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The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism July 1885

1885

The former is Universal lirotherhcod and the latter is Theosophy ;—the former constitutes a step in the ladder and the latter leads the disciple up to the top of the ladder. [...] Every sensation is a change in the state of the mind produced by the impression made upon it through the medium of the organs of sense ; and every such change in the mental state disturbs calmness of the spirit within and leads to unfirness so fatal to spiritual progress. [...] The astrologers who profess to find in these Nadigranthams the horoscopes of any people that choose to come to them and the predictions based thereupon have now and then attempted to set a limit to the pretensions of their granthams especially when the extravagance of such pretensions appeared to disturb the minds of enquirers and make them assume a sceptical attitude of mind. [...] After counting the number of things brought with a great show of accuracy and explaining to us the method of selecting the nadi applicable to the enquiry in band he ordered the boy above mentioned to enter in a book the 'address of the questioner the number of things brought by him and the questions proposed after aswering himself however that a currency note of 5 Rupees was placed in his [...] The astrologer went on giving lengthy explanations of the meaning of the Sanskrit text until he came to the description of the questioner and the enumeration of the questions.
philosophy religion
Pages
28
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
225-252 unknown view

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