The Secret Doctrine: A Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena P. Blavatsky

The aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not 'a fortuitous concurrence of atoms,' and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring. – Preface

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The Occultists are ready to admit all this with the eloquent writer. Molecular vibration is, undeniably, "Keely's legitimate field of research," and the discoveries made by him will prove wonderful -- yet only in his hands and through himself. The world so far will get but that with which it can be safely entrusted. The truth of this assertion has, perhaps, not yet quite dawned upon the discoverer himself, since he writes that he is absolutely certain that he will accomplish all that he has promised, and will then give it out to the world; but it must dawn upon him, and at no very far distant date. And what he says in reference to his work is a good proof of it: -- "In considering the operation of my engine, the visitor, in order to have even an approximate conception of its modus operandi, must discard all thought of engines that are operated upon the principle of pressure and exhaustion, by the expansion of steam or other analogous gas which impinges upon an abutment, such as the piston of a steam-engine. My engine has neither piston nor eccentrics, nor is there one grain of pressure exerted in the engine, whatever may be the size or capacity of it. "My system, in every part and detail, both in the developing of my power and in every branch of its utilization, is based and founded on sympathetic vibration. In no other way would it be possible to awaken or develop my force, and equally impossible would it be to operate my engine upon any other principle. . . . . .

This, however, is the true system; and henceforth all my operations will be conducted in this manner -- that is to say, my power will be generated, my engines run, my cannon operated, through a wire. "It has been only after years of incessant labour, and the making of almost innumerable experiments, involving not only the construction of a great many most peculiar mechanical structures, and the closest investigation and study of the phenomenal properties of the substance 'ether,' per se, produced, that I have been able to dispense with complicated mechanism, and to obtain, as I claim, mastery over the subtle and strange force with which I am dealing." The passages underlined by us, are those which bear directly on the occult side of the application of the vibratory force, or what Mr. Keely calls "sympathetic vibration."

Seth Speaks

"The Speakers were the first to impress this inner knowledge upon the physical system, to make it physically known. Sometimes only one or two Speakers were alive in several centuries. Sometimes there were many. They looked around them and knew that the world sprang from their interior reality. They told others."

Session 568, Page 242

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Gordon Eddy

"In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science."

— Mary Baker Eddy

It is a grave mistake to suppose that matter is any part of the reality of intelligent existence, or that Spirit and matter, intelligence and non-intelligence, can commune together. This error Science will destroy. The sensual cannot be made the mouthpiece of the spiritual, nor can the finite become the channel of the infinite. There is no communication between so-called material existence and spiritual life which is not subject to death.

To be on communicable terms with Spirit, persons must be free from organic bodies; and their return to a material condition, after having once left it, would be as impossible as would be the restoration to its original condition of the acorn, already absorbed into a sprout which has risen above the soil. The seed which has germinated has a new form and state of existence. When here or hereafter the belief of life in matter is extinct, the error which has held the belief dissolves with the belief, and never returns to the old condition. No correspondence nor communion can exist between persons in such opposite dreams as the belief of having died and left a material body and the belief of still living in an organic, material body.

The caterpillar, transformed into a beautiful insect, is no longer a worm, nor does the insect return to fraternize with or control the worm. Such a backward transformation is impossible in Science. Darkness and light, infancy and manhood, sickness and health, are opposites, — different beliefs, which never blend. Who will say that infancy can utter the ideas of manhood, that darkness can represent light, that we are in Europe when we are in the opposite hemisphere? There is no bridge across the gulf which divides two such opposite conditions as the spiritual, or incorporeal, and the physical, or corporeal.

In Christian Science there is never a retrograde step, never a return to positions outgrown. The so-called dead and living cannot commune together, for they are in separate states of existence, or consciousness.

1875

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"The idea of a meaningless universe, however, is in itself a highly creative imaginative act. Animals, for example, could not imagine such an idiocy, so that the theory shows the incredible accomplishment of an obviously ordered mind and intellect that can imagine itself to be the result of nonorder, or chaos - [you have] a creature who is capable of mapping its own brain, imagining that the brain’s fantastic regulated order could emerge from a reality that itself has no meaning. Indeed, then, the theory actually says that the ordered universe magically emerged - and evolutionists must certainly believe in a God of Chance somewhere, or in Coincidence with a capital C, for their theories would make no sense at all otherwise. The world of the imagination is indeed your contact with your own source. Its characteristics are the closest to those in Framework 2 that you can presently encounter."

Session 829, Page 141-142

Anarchism.net

Anarchism is a widely disputed label, there are probably as many different kinds of anarchisms as there are different ideologies or traditions in statism. Therefore anarchism is used in a number of ways--by people who want to abolish the government, abolish capitalism, abolish violence, abolish technology, abolish large-scale production, or abolish society. But what does anarchism mean?

The new Anarchism.net tries to answer this question. The new site is what the name says--an anarchisms’ network, a network of, for, and by anarchisms. The organizers of the site of course believe in a certain kind of anarchism, but it is our hope and goal to provide a basis for discussion. All anarchists are welcome!

