STUDENTS of metaphysics and Theosophy are sometimes called to task for being too ‘intellectual.’
Some prefer the force of thought to hammer out truth, dismissing feelings and emotions as emanating from the ‘lower nature.’
But as W. Q. Judge wrote in the Ocean of Theosophy, “intellect alone is cold, heartless and selfish.” This is shown today by studies of neurological correlates in the brain.
Materialistic, intellectual data are stored in the brain, but do not stimulate areas such as the pineal gland — known by occultists to host spiritual impulses like feelings of compassion.
We are spiritual beings at our core, but our behaviors on this physical plane — just like the actions of rider and horse — are solely governed by how we have entrained our psychic and physical instrument.
“There are persons,” H. P. Blavatsky writes, “who never think with the higher faculties of their minds at all.”
“This is why it is so very difficult for a materialist — the metaphysical portion of whose brain is almost atrophied — to raise himself,”
“Or for one who is naturally spiritually-minded to descend to the level of the matter-of-fact vulgar thought,” she says. “Optimism and pessimism depend on it also in a great measure.” Continue reading →
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ELEVEN years old and willing to help was how Olivia Bouler described herself to the Audubon Society when she contacted them about the tragedy in the Gulf.
The aspiring ornithologist, artist, and saxophone player wept — like many of us — when she heard about the oil spill in the news.
But uniquely, Olivia was moved to help. Knowing birds were going to suffer, she had to take action.
Inspired by her hero, James Audubon, Olivia wrote to the Audubon Society about her fund-raising idea — using her talent as an artist to give bird drawings to those who donated to wildlife recovery efforts.
To date, she has drawn more than 100 different species of birds, and 400 + original drawings. Olivia was recently featured as an AOL Artist, and the company donated $25,000 to the Audubon Society in her name. Olivia’s Profile on AOL Artists
To appreciate the sacredness of nature doesn’t always take the insights of a naturalist like John Muir. Often it only requires an innocence of heart, usually a child’s — as in Matthew 18:3-4, to “become as little children.”
Unlike adults, young children don’t mince words just to win approval. What they see is what they say.
In her restoration of Theosophy in the world, H. P. Blavatsky was not abstract when it came to standing up for the planet —“help Nature and work on with her” she wrote — and stood up for what she saw as widespread animal abuse and cruelty. (See recent post: Animal Souls)
To become true planetary partners, Blavatsky wrote, we must learn from the Book of the Golden Precepts to “regain the child-state” we have lost. Continue reading →
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THE famous meditation of John Donne, “never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee,” highlights two Theosophical principles:
First, the affirmation that there is no isolation, that nature and all mankind are interconnected — and second, karmic responsibility.
“It’s one thing to fashion a particular work of art, sculpture, painting, a worthy accomplishment,” Thoreau wrote, “but much greater is the creation of one’s life.”
“…to exemplify the highest potential imagined, it is the highest of loving artistic accomplishments,” he believed.
A compassionate activist, Julia Butterfly Hill is a living example of Theosophy pure and simple — taking action as taught in The Voice of the Silence — she sacrificed her comfort and well-being to “help Nature and work on with her.”
It must have been a profound inner sense of the sacred that roused Julia, as she climbed up those ropes, to begin a permanent encampment in the endangered redwood trees.
She doesn’t follow any organized religion but says she believes very strongly in the spirituality of the universe. Continue reading →
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MESSING with the unforgiving physical forces of nature challenging thirty-foot waves can be both exhilarating and deadly.
Similarly, ignorantly engaging paranormal forces and entities in black magic can have devastating personal consequences.
In our last post about the Atlanteans we touched on their increasing predilection to consciously develop and use powers of the dark side.
Another extreme behavior by the giants of those later day Atlanteans, the Teachings say, involved engaging in sex with animals.
Those unnatural sexual unions, The Secret Doctrine says, resulted in “lower races of men, now represented on earth by a few miserable dying-out tribes, and the huge anthropoid apes.”
