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Theosophy

Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
"Far from us be the thought of the slightest irreverence — let alone blasphemy —
toward the Divine Power which called into being all things, visible and invisible.
Of its majesty and boundless perfection we dare not even think. It is enough for us
to know that It exists and that It is all wise. Enough that in common with our fellow
creatures we possess a spark of Its essence. The supreme power whom we revere is
the boundless and endless one — the grand "Central Spiritual Sun" by whose
attributes and the visible effects of whose inaudible will we are surrounded — the
God of the ancient and the God of modern seers. His nature can be studied only in
the worlds called forth by his mighty fiat. His revelation is traced with his own
finger in imperishable figures of universal harmony upon the face of the Cosmos. It
is the only infallible gospel we recognize."

Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
"It was only when the theurgist desired divine help in spiritual
and earthly matters that he sought direct communication through
religious rites, with pure spiritual beings. With them, even, those spirits who remain
invisible and communicate with mortals through their awakened inner senses, as in
clairvoyance, clairaudience and trance, could only be evoked subjectively and as a
result of purity of life and prayer. But all physical phenomena were produced
simply by applying a knowledge of natural forces, although certainly not by the
method of legerdemain, practiced in our days by conjurers.

Men possessed of such knowledge and exercising such powers patiently toiled for
something better than the vain glory of a passing fame. Seeking it not, they became
immortal, as do all who labor for the good of the race, forgetful of mean self.
Illuminated with the light of eternal truth, these rich-poor alchemists fixed their
attention upon the things that lie beyond the common ken, recognizing nothing
inscrutable but the First Cause, and finding no question unsolvable. To dare, to know, to will,
and REMAIN SILENT, was their constant rule; to be beneficent, unselfish, and unpretending,
were, with them, spontaneous impulses. Disdaining the rewards of petty traffic, spurning
wealth, luxury, pomp, and worldly power, they aspired to knowledge as the most
satisfying of all acquisitions. They esteemed poverty, hunger, toil, and the evil
report of men, as none too great a price to pay for its achievement. They, who
might have lain on downy, velvet-covered beds, suffered themselves to die in
hospitals and by the wayside, rather than debase their souls and allow the profane
cupidity of those who tempted them to triumph over their sacred vows. The lives of
Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Philalethes are too well known to repeat the old, sad story."

Isis Unveiled 1:66-7
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
"Abuse of power, whether it proceeds from excess of wisdom or ignorance is alike obnoxious in its effects. Besides, the clergy are silenced now. Their protests would at this day [1877] be scarcely noticed in the world of science. But while theology is kept in the background, the scientists have seized the scepter of despotism with both hands, and they use it, like the cherubim and flaming sword of Eden, to keep the people away from the tree of immortal life and within this world of perishable matter."

Blavatsky Isis Unveiled
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
Modern theosophy from Blavatsky has resulted in several organizations. The one with the largest membership in India has 16 or so federations within India. Here is the International President, Tim Boyd, narrating his visits to some centers giving a glimpse into their work:

 
Ben Dhyan

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
As an aspirant practices yoga or any other efficacious religious practice, they are swapping the karma associated with what they presently face on the path to that which is associated with that which they are to become. Iow, since the religious goal is to exist in a state beyond human karma, they must complete the stages that are prerequisite to the transcending of human karma. The aspirant should be ready to suffer the karmic consequences associated with being yet imperfect in understanding as to what and who they really are in the context of what is really real.
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
"So you have made yourself; and in your next life you will be just
what you are now making yourself to be. You will be your own
heritage. You are now writing, as it were, your last will and testament
for yourself. When a man realizes this wonderful fact, he no
longer blames others, no longer sits in judgment upon his brothers.
He no longer says: I am holier than thou - an attitude which is the
sure mark of the weak and of the poor in spiritual life.

There is a wonderful French proverb which runs thus: Tout comprendre,
c'est tout pardonner: To understand everything is to forgive
all. To understand all the hid causes, the results, the past destiny,
the present strength, the temptation, the virtue, whatever it may be
- to understand all this is to have divine knowledge, and it means
to forgive. It is a wonderful proverb and must have been uttered, I
venture to say, first by some human being who had a touch of illumination."

G. de Purucker, Wind of the Spirit.
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
One who has reached to the full comprehension of the name and nature of a theosophist will sit in judgment on no man or action.

Letter from a Master, see HPB's CW VIII:146ff or Letters From The Masters Second series, letter 82.
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
May 8 is White Lotus Day, the day HP Blavatsky died. She suggested reading some of Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia on the anniversary of her death. Here is a little from it...

That night the wife of King Suddhôdana,
Maya the Queen, asleep beside her Lord,
Dreamed a strange dream; dreamed that a star from heaven —

Splendid, six-rayed, in color rosy-pearl,
Whereof the token was an Elephant
Six-tusked and whiter than Vahuka’s milk —

Shot through the void and, shining into her,
Entered her womb upon the right. Awaked,
Bliss beyond mortal mother’s filled her breast,
And over half the earth a lovely light
Forewent the morn. The strong hills shook; the waves
Sank lulled; all flowers that blow by day came forth
As ‘twere high noon; down to the farthest hells
Passed the Queen’s joy, as when warm sunshine thrills
Wood-glooms to gold, and into all the deeps
A tender whisper pierced. “Oh ye,” it said,
“The dead that are to live, the live who die,
Uprise, and hear, and hope! Buddha is come!”
 
Ben Dhyan

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
^ True.

Also the Anahatta Chakra of the Hindu tradition.

"Heart Chakra is, significantly, the home of our Soul, the embodiment of our Higher Self. As we grow to know and understand this Self as ourself, that we ARE indeed a synthesis of Spirit becoming matter as well as matter becoming Spirit, we grow into our true nature as a being of unconditional love and unbounded creative potential!"

https://sacredhealingjourney.com/heart-chakra-two-worlds-merge/
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

Bodhicitta
Do not seek for truth in any place except in the faculty which cognizes truth which is your inmost self, for it alone can cognize truth.

It is the active brain-mind, filled with thoughts of the day, filled with desires of the hour, filled with the prejudices and opinions which are so transitory — and which more than anything else this active brain-mind is afflicted with — which prevent your visioning of the truth, prevent your obtaining the vision sublime.

G. de Purucker, Golden Precepts
 
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