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able action activity Ancient Wisdom appears astral body astral matter astral plane awaken beauty become begin Besant bring brotherhood causal body cause character Christ Christianity Colonel Olcott consciousness death dense body desire Devachan divine earth earth-life effect effort energy environment Esoteric Christianity etheric double etheric matter evil evolution existence experience faculties feel force gratified greater H. P. Blavatsky happiness heart heaven-world higher humanity incarnation individual Ishvara kind of matter knowledge Law of Karma lesson light limited Logos lower Madame Blavatsky manifestation means mental body mental plane mind nature objects opportunities ourselves pain pass past lives perfect phenomena physical body physical plane pleasure pure purity reach realise recognise religion response result seen sensation sense sometimes soul spiritual stage subtler suffering surroundings Teachers teaching tendency Theosophical Society Theosophy thought truth understand Upanishad utilise various vibrations
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Page 16 - To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. SECOND.— To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. THIRD. — To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
Page 35 - ... and that the differences which exist in the materials thus constituted arise more from the manner of association of the ions in the atom than from differences in the fundamental character of the ions which build up the atoms...
Page 35 - In other words, we are led to suspect that, not only is the atom a complex composed of an association of different ions, but that the atoms of those substances which lie in the same chemical group are perhaps built up from the same kind of ions, or at least from ions which possess the same...
Page 144 - And here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap.
Page 36 - ... in the region of spectrum analysis, are carefully considered, we have, I think, reasonable hope that the time is fast approaching when intimate relations, if not identities, will be seen to exist between forms of matter which have heretofore been considered as quite distinct. Important spectroscopic information pointing in this same direction has been gleaned through a long series of observations by Sir Norman Lockyer on the spectra of the fixed stars, and on the different spectra yielded by...
Page 14 - NX which might gather all the enlightened and brave souls who are willing to work together for the collection and diffusion of knowledge. His plan was to organise a society of Occultists and begin at once to collect a library ; and to diffuse information concerning those secret laws of Nature which were so familiar to the Chaldeans and Egyptians, but are totally unknown by our modern world of science.
Page 171 - Ho ! ye who suffer ! know Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live andjdie, And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss Its spokes of agony, Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.
Page 35 - ... arises more from the manner of association of the ions in the atom than from differences in the fundamental character of the ions which build up the atoms ; or it may be, indeed, that all ions are fundamentally the same, and that differences in the value of...
Page 36 - We have, I think, reasonable hope that the time is fast approaching when intimate relations, if not identities, will be seen to exist between forms of matter which have heretofore been considered as quite distinct. Important spectroscopic information pointing in this same direction has been gleaned through a long series of observations by Sir Norman Lockyer on the spectra of the fixed stars, and on the different spectra yielded by the same substance at different temperatures. These observations lend...
Page 142 - Thy soul has to become as the ripe mango fruit; as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others' woes, as hard as that fruit's stone for thine own throes and sorrows.