The Theosophical Quarterly, Volume 18Theosophical Society, 1920 |
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... writing through the medium . After the session is over , the medium has no understanding of what really went on . The medium was comatose in the full sense of the word - unconscious , or conscious in some lower physical way , but ...
... writing through the medium . After the session is over , the medium has no understanding of what really went on . The medium was comatose in the full sense of the word - unconscious , or conscious in some lower physical way , but ...
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... writer has said to confirm our own views or misconceptions , paying him the scant courtesy of passing over what he has wished to communicate , and fastening our thought only on the support that some statements of his , often quite ...
... writer has said to confirm our own views or misconceptions , paying him the scant courtesy of passing over what he has wished to communicate , and fastening our thought only on the support that some statements of his , often quite ...
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... write about it as if your world had suddenly caved in and your life ended in chaos . Are we T. S. members to fall short of the common standard instead of being away above it ? It is our mission to set an example to others , not to ...
... write about it as if your world had suddenly caved in and your life ended in chaos . Are we T. S. members to fall short of the common standard instead of being away above it ? It is our mission to set an example to others , not to ...
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... write of . It is all horrible enough , God knows , but it is as it is , and is what the Master has to work with . I wonder he does not get discouraged . Think of his perpetual crucifixion ! Yet he remains calm and serene and undismayed ...
... write of . It is all horrible enough , God knows , but it is as it is , and is what the Master has to work with . I wonder he does not get discouraged . Think of his perpetual crucifixion ! Yet he remains calm and serene and undismayed ...
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... writer cannot in this instance be blamed for associating Madame Blavatsky with the travesty of everything for which that splendidly upright and much martyred woman stood . It is the Adyar Society which is responsible , not only for ...
... writer cannot in this instance be blamed for associating Madame Blavatsky with the travesty of everything for which that splendidly upright and much martyred woman stood . It is the Adyar Society which is responsible , not only for ...
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action asked attitude become believe Bhagavad Gita Bhikkhu Blake Blake's body Branch brotherhood C. A. GRISCOM called causal body child Christ Christian Church consciousness Convention Dante death desire Devachan disciple divine Duc d'Orléans earth effort Eternal evil existence experience expression fact Father feel follow France Freemasonry German give heart heaven HENRY BEDINGER human immortal Karma kingdom Lao Tse letter light lives Lodge look looking-glass Lord Madame Blavatsky manifest Master means meditation mind moral mystery mystical Nachiketas nature obedience ourselves path perhaps Piltdown plane Pliocene present principle psychic QUARTERLY question regard religion resolution Romance sacrifice saints Sanskrit Secret Doctrine seek seems self-consciousness sense skandhas soul speak spiritual students of Theosophy teaching Theosophical Society things thou thought tion true truth unto Upanishad vision wisdom wish words Yama
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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.