BISAC — REL068000, PHI013000, PHI003000 REL RELIGION / Theosophy PHI PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics PHI PHILOSOPHY / Eastern

Blavatsky Speaks Series Open Letter to Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury1 — pp. 16, New Blavatsky rebuts unspiritual conceptions about God — pp. 5 blavatsky-rebuts-unspiritual-conceptions-about-god Unspiritual thinkers are materialistic thinkers. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Carl Onion

Secret Doctrine’s First Proposition Series Narayana, First or Third Logos? 2 — pp. 18, Noah is Logos3 — pp. 7,

Secret Doctrine’s Second Proposition Series Karma Nuggets4 — pp. 21,

Secret Doctrine’s Third Proposition Series Lucifer is Christos, Inner Light5 — pp. 28 New Blavatsky on the Holy Union of High Occultists — pp. 5 Or the marriage of Christos, our personal god, with Sophia or Divine Wisdom. blavatsky-on-the-holy-union-of-high-occultists Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Carl Taylor-Robinson

Mystic Verse and Insights With the Adepts by Franz Hartmann

Confusing Words Budhism is Inner Wisdom6 — pp. 20,

Theosophy and Theosophists Series Blavatsky defends Blavatsky7 — pp. 6, And the Christianity of Christ.

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Dr. Franz Hartmann on the Harmonical Society8 — pp. 14, De Zirkoff on the Secret Doctrine de-zirkoff-on-the-secret-doctrine

Buddhas and Initiates Series A chant for the neophytes after their last initiation9 — pp. 8 New The Initiate’s Crown of Thorns the-initiate's-crown-of-thorns

Constitution of Man Blood is the first incarnation of Universal Fluid10 — pp. 14,

The Masters Speak Series New A Master of Wisdom defends Madame Blavatsky — pp. 8 master-kh-defends-madame-blavatsky A Master of Wisdom, Boris de Zirkoff, John Barrow

Black versus White Magic Series New Evil is the infernal end of the polarity of spirit-matter — pp. 11 How the Christianity of Jesus Christ was degraded to “Church” Christianity. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Hieronymus von Mansfeld evil-is-the-infernal-end-of-the-polarity-of-spirit-matter

When theological ethics speak no longer in man — pp. 12 Divine conscience is stifled by pure selfishness. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Hieronymus von Mansfeld when-theological-ethics-speak-no-longer-in-man

Planetary Round and Globes Series Worship of Planetary Spirits is idolatrous Astrolatry — pp. 17 Divine Astrology is for Initiates; superstitious Astrolatry for the masses. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Will Willoughby worship-of-planetary-spirits-is-idolatrous-astrolatry

