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...'' 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

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

...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

: “ 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}}

...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

: “ Space ” in all Religions and in Occultism {{SD-p-toc|1|9|21c}} : Egypt’s many religions {{SD-p-toc|1|311|21c}}

...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

...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

« . . . . 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

...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

...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

...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

...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:

...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

...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.

...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

...; 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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

{{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

...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

‡ 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

...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

...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

...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;

<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

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

...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

...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,

...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

...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

...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

...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

{{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;† (

...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

...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

...n the depths of Lethe, and Karma shall reach Europe as it has Asia and her religions. ...rientalist can say with any degree of assurance that he has understood the religions of old? The metaphorical language of the priests has never been more than s

...We must not neglect to show the grand truths underlying the misunderstood religions of the past. The four elements of our fathers, earth, air, water, and fire, ...archæologist and philologist who has fairly and seriously studied the old religions, has perceived that taken literally they could only lead them on a false tr

...me, ni aucun autre mot en isme; c’est la synthèse ésotérique de toutes les religions et de toutes les philosophies connues. ...attrapé et avec lui l’Europe entière. Voyez Introduction à la Science des religions [Introduction to the Science of Religion] par Max Müller.</ref> au commenc

...ations, by the Church Fathers from Pagan symbology and Gnosticism; the old religions of the Gentiles being, in their turn, the more or less faithful echoes of t ...so far, vainly, her fellow servants among the bedizened flunkeys of State religions in the great World’s Fair.

...dia, Ceylon and Japan had largely turned agnostics and revilers of the old religions, it will be seen how difficult a task it must have been to bring something ...eir effect was only to create doubt and prejudice against Hinduism and all religions, without in the least winning regard for Christianity or making converts. T

...f evil— adherence to the dogmatic, ecclesiastical conventionalism of State religions. It was a loud, passionate protest against both, a drifting towards a middl ...er esoteric Christianity as they do the esoteric aspect of all other world-religions, yet his new Society is sure to do good work. For, if the name chosen means

...al computer networks there is no limitation for spreading information. All religions, philosophies and branches of science are represented there. All have equal ...ine'' with all its numerous quotations and references, comparing different religions, philosophies and scientific theories is a methodological guide for underst

...main convinced that there is only one religion in which all transcendental religions find their true place and true illumination. I would have to talk about thi

...re monotheism of the Vedic doctrines. There have even been founders of new religions who denied the revelations of these scriptures; for instance, the Raja Ram ...and skin colour (that is, nationality), and it does not care about private religions. This did not please Swami. He demanded that ''all members'' either submit

...f volumes embodying the scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of this ...; 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

...s at present rendered by the archeologists; then, passing over a number of religions that will be mentioned later, comes the Jewish, esoterically, as in the Kab

{{Style P-No indent|religions, from the Vedic to the Egyptian, from the Zoroastrian to the Jewish. In the ...ow more of this strange symbol than may be inferred about it from exoteric religions&nbsp;; from the mystery perhaps, which underlies the ''Matsya ''(fish)

...p;creation&nbsp;” nor of “&nbsp;evolution&nbsp;” in the sense the exoteric religions do. All these personified Powers are not evolutions from one another, but s ...ceived this divine Wisdom. While, then, the ''Logoi ''of all countries and religions are correlative (in their sexual aspects) with the female Soul of the World

...led ''religion. ''That is to say, he was equally as ignorant of “&nbsp;gay religions, full of pomp and gold&nbsp;” as of any system of faith or outward worshi Such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern religions, especially of the worship of the later Hebrews for their tribal god. At th

...s&nbsp;”'' on p. 212&nbsp;:&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;Its mythologies, histories, religions, popular stories and proverbs, all teem with references to a mysterious bei ...asses they degenerated into Sorcery, taking later on the shape of exoteric religions, of idolatry full of superstitions, and man-, or hero-worship. Alone a hand

...ods and the archangels standing as symbols for the dead letter or dogmatic religions, and as arrayed against the pure truths of Spirit, naked and unadorned with ...haracter to every worldly, evanescent illusion, dogmatic or ecclesiastical religions included. Thus, the Latin Church, intolerant, bigoted and cruel to all who

