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Post by Smithee on Feb 29, 2012 18:05:30 GMT 10
The Idyll of the White Lotus, By Mabel Collins www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/white-lo/white-1.htmPROLOGUE "Behold I stood alone, one among many, an isolated individual in the midst of a united crowd. And I was alone, because, among all the men my brethren who knew, I alone was the man who both knew and taught. I taught the believers at the gate, and was driven to do this by the power that dwelleth in the sanctuary. I had no escape, for in that deep darkness of the most sacred shrine, I beheld the light of the inner life, and was driven to reveal it, and by it was I upheld and made strong. For indeed, although I died, it took ten priests of the temple to accomplish my death, and even then they but ignorantly thought themselves powerful."
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Post by Smithee on Feb 29, 2012 18:08:51 GMT 10
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Post by Smithee on Feb 29, 2012 18:17:04 GMT 10
Quote from The Idyll of the White Lotus, page 114.
"There are three truths which are absolute, and which cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech. The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit. The principle which gives life dwells in us and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception. Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. These truths, which are as great as life itself, are as simple as the simplest mind of man. Feed the hungry with them."
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Post by maximus on Mar 1, 2012 4:52:24 GMT 10
The link has "Theosophy" in it. Tells me all I need to know. Does he go on about colored rays and such?
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 1, 2012 5:52:41 GMT 10
The link has "Theosophy" in it. Tells me all I need to know. Does he go on about colored rays and such? It was Alice Bailey, who left the Theosophical Society (TS) in disgrace, who made a big deal of coloured rays, wrote bigoted "treatises," and put about the lie that, although she was no longer in the Society, she was helping it to take the "next step." Sadly many believe her lie and attribute her fillth to the TS. Mabel Collins was not in Bailey's camp. Her fictional Idyll, set in Ancient Egypt, is fun to read as allegory. The trouble is too many people have trouble treating allegories as allegories.
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Post by maximus on Mar 2, 2012 2:50:07 GMT 10
So not all Theosophists are wack-jobs. RH has trouble with allegory.
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