Koko
Over long ages these behaviors irretrievably compromised the Atlantean spirituality. They were an ungodly mess in the end.
The final outcome of this was that the Atlanteans lost the power of their Third Eye, and nature sent many of that humanity for a long timeout to Davy Jones’ Locker.
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The mental and visual, psychic and spiritual perceptions of the Atlanteans lasted until nearly the end. Its functions, Blavatsky wrote,
“… owing to the materiality and depraved condition of mankind, died out altogether before the submersion of the bulk of the Atlantean continent.”
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ATLANTIS sank beneath the ocean waves before its time due to the depravity of many of its inhabitants.
They are us, the long since reincarnated inhabitants of that fated continent.
With no divine bailout in sight, the karmic debt from our Atlantic past remains as large as its inhabitants were physically.
That old karma remains unresolved on the “books,” and the real question today is: are we going to repeat our former mistakes, or be part of the solution?
The momentous failure of Atlantis will continue to throw its shadow on our future. Yet, there is still time to pay off the debts we owe to our fellow humans, to nature, and the planet.
“Arise, then, O Atlanteans,” W. Q. Judge writes in his Article Cycles — “and repair the mischief done so long ago!” —But how?
According to H. P. Blavatsky, black magic, “or the misuse of spiritual powers,” Paul Johnson writes, “led to loss of spiritual vision by the end of the fourth (Atlantean) race, as well as the gradual disappearance of the third eye.”
Eventually, its functions, owing to the materiality and depraved condition of mankind, Blavatsky wrote, “died out altogether with the submersion of the bulk of the Atlantean continent.”
On a Tight Rope
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We are now in the “ascending” arc of the Fourth Round* explains The Secret Doctrine, between the stages on the “descending” side of First and Second Races in development.
This is where things get interesting — in the great struggle for balance between the spiritual and material sides of human nature.
The cycles of human races are described in The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2:289, and to: “Remember well, as we are in the ‘manasa’ [mind] period of our cycle of races, or in the Fifth…[that]
“… we have, therefore, crossed the meridian point of the perfect adjustment of Spirit and Matter – or that equilibrium between brain intellect and Spiritual perception.” Continue reading →
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THERE may be an implicate order at the core of life and being, in which we are all subliminally embedded together.
Is our brain telling us one thing, while the deeper truth we feel about something or someone be altogether something else?
Paul Bloom, a cognitive developmental psychologist shows, in How Pleasure Works, that children appear to believe from an early age that things have invisible essences.
Recognizing and actualizing the essential nature of things is not something most of us can do on a fully conscious level.
Yet Eastern masters always taught that we possess an omniscient guide within us, call it intuition for lack of a better term, and that this true perceiver inside us knows all, and never sleeps.
As the poet W. Thompson Bacon wrote:
Truth is the Voice of Nature and of Time–
Truth is the startling monitor within us–
Naught is without it, it comes from the stars,
The golden sun, and every breeze that blows. . .
Mind is Like a Mirror
According to Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen in China, our minds are constantly gathering dust, like a mirror, and have to be regularly and dutifully cleaned.
H. P. Blavatsky referred to Hui Neng as “Shin-Sien” (Xian Sheng, meaning “Teacher”) and she explains that he taught the esoteric doctrine of Bodhidharma, and was the founder of Zen: Continue reading →
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DUALITY rules our conscious existence, for example neither light or darkness can ever appear alone. They are inseparable contrasts: rearrange one on life’s canvas, and you change the other.
As metaphors for “spirit and matter,” the twins are emblematized on the back of the U. S. dollar— matter pictured as a heavy pyramid base, but with its capstone removed — in its place a spiritual eye of blazing light.
Ironically, or perhaps knowingly, the Founders coupled money, arguably the root of all evil, with the most spiritual symbol of an “All Seeing Eye” – known also to occultists as “The Third Eye.”
Experience seems to confirm that choosing selfish material values, and ignoring our conscience, leaves us trapped in perpetual cycles of crisis − like oil spills.
