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The Theosophist - A Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philospphy Art Literature and Occultism August 1913

1913

The legal cases are merely on the surface the causes lying in the hidden depths of the opposition to the friendly co-operation between the English and the Indians in the service of the common Empire of which our Theosophical work has long been the symbol. [...] On the contrary it is a progressive widening of the consciouness to embrace more life to respond with more simutaneity to both the without and the within until at the final stage of human evolution man's consciousness presents an exact balance between the infinite heights of this Logos System and the infinite depths of his own being the impact and the response being simultaneous. [...] What of devotion—Is not the vivisectionist as devoted as the Theosophist as desirous to uplift and benefit the race ? What of devoutness ? Spirituality in the occult sense has little or nothing to do with feeling devout ; it has to do with the capacity of the mind for assimilating knowledge at the fountain head of652 THE THEOSOPHIST AUGUST knowledge itself—absolute knowledge—instead of by the ci [...] The man harassed by doubts and tortured by the terrible suffering of his fellow-men ; the man who resents the unequal division of labour and its products; the man who sees but the increase of selfishness and cruelty in the advance of civilisation ; the man who regards the entire animal kingdom as a bloody battlground : to these men the teachings of Theosophical mechanics come as a balm and as a [...] The gross materialisof the age its worship of success of wealth of the accomplishment of action whether good or bad its strenuousness in ouward and material things and the resulting indifference to the larger matters appertaining to the Spirit are of the gravest concern and are perhaps insufficiently apprehended by those whose lives are fortunately placed above the fret and corrosion o
philosophy religion
Pages
159
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
On the Watch-Tower
625-640 Annie Besant view
Theosophy
641-657 Ithuriel view
The Fool
658-663 Baroness D’Asbeck view
The Discrimination of The Self
664-682 P.H. Palmer view
Before The Dawn
683-697 Eva Martin view
Theosophy and Darwin
698-705 W.D.S. Brown view
A Fragment
706-710 C.W. Scott-Moncrieff view
Seeing the Aura by the Aid of Coloured Screens
711-720 F.C. Wehmeyer view
Thinking Horses
721-740 William Kirby view
A Prehistoric Ghost
741-752 Elliott O’Donnell view
Diversity of Methods but the Same Cause
753-754 Annie Besant view
The Stockholm Congress
755-757 T.S. view
The “Rajput Herald” On Mrs. Besant
758-758 Annie Besant view
An Appreciation
759-760 Annie Besant view
Correspondence
760-760 Annie Besant view
Scientific Notes
761-764 G.E. Sutcliffe view
Reviews
765-780 Annie Besant view
From The President’s Opening Speech at the Stockholm Congress
781-782 Annie Besant view

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