History - Theosophy.Net2024-03-28T17:11:19Zhttps://theosophy.net/forum/categories/history-1/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noC.W.Leadbeater: birth - 1854tag:theosophy.net,2019-01-12:3055387:Topic:1610142019-01-12T16:37:21.258ZJohnhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JohnEMead
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<p>Leslie Price's post on Facebook.</p>
<p>January 10, 2019 at 8:46 PM</p>
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<p> Gregory Tillett.</p>
<p>The life of Dr Gregory Tillett, who passed away from cancer last month, was irrevocably changed, when about 1979 he obtained from the registrar in London the birth certificate of C.W. Leadbeater, the Theosophical…</p>
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<p>Leslie Price's post on Facebook.</p>
<p>January 10, 2019 at 8:46 PM</p>
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<p> Gregory Tillett.</p>
<p>The life of Dr Gregory Tillett, who passed away from cancer last month, was irrevocably changed, when about 1979 he obtained from the registrar in London the birth certificate of C.W. Leadbeater, the Theosophical clairvoyant whose biography he was writing. He was surprised to find eventually that from 1890 CWL had falsely claimed to have been born in 1847, the same year as Annie Besant (with whom he began to work about 1890) instead of 1854. The account by Leadbeater, of having been at the Great Exhibition of 1851, was thus impossible. Subsequent examination of other personal details, especially the existence of a brother Gerald who was killed young in Brazil, did not substantiate them.</p>
<p>Although there had been many criticisms of Leadbeater over the years, no one had questioned his official biography, not even Arthur Nethercot, who had spent years working on his biography of Annie Besant .</p>
<p>The Adyar TS international president John Coats had encouraged Greg’s biography, but he passed away on 26 December 1979. His successor Mrs Radha Burnier, who was also head of the esoteric school, was hostile to the project. In India, she was able to prevent attention to Greg’s 1982 book “The Elder Brother” and to his subequent doctoral thesis, which had more discussion of Leadbeater’s sexual life, as was Dora Kunz in America, an old pupil of CWL, who was president of the TSA. This meant few reviews in Theosophical publications, absence of the book from Theosophical libraries and low book sales. (England was an exception, where Lilian Storey the librarian was a family historian, and indeed had checked Greg’s data on behalf of John Coats.) On the Adyar T.S. international web site, until a year or two ago, Leadbeater continued to be born in 1847.</p>
<p>Having joined the T.S. in England in 1980, I realised that free discussion of historical facts was not always possible in the T.S., and this was a factor in my decision to start the independent journal “Theosophical History” in 1985.</p>
<p>Many Theosophists were led to believe that Greg was a bad person who had maliciously attacked a noble Theosophist. Even quite senior Theosophists never read his book which was (in retrospect) not unsympathetic to CWL. There is no doubt that the realisation that Leadbeater had fabricated a more impressive curriculm vitae, presented acute problems. He was a close colleague of the revered T.S. second president, Annie Besant. He was head of the esoteric school at his death. He was a pillar of the Liberal Catholic Church. He was an eminent co-mason, and so on. Yet his colleagues, some of them also great occultists, such as Jinarajadasa, Arundale and Mrs Besant herself, do not seem to have suspected that CWL was romancing.</p>
<p>Although Greg professed not to be upset by the antagonism of some Theosophists, it must have been painful to see his work traduced.</p>
<p>Perhaps one day, a future Theosophical leader will say “ Sorry Dr Tillett. We ought to have remembered that there is no religion higher than truth, even if it is a threat to our power.”</p>
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<p>Vivekananda at the Parliament in 1893 (125 year anniversary)</p>
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<p>Vivekananda at the Parliament in 1893 (125 year anniversary)</p>
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<p></p> History of the Adepts: The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in Americatag:theosophy.net,2018-01-03:3055387:Topic:1572142018-01-03T16:50:46.851ZJohnhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JohnEMead
<p>(from: <a href="http://adepts.light.org">http://adepts.light.org</a>)</p>
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<p>A new series edited by Mark Jaqua. I hope that is credited correctly!</p>
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<p><span>Wilder’s article provides a detailed summary of what was known and speculated about Rosicrucian history. Even though he was writing for Gould’s allegedly Rosicrucian Brotherhood’s journal, he concluded with a note of utter skepticism about contemporary claimants:…</span></p>
<p>(from: <a href="http://adepts.light.org">http://adepts.light.org</a>)</p>
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<p>A new series edited by Mark Jaqua. I hope that is credited correctly!</p>
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<p><span>Wilder’s article provides a detailed summary of what was known and speculated about Rosicrucian history. Even though he was writing for Gould’s allegedly Rosicrucian Brotherhood’s journal, he concluded with a note of utter skepticism about contemporary claimants:</span></p>
<h1 class="entry-title"><span>Alexander Wilder on the Rosicrucians</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">" ... The Pagans, who after Theodosius, adhered to their worship, hid their secrets, their initiation, and their mystic jargon. I conjecture the magic and witchcraft of the Middle Ages to have been the Mithraic Institute which had been disseminated through the Roman empire. ..."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://adepts.light.org/2018/01/01/alexander-wilder-on-the-rosicrucians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexander Wilder on the Rosicrucians</a></span></p> The last of the "truly" free Americanstag:theosophy.net,2014-09-28:3055387:Topic:1395422014-09-28T00:20:14.617ZDavid Allenhttps://theosophy.net/profile/DavidAllen
