The Immediate Future: Lectures Delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911

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Theosophical Press, 1922 - Theosophy - 129 pages
 

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Page 54 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Page 83 - Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest: because I said I am the Son of God?
Page 28 - Enter ye in at the straight gate ; for straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it...
Page 27 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Page 55 - No man, they say, is a hero to his valet de chambre. Charles Bradlaugh was a hero most of all to those who lived at his side, nearest to him in blood or friendship. It is, perhaps, the finest testimony to his worth that those who were closest to him admired him and loved him even more than any other. No man was more perfect in the home. Simple in his...
Page 122 - Mankind comes to me along many roads, and on whatever road a man approaches me, on that road do I welcome him, for all roads are mine.
Page 118 - First, the value of the individual, which the older nations of the world had not recognised to the same extent. They built their civilisations on the family The family was the unit, not the individual. Christianity struck the keynote of individualism, and it was in order that that might be fully and thoroughly developed that some of the earlier doctrines for a time were submerged in Christendom. The great doctrine of re-incarnation, taught in the primitive church and reappearing in our own days,...
Page 120 - ... them all into one. That is the first point I want to leave clear and distinct. Unity and uniformity are not the same. The life is one, but the splendor of the world depends upon the diversity of forms. Why, what is evolution ? — the protoplasm becoming plant and tree, animal and man ; and the greater the difference the greater the amount of the divine light that shines through all. That life is so full, so rich, that it cannot body itself out in a single form, and only the totality of the universe...
Page 123 - Agnostic," "without the gnosis," and the gnosis was not knowledge in general, but knowledge of a particular kind. Professor Huxley said that man had two means of knowledge — the senses whereby he observed external phenomena, and the reason by which he considered those phenomena and drew conclusions from them. Those, he said, were man's two means of knowledge, and the only ones that he could see man possessed of — senses to observe, reason to understand.
Page 124 - Your senses may deceive you ; they tell you the sun rises and sets when it does nothing of the kind.

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