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

1883

So general is the unfavorable comment of the press in the West as well as the East upon this loud-mouthed incarnation of arrogance and scholarly pretence as to have attracted the attention of the journals of Boston Cook's place of residence. [...] The charaters all appeared to us portions of the leaf itself equally with its veins and nerves ; the position was not the same in all ; in one leaf they would be at the top of the leaf in another in the middle in a third at the base or at the side the younger leaves represented the characters only in a partial state of formation. [...] Yes the letter-tree of Tibet is a fact ; and moreover the inscriptions in its leaf-cells and fibres are in the SENSAR or sacred language used by the Adepts and in their totality comprise the whole Dharma of Buddhism and the history of the world. [...] 135 We have spoken of the three conditions in the world of effects —the state in which the principles liberated from the body are still in Kama loka and physically in the atmosphere of the earth the state of Devachan and the intervening state of gestation or preparation for the latter. [...] The student must bear in mind that personality is the synonym for limitation ; and that the more selfish the more contracted the person's ideas the closer will he cling to the lower spheres of being the longer loiter on the plane of selfish social intercourse.
philosophy religion
Pages
30
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
127-150 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist
1-6 unknown view

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