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FOHAT: Table of Contents FOHAT: Table of Contents Volume I, No. 1: Spring 1997 Namastae! . 4 A Conversation With a Tibetan Buddhist - Geshe Kaldan . 5 by Robert Bruce MacDonald On the Alleged Tibetan Source of Alice Bailey's Writings . 9 by David Reigle The Great Comet of 1997 . 12 by A Student Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 15 by L.A. Book Reviews . 16 Theosophical Friends Remembered . 18 Volume I, No. 2: Summer 1997 Editorial . 28 Letters to the Editor . 29 What On Earth Is Going On? . 30 by D.A.B. In Theosophy's Shadow Vanity Whispers . 33 by Nicholas Weeks Fohat and the Spiritual Monad . 36 by Gerald J. Schueler, PhD On Enemies . 39 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Book Reviews . 41 Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 44 by L.A. Volume I, No. 3: Fall 1997 Editorial . 52 Letters to the Editor . 53 Vampires Among Us . 54 by Rogelle Pelletier Bailey, God and Hercules . 58 by R. Robb What Does Theosophy Say About Mars? . 60 compiled by David Pratt Theosophical History Conference, London, July 1997 . 63 by Michael Gomes The Eye of Dangma . 64 by P.M.M. Book Reviews . 66 Theosophical Friends Remembered - Alice Leighton Cleather . 67 by Joan Sutcliffe Volume I, No. 4: Winter 1997 Editorial . 76 Letters to the Editor . 77 D o N ot A lter? . 78 by Dolores Brisson Early Canadian Theosophists and Social Reform . 81 by Ted G. Davy Force of Motive . 84 by Dara Eklund Nabathean Agriculture . 86 by Richard Robb A Psychological View of Fohat . 88 by Gerald Schueler, Ph.D. Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 89 by Laurier Auger Book Reviews . 90 Theosophical Friends Remembered . 91 Volume II, No. 1: Spring 1998 Editorial . 4 Letters to the Editor . 5 Nabathean Agriculture . 6 tr. by Bill Bittar Active Theosophy: The Meditation Diagram of H.P. Blavatsky . 11 by Sharon Ormerod Psychic Exploration and Government Immorality . 14 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect . 18 by David Pratt Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 21 by Laurier Auger Volume II, No. 2: Summer 1998 Editorial . 28 Letters to the Editor . 29 Eternally Vigilant - Part I . 30 by Abhinyano Celibacy: Exploratory Comments on Third Eye/Celibacy . 33 by P.B. The Origin of Evil . 36 by Alexander Pogue Radiant Auroras and Dawn Chorus . 40 by D.B. Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class . 42 by Laurier Auger Book Reviews . 43 Theosophical Friends Remembered . 44 Volume II, No. 3: Fall 1998 Editorial . 52 Letters to the Editor . 53 Eternally Vigilant - Part II . 54 by Abhinyano Jungian Theosophy . 57 by Gerald Schueler, Ph.D. Houses That Kill! . 60 by Rogelle Pelletier Edmonton Theosophical Conference . 65 by John Patrick Deveney Theosophical Friends Remembered . 66 Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 67 Book Reviews . 68 Volume II, No. 4: Winter 1998 Editorial . 76 Letters to the Editor . 77 The Creators of Self-Consciousness . 78 by Claude Hughes On Preparing to Study The Secret Doctrine . 82 by Anne Redlich The Science of Universal Harmony . 84 by Knut M. Pauli Active Theosophy: The Meditation Diagram of H.P. Blavatsky - (continued) . 87 by Sharon Ormerod Health From Mind to Body . 91 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 95 by Laurier Auger Volume III, No. 1: Spring 1999 Editorial . 4 Letters to the Editor . 5 Prophecies, Prophecies, Prophecies . 6 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Misconstrued Angels . 10 by Dolorese Brisson Gandhi - The Force of Ahimsa . 13 by Prem Kalia The Science of Universal Harmony III – Geometrical Illustration of Harmony . 18 by Knut M. Pauli Volume III, No. 2: Summer 1999 Editorial . 28 Letters to the Editor . 29 What Is Initiation? . 30 by Mark Jaqua Yoga - Meditation . 32 by Abhinyano The Rendezvous . 37 by Alexander Pogue Man As A Force . 