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Old 05-06-2021, 07:26 PM
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Blavatsky from "What Good Has Theosophy Done in India?"

Thanks for your continued posts. They are giving me a more balanced view of Blavatsky, and I am finally going to read The Secret Doctrine.
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Old 05-06-2021, 07:44 PM
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Thanks for your continued posts. They are giving me a more balanced view of Blavatsky, and I am finally going to read The Secret Doctrine.

OK Rose, but reading the SD straight is tough. Suggest you study those portions of the SD that are critical first, as HPB lays them out.

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena...d/invsd-hp.htm
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Old 10-06-2021, 12:10 AM
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OK Rose, but reading the SD straight is tough. Suggest you study those portions of the SD that are critical first, as HPB lays them out.

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena...d/invsd-hp.htm

Thanks, Skull.
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Old 20-06-2021, 07:26 PM
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Summer Solstice

At about 8:30pm PST today, 20 June 2021 is the solstice. Here is a little article on this sacred event:

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena...-8/4s-wtst.htm
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Old 01-07-2021, 07:45 AM
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Old 04-07-2021, 05:28 PM
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The only “Essentials” in the Religion of Humanity are—virtue, morality, brotherly love, and kind sympathy with every living creature, whether human or animal. This is the common platform that our [Theosophical] Society offers to all to stand upon; the most fundamental differences between religions and sects sinking into insignificance before the mighty problem of reconciling humanity, of gathering all the various races into one family, and of bringing them all to a conviction of the utmost necessity in this world of sorrow to cultivate feelings of brotherly sympathy and tolerance, if not actually love.

Blavatsky, Collected Writings IV:502
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Old 26-07-2021, 03:48 PM
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But you, friends and readers, you who aspire to something more than
the life of the squirrel everlastingly turning the same wheel; you who are
not content with the seething of the caldron whose turmoil results in
nothing; you who do not mistake the deaf echoes, as old as the world, for
the divine voice of truth; prepare yourselves for a future of which but
few in your midst have dared to dream, unless they have already entered
upon the path. For you have chosen a path that, although thorny at the
start, soon widens out and leads you to the divine truth. You are free to
doubt while still at the beginning of the way, you are free to decline to
accept on hearsay what is taught respecting the source and the cause of
that truth, but you are always able to hear what its voice is telling you,
and you can always study the effects of the creative force coming from
the depths of the unknown.

Blavatsky, "New Cycle" article.
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Old 23-08-2021, 07:05 PM
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Copy of Timeless Truths arrived and it will not cause those with poor vision to squint - maybe 16 pt type! Nice little glossary, but no index, several photos of the principals involved with HPB in SD project, Masters included. She quoted from the Theosophical University Press edition

Odgren's Foreword about the production of The Secret Doctrine is thorough & good, yet she does not say how she chose the 56 "major themes" in this compilation. They are arranged alphabetically starting with the Absolute One Eternal Be-ness, then Angels etc.

It is a unique approach and will, because of its wide range of themes in all three areas of Science, Philosophy and Religion, attract a differing group of thinkers. The Stanzas of Dzyan are not emphasized or quoted much, which is just as well, for they are off putting to many.

Hard & soft cover.

Been dipping into this good selection of SD quotes. Here is one from page 189-90:

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Each class of Creators endows man with what it has to give: the one builds his external form; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the human Higher Self owing to the personal exertion of the individual. Where there is no struggle, there is no merit.
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Old 01-09-2021, 09:10 PM
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Much misunderstanding of The Secret Doctrine text exists. Here Blavatsky explains some reasons for that confusion:

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blav.../y1890_023.htm
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Old 29-09-2021, 02:48 PM
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Purucker on karma:

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Just as it is the bounden moral and natural duty of a human being always and in every set of
circumstances impersonally and unselfishly to aid others for their good, equally so is it his moral
and natural duty to refrain at all times and in all circumstances from acting selfishly and for
personal gain upon the lives of others. The former case arises in motives which in their essence
are divine; the latter case arises in motives which in their essence we may qualify as being devilish or diabolic.
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