The religious beliefs of those in power shape their decision-making
process, making it important to understand their motivations.
Their
religious motivations play a significant role in their engagement in
the real war they are waging on the minds of populations. The Globalist
ideology revolves around luciferian ideals, as seen in their association
with the writings of Theosophical Society founder Helena Blavatsky.
It’s irrelevant if we think it’s fanciful; what’s relevant is that they believe it.
When
any elitist group mentions terms such as “light bearer” or lucifer,
they are indeed referring to satan. It’s not just a matter of archetypal
discussion, this is a part of their religion. If you want to know why
the Globalists are engaged in a very real war on the minds of the
masses, you cannot overlook their religious motivations. What seems like
a fantasy to some is very real to the Globalists.
For example,
many know that the United Nations building in New York has an occult
library. But few people know that it was built by a group called the
Lucifer Publishing Company, later changed to Lucis Trust. Lucis Trust
cites the writings of Helena Blavatsky
constantly as the inspiration for their organisation. The UN continues
to associate with Lucis Trust to this day. The very heart of globalism
revolves around luciferian ideals.
It
doesn’t matter what you or I think about these things. It doesn’t
matter if you see such concepts as metaphorical, symbolic or imaginary.
They believe, and so we must explore what these beliefs mean.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there was a surge of open occultism among the wealthy elite known as Theosophy.
Led by Blavatsky, this movement was obsessed with esoteric beliefs,
gnosticism, and even satanism. Blavatsky claimed to have a psychic
connection to beings called “the Mahatmas” or “the masters” who helped
her write foundational books of Theosophy.
This occultism
targeted the upper classes and resulted in political and financial
leaders joining secretive organisations. Such groups have existed in the
past, from the Rosicrucians and Freemasons to the alchemists of the
Middle Ages who hid their occult beliefs in coded texts. However, never
before had they been so public in their efforts....<<<Read More>>>...
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Friday, 18 May 2018
The Two Paths
We often use such phrases as “the spiritual path” or “the path of spiritual progress.” Sometimes we say that we are “treading” or “following” the path. But did you know that there are actually TWO PATHS?
They are both spiritual in their essence yet, as paradoxical as it may sound, one of these paths is in fact a form of spiritualised selfishness. This is an imperfect term to use but seems to be the most descriptive and applicable.
“How can a spiritual path be a form of selfishness?” you may ask.
It all depends on the aim, goal, and motive of the spiritual aspirant.
Some seek eternal divine bliss and complete liberation and emancipation from this world of suffering and its seemingly endless wheel of birth, death, and rebirth. Their aim is to become totally and literally remerged and reabsorbed in that infinite Source from which they came. Quite understandably, they wish to escape forever from conditioned and material existence. Some of them are actively striving and diligently working towards this great goal, whilst others merely keep it in mind and hope to somehow reach it someday.
Almost the whole of the Hindu religion is focussed in this direction, as is the system of Theravada Buddhism.
This path is called the Path of Liberation. It leads to Nirvana, to Moksha, to Mukti, to Brahman. It lifts one out of Samsara – the sea of suffering, the ocean of conditioned existence – and into Nirvana, the infinite ocean of unconditioned non-existence, which is Absolute Existence itself, “the vanishing point of differentiated matter.” One rebecomes the Divine Allness.
But then there is the other path, a path which seems unappealing and uninviting to the majority. The few who tread this path do so because they have come to realise the selfishness of the other....read more>>>...
Thursday, 17 May 2018
When We Die
“The breath leaves the body and we say the man is dead, but that is only the beginning of death; it proceeds on other planes. When the frame is cold and eyes closed, all the forces of the body and mind rush through the brain, and by a series of pictures the whole life just ended is imprinted indelibly on the inner man not only in a general outline but down to the smallest detail of even the most minute and fleeting impression. At this moment, though every indication leads the physician to pronounce for death and though to all intents and purposes the person is dead to this life, the real man is busy in the brain, and not until his work there is ended is the person gone. When this solemn work is over the astral body detaches itself from the physical, and, life energy having departed, the remaining five principles are in the plane of kama loka.”....read more>>>....
Sunday, 29 August 2010
The Lost Lands of Mu and Lemuria: Was Australia Once Part of a Sunken Continent?
Lemuria and Mu are interchangeable names given to a lost land believed to have been located somewhere in either the southern Pacific or Indian Oceans. This ancient continent was apparently the home of an advanced and highly spiritual culture, perhaps the mother race of all mankind, but it sank beneath the waves many thousands of years ago as the result of a geological cataclysm of some kind.The thousands of rocky islands scattered throughout the Pacific, including Easter Island, Tahiti, Hawaii and Samoa, have been claimed by some to be the only surviving remains of this once great continent. The theory of a lost continent in this area has been put forward by many different people, most notably in the mid 19th century by scientists in order to explain the unusual distribution of various animals and plants around the Indian and Pacific Oceans.In the late 19th century occultist Madame Blavatsky reincarnated the idea of Lemuria as a lost continent / spiritual homeland and influenced a host of subsequent occultists and mystics including well known American psychic healer and Prophet Edgar Cayce. The popularisation of Lemuria / Mu as a purely physical place began in the 20th century with ex-British army officer Colonel James Churchward, and the idea still has many adherents today.
But is there any physical evidence to back up these claims of an ancient continent beneath the Pacific or Indian Ocean? Or should these ‘lost homeland’ stories be interpreted in another way entirely, perhaps as the symbol of a mythical vanished ‘Golden Age’ of man?... read more...
Friday, 21 May 2010
The Legend Of Shamballa
The inhabitants of Shamballa are supposed to have developed an advanced science and technology, which they put to the service of spiritual ends. Tibetan medical texts believed to have come from the kingdom describe human anatomy and physiology, sophisticated theories and methods of diagnosis, and ways to prevent and cure serious diseases. The study of these sciences helps the inhabitants of Shamballa to master the highest science of all, the science of mind or meditation. Through its practise they develop a direct awareness and control of their minds and bodies; these abilities enable them to cure themselves of various ailments. As a side effect, they also acquire extraordinary powers, such as the ability to read others thoughts, foresee the future, and walk at very high speeds. If attacked by an aggressor, they simple either materialise exact copies of his weapons and turn them against him, or they make themselves invisible. Lamas believe that Shamballa has existed since the beginning of the world but little is known about its early history.
Shamballa came to the attention of a larger western audience through the beliefs of the Theosophists. During the second half of the nineteenth century, a Russian named Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society, a widespread mystical movement that provided the west with its first significant exposure to eastern religions, particularly Buddhism. She claimed to be receiving secret teachings through telepathic and written messages from spiritual masters living somewhere behind the Himalayas. A number of her followers believed that the highest of these masters, “The Lord of The World” resided in Shamballa, an invisible oasis hidden in the Gobi Desert. According to their belief, Shamballa was the spiritual centre of the world and the original source of the secret doctrines of Theosophy.
Some lamas have suggested another way in which Shamballa could exist from a modern, scientific point of view, as a civilisation on another planet. On the basis of chance alone, it seems certain that somewhere in the universe there must beintelligent life that has developed a science and technology more advanced than ours. If Shamballa were such a civilisation, it might even exist in the form described by the texts, and its inhabitants could actually possess the power and riches attributed to them. In that case, theshape of the kingdom, round like a globe, might represent the planet on which they live. On the other hand, Shamballa mightbe an outpost that these aliens have established on earth and concealed through their advanced science and technology...READ MORE...
Shamballa came to the attention of a larger western audience through the beliefs of the Theosophists. During the second half of the nineteenth century, a Russian named Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society, a widespread mystical movement that provided the west with its first significant exposure to eastern religions, particularly Buddhism. She claimed to be receiving secret teachings through telepathic and written messages from spiritual masters living somewhere behind the Himalayas. A number of her followers believed that the highest of these masters, “The Lord of The World” resided in Shamballa, an invisible oasis hidden in the Gobi Desert. According to their belief, Shamballa was the spiritual centre of the world and the original source of the secret doctrines of Theosophy.
