Another very clear aspect of the above description given by Leadbeater is the decisive role and immense responsibility of the elites in relation to the welfare of the population as a whole. By “elites” we here refer to those with higher psycho-spiritual potential. This fact will be addressed in more detail further on, but in the analysis… Read More
Resultados da pesquisa por: Anna Kingsford
Humanity As a Universal Brotherhood: a Fact or Law in Nature
“The Universal Brotherhood Is a Law, Not Only an Aspiration Before we begin our examination of the bases for the currents prevailing in our times, and considering the facts just analyzed, there is an aspect of the greatest importance with regard to the view of humanity constituting a universal brotherhood such as has been presented… Read More
The Inner Constitution of Man
“It is not possible for us to reach an exact understanding of the fundamental importance of this aspect (of the manifested Diversity) to the principle or law of the brotherhood of all humanity without taking into account the knowledge of the inner constitution of man or the evolutionary process of the human Soul through successive… Read More
The Evolution of Man’s Higher Self
“The next point to be considered is how these bodies behave in the process of successive reincarnations as this will grant us a better understanding of the principal aspect of Diversity in the human brotherhood, which is the fact that humanity is made up of beings of different ages or different stages of spiritual evolution.… Read More
Faith Without Understanding Is Credulity
“True it is ‘faith that saves,’ but the faith that is without understanding is not faith, but credulity.” (Edward Maitland. The Story of the New Gospel of Interpretation, xi; emphasis added)
Ecclesiasticism Is Intolerant of All Other Faiths and Religious Systems; This Attitude Towards Buddhism Is Suicidal to Christianity
“Now one of the most deplorable features of Ecclesiasticism is its habitual intolerance of all other faiths and religious systems, despite their antiquity, authenticity, fundamental similarity, and standing. It regards them not as friends, but as rivals and foes; not to be understood, appreciated, and – in part at least – assimilated, but to be… Read More
Buddha’s Doctrine: Complete Regeneration of Mind and Indispensable Precursor of the Doctrine of Christ
“For the fact is that the doctrine of the Buddha, with its Four Great Truths and its Noble Eightfold Path, its boundless compassion towards all sentient life, its reasonable ethical teaching of development through self-conquest and self-culture, its simple yet profound analysis of suffering and sorrow with the method of escape therefrom (…), its entire… Read More
Buddhism and Christianity Are Parts of the Same Gospel
“In brief, they are not two gospels but two aspects, the without and the within, of one Gospel. For Buddhism finds its translation and completion in Christianity, and Christianity its inception and foundation in Buddhism.” (Bertram McCrie. The Living Truth in Christianity, pp. 26-27; emphasis added)
(The) Interpretation of Your Bibles
“That which you need on Earth is the interpretation of your Bibles, and of all the Scriptures which contain the hidden wisdom, the mystery of which St. Paul so often speaks as existing from the foundation of the world. [As in Romans 16:25]” (Edward Maitland, editor. A Message to Earth, p. 69. See Selected Texts,… Read More
Two Things About the Christian Religion
“At the present moment there are two things about the Christian religion which must be obvious to every percipient person; one, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” [Matthew Arnold, quoted in The Perfect Way p. 6 — see also in Selected Texts, Quotes and… Read More