...tions feel bound to defend and ''poetise ''it, at the expense of all other religions. ...erage bigot. Missionaries will go on with the most virulent attacks on the religions of India, and Christians read with the same benighted smile of satisfaction

...heir god and angels, and the deity and its aspects, or the gods of the old religions. Thus, while calling Mercury, Venus, Jupiter (whether as gods or planets) D ...e Atlanto-Lemurians, and sowed the first seeds of all the now existing old religions. The off-shoots of the never dying tree of wisdom have scattered their dead

...eachings of the Vedas, which does not prevent them from being real ancient religions and not modern falsifications.

...al, they are not allowed into the circle of Theosophists, who tolerate all religions and all beliefs, except for lack of faith or an outright denial of the spir ...position, raised his voice, “whether Russian rulers show respect for alien religions, in general?”

<center><big>ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.</big></center> ...initiated'', than the poetic language of a large community.” (“&nbsp;''The Religions of India'',” p. xiii.)}}

...main convinced that there is only one religion in which all transcendental religions find their true place and true illumination. And I would have to talk about

<nowiki>*</nowiki> See Alfred Maury's ''Histoire des Religions de la Grèce''. i. 248: and the speculations of Holzmann in ''Zeitschriftfu ...e 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 the

{{Page|53|asiatic religions proclaim their esoterism openly}} But, it may also be asked, why is it that the Asiatic religions, which have nothing of this sort to conceal and which proclaim quite openly

| section title = The Duty of the True Occultist Toward Religions {{Style P-Title|The Duty of the True Occultist Toward Religions}}

...and his colleagues to the level of the most unspiritual and gross phallic religions. This plea confirms the suspicions entertained by some Christian Mystics an ...to this, as to every other allegory, whether in the ''Bible ''or in pagan religions. While Mr. Massey has hit upon the key in the mysteries of cosmogony, John

...n the depths of Lethe, and Karma shall reach Europe as it has Asia and her religions. ...rientalist can say with any degree of assurance that he has understood the religions of old? The metaphorical language of the priests has never been more than s

...ages and writers. That which the Gods and Angels had ''revealed ''exoteric religions, beginning with that moses, reveiled and hid for ages from the sight of the ...totality of mankind, had one religion, as they were of “one lip.” “All the religions of the earth were at first one, and emanated from one centre.” says Faber

...the foundation—the seed, truly—of the later many-formed symbol in various religions, including Christianity, of the sacrificial lamb. For it is a play upon the

...Madame Blavatsky’s Highly Important Work on Oriental Magic, Literature and Religions.''</center> ...active and less understood than Religious Philosophy of the Orientals. The religions and scientific wealth of the oldest peoples on the earth has been so jealou

...man’s destiny beyond the grave, while the belief was prominent in all the religions around Israel,” . . . is “confessed to be one of those enigmas which ar ...ction with the correctness of my esoteric explanations of their respective religions. Isis Unveiled is now being translated into Marâthî and Hindi in India, a

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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 P ...ture of the conception, germination, the growth and development of all the religions founded upon avatarism. We see in it the true retrospective representation

...uperficial and prejudiced travellers, to their entire ignorance of Asiatic religions and, very often, their own—Western nations generally are labouring under ...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

...inferentially, to glorify the Jewish Bible at the expense of all the other religions. So, for instance, he says: ...the Horses and the Sun, Asvamedha. The horses of the Sun are famous in all religions (Phaeton the Greek, driving the Chariot). The high priest or Mobed riding e

...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

...oth the psychological and physical sciences, as all sectarian and dogmatic religions, yield their respective verities, is, in construing them, to take the middl ...preach his own sectarian views and beliefs, deprecating their religion or religions to other members and fellows (Art. VI of Rules)? If he wants to believe tha

...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

...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

...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 ...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

...umed to set foot in the temples. I think we would find, moreover, that the religions of his country were just about the last subjects that our friend would care ...ar more clearly than we can discern it now; and the farther he studies the religions of nations, the more convinced he will feel that “the spot whereon he sta

