The World-mystery: Four Essays

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Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895 - 160 pages
 

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Page 18 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 15 - I, O Gudakesha, am the SELF, seated in the heart of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end of all beings.
Page 30 - He it was who found out the way to the home which cannot be taken away : " Those who are now born (follow) by their own paths to the place whither our ancient fathers have departed.
Page 20 - Soul, which was itself the primal oblation placed within all creatures, be united by devout meditation with the Spirit supremely blest, and supremely intelligent!
Page 36 - Death," he says, in another place, " is to life as going away is to coming. How can we know that to die here is not to be born elsewhere ? How can we tell whether, in their eager rush for life, men are not under a delusion? How can I tell whether, if I die to-day, my lot may not prove far preferable to what it was when I. was originally born?" "Ah ! men know the dreadfulness of death ; but they do not know its rest.
Page 35 - ... things had a beginning. The time when there was yet no beginning had a beginning itself. There was a. beginning to the time when the time that had no beginning had not begun. There is existence, and there is also non-existence. In the time which had no beginning there existed Nothing — or a Vacuum. When the time which had no beginning had not yet begun, then there also existed Nothing. Suddenly, there was Nothing ; but it cannot be known, respecting existence and non-existence, what was certainly...
Page 19 - May that Soul of mine, which mounts aloft in my waking hours, as an ethereal spark, and which, even in my slumber, has a like ascent, soaring to a great distance, as an emanation from the light of lights, be united by devout meditation with the Spirit supremely blest, and supremely intelligent...
Page 20 - May this soul of mine, which is a ray of perfect wisdom, pure intellect, and permanent existence, which is the unextinguishable light fixed within created bodies, without which no good act is performed, be united by devout meditation with the Spirit supremely blest and supremely intelligent.
Page 20 - May that Soul of mine, which is a Ray of perfect Wisdom, pure Intellect and permanent Existence, which is the inextinguishable Light fixed within created bodies, without which no good act is performed, be united by devout meditation with the Spirit supremely blest, and supremely intelligent!

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