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| | Theosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for divinity that existed in all ancient cultures. | | | Theosophists hold that everything, living or not, is "impregnated" with Consciousness. | | | Like esoteric Buddhism, from which much of Theosophical thought springs, Theosophy teaches that beings have attained the human state through myriad reincarnations, passing through the mineral, plant and animal stages since the birth of life on earth. |
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| | H.P.Blavatsky to the Archbishop of Canterbury - |
| | Theosophists, therefore, are respectors of all the religions, and for the religious ethics of Jesus they have profound admiration. | | | Theosophists know that the deeper one penetrates into the meaning of the dogmas and ceremonies of all religions, the greater becomes their apparent underlying similarity, until finally a perception of their fundamental unity is reached. | | | Ought Theosophists themselves, then, to be regarded by Christians as their enemies, because they believe that orthodox Christianity is on the whole, opposed to the religion of Jesus; and because they have the courage to tell the Churches that they are traitors to the Master they profess to revere and serve? |
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http://www.theosophical.ca/ArchbishopCanterbury.htm
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| | The Religious Movements Homepage: Theosophy |
| | Theosophists discourage inquirers from taking Theosophical doctrines too literally or dogmatically, and claim that Theosophy is best understood as a set of beliefs that will point the seeker in the direction of the truth. | | | According to Theosophists, teachings about the evolutionary history of the cosmos are preserved in partial form in many world religions, carefully guarded by the Masters or Mahatmas, advanced beings who have evolved past the point of dependence on the physical world. | | | Theosophy is not meant to contradict existing religions, but to illuminate and to explicate areas of religious belief that may not be that clear. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/theosophy.html
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| | Spiritual Empire - THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY |
| | Ancient Theosophists claimed, and so do the modern, that the infinite cannot be known by the finite -- i.e., sensed by the finite Self -- but that the divine essence could be communicated to the higher Spiritual Self in a state of ecstasy. | | | Let no Theosophist, if he would hold to divine, not human truth, say that this "God in secret" listens to, or is distinct from, either finite man or the infinite essence -- for all are one. | | | It was outlined a few years ago in the Theosophist and "Esoteric Buddhism," and may be found still more elaborated in the "Secret Doctrine." It is based on the oldest philosophy of the world, called the Wisdom-Religion or the Archaic Doctrine. |
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http://www.spiritualempire.com/articles/spiritualism/the_key_to_theosophy.html
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| | Theosophists |
| | The sin is not regarded by theosophists as one of a religious character,. | | | For the Theosophists of the current century have already visibly impressed themselves on modern literature, and introduced the desire and craving for some philosophy in place of the blind dogmatic faith of yore, among the most intelligent portions of human-kind. | | | The individuality is the spiritual-intellectual and immortal part of us; deathless, at least for the duration of the kosmic manvantara - the root, the very essence of us, the spiritual sun within, our inner god. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/theosophists
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| | What Is Theosophy? |
| | The Alexandrian Theosophists were divided into neophytes, initiates, and masters, or hierophants; and their rules were copied from the ancient Mysteries of Orpheus, who, according to Herodotus, brought them from India. | | | Ammonius obligated his disciples by oath not to divulge his higher doctrines, except to those who were proved thoroughly worthy and initiated, and who had learned to regard the gods, the angels, and the demons of other peoples, according to the esoteric hyponoia, or under-meaning. | | | For the latter is belief in the Deity as the ALL, the source of all existence, the infinite that cannot be either comprehended or known, the universe alone revealing It, or, as some prefer it, Him, thus giving a sex to that, to anthropomorphize which is blasphemy. |
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| | Spiritual Empire - Brotherhood in the Theosophical Movement |
| | In our own day, and for Theosophists especially, recognition of a true teacher is needed, who will interpret that which the greatest sages of the world -- Titans in spirituality and in intellect -- themselves have been in their turn the noble teachers and interpreters of. | | | I tell you, my Brothers, that there are such Titan-teachers in the world even today, and it is upon the construing of the ancient wisdom of the gods by these teachers that in the past has been laid the superstructure of the different religious and philosophical systems of the world. | | | I am using this illustration in order to show you what seems to me to be the most important and most practical thing for us Theosophists to do: to forget the opinions and to hold to the fundamental theosophical realities. |
