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{{Style P-Quote|“ The possibility of rising to a comprehension of a system of co-ordination so far outreaching in time and space all reach of human observations, is a circumstance which signalizes the power of man to transcend the limitations of changing and inconsistent matter, and assert his superiority over all unstable and perishable forms of being. ''There is a method in the succession of events'', and in the relation of co-existent things, which the mind of man seizes hold of ; and by means of this as a clue, he runs back or forward over æons of material history of which human experience can never testify. Events germinate and unfold. They have a past which is connected with their present, and we feel a well-justified confidence that a future is appointed which will be similarly connected with the present and the past. This continuity and unity of history repeat themselves before our eyes in all conceivable stages of progress. The phenomena furnish us the grounds for the generalization of two laws which are truly ''principles of scientific divination'', by which alone the human mind penetrates the sealed records of the past and the unopened pages of the future. The first of these is the law of evolution, or, to phrase it for our purpose, ''the law of correlated successiveness or organized history in the individual'', illustrated in the changing phases of every single maturing system of results. . . . These thoughts summon into our immediate presence the measureless past and the measureless future of material history. They seem almost to open vistas through infinity, and to endow the human intellect with an existence and a vision exempt from the limitations of time and space and finite causation, and lift it up toward a sublime apprehension of the Supreme Intelligence whose dwelling place is Eternity.” (“ World-Life,” p. 535 and 548.)}} | {{Style P-Quote|“ The possibility of rising to a comprehension of a system of co-ordination so far outreaching in time and space all reach of human observations, is a circumstance which signalizes the power of man to transcend the limitations of changing and inconsistent matter, and assert his superiority over all unstable and perishable forms of being. ''There is a method in the succession of events'', and in the relation of co-existent things, which the mind of man seizes hold of ; and by means of this as a clue, he runs back or forward over æons of material history of which human experience can never testify. Events germinate and unfold. They have a past which is connected with their present, and we feel a well-justified confidence that a future is appointed which will be similarly connected with the present and the past. This continuity and unity of history repeat themselves before our eyes in all conceivable stages of progress. The phenomena furnish us the grounds for the generalization of two laws which are truly ''principles of scientific divination'', by which alone the human mind penetrates the sealed records of the past and the unopened pages of the future. The first of these is the law of evolution, or, to phrase it for our purpose, ''the law of correlated successiveness or organized history in the individual'', illustrated in the changing phases of every single maturing system of results. . . . These thoughts summon into our immediate presence the measureless past and the measureless future of material history. They seem almost to open vistas through infinity, and to endow the human intellect with an existence and a vision exempt from the limitations of time and space and finite causation, and lift it up toward a sublime apprehension of the Supreme Intelligence whose dwelling place is Eternity.” (“ World-Life,” p. 535 and 548.)}} | ||
According to the teachings, Maya, or the illusive appearance of the marshalling of events and actions on this earth, changes, varying with nations and places. But the chief features of one’s life are always in accordance with the “ Constellation ” one is born under, or, we should say, with the characteristics of its animating principle or the deity that presides over it, whether we call it a ''Dhyan Chohan'', as in Asia, or an Archangel, as with the Greek and Latin churches. In ancient Symbolism it was always the Sun (though the Spiritual, not the visible, Sun was meant), that was supposed to send forth the chief Saviours and Avatars. Hence the connecting link between the Buddhas, the Avatars, and so many other incarnations of the highest {{Style S-Small capitals|Seven}}. The closer the approach to one’s ''Prototype'', “ in Heaven,” the better for the mortal whose personality was chosen, by his own ''personal ''deity (the seventh principle), as its terrestrial abode. For, with every effort of will toward purification and unity | According to the teachings, Maya, or the illusive appearance of the marshalling of events and actions on this earth, changes, varying with nations and places. But the chief features of one’s life are always in accordance with the “ Constellation ” one is born under, or, we should say, with the characteristics of its animating principle or the deity that presides over it, whether we call it a ''Dhyan Chohan'', as in Asia, or an Archangel, as with the Greek and Latin churches. In ancient Symbolism it was always the {{Style S-Small capitals|Sun}} (though the Spiritual, not the visible, Sun was meant), that was supposed to send forth the chief Saviours and Avatars. Hence the connecting link between the Buddhas, the Avatars, and so many other incarnations of the highest {{Style S-Small capitals|Seven}}. The closer the approach to one’s ''Prototype'', “ in Heaven,” the better for the mortal whose personality was chosen, by his own ''personal ''deity (the seventh principle), as its terrestrial abode. For, with every effort of will toward purification and unity | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|with