The prayer of the true philosopher is his adoration.
The prayer of the true philosopher is his adoration.

Author: Damodar K. Mavalankar

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 21

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The soul of the true philosopher is in perfect harmony with his divine spirit. It is the duty of every man who is capable of an unselfish impulse to do something, however little, for the welfare of Humanity, the great Orphan. Only those of exceptional purity and unconditional love for their fellow man and every living creature, may approach the sacred Majesty of Truth and hear within the sanctuary of the heart the Voice of the Silence. Raja Yoga deals with the inner man and therefore neither encourages sham, nor requires physical postures. Hatha Yoga is triply distilled selfishness. By encouraging mental passivity, it hastens the opening of mediumistic faculties resulting in gradual loss of self-control. Inductive reasoning from the known to the unknown should be promoted and practised. True contemplation is the yearning of the human soul to ascend in spirit towards its divine parent, by studying and assimilating the divine laws that govern Universe and Man, and by applying them in everyday life. In this sublime effort the soul relies on the immutable Law of Analogy that underpins the affinity between stars and man. This is the lost thread of Ariadne, which alone can guide us through the labyrinth of matter, and lead us from the unreal to the real. Those who pray silently and intensely gain their object, while those who merely mumble some formula get no answer to their prayers.

Why was Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata censored in Russia and England as being obscene?
Why was Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata censored in Russia and England as being obscene?

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 84

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Prudish England will never allow a diagnosis of the state of its diseased morals and hidden ulcers in its social life to be made. Jesus did not teach Monasticism but the law of Continence. For morality to exist between men and women, they must follow the law of Chastity. “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth.” Moral continence and chastity are mistaken for monasticism. There is no sanctity in worldly marriage of any kind. Madame Blavatsky examines the meaning of marriage from the highest philosophical, metaphysical, and ethical perspectives. Madame Blavatsky appraises the religious, practical, and political aspects of sensual marriage. Q & A on Theosophy, Asceticism, and Marriage.

The Nellore Yanadis
The Nellore Yanadis

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 8

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The Nellore Yanadis are dark-skinned aboriginal people, short in stature, of unknown origin. They are renowned for their mysterious knowledge of the occult properties of nature. They plant round their huts certain herbs believed to ward off venomous reptiles. A decoction from more than a hundred different roots is said to possess incalculable virtues for curing any malady. The Yanadi seer grows his hair and lets no razor pass his head. Yanadis can smell out their game, and trace out trespassers by merely looking at their footmarks.

Spiritual Rules and Protreptics
Spiritual Rules and Protreptics

Author: William Quan Judge

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 14

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1. Ten Spiritual Commandments. 2. Ten Rules of Right. 3. Ten Injunctions for Theosophists. 4. Sixteen Cautions in Paragraphs. 5. True Theosophists defined attitudinally, ethically, and philosophically.

A Prayer Book for Eucharistic Adoration
A Prayer Book for Eucharistic Adoration

Author: William G. Storey

Publisher: Loyola Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0829429069

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Solidly rooted in Scripture, this book includes an extensive collection of Eucharistic adoration prayers, such as prayers at Mass, Marian prayers, prayers of the saints, novenas, litanies, and more.

True prayer is mental utterance in secret.
True prayer is mental utterance in secret.

Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, William Quan Judge

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 14

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True prayer is unselfish love of humanity. It is an act of will and a command but, unless enacted, prayer is pathetic. Prayers should be for blessings on all that lives. We shall be able to pray to Him properly, only when we approach by ourselves alone to the Alone. Our prayers and supplications are vain, unless to potential words we add potent acts. And thus make the aura which surrounds each one of us so pure and divine that the God within us may act outwardly, or in other words, become as it were an extraneous potency. To produce beneficial effects, the prayer must be uttered by “one who knows how to make himself heard in silence,” when it is no longer a “prayer” but a command. A clear conscience and a firm desire of benefiting humanity afford the best protection from air elementals, which throng public places. Loud prayers are disastrous. Woe to the unholy man who invokes the Sacred Trinity for personal advancement or pronounces It after the commission of some far-reaching sin. The Devotional Prayers of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Alexander Pope.