“As it was no part of the design of the Gospels to represent the whole course of the Man Regenerate, so neither was it a part of that design to provide, in respect of religious life and doctrine, a system whole and complete independently of any which had preceded it. (…) Christianity, in its original… Read More
Categoria: Buddhist Christianity
Gospel of Interpretation: Appealing to the Intellectual As Well As to the Devotional Side
“In an age distinguished, as is the present, by all-embracing research, exhaustive analysis, and unsparing criticism, no religious system can endure unless it appeals to the intellectual as well as to the devotional side of man’s nature. At present the faith of Christendom is languishing on account of a radical defect in the method of… Read More
Bible Presents the Fall and Redemption of the Souls Under the Form of Symbols and Parables
“Only let us once read the Bible with vision, unobscured by a veil of blood, and undistorted by prejudice, and its whole mystery – the mystery of our fall and of our redemption – becomes clear as the cloudless sky. For then we can trace as occurring in our own souls the whole process from… Read More
Once the Veil of Symbolism is Lifted All Churches Are Akin, and the Basic Doctrine of All Is identical
“Once the veil of symbolism is lifted from the divine face of Truth, all Churches are akin, and the basic doctrine of all is identical (…). Greek, Hermetic, Buddhist, Vedantist, (1) Christian – all these Lodges of the Mysteries are fundamentally one and identical in doctrine. (…) We hold that no single ecclesiastical creed is… Read More
Bible, Collection of Parables About the History of the Soul: Persons, Peoples, Animals etc, Are Symbols – To Materialize the Symbols Is to Commit Idolatry
“The Bible, in short, may be defined as a collection of parables setting forth the history of the Soul from its first descent into matter, to its final return to its original condition of pure spirit. And as the Soul undergoes the same process whether it be one or many — a person, a church,… Read More
At Some Distant Day It Will Become a Religion of Great Nations
“I know that at some distant day, now, indeed, perhaps very remote, the message we preach in a corner will become a religion of great nations.” (Anna Kingsford. Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism, p. 1; emphasis added)
The Credo of Christendom
The Credo of Christendom Exposition I (1) Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae (I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth). THE Christian Faith is the direct heir of the old Roman faith. Rome was the heir of Greece, and Greece of Egypt, whence the Mosaic dispensation and… Read More
It Is Necessary to Gradually Transmit the Perennial Philosophy, Always with Direct Inferences from Science
“Yet it is absolutely necessary to inculcate it gradually [N.A.: the doctrine They promulgated], enforcing its theories, unimpeachable facts for those who know, with direct inferences deduced from and corroborated by modern exact science.” (Mahachohan. In C. Jinarajadasa, editor. Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, 1st Series, letter n. 1, p. 2; emphasis added)
Complete Spiritual Freedom Is Also Called God, Buddha, Enlightenment, or Theosophy
“For as everyone knows, total emancipation from authority of the one all-pervading power or law (Note: the law of Karma) called God by the priests – Buddha, Divine Wisdom and enlightenment or Theosophy, by the philosophers of all ages (…).” (Mahachoan. In C. Jinarajadasa, editor. Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, 1st Series, letter n.… Read More
Idolaters and Idolatry
“Idolatry consists in the materialisation of spiritual Mysteries: They are Idolaters who understand the things of Sense where the things of the Spirit are alone implied, and who conceal the true Features of the Gods with material and spurious presentations. Idolatry is Materialism, the common and original Sin of Men, which replaces Spirit by Appearance,… Read More