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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 ch.Introduction
  ...'' It only refuses to accept any of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions, gods created by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous and sorry ...sts in general, it was held scientific. Hindu, Egyptian, and other ancient religions, myths, and emblems were made to yield anything the symbologist wanted them
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future
  His article is devoted to a triple subject: the origins of three religions or associations, whose fundamental doctrines É. Burnouf regards as identic ...with Papism and the Roman Catholic Church—which, of all the dogmatic world religions, is the one his correspondent loathes the most—the philosophy and ethics
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• Blavatsky H.P. - “Lucifer” to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Greeting!
  ...ude, and the requirements of the time, has formed the living kernel of all religions. The Theosophical Society has branches respectively composed of Buddhists, Theosophists, therefore, are respecters of all the religions, and for the religious ethics of` Jesus they have profound admiration. It c
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• HPB-SD(ed.1)
  : “ Space ” in all Religions and in Occultism {{SD-p-toc|1|9|ed.1}} : Egypt’s many Religions {{SD-p-toc|1|311|ed.1}}
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• HPB-IU v.2 ch.1
  ...were we to borrow from the ancients some of the poetic sentiment in their religions, and the innate veneration they entertained for {{Style S-Italic|their}} sy ...what Christianity was meant to be? unless he may show that, like all other religions, Christianity too, has had its history; that the Christianity of the ninete
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• HPB-SD(21c)
  : “ Space ” in all Religions and in Occultism {{SD-p-toc|1|9|21c}} : Egypt’s many religions {{SD-p-toc|1|311|21c}}
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• Blavatsky H.P. - A Few Thoughts on Some Wise Words from a Wise Man
  ...as we do.” Precisely. Then why not leave the mind of our brothers of other religions and creeds to pursue its own natural course instead of forcibly diverting i ...loodthirstiness and cruelty, in intolerance, to the damnation of all other religions! “What crimes has it (Religion in general) not committed?” exclaims Pro
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Zoroastrianism in the Light of Occult Philosophy
  ...jects are misunderstood, and whose origin has been forgotten; and only two religions, the result of the teaching of those priests and hierophants of old. The la ...f the truths of the sacred science, the common foundation of all the great religions. Hence “the great shepherd,” Yima, refuses Ahura's instructions, for Ah
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Théosophie et Bouddhisme
  « . . . . trois religions ou associations d’hommes ayant des doctrines identiques, un meme but, et ...ertu. . . .Quant à la nature du principe absolu des choses, que les autres religions nomment Dieu, la métaphysique bouddhique le conçoit d’une toute autre m
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Le Cycle Nouveau
  ...phiques. Représentant visible de la Vérité universelle,—puisque toutes les religions et les philosophies y sont contenues et que chacune d’elles contient à s ...Anglais. À part de cela, les deux autres objects, c’est-à-dire l’étude des religions orientales, des vieux cultes védique et bouddhiste surtout, et nos recherc
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• HPB-IU v.2 ch.2
  ...sexual element is as marked in Christianity as in any one of the “heathen religions.” Certainly, nowhere in the {{Style S-Italic|Vedas}} can be found the coa ...ed, and in many instances unjust to the ancient heathen, Pagan, and Jewish religions, the {{Style S-Italic|facts}} treated in the {{Style S-Italic|Ancient and P
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• HPB-IU v.2 ch.3
  ...l abstractions which have convulsed the theology of every one of the great religions of mankind as soon as it was placed on a sure footing, the above is found t The Jewish Scriptures indicate two distinct worships and religions among the Israelites; that of Bacchus-worship under the mask of Jehovah, an
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.3 sec.25
  ...y, and historical personages of all the now-existing as well as of extinct religions are to be found in the seven chief Deities and their 330,000,000 correlatio ...e “Waters of Life” and those of Salvation—so confused together in dogmatic religions. The “King-Preacher” says of himself:
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.12
  ...ow that philology proceeds with giant-strides on the fields of comparative religions, belief in God and the soul’s immortality could not withstand the attacks ...ing that that which appeared at the first glance into the labyrinth of the religions of the world, all darkness, self-deceit, and vanity begin to assume another
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Animated Statues
  ...made to the Dictionnaire Universel historique et comparatif de toutes les religions du monde, etc., by the Abbé François Marie Bertrand. 4 Vols. Paris, 1848- ...tc., etc.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[This excerpt is from a work entitled ''Les religions et leur interprétation chrétienne'', by Th.-Prosper le Blanc d’Ambonne.
