soteriology
Esoteric Lineage
A historical or mythical chain of transmission for secret wisdom from master to disciple across time and cultures — the credential of the teaching, not merely its content. Distinct from oral_tradition (the spoken-not-written modality of transmission, which a lineage may or may not use) and hidden_sayings (the concealment-for-readiness of a teaching's meaning, independent of who transmitted it or in what unbroken chain).
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page xvii]] INTRODUCTORY.
------- "Gently to hear, kindly to judge." -- S HAKESPEARE.
S INCE the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become customary to c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 2)
“"When Buddhi absorbs our E GOtism (destroys it) with all its Vikaras, Avalokiteshvara becomes manifested to us, and Nirvana, or Mukti, is reached," "Mukti" being the same as Nirvana, i.e.
, freedom from the trammels of "Maya" or illusion.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 3)
“I say "a few truths," advisedly, because that which must remain unsaid could not be contained in a hundred such volumes, nor could it be imparted to the present generation of Sadducees.
But, even the little that is now given is better than…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 4)
“*** According to the same tradition the now desolate regions of the waterless land of Tarim -- a true wilderness in the heart of Turkestan -- were in the days of old covered with flourishing and wealthy cities.
At present, hardly a few ver…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 6)
“When, however, he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that Odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the Veda and of Homer" ( Compar.
Theol., p.
318), he has not the slightest " h…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 7)
“Thus, though the Mother of Mercury (Budha, Thot-Hermes, etc.), was Maia, the mother of Buddha (Gautama), also Maya, and the mother of Jesus, likewise Maya (illusion, for Mary is Mare, the Sea, the great illusion symbolically) -- yet these t…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 8)
“This statement is rendered more credible by a consideration of the following facts: the tradition of the thousands of ancient parchments saved when the Alexandrian library was destroyed; the thousands of Sanskrit works which disappeared in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 2 (part 9)
“I believe in the ancients and therefore I love them."** (Quoted in "Science of Religions" by Max Muller.) The writer loves them too, and therefore believes in the ancients, and the modern heirs to their Wisdom.
And believing in both, she n…”
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The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter I (part 1)
“CHAPTER I THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY "The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding"--The Kybalion.
From old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric and occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 4. Projection Of The Etheric Body-a
“BEFORE we can leave the subject of attack by incarnate human beings, we must consider the subject of etheric projection.
In this case not only is the mind at work, but also something which is pretty nearly physical; sufficiently physical,…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 4. Projection Of The Etheric Body-d
“I had had enough experience of practical occultism to know that the thing I had called into visible manifestation could be controlled by my will provided I did not panic; but that if I lost my nerve and it got the upper hand, I had a Franke…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-b
“Such cases are by no of means uncommon, and clear up rapidly when the victim is separated from the vampire.
Whenever there is a record of a close and dominating bond between two people with the devitalisation of one of them, it is a good p…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 7. The Pathology Of Non-Human Contacts-f
“I smashed my way through two entire tea-sets and all the mantelpiece ornaments.
The ornaments just fell off the mantelpiece one by one of their own accord.
I actually saw two of them do it.
I did not know at the time that the Element of…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 8. The Risks Incidental To Ceremonial Magic-a
“If the problem of psychic self-defence is to be adequately dealt with, we must have an understanding of a subject upon which very little has been written - the nature of the forces of intelligent and organised evil.
The great faiths of the…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 8. The Risks Incidental To Ceremonial Magic-e
“Enough must be hinted, however, to reveal what, under certain circumstances, may be experienced.
I do not think it in the least likely, however, that the Qlippotic demons will be encountered save through the use of ceremonial magic.
They…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 11. The Psychic Element In Mental Disturbance-b
“The surrounding country, too, is reduced to a morass, neither land nor water.
In other words, the temperament becomes tempestuous and unduly emotional, and the non-emotional factors of the mind, such as judgment and self-control, are demor…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 12. Methods Employed In Making A Psychic Attack-e
“The curser declares, “I curse you by so and so.” This is the form of evocation which calls the ensouling essence into the thought- form, thus making an artificial elemental which is endowed with an independent life of its own.
If we want t…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 14. The Motives Of Psychic Attack. II-a
“IT is a matter of general knowledge among occultists that it is not a pleasant thing to fall foul of an occult fraternity of which one has been made a member by means of a ceremonial initiation and to which one is bound by oaths.