That both sides of The Great Seal of the United States appear together on the back of the dollar bill, should be an ever-present reminder of our dual nature. We are an industrialized, materialistic culture. Yet we profess the higher values of justice, freedom, equality and brotherhood.
The human brain, home of the third eye, epitomizes this duality of left and right. The brain “is simply the canal between two planes,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote, “the psycho-spiritual and the material.”
We are usually unaware of this duality, because the organ of the spiritual eye is hidden, Theosophy says, in the pineal gland at the back of our brain.
This eye is also mentioned in Matthew 6:22, Luke 11:34:
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” Continue reading →
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EARTHLIFE is a school, and the classrooms are stages of consciousness, rousing us to greater self-awareness and growth in spirituality.
Every person settles into his-her own rhythm, a lifetime meditation determined by and determining their karma — individual, family, racial, national, global.
We are all at slightly differing points on an ascending evolutionary arc, paying off old debts, making new ones — pushing forward and slipping back.
But our minds are awake, and our free will is alive, and the choices ours to make — but, given human nature, not without a little “help” up, or down, from our friends. 
These are the energies that most often drive our lives. But are all these energies spiritual? some people might ask.
A Remarkable Change
“The great psychic and spiritual change now taking place in the realm of the human Soul,” wrote H. P. Blavatsky in The Tidal Wave, “is quite remarkable.”
This change began towards the beginning of the last quarter of the 19th century, she said, “and will end — so says a mystic prophecy— either for the weal or the woe of civilized humanity.”
“But the great change is not effected in solemn silence, nor is it perceived only by the few,” she wrote. “On the contrary,” [as with our 21st century difficulties]
“it asserts itself amid a loud din of busy, boisterous tongues, a clash of public opinion.”
“In comparison,” Blavatsky wrote, “the roar even of the noisiest political agitation seems like the rustling of the young forest foliage, on a warm spring day.“
“Verily the Spirit in man, so long hidden out of public sight, so carefully concealed and so far exiled from the arena of modern learning, has at last awakened.”
“It now asserts itself and is loudly re-demanding its unrecognized yet ever legitimate rights. It refuses to be any longer trampled under the brutal foot of Materialism — speculated upon by the Churches — and made a fathomless source of income by those who have self-constituted themselves its universal custodians.” Continue reading →
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EVOLUTION as defined in the occultism of Theosophy, is a triple-faceted scheme — a blend of spirit, mind, and matter — “inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point.”
True and lasting self-knowledge is acquired gradually and lovingly — and largely unawares at first — through a long, but finite series of reincarnations in human form.
A major factor in our self-development lies in recognizing the continuity of life, Theosophy says — and that for the soul, there is really no such thing as final death.
Self-knowledge evolves gradually out of the recognition, as the philosopher-mystic Teilhard de Chardin famously said, that we are “spiritual beings having a human experience,” not the reverse.
We are first and foremost spiritual beings, and humanity is our field of experience.
Memory of Past Lives
“Getting back the memory of other lives is really the whole of the process,” wrote W. Q. Judge in Letter 5, “and if some people don’t understand certain things, it is either because they have not got to that point in their other lives, or because no glimmer of memory has yet come.”
In 1980, Brian Weiss, head of the psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, began treating Catherine, a 27-year-old woman plagued by anxiety, depression and phobias. Continue reading →
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WILLIAM BLAKE might have felt more comfortable in our century, surrounded by more like-minded souls than during his time when materialism was burgeoning.
There are more and more scientists, artists, and spiritual thinkers today who, like Blake, see what other people do not see.
Thought leaders in science are realizing that all beings, from an atom to a man, are submerged and unified in one universal divine intelligence. We are all “One Being.”
Many are realizing the truth of Blake’s poem “a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.”
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,” Blake wrote, visioning a profound occult truth. It’s like “eternity in an hour,” he said — mooting thereby the uniqueness of relativity or quantum physics.
