Exoteric - This word when applied particularly to the great philosophical and religious systems of belief, does not mean false. The word merely means teachings of which the keys have not been openly given. Exotericism, that is to say, the outward and popular formulation of religious and philosophical doctrines, revile the truth, the self-assurance of ignorance, alas, always revile the truth, whereas esotericism reveals the truth. One view of philosophy is an operation of the human spirit-mind in its endeavor to understand not merely the how of things, but the why of things. why and how things are as they are. Philosophy is one phase of a triform method of understanding the nature of nature of universal nature and of its multiform and multifold workings and philosophy cannot be separated from the other phases (science and religion), if we wish to gain a true and complete picture of things as they are in themselves. It is a capital mistake of Western thought to suppose that science, religion and philosophy are three separate and unr4lated operations of thought. The idea when pondered upon is immediately seen to be ludicrously false, because all these three are but phases of operations of human consciousness. Not one of these three, philosophy, religion or science, can be divorced from the other two and if the attempt be made so to divorce them, the result is spiritual and intellectual dissatisfaction, and the mind senses an incompleteness. Consequently any philosophy which is unscientific and unreligious or any religion which is unsciencific and unphilophical, and any science which is unphilosophical and unreligioous is de facto erroneous because incomplete. These three are aspects or phases of a fundamental reality which is consciousness. Philosophy is that aspect of the human consciousness which is correlative and which seeks the bonds of union among things and exposes them, when found, as existing in the manifold and diverse forms of natural processes and the so-called laws which demonstrate their existence Okay, heavy enough... although Michael Durst, PHD in his book "Napkin Notes: On the Art of Living" probably didn't write the following to be equated to any philosophical metaphors, I included it here not only to bend your mind, but to..... Certainly people seem to have the same, or similar events reoccur, often...Some people can never find a parking space. Some people are always in trouble. Some people always have rotten marriages. Some people always have S.O.B bosses. Just coincidences? Sounds like allot of shoveling...no coincidence. No magic. No luck. If you ask yourself "how" you created the event in your experience you years to study quantum physics, to get a sense of thought/energy transformation and biogravitational, self organizing field forces and then your mind may reject it anyway. If you ask yourself why you created the event in your experiences you may a) never figure it out b) not know for years , the significant pieces of the puzzle called your life c) catch a terrible disease called "paralysis by analysis " (i.e through analyzing your life you may stop living it and experiencing it. You may become totally paralyzed) TAKE A LOOK AT IT. If you get killed in an accident it may not have been your fault, however, you are definitely responsible for being dead. Up
Drop a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, a dollar, a pledge in the golden plate as its passed your way and as you pass it on to the next fool, as the choir sings in off key tenor. That's what I remember as religion, or going to church. I was a child of Downtown San Jose Methodist Church off Santa Clara street and 5th (that sadly burnt down to Los Gatos off Lark). I remember sneaking up to the bell tower when I cut Sunday school class. Why do churches always have that "odd" smell that doesn't seem to be anywhere else in nature, the world, the forest, the locker room???? And how does a reader of this web page know when what is written is my original keystrokes (some would call bullshit)??? I guess I'm somewhere in between Gore and Bush, but I"ve often been called a genius by the unseen., by those who also said I was imperfect, and by "whispers" who said I was going blind because their laserlight tired my eyes.... If you are Friends -By- Intel don't contact me on the Net, only reply on the zenith or deliver me a pepperoni pizza with olives, (and wait for me in your delivery mobile) no mushrooms please..... An operation of the human spirit-mind in its endeavor to understand not merely the how of things, but the why of things. but comprising in addition a yearning and striving towards self conscious union with the divine. All and in endlessly growing self conscious identification with the cosmic divine-spiritual realities Human religion is the expression of that aspect of man's/woman's consciousness which is intuitional, aspirational and mystical, and which is often deformed and distorted in its lower forms by the emotional in man. It is usual among modern Europeans to derive the word religion from the Latin verb meaning "to bind back" - religion. But there is another derivation which is the one that Cicero choose, and of course he was a Roman himself and had great skill and deep knowledge in the use of his own native tongue. This other derivation comes from a Latin root meaning "to select" "to choose" from which, likewise, we have the word lex, law i.e. the course of conduct or rule of action which is chosen as the best, and is therefore followed in the other words, that which is the best of its kind,as ascertained by selection, by trail and by proof. Thus then, the meaning of the word from the Latin religion means a careful selection of fundamental belief and motives by the higher or spiritual intellect, a faculty of intuitional judgement and understanding, and a consequent abiding by that selection, resulting in a course of life and conduct in all respects following the convictions that have been arrived at. This is the religious spirit. To t his, the theosophist would add the following very important idea; behind all the various religions and philosophies of ancient men who have ever lived, the founders and builders of the various world religions and world philosophies, and this sublime system in fundamental has been the same everywhere over the face of the globe. Up
