Download or read book Charity empties her purse with an invisible hand written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrong and unjust are those who think that it is selfishness that erects a Chinese wall between the custodians of the Secrets of Nature and the common man, without making any distinction between the curious profane, and the ardent seeker of Truth. On the contrary, the silence of those who damned themselves forever in order to save man from himself, is prompted by a far-seeing universal philanthropy. Good works may exist without actuating saving Principles, but saving Principles never did exist without good works. The Churches have failed to supply the intellectual light, and the true wisdom which are needed to make practical philanthropy carried out, by the true and earnest followers of Christ, a reality. Practical charity is not one of the declared objects of the Theosophical Society. Yet Theosophy creates the charity which afterwards, and of its own accord, makes itself manifest in good works. Theosophy proclaims the spirit of non-separateness, exposes the futility of creeds and dogma, and inculcates universal love and charity for all mankind. Theosophy is therefore pre-eminently fit to alleviate the woes and sufferings of man since he began cherishing in his bosom the desire of a higher freedom and knowledge. The religious philanthropist who hopes to gain salvation by good works has merely exchanged worldliness for other-worldliness. The secular philanthropist is really at heart a socialist, and nothing else; he hopes to make men happy and good by bettering their worldly position. Practical philanthropists, after long and bitter experience, will arrive at a conclusion which, to an Occultist, is from the first a working hypothesis — that misery is not only endurable, but agreeable to many who endure it. Physical philanthropy, apart from the infusion of new influences and ennobling conceptions of life into the minds of the masses, is worthless. The gradual assimilation by mankind of great spiritual truths will alone revolutionize the face of civilization, and ultimately result in a far more effective panacea for evil, than the mere tinkering of superficial misery. Prevention is not only “better than cure,” it is the only cure. Those who, amidst the present wholesale dominion of the worship of matter, material interests, and bare selfishness, will have bravely fought for human rights and man’s divine nature, will become the teachers of the masses and their benefactors. The protectors and Saviours of the now resurrecting human thought and spirit are those who will have learnt to express and put into practice the aspirations as well as the physical needs of the rising generations, and of the now trampled-down masses. In order that one should fully comprehend individual life, with its physiological, psychic, and spiritual mysteries, he has to devote himself with all the fervour of unselfish philanthropy and love for his fellow man. And by studying and knowing collective life, i.e., mankind, he has to decipher, understand, and remember the innermost feelings and aspirations of the poor people’s great and suffering heart: (1) by attuning his soul with that of humanity at large, as the old philosophy teaches; and (2) by mastering the meaning of every line and word in the rapidly turning pages of the Book of Life in the secure knowledge that his Self is inseparable from all Selves. How many profound readers of life may be found in our boasted age of sciences and culture? Theosophical charity in the heart of every true Theosophist must urge him to eschew reprisals and never to return evil for evil, so long as truth damaging to his enemies can be withheld without danger to the Cause.

Download or read book Spiritual Rules and Protreptics written by William Quan Judge and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Ten Spiritual Commandments. 2. Ten Rules of Right. 3. Ten Injunctions for Theosophists. 4. Sixteen Cautions in Paragraphs. 5. True Theosophists defined attitudinally, ethically, and philosophically.

Download or read book Three preliminary rules for candidates to chelaship written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky on the topsy-turvy value of words and deeds in modern social life. Part 2. The kingdom of God is within us all, by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Part 3. Count Tolstoy on how to make any poor man happy.

Download or read book Our enemies are our friends and teachers written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nellore Yanadis written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nellore Yanadis are dark-skinned aboriginal people, short in stature, of unknown origin. They are renowned for their mysterious knowledge of the occult properties of nature. They plant round their huts certain herbs believed to ward off venomous reptiles. A decoction from more than a hundred different roots is said to possess incalculable virtues for curing any malady. The Yanadi seer grows his hair and lets no razor pass his head. Yanadis can smell out their game, and trace out trespassers by merely looking at their footmarks.

Download or read book The Emptiness of Lao Tzu is the Absoluteness of the Buddhist No thing yet Every thing written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Lao-Tzu and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese mind is too philosophical to fashion a supreme being in its likeness. The higher aspirations of Christ and Buddha, the world’s great reformers, have nothing to do with the cold, practical philosophy of Confucius, who does not have the depth of feeling and the spiritual striving of his contemporary, Lao Tzu. From Lao Tzu down to Hiuen-Tsang, their literature is replete with allusions to the fair island of Shambhala (now an oasis of incomparable beauty) and the Wisdom of the trans-Himalayan Adepts. The Emptiness of Lao Tzu is the Absoluteness of the Buddhist, a state of perfect Uncreated Unconsciousness — a Presence which ever was, is, and will be forever. Lao Tzu mentions only five of the seven principles of man, and omits to include the highest (Atma) and the lowest (which is no principle but the cadaver). Analogy is the guiding law, the reliable Ariadne’s thread that can lead us through the otherwise inextricable paths of Nature. The “seven jewels” of the Japanese Yamaboosis, the mystics of the Lao Tzu sect, and the ascetic monks of Kyoto allude to the correspondence of the seven principles of man with our planetary chain of seven rounds. The Moral Doctrines of Lao Tzu: 1. Tao in Its Transcendental Aspect, and in Its Physical Manifestation. 2. Tao as a Moral Principle, or “Virtue.” 3. The Doctrine of Inaction. 4. Lowliness and Humility. 5. Government. 6. War. 7. Paradoxes. 8. Miscellaneous. 9. Lao Tzu on Himself.

