The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism December 1889

According to the doctrines of the Rosicrucians the personal intellect and will of man is merely a reflex of the eternal and unversal spiritual Sun of Wisdom (spiritual consciousness) actin.- within the sphere of self ; in throwing—so to say—a ray into the mirrors of the minds of men and women. [...] A part of ourselves ; that part which' has not yet become grossly material our higher velf still sees the light of the sun and hears the voice of the Word" and may communicate it to the lower self if the latter Will listen; but the more the lower self clings to the sphere of phenomena and sensuality the more will it become separated from the higher self ; the more will the light of intuition [...] The ray of the eternal will acting within the entirely unselfish soul of man is the legitimate son produced by the power of Abram shining into the womb of Sarah (meaning the pure and unadulterated living well of truth); but the same ray acting within Hagar and becoming tainted by selfish desires produces the son of the concubine the Ishmael who must be sent away into the wilderness to starve and [...] of the Dweller of the Threshold and the key to the position is the displacement of the love of self by the love of eternal Good which finds its expression in the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity the fundamental principle upon whiCh the Theosophical Society rests. [...] The greater the purity of the love that impels and guides him the easier the task at hand brighter the prospect and stronger the chance of success: The cultivation of absolute purity means nothing less than the attainment of Nirvana the very idea of which appears to be so inconceivable to some people that they firmly insist upon assuming it to represent absolute nothingness in spite of clear