...n laid bare, and the social and other forces which influence the growth of religions have been presented in action for study. ...te and non-emphatic watchmen, simply because of radical sneers at historic religions. Our noble friends S. C. Hall, Dr. Maurice Davies, and scores, of whom they

...sioner) ''souls. It has been the cradle of the human race, and from it all religions have drawn their legends. For a long time past the Oriental question has be ...econd theory, and we can see little in the assumed analogies between these religions which might not be the result of an imperfect remembrance of Christian writ

...the other hand, Col. Olcott only means that the highest teachings of these religions, as understood by the ''few,'' are more philosophical and enlightening than

...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

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

...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 answ

...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

...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

...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

But who in our age of religions gnashing their teeth at one another, of sects innumerable, or “isms” an 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

...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,

...more fully it is revealed to us; the more we penetrate into the meaning of religions or doctrines, the more we understand their one essence, and the more carefu

...asis of manifestation in this world, as the ancient scriptures say. In all religions there is a concept of sacrifice. How is it understood exoterically and esot

...it of the times, then physical science and philosophy generally reject all religions and true Esoteric Philosophy, considering it not as a true reflection of th

| Mr. M. D. Conway on Oriental Religions

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...ches very early, being unable to find in it any superiority over the older religions {{etg-source|TG}}.

...ly obtainable at extravagant prices; it treats of the origin of all myths, religions and mysteries, and displays an immense fund of classical erudition. [w.w.w.

...or holiness trampling down sin.” Draconianism did not die with the ancient religions, but has passed bodily into the latest Christian form of the worship {{etg-

...neral pile, a heap) – a shrine, sanctuary, temple or prayer hall in Indian religions. – Ed.</ref>'', is older and better preserved than any other. It may be a

...ols, can be seen from comparisons and parallelisms made by students of old religions. The “&nbsp;three strides of Vishnu&nbsp;” through the “&nbsp;seven r

...lly through the exoteric and grossly anthropomorphic allegories of popular religions, even in these the doctrine embodied in the circle of “&nbsp;Pass-Not&nbs

...r, and thus woman was regarded and treated, from the first dawn of popular religions, as inferior to man. It is only in China and Egypt that Kwan-Yin and Isis w

...he seems to exercise those of a Personal God as understood in the popular religions. The answer has just been given in the comment on Stanza V. As well said in

...that which is contained in almost all the exoteric Scriptures of the world-religions&nbsp;—&nbsp;pre-eminently in the Brahmânas, and the Upanishads of the Ve

...tems, as the Zoroastrian, and detects a germ of the dogmatic and dualistic religions of the future, a germ which has grown into such a luxuriant tree in ecclesi

...m the “&nbsp;Heavenly or Celestial Virgin,”&nbsp;‡ the great mother in all religions, the Androgyne, the

...n have no personal qualities, such as attributed by men, in their exoteric religions, to their anthropomorphic God&nbsp;—&nbsp;a jealous and exclusive God who

...n read only in the dead-letter murderous interpretations of great dogmatic religions, and especially of sects.

whose seed is in itself.” In all the primitive religions, the “&nbsp;Son of the Father&nbsp;” is the creative God&nbsp;—&nbsp;

...nly most dangerous and iconoclastic in the face of all the dualistic later religions&nbsp;—&nbsp;or rather theologies&nbsp;—&nbsp;and especially so in the l

...l, should such beliefs be called “&nbsp;superstition&nbsp;” along with the religions of old&nbsp;?}}

...England, in the recollection of a witty Frenchman, blessed with thirty-six religions and only one fish-sauce&nbsp;—&nbsp;has but one name for all, namely, “

...mysteries of nature, in the Egyptian and Chaldean as well as in the Aryan religions. Fohat, shown in his true character, proves how deeply versed were all thos

...once ''Helius'', ''Pythius'', and the god of oracular Wisdom. In exoteric religions, as much as in esoteric philosophy, the Elements&nbsp;—&nbsp;especially f

...it more firmly, than any of the ''less philosophical ''and ''more immoral religions (!&nbsp;!&nbsp;) ''of the ancient world.” Only, while we find in Biblical

...rather uneven distribution of Buddhas. This is the way exoteric or popular religions confuse everything. Esoteric philosophy teaches us that every Root‐ race

...hich “&nbsp;ran away when a hand approached them.” (See ''Dictionnaire des Religions par l''’''abbé Bertrand&nbsp;; art. on words Heraclius and Betyles.'')

