In her essays on Theosophy and her Theosophy books, H.P. Blavatsky showed that what has been referred to as "God-knowledge" by the ancient Greeks, or "Samadhi" by the Hindu philosophers and ascetics, is identical in essence with "theosophia", or Theosophy.
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Astrology is in every sense a wholly mystical religious paradigm. It is the sine qua non of all religions that ever was, is or ever will be. Its innumerable mysteries cannot be fathomed by the human intellect.
This article is about the investigation into the origins of Astrology. Where did the idea of it come from and how and why did it span the globe in all religions? This article is part two of my studies on Astrology.
ASTROLOGY’S UNIVERSAL PARADIGM: The One Universal Language (Part 2)William John Meegan
Astrology is in every sense a wholly mystical religious paradigm. It is the sine qua non of all religions that ever was, is or ever will be. Its innumerable mysteries cannot be fathomed by the human intellect.
This article is about the investigation into the origins of Astrology. Where did the idea of it come from and how and why did it span the globe in all religions? This article is part two of my studies on Astrology.
A brief Contrast of materialism and spiritualism and the everlasting conflict between the two views. It gives its insight in the views of Less known thinkers of past Like Charvaka and Shankaracharya.. etc..
Introduction to Greek and Medieval Philosophy SchoolsAhmed Elkhanany
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Outline starts with general introduction to Western Philosophy, followed by simple visualization of key terms used by Presocratic philosophers, as in Doxa, Arche, Being, and Becoming.
Then, the lecture gives brief discussions on each of the Presocratics, starting with Thales, his students, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, The Sophists, till the historical Socrates.
Afterwards, Plato and Aristotle are explained in fairly detailed exposure.
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There are certain general characteristics of mysticism that are shared by Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity. This common ground is a unifying principle that positions the Divine in the midst of all genuine mystical experiences.
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially holistic, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. It is interesting to follow the evolution of Western science along its spiral path, starting from the mystical philosophies of the early Greeks, rising and unfolding in an impressive development of intellectual thought that increasingly turned away from its mystical origins to develop a world view which is in sharp contrast to that of the Far East In its most recent stages, Western science is finally overcoming this view and coming back to those of the early Greek and the Eastern philosophies. This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. The parallels to modem physics appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching , or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, African-American philosophy, the eastern negative theology, in the Sufism of lbn Arabi, in the holistic spirit of Giordano Bruno and Meister Eckhart, in monadology of Leibniz, in the Absolute Idea of Hegel and Shelling, e.t. All ancient spiritual traditions suggest that the world is a unity and the multiplicity is only apparent. Modern science claims that the visible world of matter and the multiplicity is only apparent, the reality is unseen and invisible. Since different roads the mysticism and the rationalism lead to the same view, the view of the open totality of the world. The mystical insight of spirituality and the rational mind of science leading to the open thought, the wisdom of life. The spiritual experience of oneness conduces to the same insight as reasoning through science. Both convey the insight of fundamental interconnection between ourselves, other people, other forms of life, the biosphere and, ultimately, the universe. Science and spirituality, far from being mutually exclusive and conflicting elements, are complementary partners in the search for the path that can enable humanity to recover its oneness with the world. Science demonstrates the urgent and objective need for it; and spirituality testifies to its inherent value and supreme desirability. We can reason to our oneness in the world, and we can experience our oneness with the world. The time has come to do both, for they are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
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A brief Contrast of materialism and spiritualism and the everlasting conflict between the two views. It gives its insight in the views of Less known thinkers of past Like Charvaka and Shankaracharya.. etc..
Introduction to Greek and Medieval Philosophy SchoolsAhmed Elkhanany
A presentation of a Philosophy course, 2 lectures each 3 hours long, discussing in brief schools of thought in Classical Greece.
Outline starts with general introduction to Western Philosophy, followed by simple visualization of key terms used by Presocratic philosophers, as in Doxa, Arche, Being, and Becoming.
Then, the lecture gives brief discussions on each of the Presocratics, starting with Thales, his students, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, The Sophists, till the historical Socrates.