Download or read book The God idea expressed theistically and philosophically written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absurd idea of an extra-cosmic personal God does not exist anywhere in our Cosmos or beyond — it is a philosophical impossibility. The God of Theosophy is Cosmos itself; our earth is His footstool. Our Deity, as the “God” of Spinoza and of the true Advaitī, neither thinks, nor creates, for it is All-thought and All-creation. Moreover, there is no over-soul or under-soul, but only One Infinite pre-Cosmic Substance and Thought, which remains in the Universe of Ideas. The first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested world is purely spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to our highest conceptions. Deity is a Unity, in which all other units in their infinite variety merge, and from which they are indistinguishable — except by the prism of Theistic Maya. Can the individual drops of the curling waves of the universal Ocean have independent existence? While the Theist proclaims his God a gigantic universal Being, the Theosophist declares that the One Absolute (or, rather, Absoluteness) is not-Being but an ever-developing cyclic evolution, the Perpetual Motion of Nature visible and invisible — moving and breathing, even during its long Pralayic Sleep. Apprehension of the term Logos, Verbum, or Vāch, the mystic divine voice of every nation and philosophy, by the spiritual intuition of those few who are not wilfully obtuse, will presage the dawn of One Universal Religion. Logos was never human reason with us. Logos is Divine Thought Concealed, i.e., a purely metaphysical concept far above and beyond the repulsive cerebrations of lower minds. Radiation, emanations, and their endless pantheistic differentiations are master-keys to the enquirer’s innermost perceptions, if he adopts the Platonic deductive method of study and reasoning from Universals to Particulars, i.e., from Cosmogenesis to Anthropogenesis.

Download or read book Attune your self with the self in All written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmonise your soul with the soul of the human family and all creatures. The Divine Spirit in man, hitherto shunned from the crass material world, has finally awakened and is about to assert its rights to recognition. The Spirit in man is turned by pride into a blind wanderer, like a buffoon mocked by a host of other buffoons, and remains unheard and unheeded in the darkness of matter. The death struggle between Mysticism and Materialism is now raging. The voice of human soul proclaims the resurrection of the Divine Spirit in the foremost representatives of thought and learning. Books do not represent one man: they are the mirror of a host of men. Those who, amidst the wholesale worship of matter will have bravely fought for human rights and man’s divine nature, will become, if they only win, the teachers of the masses in the coming century, and thus their benefactors. The new era will have struck only for those who learnt how to express and put into practice the aspirations, as well as the physical needs, of the trampled-down masses. For one to fully comprehend the pain and suffering of individual life, he has to devote himself with the fervour of unselfish philanthropy and unconditional love of his fellow man, i.e., to attune his soul with that of humanity at large. Like those wonderful snow flowers of Northern Siberia which, in order to shoot forth from the frozen soil they have to pierce through a thick layer of hard snow, so those rare blossoms of ideality have to fight with the cold indifference and human harshness of the age, and with the ever-mocking world of wealth. It is the rich who have first to be regenerated, if we would do good to the poor; for it is in the former that lies the root of evil of which the “disinherited” classes are but the too luxuriant growth. The root of evil lies in a moral, not in a physical cause. Work, therefore, to bring about the moral regeneration of the cultured though far more immoral classes before you attempt to do the same for our ignorant younger brothers, for the sin or merit of one reacts on All. Speak to the awakening Spirit of Humanity, to the human Spirit, and to the Spirit in man — these three in One, and the One in All. Speak words capable of awakening the true spirit in a society which had drifted away in a wrong direction. Be a fearless apostle of Compassion, the living Word and Spirit of Truth. Theosophy alone can gradually create a world as harmonious and as simple-souled as Kosmos itself; but this noble goal can only be achieved if Theosophists act as such, for the true Theosophist is who Theosophy does.

Download or read book On the Universal Doctrines of Karma and Reincarnation written by William Quan Judge and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Madame Blavatsky on Buddhism written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual or personal existence is the cause of pains and sorrows; collective and impersonal life-eternal is full of divine bliss and joy for ever; neither causes nor effects can darken its light.

Download or read book Occult laws and paradoxes written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marriage is licensed vice written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Boris de Zirkoff and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Let every man prove his own works written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious philanthropist holds a position of his own, which cannot in any way concern or affect the Theosophist. He does not do good merely for the sake of doing good, but also as a means towards his own salvation. The secular philanthropist is really at heart a socialist, and nothing else; he hopes to make men happy and good by bettering their physical position. The direct effect of an appreciation of Theosophy is to make those charitable who were not so before. Theosophy creates the charity which afterwards, and of its own accord, makes itself manifest in works.

Download or read book The Nilgiri Sannyasis written by E.H. Morgan and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Power to Heal written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proverbial Wisdom from the Hitopadesha written by Narayana and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blavatsky and Tolstoy on the Science of Life written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: