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The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism August 1898

1898

[August and the host of writers upon these psychical and mediumistic mystries to see that there exists an inexhaustible fund of proof of the occsional interplay of occult forces and the mutual interference of the planes of the living and the dead. [...] For in the soul the real self there is no sex ; that belongs only to the personality the temporary outer covering worn by the soul and the individual entity that to-day is embodied in the form of a woman may in the next life use the form of a man. [...] I purpose taking the axioms the postulates and the theories which are familiar to the student and attempting to bring them into direct relationship with the varieties and exigencies of the inner the religious the family the social and the political life : in order to show their bearing on and adaptablity to meet and solve those problems which are presented to us at every turn in life. [...] A nd we shall also be led to see that it is a very partial view of the great religious drama of the nations and the ages which so specially attributes to particular individals or even classes or nations the formation or the corruption the revival or the decay of the great religions of the world and their accesory branches. [...] By this means a way has been opened for the transfer of the Basis of Faith from the indivd-ml soul to the Hierarchy or Church ; the Holy Scriptures ; the Domas or doctrines deduced from them ; Or to the personalities of the individual founders of the religions.
philosophy religion
Pages
64
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
641-704 unknown view

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