Esoteric Christianity: Or the Lesser MysteriesThe Floating Press, 1 mag 2009 - 337 pagine Religious historian Annie Besant offers a new take on standard Christian doctrine and practice in Esoteric Christianity. Building on the precept that Christianity is actually a mystery religion (i.e., one that relies on the inner knowledge or Gnosis of a spiritual teacher or mystic), this book explores some of the connections between Christianity and practices such as alchemy, astrology, and ritual magic, and discusses the implications of these points of correspondence. |
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Pagina 6
... thought as to the deep truths underlying Christianity, truths generally overlooked, and only too often denied. The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the ...
... thought as to the deep truths underlying Christianity, truths generally overlooked, and only too often denied. The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the ...
Pagina 13
... thought, wherein this cry of the human Spirit for the divine—seeking its source as water seeks its level, to borrow a simile from Giordano Bruno—this yearning of the human Spirit for that which is akin to it in the universe, of the part ...
... thought, wherein this cry of the human Spirit for the divine—seeking its source as water seeks its level, to borrow a simile from Giordano Bruno—this yearning of the human Spirit for that which is akin to it in the universe, of the part ...
Pagina 30
... thought the image of the thing symbolised and reach its intellectual meaning. Thus "mire" meant everything that was bodily and material; the "God sitting above the lotus" signified that God transcended both the mire and the intellect ...
... thought the image of the thing symbolised and reach its intellectual meaning. Thus "mire" meant everything that was bodily and material; the "God sitting above the lotus" signified that God transcended both the mire and the intellect ...
Pagina 32
... thought were the dying words of Plotinus: "Now I seek to lead back the Self within me to the All-self."l30] Among the Hindus the duty of teaching the supreme knowledge only to the worthy was strictly insisted on. "The deepest mystery of ...
... thought were the dying words of Plotinus: "Now I seek to lead back the Self within me to the All-self."l30] Among the Hindus the duty of teaching the supreme knowledge only to the worthy was strictly insisted on. "The deepest mystery of ...
Pagina 38
... influence. But false, utterly false, if by this it be meant that religion has no truths that the ignorant cannot understand, that it is so poor and limited a thing that it has nothing to teach which is above the thought of 38.
... influence. But false, utterly false, if by this it be meant that religion has no truths that the ignorant cannot understand, that it is so poor and limited a thing that it has nothing to teach which is above the thought of 38.
Sommario
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Chapter IV The Historical Christ | 98 |
Chapter V The Mythic Christ | 117 |
Chapter VI The Mystic Christ | 136 |
Chapter VII The Atonement | 153 |
Chapter IX The Trinity | 199 |
Chapter X Prayer | 216 |
Chapter XI The Forgiveness of Sins | 235 |
Chapter XII Sacraments | 253 |
Chapter XIII Sacraments Continued | 270 |
Chapter XIV Revelation | 288 |
Afterword | 302 |
Endnotes | 304 |
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