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 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 54 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Page 128 - ... and that which can never come by argument, by controversy, by intellectual reasoning, will come when the heart of love within us has awakened the spiritual nature. For love is deeper than intellect. Love is greater than intelligence, and the love nature and the divine nature are so closely blended that the man who loves his brother will not be long ere he loves God.
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 128 - ... the divine ; you will understand that every teaching has its place, every religion has its work, but that a religion to be worldwide must be greater than man, otherwise some will escape it ; and it must be all-inclusive. My last word to you, friends, is that if you desire the coming of such a world-religion which shall lay the basis of a civilization of brotherhood and bring about universal peace, then you must begin within yourselves rather than without. As we deepen our own spiritual nature,...
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 128 - When the world religion has emerged, then every man shall find in himself the power to know, and therefore the spiritual consciousness. Never try, then, to impose from without a belief from which another man shrinks. The moment he has risen to the place where it is visible that moment it will shine out before his eyes. We cannot do much in this for others; we can tell them what we have experienced, what we know, but man must know for himself, for only then is the knowledge sure. When you have reached...

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