Download or read book Plutarch comparing passions and diseases written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is the most unhappy of all creatures. His body has many diseases, and they are readily perceived. But the soul does not readily perceive its own maladies; it even mistakes them for indications of soundness. The man diseased in body willingly yields to the care of the physician. But the unruly passions of the soul resist a cure, and are therefore more fatal.

Download or read book Plutarch comforts Apollonius written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutarch on boasted wisdom fortitude magnanimity and temperance written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire on the boasted wisdom, fortitude, magnanimity, and temperance of man, in the form of a dialogue between Ulysses in the island of Circe, and Gryllus, whom she had changed into a swine, and who now prefers his swinish condition to a return to the human form; Ulysses asks Circe for permission to restore his companions to the human shape. Circe will grant the request if the men themselves desire it. Gryllus, one of them, is brought forward to answer in behalf of the entire company. He refuses, and gives his reasons. He says that by making him and his companions beasts, Circe has done them a great favour. Beasts have more fortitude than men; they fight in fair, open combat, without trick or artifice; they are no cowards, they never cry for mercy. Beasts are courageous and daring, even the females; while the courage of men is artificial, and women are timid. Beasts are more temperate and chaste then man; they indulge their appetites only in a natural way, and at the proper season. Beasts do not value silver or gold. They have no adventitious desire. Their senses are more accurate. Beasts are satisfied with one kind of food, and this procured without difficulty; they have nature for their teacher, and could teach men many useful lessons. Men are incontinent: they indulge unnatural and excessive appetites; and are never satisfied.

Download or read book The Two Voices of Lord Tennyson written by Alfred Tennyson and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutarch on Plato s procreation of the soul in Timaeus written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato held the eternity of matter. The material of which the world was formed was originally a shapeless mass existing from eternity. It was arranged in perfect and beautiful forms by God. Plato comments on the nature of the soul, the soul of the world, the origin of evil, and the four original elements of all created, corporeal things. But the soul is both created and uncreated. The subject is illustrated by geometry and the doctrine of ratios, and by the musical scale. The divisible and the indivisible are the Other and the Same. The opinion of those philosophers who make the soul a compound of both refuted. Two discordant principles rule the world: Fate or Necessity, and Intelligence or Wisdom. The soul is not altogether the workmanship of the Deity: Illustrations from geometry, the planetary system, and the science of music. The soul derives its beginning neither from time nor is the product of generation, but it is endowed with several faculties and virtues.

Download or read book The atom of matter is permeated with Life and is the vehicle of Life itself written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Master Atom is Man s Spiritual Soul written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Madame Blavatsky responds to Subba Row s opinions of the Inner Constitution of Man written by Tallapragada Subba Row, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Today s psychology lacks entirely knowledge of the soul written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twin sciences of psychology and metaphysics have fared worse than any other science, and have been so separated in Europe as to have become in their ignorance mortal enemies. Modern psychology is a misnomer, even though it is claimed that it has “reached conclusions of great generality and truth, regarding all that can be known to man.” The modern psychologist, dealing only with the superficial brain-consciousness, is far more materialistic than the all-denying materialism itself. Brain-consciousness, or “personality,” is the consciousness inhering in the lower portion of the mortal manas-mind, which is correlated with the physical brain. It is a mere instrument for harvesting experience on behalf of the immortal Buddhi-Manas or Monad, and imparting to it the aroma of consciously-acquired experience.

Download or read book Lymph is a masque for Nymph an inferior Goddess written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lymphatic cells issuing from nests of adipose tissue, and squeezing themselves through the epithelium cells up to the surface of the intestines, absorb therein the drops of fat and loaded with their prey, travel homeward to the lymphatic canals. This faculty of selecting their special food, of assimilating the useful, and of rejecting the useless and the harmful, is common to all the unicellular organisms. Latin Lymph comes from the Greek Nymph, an inferior Goddess. The Muses were sometimes called nymphs by the poets. Hence, all persons in a state of rapture, whether seers, poets, madmen, etc., is said to be caught by nymphs. In India, Lymph-Nymph is the Goddess of Moisture fabled to be born from the pores of an aquatic deity, whether the Ocean God, Varuna, or some minor River God. The Jews consulted demons through small golden statues, shaped as nymphs. When invoked, the nymphs showed them their tasks from hour to hour. Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders, by the alliance which they may contract with man, might be made partakers of immortality. Certain mediums boast of “spirit” husbands and wives. (Consultation and deliberation with “spirits” spells the end of wisdom.) Every Principle in the Constitution of Man has its seven aspects, and every cell and organ, its seven components. A Principle may be related to an organ of the Body. However, the visible Body is not a Principle, it is the medium of every Principle and Aspect. The Liver and the Spleen cells are the most subservient to the action of our personal mind. The Heart is the organ through which the Higher Ego acts through the Lower Self. Liver and Stomach correspond to Kama-Desire. Liver is the General; Spleen, the Aide-de-camp. The Spleen is the abode of Protean model of the gross physical body, and its subtle counterpart. It is closely linked with Kama-Prana, and inseparable from it.