39 by Julia W. L. Keightley The Science of Universal Harmony IV – General Laws of Music . 41 by Knut M. Pauli Book Review . 44 Theosophical Friends Remembered . 44 Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class . 45 by Stephania Duffee Volume III, No. 3: Fall 1999 Editorial . 52 Y2K: Deliverance or Disaster . 53 by Dara Eklund Portraits of the Brothers and How They Were Made . 56 by Joseph E. Ross Report on a Search for The Book of the Golden Precepts in Kalimpong, March 1998 . 61 by David Reigle Dear Comrade: The Early Canadian Theosophist Flora MacDonald Denison . 62 by Ted G. Davy Theosophical Friends Remembered . 64 Book Reviews . 65 A Theosophical Fable . 66 Musings From a Secret Doctrine Class . 67 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Volume III, No. 4: Winter 1999 Editorial . 76 Letters to the Editor . 77 Atlantis: Legend or History? . 78 by Morry Secrest The Darwinian Filter . 82 by Robert Bruce MacDonald The Mystery of Self . 84 by Claude Hughes Alchemy and the Alchemists . 85 Reprinted from Transactions of the Scottish Lodge Theosophical Friends Remembered . 89 Volume IV, No. 1: Spring 2000 Editorial . 4 Letters to the Editor . 5 Lights and Shadows of Brotherhood . 6 by Brett Forray Milk in the Kali- A “Moo”ga . 10 by Rogelle Pelletier The Age of Earth . 12 by David Pratt Theosophy and Buddhism . 14 by David Reigle The H.P.B. Library . 18 by John Robert Colombo Book Reviews . 19 Volume IV, No. 2: Summer 2000 Editorial . 28 Letters to the Editor . 29 Too Deep for Dinosaurs . 30 by Dolorese Brisson Who Are Blavatsky’s Aryans? . 33 by Angus Carter The Hopi Indians: The Way of the Spirit . 35 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Speech, Breath, and the Yoga Inhalation . 40 by Alexander Pogue The Head and The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism . 43 by R.B.M. Book Review . 45 Volume IV, No. 3: Fall 2000 Editorial . 52 Letters to the Editor . 53 The Perfectibility of Man . 54 by Dara Eklund The Initiation Procedure Within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Part I . 57 by Abhinyano James Morgan Pryse . 61 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Theosophical Friends Remembered . 64 Musings From A Secret Doctrine Class . 67 by A Student Volume IV, No. 4: Winter 2000 Editorial . 76 Annie Besant: Her Passions and Her Relationships - Part I . 77 by Ernest Pelletier Sāṃkhya and the Wisdom-Religion . 84 by David Reigle The Initiation Procedure Within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Part II . 87 by Abhinyano Theosophical Friends Remembered . 91 Volume V, No. 1: Spring 2001 Editorial . 4 Letters to the Editor . 5 Annie Besant: Her Passions and Her Relationships - Part II . 6 by Ernest Pelletier Getting Caught in the Polarized World of Good and Evil . 12 by Robert Bruce MacDonald Celestial Violence and Human Karma . 14 by Alexander Pogue The Gelugpa View of Svabhava in Relation to Theosophy . 17 by David Reigle Cosmic Consciousness Centenary . 20 by T.G.D. Statement Regarding Dr. John Cooper’s Compilation of the Collected Correspondence of Madame Blavatsky . 20 by Dr. Gregory Tillett Book Review . 23 Volume V, No. 2: Summer 2001 Editorial . 28 Updates . 29 To Fill The Hollow Man . 30 by Robert Bruce MacDonald H. P. Blavatsky and Tibetan Buddhism . 33 by Gerald J. Schueler, Ph.D. The Joy of Indexes . 38 by Ted G. Davy Book Reviews . 40 The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky by Daniel Caldwell Gayatri by I.K. Taimni Creating the New Age: Theosophy’s Origins in the British Isles by Michael Gomes Volume V, No. 3: Fall 2001 Editorial . 52 Letters to the Editor . 53 Where Are the Boundaries? . 54 by Dolorèse Brisson The Original Śaṅkarācārya . 57 by David Reigle The Eddy Farm – Then and Now . 61 by Rogelle Pelletier The Taormina Initiations ..
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