.... His is the only ''absolutely bloodless ''religion among all the existing religions tolerant and liberal, teaching universal compassion and charity, love and s

...h as pre‐eminently phallic, for its most sacred symbol—to vilify the older religions for using the same symbolism. The worship of the bull, Apis, Hapi Ankh, or

...ven&nbsp;” became the eight, the ''Ogdoad'', of the later ''materialized ''religions, the seventh, or the highest principle, being no longer the pervading Spiri

...me of his God&nbsp;” (“''Archæology'',” Vol. xxv., p. 220, London). In the religions of the past, it is in Egypt we have to seek for its Western origin. The Oph

...'-loka, the abode of Brahmâ, of Vishnu, and the Olympus of Indian exoteric religions, is described geographically as “&nbsp;passing through the middle of the

...&nbsp;—&nbsp; or demons.''” “&nbsp;When that knowledge comes, all dogmatic religions, and with these the demons, will die out.”

...esies&nbsp;” of his day, Justin Martyr shows the identity of all the world religions at their starting points. The first ''beginning ''opens invariably with the

...d if the symbol, owing to the gradual and irrepressible spread of exoteric religions, may already be regarded as having a sexual significance, this in no way ma

...ding to the greater or smaller development of these states, the systems of religions and philosophies were schemed out.

The same doctrine is found reflected in the other old religions. It may, and must have come down to us disfigured and misinterpreted, as in

...epoch they belong, by whom they were erected, and which of the three chief religions of antiquity was the one professed by their mysterious builders.

...887, that&nbsp;: “&nbsp;Old views of the early annals of Babylonia and its religions have been much modified by recent discovery. The first Semitic Empire, it i

...ief was so universal that, if we seek for it in the esotericism of various religions, we shall discover it in all. We shall find it among the Aryan Hindus and M

...d, had one religion, and when they were of “&nbsp;one lip.” “&nbsp;All the religions of the Earth were at first One and emanated from ''one ''centre,” says Fa

...at which every people of antiquity accepted and made the foundation of its religions and its faith. Moreover, as Haliburton said, “&nbsp;Hear one side, and yo

...chlagintweit, and a few others have learnt of it from Dugpas, confuse both religions and bring them under one head. They thus give out to the public pure Dugpai

...n principles of the Society, namely freedom of conscience, equality of all religions and the highest tolerance of its members to mutual beliefs, and the convict

...esented the same idea, whether in the Egyptian, Chaldean, Indian or Jewish religions, but beginning with the Astral body they went no higher than the cosmic Spi

...ers) are equally expected to study sciences, history of all nations, their religions, faiths of all ages, and especially, psychology – human spiritual powers

...th. In other words they are identical with the “Fallen Angels” of exoteric religions, and with the reincarnating Egos, esoterically {{etg-source|TG}}.

...according to ''our ''prim notions, so indecent, in the Indian and Egyptian religions, was associated in the earliest symbology far more with another and much pu

...ate have changed, true enough. The field of investigation has widened; old religions are a little better understood; and since that miserable day when the Commi

...have either to be gradually initiated into the truths underlying Exoteric Religions, including their own or to be left to break the feet of clay of the last of

...ristianity were so often identical with those of the several great heathen religions. The former – the Protestant defenders – tried to explain it, on the gr

The force of this key is absolute in Magic. All religions have consecrated this sign in their rites.

...It does not follow, however, because of this, that both Founders and their Religions should be, the one myths, and the other superstitions. They are, one and al

...Parsis and other “heathen” of India are apt to denounce their forefathers’ religions at every opportunity. Thus runs the Confession:

...e found which will render intelligible the Theogonies of the various world-religions.

...presence of the Supreme [ Soul ] Parent. In order to reconcile the popular religions, and particularly the Christian, with this new system, he made the whole hi

...er being in every case the Devas and the Dhyân Chohans of the more ancient religions.