<p>The longer I have my head out of the sand (introverted), the more I come to understand the gravity of things that are happening right now. Just today, while I was visiting my (almost) 90 year old grandmother, it occurred to me, that even at 90, she was still to young to have any real experience at what freedom really is.</p>
<p>In the early 1900's, Freud came out with some theories. These theories were "tested" at varying degrees for awhile, but were almost immediately injected (through a…</p>
<p>The longer I have my head out of the sand (introverted), the more I come to understand the gravity of things that are happening right now. Just today, while I was visiting my (almost) 90 year old grandmother, it occurred to me, that even at 90, she was still to young to have any real experience at what freedom really is.</p>
<p>In the early 1900's, Freud came out with some theories. These theories were "tested" at varying degrees for awhile, but were almost immediately injected (through a lack of understanding) into our society, focusing our "collective" attention along path's that has brought us to where we are today.</p>
<p>So in order to find someone you can be relatively sure has at least some real experiences of what we call freedom is, you have to go to people who were born before 1907. So anyone under the age of 107 is a product (to some degree) of this focusing.</p>
<p>A precious link between something we hold dear, and the reason we hold it so dearly, is about to be severed.</p>
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<p>"People slow down as they age so the younger ones can catch up and learn something." (as far as I know, that one is mine.)</p> New archaeological evidence of the beginnings of Buddhism (Nepal)tag:theosophy.net,2013-11-26:3055387:Topic:1312802013-11-26T13:01:47.710ZJohnhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JohnEMead
<p>The date seems to now go back to the 6th century BCE.</p>
<p>the article below has information from the New York Times. The Journal article link is also given.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/science/new-clues-may-change-buddhas-date-of-birth.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131126&_r=1&" target="_blank">New Clues May Change Buddha’s Date of Birth</a></p>
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<p>article published online in the December issue of the international journal…</p>
<p>The date seems to now go back to the 6th century BCE.</p>
<p>the article below has information from the New York Times. The Journal article link is also given.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/science/new-clues-may-change-buddhas-date-of-birth.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131126&_r=1&" target="_blank">New Clues May Change Buddha’s Date of Birth</a></p>
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<p>article published online in the December issue of the international journal <a title="The journals website" href="http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/">Antiquity</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/087/ant0871104.htm" target="_blank">Article</a></p>
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<p></p> start of the new age eratag:theosophy.net,2013-11-02:3055387:Topic:1309372013-11-02T20:43:45.258ZJohnhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JohnEMead
<div class="storyInnerContent"><div class="mainWrapper"><div><div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">I was reading "Scratching the Beat Generation", by Michael McClure, and reference was made of William Blake appearing to Allen Ginsberg in a vision.</span></div>
<div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">I also found that The Theosophical Society (1783) was attended by Blake as well. In any case theosophy seemed to have touched the Beat…</span></div>
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<div class="storyInnerContent"><div class="mainWrapper"><div><div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">I was reading "Scratching the Beat Generation", by Michael McClure, and reference was made of William Blake appearing to Allen Ginsberg in a vision.</span></div>
<div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">I also found that The Theosophical Society (1783) was attended by Blake as well. In any case theosophy seemed to have touched the Beat Generation.</span></div>
<div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">There was also the Buddhist connection via Kerouac. The basic tenets for New Age/Hippie movement appear to be in place during these times. Social outcasts, Peyote, MJ, anti-war, anti-establishment, spirituality, back to Nature, free or open thinking, a New Generation (vs New Age) and with Poetry/BeBop (rather than anti-war, etc. songs) as a social/cultural force. The seeds were well in place. There is a Movie released outlining the Beat Generation start, with Daniel Radcliffe (?? !!) as Ginsberg - if I have it right... </span></div>
<div class="actorDescription actorName"><span class="userContent">w.r.t. Blake/Theosophy/Swedenborg, there is an article in Esoterica which may interest some. let me know if you want some links.</span></div>
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<p>I was trying to get some information about the symbolic relevance of the Egyptian 17 ray sun disc. I read Madame Blavatsky quote this symbol as being incredibly important, but could find none of her writings describing its significance. Furthermore, any Google search I did came up empty. Does anyone have any insights as to what Blavatsky was referring to?</p>
