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conception.
One should not think of human forms when the theosophist speaks of the gods; we mean the arupa -- the
"formless" -- entities, beings of pure intelligence and understanding, relatively pure essences, relatively
pure spirits, formless as we physical humans conceive form. The gods are the higher inhabitants of
nature. They are intrinsic portions of nature itself, for they are its informing principles. They are as much
subject to the wills and energies of still higher beings -- call these wills and energies the "laws" of higher
beings, if you will -- as we are, and as are the kingdoms of nature below us.
The ancients put realities, living beings, in the place of laws which, as Occidentals use the term, are only
abstractions -- an expression for the action of entities in nature; the ancients did not cheat themselves so
easily with words. They called them gods, spiritual entities. Not one single great thinker of the ancients,
until the Christian era, ever talked about laws of nature, as if these laws were living entities, as if these
abstractions were actual entities which did things. Did the laws of navigation ever navigate a ship? Does
the law of gravity pull the planets together? Does it unite or pull the atoms together? This word laws is
simply a mental abstraction signifying unerring action of conscious and semi-conscious energies in
nature.
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Gunas or Trigunas
(Sanskrit) Differentiated matter is considered to possess or to have in occult philosophy three essential
qualities or characteristics inherent in it, and their Sanskrit names are sattva, rajas, and tamas. These three
are the gunas or trigunas.
Guru
(Sanskrit) Sometimes gurudeva, "master divine." The word used in the old Sanskrit scriptures for
teacher, preceptor. According to the beautiful teachings of the ancient wisdom, the guru acts as the
midwife bringing to birth, helping to bring into the active life of the chela, the spiritual and intellectual
parts of the disciple -- the soul of the man. Thus the relationship between teacher and disciple is an
extremely sacred one, because it is a tie which binds closely heart to heart, mind to mind. The idea is,
again, that the latent spiritual potencies in the mind and heart of the learner shall receive such assistance
in their development as the teacher can karmically give; but it does not mean that the teacher shall do the
work that the disciple himself or herself must do. The learner or disciple must tread his own path, and the
teacher cannot tread it for him. The teacher points the way, guides and aids, and the disciple follows the
path.
Guru-parampara
(Sanskrit) This is a compound formed of guru, meaning "teacher," and a subordinate compound
param-para, the latter compound meaning "a row or uninterrupted series or succession." Hence
guru-parampara signifies an uninterrupted series or succession of teachers. Every Mystery school or
esoteric college of ancient times had its regular and uninterrupted series or succession of teacher
succeeding teacher, each one passing on to his successor the mystical authority and headship he himself
had received from his predecessor.
Like everything else of an esoteric character in the ancient world, the guru-parampara or succession of
teachers faithfully copied what actually exists or takes place in nature herself, where a hierarchy with its
summit or head is immediately linked on to a superior hierarchy as well as to an inferior one; and it is in
this manner that the mystical circulations of the kosmos, and the transmission of life or vital currents
throughout the fabric or web of being is assured.
From this ancient fact and teaching of the Mystery schools came the greatly distorted Apostolic
Succession of the Christian Church, a pale and feeble reflection in merely ecclesiastical government of a
fundamental spiritual and mystical reality. The great Brotherhood of the sages and seers of the world,
which in fact is the association of the Masters of Wisdom and Compassion headed by the Maha-chohan,
is the purest and most absolute form or example of the guru-parampara existing on our earth today. (See
also Hermetic Chain)
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Heaven and Hell
Every ancient exoteric religion taught that the so-called heavens are divided into steps or grades of
ascending bliss and purity; and the so-called hells into steps or grades of increasing purgation or
suffering. Now the esoteric doctrine or occultism teaches that the one is not a punishment, nor is the
other strictly speaking a reward. The teaching is, simply, that each entity after physical death is drawn to
the appropriate sphere to which the karmic destiny of the entity and the entity's own character and
impulses magnetically attract it. As a man works, as a man sows, in his life, that and that only shall he
reap after death. Good seed produces good fruit; bad seed, tares -- and perhaps even nothing of value or
of spiritual use follows a negative and colorless life.