...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

{{Style P-No indent|prepared to hear the whole truth. The old religions are full of mysteries, and to demonstrate some of them would surely lead to

...gnoring, the importance of the Occult element and symbology in the various Religions they undertake to explain, short work is generally made of such passages, a

...e degrees of Being be conceived, according to the Symbology of the Eastern Religions, as contained in one Ovum, or {{Style S-Small capitals|Egg}}, the name of t

...a Tattva}}, this is the point from which all ''exoteric ''Philosophies and Religions start. Âkâsha Tattva is explained in them as Etheric Force, Ether. Hence

...Even before I got acquainted with Jacolliot, I had studied the history of religions and recognised that there is some analogy in the way they spread. Religion

...Müller in 1857 was the same authority on the part of philology and ancient religions, as in 1869. To dogmatically assert that the ancients believed such and suc

...ers) are equally expected to study sciences, history of all nations, their religions, faiths of all ages, and especially, psychology – human spiritual powers

| title =Mr. M. D. Conway on Oriental Religions

.... We came from America to study the philosophy of their ancient and modern religions, and they came to oggle with genuine amazement at the “Westerners” who

...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

...ts, which indelibly exhibit in their architecture the symbols of the grand religions of the Past. For it is not so. If the main object in view was and still is

...of the life after death, and settle the great questions that separate the religions of the day. Let them restore the lost arts, reveal the origin of races. Let

...osophy; not the senseless ceremonies and spiritless forms of those ancient religions, but the Spirit of the Truth which animated those grand old systems which h

...I assure you that all 250 million Hindus,“without distinction of castes or religions,” he quoted from the Theosophical statutes, would pray, and perform ''puj

...lor and with modest tastes, like all scientists, Peters began to study the religions of the Hindus, first for the sake of science, and perhaps out of boredom, g

...granted. However, in all matters that relate to previous and still extant religions based on symbolism, such as the faith of the Brahmins, our best Orientalist

...men have ever looked and prayed for, but never found in any of the creedal religions!

...ts, which indelibly exhibit in their architecture the symbols of the grand religions of the Past. For it is not so. If the main object in view was and still is

...are the elements of the Cabala, from whose mysterious bosom sprang all the religions of the past and present; which endowed all the Free Masonic associations wi

...rees, such as the apple and the oak, was a mystic plant in several ancient religions, notably that of the Celtic Druids: their priests cut the Mistletoe with mu

...ription=The earth’s satellite has figured very largely as an emblem in the religions of antiquity; and most commonly has been represented as Female, but this is

...ts lux,” ''is not astooishing when we regard the architectural remains and religions of a people coeval with the Egyptians and the Hindoos. It has been establis

Wonder no longer then, if [in the religions of the Aryans, Medes and Zoroastrians], rejected so long as an idolatry, th

...r de l’humanité entière, amour qui n’a pas à considérer les différences de religions et de races, ne sympathisera jamais avec nous; s’il fait partie d’un co

...hole of humanity, a love that pays no attention to the differences between religions and races, will never sympathize with us; if he makes a part of a social, r

...ly, through which the sublimity of the Aryan, Buddhistic, Parsi, and other religions might be expounded by their own priest or pandits, the only competent inter

...lose without expressing my astonishment at the utter ignorance as to their religions, which seems to prevail in Russia even among the journalists. One of them s

...e vast assemblages of natives, to discuss the respective merits of the two religions, and was never yet worsted. In fact, it is only too evident in the admissio

...t Hindu devotee desired to worship Agni—says É. Burnouf<ref>La Science des Religions, chap. XIII, pp. 187-88.</ref>—he arranged two pieces of wood in the form

...ts, which indelibly exhibit in their architecture the symbols of the grand religions of the Past. For it is not so. If the main object in view was and still is

...d “Church of Christ.” Collectively, this Church includes three great rival religions and some hundreds of minor sects, for the most part bitterly recriminative,

...ospectus and make a free platform, from which the advocates of all the old religions might bespeak the attention of a patient public. It appears that our plan w

...in Aryavarta, this cradle of all philosophies and mother of all subsequent religions! If the Egyptian dogma of the metempsychosis or the transmigration of soul ...he Spartans and the old Persians at the age of seven. And in the Christian religions—with the Roman Catholics and the Greeks—the child is not held responsib