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http://www.spiritualempire.com/articles/spiritualism/brotherhood_in_the_theosophical_movement.html
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| | Theosophy World — September 1996 |
| | Many who have never heard of the Society are Theosophists without knowing it themselves; for the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. | | | In my view, our challenge as Theosophists working for enlightened living in the modem world, is to preserve, treasure, and communicate the original impetus propelling the founding of the TS 120 years ago. | | | This original impetus charges us to help provide people with access to their birthright of knowledge about who they really are as essentially spiritual beings and their relation to the greater Oneness of which we form part. |
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http://www.theos-world.com/archives/html/tw199609.html
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| | Theosophists are not concerned with building a big, centralized organization, but with the spread of emancipating ideas and spiritual independence, and the policies of U.L.T. have been shaped with this ideal in mind. | | | It welcomes to its association all those who are in accord with its declared purposes and who desire to fit themselves, by study and otherwise, to be the better able to help and teach others. | | | Its author, William Q. Judge, an Irish-American Theosophist, was H.P.B.’s colleague and co-worker from the very beginning, and this book is a brief but quite substantial outline of the contents of The Secret Doctrine. |
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http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/amission.htm
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| | Theosophical Society of South Florida - FAQ |
| | Disharmony and evil are the result of ignorance and selfishness; live in harmony and goodness so as to teach others by your life as well as by your words. | | | Individual Theosophists profess various of the world's religions-Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist. | | | All members of the Theosophical Society decide what practices and manner of living are appropriate for them, but many Theosophists follow a certain regimen of life that is implied by Theosophical ideas like those above. |
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http://www.geocities.com/theosophysfla/FAQ.htm
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| | India And Her Theosophists- A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge |
| | But the Western Theosophists finds himself in a very uncomfortable corner when, as the champion of Eastern doctrine and metaphysic, he is required to describe the actual present state of India and her Theosophists. | | | I cannot agree with the statement that the Hindus and Hindu Theosophists are not intellectually active. | | | But if the spiritual activity prevailed we would have seen articles, heard orations, known of efforts, to show that a sub-division of the highest of the four castes into eight-four is not sanctioned by the Vedas, but is diametrically against them and out to be instantly abandoned. |
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http://blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/india-and-her-theosophists.htm
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| | RITRO.com - People - Story - Conversation With A Theosophist About Krishnamurti |
| | Nevertheless, shortly after the letdown, the Theosophists began to comprehend Krishnamurti's reasoning. | | | While Krishnamurti attended college, students and teachers, alike, surrounded him while he spoke about life and spirituality. | | | At fourteen years of age, Krishnamurti had already written a beautiful religious book; he excelled in everything. |
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| | "Madame Blavatsky on the Views of the Theosophists" |
| | Believing in a spiritual and invisible universe, we cannot conceive of it in any other way than as completely dovetailing and corresponding with the material, objective universe; for logic and observation alike teach us that the latter is the outcome and visible manifestation of the former, and that the laws governing both are immutable. | | | Croucher sees and judges things through his emotional nature, the philosophers whom we study took nothing from any glorious being that did not perfectly accord with the universal harmony, justice, and equilibrium of the manifest plan of the universe. | | | Though no two of the latter, unfortunately, agree as to what is and what is not truth, yet they do agree with unanimity to antagonize whatever of the teachings of the philosophers we may repeat! |
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| | Some Answered Questions, pages 289-296 |
| | Such is the truth of this question according to the Theosophists and the Súfís. | | | Briefly, with regard to this theory that all things exist by the Unity, all are agreed--that is to say, the philosophers and the Prophets. | | | But the question of the Real Existence by which all things exist--that is to say, the reality of the Essence of Unity through which all creatures have come into the world--is admitted by everyone. |
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http://www.safnet.com/bahai/writings/saq/SAQ-83.html
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| | Theosophy and Theosophists by William T. Brown |
| | There were many people who at first credited him with good faith, and who continued their confidence in him so late as the year 1886. | | | Among these are reckoned the Occult World and Esoteric Buddhism, both of which, when written, bore such stamp of earnestness of purpose as to disarm suspicion, and led, as we happen to know, a few earnest souls to enter on the fruitless study of the higher wisdom. | | | Arrived at Bombay, the Theosophists were scarcely welcome. |
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| | Star Way, Part Two |
| | Still there are other troubles, and one of them is of course that there is a tendency in these subatomic visions, and apparently in those of the ancient Mesoamericans, to see twice as many quarks inside a hadron as science presently advises us exist. | | | Her apparent visions of atoms seem to be fractal in nature, and once again, may be the finest example easily produced here of the fundamentals of any distinction between living and non-living matter. | | | Note that both styles of rendering hadrons, with three and with six quarks, seem to be represented here, seemingly helping to corroborate the perceptions of the Theosophists and other ancient seers, as well as recognizing modern physics theory. |
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| | Anna Kingsford, Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophists by Edward Maitland |
| | For we have arrived at the turning-point of the world’s history, - the point when, the number 666 of the Beast being complete, we are to look for the manifestation of the ‘Sons of God,&; or the Divine Humanity. | | | And she also is as blind as her reviewer, or any old world Bat, to the signs of the times and their fulfilment of prophecy, recognised at least by all those who have made themselves ready for the 'Marriage of the King’s Son.'. | | | Madame Blavatsky’s sources of information are partly from study, and partly, as she states, spiritual, but reflective or astral rather than original and Divine, the truth being greatly obscured and distorted. |
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| | The Theosophists by Moncure D. Conway |
| | On the other hand, the Chief Priest of Ceylon, though friendly to the Theosophists, affirmed in my hearing that the last Rahat died a thousand years after Buddha, that no such being can now exist. | | | Certain sympathizers with Theosophy in both Ceylon and India have expressed to me grave doubts of "occultism" and their regret that the movement should be committed to anything beyond an ethical and religious propaganda. | | | Against this I have heard it argued that, ex hypothesi, the powers can only be used by one who has reached the sanctification implied in the title Rahat, and, by all Buddhist orthodoxy, a Rahat cannot use any power for evil ends. |
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| | We are in the habit, especially Theosophists I think, and some others besides, of saying that truth has many aspects: Christianity is one aspect, Buddhism another, Hinduism another, and so on. | | | You know, wherever I go Theosophists ask me, as do other organizations, to speak to them; and Theosophists with whom I have lived for so long have taken up this unfortunate attitude, that I am attacking them, destroying their pet beliefs, which they must protect at all costs, and all the nonsense of it. | | | Most of you here are probably Theosophists, with certain definite ideals and ideas, with certain definite teachings, and you think I hold contrary views and make out that I belong to another camp with other ideals and beliefs. |
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| | Chapter 41 |
| | He asks some suspicious questions of us, and it appears the Theosophists were put off by our apparent resemblance to their traditional rivals, the Temple of Ra -- like, them, we blend science and magic. | | | He regards these other Orders as no more than false religions, and says the Theosophists have little to do with the folk of the "half-world." He is also resolutely secretive. | | | Meanwhile, back in the library, Reston says it was interesting to get so much apparently trustworthy data on the other Orders of wizards, but he can't see a connection to the destruction here at their lodge. |
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| | Theosophical Society & Theosophists: objects, goals and purpose |
| | If you would be a Theosophist, you must not do as those around you do who call on a God of Truth and Love and serve the dark Powers of Might, Greed and Luck. | | | The Society being neither a church nor a sect in any sense, we mean to give the same cordial welcome to communications from one class of religionists as to those from another; insisting only, that courtesy of language shall be used towards opponents. | | | You claim that your religion [Christianity] is the highest and final step toward Divine Wisdom on this earth, and that it has introduced into the arteries of the old and decaying world new blood and life and verities that had remained unknown to the heathen? |
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| | Tingley said that the writers of the Constitution established many principles that were profoundly spiritual. | | | To the degree that the people of any country nourish their national soul with thought of that spiritual and godlike kind, to that degree their country is protected, impregnable, beyond the reach of violation." | | | One writer said that purple represented royalty and the sacred in ancient times, complementing the gold of sunlight or spiritual purity. |
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| | 'The Politics of Divine Wisdom' (Theosophy in Asia): summary |
| | When scientists attacked traditional religious views of Earth as the centre of the universe; and humans as the most important products of divine creation, theosophists tried to restore them in a scheme of non-Darwinist idealist evolution. | | | In 1914 in England and in 1920 in India, Annie Besant got some criticism for excessive moderation regarding the women's movement. | | | Annie Besant changed her views on for instance universal suffrage, after she joined the TS. |
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| | IS THEOSOPHY EVIL? |
| | In a way the Theosophists were an essential ingredient for Krishnamurti's teaching because renouncing the position of "world teacher" and walking away from them was a huge kind of "action-message" in itself. | | | The man in the photograph, just like K walked away from the Theosophists, because he remained true to the spiritual truth that "Truth is a pathless land." | | | In that sense alone he came "from" them. |
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| | The nature and work of United Lodge of Theosophists |
| | The " basis for union " is purposely left undefined in the U.L.T. DECLARATION from the exoteric and personal point of view in order to make more prominent the true and lasting basis for unity among all who call themselves Theosophists. | | | It must also be recognized that Theosophy is for those who want it. | | | Knowledge of the U.L.T. DECLARATION should be spread and made known to every searcher for Truth. |
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| | Robert Crosbie och United Lodge of Theosophists |
| | Isis Unveiled kom ut 1877 och H.P.B:s tidskrift The Theosophist kom ut i Indien från och med oktober 1879. | | | Benämningen ”Universal Lodge of Free and Independent Theosophists” [’Fria och Oberoende Teosofers Universella Loge’] innehåller redan fröet till benämningen ”United Lodge of Theosophists” [’Teosofers Förenade Loge’]. | | | Då och då förekommer intressanta stycken i tidskrifter som The Canadian Theosophist och The Eclectic Theosophist. |
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| | The United Lodge of Theosophists and The Mahatma Letters by Daniel H. Caldwell |
| | Nowhere in the main text or the footnotes do I find where these two extracts from the Master KH are taken from. | | | But Stokes pointed out that four ULT magazines (including "Theosophy" Magazine) subsequently had the practice of quoting from "The Mahatma Letters" but never telling their readers that they were quoting from the book entitled | | | There are a number of strange, misleading and erroneous statements in the above which could be corrected simply by reading the Mahatma Letters for oneself. |
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| | Theosophical Society in America |
| | As Theosophists we undertake a study of the ancient wisdom in all its manifestations; as young Theosophists we are particularly interested in its current embodiment and especially attuned to its experiential and transformative aspects. | | | A short time later the Young Theosophists once again found themselves on stage at the Annual Meeting of their larger community. | | | We are not a separate group, but rather a community within a community, existing to bring together and support a rare and unique group of seekers. |
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| | Llewellyn Encyclopedia: The History of the Golden Dawn |
| | Its aim was to bring the esoteric knowledge of the ancients to the modern world, and to study comparative religions, the laws of nature, and humanity’s spiritual faculties. | | | Instead of dead relatives, the Theosophists sought the advice of enlightened Masters—higher spiritual beings. | | | Theosophy also made an intriguing claim to represent an archaic secret tradition. |
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http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/41
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| | A REPUBLICAN CITIZEN |
| | Confronted, as we all have so often been, with the intolerant bigotry—religious "zeal" they call it—and puerile anathemas of the clerical "followers of the meek and lowly Jesus," no Theosophist is surprised to find the peas from the Herald-shooter rattling against his armour. | | | Not that we shirk the somniferous task under the spur of necessity. | | | It adds to the clatter, but no one is mortally hurt. |
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| | ZetaTalk: Theosophists |
| | Thus their message has not been undermined in the same manner as the message of Jesus, for instance, who spoke plainly to the masses and challenged the establishment directly and repeatedly. | | | Is the Theosophist message true, to be taken literally? | | | This, in its totality, will convey the message intended by the Theosophists, who were telling true history, and relaying the true plans in place for the Earth. |
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| | questions and answers 9 |
| | Around the turn of the 20th century, theosophist friends in South Africa were pressing him to join the Theosophical Society. | | | As a young man in South Africa, contact with theosophy contributed to the growth of his religious sense. | | | Gandhi read different books with different groups of theosophist friends. |
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http://www.gandhiserve.org/information/questions_and_answers/faq9/faq9.html
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| | Alpheus--The Masters and Their Emissaries: From H.P.B. to Guru Ma and Beyond |
| | Not all Theosophists were in agreement with these developments. | | | I know with certainty and knowledge of my own, that I am blending into the consciousness of the one Teacher and that He will completely fill me.” | | | “Shortly after meeting Krishna for the first time, Leadbeater revealed to [Theosophist Ernest] Wood that the boy was to be the vehicle for the Lord Maitreya ‘unless something went wrong’ and that he, Leadbeater, had been directed to help train him for that purpose.” |
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| | Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky |
| | Interestingly, the rigidly hierarchical organization Blavatsky and the theosophists sought to impose on the democratically chaotic world of spiritualism did not prevent the Theosophical Society from interceding on behalf of the indigenous nationalist movement early in India's struggle for independence from British rule. | | | In so doing, she both reinvigorated spiritualism and made it--at least for a few moments--intellectually respectable. | | | Upon moving its headquarters from New York to Adyar in 1879, the Theosophical Society teamed up with a powerful Hindu reformer and anti-British agitator, Swami Sarasvati Dayanand. |
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| | Questions We All Ask by G. de Purucker, 2:1 |
| | Having this vision sublime, we theosophists do not shut our eyes to the misery of others, but devote our lives like the buddhas of Compassion to help all things, first by raising ourselves -- impersonally, not personally -- so that we may help others to see the light divine. | | | I am not speaking of science per se; science is grand, is holy, for it is, as far as we have carried it, ordered knowledge of the Universe; and you would find all theosophists rallying like a massed army against any attack upon honest investigation of nature's secrets. | | | Theosophists will tolerate no attacks of that kind; but scientists, individual men, no matter what their sincerity may be, are a different matter entirely from science itself. |
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| | Robert Crosbie [Eclectic Theosophical History] |
| | There were only HPB's Isis Unveiled, articles in the issues of The Theosophist and The Path, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Occult World written by Mr. | | | THY 23 102 F.P. 412-4 The "Third Section" was said to be restored by the formation of the U.L.T. ULT ITS MISSION and FUTURE, p. | | | "All sincere Theosophists deplore the evils in the Movement and long for their eradication. |
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| | Humbuggery of the Theosophists: A Tract based on a Lecture given by Swami Dayananda Sarasvati] |
| | Hence the certain conclusion from all this is, that their contradictory professions and doings do not deserve to be put any faith in, and the best thing is, therefore, to keep aloof from them. | | | Madame Blavatsky had one clear day to come and have a friendly discussion, but she did not come, and so the Swami delivered his lecture. | | | Noticing the lecture they wrote in their paper, the Theosophist, that the Swami delivered his lecture without having previously informed them of his intentions. |
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| | Journal of San Diego History article |
| | Blavatsky as their sole agent to communicate to the West the "ancient wisdom" underlying all religions. | | | Besant of preaching a "heterogeneous mass of astral absurdities." | | | Tingley and her disciples tried to innoculate their listeners against her preachments. |
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| | Great Theosophists--Apollonius of Tyana (4 of 29) |
| | POLLONIUS OF THE great Theosophist of the first century B.C. was Jesus the Christ. | | | At last they reached the hill where the Wise Men lived. | | | The great Theosophist of the first century A.D. was Apollonius of Tyana. |
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| | Religious Movements in the United States (Miller) |
| | Some Theosophists have given up the idea of active communication with the spiritual entities; others have not. | | | The same charges that Spiritualism endured, especially that of fraudulent claims of messages from the “other side,” afflicted Theosophy as well. | | | After Blavatsky’s death in 1891 the movement began a splintering process that continues to this day. |
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| | Great Theosophists--Gnostic Theosophy (7 of 29) |
| | Tertullian stormed at him, and the other orthodox Church Fathers could not find enough obloquy to express their contempt for this "heretic." His twenty-four volumes of Interpretations of the Gospels (the first commentaries written by a Christian philosopher) were burned and Basilides himself was excommunicated and driven out of his native land. | | | Marcion was a rich ship-owner who lived on the southern slope of the Black Sea before he came to Rome in the middle of the second century. | | | But in the fragmentary remains of his works, found in the Refutations of Hippolytus, one sees that Basilides was a true Theosophist, and that he taught the three fundamental propositions of Theosophy, and the doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma. |
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| | Great Theosophists--Giordano Bruno (23 of 29) |
| | Although he was willing to concede that there were an endless number of individuals, "in the end all are in their nature one, and the knowledge of this unity is the goal of all philosophy." | | | Giordano Bruno, the Theosophist, naturally posited the identity of all souls with the Universal Over-soul. |
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| | Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00045) |
| | As a theosophist, you should know that things are not that simple. | | | Do you believe that includes, for example, a belief in genocide? | | | One and All, To me, the day when any one who calls himself a theosophist can actually accept the point of view of another, without defense or offense in thought, word or deed, then we will have the true spirit of what HPB, in her best intention, flaws and all, was dedicated to accomplishing. |
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| | Theosophical Society. Helena Blavatsky. New Age religions. |
| | Theosophists were, from the Start, against all orthodox forms of religion, especially Christianity which represented their own embryonic roots. | | | Madame Blavatsky was in 'telephathic communication' with these beings and served as a 'fulcrum' for the masters from 1867 until her death in 1891. | | | Strongly influenced by the evolutionary thinking of that era, the Theosophists also believed in the existence of 'masters' who were either 'spirit beings' or fortunate men who were more highly 'evolved' than the common herd. |
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http://www.wandea.org.pl/theosophical-society.htm
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| | AnandGholap.net : THEOSOPHY-ONLINE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS |
| | Site is focused on the study of writings of great Theosophists Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant who helped spiritual development of thousands of people, solved riddle of life and made lives of people around the world happier and better. | | | Theosophy presented in graphical format - Anand Gholap |
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http://www.anandgholap.net
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| | Great Theosophists--The Druzes of Mount Lebanon (16 of 29) |
| | The Mohammedans encouraged intellectual pursuits, allowed freedom of thought and religious liberty, and welcomed all scholars into their midst, irrespective of their religion, color or race. | | | Theosophists feel particularly grateful to one Mohammedan and one Jew whose efforts in the tenth and eleventh centuries resuscitated the Hermetic and Neoplatonic philosophies in Europe and brought the Kabala to the attention of the Western world. |
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http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/druzes.html
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| | Rudolph Steiner - his life and teachings |
| | Steiner claimed to have clairvoyant or occult vision; to be able to directly perceive occult realities, spiritual beings, and the Theosophists' Akashic Record. | | | Indian influence in his ideas was for all intents and purposes nil, unlike the Theosophists, and the Theosophical Sanskrit terminology which appears in his early lectures was soon replaced by Christian European terms, such as spirit, soul, etc. | | | But although obviously influenced by the Theosophical World-view (the concept of seven planes, cosmic cycles and sub-cycles, etc) Steiner's approach and teachings differed markedly from those of the rest of Theosophists. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Anthroposophy/Steiner.htm
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| | Theosophical Society in Boston - Related Links |
| | Bailey published many books that she believed were based on information from the spiritual realm. | | | A unique characteristic of the TSB is that we have regular weekly or monthly groups that study or practice the teachings of several well-known theosophists who were once part of the original Theosophical Society but who later left that organization. | | | The Theosophical Society, however, has fragmented into many independent societies. |
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http://www.tsboston.org/links.html
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| | Powell's Books - Madame Blavatsky by G. Baseden Butt |
| | Few things can be more important to Theosophists than the truth about their first teacher and founder of the Theosophical Society. | | | An attempt is made in this work to summarize and review not only everything of importance that has been said about H.P. Blavatsky, but also the teachings given to the world through her instrumentality. | | | The author hoped this book would become a weapon in the armory of earnest theosophists. |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28760&cgi=product&isbn=0766148327
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| | Reminiscences of Original American Theosophists by R. B. Westbrook, LL.D. |
| | This is the most charitable construction to put upon the strange conduct of many Spiritualists as well as Theosophists. | | | That it is possible to be utterly untrustworthy upon one subject, and yet honorable and true on all others, I know from long observation and experience as a lawyer. | | | Reminiscences of Original American Theosophists by R. Westbrook, LL.D. Published by Blavatsky Study Center. |
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http://blavatskyarchives.com/westbrook.htm
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