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Fausses Conceptions
  ...ne doivent rien accepter sur foi; ils abandonnent cette manière d’agir aux religions anthropomorphiques et aux adorateurs aveugles de la science materialiste. ...et s’endort en se saoûlant d’opium. L’ascétisme, compris à la manière des religions exotériques, a créé les fous ignorants qui se jettent sous le char de Ja
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Misconceptions
  ...; they leave that manner of acting to {{Page aside|72}}the anthropomorphic religions and to the blind worshippers of materialistic science. ...nd goes to sleep drunk on an opiate. Asceticism, as understood by exoteric religions, has produced the ignorant fools who throw themselves under the chariot of
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.15
  ...hey are capable of interpreting all the symbols, and have sifted the Hindu religions, we cannot help admiring the completeness of their scientific delusions. Th ...rit thought; and that a scholar so uniformly disposed to do justice to the religions and the men of old should so effectually play into the hands of Christian t
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry (concluded in May, 1889)
  ...e theosophists are not. They repeat: Masonry and the three great Christian religions are all inherited goods. The “ceremonies and passwords” of the former, ...entalism and Symbolism, and applied indiscriminately to all things and all religions, except Church Christianity and state-religion. No doubt the Sun was throug
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.2 sec.12
  ...mology necessitates the study, in a comparative analysis, of all the great religions of antiquity&nbsp;; as it is only by this method that the root idea will be ...'third'', into seven Forces, called the creative Powers by all the ancient Religions, and the
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• HPB-Caves-28
  ...Having settled in Delhi, he immediately forgot all the difference between religions, became a real Muslim, married several wives and, having refused a small su ...ll religions, he constantly hesitated between Christianity, Islam, and the religions of the Parsis and Brahmins. He was a great astrologer of his day.</ref> Thi
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• Blavatsky H.P. - “A Personal Statement of Religious Belief”
  ...no degree concur in the opinion that it is necessary to keep up artificial religions for the sake of the unenlightened masses. “Government by illusion” is a ...it may perhaps be said by those who find comfort in any of the recognized religions of the day, leaves we without any God, without prayer or worship of any kin
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Theosophy and Religious Riots
  ...rgy and determination, and because Buddhism is the least aggressive of all religions, as Christianity the most aggressive of all: more so than Mohammedanism now ...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
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• Blavatsky H.P. - “Historical Difficulty”—Why?
  ...hat “there is some truth in Buddhism as there is in every one of the false religions of the world. But . . .”28 ...ich some Orientalists would fain make a poor-house for all decayed archaic religions and philosophy. Even Tibet, in his opinion, has not escaped “Western infl
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• Blavatsky H.P. - A Christian Minister on Theosophy
  ...hought and hope, twenty centuries ago, gathered “all nations,” and said to religions “of the East and of the West,” “I was hungry and you fed me, I was na ...lf a follower of Jesus Christ, after being born a Hindu, and studying many religions. Fair play’s a jewel. All I ask is reason and light and fair play. Colone
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Esoteric Character of the Gospels (continued in December, 1887, and February, 1888)
  ...nly because that sect chooses to exalt itself above the heads of all other religions or sects. The name has been used in a manner so intolerant and dogmatic, es ...the “New Testament.”4 No more than any other scripture of the great world-religions can the Bible be excluded from that class of allegorical and symbolical wri
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• Blavatsky H.P. - What Good has Theosophy done in India?
  ...ligions of Buddhism and Brahminism, while urging them to respect their own religions and not to succumb to missionary attack upon the T.S. and its founders. ...e religions of other members with deference; and its principle is that all religions have some truth underlying them. . . . But between Brahminism and Buddhism
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Is Theosophy a Religion?
  ...just] was too roughly handled in our magazines”—just as if other fanatical religions were ever treated any better or upheld! Thus, all those who left have done ...s, instead of studying them through the spectacles of orthodox science and religions.
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.14
  ...true}} worship taught to those who showed themselves worthy, and the state religions. The magians are accused of all kinds of superstition, but this is what a { ...s from the remote periods; that the same remark applies to all the ancient religions of the world; that a strong resemblance prevails not only in the forms of t
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• Blavatsky H.P. - “Qabbalah, The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol”—Review
  ...esoteric teachings of the Israëlites shows moreover a common origin in all religions. That is precisely what Theosophy does. From the start Mr. I. Myer bravely ...the similarity of the Kabalistic system with Buddhism and the Pantheistic religions, and then to find in the former a personal Creator, or Spirit distinct from
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The New Cycle(Translation of foregoing French text)
  ...d philosophical research. Visible representative of universal Truth—as all religions and philosophies are contained therein, and as each one of them contains in .... With that exception, the other two objects, namely the study of Oriental religions, especially of the ancient Vedic and Buddhist cults, and our research in th
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Le Phare de l’Inconnu (continued in June, July and August, 1889)
  ...confiance du maître avant de recevoir de lui le mot suprême et final. Les religions les plus anciennes ont toujours eu leurs grands et leurs petits mystères. ...ux critiques. Les cagots et les matérialistes,—les brebis et les boucs des religions,—nous ayant placés à leur tour sur leur index expurgatorius, nos livres