<p>I was trying to get some information about the symbolic relevance of the Egyptian 17 ray sun disc. I read Madame Blavatsky quote this symbol as being incredibly important, but could find none of her writings describing its significance. Furthermore, any Google search I did came up empty. Does anyone have any insights as to what Blavatsky was referring to?</p> Other Spiritual Groups in Existence Before and After the TS Was Foundedtag:theosophy.net,2011-09-21:3055387:Topic:800572011-09-21T03:52:40.576ZJoe Fultonhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JoeFulton
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's imagine for a few minutes all of the groups who have come and gone who have in one way or another contributed to our understanding of the spiritual quest. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If we look at several time periods, say 1825, 1875, 1905 and 1970 what does the landscape look like. What groups have come? Which have gone and who is…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's imagine for a few minutes all of the groups who have come and gone who have in one way or another contributed to our understanding of the spiritual quest. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If we look at several time periods, say 1825, 1875, 1905 and 1970 what does the landscape look like. What groups have come? Which have gone and who is hanging on for dear life?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If you can reply by writing down the names and a brief description of the groups in any one or more of the time period that interests you, please do so. The goal at the end of this is to generate a mind-map showing in a really kewl picture what this all looks like. We'll give it a month and see what happens.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Joe</span></p> the identity of Mahatma K.H= Kirpa Ram?tag:theosophy.net,2011-07-12:3055387:Topic:688112011-07-12T21:49:06.853ZNéstor David Moraleshttps://theosophy.net/profile/NestorDavidMorales
<p><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">According to</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Mary</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">K</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Neff</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">and others…</span></p>
<p><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">According to</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Mary</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">K</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Neff</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">and others</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Mahatma</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">K.</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">H.</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">was really</span> Nisis Kanta <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Chattopadyaya</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">.</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">According to</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Johnson</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, he was</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Thakar</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Singh</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">.</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">However there is</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">another theory</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">that I find</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">interesting and suggestive</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, and even</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">worth investigating</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">: according to</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Stefano</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Martorano</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, Kut</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Humi</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">was</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">the mystical name of</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Kirpa</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Ram</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, Diwan</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">of</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">Kashmir.</span></p>
<p><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps"> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">This would be the</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">version</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">of the biography</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">of</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">K.</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones" class="hps">H:</span></span></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">" A 18 year old Indian, Kirpa Ram, whom we’ll respectfully address from now on as K.H.,</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">born in 1832 in Kashmir but from a family originally from Eminabad in the Punjab region north of</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Lahore, met in 1850 Lord Dalhousie, Viceroy of India, in Wazirabad. He was bestowed the khilat, a</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">multicolored honorific attire, for cultural merits. He is admitted to attend in incognito, for political</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">reasons relating to the cold war with Russia, a course at the University of Dublin. He is the very</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">first Indian to be allowed such a privilege, being he the son of the prime minister of an important</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">frontier state in India. His father is the diplomat Jawala Sahai who obtained the independence for</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">the Kashmir state from the English in exchange for a big amount of money.