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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Analogy and Correspondence in the forum Key Concepts Study Group 1 day, 21 hours ago

All things which are visible come from the invisible. In the evolution of a planet there is a beginning in homogeneous, radiant matter—such as composes the Milky Way—the basis of all subsequent forms that are brought about, or produced, by the beings existent in that homogeneous state. Each being is a Center and each Center is the same as the One…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 22 hours ago

February 19, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth

We ask and ask — thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
— MATTHEW ARNOLD
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 20 hours ago

February 18, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth

One God sits hidden in every creature, pervading all, the Inmost Self of all
beings, the Watcher over all acts, abiding in all things, the Witness, the Heart, the Absolute, attributeless and free. — RIG VEDA
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 21 hours ago

February 17, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth

The amplitude of the good is as great as the reality
of all beings. — GIORDANO BRUNO
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 21 hours ago

February 16, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Absolute and Relative Truth

Blessed is he who stands
At the Beginning, for he understands
The end without tasting death.
— ST. THOMAS
The false shows itself; all that is true proves itself. — Sufi Saying
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 5 days, 21 hours ago

February 8, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness

For Nous always gives itself the object of its thought,
and this object is, as it were, its centre. — PROCLUS

For in each world shineth the Triad, over which
the Monad ruleth. — CHALDEAN ORACLES
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago

February 13 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao
And if the Nameless should withdraw from all
Thy frailty counts most real, all thy world
Might vanish like thy shadow in the dark.
— ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago

February 12, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao

In the beginning the earth and the sky, and the spaces of night,
Also the shining moon, and the sun titanic and bright
Feed on an inward life, and, with all things mingled, a mind
Moves universal matter, with Nature’s frame is combined.
— VIRGIL
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago

February 11, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao

Thou art verily Brahman, the knower of Brahman, the constant possessor of the consciousness of Brahman. Thou art Brahman, the ultimate cause.
— BRAHMAVAIVARTA PURANA
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago

February 10, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Space and Self-Consciousness

Keep your mouth shut, guard the senses, and life is ever full. — LAO TZU

We reach to the All as a unity — and this not by any stepping forward, but by the fact of being and abiding there where the All has its being.

— PLOTINUS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago

February 9, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Choosing the Tao

The air is full of souls. — PHILO JUDAEUS

In the world, men of insight may discern
A stream whose currents swirl and surge and churn,
And from the force that works within the stream
The hidden working of the ‘Truth’ may learn.
— NARUDDIN ABDUR RAHMAN JAMI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago

February 8, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness

For Nous always gives itself the object of its thought,
and this object is, as it were, its centre. — PROCLUS

For in each world shineth the Triad, over which
the Monad ruleth. — CHALDEAN ORACLES
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks ago

February 7, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness

As long as we dwell in the shadow, we cannot
see the sun itself. — JAN van RUYSBROECK

Pluck up thy spirits, man. — SIR THOMAS MORE

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. — CHARLES DICKENS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks ago

February 6, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Space and Self-Consciousness
I take refuge in the Self-existent Being in whom reposes the cosmos, from whom it has sprung, by whom it has been brought into being, who Himself constitutes it, and who is at the same time distinct from both cause and effect. — BHAGAVATA
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 1 day ago

February 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Space and Self-Consciousness

“Lift thy head, oh Lanoo; dost thou see one,
or countless lights above thee,
burning in the dark midnight sky?”
“I sense one Flame, oh Gurudeva,
I see countless undetached sparks shining in it.”
— OCCULT CATECHISM
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 1 day ago

February 2, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness

Plato asserted that in all things there is one truth, that is the light of the One itself, the light of Deity, which is poured into all minds and forms, presenting the forms to the minds and joining the minds to the forms.

— MARSILIO FICINO
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 1 day ago

February 5, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Space and Self-Consciousness

For your human nature and that of the divine Word are no different
it is one and the same. — MEISTER ECKHART
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]
Tamiko Yamada replied to the topic The Gupta Vidya 2019 in the forum Secret Doctrine Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Thank you Olga. What do you think is the relationship between the image of fire (49 fires) and consciousness?
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago

February 4, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Space and Consciousness

All things in the world come from being.
And being comes from non-being. — LAO TZU

From many, we must become one; only so do we attain to knowledge
of that which is Principle and Unity. — PLOTINUS
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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Crystal in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Friday
February 1, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Wakefulness

That perfect knowledge
Was of peace and holiness
Held at no remove
In profound solitude.

— JOHN of the CROSS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Crystal in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 6 days ago

January 31, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Crystal

My heart rises;
I fix my eyes upon You,
Next to You, beside You,
O Giver of Life.
— QUETZALCOATL
Ramprakash ML replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Analogy and Correspondence in the forum Key Concepts Study Group 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Thanks Peter for the valuable contribution. Translator rendered the Greek tern anamnesis as recollection probably because the English word Reminiscence is not as much in use as the other two cognate terms–remembrance and recollection–and, moreover, all the three terms are used generally as synonyms.