Theosophy

199 pages

590 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
WE must not close this Part on the Symbolism of Archaic History, without an attempt to explain the perpetual recurrence of this truly…
A modern panarion : a collection of fugitive fragments
A modern panarion : a collection of fugitive fragments
A primer of theosophy : a very condensed outline
An abridgement by Katharine Hillard of The Secret doctrine, a synthesis of science, religion and philosophy
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of…
Chapter I
"Yea, the time cometh, that whomsoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service."--Gospel according to John, xvi. 2. "Let him be…
Chapter I: What Theosophy Is
"THERE is a school of philosophy still in existence of which modern culture has lost sight." In these words Mr. A. P.
Chapter II
"Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And fills up all the mighty void of sense. . .
Chapter II
"They undertake by scales of miles to tell The bounds, dimensions, and extent of hell…
Chapter II: From The Absolute To Man
OF the Absolute, the Infinite, the All-embracing, we can at our present stage know nothing, except that It is; we can say nothing that is…
Chapter III
"The mirror of the soul cannot reflect both earth and heaven; and the one vanishes from its surface, as the other is glassed upon its…
Chapter III
"KING.--Let us from point to point this story know."--All's Well That Ends Well.--Act v., Scene 3. "He is the One, self-proceeding; and…
Chapter III: The Formation of a Solar System
THE beginning of the universe (if ever it had a beginning) is beyond our ken. At the earliest point of history that we can reach, the two…
Chapter IV
"I choose the nobler part of Emerson, when, after various disenchantments, he exclaimed, 'I covet Truth.' The gladness of true heroism…
Chapter IV: The Evolution of Life
ALL the impulses of life which I have described as building the interpenetrating worlds come forth from the Third Aspect of the Deity…
Chapter IX
"Thou can'st not call that madness of which thou art proved to know nothing."--TERTULLIAN: Apology. "This is not a matter of to-day, Or…
Chapter IX
"All things are governed in the bosom of this triad."--LYDUS: De Mensibus, 20. "Thrice let the heaven be turned on its perpetual…
Chapter IX: The Planetary Chains
Chapter IX THE PLANETARY CHAINS THE scheme of evolution of which our Earth forms a part is not the only one in our solar system, for ten…
Chapter V
"Learn to know all, but keep thyself unknown."--GNOSTIC MAXIM. "There is one God supreme over all gods, diviner than mortals, Whose form is…
Chapter V
"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint." (I am the spirit which still denies.)--(Mephisto in FAUST.) "The Spirit of truth, whom the world…
Chapter V: The Constitution of Man
MAN is therefore in essence a Spark of the divine Fire, belonging to the monadic world.[5] To that Spark, dwelling all the time in that…
Chapter VI
"The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up; but Yesterday and Tomorrow both are."--Sartor Resartus: Natural…
Chapter VI
"Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness (humanity, kindness), and…
Chapter VI
"Hermes, who is of my ordinances ever the bearer . . .
Chapter VI: After Death
DEATH is the laying aside of the physical body; but it makes no more difference to the ego than does the laying aside of an overcoat to the…
Chapter VII
"Of the tenets of the Druzes, nothing authentic has ever come to light; the popular belief amongst their neighbors is, that they adore an…
Chapter VII
"Thou great First Cause, least understood."--POPE. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence…
Chapter VII: Reincarnation
THIS life of the ego in his own world, which is so glorious and so fully satisfying for the developed man, plays but a very small part in…
Chapter VIII
"Christian and Catholic sons may accuse their fathers of the crime of heresy . . .
Chapter VIII
"Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid Of Stygian angels summoned up from Hell; Scorned and accursed by those who have essay'd Her…
Chapter VIII: The Purpose of Life
TO fulfil our duty in the divine scheme we must try to understand not only that scheme as a whole, but the special part that man is…
Chapter X
Τεσ δε γαρ εκ τριαδος παν πνευμα πατερ εκερασε.--TAY.: Lyd. de Mens., 20. "The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and…
Chapter X
"Get thee behind me, SATAN" (Jesus to Peter).--Matt. xvi. 23.
Chapter X: The Result of Theosophical Study
"MEMBERS of the Theosophical Society study these truths and Theosophists endeavour to live them." What manner of man then is the true…
Chapter XI
"Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of the Awakened. . .
Chapter XI
"Strange condition of the human mind, which seems to require that it should long exercise itself in ERROR, before it dare approach the…
Chapter XII
"My vast and noble capital, my Daitu, my splendidly-adorned; And thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung. . .
Chapter XII
"You never hear the really philosophical defenders of the doctrine of uniformity speaking of impossibilities in nature. They never say what…
Chapter XIII
"ALCHYMIST. Thou always speakest riddles. Tell me if thou art that fountain of which Bernard Lord Trevigan writ?
Chapter XIV
"The transactions of this our city of Sais, are recorded in our sacred writings during a period of 8,000 years."--PLATO: Timaeus. "The…
Chapter XV
"STE.--Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men of Inde?" The Tempest, Act ii., Sc. 2.
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