The Theosophical Quarterly, Volume 18Theosophical Society, 1920 |
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... effort of the Masters through all ages is directed towards one critical problem — namely , to the dead point , if you like , of the curve between materialism and spirituality ; to the problem of whether the human race , or the majority ...
... effort of the Masters through all ages is directed towards one critical problem — namely , to the dead point , if you like , of the curve between materialism and spirituality ; to the problem of whether the human race , or the majority ...
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... effort to co - operate with the Law , if we study the modes of revelation of the Wisdom Religion in the past . For , though the content of one revelation may differ from another , the purpose underlying all revelations is one and the ...
... effort to co - operate with the Law , if we study the modes of revelation of the Wisdom Religion in the past . For , though the content of one revelation may differ from another , the purpose underlying all revelations is one and the ...
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... effort of man to realize the beautiful on earth was in reality the effort of the soul to disentangle itself from the matter of illusion and to return to the real world , from which it had fallen in the beginning . Thus , to the aspect ...
... effort of man to realize the beautiful on earth was in reality the effort of the soul to disentangle itself from the matter of illusion and to return to the real world , from which it had fallen in the beginning . Thus , to the aspect ...
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... effort of his own . This does not mean that man , as he generally thinks himself to be , viz . , a being that is under the authority of his brain - consciousness , can do this , because this authority is the mind governed by desire and ...
... effort of his own . This does not mean that man , as he generally thinks himself to be , viz . , a being that is under the authority of his brain - consciousness , can do this , because this authority is the mind governed by desire and ...
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... efforts to raise ourselves from our present low state as mortals to the divine state of immortals . And we must learn to pray with a cheerful mind : " Not my will but thine , ” - knowing that nothing can happen against the will of the ...
... efforts to raise ourselves from our present low state as mortals to the divine state of immortals . And we must learn to pray with a cheerful mind : " Not my will but thine , ” - knowing that nothing can happen against the will of the ...
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Page 214 - Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
Page 339 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Page 349 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 120 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 332 - Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...
Page 322 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 320 - But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Page 215 - I rest not from my great task! To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination...
Page 118 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,@ Mighty Prophet!
Page 363 - Christ came, not to destroy, but to fulfil the law and the prophets.