Some lamas have suggested another way in which Shamballa could exist from a modern, scientific point of view, as a civilisation on another planet. On the basis of chance alone, it seems certain that somewhere in the universe there must beintelligent life that has developed a science and technology more advanced than ours. If Shamballa were such a civilisation, it might even exist in the form described by the texts, and its inhabitants could actually possess the power and riches attributed to them. In that case, theshape of the kingdom, round like a globe, might represent the planet on which they live. On the other hand, Shamballa mightbe an outpost that these aliens have established on earth and concealed through their advanced science and technology...READ MORE...
Thursday, 9 July 2009
A Word on 'Kundalini'
Kundalini, the serpent power or mystic fire; it is called the serpentine or annular power on account of its spiral-like working or progress in the body of the ascetic developing the power in himself. It is an electric fiery occult, or fohatic power, the great pristine force which underlies all organic and inorganic matter."- H. P. Blavatsky.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
The Parent Space
The “Parent Space” is the eternal, ever present cause of all — the incomprehensible deity, whose “invisible robes” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe. Space is the one eternal thing that we can most easily imagine, immovable in its abstraction and uninfluenced by either the presence or absence in it of an objective Universe. It is without dimension, in every sense, and self-existent. Spirit is the first differentiation from That, the causeless cause of both Spirit and Matter. It is, as taught in the esoteric catechism, neither limitless void, nor conditioned fulness, but both. It was and ever will be ... Extract taken from 'The Secret Doctrine by H.Blavatsky
Friday, 22 May 2009
"The Stanzas of Dzyan"
Strange noises are heard proceeding from every point. . . . These are the precursors of the Night of Brahma; dusk rises at the horizon, and the Sun passes away behind the thirteenth degree of Makara (sign of the Zodiac). . . . Gradually light pales, heat diminishes, uninhabited spots multiply on the earth, the air becomes more and more rarefied; the springs of waters dry up, the great rivers see their waves exhausted, the ocean shows its sandy bottom and plants die. Men and animals decrease in size daily. Life and motion lose their force, planets can hardly gravitate in space; they are extinguished one by one, like a lamp which the hand of the chokra (servant) neglects to replenish. Surya (the Sun) flickers and goes out, matter falls into dissolution (pralaya), and Brahma merges back into Dyaus, the Unrevealed God, and, his task being accomplished, he falls asleep. Another day is passed, night sets in and continues until the future dawn.
Extract Taken from "Isis Unveiled" by H.P.Blavatsky
Extract Taken from "Isis Unveiled" by H.P.Blavatsky
Monday, 27 April 2009
A Word on 'Kundalini'
"Kundalini, the serpent power or mystic fire; it is called the serpentine or annular power on account of its spiral-like working or progress in the body of the ascetic developing the power in himself. It is an electric fiery occult, or fohatic power, the great pristine force which underlies all organic and inorganic matter."- H. P. Blavatsky."Kundalini is the static form of the creative energy in bodies which are the source of all energies including Prana...
"This word comes from the adjective Kundalina, or "coiled." She is spoken of as "coiled" because she is sleeping, lies coiled; and because the nature of her power is spiraline...
"In other words, this Kundalini shakti is that which, when it moves to manifest itself, appears as the Universe. To say that it is "coiled" is to say that it is at rest - that is, in the form of static potential energy...
Taken from Treatise On Cosmic Fire by Alice Bailey
Friday, 13 March 2009
Psychic Protection
Science now confirms what mystics and sages have known for eons which is that everything is energy. We are all energy born into an energy system eg: the planet and all contained upon it. This energy, also known as an aura, permeates and extends slightly beyond the physical object or person. Looking at ourselves from this perspective, Psychic protection means to protect our own energy or aura. Much in the same way our immune system protects us from viruses, bacteria and other harmful things when we psychically protect ourselves we are in fact containing and re-enforcing our own energy field against negative energy.
Psychic protection has historically always been considered a necessity for anyone using psychic energy such as psychics, healers, mediums etc. However, in this day and age, it is a basic essential for everyone’s health and wellbeing.
Every day we are all bombarded with psychic information (psyonic energy). The thoughts and feelings of other individuals, energies dispersed from dying animals & plants and the pollution of the Universal unconscious mind by negative and violent thoughts all contribute to the noise we have to filter out. Add to that specific psychic attack such as someone directing their anger at you or ‘mentally undressing’ you, then you start to see the need for decent protection in your normal life, let alone when you venture into other parts of your mind or the spiritual realms.
Protection is one of the basic principles in the physical world. We wear clothing to protect us from the weather, hats to protect us from the sun and shoes to protect our feet from the ground. However most people go about their day totally without ‘energetically’ protecting themselves. I remember the aura of someone walking in my door once being particularly disturbing and on questioning found she had just been working at the state prison. Psychic protection is important for everyone, even more so for people working in health and caring roles, with psychological tools and in spiritual realms and even in shopping centres!
When we are born, we are automatically protected until we show that we can survive and are capable. However this protection can be lost at any age, and for any reason. Once the innate protection is lost the adept must re-learn the art..
Madame Blavatsky, the founder of the Theophist movement talks about the neccessity:‘There is a veil between the world we know and the world of the spirit. When we are born, that veil is intact, and the psychic entities of the other side don’t see us and can’t find us. When that veil is pierced, for whatever reason, then the light from this world shines through and attracts all the beings, good and evil, to investigate the source of that light, and to try to manifest on this plane.’
Protection, however, isn’t that difficult to do, once you understand and integrate the concept.
Our aura is the lens through which we all perceive and experience life and our every thought, word and action from all time is contained within it. Also the sheer act of going about our every day living means we literally absorb all matter of energies, good, bad or indifferent. Some energies are significant, intense and profound and many are not, but it all accumulates and in fact is a part of how the natural law of ‘karma’ by which we learn and grow works.
When we ‘protect’ ourselves or a space we essentially re-enforce the containment of all energies present within our field or that space, and yet we may not really want to be carrying around the energy of the horrid disagreement we had yesterday with our co-worker or aunt Mary last week. Hence the need for ‘clearing’ prior to protection.
In this context clearing is the cleansing of our aura of whatever energies we choose which can range from a daily ‘dust off of unharmonious energies’ right through to the ‘clearing of karma’ back to the akashic records.
Remember we are dealing with energy where intent and thoughts are things and we can create our realities with them. Adding ritual and visualization gives even more focus and hence energy and power to whatever we are doing. So see which of the following suits you and do it regularly in the same way at the same time every day. It is often best done in the morning before we venture into the day. (READ MORE ... ... )
Psychic protection has historically always been considered a necessity for anyone using psychic energy such as psychics, healers, mediums etc. However, in this day and age, it is a basic essential for everyone’s health and wellbeing.Every day we are all bombarded with psychic information (psyonic energy). The thoughts and feelings of other individuals, energies dispersed from dying animals & plants and the pollution of the Universal unconscious mind by negative and violent thoughts all contribute to the noise we have to filter out. Add to that specific psychic attack such as someone directing their anger at you or ‘mentally undressing’ you, then you start to see the need for decent protection in your normal life, let alone when you venture into other parts of your mind or the spiritual realms.
Protection is one of the basic principles in the physical world. We wear clothing to protect us from the weather, hats to protect us from the sun and shoes to protect our feet from the ground. However most people go about their day totally without ‘energetically’ protecting themselves. I remember the aura of someone walking in my door once being particularly disturbing and on questioning found she had just been working at the state prison. Psychic protection is important for everyone, even more so for people working in health and caring roles, with psychological tools and in spiritual realms and even in shopping centres!
When we are born, we are automatically protected until we show that we can survive and are capable. However this protection can be lost at any age, and for any reason. Once the innate protection is lost the adept must re-learn the art..
Madame Blavatsky, the founder of the Theophist movement talks about the neccessity:‘There is a veil between the world we know and the world of the spirit. When we are born, that veil is intact, and the psychic entities of the other side don’t see us and can’t find us. When that veil is pierced, for whatever reason, then the light from this world shines through and attracts all the beings, good and evil, to investigate the source of that light, and to try to manifest on this plane.’
Protection, however, isn’t that difficult to do, once you understand and integrate the concept.
Our aura is the lens through which we all perceive and experience life and our every thought, word and action from all time is contained within it. Also the sheer act of going about our every day living means we literally absorb all matter of energies, good, bad or indifferent. Some energies are significant, intense and profound and many are not, but it all accumulates and in fact is a part of how the natural law of ‘karma’ by which we learn and grow works.
When we ‘protect’ ourselves or a space we essentially re-enforce the containment of all energies present within our field or that space, and yet we may not really want to be carrying around the energy of the horrid disagreement we had yesterday with our co-worker or aunt Mary last week. Hence the need for ‘clearing’ prior to protection.
In this context clearing is the cleansing of our aura of whatever energies we choose which can range from a daily ‘dust off of unharmonious energies’ right through to the ‘clearing of karma’ back to the akashic records.
Remember we are dealing with energy where intent and thoughts are things and we can create our realities with them. Adding ritual and visualization gives even more focus and hence energy and power to whatever we are doing. So see which of the following suits you and do it regularly in the same way at the same time every day. It is often best done in the morning before we venture into the day. (READ MORE ... ... )
Monday, 16 February 2009
Theosophy for today ...
Man is a little world -- a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a foetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause -- the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature -- the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that "The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe"; the three constituting the Intelligible Triad. Everything in this visible universe is the outflow of this Triad, and a microcosmic triad itself. (Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 )
Friday, 6 February 2009
The Power of Suggestion
The power of suggestion means many different things to many minds. It is coupled with the idea of hypnosis, where the operator is able to make the subject think, say, do, or imagine anything he chooses. That is possible through the abnormal condition of the subject. The means and methods of inducing this abnormal condition are not generally known, although some practitioners have hit upon various ways of bringing on hypnosis in some subjects.
But what is to be discussed is the fact of suggestion itself, generally considered, and as it affects all men. People are not aware that they act almost entirely under suggestion. From our birth we are surrounded by those who suggest certain ideas to us as being true, and we follow these suggested ideas. There is very little original thought anywhere, and particularly is this true in those lines to which the public pays the most attention -- that is, politics, religion, science. Whatever system of thought is presented to us, that we adopt. We follow the suggestion given, with no attempt to reach to the basis of that which is suggested. The foundation upon which the suggestion rests is taken for granted, even in the most important things in life.
Our religion, for example, is stated to be a "revelation." We accepted it in childhood, accepted it as a fact, without looking into it to see what it is and on what it is founded. Our powers of thought and action being based upon a false suggestion does not inhibit their exercise, but as a result all our possibilities of thought and action, all our mental creations, the whole superstructure of our existence, are false, because, thinking from false premises, our thinking will inevitably lead to false conclusions.
This is just as truly the fact as in the case of the hypnotized subject. He is thrown into an abnormal condition; he has nothing before his mind; the operator presents a given idea and with it the suggestion of a certain mode of action. Immediately the subject adopts the suggestion, goes to work on it, and will continue working along the suggested line cumulatively until the suggestion is changed.
Those who are born into any particular sect ought to know this. With our first sense of understanding, ideas are presented to us, instilled into our minds as absolute facts. We proceed from that basis, and however long it is followed, no true understanding or conclusion can be reached. What do we know of the truth or falsity of these ideas when presented to us in childhood? Nothing whatever. What do our parents and teachers know of them? Nothing whatever. They have merely passed on to us the suggestions which they received in childhood and which have operated in them cumulatively ever since.
We must learn not to accept statements, no matter by whom made, simply because they are made to us. We must get at the basis of whatever is presented, know what its principles are -- whether those principles are self-evident. If they are not self-evident, how can they be basic? (Blavatsky)
But what is to be discussed is the fact of suggestion itself, generally considered, and as it affects all men. People are not aware that they act almost entirely under suggestion. From our birth we are surrounded by those who suggest certain ideas to us as being true, and we follow these suggested ideas. There is very little original thought anywhere, and particularly is this true in those lines to which the public pays the most attention -- that is, politics, religion, science. Whatever system of thought is presented to us, that we adopt. We follow the suggestion given, with no attempt to reach to the basis of that which is suggested. The foundation upon which the suggestion rests is taken for granted, even in the most important things in life.Our religion, for example, is stated to be a "revelation." We accepted it in childhood, accepted it as a fact, without looking into it to see what it is and on what it is founded. Our powers of thought and action being based upon a false suggestion does not inhibit their exercise, but as a result all our possibilities of thought and action, all our mental creations, the whole superstructure of our existence, are false, because, thinking from false premises, our thinking will inevitably lead to false conclusions.
This is just as truly the fact as in the case of the hypnotized subject. He is thrown into an abnormal condition; he has nothing before his mind; the operator presents a given idea and with it the suggestion of a certain mode of action. Immediately the subject adopts the suggestion, goes to work on it, and will continue working along the suggested line cumulatively until the suggestion is changed.
Those who are born into any particular sect ought to know this. With our first sense of understanding, ideas are presented to us, instilled into our minds as absolute facts. We proceed from that basis, and however long it is followed, no true understanding or conclusion can be reached. What do we know of the truth or falsity of these ideas when presented to us in childhood? Nothing whatever. What do our parents and teachers know of them? Nothing whatever. They have merely passed on to us the suggestions which they received in childhood and which have operated in them cumulatively ever since.
We must learn not to accept statements, no matter by whom made, simply because they are made to us. We must get at the basis of whatever is presented, know what its principles are -- whether those principles are self-evident. If they are not self-evident, how can they be basic? (Blavatsky)
Monday, 15 December 2008
Isis Unveiled
"The Adam Primus, or Kadmon, the Logos of the Jewish mystics, is the same as the Grecian Prometheus, who seeks to rival with the divine wisdom; he is also the Pymander of Hermes, or the POWER OF THE THOUGHT DIVINE, in its most spiritual aspect, for he was less hypostasized by the Egyptians than the two former. These all create men, but fail in their final object. Desiring to endow man with an immortal spirit, in order that by linking the trinity in one, he might gradually return to his primal spiritual state without losing his individuality, Prometheus fails in his attempt to steal the divine fire, and is sentenced to expiate his crime on Mount Kazbeck. Prometheus is also the Logos of the ancient Greeks, as well as Herakles. In the Codex Nazaraeus we see Bahak-Zivo deserting the heaven of his father, confessing that though he is the father of the genii, he is unable to "construct creatures," for he is equally unacquainted with Orcus as with "the consuming fire which is wanting in light." And Fetahil, one of the "powers," sits in the "mud" (matter) and wonders why the living fire is so changed."
