Theosophy

[HaShev]

And Blavatsky's precepts is what they are using regarding spirit and by the way they were raised to understand soul & spirit, however this is not Judaic nor scientific reasoning, especially as you come to the time these things (processes) become revealed-exposed.
All these replies keep resorting back to pagan cultures still have no relations to Judaic precepts. JUST ACCEPT there are 2 trains of thought, and we were trying to bring you out of the archaic age of forfeiting this one gift of life for sake of making your fantasy one in death.
By chasing death as life you become opposition to creation and cause things like Jihaadist ideas of rewards in and through the portals of death. You become messengers of death and worshipers of death.
sources:
Jesus is the gate keeper with the keys to death and hades;-Revelations 1:18
And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
But Rev 9:1 says that's the fallen star aka Lucifer.
Rev 22:16 admits Jesus is the fallen star aka morning star=lucifer.

Rev 9:11 (notice our focus is brought to 9:11 for a reason)
They had as *king over them* *the angel of the Abyss*, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. *Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destroyer. Remember Jesus (who Apollonias helped create) himself admited being the one coming to destroy not bring peace:
(Matthew 10: 34-40.)

Thomas Verse 16 "Perhaps people think that I have come to bring peace to theworld. They do not know that I have come to bring conflict to the earth: fire, sword, war. For five people will be in a house: It will be three against two, and two against three, father against son, and son against father, and they will stand
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.Does this sound like a savior to save the world or the Abbadon= (destroyer) to destroy the world?

So 9:11 is a focus for you to recognize who the destroyer of the fabric of civilization.
As in focus on the SOURCE OF THIS DEATH WORSHIP.
Egyptian underworld teachings same as Greek death cultism regards false soul flying life in death. Jesus is partly based on a character who fled towards Egypt to learn this forbidden opposing teaching and renamed in Greek as the king of this death worship.
No better Proof then their claimed own words:
Apocryphon of James- "become seekers for death, like the dead who seek for life; for that which they seek is revealed to them. And what is there to trouble them?
As for you, when you
examine death it will teach you election.
Verily I say unto you, none of those who fear
death will be saved; for the kingdom of
death belongs to those who put themselves
to death!"
Even though the scripture is clear:
Jesus is the curse in chosing Death according to:
Deuteronomy\Devarim: 30:19 I call heaven
and earth to witness against you this
day,That I have set before you life and
death, the blessing and the curse;Therefore
choose life, that you may live, you and your
children.
The Church teaches the curse when
they say:"solution for mankind's dilemma
lies in suffering, and through the portals of
death" "Suffering Is Also God's
Gift” - Pope John Paul II Angelus, October
13, 1996, Gemelli Hospital.

 

[Skull]

Helena Blavatsky established the Theosophical Society on entirely unsectarian and non-political lines. She accentuated tirelessly the truths of Theosophy; she declared that man's essential divine nature was a potent quality which should be aroused continuously: i.e., that man was dual in his nature - that the higher, the nobler, the divine part, was the corrective and inspiring part, and that the human mind, no matter how splendidly trained, must be controlled by this higher self: before this, man could not find his true place or realize his latent possibilities.

She declared in her teachings that one who would know his strength, must find his divinity, not outside himself, but within; that he must understand the laws of evolution and involution; that spiritually he must realize that he is a part inseparable of the great human family; and that if he carried the investigation of Theosophy far enough, he would readily conceive of Deity as an all-powerful, omnipresent principle, rather than as a personal God existing at some point in space.

Katherine Tingley

 

[Skull]

Individuals in every age have more or less clearly apprehended the Theosophical doctrines and wrought them into the fabric of their lives. These doctrines belong exclusively to no religion, and are confined to no society or time. They are the birthright of every human soul. Such a thing as orthodoxy must be wrought out by each individual according to his nature and his needs, and according to his varying experience. This may explain why those who have imagined Theosophy to be a new religion have hunted in vain for its creed and its ritual. Its creed is Loyalty to Truth, and its ritual 'To honour every truth by use.'

Dr. JD Buck

 

[Skull]

The only palliative to the evils of life is union and harmony: a Brotherhood in actu, and altruism not simply in name. The suppression of one single bad cause will suppress not one, but a variety of bad effects. And if a Brotherhood or even a number of Brotherhoods may not be able to prevent nations from occasionally cutting each other’s throats — still unity in thought and action, and philosophical research into the mysteries of being, will always prevent some, (while trying to comprehend that which has hitherto remained to them a riddle,) from creating additional causes in a world already so full of woe and evil.

Helena Blavatsky writing on intentional action (karma) in 1887.

