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The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism February 1890

1890

Themriter says that as one of the objects for which the Theosphical Society was founded is to form a nucleus of a Universal BrotherhoOd of Humanity without distinction of race creed sex caste or color the founder of this Society must be either remarably ignorant of the world's history or remarkably audacious." Again he says The ideas of the unity of the human race and the equality of [...] The science of religion is the highest of all embratfing all others." He tells' what he thinks the religion of the future will be :- We are i ing the foundations of a grand temple of the future —not the t4.1 ple of the gods but of all the people—wherein with appropriate rites will be celebrated the religion of Humanity. [...] In the religion of the future there will be men and women and children all the aspirations of the soul and all the tender humanities of the heart.4 Sympathy is the true basis of Morality :— After all sympathy is genius. [...] It does not consist in believing but in doing.30 The religion of Christ has been smothered by dogmas :- As the philosophy of the ancients was rendered almost worthless by the credulity of the common people so the proverbs of Christ his religion of forgiveness his creed of kindness were lost in the mist of miracle and the darkness of superstition?' Dogmatic Christianity has killed the religio [...] What is the function of the preserving energies of the sun ? To see that every created thing has the fullest and the longest possible play of its qualities and that above all it is given the best opportunities to propagate itself so that the stream of usefulness might never receive a pemanent check and that the qualities of the thing might be for ever preserved.
philosophy religion
Pages
78
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120171
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
225-284 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist. February. 1890
lxxxvii-civ unknown view

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