Olga (@olga)
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Olga replied to the topic The Gupta Vidya 2019 in the forum
Secret Doctrine Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Thank you Tamiko,
H.P.B. gives in SD, v. I, p. 291:
EXTRACTS FROM A PRIVATE COMMENTARY,* hitherto secret: —
(d) To man, it gives all that it bestows on all the rest of the manifested units in nature; but develops, furthermore, the reflection of all its FORTY-NINE FIRES in him. Each of his seven principles is an heir in full to, and a partaker o…[Read more] -
Olga replied to the topic The Gupta Vidya 2019 in the forum
Secret Doctrine Study Group 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Chitkala (Sanskrit) Citkala [from cit abstract thought or consciousness + the verbal root kal to urge on, impel, stimulate] The inciters or stimulators of consciousness or intelligent thought; manasaputras.
Chitti (Sanskrit) Citti [from the verbal root cit to fix the mind upon, design, be intent upon] Thinking, reflection, intention, wisdom;…[Read more] -
Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: OM TAT SAT in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 1 month, 1 week ago
Sanskrit term traidha, threefold, is almost the same as the Greek term: τριάς, trias, genitive τριάδος, triados, in Latin tres.
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Olga posted an update 1 month, 1 week ago
A triad, meaning a “group of three” from the Greek word τριάς (three), in genitive τριάδος,the Latin word – tres, in genitive trium.
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Secret Doctrine Study Group 6 months ago
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Olga posted an update 6 months ago
“Labyrinth” (Labris) literally means “the residence of Labrys”. Labrys is the oldest symbol, meaning the supreme deity.
Myths not only convey ancient historical events and traces of ancient ceremonies, but also tell about the processes taking place in the human soul. In the psychological aspect, each of us has its own labyrinth and its Minotaur…[Read more] -
Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Helios and Agathon in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months ago
For, as soon as DARKNESS – or rather that which is ”darkness” for ignorance – has disappeared in its own realm of eternal Light, leaving behind itself only its divine manifested Ideation, the creative Logoi have their understanding opened, and they see in the ideal world (hitherto concealed in the divine thought) the archetypal forms of all, an…[Read more]
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Helios and Agathon in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months ago
The meaning of the figure of the Agathodaimon is clearly denoted by the Chaldee legend frequently accompanying it. CЄMЄCЄIΛAM “The Everlasting Sun”; which is sometimes followed by ΨΕ, probably used as sacred numerals, for they have the power in Greek arithmetic of 705. C. KING
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Rainbow in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 1 week ago
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. —Plutarch
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Rainbow in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 1 week ago
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel —Socrates
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Rainbow in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 1 week ago
Khechara खेचर or “sky-walker” or “goer.” “He who moves” (chara) “in heaven” (khe). One of the powers (Siddhi) of the Yogī is the possibility to “fly”, or to move in space at will, in his astral form (T.G.).
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Rainbow in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Zohar: 249. “Come and behold. In the flame that rises, there are two lights. One is the white light (khivra), which shines, and one is the light that connects to it: black (uchma) or blue (tichla). That white light, it is on the top, and rises by straight (mishor). And beneath it is that light blue or black, which is the throne (…[Read more]
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 3 weeks ago
A fragment from Helena Petrovna’s poem “The Woman of Fashion”, written in Russian and published in 1871 in St.Petersburg:
To cradle of her little daughter
With her flushing cheek low she bent,
And whispering, praying still hotter:
“Will you, child, take path that I went.And waste all your power not knowing
That there’s a better wide roa…[Read more] -
Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Bodhichitta in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes, I think, it is.
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Olga replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Bodhichitta in the forum
Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bodhi (Pali) is used to express the lofty knowledge of an ascetic, and the stage of enlightenment.
The meaning of citta (Pali) is best understood when explaining it by expressions familiar to us, as: with all my heart; heart and soul; I have no heart to do it; all of which emphasize the emotional & conative side or ” thought ” more than its mental…[Read more] -
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Art of Living Study Group 9 months, 4 weeks ago
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Olga posted an update 10 months ago
“Each man is the maker of his own destiny.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. [The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare]
Also each man is, albeit unwittingly, an agent of Karma for many, for the whole of Nature. By the Law of Unity the many are linked b…[Read more] -
Olga posted a new activity comment 10 months ago
“Each man is the maker of his own destiny.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. [The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare]
Also each man is, albeit unwittingly, an agent of Karma for many, for the whole of Nature. By the Law of Unity the many are linked b…[Read more] -
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