Download or read book The Occult Nature of Man written by William Quan Judge and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atman is a ray from a spark of Uncreated Ray written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Atman is the Universal Self, the One Self in All, the Real Self. All else are reflections on heaving seas. 2. Atman is the soul of the spiritual man lit by its own light, the Nous Augoeides of the Neo-Platonists. 3. Woe for the living Dead, their glorious Augoeides have left them forever. 4. Atman is one with Paramatman. Buddhi, Atman’s vehicle, is part and parcel of the Dhyani-Chohanic Essence. 5. Contrary to current materialistic views, evolution proceeds along triple lines: Spiritual, Psychic, and Physical. 6. The key to the mystery of marriage is the union of Atman-Buddhi with Manas. Profane marriage is unholy and unworthy of the name. 7. Semitic Cosmogony materialises the mysteries of nature; the Aryan, spiritualizes matter while its physiology is always subservient to metaphysics. 8. No single rung of the ladder leading to Inner Wisdom can be skipped. No personality can ever reach or bring herself into communication with Atman, except through Buddhi-Manas. 9. Atman, our Lord and Protector, will show his full power only to those who can hear the “still small voice.” 10. When the bud of personality is crushed out, and the worm of sense destroyed past resurrection, the Lernaean Hydra of Separateness will vanish into thin air.

Download or read book Dreamless sleep sets free Spiritual Consciousness written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When deep sleep comes we dream no more. Our Higher Self absorbs the functions of the organs through his own consciousness, and returns along 72,000 nerves from our heart to His divine abode. When set free from its earthly prison, the Higher Self enjoys his original state of Absolute Consciousness, and confabulates with seen and unseen worlds. In deep sleep Spiritual Consciousness is active and acts independently. Impressions projected to the lower self may survive as “conscience.” Spiritual Consciousness never sleeps because she is always in the “Light” of Reality.

Download or read book Subba Row on the Sevenfold Principle in Man written by Tallapragada Subba Row Garu and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When the Green is overcome with Azure written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devachan dream realm where pure souls are rewarded written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book After death states of man s three astral bodies written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Mabel Collins and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dialogue between the two Editors of Lucifer, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Mabel Collins on astral bodies or doppelgängers. Lucifer was a monthly theosophical journal published from September 1887 to August, 1897, in London. There are three kinds of “doubles” or astral bodies: 1. The most material double: the Protean or plastic body (linga-sharira) of the gross physical body (shtula-sharira). 2. The middle, psycho-physical double: the “thought” or “dream” body (kama-manas), vehicle of animal desires (kama) and worldly thoughts (manas). Occultists call it the illusion-body (mayavi-rupa). 3. The truly spiritual double: the true Ego (monas + manas) is the causal body (karana-sharira) and chief cause of reincarnation, known in the trans-Himalayan schools as the karmic body. Adepts can project consciously, and dying persons unconsciously, an illusory appearance of their person to any distant location — while their physical body is left “entranced.” This phantom is termed mayavi-rupa. The ability to project a mayavic rupa depends upon the plastic power of the imagination and the higher faculties of the mind. Imagination is far more intense in those who are spiritually minded, than in those whose metaphysical part of the brain has atrophied, for it is by this very intense imagination that the former obtain the power of creation. However, when armed with a powerful imagination, a malicious person can turn unconsciously bad thoughts to a lethal weapon. Unless the evil-wisher is a high adept in Black Magic, in which case his karma is delayed, such a wish only comes back to roost. Warning to students of occultism: learn how to adapt your ideas and thoughts to your plastic potency. Otherwise, you are creating things by which you may be making bad karma.