</font></p>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">tipically anonymous, “The Dream of Ravan –<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><br/></font></font></font>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">A Mistery” <font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">issued in instalments by “The Dublin University Magazine” in the years 1853 and</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">1854, that could be written only from an Indian who moreover has had first hand spiritual</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">experiences.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">We are at the time of what was later called “The Great Game”, or the political confrontation</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">promising young man, well versed in native culture, who will probably follow his father’s political</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">footsteps, is the best choice to express western civilization and culture and to play intelligent</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">alliance politics, with an indoctrination aimed at proving the superior, military, organizational,</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">cultural and religious politics of a nation that considers itself to be the pride of the western world.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">OXFORD ENGLAND, 1855. GRADUATION AND SUBSEQUENT DECISIONS BY K. H.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">BIRTH OF AN IDEA, OR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIGHT BEACON: THEOSOPHY.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">In full Victorian age, in the midst of a totally materialistic western civilization, after</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">studying with unusual application law, music, poetry and European literature, this young men is</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">privileged under many aspects. He is already considered the most cultured men in India, but he</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">certainly is much more then this. He is the only young man in the world to have gained the best of</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">civilizations.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Since his younger years, he studied and practiced meditation under the best spiritual</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">languages, made him a recurring miracle, namely a new Pythagoras. While the latter built a bridge</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">between the new “Magna Graecia” cultures: Croton, Taranto, and Rhegium and those of Egypt,</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Middle East and India, moving from the West to the East all the way to India, this young man</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">moves from the orient, were he was born, to the western world, and will experience the same fate:</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Create a bridge between the two cultures with the intermediation of a Russian born lady, Helena</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Petrovna Blavatsky (H.P.B.), whom he will meet in early 1856 in Kashmir, soon after he returned</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">from his “exile” in the western world. I remember that Olcott, when referring to K.H. in a indirect</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">manner, used his code name Kashmir and H.P.B. herself used to say “he is not a Tibetan, but a</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Punjabi whose family as moved to Kashmir many years ago” (....)</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">K.H. (as the wise and balanced person that he is), was his Pythagorean symbol, “do not</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">unbalance the scale”, which became in Roman “in medio stat virtus”, estimates all that is valid in</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Western science, technology, music, and practicality, but never undervalues the culture in which he</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">was born and never embraces Western traditions and mentality, but swears in his heart that he will</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">do all he can to elevate the quality of life of his Western brothers, quality that he finds unbearable.</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">The sight of the East-End and Whitechapel suburbs of London, arouse in him a bursting</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">wave of compassion. He saw hell in this world and, mindful of the maxim he use to preach during</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">his life as the divine Pythagoras: “The doctors goes where the sick is”, he swears to himself that</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">moral and spiritual elevation of the masses in the Western world, will be his life priority. He still</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">doesn’t know how to make this happen, being this such an arduous task to frighten even those with</font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">means and opportunity to easily make it happen but, in spite of this, the decision worthy of a</font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Bodhisattva was taken and it will be honored. (...)</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Kashmir rises to a diplomatic and military power without equal in just a few years; The</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">British, during the upraise of the Sepoys (native soldiers of the Anglo-Indian army) and the</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">people’s revolution in March 1857 in northern India, are forced to request the help of its powerful</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">army to prevent their total obliteration. Its northern territorial boundaries go as far as the entire</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Kailash area in modern Tibet.