...on the mysterious influence of numbers, nor the theories of ancient world-religions and philosophies are as shallow and meaningless as some too forward free-th

...cience and study of Yoga Philosophy pertains to Buddhist, Lamaic and other religions supposed to be atheistical, i.e., rejecting belief in a personal deity, and

...like ridiculously superstitious in one direction, that of their respective religions, and malicious whenever a purely disinterested and philanthropic effort is

...e membres de la grande Fraternité Universelle, la fraternité des sciences, religions et idées, nous n’avons rien à cacher; nous faisons tout au grand jour,

...As members of the great Universal Fraternity, the fraternity of sciences, religions, and ideas, we have nothing to hide: we do everything in the open, because

...ts made in his book by Sir Richard Temple upon India in general and Indian religions especially, seems to have spurred the Brahmos to a quick repudiation of any

...naturally docile and loyal people, passionately devoted to their ancestral religions and intolerant of Governmental interference with the same.

...million Buddhists, Brahmins and many more belonging to other non-Christian religions who are either atheists, polytheists or pantheists. Naturalism, properly de

...etric terms, corresponds to one of the main tenets of Theosophy: all world religions and philosophies have one source and express the same moral and cosmic laws

...e members of our Society may be reckoned by thousands and their respective religions, sects and various philosophies, by hundreds. When, therefore, any one desi

...rchaeological and literary research in matters connected with the earliest religions and philosophies of historical ages helps to fortify it. The casual growths

...nt, and it is our special object to find out which of the four great world religions is the more likely to promote morality among men.

...such authors as Mr. Lillie have seized the “root-principle” of the Asiatic religions and philosophy. At all events the readers will be enabled to judge, how muc

...cause those propagandists are trying their utmost to stamp out and destroy religions far better suited to Asiatic moral needs than the one they would introduce,

...overnments to secure old Asiatic manuscripts and learn the truth about old religions and peoples, and it is not showing respect for either science or truth to m

...sophists, naturally, therefore, resent any insult given to us, our ancient religions and institutions.

...sts. Our Society is not a sect, for it is composed of men of all sects and religions, as of every school of thought. But we believe no Mohammedan or Buddhist wo

...o proving the superiority of the Christian morality over that of the false religions of the Hindu systems. We will enumerate the misstatements.

...s claims; a belief arresting the progress, if not entirely superseding the religions based upon blind faith and unverifiable traditions no better than fairy tal

...e scornful silence he deserved, was that he laid his impious hand upon the religions of our Asiatic brothers, talked of having the Government force Christianity

...hers. The Theosophist was originally announced as a tribune from which all religions might be expounded by their best men; and so it will ever be.

...e a study of Hindu law, but I do know something of the principles of Hindu religions, or rather ethics, and of those of its glorious founders. I regard the form

...nt of our ability we have tried to lay the truth about the world’s archaic religions before an impartial world. This has been done at the heavy cost of a series

...the only thing most needed to extinguish superstition and sweep away false religions from the face of the earth. Our correspondent does well not to show to any

...ent superiority of the Christian over the “heathen” Buddhist and Confucian religions, had we not as an offset against it another engraving in some of the illust

In a very interesting and able address on “The Common Foundation of all Religions,” delivered at Madras, on April 26, 1882, by Colonel H. S. Olcott, Presid

...ve been corrupted by the ignoble teaching of modern churches. Few exoteric religions ask their devotees to lift their imaginations above the conception that lif

...buse, and revile the gods of the Hindus, and the other so-called “heathen” religions? And if not, is it not forcing the poor youths of India, who have no other

...arcely differ, save as to externals. As was remarked in Isis Unveiled, the religions of men are but prismatic rays of the one only Truth.* If our good friends,

...”! This is a puzzle, indeed. As every reader of our Magazine knows, of all religions Buddhism has been the least discussed in The Theosophist, mainly from reluc

...teachers “that small band of high priests who in all ages and nations and religions and societies have been the mediators between time and eternity, to cheer a

Sir,—The anxiety of the Theosophists to overturn all existing religions, and first of all and especially the Christian religion, makes them not ove

