Spiritual ProgressTheosophical Publishing House, 1916 - 9 頁 |
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able acquirement Acting action active addition Adept Adeptship advantage ADYAR allow already amount ANFORD appeal applied attained become binding body Bombay Branches Brotherhood burst called cause clairvoyance consider contribute course desire developed difficult direction disappointed dispensed disruption earnestly easy effect enable enclosed establish evil evolution existence expansion faculties fancy fear feel freely fresh future gain gifts grow growth head higher plane hope idea increase INDIA instruction involve journey knowledge leaving LIBRARIES lies lives look mankind means ment Mesmerism methods natural accompani neglected Occult offered ordinary human pain Path perfectly true permanent persons physical possibly powers practically promises protests and warnings psychic published reached recently Reprinted result reward road to spiritual rule saying Sciences seeking shell short Society's Spiritual Progress teach Theosophical Society Theosophists thing thought told travelled Truth trying UNIVERSITY various Wisdom wish
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第 7 頁 - ... it must return, and fly back again. 8. For this only, O Son, is the way to Truth, which our Progenitors travelled in; and by which making their journey, they at length attained to the good. It is a venerable way and plain, but hard and difficult for the soul to go in that is in the body.
第 6 頁 - ... the Society was founded to teach no new and easy paths to the acquisition of " powers " ; and that its only mission is to re-kindle the torch of truth, so long extinguished for all but the very few, and to keep that truth alive by the formation of a fraternal union of mankind, the only soil in which the good seed can grow.
第 2 頁 - DOES the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn till night, my friend.
第 4 頁 - ... entertaining this idea of reward, and allowing it to become an active factor in their lives and so leaving the door open to anxiety, doubt, fear, despondency — failure. The goal of the aspirant for spiritual wisdom is entrance upon a higher plane of existence; he is to become a new man, more perfect in every way than he is at present, and if he succeeds, his capabilities and faculties will receive a corresponding increase of range and power, just as in the visible world we find that each stage...
第 6 頁 - ... a fraternal union of mankind, the only soil in which the good seed can grow. The Theosophical Society does indeed desire to promote the spiritual growth of every individual who comes within its influence, but its methods are those of the ancient Rishis, its tenets those of the oldest Esotericism; it is no dispenser of patent nostrums composed of violent remedies which no honest healer would dare to use.
第 8 頁 - Necessity, Destiny or Fate, bearing rule over all, will he not be much worse than himself, despising the whole, because it was made? And if he may lay the cause of Evil upon Fate or Destiny, he will never abstain from any evil work. 88. Wherefore we must look warily to such kind of people, that being in ignorance they, may be less evil for fear of that which is hidden and kept secret. The End of THE FIRST BOOK OF HERMES . . THE SECOND BOOK, CALLED, POEMANDER...
第 5 頁 - ... certain plainly defined course of training, consisting of minute attention to a set of arbitrary rules, acquires first one power and then another, and when he has attained a certain number of these powers is forthwith dubbed an Adept. Acting on this mistaken idea they fancy that the first thing to be done towards attaining Adeptship is to acquire " powers " — clairvoyance and the power of leaving the physical body and travelling to a distance are among those which fascinate the most. To those...
第 6 頁 - ... are indeed comparatively easy of acquirement by artificial means, but fade out as soon as the nerve-stimulus exhausts itself. The real seership and adeptship which is accompanied by true psychic development (lokothra), once reached, is never lost. It appears that various societies have sprung into existence since the foundation of the Theosophical Society, profiting by the interest the latter has awakened in matters of psychic research, and endeavouring to gain members by promising them easy...
第 8 頁 - Branches we were able to establish a homoeopathic dispensary with the addition of mesmeric healing, such as has already been done with great success in Bombay, we might contribute towards putting the science of medicine in this country on a sounder basis, and be the means of incalculable benefit to the people at large.
第 3 頁 - ... same Away from the neutrality of Self, the "desire-to-be-an-individual" begins to differentiate the primal pair of pleasure & pain to love & hate, attraction & repulsion, and their endless derivatives. In an article entitled "Spiritual Progress...