Category: Mahatma Letters
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Morya on Yahweh as a Mamo in the Prayag Letter
The term Prayāg (or Prayaga) is an ancient term for the city of Allāhābād. In January 1, 1881, an early branch of the parent or original Theosophical Society was formed in Allahabad. G.N. Chakravarti was a notable member of this lodge, who represented Brahmanism at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. So, the Prayag Letter is…
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“Revolutions Will Spring…Creeds and Powers Will Crumble”
“Koot Hoomi tells Sinnett first that the world must prepare itself for the manifestation of phenomenal elements in constantly augmenting volume and force. The age of miracles, he says, is not past; it really never was. Plato was right in asserting that ideas ruled the world; and as the human mind increases its receptivity to…
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God versus Svabhava and its Importance | Cosmological Notes in Theosophy
mahatma letters. fundamental position on the nature and existence of God versus the Doctrine of Svabhāva THERE HAVE EXISTED philosophical schools that have a spiritual ideal of nature, without a God. The debates between the domineering forces of theology, proponents of physicalism and atheism give us very little space to debate between them. The Theosophical position…
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Thaumaturgic Sots, Hankering after Phenomena and Power
“Try to break thro’ that great maya (illusion) against which occult students, the world over, have always been warned by their teachers – the hankering after phenomena. Like the thirst for drink and opium, it grows with gratification. The Spiritualists are drunken with it; they are thaumaturgic sots. If you cannot be happy without phenomena…
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“Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis
ATLANTIS THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE TO THE MYTH OF ATLANTIS One vital classical source for the Atlantis legendand its remembrance, is from two dialogues writtenby Plato, in Timaeus and Critias.It is described as an island in the Atlantic Ocean.In Timaeus and Critias, Solon, an Athenian andprominent statesman c. 6th c. BCE, described theisland as a country bigger…
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Occultism in the Theosophical Society
Letter 65 The success of the operation of the Theosophical Movement depended upon those who compose the movement, but many delusions and misunderstandings about that operation existed among the members. The future civilizational development and trajectory of thought depended upon the success of the ideas the Movement sought to impress on the culture. These masters…
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Mahatma Letters on the Evolution of Life: Ten-Point Summary
The position on evolution and emanationism in the Mahatma Letters and as explained by H.P. Blavatsky remains a fascinating aspect of Theosophy. This position is neither atheistic, or agnostic, merely because of the rejection of the God-theory, The history of these positions antedate Darwin, including Democritus. Morya, attempting to get A.P. Sinnett to understand the…
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Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle
“The problem of life is man. Magic, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being; which forces are Divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge (…) We begin with instinct: the end is OMNISCIENCE.” ALEXANDER WILDER Real magical operations…
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“The Great Master’s Letter”: Theosophy and the Future of Religion
The Maha-chohan letter, or “The Great Master’s Letter” is about the ‘Truth’ of Divine Enlightenment and the real mission and cause of Theosophy. The letter explains the view on the role of Theosophy in aiding a revival or revolution. Chohan means “lord,” “chief,” or “master.” It comes from the word chos (doctrine, law, teaching) and khan (abbot).‘’…
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Two Key Subjects in Morya’s Cosmological Notes: Space and Essence
TWO KEYS SUBJECTS ON THE NATURE OF REALITY The key concepts in Morya’s Cosmological Notes are: “space” and “essence.” or — [1] The nature of space.[2] The nature of matter. By space what is being referred to? Is it ākāśa or śūnyatā? When the notes refer to the eternal space, or “the one element,” the Skt. term धातु…
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“I Dread The Appearance In Print Of Our Philosophy” | The Mahatma Letter No. 56
“By most of your gold worshipping countrymen our facts and theorems would be denominated fancy-flights, the dreams of madmen.” The Occult Philosophy taught to the Theosophists does not belong to them, but to the men, that were teachers to H.P.B. There has been much disrespectful misrepresentation and abuse of that philosophy which has devalued perception…
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Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations
K.H., The Mahatma Letters, Letter no. 85, December 7, 1883 “(…) As the lady has rightly observed, the Western public should understand the Theosophical Society to be “a Philosophical School constituted on the ancient Hermetic basis” — that public having never heard of the Tibetan, and entertaining very perverted notions of the Esoteric Buddhist System.…
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