(a) With a desire of overturning “all existing religions . . . especially the Christian,” and being, therefore, “not overscrupul ...ieve to be the one Truth, should seek “to overturn all existing [dogmatic] religions”; and even should deny the very existence of Christ and Paul (which is no

...her hand, the editor has never hesitated to give any one of the above said religions and doctrines its dues, and speak out the truth whether it pleased a certai

...theist or atheist; to show, at least, an outward regard for the respective religions not only of our members, but of any man; and, to protect, in case of need, ...news indeed. While his aim “at proving the common foundation of all known religions” may be admitted from the fact as given by the Dharma Tattwa (their recog

EDITOR’S NOTE.—Buddhism and Adwaitism—are as much religions as any theistic system. A “religion” does not necessarily imply the doc

...eligion of the “cultured” nations, and at the same time to allow all other religions to be challenged and even railed at with impunity? Our Christian-born frien

...by their hereditary enemy the padri against their respective non-Christian religions. It is they (i.e., the majority of the Council) who have repeatedly insiste

...20-23), on the strength of which Buddha’s Nirvana is placed by Barth (The Religions of India, p. 106), &c., about 476 B. C. and his birth therefore at about 55

...appears in an unimportant footnote appearing on page 89 of his book on The Religions of India which reads thus: “Śankara Achârya is generally placed in the

...al religious ideas, and most of their gods were derived by the Greeks from religions flourishing in the northwest of India, the cradle of the main Hellenic stoc

...gation?<ref>We join issue with our respected friend here; followers of all religions can be and have always counted among their numbers students of the subject

...ural visitors. We leave this to the orthodox followers of their respective religions. It is quite possible that certain arguments adduced in this journal in pro

9th. Because Spiritism alleges that all religions are equal in the sight of God, who judges man solely by the purity of his h

...“Manual of Piety,” originated with Cabalism, and from which root, all the religions in the world have had their origin.

{{Page aside|77}}dix fois ce nombre de bigots et de fanatiques de toutes les religions que nous bravons depuis des années, et tous les jours? Que si toutes ces m

...Occult philosophy, which is, at present, largely incorporated only in the religions of the East—chiefly in the Adwaita and Buddhist religious systems. Furthe

...piritualism is no more occultism than his London “Church” of heterogeneous religions is a Methodist chapel. His investigation resolves itself, as we understand

...te Buddha-like children or—demons. When that knowledge comes, all dogmatic religions and with these the demons, will die out.” (Page 115.)

...can gain the true spiritual insight. And how can it be otherwise since all religions and all philosophies are but the variants of the first teachings of the One

As is ever the case the bright deities of the old religions become the hideous fiends and demons of the new. The solemn oracles and mys

...future, or that Comte and Strauss will be the prophets of the coming age. Religions are not made, they grow. Their progress is not from the enlightened to the

...ecreate them all in potency and act! Perhaps the “enthusiasts” of all pure religions and all true philosophies may have been right, and it is only when man has

...that no free-lover should be tolerated in our fellowship. In the Oriental religions there is no abomination of a vicarious atonement. Man is taught that he mus

{{Style P-No indent|know the doctrine,* and the most ancient religions, philosophies and experts tell us the same thing. Man they say is a spiritu

...olonel Olcott is not only inconsistent with reference to the great Eastern religions, to which he professes to adhere, as well as mistaken as regards the teachi

...le real information relating to the Hindus, and the mysteries of the Hindu religions. Possibly another reason of this is the antipathy that a majority of the Hi

...my letter, that esoteric Brahmanism, Buddhism, Parsism, and other Eastern religions, philosophies are better guides to happiness, here and hereafter, than that

And Hierophants of all religions, have

...osophy; not the senseless ceremonies and spiritless forms of those ancient religions, but the Spirit of the Truth which animated those grand old systems which h

...orld, it is pleasing to see the gentleness with which deep thinkers of all religions treat each other, and how small are the real divisions between them when th

...ppears as yet to be wandering in “Egyptian darkness;” and the ''History of Religions, ''of which I was ''not ''the author, but the humble translator, commended

Here all forms of known religions appear to be familiar, but no one of them elevated to an exclusive authorit

In conclusion I would say that all information about Indian religions, mysteries, sacred men, mystic brotherhoods, such people as the Todas, esot

...onversation evinces an intimate knowledge of that country, its peoples and religions.