Afterwards, Plato and Aristotle are explained in fairly detailed exposure.
The lecture then ends by briefly touching on the impact both Plato and Aristotle had on the modern world, via their direct influence on Plotinus, St. Augustine, and - later on - St. Thomas Aquinas.
A Contrast of the Mystical Elements of Buddism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christia...David Grinstead, MA
There are certain general characteristics of mysticism that are shared by Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity. This common ground is a unifying principle that positions the Divine in the midst of all genuine mystical experiences.
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially holistic, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. It is interesting to follow the evolution of Western science along its spiral path, starting from the mystical philosophies of the early Greeks, rising and unfolding in an impressive development of intellectual thought that increasingly turned away from its mystical origins to develop a world view which is in sharp contrast to that of the Far East In its most recent stages, Western science is finally overcoming this view and coming back to those of the early Greek and the Eastern philosophies. This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. The parallels to modem physics appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching , or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, African-American philosophy, the eastern negative theology, in the Sufism of lbn Arabi, in the holistic spirit of Giordano Bruno and Meister Eckhart, in monadology of Leibniz, in the Absolute Idea of Hegel and Shelling, e.t. All ancient spiritual traditions suggest that the world is a unity and the multiplicity is only apparent. Modern science claims that the visible world of matter and the multiplicity is only apparent, the reality is unseen and invisible. Since different roads the mysticism and the rationalism lead to the same view, the view of the open totality of the world. The mystical insight of spirituality and the rational mind of science leading to the open thought, the wisdom of life. The spiritual experience of oneness conduces to the same insight as reasoning through science. Both convey the insight of fundamental interconnection between ourselves, other people, other forms of life, the biosphere and, ultimately, the universe. Science and spirituality, far from being mutually exclusive and conflicting elements, are complementary partners in the search for the path that can enable humanity to recover its oneness with the world. Science demonstrates the urgent and objective need for it; and spirituality testifies to its inherent value and supreme desirability. We can reason to our oneness in the world, and we can experience our oneness with the world. The time has come to do both, for they are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
Presents a revolutionary new paradigm of Cosmic Thought that bridges the divide between science and spirituality. Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same Cosmos. What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality.
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Intuitivie Moments - Discernment of Conscience looks at the millennia from a historic perspective. Some very amazing and important insights are given while delivering a timely contemporary dialogue. For all ages - philosophic style.
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IS THEOSOPHY GOD-KNOWLEDGE?
1. IS THEOSOPHY GOD-KNOWLEDGE?
In her essays on Theosophy and her Theosophy books, H.P. Blavatsky
showed that what has been referred to as "God-knowledge" by the
ancient Greeks, or "Samadhi" by the Hindu philosophers and ascetics, is
identical in essence with "theosophia", or Theosophy. This point was
made especially well in her article, "What Is Theosophy?":
"To fully define Theosophy, we must consider it under all its aspects.
The interior world has not been hidden from all by impenetrable
darkness. By that higher intuition acquired by Theosophia – or God-
knowledge, which carried the mind from the world of form into that of
formless spirit, man has been sometimes enabled in every age and
every country to perceive things in the interior or invisible world.
Hence, the "Samadhi," or DyanYog Samadhi, of the Hindu ascetics; the
"Daimonion-photi," or spiritual illumination of the Neo-Platonists; the
"sidereal confabulation of soul," of the Rosicrucians or Fire-
philosophers; and, even the ecstatic trance of mystics and of the
modern mesmerists and spiritualists, are identical in nature, though
various as to manifestation. The search after man's diviner "self," so
often and so erroneously interpreted as individual communion with a
personal God, was the object of every mystic, and belief in its possibility
seems to have been coeval with the genesis of humanity, each people
giving it another name. Thus Plato and Plotinus call "Noetic work" that
which the Yogin and the Shrotriya term Vidya. "By reflection, self-
knowledge and intellectual discipline, the soul can be raised to the
2. vision of eternal truth, goodness, and beauty – that is, to the Vision of
God – this is the epopteia," said the Greeks. "To unite one's soul to the
Universal Soul," says Porphyry, "requires but a perfectly pure mind.
