Found an interesting article about Theurgy and transmutation from the theosophical viewpoint. I wish there were more articles like this. This is really interesting. https://www.theosophytrust.org/878-theurgy-and-transmutation
Right Hand Theurgy/Theosophical Theurgy
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Faithfulservant
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Quite the tongue twister!
Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
https://www.theosophytrust.org/RNI-article
Raghavan Iyer was a real Sage in the ULT Santa Barbara area.
Raghavan Iyer was a real Sage in the ULT Santa Barbara area.
If one can put aside the HPB's assertion that everyone else has got it wrong, then there is much to be found out there.
Meister Eckhart in the Catholic Tradition, or Dionyseus the pseudoAreopagite, or Maximus the Confessor.
For something more overtly 'esoteric' in language, there's the Kaballah?
Or Meditations on the Tarot – a Journey through Christian Hermeticism
There's always Gurdjieff and Ouspensky ... or Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophy.
I have only dipped into, but have seen much, in the writings of Henry Corbin.
Becoming an Angel, the mundus imaginalis of Henry Corbin
Regarding the Perennialists of recent times there is Rene Guénon – although a hard read.
Frithjof Schuon was an inspiration for me: Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts was a constant source ... and you can dip in and out.
"Metaphysical knowledge is one thing and its actualisation in the mind quite another. All the knowledge the brain can hold is as nothing in the light of Truth even if it is immeasurably rich from a human point of view. Metaphysical knowledge is like a divine seed in the heart; thoughts represent only faint glimmers of it. The imprint of the divine Light in human darkness, the passage from the Infinite to the finite, the contact between the Absolute and the contingent—this is the whole mystery of intellection, revelation, the Avatara."
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Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Nonsense. Spent over 40 years working on the writings of HPB by helping Boris de Zirkoff a bit. If anything, HPB taught that everyone got it right to some degree.
Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Search her teachings and you will find many times she admits her fallibility. One was "do not follow me, but the Masters I follow" or some misremembered version of that.LOL, but not quite as right as HPB?
But I respect your endeavour!
In truth is that not every religion?LOL, but not quite as right as HPB?
But I respect your endeavour!
Maybe they can accept that others believe some minor doctrinal variation as valid to those guys...
their denomination !
Hence multiple catholic variations and thousands of Christian denominations..because the others don't have it quite right!
Damn mirror is an issue.
Thank you, I have yet to read The meditations on the Tarot, somehow I loose interest after a while, even if its probably a good book once you get into it.. The mundu Imaginalis seems interesting..
OK, I stand corrected.
It's just sometimes the caustic attitude towards 'orthodoxy' jars, then again that might be moreso in her followers than she herself intended ... in my tradition we have 'Origen' and 'Origenism' which are two different things, the latter the fruit of over-zealous and less-insightful interptretation of his teachings.
I was going to offer an example from the essay above to show where the Christian esoterist sees the Theosophic interpretation falling somewhat short of the mark ... but I fear we might end up in a pointless back-and-forth.
As I recall The Secret Doctrine makes many such claims without substantiation, and the tendency of her followers to take her word as 'gospel' makes dialogue that much harder.
The concrete example of the mis-representation of Origen in Reincarnation in Christianity, by Geddes MacGregor, published by the Theosophical Publishing House in 1978 is a stand-out example that can only arouse dismissal of Theosophy's claims to understand the Christian Mysteries.