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The Aryan Path June 1937

1937

Hermes or Mercury the psychpompic genius is no mere " conductor of the Souls of the Dead through the regions of Hades." This many-named God is ever the God of Wisdom—and Wisdom is the conductor of the Souls of the Living as well as of the Dead. [...] On the latter there have been the cycles measured in millions of years of the geologic ages ; the cycles of the birth growth decay and disappeaance of continents and mountain ranges the cycles of whole races of plant and animal life ; and from these we come down to not only the brief life-spans of individuals of these races and species but of the indiviual cells composing the form of each [...] I have spoken of the historic cycles as man-1937 ] MAN THE MAKER OF HISTORIC CYCLES 255 made and I believe they are in the sense that they are the shadows of mental cycles in the race as the economic cycles are the shadows of the mental cycles of each generation ; but man himself and the race may be shadows of we know not what and the rhythm which runs through the entire universe carrying th [...] Here the"1937] ACHIEVEMENTS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ORIENT 259 life of the people is not conditioned by the dictates of a single individual or of a group but by the functioning of a socio-religious order which has sought to bring Liberty Equality and Fraternity " to the prince and the peasant the sage and the savage the black and the white. [...] If we examine our experience we find that it is composed of a number of concrete forms all lit up by the light of consciousness.* This is the distinction between the Field that is the field of consciousness and the Knower of the Field the clear light of awareness itself.
philosophy religion
Pages
48
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120051
Segment Pages Author Actions
Spirits Embodied and Disembodied
245-250 unknown view
Man the Maker of Historic Cycles
251-255 unknown view
Ideals and Achievements of Democracy in the Orient
256-261 unknown view
The Song of the Higher Life
262-269 unknown view
Resisting Evil
270-275 unknown view
Lalla
276-278 unknown view
Friendship Solitude and Contemplation
279-282 Irwin Edman view
New Books and Old
283-291 unknown view
Ends and Sayings
292-292 unknown view

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