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Theosophy advocates an emanationist cosmology, asserting that the universe is an outward reflection of the Absolute. [52] Theosophy presents the idea that the world as humans perceive it is illusory, or maya, [53] an idea that it draws from Asian religions. [54]
Theosophy holds that the manifested universe is ordered by the number seven, [29] a common claim among esoteric and mystical doctrines and religions. Thus, the evolutionary "pilgrimage" proceeds cyclically through seven stages, with the three first steps involving an apparent involution, the fourth one being one of equilibrium, and the last ...
"What Is Theosophy?" is an editorial published in October 1879 in the Theosophical magazine The Theosophist. It was compiled by Helena Blavatsky [ note 1 ] and included into the 2nd volume of the Blavatsky Collected Writings. [ 2 ]
An important part of Olcott's work in Ceylon became the patronage of young Buddhist Don David Hewavitharana, who took himself later name Anagarika Dharmapala. [6] [10] [11] [E] Dharmapala, a founder the Maha Bodhi Society, Sri Lanka's national hero, was one of the major figures in the movement for the revival of Buddhism in Ceylon during the British colonial rule. [13]
Religious text, Theosophy: Published: December 1910 by Theosophist Office (1st edition) Publication place: India: Media type: Print : Pages: 84: OCLC: 465903996: Text: At the Feet of the Master at Wikisource: Wikisource has the 1911 US edition
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's first major self-published major work text and a key doctrine in her self-founded Theosophical movement.
Thus, Theosophy is not simply a religion, philosophy or science, but the more authoritative and reliable source that covers and synthesizes them. In this case, Theosophy seems "the quintessence of the highest philosophy." He wrote that "continual irritation" of the article author against any attempt to interpret Theosophy as a privileged ...
When Leo Tolstoy was working on his book The Thoughts of Wise People for Every Day, [15] he used a magazine of the Theosophical Society of Germany Theosophischer Wegweiser.He extracted eight aphorisms of the Indian sage Ramakrishna, eight from The Voice of the Silence [16] by Blavatsky, and one of fellow Theosophist Franz Hartmann, from the issues of 1902 and 1903, and translated them into ...