Through self-contemplation, perfect chastity, and purity of body, we
may approach nearer to It, and receive, in that state, true knowledge
and wonderful insight." And Swami DayanandSaraswati, who has read
neither Porphyry nor other Greek authors, but who is a thorough Vedic
scholar, says in his Veda Bhâshya (opasnaprakaruank. 9) – "To obtain
Diksh (highest initiation) and Yog, one has to practise according to the
rules . . . The soul in human body can perform the greatest wonders by
knowing the Universal Spirit (or God) and acquainting itself with the
properties and qualities (occult) of all the things in the universe. A
human being (a Dikshit or initiate) can thus acquire a power of seeing
and hearing at great distances." Finally, Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., a
spiritualist and yet a confessedly great naturalist, says, with brave
candour: "It is 'spirit' that alone feels, and perceives, and thinks – that
acquires knowledge, and reasons and aspires . . . there not
unfrequently occur individuals so constituted that the spirit can
perceive independently of the corporeal organs of sense, or can
perhaps, wholly or partially, quit the body for a time and return to it
again . . . the spirit . . . communicates with spirit easier than with
matter." We can now see how, after thousands of years have
intervened between the age of Gymnosophists2
and our own highly
civilized era, notwithstanding, or, perhaps, just because of such an
enlightenment which pours its radiant light upon the psychological as
well as upon the physical realms of nature, over twenty millions of
people today believe, under a different form, in those same spiritual
powers that were believed in by the Yogins and the Pythagoreans,
3. nearly 3,000 years ago. Thus, while the Aryan mystic claimed for
himself the power of solving all the problems of life and death, when he
had once obtained the power of acting independently of his body,
through the Atman – "self," or "soul"; and the old Greeks went in
search of Atmu – the Hidden one, or the God-Soul of man, with the
symbolical mirror of the Thesmophorian mysteries; – so the spiritualists
of today believe in the faculty of the spirits, or the souls of the
disembodied persons, to communicate visibly and tangibly with those
they loved on earth. And all these, Aryan Yogins, Greek philosophers,
and modern spiritualists, affirm that possibility on the ground that the
embodied soul and its never embodied spirit – the real self, are not
separated from either the Universal Soul or other spirits by space, but
merely by the differentiation of their qualities; as in the boundless
expanse of the universe there can be no limitation. And that when this
difference is once removed – according to the Greeks and Aryans by
abstract contemplation, producing the temporary liberation of the
imprisoned Soul; and according to spiritualists, through mediumship –
such an union between embodied and disembodied spiritst becomes
possible. Thus was it that Patanjali's Yogins and, following in their steps,
Plotinus, Porphyry and other Neo-Platonists, maintained that in their
hours of ecstasy, they had been united to, or rather become as one
with God, several times during the course of their lives. This idea,
erroneous as it may seem in its application to the Universal Spirit, was,
and is, claimed by too many great philosophers to be put aside as
entirely chimerical. In the case of the Theodidaktoi, the only
controvertible point, the dark spot on this philosophy of extreme
mysticism, was its claim to include that which is simply ecstatic
illumination, under the head of sensuous perception. In the case of the
4. Yogins, who maintained their ability to see Iswara "face to face," this
claim was successfully overthrown by the stern logic of Kapila. As to the
similar assumption made for their Greek followers, for a long array of
Christian ecstatics, and, finally, for the last two claimants to "God-
seeing" within these last hundred years – Jacob Boehme and
Swedenborg – this pretension would and should have been
philosophically and logically questioned, if a few of our great men of
science who are spiritualists had had more interest in the philosophy
than in the mere phenomenalism of spiritualism."
Many more essays on Theosophy and Theosophy books by H.P.
Blavatsky, W.Q. Judge and Robert Crosbie, as well as the unique Lead
Articles by Sri Raghavan Iyer that originally appeared in HERMES
Magazine, can be found and accessed at no charge at the Theosophy
Trust website, https://www.theosophytrust.org/.