 

[Skull]

Occult philosophy reconciles the absurdity of postulating in the
manifested Universe an active Mind without an organ, (with that worse
absurdity, an objective Universe evolved as everything else in it, by blind
chance,) by giving to this Universe an organ of thought, a "brain." The
latter, although not objective to our senses, is none the less existing; it is
to be found in the Entity called KOSMOS (Adam Kadmon, in the
Kabbalah). As in the Microcosm, MAN, so in the Macrocosm, or the
Universe. Every "organ" in it is a sentient entity, and every particle of
matter of substance, from the physical molecule up to the spiritual atom,
is a cell, a nerve centre, which communicates with the brain-stuff or that
substance on the plane of divine Thought in which the prime ideation is
produced. Therefore, was man produced in the image of God—or Divine
Nature. Every cell in the human organism mysteriously corresponds
with a like "cell" in the divine organism or the manifested universe; only
the latter "cell" assumes in the macrocosm the gigantic proportions of
an intelligent unit in this or that "Hierarchy" of Beings. This, so far as the
differentiated, divine Mind is concerned, on its plane of ideation. This
eternal or ABSOLUTE THOUGHT—lies beyond and is, to us, inscrutable.

Blavatsky - Collected Writings XII:410

 

[Skull]

A small e-booklet on Theosophy and Christianity:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gdpmanu/th-xity/man_theosophy_and_christianity.pdf

 

[Skull]

A short survey of Theosophy, also available in print:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gdpmanu/ryan-wh/man_what_is_theosophy.pdf

 

[Aletheia4u]

Therefore, as a result of their transgression, the very thing which Adam's and Chava's souls lost was the ability to remain permanently in a physical world within a physical body.

Adam and Eve were never created immortal in the first place. They never had the ability to remain permanently in a physical body. No one ever had that ability......

What they lost was the ability to remain in the highest realm of conscious existence where God dwells as a living being and not some impersonal essence.

Thats why they did not die in the very day they ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, their death was not a biological death, but they were expelled from the realm of God to the east of Eden in the wilderness among every sort of foul and loathsome beast and bird where for the rest of their lives the sweat of their brow, thinking, would only produce thorns and thistles. This is the death they had to die for the rest of their days.


If you really believe that Adam and Eve lost the ability to remain permanently in a physical body, you are no messiah, much less an educated Jew. You don't even qualify as a sunday school teacher, an agnostic or even an atheist...

You do however bear a remarkable resemblance to that ever elusive talking serpent that crawls on its belly and eats dust....

Adam and Eve would of have had immortality. But on that very same day, the sixth day, they had disobeyed God. Then later on, God has shortened their lifespan. The flood has changed the earth's atmosphere that had caused the biology of all life to change.


Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

Hebrews 4:6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,

 

[Skull]

The theosophical movement is very ancient, Blavatsky only presented the latest outline of Theosophy.

Here is a theosophist, yet not a member of any Theosophical Society:

The central aim of Vedanta is to bring all to one unifying understanding, yet to let each one follow his own particular form of faith. When we try to force sameness of thought, it bars spiritual progress; but when we admit the possibility of perfect unity in variety, then each one is able to advance in his own way.

Vedanta realizes that as long as there are such differences in human temperament and mind, we cannot expect all to worship in the same manner. To destroy diversity in life would be to destroy much of its beauty and sublimity. Therefore Vedanta includes in its scope all forms of thought.

From Emerson and Vedanta by Swami Paramananda

 

[Skull]

A Dutch theosophist, André Kollen, working mostly alone over the last few years, has put all 15 volumes of Blavatsky's Collected Writings into three e-book formats. He worked from the actual books so everything is there that are in the books. They are not perfect yet, may be some typos and other minor problems, nor are they ready yet for public release.

At any rate, for your enjoyment, here is a sample - CW I in the three formats:

BCW I, PDF:STACK

BCW I .epub:STACK

BCW I .mobi:STACK

He is the founder of Voice of Theosophy website.

 

[Skull]

Here is André's Newsletter explaining about his theosophy project:

Newsletter

 

[Skull]

Theosophy teaches, as foremost of all virtues, altruism and self-sacrifice, brotherhood and compassion for every living creature, without, for all that, worshipping Man or Humanity.

Blavatsky

 

[godsandmen]

Theosophy has some nice attributes, but it also has a whole lot of bullshit. I get wary anytime someone claims their writings were written via 'automatic writing', being directly dictated by some dude named Koot Hoomi, who was supposedly living on top of some Himalayan mountain. And the ridiculous teaching regarding Atlantis, among other things, are just silly. Red flags all over the place!

