Accelerating Human Evolution By Theosophical Initiation

Author : Yves Mühlematter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110794799
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accelerating Human Evolution by Theosophical Initiation written by Yves Mühlematter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. These initiatory steps are connected to an idea of evolutionary self-development by means of a set of virtues that are relative to the individual’s position on the path of evolution. The central thesis is that these stages were translated from the “Hindu” tradition to the “Theosophical” tradition through multifaceted “hybridization processes” in which several Indian members of the Theosophical Society partook. Starting with Annie Besant’s early Theosophy, the stages of initiation are traced through Blavatsky’s work to Manilal Dvivedi and T. Subba Row, both Indian members of the Theosophical Society, and then on to the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books were published. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how “esoteric” knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how a broader public could be reached as a result. The dissertation has been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

Author : Yves Mühlematter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110794564
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Accelerating Human Evolution by Theosophical Initiation written by Yves Mühlematter and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant's pedagogy, which she implemented in

Author : Annie Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiation, the Perfecting of Man written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Bailey
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiation, Human and Solar written by Alice Bailey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiation, Human and Solar is book by Alice Bailey in which is explained her theory of the hierarchy of sacred entities, and the part initiation plays in that system. Initiation is presented as a growth of perception which serves as a guide to revelation and elucidation.

Author : Alice Bailey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiation, Human & Solar: Treatise on Theosophy and Esotericism written by Alice Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiation, Human and Solar is book by Alice Bailey in which is explained her theory of the hierarchy of sacred entities, and the part initiation plays in that system. Initiation is presented as a growth of perception which serves as a guide to revelation and elucidation.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004681043
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esotericism and Deviance written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of deviance has been central to the academic study of (Western) esotericism since its inception. This book, being the proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), explores the relationship between esotericism and various forms of deviance (as concept, category, and practice) from antiquity until late modernity. The volume is the first to combine incisive conceptual explorations of the concept of deviance and how it informs and challenges the study of esotericism alongside a wide range of empirically grounded case discussions.

Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835631451
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theosophy written by Robert Ellwood and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of religion explores Theosophical ideas in modern times. Major concepts discussed include reincarnation, karma, evolution, the Oneness of all life, the cyclic nature of creation, and the mystery of consciousness.

Author : Yves Mühlematter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110660334
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Roots of Religious Studies written by Yves Mühlematter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed. This process of “purification” (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin. In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.

Author : Ehler Voss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110416417
Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book Mediality on Trial written by Ehler Voss and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion after 1900. This volume concerns the ways in which the term medium still marks an overlapping of – and thus problematizes – the aforementioned division between religion and the secular, the personal and the technological. The term medium carries with it a seed of doubt that is itself inseparable from investment in the medium's power: insofar as they communicate with an "other" realm, mediums offer the hope and promise of new possibilities and improved efficiency, and thus of a better life; yet they have simultaneously been under suspicion of altering (or even inventing) the messages they communicate. It is due to this combination of promise and suspicion that "mediumism" has tended to evoke scientific, religious, and moral controversies. Thus, we can speak of a "mediumistic trial" – that is, a process in which a medium is put to the test concerning its potentials and trustworthiness. Around 1800, experts were asked if a modern secular institution would be capable of inspiring, domesticating or excluding trance mediumship. This question has stayed with us ever since, and the answers have remained inconclusive. That is why the past and present of mediumship may be asked to elucidate each other.

Author : Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book The Theosophist written by Henry Steel Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: