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Theosophy in India February 1912

1912

Idealists and men of strong will-"1912 i THE.SCIENCE OF IIISTORY 21 power like Alfred the Great Lorenzo de Medici the preachers and prophets of new ideas the Roman catholic Jesuits Frederick the Great of Prussia and Peter the Great and Catherine of Russia have succeeded in infusing a new spirit into the minds of their generations and enabled them to rise in the scale of nations by adapting th [...] This creation of new circumstances and transformation of the existing conditions again explain the diversity of revoltions and the types of revolutionists in the history of the world and account for the fact that the centre of gravity of civilisation has been at one time p'aced in India at other times in China Egypt Greece and so forth that Hindus Musalmans and Christians have been in di [...] Elizabeth the conquests and expansion of French Monarchy the commercial rivalry between the East India Companies the birth of great men and the rise of new ideas the desire for national selassertion the progress of enlightenment and idealistic self-sacrifice as well as the varying sense of respmsihility of the pioneers that. work up the several scenes of this complex drama. [...] The interests of modern mankind are hanging on the activties of the barbarians" of the present day world who by altering the disposition of the forces of the universe are silently helping in the shifting of its centre of gravity to a new position and on the transcendental heroism of those great men who are equipping themselves for the magnificent career of utilising the conditions thus created [...] The duty of each member is to prove to himself and to the world at large the immanence of God and the solidarity of the human race which is the first duty of the Theoso phical Society.
philosophy religion
Pages
22
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120106
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Random Musings
17-20 unknown view
The Science of History and the Hope of Mankind
20-23 unknown view
General Secretary’s Report
23-32 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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