Chapter IX
Chapter IX
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Isis Unveiled
"In the shoreless ocean of space radiates the central, spiritual, and Invisible sun. The universe is his body, spirit and soul; and after this ideal model are framed ALL THINGS. These three emanations are the three lives, the three degrees of the gnostic Pleroma, the three "Kabalistic Faces," for the ANCIENT of the ancient, the holy of the aged, the great En-Soph, "has a form and then he has no form." The invisible "assumed a form when he called the universe into existence," *** says the Sohar, the Book of splendor. The first light is His soul, the Infinite, Boundless, and Immortal breath; under the efflux of which the universe heaves its mighty bosom, infusing Intelligent life throughout creation. The second emanation condenses cometary matter and produces forms within the cosmic circle; sets the countless worlds floating in the electric space, and infuses the unintelligent, blind life-principle into every form. The third, produces the whole universe of physical matter; and as it keeps gradually receding from the Central Divine Light its brightness wanes and it becomes DARKNESS and the BAD--pure matter, the "gross purgations of the celestial fire" of the Hermetists"
Chapter IX
Chapter IX
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Isis Unveiled
"How dangerous may often become untrained mediumship, and how thoroughly it was understood and provided against by the ancient sages, is perfectly exemplified in the case of Socrates. The old Grecian philosopher was a "medium"; hence, he had never been initiated into the Mysteries; for such was the rigorous law. But he had his "familiar spirit" as they call it, his daimonium; and this invisible counsellor became the cause of his death. It is generally believed that if he was not initiated into the Mysteries it was because he himself neglected to become so.
But the Secret Records teach us that it was because he could not be admitted to participate in the sacred rites, and precisely, as we state, on account of his mediumship. There was a law against the admission not only of such as were convicted of deliberate witchcraft, but even of those who were known to have "a familiar spirit."
The law was just and logical, because a genuine medium is more or less irresponsible; and the eccentricities of Socrates are thus accounted for in some degree. A medium must be passive; and if a firm believer in his "spirit-guide" he will allow himself to be ruled by the latter, not by the rules of the sanctuary.
A medium of olden times, like the modern "medium" was subject to be entranced at the will and pleasure of the "power" which controlled him; therefore he could not well have been entrusted with the awful secrets of the final initiation, "never to be revealed under the penalty of death." The old sage, in unguarded moments of "spiritual inspiration," revealed that which he had never learned; and was therefore put to death as an atheist." (Chapter X - Modern Phenomena - Ancient & New)
But the Secret Records teach us that it was because he could not be admitted to participate in the sacred rites, and precisely, as we state, on account of his mediumship. There was a law against the admission not only of such as were convicted of deliberate witchcraft, but even of those who were known to have "a familiar spirit."
The law was just and logical, because a genuine medium is more or less irresponsible; and the eccentricities of Socrates are thus accounted for in some degree. A medium must be passive; and if a firm believer in his "spirit-guide" he will allow himself to be ruled by the latter, not by the rules of the sanctuary.
A medium of olden times, like the modern "medium" was subject to be entranced at the will and pleasure of the "power" which controlled him; therefore he could not well have been entrusted with the awful secrets of the final initiation, "never to be revealed under the penalty of death." The old sage, in unguarded moments of "spiritual inspiration," revealed that which he had never learned; and was therefore put to death as an atheist." (Chapter X - Modern Phenomena - Ancient & New)
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Isis Unveiled
"Egypt is the birthplace and the cradle of chemistry. Kenrick shows the root of the word to be chemi or chem, which was the name of the country (Psalms cv. 27). The chemistry of colors seems to have been thoroughly well known in that country. Facts are facts. Where among our painters are we to search for the artist who can decorate our walls with imperishable colors? Ages after our pigmy buildings will have crumbled into dust, and the cities enclosing them will themselves have become shapeless heaps of brick and mortar, with forgotten names--long after that will the halls of Karnak and Luxor (El-Uxor) be still standing; and the gorgeous mural paintings of the latter will doubtless be as bright and vivid 4,000 years hence, as they were 4,000 years ago, and are to-day. "Embalming and fresco-painting," says our author, "was not a chance discovery with the Egyptians, but brought out from definitions and maxims like any induction of Faraday."
Chapter XIV
Chapter XIV
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Isis Unveiled
"To say that all spirits are alike, or fitted to the same atmosphere, or possessed of like powers, or governed by the same attractions--electric, magnetic, odic, astral, it matters not which--is as absurd as though one should say that all planets have the same nature, or that all animals are amphibious, or all men can be nourished on the same food. It accords with reason to suppose that the grossest natures among the spirits will sink to the lowest depths of the spiritual atmosphere--in other words, be found nearest to the earth. Inversely, the purest would be farthest away. In what, were we to coin a word, we should call the Psychomatics of Occultism, it is as unwarrantable to assume that either of these grades of spirits can occupy the place, or subsist in the conditions, of the other, as in hydraulics it would be to expect that two liquids of different densities could exchange their markings on the scale of Beaume's hydrometer."
Chapter X
Chapter X
Monday, 24 November 2008
The Upper Triangle
Contains the Ineffable Name. It is the AUM--to be pronounced only mentally, under penalty of death. The Unrevealed Para-Brahma, the Passive-Principle; the absolute and unconditioned "mukta," which cannot enter into the condition of a Creator, as the latter, in order to think, will, and plan, must be bound and conditioned (baddha); hence, in one sense, be a finite being. "THIS (Para-Brahma) was absorbed in the non-being, imperceptible, without any distinct attribute, non-existent for our senses. He was absorbed in his (to us) eternal (to himself) periodical, sleep," for it was one of the "Nights of Brahma."Therefore he is not the First but the Eternal Cause. He is the Soul of Souls, whom no being can comprehend in this state. But "he who studies the secret Mantras and comprehends the Vach" (the Spirit or hidden voice of the Mantras, the active manifestation of the latent Force) will learn to understand him in his "revealed" aspect.
Source: Isis Unveiled Chapter VI
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Isis Unveiled
No astral soul, even that of a pure, good, and virtuous man, is immortal in the strictest sense; "from elements it was formed--to elements it must return." Only, while the soul of the wicked vanishes, and is absorbed without redemption, that of every other person, even moderately pure, simply changes its ethereal particles for still more ethereal ones; and, while there remains in it a spark of the Divine, the individual man, or rather, his personal ego, cannot die. "After death," says Proclus, "the soul (the spirit) continueth to linger in the aerial body (astral form), till it is entirely purified from all angry and voluptuous passions . . . then doth it put off by a second dying the aerial body as it did the earthly one. Whereupon, the ancients say that there is a celestial body always joined with the soul, and which is immortal, luminous, and star-like."
Isis Unveiled Chapter XII
Isis Unveiled Chapter XII
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Isis Unveiled
What is the WILL? Can "exact science" tell? What is the nature of that intelligent, intangible, and powerful something which reigns supreme over all inert matter? The great Universal Idea willed, and the cosmos sprang into existence. I will, and my limbs obey. I will, and, my thought traversing space, which does not exist for it, envelops the body of another individual who is not a part of myself, penetrates through his pores, and, superseding his own faculties, if they are weaker, forces him to a predetermined action. It acts like the fluid of a galvanic battery on the limbs of a corpse. The mysterious effects of attraction and repulsion are the unconscious agents of that will; fascination, such as we see exercised by some animals, by serpents over birds, for instance, is a conscious action of it, and the result of thought. Sealing-wax, glass, and amber, when rubbed, i.e., when the latent heat which exists in every substance is awakened, attract light bodies; they exercise unconsciously, will; for inorganic as well as organic matter possesses a particle of the divine essence in itself, however infinitesimally small it may be. And how could it be otherwise? Notwithstanding that in the progress of its evolution it may from beginning to end have passed through millions of various forms, it must ever retain its germ-point of that preexistent matter, which is the first manifestation and emanation of the Deity itself. What is then this inexplicable power of attraction but an atomical portion of that essence that scientists and kabalists equally recognize as the "principle of life"--the akasa? Granted that the attraction exercised by such bodies may be blind; but as we ascend higher the scale of the organic beings in nature, we find this principle of life developing attributes and faculties which become more determined and marked with every rung of the endless ladder. Man, the most perfect of organized beings on earth, in whom matter and spirit--i.e., will--are the most developed and powerful, is alone allowed to give a conscious impulse to that principle which emanates from him; and only he can impart to the magnetic fluid opposite and various impulses without limit as to the direction. "He wills," says Du Potet, "and organized matter obeys. It has no poles."
Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1
Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1
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