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 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 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 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 Theages on Virtue written by Theages 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:

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 Plutarch s Protreptics to Moral Virtue written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 23 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 The struggle for existence written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only by extending empathy and sympathy that the individual can expand into the divine and merge with universal love, the spirit of which is self-sacrifice. By extending our love to all men, aye, to animals as well, we joy and sorrow with them, and expand our souls towards The One that ever both sorrows and joys with all, in an eternal bliss in which the pleasure of joy and the pain of sorrow are not.

Download or read book Denunciation is not a duty written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hypocrisy 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: Immorality does not consist in physical acts alone but, on the contrary, in liberating one’s self from all moral obligations, which such acts impose.

Download or read book The first step towards the Temple of Truth written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selfishness is the root cause of every vice and sorrow. Self-love is the prime mover of every mortal sin. Vice and wickedness are an abnormal, unnatural manifestation, at this period of human evolution. But truth is often stranger than fiction. Some fictions point out to some of the most hidden ulcers in social life. For morality to exist between men and women, they must follow the Law of Chastity. Jesus did not teach Monasticism but the law of Continence. Of all vices, Vanity is the last and the most troublesome. Yet, in no class of society at large are deceit and craft considered as Divine Virtues, except in the clerical classes of theologians. In the unreal world we live in, every virtue (even a papal one) is tainted with vice. The first step towards the Temple of Truth is a clean life. Forgiveness of injuries, contentment, and pity are not exclusively Christian virtues. Still, the noble love of virtue for virtue’s own sake, of which some ancient Pagan nations were such prominent exemplars, has never blossomed in the Christian heart. Salvation by personal merit and self-forgetfulness is the greatest of all virtues and cornerstone of the teachings of Lord Buddha. For virtue cannot be spoofed or hoodwinked. One has to love her for her own sake without looking for reward or profit. The eminent ideal of virtue is the only basis of spiritual insight and attainment. One ought to despise that virtue which prudence and fear alone direct. The seven cardinal virtues are superhuman divine faculties. True virtues are faculties of the sevenfold Logoic Hierarchy. All else is burlesque and ballyhoo. They are the female counterparts of the Celestial Hierarchy. Virtues are one degree of the Hierarchy of Compassion, whose mission is to maintain righteousness on earth. They are the Four Maharajas, Kings of the Dhyani-Chohans, who preside over and rule the four Cosmical Forces. They are they who, being in this world, yet live far beyond our illusive life on earth.

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 prayer of the true philosopher is his adoration written by Damodar K. Mavalankar and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soul of the true philosopher is in perfect harmony with his divine spirit. It is the duty of every man who is capable of an unselfish impulse to do something, however little, for the welfare of Humanity, the great Orphan. Only those of exceptional purity and unconditional love for their fellow man and every living creature, may approach the sacred Majesty of Truth and hear within the sanctuary of the heart the Voice of the Silence. Raja Yoga deals with the inner man and therefore neither encourages sham, nor requires physical postures. Hatha Yoga is triply distilled selfishness. By encouraging mental passivity, it hastens the opening of mediumistic faculties resulting in gradual loss of self-control. Inductive reasoning from the known to the unknown should be promoted and practised. True contemplation is the yearning of the human soul to ascend in spirit towards its divine parent, by studying and assimilating the divine laws that govern Universe and Man, and by applying them in everyday life. In this sublime effort the soul relies on the immutable Law of Analogy that underpins the affinity between stars and man. This is the lost thread of Ariadne, which alone can guide us through the labyrinth of matter, and lead us from the unreal to the real. Those who pray silently and intensely gain their object, while those who merely mumble some formula get no answer to their prayers.

Download or read book Happiness is but a dream written by Cicero and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philosophers and philosophicules 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: Theosophy is the very synthesis of Philosophy in its widest abstract sense, as in its special qualifications. It is quintessence of the highest transcendental philosophy. Theosophy is no national property, but only the universal code of science and the most transcendental ethics that was ever known; that it lies at the root of every moral philosophy and religion. Occultism is one of the Sciences of Theosophy, or the Wisdom-Religion, but by no means the whole of Theosophy.

Download or read book The true lover beholds in the beloved only the greater beauty of the spirit that stirs his heart written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By separating in each soul that which is divine, from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the true lover ascends to the beauty of knowledge and truth that lies hidden within a triple casket concealing itself as the tortoise conceals his head within his shell.