An Outline Of The Principles Of Modern Theosophy PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... the result of his own self-devised efforts. Now at present man is--on this planet (the earth) and in this Round (the fourth)--in the fifth of these races, and therefore, without recognizing his development as a whole, we shall find him to be generally in possession of five-fold attributes. We see him a creature of five extremities, a veritable" five pointed star," as the Rosicrucians symbolized him--with five fingers, five toes, five senses, five organs of sense. His development is not therefore above the fifth stage--that of the human soul or the mind--having as yet as little perception of the sixth, or spiritual soul, as he has of a sixth sense. To put it in other words; the Monad or true ego, has succeeded after many ages of effort, in evolving, or perceiving in itself, those qualities pertaining to the first five "principles," and it has yet, before it can claim permenent rest after its toils, to evolve the other two.. But man is only in the fourth Round on this planet, and although a partial development of the whole seven principles is made in each Round, yet the key-note for the period will be the principle corresponding to that Round. Therefore, as this is the fourth, so also the fourth principle, that of Desire--for good or for bad--is the real key-note of man's being at present. Great indeed is he who can surmount it, and, passing ahead of his time, become a Buddha! From all this it will be evident that with a full comprehension of each of the "seven men" which are bound together in the human being, an understanding of their nature, and a knowledge of their heredity, man becomes a god, having dominion over the seven elements of nature--each of which is powerfully related to a "principle "--and reflecting in himself the whole...