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The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism September 1883

1883

Occultists have asserted and go on asserting daily the fallacy of judging the essence by its outward manifestations the ultimate nature of the life-principle by the circulation of the blood mind by the gray matter of the brain and the physical constitution of Sun; stars and comets by our terrestrial chemistry and the matter of our own planet. [...] the equatorial matter of the Sun with more than four times the centrifugal velocity of the earth's equatorial surface and only about one-fourth part.of the gravitation of the earth's equatorial matter has not manifested any tendency to bulge out at the solar equator) nor shown the least flattening at the poles of the solar axis. [...] In othees the opaque vapors would reflect the light of the sun Without permitting his view to penetrate to the surface of our globe." Thus if the atmosphere of our earth which in its relation to the " atmosphere" (?) of the sun is like the tenderest skin of a fruit compared with the thickest husk of a cocoanut would prevent the eye of an observer standing on the moon to penetrate everywhere " [...] of the " Seven World's Wonders " of Thebes Tyre the Labyrinth and the Egyptian pyramids and temples and giant palaces as we now see are slowly crumbling into the dust of the deserts being reduced to atoms by the hand of Time— lighter and far more merciful than any cataclysm the question seems to us rather the outcome of modern pride than of stern reasoning. [...] The Peripatetics applied the word Monas to the whole Cosmos in the pantheistic sense ; and the Occultists while accepting this thought for convenience's sake distinguish the progressive stages of the evolution of the Concrete from the Abstract by terms of which the Mineral Monad' is one.
philosophy religion
Pages
48
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
293-328 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist
1-12 unknown view

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