcometh the world, not our
intuition, not our sentimental faith, but our living, our moral, our creative
faith.
Equally
inspiring are the words of Fichte, a German philosopher who lived a short time
after Kant. Professor Royce thus interprets him :
The true
self . . . . . is something infinite. . . . . . Each one of us is a partial
embodiment, an instrument of the moral law, and our very consciousness tells us
that this law is the expression of an infinite world life. . . . . . All we
human selves are thus one true organic Self, in so far as we work together.....
. With you I stand in the presence of the divinest of mysteries, the communion
of all the spirits in the one Self whose free act is the very heart's blood of
our Spiritual Being. . . . . . We and our world exist together. Our world is
the expression of our character. As a man thinketh, so is he -as a man is, so
thinks he ..... no one can exist unless he is ready to act. My life, my
existence, is in work. I toil for self-consciousness, and without toil, no
consciousness. . . . . . My deeper self produces a new world, and then bids me
win my place therein.
Extracts
similar to those given above could be multiplied ad infinitum as indicating the
undying persistence of the aspiration of the human heart throughout the whole
extent of history. The living
threads laid
down by its votaries may be traced through every age and in every race as the
palpitating nerve fibers from which all external formal creeds have received
the vitality they may have possessed.
All advance
of civilization, all religious institutions, have existed, and still exist,
because of the life-giving currents that unseen and unannounced, proceeded from
those who ever labor for the evolution and
upliftment of
humanity. Their influence upon the thought of the world has been certain and
authoritative.
Under the
former Leadership of H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge, and now of Katherine
Tingley, the modern Theosophical movement is a serious effort to establish
conditions of life and thought that will
draw the
attention of the world, through a process of true education and effort, to the
absolute Presence of the Wisdom-Religion in our midst and in our hearts. There
is no human being who does not carry
some germ of
spiritual life within his heart that will awaken into activity through effort
in the right direction. Whatever the law of spiritual existence may be, it
cannot act except under conditions that
are
inviolable. It is our power to establish those conditions, and they have been
stated times without number by Teachers of all times. Theosophy is the embodiment
of all such teaching, and no sincere truthseeker can fail to find in its
philosophy the instruction and aid he hungers for.
In The Secret
Doctrine Madame Blavatsky states that :
It is the
Spiritual evolution of the Inner, immortal man that forms the fundamental tenet
in the Occult Science. To realize even distantly such a process, the student
has to believe (a) in the
With every
effort of Will towards purification and unity with that Self-God, one of the
lower rays breaks and the spiritual entity of man is drawn higher and ever
higher to the ray that supersedes the first, until, from ray to ray, the inner
man is drawn into the One and highest beam of the Parent-Sun.2
No one will
deny that the human being is possessed of various forces : magnetic, sympathetic,
antipathetic, nervous, dynamical, occult, mechanical, mental every kind of
force ; and that the physical forces are all biological in their essence,
seeing that they intermingle with, and often merge into. those forces that we
have named intellectual and moral -the first being vehicles, so to say, the
uphadi, of the second. No one, who does not deny Soul in man, would hesitate in
saying that their presence and commingling are the very essence of our being ;
that they constitute the Ego in man, in fact.3
William Q.
Judge says, in Lucifer, Vol. VII :
Just as
muscular strength comes from physical training, and is perfected by exercise,
even so with strength of character and moral force ; these come only by effort
at self-conquest. . . . . . In no single instance ..... is man master of the
plane above him. Nothing less than experience and conquest determine power .
. . . . .
Can there be any question as to what constitutes strength of character ? It is
the struggle of a strong man against all his foes. . . . . . He recognizes no
enemy without, all are within -and having conquered these he is master of the
field ..... at one with Nature without and God within. Here is the true meaning
of Life.
Under the
Leadership of Madame Katherine Tingley, the Theosophical movement has presented
the practical application of the teachings of Theosophy in daily life and in
education. The phenomenal
success of
this work has attracted the attention of truth-seekers in every country because
of its sincerity and truth to nature and to the Laws of life. The spirit which
animates this work is beautifully suggested
in these
words of Madame Tingley :
O my
Divinity, thou dost blend with the earth and fashion for thyself temples of
might power ! O my Divinity, thou dwellest in the heart-life of all things and
dost radiate a golden light that shineth forever and doth illumine even the
darkest corners of the earth. O my Divinity, blend thou with me, that from the
corruptible I may become Incorruptible, that from imperfection I may become
Perfection, that from darkness I may go forth in Light !
1. Point Loma edition,
2. Vol. I, p. 634. 2, Ibid., p. 639.
3. 3. Ibid., p, 669,
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Theosophy and the Number Seven
A selection of articles relating to the esoteric
significance of the Number 7 in Theosophy
The Spiritual Home of Urban Theosophy
The Earth Base for Evolutionary Theosophy
Quick Explanations
with Links to More Detailed Info
What is Theosophy ? Theosophy Defined (More Detail)
Three Fundamental Propositions Key Concepts of Theosophy
Cosmogenesis Anthropogenesis Root Races
Ascended Masters After Death States
The Seven Principles of Man Karma
Reincarnation Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott William Quan Judge
The Start of the Theosophical
Society
History of the Theosophical
Society
Theosophical Society Presidents
History of the Theosophical
Society in Wales
The Three Objectives of the
Theosophical Society
Explanation of the Theosophical
Society Emblem
The Theosophical Order of
Service (TOS)
Glossaries of Theosophical Terms
by
Annie
Besant
THE PHYSICAL PLANE THE ASTRAL PLANE
KÂMALOKA
THE MENTAL PLANE DEVACHAN
THE BUDDHIC AND NIRVANIC PLANES
THE THREE KINDS OF KARMA COLLECTIVE KARMA
THE LAW OF SACRIFICE MAN'S
ASCENT
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Annie Besant Visits Cardiff 1924
An Outline of Theosophy
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Theosophy - What it is How is it Known?