As we hav…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 1
“PREFACE. THE Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation. to generation, is the primitive book of ancient initiation. This has been clearly demonstrated by Guillaume Postel, Court de Gébelin, Etteila, Eliphas Levi, and J…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 2 (part 2)
“ANDROGONY: Key to the 2nd Septenary 133 7th Card--The Chariot (Zain) 135 8th Card--Justice (Cheth) 138 9th Card--The Hermit (Teth) 142 10th Card--The Wheel of Fortune (Yod) 145 11th Card--Strength (Kaph) 148 12th Card--The Hanged Man (Lamed…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 2 (part 3)
“Introduction : To our Lady Readers--Astronomy and Astrology--Intuition--Fortune-telling by the Tarot in Seven Lessons 301 1 st Lesson --Simplification of the Rules of Fortune-telling by the Tarot 305 2 nd Lesson --Minor Arcana--Significatio…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter I (part 1)
“THE TAROT.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE TAROT.
Approaching End of Materialism--Synthesis--The Occult Science--The Secret Societies--The Cultus-- The People , Organ of the Transmission of Esoterism--The Gypsies--The Sacred…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter I (part 2)
“prove that the present form of Freemasonry has almost entirely lost the meanings of the traditional symbols, which constitute the trust which it ought to have transmitted through the ages.
The elaborate ceremonials of the ritual appear rid…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter I (part 3)
“Understanding none of the truths which it possessed, it carefully abstained from altering them in an way, and treated the least attack made upon them as sacrilege.
Thus the Jews have transmitted intact to us the letters which form the Seph…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter I (part 4)
“Iesus Nazareus Rex Iudeorum are the opposite poles, scientific and religious, physical and metaphysical, of the same doctrine.
YOD-HE-VAU-HE (יהוה) is the word which indicates to you both, Freemasons and Kabbalists, the Unity of your origi…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter II (part 2)
“The ancients used a dot in the centre of a circle as the symbol of this idea, the representation of the Unity-principle ( the dot ) in the centre of eternity ( the circle , a line without beginning or end).
According to these demonstration…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IV
“CHAPTER IV. ANALOGY BETWEEN THE SACRED WORD AND NUMBERS. The Kabbalistic Word and the Series of Numbers--Explanation of the Tetractys of Pythagoras--Figuration of the General Law. NUMBERS AND THE KABBALISTIC WORD. This sequence of numbers 1…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter V (part 3)
“Ut us, however, return to our deduction, and by summing up the results obtained, we shall find-- Representations of the Yod : The King The 1 or Ace The 4 The 7 Representations of the He : The Queen The 2 The 5 The 8 Representations of the V…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 1)
“CHAPTER IX.
HISTORY OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TAROT.
INQUIRY INTO ITS ORIGIN.
The Tarot is an Egyptian Book--Its Transformations--Mantegna's Pack--Venetian Tarot--Florentine Tarot--Bolognese--Hindu Tarot--Chinese Tarot--Modern Tarots--Ette…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 2)
“6 The Knight.
16 Thalia.
26 Music.
36 Strength.
46 Jupiter.
7 The Doge.
17 Melpomene.
27 Poetry.
37 Justice.
47 Saturn.
8 The King.
18 Euterpe.
28 Philosophy.
38 Charity.
48 8th sphere.
9 The Emperor.
19 Clio.
29 Astrology.…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 4)
“The Tarot of Watillaux , or pack of the princess Tarot, reproduces the minor arcana very correctly.
It is worth consideration on this account.
The Italian Tarot, that of Besançon and of Marseilles , are unquestionably the best which we no…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter IX (part 5)
“But the labours of Court de Gébelin , and above all of Fabre d'Olivet , are the most remarkable in this respect.
In his Langue Hébraïque Restituée , this learned Initiate established the existence of primitive hieroglyphic signs from which…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter X
“CHAPTER X. THE SYMBOLICAL TAROT. THE FIRST SEPTENARY, 1ST TO 7TH ARCANA. THEOGONY. Scheme of Work--Key to the 1st Septenary--The 1st Card of the Tarot the Origin of all the others--The three Principles of the Absolute--The Trinity--Figure o…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 13 (part 1)
“THE FIRST CARD OF THE TAROT.
