anthropology
Higher Self
The deeper aspect of the individual's own consciousness aligned with divine or spiritual truth, distinct from the ego or everyday personality — a locus of guidance and identity that can speak with its own recognisable 'voice' in moments of crisis, carrying memory or knowledge the ordinary self lacks. Distinct from inner_light (a static luminous quality or spark, not an alternate seat of identity and agency) and kingdom_within (the claim that the divine realm generally is present inside the individual, not this specific personal higher consciousness).
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theosophy20
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 5 (part 5)
“The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner, yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreci…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 4)
“I am merged in Sekten." This last sentence gives the corroboration of, and repeats the doctrine of, esoteric Buddhism, for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (Manas), or the most spiritual part of its essence rather, which merges in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 14 (part 11)
“But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils, and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic.
( b ) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)
“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS.
1.
Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas.
2.
Ditto.* 3.
Spiritual Soul.
4.
Mediator between Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 3)
“(5.) Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs -- which we c…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 16 (part 5)
“As Hermes says, "Knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -- i.e., of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 2)
“Without doubt, this one-sided mode of dealing with the problem is due largely to the pernicious Western practice of subordinating consciousness, or regarding it as a "by-product" of molecular motion.
[[Vol.
1, Page]] 328 THE SECRET DOCTRI…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 11)
“astronomically, with the one here intended." Now the secret reading of the first verse of Genesis being: "In Rash (B'rash) or head, developed gods, the Heavens and the Earth" -- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven , o…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 4)
“The "Angel" of that Star, or the Dhyani-Buddha will be either the guiding or simply the presiding "Angel," so to say, in every new rebirth of the monad, which is part of his own essence , though his vehicle, man, may remain for ever ignoran…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 3)
“It is those who are unable to create the spiritual immortal man, who project the senseless model (the Astral ) of the physical Being; and, as will be seen, it was those who would not multiply, who sacrificed themselves to the good and salva…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 2)
“T HE Progenitors of Man, called in India "Fathers," Pitara or Pitris, are the creators of our bodies and lower principles.
They are ourselves, as the first personalities, and we are they.
Primeval man would be "the bone of their bone and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 9)
“5, the Sloka simply says: "Bhutas -- fiends, frightful from being monkey-coloured and carnivorous"; and the word in India now means ghosts, ethereal or astral phantoms, while in esoteric teaching it means elementary substances, something ma…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 3)
“This in the human, terrestrial form of the Initiates, and also because the logos is Christos, that principle of our inner nature which develops in us into the Spiritual Ego -- the Higher-Self -- being formed of the indissoluble union of Bud…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 8)
“Hence man, although apparently its crown, would, by his advent have marked the close of creation; since creation, culminating in him, would at his death have entered on its decline" .
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( p .
289).
This Kabalistic view is here quoted…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 67 (part 9)
“The inner, or real man, who personates those characters, knows the whole time that he is Hamlet for the brief space of a few acts, which represent, however, on the plane of human illusion the whole life of Hamlet.
And he knows that he was,…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 81 (part 4)
“It is mankind which has become the "Serpent of Genesis," and thus causes daily and hourly the Fall and sin of the "Celestial Virgin" -- which thus becomes the Mother of gods and devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving, b…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 85 (part 4)
“The writer presumes to explain these things neither to the Hindus, who have their own Gurus; nor to the Orientalists, who think they know more than all the Gurus and Rishis, past and present, put together.
These rather lengthy quotations a…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 4)
“Nor can one accept the said "sevenfold classification" as having "a closer connection with the Brahminical Logos than with the Buddhist Logos," since both are identical, whether the one "Logos" is called Eswara or Avalokiteswara, Brahma or…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 89 (part 5)
“It has worshipped "great sages" and given hospitality to terrestrial wisdom: but once that "another forest shone forth" upon it, it is Intelligence (Buddhi, the 7th sense, but 6th principle) which is transformed into the tree -- that tree w…”
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The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter XIII, Section 1b
“The supreme spirit in this body is called supervisor, adviser , supporter, enjoyer, the great lord, and the supreme self also.
He who thus knows nature and spirit, together with the qualities, is not born again, however living .
Some by c…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II | Sutra 3
“These are the hindrances: the darkness of unwisdom, self-assertion, lust hate, attachment. Let us try to translate this into terms of the psychical and spiritual man. The darkness of unwisdom is, primarily, the self-absorption of the psychi…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book III | Sutra 29
“Perfectly concentrated Meditation on the centre of force in the lower trunk brings an understanding of the order of the bodily powers. We are coming to a vitally important part of the teaching of Yoga: namely, the spiritual man's attainment…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book III | Sutra 38
“Through the weakening of the causes of bondage, and by learning the method of sassing, the consciousness is transferred to the other body. In due time, after the spiritual man has been formed and grown stable through the forces and virtues…”
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book IV | Sutra 24
“The psychic nature, which has been printed with mind-images of innumerable material things, exists now for the Spiritual Man, building for him. The 'mind,' once the tyrant, is now the slave, recognized as outward, separate, not Self, a well…”
christian_mysticism2
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 1 (part 1)
“p.
33 THE DOCTRINES OF JACOB BOEHME.
"Our whole doctrine is nothing else but an instruction to show how man may create a kingdom of light within himself.
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He in whom this spring of divine power flows, carries within himself the d…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 12)
“145:1 This was the divine Man, out of whom the world was created, while the natural man is a product of the world.
145:2 Because everything was within his own will, within himself.
145:3 This celestial Adam has not died, but still exists…”
neoplatonism1
Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 112 (part 1)
“Section 9 9.
This brings us to the Spindle-destiny, spun according to the ancients by the Fates.
To Plato the Spindle represents the co-operation of the moving and the stable elements of the kosmic circuit: the Fates with Necessity, Mothe…”
western_esoteric1
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 20. Methods Of Defence IV-b
“From being in the midst of turmoil one is suddenly raised high above it and sees all the circumstances of one’s life spread out like a bird’s-eye view, as one might see the land from a high place, and one knows intuitively the out come of t…”