“The Observer Effect”
A commonly debated use of the term refers to quantum mechanics, where, if the outcome of an event has not been observed, it exists in a state of ‘superposition’, which is akin to being in all possible states at once. An atom’s position is only determined, the conundrum says, when it is measured.
In the famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat, the cat is supposedly neither alive nor dead until observed. However, most quantum physicists, in resolving Schrödinger’s seeming paradox, now understand that the acts of ‘observation’ and ‘measurement’ must also be defined in quantum terms before the question makes sense.
From this point of view, there is no ‘observer effect’, only one vastly entangled quantum system, as summed up by H. P. Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine (1:272) as:
“One homogeneous divine Substance-Principle,
the one radical cause.” Continue reading →
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NEUROSCIENTISTS have been busy for years trying to catalog the “neuronal correlates of consciousness” in the brain, and they seem determined to prove that consciousness somehow originates between our ears.
A similar mechanistic view is taken by the Human Genome Project, created to catalog the complete human DNA.
Genes carry information, it is thought, about how we look, how well our bodies metabolize food or fight infection, and can determine even how we behave.
It was assumed that Science would identify specific genes underlying specific diseases, for example, and then all diseases could be eliminated by manipulating the identified genes.
But it was soon discovered the idea was much more complex than expected.
Just as consciousness cannot be tagged to specific neurons in the brain, genes are not easily pigeonholed to one disorder, and furthermore they function in complex, often changing teams.
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Now science is edging nearer to Theosophy, looking closer at a long-neglected area called the “microbiome” — researching how hundreds of different species of living microbes, inhabiting the human body and outside, are responsible for our health and behaviors. They even discovered a second brain: in our gut. Continue reading →
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MANY of us will reincarnate into a new life dressed up with thousands of forgotten bits of images, fragments of hopes, unfulfilled desires and old fears.
The cause of our unconscious demon clutter, is explained by Buddha’s teaching that all the flavors of human nature are solely “the result of what we have thought.”
In the Dhammapada Buddha repeats “all that we are is founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts.”
(And, we do a lot of thinking!)
In this Mahayana Buddhist tradition, the Voice of the Silence also teaches that “the Mind is the great slayer of the Real,” adding: “let the Disciple slay the Slayer.”
National ethics expert Russell Gough, in Character Is Destiny, restates the age-old formula that character is ultimately determined by our thinking. Says Gough:
“Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
An inescapable truth lies at the heart of this simple formula. A quality life is not determined by “the happenstance of genetics or by the influence of environment,” writes award winning author Shelby Steele in a review of Gough’s book, — “it is not measured in material possessions or in the trappings of youth — it is not dependent on personality or social acclaim.”
“On the contrary, the intrinsic value of the lives we lead reflects the strength of a single trait: our personal character.” Continue reading →
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THE gods are not without employment, wrote the Greek bishop Synesius of Cyrene (c. 373 – c. 414) – but their “descent to this earth” is not continuous.
They descend according to orderly periods of time, he said, “for the purpose of imparting a beneficent impulse in the republics of mankind.”
“For this providence is divine and most ample,” quotes W. Q. Judge in Cycles —”which frequently one man pays attention to, and affects countless multitudes of men.”
Describing the Gods, Synesius writes: “For there is indeed in the terrestrial abode the sacred tribe of heroes who pay attention to mankind, and who are able to give them assistance even in the smallest concerns:-
“This heroic tribe is, as it were, a colony from the gods established here, in order that this terrene abode may not be left destitute of a better nature.”
The Mahatmas
These “gods” are also known in India as Mahatmas. No better description of these sages can be pointed to than W. Q. Judge explaining the Sanskrit terms in his article The Mahatmas as Ideals and Facts:
“The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are contained in the word Mahatma,” Judge writes. “Maha is ‘great,’ Atma is ‘soul’ — and both compounded into one, mean those great souls who have triumphed before us:
“Not because they are made of different stuff and are of some strange family, but just because they are of the human race.”