The Method of Observation General Principles
Advantage Gained from this
Knowledge
The Deity The Divine Scheme The Constitution of Man
The True Man Reincarnation The Wider Outlook
Death Man’s Past and Future Cause and Effect
Reincarnation
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to the
number of enquiries we receive on this
subject
at Cardiff
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From A Textbook
of Theosophy By C W Leadbeater
How We Remember our Past Lives
Life after Death & Reincarnation
The
Slaughter of the
a
great demand by the public for lectures on Reincarnation
Classic Introductory Theosophy Text
A Text Book of Theosophy
By C
What Theosophy Is From the Absolute to Man
The Formation of a Solar System The Evolution of Life
The Constitution of Man After Death
Reincarnation
The Purpose of Life The Planetary Chains
The Result of Theosophical Study
The Occult World
By
Alfred Percy Sinnett
The Occult World is an treatise on the
Occult and Occult Phenomena, presented
in
readable style, by an early giant of
the Theosophical Movement.
Preface to the American Edition Introduction
Occultism and its Adepts The Theosophical Society
First Occult Experiences Teachings of Occult Philosophy
Later Occult Phenomena Appendix
The Seven Principles of Man
By
Annie Besant
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A Student of
Katherine Tingley
Katherine Tingley (1847 -1929)Was the founder &
President
of the Point Loma Theosophical Society 1896 -1929
She and her students produced a series of informative
Theosophical works in the early years of the 20th century
Elementary Theosophy Who is the Man?
Body and Soul
Body, Soul and Spirit Reincarnation
Karma The Seven in Man and Nature
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The Empath; A Theosophical View
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy-quIQxVxI&t=23s
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Clearing Emotional Debris from Your Home
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWTioaIUgPQ&t=17s
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Causes of Immediate Reincarnation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HSUd_w7x4M&t=35s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJxYtUwRjJk
Trapped in the Wheel of Samsara.
Reincarnation without
Spiritual Progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNhPHUgpFiQ&t=16s
Reincarnation
& Population Increase
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-duEHD86aY
The Benefits of Making a
Stand
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CHHIs0Ekg&t=34s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2aKJ-SRX_4
Addiction to Mental Stimulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHAK3RbIjA&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZ2nHWDcsw
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Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky 1831 – 1891
The
Founder of Modern Theosophy
Index of
Articles by
By
H P
Blavatsky
Is the Desire to Live Selfish?
Ancient Magic in Modern Science
Precepts Compiled by H P Blavatsky
Obras
Por H P Blavatsky
En
Espanol
Articles
about the Life of H P Blavatsky
Writings of Ernest Egerton Wood
Theosophy and the Number Seven
A selection of articles relating to the esoteric
significance of the Number 7 in Theosophy
Index of
Searchable
Full
Text Versions of
Definitive
Theosophical
Works
H P Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine
Isis Unveiled by H P Blavatsky
H P Blavatsky’s Esoteric Glossary
Mahatma Letters to A P Sinnett 1 - 25
A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom
(Selection of Articles by H P Blavatsky)
The Secret Doctrine – Volume 3
A compilation of H P Blavatsky’s
writings published after her death
Esoteric Christianity or the Lesser Mysteries
The Early Teachings of The
Masters
A Collection of Fugitive Fragments
Fundamentals of the Esoteric
Philosophy
Mystical,
Philosophical, Theosophical, Historical
and Scientific
Essays Selected from "The Theosophist"
Edited by George
Robert Stow Mead
From Talks on the Path of Occultism - Vol. II
In the Twilight”
Series of Articles
The In the
Twilight” series appeared during
1898 in The
Theosophical Review and
from 1909-1913 in The Theosophist.
compiled from
information supplied by
her relatives and friends and edited by A P Sinnett
Letters and
Talks on Theosophy and the Theosophical Life
Obras
Teosoficas En Espanol
Theosophische
Schriften Auf Deutsch
Karma Fundamental Principles Laws: Natural and Man-Made
The Law of Laws
The Eternal Now
Succession
Causation
The Laws of Nature A Lesson of The Law Karma Does Not Crush
Apply This Law
Man in The Three Worlds Understand The Truth
Man and His Surroundings The Three Fates
The Pair of Triplets
Thought, The Builder Practical Meditation Will and Desire
The Mastery of Desire Two Other Points The Third Thread
Perfect Justice
Our Environment
Our Kith and Kin Our Nation
The Light for a Good Man Knowledge of Law The Opposing Schools
The More Modern View Self-Examination Out of the Past
Old Friendships
We Grow By Giving Collective Karma Family Karma
National Karma India’s Karma National
Disasters
Annotated Edition Published
1885
Preface to the Annotated Edition Preface to the Original Edition
Esoteric Teachers The Constitution of Man The Planetary Chain
The World Periods Devachan
Kama Loca
The Human Tide-Wave The Progress of Humanity
Buddha Nirvana The Universe
The Doctrine Reviewed
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