Author: PlutarchPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Plutarch comforts Apollonius
Author: PlutarchPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Plutarch to Apollonius
Author: PlutarchApollonius of Tyana comforts a bereaved father
Author: Philostratus, Apollonius of TyanaPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Plutarch comparing passions and diseases
Author: PlutarchPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Man is the most unhappy of all creatures. His body has many diseases, and they are readily perceived. But the soul does not readily perceive its own maladies; it even mistakes them for indications of soundness. The man diseased in body willingly yields to the care of the physician. But the unruly passions of the soul resist a cure, and are therefore more fatal.
Plutarch on exercises proper for a scholar
Author: PlutarchPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Synesius concerning Dreams
Author: Synesius of CyrenePublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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“It is an old tradition, I think, and quite in the manner of Plato, to conceal the profound thoughts of philosophy behind the mask of some lighter treatment, that thereby whatsoever has been acquired with difficulty shall not be again lost to men, nor shall such matters be contaminated by lying exposed to the approach of the profane. The end accordingly has been most zealously pursued in the present work, and whether it attains this end, and whether in other respects it is wrought with distinction after the manner of the ancients, let those decide who shall approach it in a spirit of loving labour.” — Augustine Fitzgerald
Tibetan teachings on after-death states
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Two Spirits United in the Elysian Fields
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The propensity to seek defects in natural beauty is not proof of taste, but evidence of its absence. Who can possible know his Self, while living in the mephitic atmosphere of the material world? Sinnett weaves seamlessly lucid metaphysical insights in a prosaic story of everyday life. The real and the illusive aspects of our being are always next to each other, like twin parallel lines, but they never meet unless the animal tendencies created by selfishness are conquered, and the devil of the duad annihilated. Two spirits were finally united in the limited nirvanic state of devachan, from whence no traveller returns.
The Voice of the Will is the Atomic Point, the Logos of the Silent All
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Part 1. The Voice of the Will is the Atomic Point, the Logos of the Silent All, a veil concealing Itself from the perception of lower minds. Part 2. The mediumistic state of passivity is dangerous, for passivity paralyzes the connection between man’s lower and higher principles. Part 3. Life is identical with Will, and Will is a property of the Kabbalistic Astral Light. Part 4. There is no special organ of will, any more than there is a physical basis for the activities of self-consciousness. Part 5. Insights to the laws governing compulsion and obsession. Part 6. The Yogi performs his wonders by exercising his Will-Power and Thought. Part 7. Free will is a nameless Intelligent Force, guiding and shaping the imprisoned intelligence and force inherent in every atom of matter. Part 8. Hypnotism is the new scientific name for the old “superstition” variously called fascination and enchantment. Part 9. Will is the offspring of the Divine, Desire, the motive power of animal life.
Death, before whose majestic tranquillity so many shudder with fear, has no terrors
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The book of Futurity, which has been wisely closed to every mortal eye, now opens its pages to many sons of the earth. Among the workings of the inner life within us, which we may experience but cannot explain, are there any more remarkable than those mysterious moral influences constantly exercised either for attraction or repulsion, by one human being over another? Modern astronomy profits by the works of ancient astrology, and kicks it out of sight. During the dissolution of the Etheric Double the darkness of our ignorance beginning to be dispelled, there are many things we can see. It is through the throbs of dissolution that horizons of vaster and profounder knowledge are drawn on, bursting upon our mental vision and becoming with every hour plainer to our inner eye. The nearer some people approach death, the brighter becomes their long lost memory, and the more correct the previsions because the unfoldment of inner faculties increases as life-blood becomes more stagnant. Modern science and spiritualism are two opposite poles. Life and death are as much of a mystery to the man of science, as they are to the spiritualist and the profane unbeliever. Materialistic scientists keep unweaving the rainbow. Unconscious necromancers reject every other philosophy save their own. Death, before whose majestic tranquillity so many shudder with fear, has no terrors. And yet people make too much fuss over death, and too little over the birth of every new candidate for it.