The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
Religion
The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909
Besant, Annie
Theosophy; Theosophy -- Study and teaching
Pituitary Body, use of, development of, 125
affected by flesh and alcohol, 125, 126, 197, 198
connecting link between grosser and finer senses, 51, 196
Plato, his philosophy, 107
Politics, liberty and the franchise, 101
class legislation in England, 101
liberty, 101, 102
freedom and self-control, 102
Protestant, knows nothing of hierarchy, 271
Protestantism, its attitude towards physical body, 265
and materialism, 265
recognizes two sacraments only, 272
Psychic, low grade of intelligence in undeveloped, 115
qualities developed before lower mind, 230
Psychism, powers of, where found, 114
higher, how produced (see Astral Body), 125
Psychology, new, the, 18, 19
range of possibilities (see Nervous System), 69, 70
soul in relation to spirit (see Soul), 160
Purānas, 226, 227
Puritan Spirit and intellectual temperament, 245
value of, 245, 246
in reign of Charles First and Cromwell, 246
Charles Second, 246
description of, 247, 248
outburst of, necessary, 248
and intellectual development of man, 249
growth of, and loss of the spiritual, 250, 251
in Theosophical Society, 251, 252
and lofty form of Mysticism, 253, 254
Occultism, 255-257
the Leadbeater question, 257, 258
R
Races, root and sub, 1, 2
religion of, 235
and senses, 49, 50
choice of new, 210
fourth and sixth, closely interlinked, 213
Lemurian, dominant characteristics of, 113
Atlantean (see also Atlantean), 113
passion and lower psychism of, 114
characteristics of Semitic sub-race, 115, 230
highest civilization in Toltec, 115, 230
Aryan (see also Aryan), 3
source of, 229, 230
second sub, Hermes leader of, 138
third sub, Zarathustra leader of, 140
fourth sub, Orpheus leader of, 140, 141
interlinked with sixth sub, 213
reached its zenith, 214
fifth sub, the Christ leader of, 142, 143
characteristics of, 151, 152
sixth sub, physical characteristics, 53, 222
mental and emotional characteristics, 152, 154, 232
general characteristics, 215, 216, 217
interlinked with fourth sub, 213
candidature for, 222
the coming, source of, 215
type of, 117-119
body of, 120-121
consciousness of, 119-120
preparation for, 127-130
religion and civilization of, 130, 131
candidature for, 215
Reason, irrational or enlightened, 13
unstable condition of, 120
and madness, 121
the pure and compassionate, the Wisdom, the Christ in man, 160
the pure and compassionate, shows itself in lower world as love, 161
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