A compound Greek word; theo, "a divine being" - sophia; "wisdom." hence, divine wisdom. Theosophy is the majestic-religion on the archaic ages and is as old as think man. It was delivered to the first human protoplasts, the first thinking human being on this earth, by highly intelligent spiritual entities from superior sphere. The ancient doctrine, this esoteric system, has been passed down from guardians to guardians through innumerable generations until our own time. Furthermore, portions of this original and majestic system have been given out at various periods of time to various races in various parts of the world by those guardians when humanity stood in need of such extension and elaboration of spiritual and intellectual thought. Theosophy is not a syncretistic philosophy-religion-science, a system of though or belief which has been put together piecemeal and consisting of parts or portions taken by some great mind from other various religions or philosophies. This idea is false. On the contrary, theosophy is that single system or systematic formulation of the facts of visible and invisible nature which as expressed through the illuminated human mind, takes the apparently separate forms of science and of philosophy and of religion. we may likewise describe theosophy to be the formulation in human language of the nature, structure, origin, destiny, and operations of the cosmically universe and of the multitudes of beings which infill it. It might be added that theosophy, in the language of H.P. Blavatsky is "the sub-stratum and basis of all the world religions and philosophies taught and practiced by a few elect ever since man became a thinking being. In its practical bearing. Theosophy is purely divine ethics; the definitions in dictionaries are pure nonsense based on religious prejudice and ignorance Up
Planes And States of Consciousness Most people are inclined to look upon the seven planes or worlds in any universe as lying one on top of another like a pile of books on a table. This of course is an erroneous concept and has arisen because of the attempt to portray these cosmic planes in the form of a diagram. However, this is but a means of helping us to realize that the higher the plane the more ethereal it is, and finally the more spiritual, and that the lower the plane the grosser it is and finally more material. Actually the cosmic planes interpenetrate each other, inwards especially, as well as outwards and the truth of this should be clear when we remember the teaching concerning the auric egg, for instance of a man. Let us take the "layers" of such an auric egg as being the exact correspondence of the planes in the cosmos. We immediately realize that these layers are not one on top of another and rising above man's head until they reach infinity, but are groups of life atoms, all together composing the auric egg, and differing only in degree of spirituality and materiality. The first or highest cosmic plane is the first or highest layer of the auric egg of the cosmos, or what we may call the cosmic ATMA, the Paramatman. The second or next lower cosmic plane is in its highest in essence equal to the second atmic subplane of the first cosmic plane or great atmic plane. The third cosmic plane is in its highest is in its highest in essence equal to the third atmic subplane of the first cosmic plane and so forth down the scale. Thus the atmic subplane of the seventh or lowest cosmic plane is in its essence the same as the seventh or lowest subplane of the highest or atmic hierarchy of the cosmos. It is as it were, a reflection of the lowest sub atmic plane of the first cosmic plane. This is why every little life atom, even on the this physical plane, is a sevenfold entity, because possessing at its heart the essence of the first cosmic plane or highest atma of the cosmos, plus the essence of all the intermediate five cosmic planes. Up
This is a noun-form coming from the root kri meaning "to do," "to make." Literally karma means "doing" "making" action. But when used philosophical sense, it has a technical meaning and this technical meaning can best be translated into English by the word consequence. The idea is this: When an entity acts, he acts from within; he acts through an expenditure in greater pr less degree of his own native energy. This expenditure of energy, this outflowing of energy, as it impacts upon the surrounding milieu, the nature around us, brings forth from latter perhaps an instantaneous or perhaps a delayed reaction or rebound. Nature, in other words, react against the impact and the combination of these two - of energy acting upon nature and nature reacting against the impact of that energy. Karma is in other words, essentially a chain of causation, stretching back into the infinity of the future. It is unescapable, because it is in universal nature; which is infinite and therefore everywhere and timeless and sooner or later the reaction will invitably be felt by the entity which aroused it. (For every cause there is an effect. The longer the distance between the cause and the effect, the greater the effect) An example of Karma is what theosophist means when he speaks of family karma as contrasted with one's own individual karma; or natural karma, the series of consequences pertaining to the nation of which he is an individual; or again, the racial karma pertaining to the race of which the individual is an integral member. Karma cannot be said either to punish or to reward in the ordinary meaning of these terms. Its action is unerringly just for being a part of nature's own operations, all karmic action ultimately can be traced back to the cosmic heart of harmony which is the same thing as saying pure consciousness-spirit. The doctrine is extremely comforting to humans minds, inasmuch as man may carve his own destiny and indeed must do so. Up
Universal nature, our great parent, exist inseparable in each of us, in each entity everywhere, and no separation of the part from the whole, of the individual from the cosmos, is possible in any other than a purely illusory sense. This points out to us with uttering definiteness and also directs us to the sublime path to utter reality. It is the path inwards, ever onwards within, which is endless and which leads into vast inner realms of wisdom and knowledge for, a all the great world philosophies tell us so truly, if you, know yourself you then know the universe, because each one of you is inseparable part of it and it is all in you, its child. It is obvious from this last reflection that the sole-essential differences between any two grades of evolving entities which infill and compose the cosmos is a difference of consciousness, of understanding and this consciousness and understanding come to the evolving entry in only one way, by unwrapping or unfolding the intrinsic faculties or powers of that entity's own inner being. This is THE PATH, as the mystics of all ages have put it. The pathway is within yourself. There is no other pathway for you individually than the pathway leading ever inwards towards your own inner god. The pathway of another is the same pathway for the other, but it is not your pathway, because your pathway us your SELF, as it is for that other one his SELF, and yet, wonder of wonders, mysteries of mysteries, the SELF is the same in all. All tread the same pathway, but each man/woman must tread it themselves, ands no one can tread it for another; and this pathway leads to unutterable splendor, to unutterable expansion of consciousness to unthinkable bliss, to perfect peace. Up
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