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Beacon of the Unknown (Translation of foregoing French text)
  ...ter before receiving from him the supreme and final word. The most ancient religions have always had their greater and lesser mysteries. The neophytes and catec ...ic plants of human fabrication which at the present moment are choking all religions and cults in the world. Let him accept but the essence, which is the same i
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.2 sec.2
  {{Page|311|egypt’s many religions.}} ...ssor of Mariette Bey, “&nbsp;I am tempted to ask ''which ''of the Egyptian religions they are talking about&nbsp;? Is it of the Egyptian religion of the 4th Dyn
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.3 sec.11
  ...umably ''for the modern critic, who goes no deeper than the surface of old religions&nbsp;*&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Sun and Moon, which are, according to the Occult t ...seven planetary regions both ways. The pure Dhyani and Devas of the oldest religions had become, in course of time, with the Zoroastrians, the Seven Devs, the m
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.2 sec.18 ch.C
  ‡ We see the same in the modern exoteric religions. ...gainst Brihaspati, the representative of ''exoteric ''popular and national religions&nbsp;; and Indra&nbsp;—&nbsp;the god of the ''visible ''heaven, the firma
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.2 sec.19
  ...gods, are identical as personalities&nbsp;; moreover, that all the ancient religions taught the same tenet save the final conclusion, which latter differs from ...ions which mention the tradition of the fallen Spirits, and in those great religions there is not one that fails to mention and describe it in one or another fo
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.2 sec.24
  ...ed in India ''Kumâra'', are connected with both. Moreover, in the exoteric religions, they have become the synonyms of the Angels of Darkness. ''Mara ''is the G ...ls down to the particulars, who could ever have begun by symbolizing their religions by sexual emblems&nbsp;! It is quite true, though uttered by that incarnate
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.3 sec.2
  ...sp;A Modern Zoroastrian,” the author begins by twitting “&nbsp;all ancient religions and philosophies&nbsp;” for “&nbsp;assuming a male and female principle {{Style P-No indent|religions&nbsp;” are&nbsp;—&nbsp;as sufficiently shown in these two volumes&nbsp;
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.3 sec.1
  <nowiki>*</nowiki> See Münter "On the most Ancient Religions of the North before Odin. ''Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Fr ...Greece, the "later cradle of the arts and sciences," and India, cradle of religions, were, and one of them still is, devoted to its study and practice – and
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• Blavatsky H.P. - “The Light of Asia”
  Whatever the subsequent fate of all the world’s religions and their founders, the name of Gautama Buddha, or Sâkya Muni,<ref>He belo ...erential praise. He does not “hesitate to say” that “among the founders of religions there is no figure more pure or more touching than that of Buddha. His life
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• Blavatsky H.P. - From Madame H.P. Blavatsky to her Correspondents
  ...every remembrance of his earlier ideas, on all and on everything. Existing religions, knowledge, science must rebecome a blank book for him, as in the days of h ...are the elements of the Cabala, from whose mysterious bosom sprang all the religions of the past and present; which {{Page aside|131}} endowed all the Free Maso
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• Blavatsky H.P. - A Hindu Professor’s Views on Indian Yoga
  ...and science. And that implies the collapse of dogmatic, degraded forms of religions, in India and everywhere else. ...lf-abnegation.” This is a terse summary of the facts, and a just one. “All religions,” he continues,
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Note to “The Bishop’s Manifesto”
  ...s openly preaches the necessity of religious aggression against ‘the false religions’ of India.”}} ...“whatever adumbrations of positive truth may have been vouchsafed to other religions, they are so far diabolic and pernicious as they keep men from believing in
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Lamas and Druses
  ...rialism and modern science also sweeps away their own foundations—the only religions which have remained as alive as ever to these forgotten truths of old, are ...extreme tolerance and even outward respect shown by the Tibetans to other religions. A grand Lama, or a “Living Buddha,” as he calls him, whom the two miss
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The “St. James’ Gazette” and “Esoteric Buddhism”
  ...the mixture, bottle and label it: THE LAST WORD OF SCIENCE UPON THE SACRED RELIGIONS OF THE EAST. The authority is ready, and ignorant Mrs. Grundy ...ds a prominent place among the ipse dixit of the “Sir Oracles” of Oriental religions. Notwithstanding, the incessant confessions of the Orientalists that beyond
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• HPB-SB-4-243
  ...pting forces, and in obedience to the eternal law that men and empires and religions, in their turn, must pass away. On the other hand, from the writings of apo
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.1 st.10 sl.38-39
  {{Style P-No indent|and religions have committed equal errors in their misinterpretation of this tenet, whcih ...creatures as the devils and Satan of the Christian, Jewish, and Mahomedan religions was ever intended under those thousand and one Aryan allegories.&nbsp;† (
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.Before the Veil
  ...atic, too often debauched clergy; a host of sects, and three warring great religions; discord instead of union, dogmas without proofs, sensation-loving preacher ...Spiritualists has arisen amid the tottering ruins of self-styled revealed religions and materialistic philosophies; and yet it alone offers a possible last ref
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.1
  ...e we cannot find in the half-fictitious and half-real traditions of bygone religions and mythologies. As the star, glimmering at an immeasurable distance above ...and wasted power, are alone the wise? No! there is much more in these old religions than probably—in the audacity of modern denial, in the confidence of thes
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