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1 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Carl Onion 2 Narayana is Self-existent and Self-moving Spirit, Eternal Breath. He is a star that fell through the planes of non-being into the first world of being. Narayana, is Self-born Spirit, ever stirring the “primordial Ocean of Space” or Akasha, which is Its progeny. He Androgyne Wisdom, the Sophia of the Gnostics, the Hindu female Nari, vivifying the “waters” of chaos or potential matter from afar, without touching the abyss of darkness. “She is unable to do so, for Wisdom is purely intellectual, and cannot act directly on matter.” Says Vishnu: “I called the name of water Nara in ancient times, and am hence called Narayana, for that was always the abode I moved in.” The “moist principle” of Space becomes “wet” only after Its separation by Narayana’s invisible Flame. Narayana is Self- created, i.e., Unmanifested Logos (Ishvara is Logos Manifested). He is the “mover on the Waters” of space: Narayana is one and the same as Shekhinah and Daiviprakriti, the Light of Logos. Not only Narayana makes us all sing and dance around Him in a circle, He is the choirmaster at the centre of our being. Appearing with every Manvantara as Narayana, He remains ever “Concealed in Akasha and present in Ether,” He is, and yet He is Not. In terms of the Sacred Word, Nara is A, the Germ, Divine Spirit or Holy Ghost, that fecundates Nari or U, Kosmos’ Virgin Matrix or Waters of Life, which is an emanation of Itself. Narayana is M, the Spirit of God, moving the Two into existence. Narayana is the ONE, the Pythagorean Monas dwelling in solitude and darkness. “Pythagoras had a reason for never using the finite, useless figure 2, and for altogether discarding it. The ONE can, when manifesting, become only Three. The unmanifested, when a simple duality, remains passive and concealed,” says a Master of Wisdom. Narayana is the Eternal Breath of the Unconscious All, ever arousing the slumbering Waters of Life, which are the Noumenon of Matter also bearing Latent Spirit. He is the ONE and only Cause of Duality. Narayana is the seventh and highest principle of our solar system. He throbs in the heart of every spiritual man, and everywhere. He is Logos Itself. Genesis’ Heaven and Earth, alludes to the separation of the Primordial Substance to Light in its upper (Spirit), and Darkness in its lower portions (Matter), i.e., to the separation of the invisible from the visible by the Firmament, which is the manifested Universe. Narayana may be plunged in the Waters of Wisdom but He is not the God of the Waters. Varuna is the Vedic God of the Waters of Space, Akasha or “Heaven,” and prototype of the Greek Ouranos. “He who breaks Varuna’s laws is punished by Indra.” For Indra is the Vedic God of the real Firmament, or Mahat-Nous, and prototype of the Illusion of Separateness. 3 Noah’s Ark is the sacred Argha of the Hindus. 4 Karma is the vessel of our person and character. Karma, Tanha, and Skandhas are the almighty trinity. Desire, being the agent empowered by Karma, is fulfilled through thoughts, words, and deeds. Karma allots kinetic energy, corrects mental transgressions, and binds free will. Man and angel are alike under Karmic Law. No one and nothing can hide from the All-seeing Law. Therefore, belief in Karma instils personal responsibility. 5 On Lucifer, the Bright Morning Star. The foreordaining and predestining fiend-God and Satan, his subordinate agent, are human inventions: they are two of the most morally repulsive and horrible theological dogmas that the nightmares of light-hating monks have ever evolved out of their unclean fancies. Stars teach as well as shine. When named Venus, the bright planet-star becomes the symbol of dawn, the chaste Aurora. Lucifer-Venus, the sister planet of our Earth, was sacrificed to the ambition of our little globe to show the latter as the “chosen” planet of the Lord. Aphrodite-Venus is dual: the dawn Aphrodite is daughter of Ouranos or Heaven; her dusk counterpart, who presides over earthly unions, is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Similarly, the morning planet is dual: Lucifer-Venus was dedicated to the Great Mother and symbolized by the Golden Calf, a heifer of either sex, that was male at rising and female at sunset, the Twin-Stars of the “First Day.” 6 It has nothing to do with Buddhism, the religion of Gautama Buddha. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dr. Ted Thornton Budhism (spelled with one D) is Inner Wisdom-Religion, a pre-Vedic term millennia older than 643 BCE, the year Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilavastu, was born. Budhism has nothing to do with Buddhism (with two Ds), the religious system of ethics preached by Lord Gautama and named after his title of Buddha, the Enlightened. Buddhism, the religious system of ethics preached by Lord Gautama and named after his title of Buddha, the “Enlightened,” and Budha or Inner Wisdom are totally unrelated. Though Esoteric Buddhism preceded Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine, its contents are not original. Long kalpas had passed before the epithet of Buddha became so humanised, as to allow the term to be applied to mortals and finally to Siddhartha Gautama. Bodha, Bodhi, Buddha, Buddhi are one and the same, Divine Wisdom. Budhism is Archaic Wisdom-Religion. It reconciles all religions, strips every one of its outward, human garments, and shows the root of each to be identical with that of every other great religion. It proves the necessity of an immutable Divine Principle in nature but rejects the gods of monotheistic religions, sorry caricatures created by man in his own image and likeness. Truth is its god and dogma. Orthodox, exoteric Buddhism, or the public teachings of Gautama Buddha, differ greatly from the Secret Doctrine, or esoteric Budhism, that he had reserved for the initiated Brahmans of his day and his Arhats.

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7 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aglaya Annenkova 8 A profound theosophical fable, continued and concluded by H.P. Blavatsky. Dr. Franz Hartmann, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Aglaya Annenkova 9 Being a dirge for the dead in Life. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Joseph-Louis de la Ville de Boussac A chant sung over the entranced bodies of the mystai or neophytes who, after passing through the trial of their last initiation, were made Epoptai. 10 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dr. Ted Thornton

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