Century path Volume 5, pt. 2; a magazine devoted to the brotherhood of humanity, the promulgation of theosophy and the study of ancient and modern ethics, philosophy, science, and art - Books Group, Paperback

• Release Date   5/19/2012
• ISBN-13   9781236239549 | 978-1-236-23954-9
• ISBN   1236239547 | 1-236-23954-7
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Books Group
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. I can, of course, put myself into the sectarian scientist's attitude, andy imagine vividly that the world of sensations and of scientific laws and objects may be all. But whenever I do this, I hear that inward monitor of which W. K. Clifford once wrote, whispering the word "bosh!" Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name. Theosophy maintains that the real self of man is of Many one essence with the universal soul, that the true God Worlds of is the God in man, and that Christ meant this when Consciousness ne taught us to commune with our Father in secret and to seek the kingdom of heaven which is within us. And "authorities" are dimly feeling their way towards the same conclusion. But how much trouble they could save themselves by humblv studying the teachings of ages of wisdom and deep contemplation of the mysteries of life, instead of ignoring or resisting them until logic forces them into a tardy and meager admission! And there are others who are trying to divert the tide of liberal thought back again into the stagnant pool of dogma, and by carefullv graduated phrases to turn the Professor's "wider self" into the orthodox Jesus with his saving blood. This we judge from letters which judiciously combine admissions with beautifully-worded presentments of church dogmas, in such a way as to give the idea that this recognition of the divinity of man is only another way of teaching the doctrine of the sinful suppliant cringing before his external Deity. H. T. E. Reformers and Reformatories IN a recent number of the Los Angeles Herald there is a strong appeal for a greater breadth of view in the treatment of erring women and children. While s...