Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Editors (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, trusted
13,377
edits
Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to Bhagavad-Gita: Difference between revisions
Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to Bhagavad-Gita (view source)
Revision as of 07:06, 27 August 2025
, 27 August 2025no edit summary
m (Pavel Malakhov moved page Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to “Bhagavad-Gita” to Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to Bhagavad-Gita) |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Trance-Speakers | | previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Trance-Speakers | ||
| next = Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to “Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium” | | next = Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to “Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium” | ||
| alternatives = | | alternatives = | ||
| translations = | | translations = | ||
}} | }} | ||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
{{Page aside continues|124}} | {{Page aside continues|124}} | ||
{{Style P-Title|FOOTNOTE TO BHAGAVAD-GITA}} | {{Style P-Title|FOOTNOTE TO ''BHAGAVAD-GITA''}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[''The Theosophist'', Vol. III, No. 9, June, 1882, p. 230]}} | |||
{{Vertical space|}} | {{Vertical space|}} | ||
{{HPB-CW-comment|[To this article treating of the teachings contained in the Gîtâ, and of the difference between these teachings and those of the Vedas, H. P. B. appends the following footnote:]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[To this article treating of the teachings contained in the ''Gîtâ'', and of the difference between these teachings and those of the ''Vedas'', H. P. B. appends the following footnote:]}} | ||
{{Vertical space|}} | |||
The idea that the Gita may after all be one of the ancient books of initiations—now most of them lost—has never occurred to them. Yet—like the Book of Job very wrongly incorporated into the Bible, since it is the allegorical and double record of (1) the Egyptian sacred mysteries in the temples and (2) of the disembodied Soul appearing before Osiris, and the Hall of Amenti, to be judged according to its | The idea that the ''Gita'' may after all be one of the ancient books of initiations—now most of them lost—has never occurred to them. Yet—like the ''Book of Job'' very wrongly incorporated into the Bible, since it is the allegorical and double record of (1) the Egyptian sacred mysteries in the temples and (2) of the disembodied Soul appearing before Osiris, and the Hall of Amenti, to be judged according to its ''Karma''—the ''Gita'' is a record of the ancient teachings during the Mystery of Initiation. | ||