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">It’s the only Indian state to enjoy an effective independence. No British citizen can stay</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">there during the winter months. K.H. was elected governor of Kashmir in 1865, position he held for</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">eighteen months. In his hands he holds the complete administration of the state’s affaires. During</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">the combined effort of the two Mahatmas, we witness the triumph of justice, freedom and culture.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Temples, schools, new laws, universities, aqueducts, paved roads, religious tolerance, total</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">eradication of criminality, commerce and cultural institutions flourish again. Kashmir, unlike the</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">rest of India, is a Paradise where the British gladly spend their summer vacation.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">After 20 year service to the state, the death of K.H. is announced at 44 years of age. But it is</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">only an apparent death caused by the Samadhi catalepsy, and later the Mahatma comes back, ever</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">more active, to prepare the grounds for the coming of H.P.B. in India the 15</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">M. says of him: “Revealing the name of one of us, while in the world, forced us to announce</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">his death to protect his freedom of action. We had to change the name many times to shield us from</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">curiosity. To safeguard a good task, we were forced to quickly hide”</font></font></font></font></font></p> Saint- Martin - The lost Filosofertag:theosophy.net,2011-04-15:3055387:Topic:453302011-04-15T08:53:22.078ZCatarina Oliveirahttps://theosophy.net/profile/CatarinaOliveira
<p>Goog morning,</p>
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<p><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="Primeiro que tudo, peço desculpa pelo meu Inglês, mas utilizei o tradutor do google para tornar mais fácil e rápido escrever este texto.">First of all, I apologize for my English, but used the google translator to make it easier and quicker to write this text. …<br></br> <br></br></span></span></p>
<p>Goog morning,</p>
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<p><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="Primeiro que tudo, peço desculpa pelo meu Inglês, mas utilizei o tradutor do google para tornar mais fácil e rápido escrever este texto.">First of all, I apologize for my English, but used the google translator to make it easier and quicker to write this text. <br/> <br/></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="Deparei-me com um livro maravilhoso que se chama " O Homem eo Desejo" de Saint - Martin, um dos fundadores do Martinismo.">I came across a wonderful book called "Man and Desire" Saint - Martin, a founder of Martinism. <br/> <br/></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="O Caminho para alcançar a Iluminação do Iniciado neste livro, é descrito de uma maneira maravilhosa e aconselho a leitura.">The Road to reach the lighting Started this book is described in a wonderful way and I advise reading. <br/> <br/></span><span title="Diz Saint- Martin:">Saint-Martin says: <br/> <br/></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="" Não há nenhum outro mistério para chegar á Sagrada Iniciação, senão penetranto cada vez mais fundo no nosso serm e não esmorecer até que possamos produzir viva e edficante raiz, porque então todos os frutos que havemos de gerar, conforme a nossa espécie, serão produzidos">"There is no other mystery to reach the Sacred Beginnings, but penetrating through deeper and deeper in our sermons and not fade away until we can produce vivid and edficante root, because then all the fruits that we will generate, as our species will be produced</span> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="dentro de nó e sem nós, naturalmente é o que ocorre nas nossas árvores terrestres, porque elas aderem as suas próprias raizes e incessantemnte retiram a seiva."">node within and without us, is what occurs naturally in our terrestrial trees, because they adhere to their own roots and incessantemnte remove the sap. " <br/> <br/></span><span title="Diz ainda:">He also says: <br/> <br/></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title=""Que as grandes verdades só podem ser ensinadas no silêncio, todos aqueles que não sabem calar, quef alam mais que observam,não podem ser recebidos na senda interior. Guardar silêncio significa fechar-se ás influências exteriores, a acções contrárias, que só trazem">"What the great truths can only be taught in silence all those who can not shut up, kefir alam more who watch, can not be received in the interior path. Keep silence means close to outside influences, the actions contrary, they only bring</span> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="acções conflituantes. Fechar-se em torno de si mesmo é magnetizar-se é evitar que as próprias forças divinas se dispersem, passando por nós. É criar um polo de atracção, é tornar-se o receptáculo das influencias celestes. Tornar-se a">conflicting actions. Close up around magnetize yourself is to avoid that is the very divine forces to disperse, passing us by. You create a pole of attraction, is to become the receptacle for the celestial influences. Becoming the</span> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" title="taça que recebe o influxo divino."">cup that receives the divine influx. "</span></span></p>