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    reincarnation question

    One of the things that studies have shown - serious studies involving regressionists who have observed *patterns* through their many years of work and hundreds, or thousands of cases - is that when a subject begins to describe the earlier whereabouts of its prior incarnations, there is also an...
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    Metaphysics in Theosophy

    Okay. It becomes a historical matter if we pursue it, and thus a deviation. Besides, each of us in entitled to his own interpretations. Perhaps you have some thoughts on the slokas provided, some of the ideas contained therein being at the core of the world's major religious teachings ... ?
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    Metaphysics in Theosophy

    Well, there is the direction in thought that when it comes to God's relationship with God's people, the right hand really doesn't know what the left is doing. I tend to reject that view. I tend to believe that God acts with Both Hands, if we wish to adapt the metaphor to human terms. Except...
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    Metaphysics in Theosophy

    Sometimes, it is helpful to revisit what one of the greatest esotericsts had to say on certain topics ... in this case, one without whom there might be no modern occultism, or what many of us know as White Magic. The following excerpt includes the seven ślokas of Stanza Seven, of the Stanzas...
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    Was Jesus a Solar Diety?

    Again, the image should assist in our understanding, yet I will say more, since the elucidation is helpful for some: The Solar Deity, wrapped in His exoteric garb [Hiranyagarbha] shines forth His Light and Love from the horizon. As such, His existence during a given cycle may be compared to...
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    Was Jesus a Solar Diety?

    Elsewhere I have written about the Path of Initiation, or of Approach to God, open to ALL ... and possible of treading (at least in its earliest stages) by ALL of the Sons of Men. It is also possible to describe how, in fact, ALL LIVES [all jivas, or all 60 billion human Souls] are already upon...
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    Was Jesus a Solar Diety?

    There is only 1 Solar Deity in the sense that we might consider, for the moment. This, to me, is the point. So the question is: How does the Solar Logos Reveal [Himself] via the sub-Solar Panoply, or Panopticon of Deities? Or, if we prefer, Who and what are these Trifold, Sevenfold, Tenfold or...
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    Are Mormons Christians?

    Listen, IowaGuy, it isn't on MY MOTHER CHURCH's list of approved and officially RECOGNIZED Revelations and Revelators. So go away, until you can come back a Catholic, believing exactly as I do, worshipping exactly as I do, and rejecting all other TRADITIONS and approaches as 2ndary to MINE ...
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    Atheism’s growing pains

    I chose the poet Vyasa because he is the `Father of the Ageless Wisdom' ... giving us the Vedas, prior to coming as Zoroaster, as Orpheus, as Thoth-Hermes and as Shakyamuni Buddha. Our Fifth Root Race would have none of its present form of Theos Sophia were it not for this tutelary!
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    Here is a link that will provide a more useful perspective than I may be able to ... with a precise account of what occurs at the moment most church-goers dread (hence their behavior). That depends entirely on his motive, combined with the manner in which he went about it ... since often enough...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    leucy7, It's purely an imaginative encounter, and one I don't anticipate or look forward to for some time ... between Thomas, here at IF.org and myself, yet with the latter as more observer than participant. When a person dies, the Recording Angel is present, in cooperation with the [person's...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    He's as blind as he can be Just sees what he wants to see Nowhere Man can you see me at all? Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where he's going to I had forgotten more by my 18th birthday than you knew when you woke up today. Yes, if the donkey's library here is any indication, I'd say...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    Thomas is quite hopeless. I had some mistaken notions and was holding out ... to the very end, as it were. It seems I was *just plain wrong*, there will be no more holding out ... and I believe it's time to just let him reap. No, Thomas was a Jesuit long, long ago; and it was foolish of me to...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    If Jesus was not tested, then never was he truly a chrestos, as even you and I may become, and therefore he was never truly MAN. Perhaps He was an Avatar, yet the notion of his Humanity becomes a sham. Your dog and pony is a con job, and the theology falls completely apart. :( If *we* do not...
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    Atheism’s growing pains

    The Buddha said, let go the raft. I have yet to meet an exoteric Christian who understands this. Every such case of this sort of understanding evidences a Christian who is actually already in touch with the ESOTERIC, or Occult, side of Life ... the hidden Nature which informed, guided, we might...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    leucy7, Yes, we are tormented, and carry our own cross ... and if we have occasional regrets (either in a moment of weakness, or even in due thoughtfulness, wondering wth we're doing and WHY), THESE TOO SHALL PASS. ;) :) Regarding target practice, I prefer to think in terms of a `Love Gun,'...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    Thomas, Yes, Jesus went to be tested, even as you and I are ... even as you and I shall be, once we reach the stage of the Path which the Galilean Master was treading at that time. He knew Bliss already for himself, and he knew it was possible for you and me, else he would not have bothered...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    Nick, Sounds like Jesus was preparing for something we all must face. How absurd to think that he did not have to undergo, at some point, precisely what we all must undergo. The theology utterly falls apart, falls flat on its face, if the man wasn't as `ordinary' and besieged with human...
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    Heaven and Hell are anthropomorphic constructs...

    I don't think Jesus went into the desert seeking Bliss. He already had that. He went into the desert to better understand his task and role in helping lead ALL of HUMANITY to that same Bliss-Consciousness. I think if you'll check with him, this is what he will tell you ... Also, if you want to...
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    A naturalistic spirituality?

    Actually, quarks (and their smaller components) are astral matter. It has, therefore, been both observed - with scientific instrumentation in recent decades, years, days, etc. - and proven as certainly as the sun above or the earth below. Does that make some of us any the wiser, or aware of the...
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