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The Theosophist a Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism February 1908

1908

Like the animals of the northern regions they hibernate in the name of religion in out of-the-way temples and rocky recessess unmindful of their sorry position in the march of human evolution ; and unproductive of any good to the country which once was the nursery of the Sannyasa of the truest kind. [...] With the attainment of a fair degree of efficiency of action of this type the crest of the evolutionary wave shifts as it were to the intermediate neural level the reactions depending upon the spinal level drop out of the field of consciouness. [...] Thus the varying objects of the outside world are always impinging on us ; but at any given moment of time one only or one complex of things is the object of attention and as one thing becomes the object Of attention the thing perceived in the previous moment ceases to he the object of attetion ; as any object comes to the forms of consciousness it drives out and excludes from the focus all [...] Speaking psychologically the transference of consciousness from the level of the vegetative life to that of the emotions and from this to that of thought leads to an inhibition of the lower by the higher. [...] * Selfishness ' is the ideal for the viva on the Path of Pursuit ; self-sacrifice ' for him on the Path of RemInciation ;' justice' for the viva in office ' the 'hierarch ' the' ruler ' the householder' on the Path of the world-wheel which includes and is composed of the other two.
philosophy religion
Pages
101
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
From the Editor
385-390 Annie Besant view
The Disciple
391-402 Mabel Collins view
India’s Hope
403-412 Seeker view
Emotion-Culture
413-420 P.T. Iyenger view
Studies in Comparative Science
421-426 Annie Besant view
Letters from a Sufi Teacher
427-436 Annie Besant view
Occult Chemistry
437-440 Annnie Besant view
The Superphysical World and its Gnosis
440-450 Rudolf Steiner view
Echoes from the Past
451-454 Annie Besant view
Reviews and Notes
455-461 Annie Besant view
Correspondence
461-467 Annie Besant view
Theosophy in Many Lands
468-480 Annie Besant view

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