Category: Religion/Spirituality
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown. Many who have broken through the chrysalis of blind faith, and mo...
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the r...
2. CHAPTER II.Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and the deadly dullness of our protestan...
3. CHAPTER III.All the above stories are comparatively well-known, and may be found in some of the books which contain collections of such accounts--most of them in Dr. Lee’s _More Glimpses of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Help, then, may be given by several of the many classes of inhabitants of the astral plane. It may come from devas, from nature-spirits, or from those whom we call dead, as well...
5. CHAPTER V.It seems difficult for those who are accustomed only to the ordinary and somewhat materialistic lines of thought of the nineteenth century, to believe in and realize fully a con...
6. CHAPTER VI.Varied as is this work on the astral plane, it is all directed to one great end--the furtherance, in however humble a degree, of the processes of evolution. Occasionally it is c...
7. CHAPTER VII.Another instance of intervention on the physical plane which occurred a short time ago makes a very beautiful little story, though this time only one life was saved. It needs, h...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Another piece of work done by the same boy Cyril furnishes an almost exact parallel to some of the stories from the books which I have given in earlier pages. He and his older f...
9. CHAPTER IX.On meeting with a story such as this, students often enquire whether the invisible helper is perfectly safe amidst these scenes of deadly peril--whether, for example, this boy w...
10. CHAPTER X.This story has been told by a pen of far greater dramatic capability than mine, and with a wealth of detail for which I have here no space, in _The Theosophical Review_ of Novem...
11. CHAPTER XI.Sometimes it is possible for members of the band of helpers to avert impending catastrophes of a somewhat larger order. In more than one case when the captain of a vessel has be...
12. CHAPTER XII.It is one of the many evils resulting from the absurdly erroneous teaching as to conditions after death which is unfortunately current in our western world, that those who have...
13. CHAPTER XIII.But turning back again now from the all-important work among the dead to the consideration of the work among the living, we must briefly indicate a great branch of it, without a...
14. CHAPTER XIV.How, it may be asked, are we to make ourselves capable of sharing in this great work? Well, there is no mystery as to the qualifications which are needed by one who aspires to b...
15. CHAPTER XV.Eastern books tell us that there are four means by which a man may be brought to the beginning of the path of spiritual advancement: 1. By the companionship of those who have al...
16. CHAPTER XVI.It is in the four stages of this division of the path that the ten Saṃyojana, or fetters which bind man to the circle of rebirth and hold him back from Nirvâṇa, must be cast off...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Beyond this period it is obvious that we can know nothing of the new qualifications required for the still higher levels which yet lie before the perfect man. It is abundantly c...