ORIGIN OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF ALL THE OTHERS.
We see from our preceding work that if we know the exact meaning of the first card of the Tarot we can, from that, discover the signification of all the others.…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 13 (part 2)
“But our conclusions do not stop here.
If we study these three primitive principles more attentively we shall find in the first: Providence or the Element of Wisdom, represented in philosophy by the word God .
Destiny or Being shows us its…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 14 (part 2)
“The men of the 2nd He , the multitude from which the other classes are continually recruited: the People.
The four great symbols are placed upon the table at random, and Man rules them and must arrange them; in the twenty-first arcana we s…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 18 (part 1)
“THE POPE.
THE POPE.
5.
ה 5th Hebrew letter (He).
ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FIFTH CARD OF THE TAROT.
The hieroglyphic meaning of He is aspiration, breath.
It is by aspiration that life is incessantly maintained and created.
Hence…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 26
“THE HANGED MAN. THE HANGED MAN. 12. ל 12th Hebrew letter (Lamed). ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TWELFTH CARD OF THE TAROT. Hieroglyphically the Lamed designates the arm, and therefore it is connected with anything that stretches, that rais…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XIV (part 1)
“CHAPTER XIV.
GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE SYMBOLICAL TAROT.
THEOGONY--ANDROGONY--COSMOGONY.
Involution and Evolution.
Theogony --The Absolute according to Wronski, Lacuria, and the Tarot--Theogony of divers Religions identical with that of th…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 1)
“CHAPTER XVI.
THE ASTRONOMICAL TAROT.
Egyptian Astronomy--The Four Seasons--The Twelve Months----The Thirty--six Decani--The Planets--Absolute Analogy with the Tarot--Figure containing, the Application of the Tarot to Astronomy--Key to the…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 4)
“The Tarot is a deduction of the sideral book of Henoch , who is Henochia; it is modelled from the astral wheel of Athor , which is As-taroth , resembling the Indian ot-tara , the polar bear or arc-tura of the north; it is the major force (…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 7)
“It is impossible for us to retrace through the darkness of the middle ages the origin of the twenty-two significative figures known as atouts , in the pack of seventy-eight cards by which the Gypsies claim to reveal the secrets of fate.
St…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVII (part 1)
“CHAPTER XVII.
THE INITIATIVE TAROT.
Ch.
Barlet's Essay on this Subject--Involution and Evolution--The Hours of Apollonius of Tyana--The Phases of Initiation represented by the Tarot.
THE INITIATIVE TAROT.
APPLICATION` OF THE TAROT TO T…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVII (part 4)
“But since, as our sciences prove to us, the Kosmos itself is in a state of evolutive movement, and since according to their teachings this movement clearly inclines towards a progressive synthesis, which spiritualizes the living being by en…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 46 (part 8)
“The first E, the celestial Mother (arcana II.), is found in the arcana VI., X., XIV.
and XVIII., that is to say, Beauty, Form, the Angel of Temperance, which balances the movements of life, and the aurora of the divine Sun; Diana the Moon.…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 56 (part 1)
“SIXTH LESSON.
Etteila's original and unpublished Method of Fortune-telling by the Tarot (from one of his rarest works).
WE have explained a method which is original in a great measure, but as we have no intention of monopolizing the art o…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 56 (part 2)
“We will rather pass on to complete this study of fortune-telling by the Tarot.
SECOND DEAL: Reshuffle all your cards (78) and let them be cut for you.
Take the 17 first cards and arrange them thus-- 17.........................1 Look quick…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXI (part 3)
“Spanish regulations are in existence dated long before this reign, forbidding the nobles to play at cards, and the Tarot itself is of very ancient origin.
The sceptres of the Tarot have become clubs, the cups hearts, the swords spades, and…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXI (part 4)
“But one priest, observing that virtue is a most fragile thing, and most difficult to find, at all events in a continuous line, proposed to confide the scientific traditions to vice.
The latter, he said, would never fail completely, and thr…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XXII (part 1)
“CHAPTER XXII.
CONCLUSION.
HAVING reached the end of our journey we must cast one rapid glance over the road we have followed, in order to give some account of the scope of our work.
Seeing that materialistic science was giving way, in sp…”
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