After the second death, the human monad "goes" to devachan -- often called in theosophical literature the
heaven-world. There are many degrees in devachan: the highest, the intermediate, and the lowest. What
becomes of the entity, on the other hand, the lower human soul, that is so befouled and weighted with
earth thought and the lower instincts that it cannot rise? There may be enough in it of the spirit nature to
hold it together as an entity and enable it to become a reincarnating being, but it is foul, it is heavy; its
tendency is consequently downwards. Can it therefore rise into a heavenly felicity? Can it go even into
the lower realms of devachan and there enjoy its modicum of the beatitude, bliss, of everything that is
noble and beautiful? No. There is an appropriate sphere for every degree of development of the ego-soul,
and it gravitates to that sphere and remains there until it is thoroughly purged, until the sin has been
washed out, so to say. These are the so-called hells, beneath even the lowest ranges of devachan; whereas
the arupa heavens are the highest parts of the devachan. Nirvana is a very different thing from the
heavens. (See also Kama-Loka, Avichi, Devachan, Nirvana)
Hermetic Chain
Among the ancient Greeks there existed a mystical tradition of a chain of living beings, one end of which
included the divinities in their various grades or stages of divine authority and activities, and the other
end of which ran downwards through inferior gods and heroes and sages to ordinary men, and to the
beings below man. Each link of this living chain of beings inspired and instructed the chain below itself,
thus transmitting and communicating from link to link to the end of the marvelous living chain, love and
wisdom and knowledge concerning the secrets of the universe, eventuating in mankind as the arts and the
sciences necessary for human life and civilization. This was mystically called the Hermetic Chain or the
Golden Chain.
In the ancient Mysteries the teaching of the existence and nature of the Hermetic Chain was fully
explained; it is a true teaching because it represents distinctly and clearly and faithfully true and actual
operations of nature. More or less faint and distorted copies of the teaching of this Hermetic Chain or [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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conception.
One should not think of human forms when the theosophist speaks of the gods; we mean the arupa -- the
"formless" -- entities, beings of pure intelligence and understanding, relatively pure essences, relatively
pure spirits, formless as we physical humans conceive form. The gods are the higher inhabitants of
nature. They are intrinsic portions of nature itself, for they are its informing principles. They are as much
subject to the wills and energies of still higher beings -- call these wills and energies the "laws" of higher
beings, if you will -- as we are, and as are the kingdoms of nature below us.
The ancients put realities, living beings, in the place of laws which, as Occidentals use the term, are only
abstractions -- an expression for the action of entities in nature; the ancients did not cheat themselves so
easily with words. They called them gods, spiritual entities. Not one single great thinker of the ancients,
until the Christian era, ever talked about laws of nature, as if these laws were living entities, as if these
abstractions were actual entities which did things. Did the laws of navigation ever navigate a ship? Does
the law of gravity pull the planets together? Does it unite or pull the atoms together? This word laws is
simply a mental abstraction signifying unerring action of conscious and semi-conscious energies in
nature.
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Gunas or Trigunas
(Sanskrit) Differentiated matter is considered to possess or to have in occult philosophy three essential
qualities or characteristics inherent in it, and their Sanskrit names are sattva, rajas, and tamas. These three
are the gunas or trigunas.
Guru
(Sanskrit) Sometimes gurudeva, "master divine." The word used in the old Sanskrit scriptures for
teacher, preceptor. According to the beautiful teachings of the ancient wisdom, the guru acts as the
midwife bringing to birth, helping to bring into the active life of the chela, the spiritual and intellectual
parts of the disciple -- the soul of the man. Thus the relationship between teacher and disciple is an
extremely sacred one, because it is a tie which binds closely heart to heart, mind to mind. The idea is,
again, that the latent spiritual potencies in the mind and heart of the learner shall receive such assistance
in their development as the teacher can karmically give; but it does not mean that the teacher shall do the
work that the disciple himself or herself must do. The learner or disciple must tread his own path, and the
teacher cannot tread it for him. The teacher points the way, guides and aids, and the disciple follows the
path.
