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  • ...beauty of the spiritualistic theory; it is capable of assimilation by all religions. It is the one fundamental doctrine that lies at the root of all, . . . the ...
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  • ...se and thought as the children of one common mother; to purify the ancient religions, by degrees corrupted and obscured, from all dross of human element, by uni ...basis,” may accept any of the above definitions or belong to any of these religions, and yet remain strictly within the boundaries of Theosophy. For the latter ...
    24 KB (3,842 words) - 17:02, 5 October 2023
  • ...ual respect and veneration for Vedic, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and other old religions of the world; and, a like brotherly feeling towards its Hindu, Sinhalese, P ...a pretext one day to make a state religion, gives absolute equality to all religions in its laws. All support and each is in turn protected by the State. The So ...
    20 KB (3,294 words) - 17:02, 5 October 2023
  • ...rested like The Theosophist in the explorations of archaeology and archaic religions, as well as the study of the occult in nature, has to be doubly prudent and ...logy. So far, their affirmations as to the relative antiquity of the great religions of the pre-Christian era are little more than plausible hypotheses. How far ...
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  • ...inaccuracies. The venerable author having derived his information upon the religions of India from an old book called Religious ceremonies and customs of all th ...
    6 KB (964 words) - 06:26, 12 October 2023
  • ...directly communing with God and the Prophets, and purposes to “purify the religions of India.” The writer finds a resemblance between the policy of the new Pro ...ture of the conception, germination, the growth and development of all the religions founded upon avatarism. We see in it the true retrospective representation ...
    3 KB (512 words) - 14:43, 16 October 2023
  • ...entific gentlemen are forced to listen, and the scientific ladies, and the religions gentlemen and the religious ladies, to find out the imposture and to oust t ...a new religion, but is rather confirmatory of the doctrines taught by all religions. Faith in God and belief in the immortality of the human soul.” To this bel ...
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  • ...uperficial and prejudiced travellers, to their entire ignorance of Asiatic religions and, very often, their own—Western nations generally are labouring under th ...are limited to paganism, or that they are the direct result of the heathen religions alone. They are international; the cumulative production and necessary effe ...
    16 KB (2,743 words) - 20:25, 21 October 2023
  • ...tament legends, accepted by the audience as forming a portion of the State-religions of Christendom. Thus the mystery of the extraordinary success lies in a nut ...ive merits of those many would-be truths, called by the name of creeds and religions, without anyone taking offence at the freedom, we cannot help showing a pro ...
    26 KB (4,451 words) - 00:46, 6 November 2023
  • ...f nearly all the nations, and are preserved by them to this day; for while religions differ considerably among themselves, the rites often surviving the people ...
    11 KB (1,947 words) - 03:36, 8 November 2023
  • ...d down for the obedience of his helpless subjects; in some cases, however, religions of later growth have made morality to depend on the sentiment of gratitude ...
    15 KB (2,503 words) - 10:13, 23 November 2023
  • ...y 15, 1884, where an article appears under the title: “The Newest Thing in Religions. The Hermetic Society. By One of its Fellows.” A cutting of this article is ...o preach his own sectarian views and beliefs, or deprecate the religion or religions of other members to other Fellows assembled, except when the meeting consis ...
    11 KB (1,803 words) - 19:23, 11 December 2023
  • ...ing became engrafted on its roots. Once upon a time the priests of ancient religions were all true seers and priests. Their sacred knowledge they held and taugh ...
    8 KB (1,467 words) - 18:57, 12 August 2024
  • The radical element of the oldest religions was essentially {{Style S-Italic|sabaistic;}} and we maintain that their my ...ir metaphysical researches never clashed with scientific truths, and their religions may be truly termed the psycho-physiological creeds of the priests and scie ...
    127 KB (20,625 words) - 17:19, 17 March 2024
  • ...hem gradually to the public in various works that would interpret exoteric religions in the light of esoteric teachings; ...eral Christian member of the T.S. having objected to the study of Oriental religions and doubted whether there was room left for any new Society—a letter answer ...
    58 KB (9,953 words) - 11:35, 18 March 2024
  • ...aning in all this—only in the Bible—and a mere sexual worship in all other religions. This phallic element, however, in the older pagan worship related, in trut ...
    35 KB (5,734 words) - 12:50, 20 March 2024
  • ...sm, Hinduism, nor any other ism: it is the esoteric synthesis of the known religions and philosophies. ...sm of man’s nature, has been broken up into vari-coloured fragments called RELIGIONS. And, as the rays of the spectrum, by imperceptible shadings, merge into ea ...
    50 KB (8,705 words) - 15:16, 2 April 2024
  • ...he Theosophical Society is to declare and maintain the Truth common to all religions, the real Truth, unsoiled by the inventions, the passions, and the requirem ...
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  • But who in our age of religions gnashing their teeth at one another, of sects innumerable, or “isms” and “i Theosophy is monistic through and through. It seeks the one Truth in all religions, in all science, in all experience, as in every system of thought. What aim ...
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  • ...obviously true in the case of the doctrine of the underlying unity of all religions and the existence, as claimed by Theosophists, of a common source called th ...a body teaches no special religion but tolerates and virtually accepts all religions by never interfering with, or even inquiring after the religious views of, ...
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