Continue reading →
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ACCORDING to a “prophecy of the Secret Books,” America is even more important to the spiritual advancement of future humanity, than its legacy of individual freedoms.
The ancient continent on which the United States was born, is the sacred ground of a bold “new order of ages” — an ideal depicted on the reverse of The Great Seal of the United States.
Charles Thomson, who coined the motto on the Great Seal, “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” was a former Latin teacher.
Inspired by a line in Virgil’s Eclogue IV, he placed the motto beneath his vision of an unfinished pyramid.
Thomson explained its significance as “the beginning of the new American Æra,” which commences from the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
But an esoteric, spiritual prophecy speaks of a still higher purpose, that of forming a union of free future souls — an amalgamation of human beings of many races — who will be self-elevated morally, physically and spiritually.
“Occult philosophy teaches that even now, under our very eyes,” Blavatsky writes in The Secret Doctrine:
“… the new Race and Races are preparing to be formed, and that it is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced.”
The Founding Fathers, many of whom were Freemasons, were strongly influenced by a Lodge of advanced Adepts —worked behind the scenes during the formation of the new nation from the beginning.
Such perfected Adepts, once human like ourselves, were described by Synesius of Cyrene in the Fourth century as the “sacred tribe of heroes.”
One of those adepts wrote: “and we will go on in that periodical work of ours…until that day when the foundations of a new continent of thought are so firmly built, that no amount of opposition and ignorant malice … will be found to prevail.” Continue reading →
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EVOLUTION is an interactive sampling of spirit, mind and matter, Theosophy teaches.
There is a natural progression of awakenings that go hand-in-hand with these three intertwined, challenging gifts of Earth life.
The blind, undirected dogmas of neo-Darwinism are no match for the ancients view of evolution — spiritual, mental and physical.
The true key to our spiritual progress lies in our recognition of the bigger evolutionary picture, one that was described famously by Brian Weiss – as elegantly stated:
“… we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
Self-knowledge is acquired, according to esoteric tradition, by struggling through a challenging series of reincarnations while in a human form.
The key to success, spiritual teachers say, is for us to awaken with compassion to the higher human potential, and for us to become more Self-aware of our inner god.
The Eye of Shiva
And such self-development is defined by the degree to which each of us is able to activate our inner, or “all-seeing” spiritual eye.
Re-initializing the dormant intuitional “third eye,” the old adepts all say, defines our spiritual development — increased by following in the dance steps of the Hindu god Shiva, our lives gradually become more spiritually directed. Continue reading →
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THOSE who think Theosophy is only about abstract metaphysics, invisible worlds and mystical hierarchies, might want to think again.
The old theosophical teachings, referred to as the “Wisdom Religion,” are very much about getting down to Mother Earth.
It’s about respecting the billions of sentient, non-human entities — animals and plants that surround and support our existence — many of whom are still being used and abused.
In her 19th century re-presentation of Theosophy, H. P. Blavatsky was not abstract when it came to standing up for the planet (“help Nature and work on with her”,) and against what she saw as widespread animal abuse and cruelty.
Not a radical vegan, she nevertheless supported the health and spiritual values of a non-meat diet.
Blavatsky’s radicalism reveals itself in her six-point “mission statement” in The Secret Doctrine, especially number five which declares:-
“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.”
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To appreciate the deeper truth of this occult fundamental requires an innocence of heart, usually a child’s — as in “become like little children,” (Matthew 18:3-4.)
Unlike adults, young children don’t mince words just to win approval. What they see is what they say. To become true planetary partners, therefore, an adult must (Book of the Golden Precepts,) “regain the child-state he has lost.” Continue reading →
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ANCIENT Chinese doctors discovered, 5000 years ago, over 100 energy meridians in the human body. When these meridian points were activated, people were healed.
Today that system of healing is called acupuncture. But now, people are tapping into this same power, literally, without using needles.
