The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
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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
Christian nomenclature would be the creative Spirit, shows itself out
in man’s one creative power, the power of the mind, of which one of the
expressions is imagination, that which creates with the intellectual
force of man. The correspondence, you see, is complete, but how limited
the manifestation compared with the manifestation on the planes of
divinity. Hence this limited reflexion, this limited reproduction, we
term the law of reflexion; and we very often find it hand in hand with
the law of correspondences, giving us a clue once more to guide us
through difficulties and obscurities where direct vision might fail.
Let us begin at that point I spoke of with regard to the human being.
Now, by this process of deduction, and seeing in man the image of the
Supreme, we are not compelled to stop our study when we have taken these
three stages—the stage of the will to live showing itself in activity,
the stage of passion and emotion, the stage of mentality; for we see
that above those there shine out the three same attributes of Deity in
subtler, finer form that we call the human Spirit, and that this human
Spirit, reproducing in itself the three great aspects, tells us of the
future, as the lower reflexions tell us of the past. So that we cannot
only trace, as science does, the unfolding of consciousness through the
vast ages of the past, but we can follow it onwards into the future,
where that higher repetition of divinity is gradually unfolding, and
trace out for ourselves man’s higher qualities, the later stages of human
evolution.
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