that “ Self-god,” one of the lower rays breaks and the spiritual entity of man is drawn higher and ever higher to the ray that supersedes the first, until, from ray to ray, the inner man is drawn into the one and highest beam of the Parent-{{Style S-Small capitals|Sun}}. Thus, “ the events of humanity ''do ''run co-ordinately with the number forms,” since the single units of that humanity proceed one and all from the same source — the ''central ''and its ''shadow'', the visible {{Style S-Small capitals|Sun}}. For the equinoxes and solstices, the periods and various phases of the Solar course, astronomically and numerically expressed, are only the concrete symbols of the eternally living verity, though they do seem ''abstract ideas ''to uninitiated mortals. And this explains the extraordinary numerical coincidences with geometrical relations, as shown by several authors.}} | {{Style P-No indent|with that “ Self-god,” one of the lower rays breaks and the spiritual entity of man is drawn higher and ever higher to the ray that supersedes the first, until, from ray to ray, the inner man is drawn into the one and highest beam of the Parent-{{Style S-Small capitals|Sun}}. Thus, “ the events of humanity ''do ''run co-ordinately with the number forms,” since the single units of that humanity proceed one and all from the same source — the ''central ''and its ''shadow'', the visible {{Style S-Small capitals|Sun}}. For the equinoxes and solstices, the periods and various phases of the Solar course, astronomically and numerically expressed, are only the concrete symbols of the eternally living verity, though they do seem ''abstract ideas ''to uninitiated mortals. And this explains the extraordinary numerical coincidences with geometrical relations, as shown by several authors.}} | ||
Yes ; “ our destiny ''is ''written in the stars ! ” Only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection man and his celestial prototype, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations — which neither Buddhas nor Christs can escape. This is not superstition, least of all is it ''Fatalism. ''The latter implies a blind course of some still blinder power, and man is a free agent during his stay on earth. He cannot escape his ''ruling ''Destiny, but he has the choice of two paths that lead him in that direction, and he can reach the goal of misery — if such is decreed to him, either in the snowy white robes of the Martyr, or in the soiled garments of a volunteer in the iniquitous course ; for, there are ''external and internal conditions ''which affect the determination of our will upon our actions, and it is in our power to follow either of the two. Those who believe in ''Karma ''have to believe in ''destiny'', which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb ; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible ''prototype ''outside of us, or by our more intimate ''astral'', or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. Both these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail ; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable ''law of compensation ''steps in and takes its course, faithfully following the fluctuations. When the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this ''self-made ''destiny. It then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock, or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own actions, and this is — {{Style S-Small capitals|Karma}}. | Yes ; “ our destiny ''is ''written in the stars ! ” Only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection {{Style S-Small capitals|man}} and his celestial {{Style S-Small capitals|prototype}}, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations — which neither Buddhas nor Christs can escape. This is not superstition, least of all is it ''Fatalism. ''The latter implies a blind course of some still blinder power, and man is a free agent during his stay on earth. He cannot escape his ''ruling ''Destiny, but he has the choice of two paths that lead him in that direction, and he can reach the goal of misery — if such is decreed to him, either in the snowy white robes of the Martyr, or in the soiled garments of a volunteer in the iniquitous course ; for, there are ''external and internal conditions ''which affect the determination of our will upon our actions, and it is in our power to follow either of the two. Those who believe in ''Karma ''have to believe in ''destiny'', which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb ; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible ''prototype ''outside of us, or by our more intimate ''astral'', or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. Both these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail ; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable ''law of compensation ''steps in and takes its course, faithfully following the fluctuations. When the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this ''self-made ''destiny. It then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock, or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own actions, and this is — {{Style S-Small capitals|Karma}}. | ||
A materialist, treating upon the periodical creations of our globe, has expressed it in one sentence. “ The whole ''past ''of the Earth is nothing but an unfolded ''present.''” This was Büchner, who little suspected that he was repeating an axiom of the Occultists. It is quite true also, as Burmeister (quoted in “ ''Force and matter ”'') remarks, that | A materialist, treating upon the periodical creations of our globe, has expressed it in one sentence. “ The whole ''past ''of the Earth is nothing but an unfolded ''present.''” This was Büchner, who little suspected that he was repeating an axiom of the Occultists. It is quite true also, as Burmeister (quoted in “ ''Force and matter ”'') remarks, that | ||