.... Is it altogether without any good reason that the adherents of these two religions, now the oldest in the world, regard the animal world—from the huge quadr

...hetic utterances of the seers, the grand inspired apostles of all ages and religions, were simply the pathological results of hysteria? Or again that the “mir

...ve bond that has cemented into one corner-stone the foundations of all the religions of antiquity.

...is kind, {{Style S-Italic|whose seed is in itself.”}} In all the primitive religions, the “Son of the Father” is the creative God—''i.e.'', His thought ma

...For the latter is the very corner-stone of Esoteric philosophy and Eastern religions; it is the grand and one pillar on which hangs the whole philosophy of rebi

...refore the letters K, H, and S are interchangeable.) (J. D. Guigniaut, Les religions de l’antiquite, Vol. I, p. 167.) The Greek story shows that Dardanus, the

...ber 3rd, 1875, acc. to H.P.B.’s pen and ink notation. In it he praised the religions of India and China. The article was unsigned, but H.P.B. identified the aut

...s right, and that they have discovered one of the secret keys (of exoteric religions, only, however) in asserting that the origin of the cross is the arani and

...n St. Paul himself—regarding the identity of the true Mosaic and Christian religions. They show a very decided animus against Paul who is denounced as an impost

...roughly philosophic and credible teaching. But you must study the Oriental religions before you can fully understand what I say. Remember that in the Old Testam

...Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, or the similar utterances to be found in all religions? Do you carry them out in their entirety in your lives, as the Episcopi of

...uch also can be learnt from the symbology not only of the Bible but of all religions, especially the Egyptian and the Hindu. Only again the key to that symbolog

...hat behind the dogmatic formulas and sacramental veils of all the exoteric religions there is a supreme, absolute truth, an essentially divine Christianity, how

...false—popular—sacerdotal—established—hierarchical forms of religion, those religions which seek for personal salvation, founded on egoism, instead of general un

...ever heard of these before and have been consulting all my books on Hindoo religions, but cannot find any notice of them, at least under the name of Eurasians.

...me, ni aucun autre mot en isme, c’est la synthèse ésotérique de toutes les religions et de toutes les philosophies connues». Il est vrai qu’à ses yeux, elle

...Hinduism, nor any other ism: it is the esoteric synthesis of all the known religions and philosophies.” It is true that in her eyes it is not Christianity eit

...half a dozen of the other. And since neither one nor the other of the two religions will abstain from anathematizing, slandering and persecuting Magic, Occulti

...ed. Nature and man vie with each other in shams. The Lord God of our state religions is proclaimed a god of mercy, of peace and love, and at the same time he is

...ery nation have been constantly doing it since the evolution of intolerant religions. Shall we do as they?

...s; and they became subsequently sacred in the cycle of national and tribal religions.

We know little even now of the beginnings of the ancient religions of Thebes and Memphis. . . . All these idolatrous mysteries it should also

...pinions and allowed a great latitude in the expression of their respective religions, or even sectarian views. Yet a line of demarcation must be drawn; and if w

...religion is not needed for the educated, and confesses his dislike to all religions equally, urges the introduction of religious teaching into the Government s

...ology exhibits, not only the Theosophic dictum of the fundamental unity of religions, but the certainty of severances and sects as a consequence of speculation

...ted with “Madame Blavatsky’s arrogance” for assuming to know more of these religions and Occultism than does Mr. Mazzini Wheeler! Indeed, in the inexorable logi

...ce more—and all this in the same issue—it considers, “The invention of new Religions,” which, being translated, is H.P.B., Olcott and Theosophy. Naturally the

...chaïque ou Alchimie fut de tout temps symbolique, comme celui des vieilles religions.

...uage of archaic Chemistry or Alchemy has always been, like that of ancient religions, symbolical.

...for having divorced the good codes of morals, bequeathed to them from the religions of all time, from the fundamental sanctions which a correct appreciation of