Download or read book The ennobling power of thoracic expansion written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain air, being placed nearer to the Fountain of Life, fortifies health and prolongs life. Retreat in solitude and unbroken stillness, where air free of all pestilential exhalations and deep study are prerequisites for higher knowledge. Acrimony, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, and resentment are vexatious to the spirit. Singing promotes health and the development of the chest. And the expansion of the chest allows the noblest parts of our nature to unfold. By forcing chest expansion and lung exhalation, high altitudes foster spiritual temperament. Full breathing is a therapeutic agent, restorative and curative. By compelling chest expansion, the exercise of the thighs is far more efficient than any exercise of the arms. Keep smiling, for smile is the expression of the superior regions of the brain.

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 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 Plutarch on the twists and turns of worldly versus divine love written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 40 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 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:

Download or read book Godless Buddhism is highly philosophical and logical agnosticism written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the necessity for imposing our personal views upon others who must be allowed to possess as good a faculty of discrimination and judgment as we believe ourselves to be endowed with? It is difficult to obliterate innate differences of mental perceptions and faculties, let alone to reconcile them by bringing under one standard the endless varieties of human nature and thought. No attempt toward engrafting our views and beliefs on individuals, whose mental and intellectual capacities differ from ours as one variety or species of plants differs from another, will ever be successful. Nor we will ever be able prove our love to our fellow man by depriving him of his divine prerogatives — those of an untrammelled liberty of reason, right of conscience, and self-reliance. The religion of love and charity is built upon the gigantic holocaust of the faithful, fuelled by the illegitimate desire to impose a universal belief in Christ. Where is that creed that has ever surpassed it in bloodthirstiness and cruelty, in intolerance, in papal bulls, and the damnation of all other religions? Genuine morality does not rest with the profession of any particular creed or faith, least of all with belief in gods or a God. No matter how sincere and ardent the faith of a theist, unless he gives precedence in his thoughts first to the benefit that accrues from a moral course of action to his brother, and then only thinks of himself (if at all), he will remain at best a pious egotist. Theism and atheism grow and develop together our reasoning powers, and become either fortified or weakened by reflection or deduction of evidence. Why should not men imagine that they can drink of the cup of vice with impunity when one half of the population is offered to purchase absolution for its sins for a paltry sum of money? The more a child feels sure of his parents love for him, the easier he feels to break his father’s commands. One ought to despise that virtue which prudence and fear alone direct. We have therefore no right to be influencing our neighbours’ opinions upon purely transcendental and unprovable questions, which are speculations of our emotional nature, for none of us is infallible. Opinions are never static: they are amenable to change by reason and experience. By stirring up religious hatred, propagandism and conversion are the fertile seeds of cruelty and crimes against humanity. Where is that wise and infallible man who can show to another man what, or who, should be his ideal? The most fragrant rose has often the sharpest thorns. And it is the flowers of the thistle, when pounded and made up into an ointment, that will cure the wounds made by her cruel thorns the best. For all its beauty, it is an ungrateful task to seek to engraft the rose upon the thistle, since the rose will lose its fragrance, both plants will be deformed, and become a monstrous hybrid. Theosophy is Religion itself. Loyalty to Truth is its creed. Virtue, morality, brotherly love, and kind sympathy with every living creature are its noble objectives. Godless Buddhism ennobled the least philosophical of the dissenting sects of his religion, the Lamaism of the nomadic Kalmyks.

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 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 Love is the healing power of the successful physician written by Joseph Rodes Buchanan and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of a cheering and inspiring character, adapted to the feelings of the patient, and skilful instrumental music are important aids in healing. Thoracic expansion, singing, dramatic oration, and even conversation bring out the noblest elements of humanity. As love produces that full inspiration, which is called a sigh, all higher emotions are truly inspiring for pulmonary elevation assists emotional and moral elevation. Spirit-stirring songs are the most efficient means for ethical culture as well as thoracic and cerebral development. Singing ranks high among hygienic and ethical exercises, but dramatic oration trumps all exercises for overall invigoration and shows its happy effects in leading actors.

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 Paradox is the language of Occultism written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradoxes of occultism must be lived, not uttered only. Only in the profound unconsciousness of self-forgetfulness can the truth and reality of being reveal itself to his eager heart. Reflections upon the seemingly contradictory world we live in. There is no room in the world for one who is not prepared to become a full-blown hypocrite. Many newspaper editors show a decided leaning towards the mysteries of the archaic past. No pagan, even of the lower classes, believed that the soul would return into its old body. But cultured Christians do. Who can have the patience to read 1,500 pages of dreary metaphysical twaddle for the sake of discovering in it a few facts, however valuable? Wealth leads to impunity, poverty to condemnation even by the law, for the impecunious have no means of paying lawyers. What is good for the Masonic goose is not fit sauce for the Theosophical gander.

Download or read book Serjeant Cox cuts down to size the negators of spiritual evolution written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clad from head to toe in the panoply of exact sciences; hardened in battles against ignorance, superstition, and falsehood, the biologists rushed to their places in the ranks of the fighters and, as those having authority, began the work of demolition. Spiritualism has fortified its positions by ocular demonstrations, slowly but surely replacing fanciful hypothesis and blind faith with a series of phenomena which invite the crucial tests of the most exacting experimentalists. Haeckel had sown wind and reaped the whirlwind. His Anthropogeny has plunged more minds into a profound materialism than any other book of physicalism. But for faith there is no middle ground: it must be either completely blind, or it will see too much. Not only is man refused a soul, but an ancestor is forced upon him in the guise of a formless gelatinous Bathybius haeckelii, evolved out of Professor Haeckel’s fathomless imagination. The ingenious evolutionist is utterly unconcerned with the driving force behind the evolution of matter, i.e., the evolution of spirit, which is silently unfolding and asserting itself more and more with every newly perfected form. Serjeant Cox’s “What Am I?” is the timely antidote to the soul-destroying sophistry of Haeckel and his like. Hope that was blighted by the brutal hand of Positivism is now rekindled in the reader’s breast, and death is made to lose its terrors. It is strange and sad that neither the least prejudiced nor the least instructed in the of the Laws of Life are to be found in the profession whose business it is to keep the human machine in sound working order. Human suffering is for today’s physicians, as the torments of purgatory for the priest — a perennial source of income. Has it never occurred to the physician and the mental philosopher that it is in the Laws of Life governing the affinity of mind with body, that are to be found the causes of the maladies that afflict mankind? And yet Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and occult psychological phenomena in general, upon the investigation of which Serjeant Cox lays the greatest stress, have no bitterer enemy that the respectable astronomers, clergymen, and physicians of the age. Apart from Serjeant Cox, no other author has ever built up with more scientific precision or force of argument his proofs of the existence of an immortal soul in man.

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Download or read book The Book of Joy written by Dalai Lama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecendented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye. We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy—from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.

Download or read book If morality can force out egotism it will transform head learning to soul wisdom written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: