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1887.
Simonides
him.
kindred
spirits,
clearly
indicating
that
it
is
the
age
of
revealment,
land
and
age
are
being
translated,
and
their
merits
discussed
us
not
despair,
for
safety of
those of
to
his
Divine
am
the
best.
For
the
religion
The
Truth
wilful
ignorance,
subjects
hopelessly
unknowable.
How
resign
their
preten-
sions
to
which,
according
to
them,
it
even
an
but
mistaken as
the
Soul
and
Intellect.
all the religious,
the
Divine
Wisdom
by
Wisdom
the
religions
of
the
Ages
world,
and
whr;h
the
world
though
the
outward
name
has
been
adopted
by
an
bear that
the
method
employed
by
Theology
in par-
the flowers
of
Soul.
all doctrines, the
the
Soul.
God
is
Spirit,
he
b
historical
Christ,
too
exclu-
sively
taught
by
Theology.
denying the cause
on various
Allegories.
The
great
simplicity
of
the
Divine-human
and
human-Divine
Theosophy
4.6
Deliverance.
Distinction
the
Spheres
of
Existence.
Similarity
to
Esoteric
Budd-
hism.
Books
on
Druid
Theosophy
133
CHAPTER
VI.
Oriental
Theosophy.
Part
II.
Buddhist
Theosophy.
The
pre-historic
Wisdom-Religion
a
Buddhism.
Hierocracy.
A
New
Spiritual
Influx.
Contemporaries
of
the
Buddha
axis
whereon
the
Seven
Principles
turn.
The
Seventh
Principle,
Atma,
or
the
Divine
Spirit.
The
Law
of
the
lower
nature.
Spiritual
Evolution
and
Involution.
The
Planetary
Chain.
(Diagram.)
The
Sleep
of
Worlds.
The
Rounds
of
Mankind's
Evolution.
NOW
is
the
Turning-Point.
Note
on
the
Mahatmas.
The
present
the
fifth
race
of
the
fourth
Round.
The
approaching
New
Dispensation.
Esoteric
Buddhism
affording
a
scientific
explanation
of
all
the
phases
of
Yogis.
The
the
Unknown
God ..
201
Principles of
Tenth
Avatar.
The
Sufis.
Origin
of
their
Theosophic
Orders.
The
Thirty-
two
Orders
of
the
Dervishes
enumerated.
Esoteric
Mo-
Theosophy.
The
doc-
trine
bringing
a
cure
for
all
our
ills.
The
Adonai.
Father,
Mother,
and
Son.
and
the
Theosophist.
The
realm
of
the
Soul
far
greater
than
any
kingdom
on
earth
341
central
or
spiritual
Sun
409
doar to
all Divine
the
Life
of
the
Divine
Fathers
of the
effect
begins
day.
The
sixth
day.
Having
outgrown
the
beast,
spiritual
man.
Cain
Truth 472
systems.
Waves
of
past experience.
a
colossal
sun.
Its
distance
and
velocity.
All
stars
animated
with
analagous
motion.
The
invisible
God.
Reality
of
541
treated
from
B
unbelief,
but
simply
as
those
colossal
systems
which
we
a
whole
all
the
attri-
butes
of
Good
in
;
oiihilo
nihil
fit,
and
deny
the
possibility
of
the
Creator
to destroy
Truth
herself
was,
and
is,
passed
by
unheeded
by
the
multitude.
only
Modern
Science
it.
A bsolute.
it
help
names
is
not
necessary.
Initiates
know
we
allude
to
the
World-Teachers,
who
have
served
of it.
terated
Truth,
it
cannot
be
the
Bible,
nor
the
Vedas,
even
though
in
some
it
degree,
his
feelings
and
passions
are

Good,
One
his thoughts.
?
c
human
be
in
the
Divine
latent.
As
the
House,
God
once
made
all
things
for
man,
but
man
for
Himself.
assail
it
with
ignorant
disputations.
2
1
Hermes
Trismegiste,
traduit
par
Menard.
Paris,
Didier,
or
an
English
translation.
S
A
new
translation,
by
Professor
Wilder,
appears
in
the
first
volume
of
The
Platonist.
Published
by
The
Clarendon
Press.
5
Published
in
Bohn's
Series.
preferred
to
invent
a
be
Being,
having
God-like
state.
He
then
Divine
Perfection,
and
Eternal
liberty.
The
Laws
of
the
Free-
prepare
him
illustrate
Divine Being.
beholds
All, and is
compared
to
an
infinite
stream
wherein
all
beings,
or
conscious
monads
are
embodied
against
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven.
is
a
phy-
sical
and
a
spiritual
death,
and
the
latter
is
as
inevitable
as
the
former.
The
unenlightened
die
first
physically
through
decay
in
her
own
cased
in
Self-
Volition
is
already
sophy
Magic and
mediumship in
within them.
Divine
D
the
during
the
the
world
Our
Divine
Nature,
is
that enfolds
the
unre-
con-
side
intelligences,
be
they
embodied
or
disembodied.
life,
and
whom
resolutely
eschewed
and
if
one
which
we
must
recognize,
set
forth
destruction
unless,
indeed,
of
a
kind
irremediably
noxious,
he must account
Without
Knowledge
no
Salvation,
without
Salvation
no
Knowledge.
Theosophy
has
diversity
yet
unity,
and
not
being
based
on
belief
but
on
individual
Science,
admits
what
all
other
systems
fear—
the
right
vicissitudes
of
life.
the con-
particular
ethnic
God-
it
is
truly
Divine.
pre-historical system of
time, it may
Theosophy was
Divine
Being.
Poets,
and
persons
of
culture
E
Myths,
and
Systems
of
Thought,
and
those
vast
mental
the
profane,
vulgar,
vicious,
and
begins
to
act
statements, but
the
spirit
of
illumination.
However
indispensable
in
the
past,
when
it
was neces-
Hierophants of Hermetic Theo-
to
assume
any
form,
to
stage
thoughts
to conceal
elaborate
systems
merely
brought about
of
and
its
phenomena,
when
through
our
Eternal
state,
striving
principle;
perience.
This
is
not
intended
system.
man
are
by
more
Grolden
the
sensual
world
within,
not
without.
should
gradually
be
lost
to
sight
and
the
teaching
of
the
through
in
the
way
God,
as
and
God.
wished
to
attain
to
initia-
tion
either
to
the
As man is in the
body, so he
remains in the
false, became
savagery,
hierarchic
contempt,
and
allowed
to
be
freely
misguided
by
earth-bound
spirits,
a
Polytheistic
the result.
Physiolatry never
relate
knowingly
or
F
God
wholly
detached
from
Nature,
and
developed
into
human
beings,
with
human.
?
necessary
precaution.
The
profane
were
unworthy
because
in-
capable
of
receiving
Divine
Truth,
which
can
only
be
only
Revelations
to
those
for
the
man.
The
science
of
Hermetic
system
has
been
dead
for
nigh
two
millen-
account
of
its
Hermetic
Symbolism was
interwoven in
thorough
and
esoteric
study.
is the
Divine Principle.
addressed
who
among
the
gods
fills
the
forth
delicious
produce.
Heaven
and
the
he
is
the
ray of
p.
105,
may
be
consulted
as
a
specimen
of
Eg}
ptian
phraseology.
is
not
exclusively
Egyptian,
but
is
a
most
valuable
Treatise
on
Spiritual
Science
in
general.
thing
and
penetrates
every
solid
thing.
the
essence
idle,
G
there
seen
in
thought,
God
in
creation.
This
the
age.
opposed
to
the
new
myth,
being attained
special
designations
of
a
philosophy
and
its
profes-
sors,
arose
from
the
language
of
Christianity,
and
was
intended
to
distinguish
the
Gnostic
teaching
as
the
rival
and
assumed
superior
of
the
Christian
Church.
(Summarised
from
the
Introduction
to
The
Gnostic
Heresies
of
the
First
and
Second
Centuries,
by
M
ANSEL.)
The
Neo-Hermetic
Christ-ideal
formed
a
base
of
unity
for
Theosophic
ideas,
but
the
truth
was
not
by
all
accepted.
There
were
those
who
knew,
and
those
who
pretended
to
know,
and
it
is
difficult
to
discern
the
real
from
the
counterfeit.
There
were
so
many
schools
the
metaphysical.
The
similarity
between
the
ancient
Egyptian
and
subsequent
Christian
Theosophic
symbolism,
is
unde-
a
continuation
of
the
esoteric
Egyptian
Theosophy
under
another
name.
It
was
as
if
the
spirit
of
Hermes
Trismegistus
inspired
the
votaries
of
the
new
religion
to
keep
to
the
more.
Longfellow.
pre-historic
Buddhism,
which
only
left
architectural
appear on earth ?
unconscious
of
its
very
existence.
Theosophies
is
the
centre
from
which
all
Divine
Revelations
and
Manifestations
emanate,
and
they
are
but
Eevelations
human
authors.
regard
to
the
Thora.
supplement
to
the
Nyaya,
carrying
many
Gods
Bibliotheca
Indica.
H
being
the
text
of
Patanjali,
with
Bhojarah's
commentary,
with
Introduction
by
Colonel
Olcott,
published
by
the
Bombay
Branch
of
the
Theoso-
phical
Society.
his mother.
to
abstain
in
the
with
the
body,
which,
as
the spark
from the smoke it produces, although these things are regarded
as
forming
part
as
With
a
heart
beings
in
to face
his
riches.
This
of
goodness.
The
motion
of
a
heart
the
best
of
Spirits,
and
the
same
great-
ness,
to
be
in
My
most
varied
substances,
when
he
who
offers
it
to
Me
despises
living
beings.
substance.
same
Eig-Yeda,
Brahmins,
but
is,
equally
with
the
Dowson's
Dictionary.
of
the
man
and
the
worker—
not
the
idler,
the
Brahmin,
or
the
monk—
a
morality
not
of
abstention
and
itself:
of the Self-existent.
Nothing is.
These
are
four
Persian
words,
Hamesteni,
Eamesteni,
Shame-
steni,
Famesteni,
all
signifying
Good.
purity.
Hence
the
multitude
and
minuteness
of
precepts
con-
cerning
bodily
cleanliness.
In
fact,
the
whole
liturgic
worship
turns
greatly
on
this
point. —
(Cf.
J.
F.
Clarke,
Ten
Great
Religions. )
The
Theosophist,
as
a
true
eclectic,
hails
with
satis-
faction
the
translations
of
the
Zend
and
Pahlavi
Scrip-
tures
of
this
most
interesting
system
of
Theosophy,
which
well
rewards
the
earnest
student
for
the
re-
searches
he
may
undertake
therein.
a
acquaint-
and
almost
a
logical
necessity,
says
gods
more spiritual,
the
established
religion
of
the
Brahmans,
a
behind
them,
or
what
forces
impelled

in
plant
Asckqrias
Acida,
called
Soma
in
the
Zend.
I
fight.
There
could
be
the
death
of
Angra
Mainyu,
when
and
his
teach-
thousand
Guru-
Asters.
There
of
the
Chaldean
interest-
ing
than
the
contrary.
He
then
nega-
After
devoting
frequent
allusion
to
of
the
Alphabet,
Hebrew
captivity,
were
imprinted
the
work
with
the
true
seal
of
antiquity.
The
original
is
written
in
Zend,
a
language
which
?
home. In
the Rab-
the
epithet
of
being
of
the
Zmd,
the latter
of
the
Kabalistic
theory
are
found
in
affirm
results
emanation from
be
achieved
in
another
fate
to
return.
of
the
man,
Frederic
Von
Schlegel.
same
in
principle.
of the Trinity
markably
life, and dictated
Bombay
and
London.
1872.
to
be
the
type
of
that
adept
is
of
it
in
whispers.
human body,
No
religion
has
profounder
or
deeper
spiritual
truths
than
the
Parsi.
Ahul
Pharaj,
in
the
Book
of
Dynasties
(p.
54),
states
that
Zarathusht
taught
the
Persians
the
manifestation
of
Wisdom
(the
Lord's
K
figure of
six-pointed
initiation, viz.,
the
seventh
this
the
real
meaning
of
the
descent
of
happy one.
that
the
literary
remains.
We
are
amid
the
Among
the
most
remarkable
are
the
Islands
of
Orkney,
and
is
still
lasting
on,
themselves
with
transmitting
Reli-
acci-
dent
in
the
com-
mandments,
and
commit
their
knowledge
to
writing.
and
in
these
will
all
things
end.
the
loss
of
God;
There
once.
Priests
of
Oriental
Colonies.
the
Absolute,
to
every
Living
Soul.
Christian
Era
a
great
influx
occurred
which
inaugurated
a
new
Spiritual
Dispensation.
Good
Law,
Chapter
V.
admiration of the
Mr. Edwin Arnold.
is
spiritually
the
a
true
con-
ception
of
*
unless again
a
Just
and
All-Merciful
Providence.
of
Christ.
H.
H.
Wilson's
translation.
Triangle
of
Pythagoras.
The
unmanifested
Monad
emerges
from
man
becomes
the
All.
M.
C.
Gotama
Buddha.
imperfection;
but
the
Buddhists
make
the
Spiritual
which,
although
it.
our
Buddha
has
attained
interesting subject.
to which
Buddhism
p.
120,
for
various
defini-
tions
of
the
word
Nirvana.
casket
which
contains
the
seventh,
the
Jewel
of
Great
Price,
the
UNIVERSE.
Sanscrit.
Prahriti.
Punish.
Maya
or
Akasa.
Vach.
Yajna.
Narayana.
Swayambhu.
Dia ram.
form of
universe
; its

(viz.,
heavenly
hue,
the
Wisdom
Nirvana.
by
them
to
have
sensa-
tions,
in
Centre
centre
of
emotion
and
feeling
with
and
never
though
gene-
he
wills,
and
his
every
effort
during
years
ago
at
paper on
which I
had pre-
Alma—
Virgin
—The
thought
conceived
in,
and
proceeding
in
the
accom-
panying
coloured
plate.
The
Mercy-seat
which
Moses
was
labour.
M.
C.
M
second,
The
first
three
Spiritual Soul.
in Scrip-
marriage
of
the
King's
Son.
Concerning
the
immediate
Spiritual
State
which
they
culti-
through
the
ages,
this
indi-
vidable
duality,
this
changes
ever
afterwards,
when
but
yesterday
and
to-morrow
both
are.
(Sartor
Hesartus.)
of hours, and those
marked
by
it may
God.
Love, instead
and
in
allusion
to
them,
the
dark
and
winding
caverns,
the
the representative of
Each
7.
is
no
real
separation
from
the
Divine
same
appearance,
Psalm
cxviii.
22.
Will and understanding, the
were
com-
manded
to
strive
As we
have seen,
the
of
humanity.
always
there,
but
the
scholars
are
ever
moving
along
them,
onwards
and
upwards
towards
the
highest,
and
none
begin
at
the
top
class;
but
some
may
remain
longer
at
school
than
others,
nay,
indeed,
N
is
the
earth,
their
birthplace
and
play-ground.
the animal level,
tion
the upward
Univeesology,
by
Stephen
Pearl
Andrews.)
Ape.
temporary
nature
and
should
die
out,
the
intermediate
development.
He
will
untutored
in
the
discernment
of
pp.
87
round
is,
gradation.'
each individual
very
unlike
a
region
has worked
seen
that
Kingdom
1
is
still
evolving
all
along
the
chain.
When
the
evolution
of
the
Animal
Kingdom
on
E,
and
and he
only
attained
after
prolonged
and
weary
probation,
and
anxious
ordeals
of
terrible
severity.
The
great
found
in
Tibet.
M.
0.
existence.
In
it
the
most
ancient
doctrine
of
Transmigration,
com-
bined
with
the
most
modern
Theory
of
Evolution
is
shown
to
account
for
all
the
physical,
mental,
and
are carried
(which
and
Sankhya
philosophy
has
induced
Western
Theosophists
to
enter
into
a
discussion
with
the
adherents
of
Esoteric
Bud-
dhism,
and
this
controversy
is
not
yet
fully
concluded.
It
will,
therefore,
be
interesting
to
inquire
further
into
a
philosophy
whose
great
antiquity
and
continued
persistence
show
it
to
be
a
natural
growth
of
the
force.
itself.
power
(mahat)
principle
of
materiality.
O
in
a
of
chaos,
directions
from
Khaggavisana
Sutta,
v.
20,
Sir
Coomara
Swami's
version.
and
good
fortune
of
man
are
not
determined
in
every
Theosophist.
Heaven.
Heaven's
Law
is
from
Tao.
And
Tao
is
its
own
Law.
&c.
Confucius
may
subsequently
have
attained
to
the
True
Tao,
as
his
works
contain
Esoteric
doctrines
taught
only
by
advanced
Initiates.
The
following
externally
to
render
its
meaning
more
apparent.
?'

Exoterism
that,
by
ages
of
mental
and
spiritual
stagnation,
have
encrusted
Divine
Truth
with
human
errors.
tradition
of
Monotheism
and
Soul-Worship
in
greater
purity
the
ancient
Persians
to
revolt
from
Hinduism,
making
Devils
of
the
Hindu
gods,
and
gods
Paganism
no
doubt
this
Sun,
the
Sun
of
more
commonly
known
and
mankind
would
by
this
time
have
attained
to
a
far
higher
grade
of
culture.
For
instance,
recent
discoveries
have
induced
the
lighted
torch
given in
P
They
can
reward
the
Orpheus,
Hesiod,
Xenophanes,
fairest light.
acquires
opinions.
I
too
One
leading now,
with telegrams,
Books
oftlie
East.)
Thy
power.
becoming
for
mortals.
For
nothing
is
better
for
gods
or
men
Than
to
praise
the
Supreme
Law
common
to
all.
SYNESIOS.
All-Father
Thou
Father,
Self
-Creator,
Before
and
without
Father,
Thou
art
Thine
own
Son.
One,
anterior
to
Thyself,
Being
of
Beings
All-Centre.
Pre-mental
mind,
Cosmic
Root,
All
radiant
light
and
of
silence.
Guide
the
beseeching
Soul
out
of
matter.
We
read
that
the
Parthenon
standing
on
the
summit
ever
Acropolis,
and
at
sea.
and
spear
{i.e.,
the
bright-
perfect man.
pressure
perpetually
laid
upon
them
by
of the state.
salvation
to
those
who,
until
then,
were
perishing
in
the
nights
and
oceans
of
spirit-darkness.
upon the human
beyond
the
clouds
of
popular
refined
sensibilities,
development
of
Mind ;
it
was
than
the
Cynics
told
them
that
enjoyment
was
unworthy
of
the
most
learned
ignorance.
For
Knowledge.
the
Pythagorean
system,
will
assuredly
greatly
benefit
the
human
race,
and
his
name
will
endure
through-
out
the
ages.
(Cleobolus.)
Q
adhered
prepare
the
good
men
among
heathen
and Eternal
earlier
period
become
personal
deities,
deity also,
laid,
was
only
speculation,
re-binding,
power)
is
a
Eoman
word.
express
it,
to
whom
a
perusal
had
one
g'round,
who
say
the
all nature,
called an outward
of
an
inward
spiritual
cere-
mony,
to
outward
profit
by
the
disastrous
experience
of
her
Heathen
predecessor,
and
repeat itself.
it Salvation
cannot be.
and
impartially,
much
less
to
com-
prehend
their
Divine
meaning.
Of
the
inner
life
of
the
Jews
comparatively
little
is
are,
the
orthodox
Jews.
The
most
ancient,
and
also
most
munication
of
more
such
subjects,
are
Hermetic
'second
law')
was,
according
to
Jewish
tradition,
delivered
to
Moses
on
Mount
Sinai.
'Rabbi
is
written
is said
Sura,
is
the
of
Babylon
until
Exod.
xxiv.
12.
once
of
Macrocosm
appear
against
him
when
we
are
able
to
infest.
R
that
the
they
would
not
p.
44.)
allegorically
represented
as
Eden.
Divine
passed unto
There are
Jews,
therefore,
would
claim
that
a
tribe
true man, and
is
and learned
We
learn
from
Philo
that
the
members
of
the
the
light
of
a
slight
left
behind
them
many
the
Hebrew
ink,
but
with
the
spirit
thee,
in
thy
mouth,
and
in
thy
heart,
that
thou
mayest
do
it.
shall
find
Eusebius.
injdie_fourth
century,
dictinctly
givin
g.
the
opinion
that
the
Christian
Gospels
and
Epistles
Chasidim
(Assidaioi
pious
men),
as
Nazirim,
and
as
Chaberim
(Friends).
The
Arabic
its
principal
the Bible
of them
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