 

[Skull]

Have not read this spiritual adventure for many years. For an exploration of India in the 1880s by Helena Blavatsky do consider it. She wrote it installments for Russian magazines. It is much more than a travelogue.
This translation is by Boris de Zirkoff, her distant relative and is the only complete one. The other one that is all over the internet was done in 1892 and was chopped down to less than half the size of the original.

From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan: H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

 

[Skull]

Program of a European conference on Death & Dying in mid-October 2018:

http://europeanschooloftheosophy.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DratProgram-2018-2.pdf

 

[Skull]

Here is an interview with an theosophic Indian Sage, Sri M. Use the Caption option if his English is hard to follow.

410. Sri M, Second Interview

 

[Skull]

One of the very best biographies of Blavatsky is now in PDF format:

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/cranston/HPB-Cranston_ebook.pdf

 

[Skull]

The law of karma and rebirth powerfully affects human life. Here is a little from Christmas Humphreys booklet Karma and Rebirth:

"Only by studying, and to some extent grasping, an outline of the Wisdom of which Karma and Rebirth are part can the meanest vision of the doctrine be attained, and even then it is difficult to examine it apart from the Wisdom itself from which, as sunlight in the air, it is inseparable. Yet the difficulty is largely of our own making. For centuries the Western mind has been building up an utterly false notion of a separate ‘I’, and it is hard for us to grasp a view of existence in which the separative self is viewed as an illusion and the father of all suffering. It follows, whether or not the idea be pleasing to the scholar mind, that only he who treads the Way which leads to the end of separative self-hood will attain to understanding of the Wisdom wherein self, as something separate, can have no abiding-place.

Study, deep study, quiet meditation on the living principles revealed in that study, and the constant, self-regardless application of those principles to daily life, these alone will provide the final ‘proof’ of the laws of Karma and Rebirth, and only he who knows them thus will be in a position to offer to the West, by the written and the spoken word and by the force of character, the Wisdom of which the West has so abundant and so urgent need."

Christmas Humphreys, 1942

 

[Skull]

Humphreys continues:

"The word Karma, or in its neuter form, Karman (in Pali, Kamma), is a Sanskrit word from the root kri, meaning to do or to make. Karma is therefore ‘doing’ or ‘making’, but in the course of time the word has been applied to what Lessing has described as the oldest doctrine in the world. It may be viewed exoterically, from the material point of view, in which case it is merely the law of causation, the balance of cause and effect, the fact known in every science laboratory that action and reaction are equal and opposite. Esoterically, from the spiritual point of view, Karma is the law of moral retribution, whereby not only does every cause have an effect, but he who puts the cause in action suffers the effect. Professor Radhakrishnan has called it ‘the law of the conservation of moral energy’...
This law of merit and demerit, Karma in the sense of the reign of moral law, is neither particularly Hindu, Buddhist nor Theosophical. It is fundamental in all Oriental philosophy, and was preached by St. Paul. ‘Brethren, be not deceived. God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.’ For the first few centuries of Christianity it remained a cardinal belief in the West. But at the Council of Constantinople, in A.D. 551, the Christian Fathers, finding the doctrine of Rebirth incompatible with the curious system of thought which they were in the process of creating, decided that belief in Rebirth should be henceforth anathema, and with this doctrine went that which
makes it necessary of acceptance, Karma."

 

[Skull]

Humphreys continues:

"The word Karma, or in its neuter form, Karman (in Pali, Kamma), is a Sanskrit word from the root kri, meaning to do or to make. Karma is therefore ‘doing’ or ‘making’, but in the course of time the word has been applied to what Lessing has described as the oldest doctrine in the world. It may be viewed exoterically, from the material point of view, in which case it is merely the law of causation, the balance of cause and effect, the fact known in every science laboratory that action and reaction are equal and opposite. Esoterically, from the spiritual point of view, Karma is the law of moral retribution, whereby not only does every cause have an effect, but he who puts the cause in action suffers the effect. Professor Radhakrishnan has called it ‘the law of the conservation of moral energy’...
This law of merit and demerit, Karma in the sense of the reign of moral law, is neither particularly Hindu, Buddhist nor Theosophical. It is fundamental in all Oriental philosophy, and was preached by St. Paul. ‘Brethren, be not deceived. God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.’ For the first few centuries of Christianity it remained a cardinal belief in the West. But at the Council of Constantinople, in A.D. 551, the Christian Fathers, finding the doctrine of Rebirth incompatible with the curious system of thought which they were in the process of creating, decided that belief in Rebirth should be henceforth anathema, and with this doctrine went that which
makes it necessary of acceptance, Karma."