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                            THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION
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__It is only the knowledge of the constant re-births of one and the same
individuality throughout the life-cycle; the assurance that the same MONADS -
among whom are many Dhyan-Chohans, or the "Gods" themselves - have to pass
through the "Circle of Necessity," rewarded or punished by such rebirth for the
suffering endured or crimes committed in the former life; that those very
Monads, which entered the empty, senseless shells, or astral figures of the
First Race emanated by the Pitris, are the same who are now amongst us - nay,
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                            THE ARCHAIC STANZAS - I

                                       _

           "Facies totius Universi, quamvis infinitis modis variet,
                     Manet tamen semper eadem."   Spinoza

__The Stanzas, with the Commentaries thereon, in this Book, the second, are
drawn from the same Archaic Records as the Stanzas on Cosmogony in Book I. As
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                               VISION AND KARMA
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__In the beginning, every class and family of living species was hermaphrodite
and objectively one-eyed. In the animal, whose form was as ethereal (astrally)
as that of man, before the bodies of both began to evolve their coats of skin,
viz., to evolve from within without the thick coating of physical substance or
matter with its internal physiological mechanism - the third eye was primarily,
as in man, the only seeing organ. The two physical front eyes developed * later
on in both brute and man, whose organ of physical sight was, at the
... ]]> 157247 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:37:29 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/90602/156809.html?rss=1                             ANTEDILUVIAN BUDDHAS

                                      __

__Of still standing witnesses to the submerged continents, and the colossal men
that inhabited them, there are still a few. Archaeology claims several such on
this globe, though beyond wondering "what these may be" - it never made any
serious attempt to solve the mystery. Besides the Easter Island statues
mentioned already, to what epoch do the colossal statues, still erect and
intact near Bamian [Bamiyan, Afgahanistan-ed.], belong? Archaeology assigns
them to the first centuries of Christianity (as usual), and errs in this as it
does in many other speculations. A few words of description will show the
readers what are the statues of both Easter Isle and Bamian. We will first
examine what is known of them to orthodox Science. In "The Countries of the
World," by Robert Brown, in Vol. IV., page 43, it is stated that :
... ]]> 156809 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:49:36 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/90602/156243.html?rss=1                               THE SONS OF YOGA

                                      __

__18. THE FIRST (Race) WERE THE SONS OF YOGA. THEIR SONS, THE CHILDREN OF THE
YELLOW FATHER AND THE WHITE MOTHER.

__In the later Commentary, the sentence is translated:

__"The Sons of the Sun and of the Moon, the nursling of ether (or the wind) (a)
. . . . . . .

__"They were the shadows of the shadows of the Lords (b). They (the shadows)
expanded. The Spirits of the Earth clothed them; the solar Lhas warmed them
(i.e. preserved the vital fire in the nascent physical forms). The Breaths had
... ]]> 156243 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:41:19 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/90602/155851.html?rss=1                      ELEMENTALS AND REGENERATIVE NATURE

                                      __

                           __STANZA VI. - Continued

4. HE BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS (worlds), PLACING THEM ON THE
IMPERISHABLE CENTRES (a).

HOW DOES FOHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. HE MAKES BALLS OF FIRE,
RUNS THROUGH THEM AND ROUND THEM, INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO; THEN SETS THEM INTO
MOTION, SOME ONE, SOME THE OTHER WAY. THEY ARE COLD - HE MAKES THEM HOT. THEY
ARE DRY - HE MAKES THEM MOIST. THEY SHINE - HE FANS AND COOLS THEM (b).

THUS ACTS FOHAT FROM ONE TWILIGHT TO THE OTHER DURING SEVEN ETERNITIES. *
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                                      __

8. WHERE WAS THE GERM, AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS? WHERE IS THE SPIRIT OF THE
FLAME THAT BURNS IN THY LAMP, OH LANOO? THE GERM IS THAT, AND THAT IS LIGHT;
THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OF THE DARK HIDDEN FATHER (a).

__(a) The answer to the first question, suggested by the second, which is the
reply of the teacher to the pupil, contains in a single phrase one of the most
essential truths of occult philosophy. It indicates the existence of things
imperceptible to our physical senses which are of far greater importance, more
real and more permanent, than those that appeal to these senses themselves.
Before the Lanoo can hope to understand the transcendentally metaphysical
problem contained in the first question he must be able to answer the second,
... ]]> 153608 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:05:57 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/90602/152991.html?rss=1                   BASIC CONCEPTIONS OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE

                                      __

__In its absoluteness, the One Principle under its two aspects (of Parabrahmam
and Mulaprakriti) is sexless, unconditioned and eternal. Its periodical
(manvantaric) emanation - or primal radiation - is also One, androgynous and
phenomenally finite. When the radiation radiates in its turn, all its
radiations are also androgynous, to become male and female principles in their
lower aspects. After Pralaya, whether the great or the minor Pralaya ( the
latter leaving the worlds in statu quo)*, the first that re-awakes to active
life is the plastic A'kas'a, Father-Mother, the Spirit and Soul of Ether, or
the plane on the surface of the Circle. Space is called the "Mother" before its
Cosmic activity, and Father-Mother at the first stage of re-awakening. (See
Comments, Stanza II.) In the Kabala it is also Father-Mother-Son. But whereas
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... ]]> 150494 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:00:07 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/90602/149862.html?rss=1 __Just because the study of The Secret Doctrine is so vast, it does not mean
that one cannot gain some benefit even from taking a single phrase or a
sentence from almost anywhere in the book. One can, as sincere effort will
surely demonstrate. Sometimes people suppose that they cannot come any closer
to The Secret Doctrine because they are unworthy, but this is a great mistake
and a defamation of human dignity. Some people are always making an assumption
that they 'belong' to themselves. This is philosophically baseless, since the
mere fact that they can formulate such a claim does not in the least imply that
either the body or mind is a possession of theirs. Of what is any person
claiming to be the owner in this 'private ownership theory' of the vestures? It
is an absurd form of ignorance. One must put oneself in a learning mood or
posture, and one must forget about worthiness and unworthiness. Instead, one
should thrill to enter the perennial stream of supernal knowledge rendered into
a living current of spiritual cleansing of the mind and purification of the
heart, acting as a solvent to the lower will, and releasing the higher
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__The reader is asked to turn to Stanza IV. of Book I. and its fourth
commentary to find that the 3, 4 - (7), and the thrice seven, or 1065, the
number of Jehovah, is the number of the 21 Prajapati mentioned in the
Mahabharata, or the three Sephrim (words in cipher or figures). And this
comparison between the Creative Powers of Archaic philosophy and the
anthropomorphic Creator of exoteric Judaism (since their esotericism shows its
identity with the Secret Doctrine) will lead the student to perceive and
discover that, in truth, Jehovah is but a lunar and "generation" god. (See Book
I, Part 2, "Deus Lunus") It is a fact well known to every conscientious student
of the Kabala, that the deeper he dives into it, the more he feels convinced
that unless the Kabala - or what is left of it - is read by the light of the
Eastern esoteric philosophy, its study leads only to the discovery that, on the
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Theosophy Fellowship (UTF), Concord Grove Press (CGP), and the Institute of
World Culture (IWC), all of Santa Barbara, CA. They were joined by Mrs. Nandini
Iyer, the widow of Sri Raghavan Iyer, in claiming that they are the exclusive
owners of all of the HERMES writings, including those of Sri Raghavan Iyer and
those of the authors of the Teacher and Symbol articles. Further, they demand
that we remove all of the HERMES articles from our web site and stop the
publication of our books containing those articles. These groups have also
threatened legal action unless we remove several elements from our Home Portal
Page that resembled the look of the original journal, HERMES, published from
January 1975 through September 1989, in which all of the HERMES articles
originally appeared, including the Lead articles of Sri Iyer, along with the
Teacher and Symbol articles.

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Theosophy Fellowship (UTF), Concord Grove Press (CGP), and the Institute of
World Culture (IWC), all of Santa Barbara, CA. They were joined by Mrs. Nandini
Iyer, the widow of Sri Raghavan Iyer, in claiming that they are the exclusive
owners of all of the HERMES writings, including those of Sri Raghavan Iyer and
those of the authors of the Teacher and Symbol articles. Further, they demand
that we remove all of the HERMES articles from our web site and stop the
publication of our books containing those articles. These groups have also
threatened legal action unless we remove several elements from our Home Portal
Page that resembled the look of the original journal, HERMES, published from
January 1975 through September 1989, in which all of the HERMES articles
originally appeared, including the Lead articles of Sri Iyer, along with the
Teacher and Symbol articles.
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... ]]> 148557 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:06:42 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/90602/147972.html?rss=1                              ESOTERIC BUDDHAISM

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__Since the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become
customary to call its teachings  Esoteric Buddhism.  And, having become a habit
- as an old proverb based on daily experience has it -  Error runs down an
inclined plane, while Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill.

__Old truisms are often the wisest. The human mind can hardly remain entirely
free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough
examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made. This is said with
reference to the prevailing double mistake (a) of limiting Theosophy to
Buddhism: and (b) of confounding the tenets of the religious philosophy
preached by Gautama, the Buddha, with the doctrines broadly outlined in
Esoteric Buddhism.  Any thing more erroneous than this could be hardly
... ]]> 147972 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:22:49 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/90602/146906.html?rss=1                        PROTOTYPE OF THE NAMELESS DEITY

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__It is hoped that during the perusal of this work the erroneous ideas of the
public in general with regard to Pantheism will be modified. It is wrong and
unjust to regard the Buddhists and Advaitee Occultists as atheists. If not all
of them philosophers, they are, at any rate, all logicians, their objections
and arguments being based on strict reasoning. Indeed, if the Parabrahmam of
the Hindus may be taken as a representative of the hidden and nameless deities
of other nations, this absolute Principle will be found to be the prototype
from which all the others were copied. Parabrahm is not "God," because It is
not a God. "It is that which is supreme, and not supreme (paravara)," explains
Mandukya Upanishad (2.28). IT is "Supreme" as CAUSE, not supreme as effect.
Parabrahm is simply, as a "Secondless Reality," the all-inclusive Kosmos   or,
rather, the infinite Cosmic Space   in the highest spiritual sense, of course.
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