They are discovering how to master all the “mental changes” in themselves, as taught in The Voice of the Silence — and how to “harmless make” their own thought and emotional creations.
They are learning, as Albert Einstein famously said, that:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
We have instead to rise above that old thinking, while fully recognizing our hand in the problems they caused. That’s called karmic acceptance.
Getting Unstuck
It is often difficult to get to the root cause of some issues — especially if those issues were created in a past life we cannot consciously recall now.
“These events, limiting beliefs and patterns are what make us feel stuck.” Continue reading →
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HUMAN casualties of war wear two opposite yet related faces — those who are injured and killed, and those who injure and kill them.
The devastation for both is long-lasting, evidence shows. Sometimes, as we will see, restoring spiritual peace and health for either side may involve lifetimes.
Wounds received on both sides transcend the body, although physical scars have been shown to bridge lifetimes. War experiences are deeply rooted, leaving souls in desperate need of emotional, and psycho-spiritual healing.
But surprisingly, sometimes just remembering, and owning a past life tragedy, can heal the effects of personal trauma.
One of H. P. Blavatsky’s most powerful stories, “Karmic Visions,” opens in a battle, with “a camp filled with war-chariots, neighing horses and legions of long-haired soldiers.”
An old gray-haired prophetess stands defiantly before her captor, the cruel Clovis, King of the Franks. Taunted by the woman, who refuses to tell where the enemy’s treasure is hidden, Clovis loses patience. The story goes that he kills her by angrily plunging his spear into the her throat. Continue reading →
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TODAY humanity is divided into sects and cults, castes, creeds and classes, religious denominations and political ideologies. Instead of being bearers of love and cooperation, we still engage in criticizing, opposing and attacking each other.
A united world has been the hope of humanity for ages. Poets and philosophers have dreamed of it. Statesmen and politicians are trying to find a solution to the great problem of disunity.
They have not succeeded because the approach is usually reductionist instead of holistic. Our obsession with the trees of sectarian differences and selfish, materialistic agendas, we never see the forest as whole.
It is not through legislatures that harmony and peace can be established between different nations. What is needed is a sea change of mind and heart, a basis of universal ideas and facts as given out by the great spiritual teachers down the ages.
Mme. Blavatsky, in her Key to Theosophy, Section 12, describes four Links of a Golden Chain that, if implemented, would bind humanity into one universal family. They are:
“Universal Unity and Causation – Human Solidarity – the Law of Karma – Reincarnation.”
“From Gods to men, from Worlds to atoms, from a star to a rush-light, from the Sun to the vital heat of the meanest organic being,” Blavatsky memorably wrote (SD 1:604), “the world of Form and Existence is an immense chain, whose links are all connected.” Continue reading →
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FEW honest and sincere believers have the faintest conception of the history surrounding the early beginnings of the Church.
Almost everyone is familiar with what is recorded in the New Testament concerning the differences of opinion that arose between Peter and Paul. But how many are aware of the fact that this split continued to grow?
For several centuries after the time of Jesus the best and most prominent of the Church Fathers were irreconcilably divided among themselves on issues of basic doctrine.
In order to retain power and authority, the dominant sectarians inaugurated a custom never before known in the recorded annals of religious history — the custom of anathema.
These Churchmen were too narrow and dogmatic in belief to allow room for natural divergences of opinion, which alone could have made of Christianity a vital and healthy organism. The result was a course of action diametrically opposed to the principle of tolerance reflected in the life of their declared inspiration, Jesus of Nazareth.
Having no faith in their capacity to win the adherence of thinking minds, the Church Fathers used anathema for the purpose of “persuading” those who could not be converted — and of silencing those not to be persuaded.
For the millennium “beginning with Buddha and Pythagoras at one end and the Neo-Platonists and Gnostics at the other, is the only focus left in History,” says Mme. Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine — (see Holy Heretics) —
“… wherein converge for the last time the bright rays of light streaming from the æons of time gone by, unobscured by the hand of bigotry and fanaticism.” Continue reading →
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