theology
Mentalism
The Hermetic doctrine that THE ALL is Mind, and the Universe is mental in nature — a created thought held in the mind of THE ALL. Distinct from unity_of_being in specifying WHAT the underlying oneness is (mind, not an unspecified single substance), and from logos (a mediating ordering word BETWEEN a transcendent God and a separate material world) in collapsing that mediation entirely — under mentalism there is no world outside mind to mediate to.
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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 3 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page 1]] PROEM ------- PAGES FROM A PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.
A N Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknow…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 3 (part 7)
“Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause,"* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and the "Unknowable," may be essentially…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 4 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
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COSMIC EVOLUTION.
--------------------- SEVEN STANZAS TRANSLATED WITH COMMENTARIES FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF DZYAN.
[[Vol.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 2)
“Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 4)
“1, Page]] 43 MOTIONS, THE "GREAT BREATH." sense, for it must give room to still further absolute perfection, according to a higher standard of excellence in the following period of activity -- just as a perfect flower must cease to be a per…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 5 (part 7)
“is explained in Vishnu Purana as: "that which is the unevolved cause, is emphatically called by the most eminent sages Pradhana, original base, which is subtile Prakriti, viz., that which is eternal, and which at once is (or comprehends) wh…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 6 (part 4)
“-- Continued .
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T HE S EVEN ( Sons ) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE W EB OF L IGHT.
D ARKNESS ALONE WAS F ATHER- M OTHER, S VABHAVAT, AND S VABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS ( a ).
( a ) The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas given here, occupies its…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 62 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA III.
COMMENTARY.
1.
T HE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE ( a ).
T HE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 2)
“2.[[3.]] " D ARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP.
T HE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL ( periodical ) GERM, W…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 3)
“unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity?
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And what would y…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 6)
“"In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" ( Book of Sarparajni.
) The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Befo…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 4)
“He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fier…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 6)
“The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfer…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
STANZA V.
1.
T HE P RIMORDIAL S EVEN, THE FIRST SEVEN B REATHS OF THE D RAGON OF W ISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 3)
“Fohat, then, is the personified electric vital power, the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles -- on an immense scale -- that of a living Force created…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 10 (part 2)
“The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari-Vach , the light of the Logos is the Madhyama form, and the Logos itself the Pasyanti form, and Parabrahm the Para form or aspect of that Vach.
It is by the light of this explanation that…”
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 16 (part 6)
“The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas of the Neo-Platonists; the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to 'becoming'" (p.
134).
[[Vol.
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from whi…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 325 THE IMPARTIALITY OF SCIENTIFIC DENIALS.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] § III.
PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE AND DIVINE THOUGHT.
"As it would seem irrational…”
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.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 7)
“) But now the Elements are degraded into and limited to atoms of which nothing is known, so far, and which are only "children of necessity" as Ether is too -- as we said in " I SIS." "The poor primordial elements have long been exiled, and…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 19 (part 8)
“"Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first DIVINE IDEA.
Thus our universe existed from Eternity…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 21 (part 2)
“In his "Revelation," speaking of divine mysteries expressed by means of letters and numbers, Marcus narrates how the "Supreme Tetrad came down unto me (him) from the region which cannot be seen nor named, in a female form , because the worl…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 28 (part 10)
“, a fiery serpent, the Gnostic Agathodaemon probably.* As explained, the "sacred animals" and the Flames or "Sparks" within the "Holy Four" refer to the prototypes of all that is found in the Universe in the Divine Thought , in the R OOT, w…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 29 (part 3)
“For which his mother coolly puts him down by saying, "Do not lie, Ildabaoth, for the father of all, the first man ( Anthropos ) is above thee , and so is Anthropos , the Son of Anthropos " (Irenaeus, b.
I, ch.
xxx., 6).
This is a good pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 6)
“Let us admit for a moment an absolutely homogeneous state of the Universe, and our conception of force falls down to nought." [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * On the plane of manifestation and illusionary…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 40 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 540 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] ------- IX.
THE SOLAR THEORY.
A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND AND SINGLE ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE A…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
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1 [[Vol.
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XIV.
FORCES -- MODES OF MOTION OR INTELLIGENCES?
T HIS is, then, the last word of physical science up to the present year, 1888.
Mechanical laws…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 45 (part 2)
“10): -- "I speak only of a veritable material agent , refined, it may be, to the world at large, but actual and substantial : an agent having quality of weight and of volume, an agent susceptible of chemical combination, and thereby of chan…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 46 (part 10)
“His "reduced universes," of which "there are as many as there are Monads" -- is the chaotic representation of our Septenary System with its divisions and sub-divisions.
As to the relation his Monads bear to our Dhyan-Chohans, Cosmic Spirit…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 57 (part 14)
“Agnostic speculative thinkers have to choose between the version given by the Secret Doctrine of the East, and the hopelessly materialistic Darwinian and Biblical accounts of the origin of man; between no soul and no spiritual evolution, an…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 79 (part 7)
“The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in Evil or Darkness being co-eternal with Good or Light, and they give the same interpretation.
Ahriman is the manifested shadow of A HURA-MAZDA (Asura-mazda), himself issued from Zeruana Akerne "b…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 87 (part 4)
“The author explains, "Note that in Hebrew, Jared , the father of Enoch, is construed to be ' the mount of descent, ' and it is said to be the same with Ararat on which the cubical structure of Noah, or foundation measure rested.
Jared, in…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 5)
“Hence, the future plan, if not a DESIGN, must be there.
Moreover, that seed has to be traced, and its nature ascertained.
Have the Darwinists been successful in this?
Or will the Moneron be cast in our teeth?
But this atom of the Watery…”
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 6 (part 1)
“PART I THE LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC Click to view THE SERPENT OF THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES.
From a Greek Vase Painting.
CHAPTER I The antiquity of Magical Rituals § 1.
The Importance of Ceremonial Magic THE ordinary fields of ps…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter II (part 1)
“CHAPTER II THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES "The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open."--The Kybalion.
The Seven Hermetic Principle…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter III (part 1)
“CHAPTER III MENTAL TRANSMUTATION "Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration.
True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."--…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter III (part 2)
“So you see, therefore, that Mental Transmutation is really the "Magic" of which the ancient; writers had so much to say in their mystical works, and about which they gave so few practical instructions.
If All be Mental, then the art which…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter IV (part 3)
“It must be Infinite in Space--it must be Everywhere, for there is no place outside of THE ALL--it cannot be otherwise than continuous in Space, without break, cessation, separation, or interruption, for there is nothing to break, separate,…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter IV (part 4)
“The answer is "LIVING MIND," as far above that which mortals know by those words, as Life and Mind are higher than mechanical forces, or matter--INFINITE LIVING MIND as compared to finite "Life and Mind." We mean that which the illumined so…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter V (part 2)
“Well, then, secondly, Man pro-creates or reproduces his kind by the process of begetting, which is self-multiplication accomplished by transferring a portion of his substance to his offspring.
But this will not do, because THE ALL cannot t…”
The Kybalion (Three Initiates) | Chapter V (part 3)
“You speak of the Fatherhood of God, and the Motherhood of Nature--of God, the Divine Father, and Nature the Universal Mother--and have thus instinctively acknowledged the Principle of Gender in the Universe.
Is this not so?
But, the Herme…”
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