Guru-parampara
(Sanskrit) This is a compound formed of guru, meaning "teacher," and a subordinate compound
param-para, the latter compound meaning "a row or uninterrupted series or succession." Hence
guru-parampara signifies an uninterrupted series or succession of teachers. Every Mystery school or
esoteric college of ancient times had its regular and uninterrupted series or succession of teacher
succeeding teacher, each one passing on to his successor the mystical authority and headship he himself
had received from his predecessor.
Like everything else of an esoteric character in the ancient world, the guru-parampara or succession of
teachers faithfully copied what actually exists or takes place in nature herself, where a hierarchy with its
summit or head is immediately linked on to a superior hierarchy as well as to an inferior one; and it is in
this manner that the mystical circulations of the kosmos, and the transmission of life or vital currents
throughout the fabric or web of being is assured.
From this ancient fact and teaching of the Mystery schools came the greatly distorted Apostolic
Succession of the Christian Church, a pale and feeble reflection in merely ecclesiastical government of a
fundamental spiritual and mystical reality. The great Brotherhood of the sages and seers of the world,
which in fact is the association of the Masters of Wisdom and Compassion headed by the Maha-chohan,
is the purest and most absolute form or example of the guru-parampara existing on our earth today. (See
also Hermetic Chain)
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Heaven and Hell
Every ancient exoteric religion taught that the so-called heavens are divided into steps or grades of
ascending bliss and purity; and the so-called hells into steps or grades of increasing purgation or
suffering. Now the esoteric doctrine or occultism teaches that the one is not a punishment, nor is the
other strictly speaking a reward. The teaching is, simply, that each entity after physical death is drawn to
the appropriate sphere to which the karmic destiny of the entity and the entity's own character and
impulses magnetically attract it. As a man works, as a man sows, in his life, that and that only shall he
reap after death. Good seed produces good fruit; bad seed, tares -- and perhaps even nothing of value or
of spiritual use follows a negative and colorless life.
After the second death, the human monad "goes" to devachan -- often called in theosophical literature the
heaven-world. There are many degrees in devachan: the highest, the intermediate, and the lowest. What
becomes of the entity, on the other hand, the lower human soul, that is so befouled and weighted with
earth thought and the lower instincts that it cannot rise? There may be enough in it of the spirit nature to
hold it together as an entity and enable it to become a reincarnating being, but it is foul, it is heavy; its
tendency is consequently downwards. Can it therefore rise into a heavenly felicity? Can it go even into
the lower realms of devachan and there enjoy its modicum of the beatitude, bliss, of everything that is
noble and beautiful? No. There is an appropriate sphere for every degree of development of the ego-soul,
and it gravitates to that sphere and remains there until it is thoroughly purged, until the sin has been
washed out, so to say. These are the so-called hells, beneath even the lowest ranges of devachan; whereas
the arupa heavens are the highest parts of the devachan. Nirvana is a very different thing from the
heavens. (See also Kama-Loka, Avichi, Devachan, Nirvana)
Hermetic Chain
Among the ancient Greeks there existed a mystical tradition of a chain of living beings, one end of which
included the divinities in their various grades or stages of divine authority and activities, and the other
end of which ran downwards through inferior gods and heroes and sages to ordinary men, and to the
beings below man. Each link of this living chain of beings inspired and instructed the chain below itself,
thus transmitting and communicating from link to link to the end of the marvelous living chain, love and
wisdom and knowledge concerning the secrets of the universe, eventuating in mankind as the arts and the
sciences necessary for human life and civilization. This was mystically called the Hermetic Chain or the
Golden Chain.
In the ancient Mysteries the teaching of the existence and nature of the Hermetic Chain was fully
explained; it is a true teaching because it represents distinctly and clearly and faithfully true and actual
operations of nature. More or less faint and distorted copies of the teaching of this Hermetic Chain or [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]