Download or read book Hierocles exalts wedlock written by Hierocles, Thomas Taylor and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition rages most fiercely in Christian lands written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cock is the herald of the sun and the most magnetic of all birds written by Lucian of Samosata, Thomas Taylor, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In ancient times onions were considered too sacred to be eaten written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ungrateful Man written by Unknown and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The sewer of dogmatic creeds and blind faith written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musings of an Unpopular Philosopher written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch on why eating animals is repulsive written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Vandalism of Persian Zoroastrianism written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We should all refrain from the mania of celebrating personalities written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluminous biographical trivialities render the real character almost invisible, like the counterfeit frankincense which smoke-blacks the favourite idol of a Catholic Church. To scribble trifles on the glass of an inn window is the mark of an idler; but to engrave them on the marble monument, sacred to the memory of the departed Great, is something worse than idleness. As insignificant stories derive no real respectability from the eminence of the person who happens to be the subject of them, they are apt to have their insipidity seasoned by the same bad passions that accompany the habit of gossiping in general. And the misapprehensions of weak men meeting with the misinterpretations of malignant men, have often formed the groundwork of the most grievous calumnies. The duty of an honest biographer is to portray the prominent imperfections as well as excellencies of his subject. But this in not an excuse for heaping together a multitude of particulars, which can prove nothing of any man that might not have been taken for granted of all men. In the present age, of celebrating the personality, we should all desist from this mania of busying ourselves with the names of others, which is still more alarming as a symptom than it is troublesome as a disease. It is worse than a crime to inflict upon the mind vulgar scandal and personal anxiety, thus polluting with evil passions the very sanctuary to which we should flee for refuge from them! Roger North’s biography of Lord Chief Justice Saunders. Very corpulent and beastly, a mere lump of morbid flesh. Those whose ill fortune it was to stand near him were confessors, and in summer time almost martyrs. He seldom moved without a parcel of youths hanging about him, revelling and jesting with them. But he had a goodness of nature and disposition in such a great a degree, that he may be deservedly styled a true Philanthropist.
Download or read book Speculative lucubrations of an Aristotelean philosopher written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Aristotelean philosopher” is the mouthpiece of that majority in modern society which has worked itself out an elaborate policy full of sophistry and paradox, behind which every member clumsily hides his personal views. His “respectable deference to public opinion,” is short-hand for hypocrisy. He confuses phenomena for which the agency of “disembodied spirits” is claimed, with natural phenomena for which every tithe of supernaturalism is rejected. He, who does not believe in Spiritualism cannot believe in Christianity, for the very foundation of that faith is the materialization of their Saviour. If Spiritualism and Occultism are superstition and falsehood, so is Christianity with its Mosaic miracles and the witches of Endor, its resurrections and materialization of angels, and hundreds of other spiritual and occult phenomena. Is belief in the Holy Ghost less blind than belief in the “ghosts” of our departed fathers and mothers? Is faith in an abstract and never-to-be-scientifically-proven principle any more “respectable” or worthy of sympathy than that other faith of believers, as earnest as Christians are, that the spirits of those whom they loved best on earth, their mothers, children, friends, are ever near them, though their bodies may be gone? Physical as well as psychological phenomena court experiment and the investigations of science; whereas, supernatural religion dreads and avoids such. The former claims no miracles, no supernaturalism to hang its faith upon, while religion imperatively demands them, and invariably collapses whenever such belief is withdrawn. An abusive, uncompromising bigot is more honest than a mild-spoken, sneering hypocrite. A lady who will not blush to empty in the view of all a tumbler of stiff brandy and soda, will stare, in shocked amazement, at another of her sex smoking an innocent cigarette! Madame Blavatsky defends the Cause of Truth from its detractors and traducers. Facts existed in the “pre-scientific past,” and errors are as thick as berries in our scientific present. Modern science is atheistic, phantasmagorical, and always in labour with conjecture. Not to know is its climax. With whom then, is the criterion of truth to be left? Are we to abandon Truth to the mercy and judgment of a prejudiced society, constantly caught trying to subvert that which it does not understand? A society ever seeking to transform sham and hypocrisy into synonyms of “propriety” and “respectability”? During that incessant warfare, in which old creeds and new doctrines, conflicting schools and authorities, revivals of blind faith and incessant scientific discoveries running a race as though for the survival of the fittest, swallow up and mutually destroy and annihilate each other — it would take a sage much wiser than King Solomon himself to decide between fact and fiction! Mental slavery is the worst of all slaveries. It is a state which, as brutal force has no real power, indicates either an abject cowardice or a great intellectual weakness. Undisputed fact is the only tribunal we submit to and recognize it without appeal. The Theosophical Society is an absolute and uncompromising Republic of Conscience; preconception and narrow-mindedness in science and philosophy have no room in it: they are as hateful and as much denounced by us, as dogmatism and bigotry in theology. The worms of sham and hypocrisy have gnawed the roots of wisdom and hardened the human heart. Instead of spiritualizing matter, the Shakers of America, and the “Apostles” of the Calcutta New Dispensation, materialize spirit. Spiritualism, as a sect, has as much a right for recognition as any other Christian sect. But then, how can belief in spirits, the surviving souls of departed men — quite an orthodox Christian dogma — be held disreputable by the Christian public? As long as the Christian public professes belief in, and veneration for its ancestral faith, it behoves them little to throw the accusation of “degrading superstitions and credulity” into the teeth of Spiritualism. The scientific basis of Spiritualism corroborated by modern science.
Download or read book A rich life without the trappings of Mammon written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to conduct ourselves towards our parents written by Hierocles, Thomas Taylor and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Idolatry and Zoolatry written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Maximus Tyrius, Plutarch, Simplicius of Cilicia, Thomas Taylor and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not the Philosophers, Sages, and Adepts of antiquity who can ever be charged with idolatry. The Greek and the Latin Churches especially, are as idolatrous and pagan as any other religion. With additional commentary by Simplicius and Taylor on why pagans deified dead men. and by Maximus Turius and Plutarch on statues and zoolatry.
Download or read book Ancient Oracles and Occult Prophecies written by Veda Vyasa, Hermes Trismegistus, Hesiod, Thomas Taylor, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future is now. Might will be right, and envy will run riot among men. Heathen East will slay decadent West. Egypt shall be forsaken when divinity returns back from earth to heaven.
Download or read book The fear of number thirteen written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