The Divine Milieu by Teilhard de Chardin

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

1960

Cosmic Vibrations by Llewellyn George

Free Tarot Reading

Constant affirmations help the real YOU to transcend the objections, limitations or ignorance of the personality (personality as indicated by the five physical senses). An affirmation is an "urge" and repeated affirmations become a commanding, compelling influence which makes the chemical constituants of the body act in accordance with the directions of the formula and constant affirmation maintains the desirable condition after it has become manifest, and thus makes health a habit.
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It is more easy to be well than to be ill; to be well one only needs to LET nature manifest.
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To be rid of disease, be full of ease. Learn to LET GO. Get off that high tension regarding this, that and the other.

1928

Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 2

"If man paid more attention to his own subjective behavior, to those feelings of identification with nature that persistently arise, then half of the dictates of both the evolutionists and the creationists would automatically fall away, for they would appear nonsensical. It is not a matter of outlining a whole new series of methods that will allow you to increase your psychic abilities, or to remember your dreams, or to perform out-of-body gymnastics. It is rather a question or a matter of completely altering your approach to life, so that you no longer block out such spontaneous activity."

Session 937, Page 498

Quote by: Edward Abbey

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine

Fear and worry and all kinds of kindred mental states are too expensive for any person, man, woman, or child, to entertain or indilge in. Fear paralyzes healthy action, worry corrodes and pulls down the organism, and will finally tear it to pieces. Nothing is to be gained by it, but everything to be lost. Long-continued grief at any loss will do the same. Each brings its own particular type of ailment. An inordinate love of gain, close fisted, hoarding disposition will have kindred effects. Anger, jealousy, malice, continual fault-finding, lust, has each its own peculiar corroding, weakening, tearing down effects.

We shall find that not only are happiness and prosperity concomitants of righteousness,-living in harmony with the higher laws, but bodily health as well.
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When we thus go directly to the Infinite Source itself we are no longer slaves to personalities, institutions, or books. We should always keep ourselves open to suggestions of truth from these agencies. We should alwaysregard them as agencies, however, never as sources. We should never recognize them as masters, but simply as teachers. With Browning, we must recognize the fact that-

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness."

There is no more important injuction in all the world, nor one with deeper interior meaning, than "To thine own self be true". In other words, be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the voice of god speaks to you. This is the interior guide. This is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. This is conscience. This is intuition. This is the voice of the higher self, the voice of the soul, the voice of god. "Thou shalt hear a voice behind thee, saying: This is the way, walk ye in it".

1897

Infoshop.org Portal

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E.S.T. Instruction (V) by William Q. Judge

The Lower Manas, or Kama Manas.

The Lower Manas is, in many respects, most difficult to understand. There are enormous mysteries connected with it. We shall here consider it as a Principle, taking later the workings of Consciousness in a Quaternary, and in each member of it.

The important point to grasp is its relationship to the Higher Manas.

Manas, as it were, a globe of pure, Divine Light, a Ray from the World Soul, a unit from a higher sphere, in which there is no differentiation. Descending to a plane of differntiation it emanates a Ray which is itself, which it can only manifest through the personality already differentiated. This Ray is the Lower Manas, while the globe of Divine Light, a Kumara on its own plane, is the Higher Ego, or Higher Manas, Manas proper. But it must never be forgotten that the Lower Manas is the same in its essence as the Higher .

1894

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E. S. T.

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ORDER NO. II OF 1894.

144 Madison Ave., New York, Dec. 3, 1894.

To the members of the E.S.T.

COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS: --- In accordance with order received from the Master, I hereby declare that [H.P.Blavatsky's] Instructions I, II and III of this School are no longer secret, with the following exceptions:
(a) The A. E.
(b) The plain and colored Diagrams and Plates and their explanations.
(c) The Correspondences.
(d) The Word and sacred formula.

The above four are not relieved from privacy and cannot be discussed with non-members.

The books should not be shown to non-members. Members of the E.S.T. who have not accepted Order No. I of November 3d, may be made aware of this release of secresy whenever it may seem fit to you. Freedom of use or discussion of Instructions I, II and III should not go publicly to the extent of giving out the books or reading from them; but references to them and their contents, with absolute regard to the exceptions noted, is permissible.

If the source of statements or ideas derived directly from those three Instructions be asked for, it may be stated that they are from the teachings given out in the E.S.T. which it is now permitted to make public.

Fraternally yours,
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE.

Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker

In common with Liberalism, Anarchism represents the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard in all social matters. And, in common with the great representatives of liberal thought, it has also the idea of limiting the functions of government to a minimum. Its adherents have followed this thought to its ultimate consequences, and wish to eliminate every institution of political power from the life of society. When Jefferson clothes the basic concept of Liberalism in the words: "That government is best which governs least," then Anarchists say with Thoreau: "That government is best which governs not at all."

In common with the founders of Socialism, Anarchists demand the abolition of economic monopoly in every form and shape and uphold common ownership of the soil and all other means of production, the use of which must be available to all without distinction; for personal and social freedom is conceivable only on the basis of equal economic conditions for everybody. Within the socialist movement itself the Anarchists represent the viewpoint that the struggle against capitalism must be at the same time a struggle against all coercive institutions of political power, for in history economic exploitation has always gone hand in hand with political and social oppression. The exploitation of man by man and the domination of man over man are inseparable, and each is the condition of the other.