Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

See Ante, pp. 93-94.

191

See Ante, p. 85.

192

II. Cor. iv. 18.

193

II. Cor. v. 7.

194

Heb. v. 14.

195

S. Luke xv. 16.

196

Ibid. xiv. 26.

197

S. Matt. v. 28.

198

Heb. xi. 27.

199

S. Matt v. 45.

200

S. Luke ix. 49, 50.

201

S. Matt xvii. 20.

202

II. Cor. vi. 8-10.

203

Col. iii. 1.

204

S. Matt. v. 8, and S. John xvii. 21.

205

Gen. i. 2.

206

S. John i. 3.

207

The Christian Creed, p. 29. This is a most valuable and fascinating little book, on the mystical meaning of the creeds.

208

Ibid. p. 42.

209

A name of the Holy Ghost.

210

Ibid. p. 43.

211

Ante, p. 124.

212

S. Matt. xviii. 3.

213

2 S. Peter iii. 15, 16.

214

A. Besant. Essay on the Atonement.

215

Ibid.

216

Brihadâranyakopaniṣhat, I. i. 1.

217

Bhagavad Gîtâ, iii. 10.

218

Brihadâranyakopaniṣhat, I. ii. 7.

219

Muṇḍakopaniṣhat, II. ii. 10.

220

Haug. Essays on the Parsîs, pp. 12-14.

221

Rev. xiii. 8.

222

W. Williamson. The Great Law, p. 406.

223

A. Besant. Nineteenth Century, June, 1895, "The Atonement."

224

Heb. i. 5.

225

Ibid., 2.

226

C.W. Leadbeater. The Christian Creed, pp. 54-56.

227

Ibid. pp. 56, 57.

228

S. Matt. xxv. 21, 23, 31-45.

229

Is. liii. 11.

230

S. Matt. xvi. 25.

231

S. John xii. 25.

232

Heb. vii. 16.

233

Light on the Path, § 8.

234

Heb. vii. 25.

235

Heb. v. 8, 9.

236

I Tim. iii. 16.

237

Annie Besant. Theosophical Review, Dec., 1898, pp. 344, 345.

238

C. W. Leadbeater. The Christian Creed, pp. 61, 62.

239

I Cor. xv. 44.

240

I Thess. v. 23.

241

See Chapter IX., "The Trinity."

242

See Ante, pp. 84, 99, 100.

243

2 Cor. xii. 2, 4.

244

S. Matt. v. 48.

245

S. John xvii. 22, 23.

246

2 Cor. v. 1.

247

1 Cor. xv. 28.

248

This mistranslation was a very natural one, as the translation was made in the seventeenth century, and all idea of the pre-existence of the soul and of its evolution had long faded out of Christendom, save in the teachings of a few sects regarded as heretical and persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.

249

S. John iii. 13.

250

Heb. v. 9.

251

Rev. i. 18.

252

H. P. Blavatsky. The Voice of the Silence, p. 90, 5th Edition.

253

S. John. xvii. 5.

254

1 Cor. xv. 20.

255

Chhândogyopaniṣhat, VI. ii., 1.

256

Deut. vi. 4.

257

1 Cor. viii. 6.

258

An error: En, or Ain, Soph is not one of the Trinity, but the One Existence, manifested in the Three; nor is Kadmon, or Adam Kadmon, one Sephira, but their totality.

259

Quoted in Williamson's The Great Law, pp. 201, 202.

260

H. H. Milman. The History of Christianity, 1867, pp. 70-72.

261

Asiatic Researches, i. 285.

262

S. Sharpe. Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christology, p. 14.

263

See Williamson's The Great Law, p. 196.

264

Loc. Cit., pp. 208, 209.

265

S. John i. 3.

266

Jer. li. 15.

267

See Ante, pp. 179-180.

268

Athanasian Creed.

269

Rev. iv. 8.

270

S. Luke. i. 38.

271

Ibid, 35.

272

Book of Wisdom, viii. 1.

273

Vol. IV. Ante-Nicene Library. S. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata, bk. V., ch. ii.

274

See Ante, p. 262.

275

See Ante, p. 207.

276

Gen. i. 1.

277

Job xxxviii. 4; Zech. xii. 1; &c.

278

Gen. i. 2.

279

Gen. i. 2.

280

See Ante, p. 262.

281

See Ante, p. 262.

282

S. John i. 3.

283

Bhagavad Gîtâ ix. 4.

284

1 Cor. xv. 27, 28.

285

S. John xiv. 6. See also the further meaning of this text on p. 272.

286

Heb. xii. 9.

287

Numb. xvi. 22.

288

Gen. i. 26.

289

S. Matt. v. 48.

290

S. John xvii. 5.

291

S. John v. 26.

292

S. Matt. i. 22.

293

Heb. ii. 18.

294

Much of this chapter has already appeared in an earlier work by the author, entitled, Some Problems of Life.

295

S. James i. 17.

296

Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.

297

See Chapter xii.

298

Heb. i. 14.

299

S. Matt. x. 29.

300

Acts xvii. 28.

301

T. H. Huxley. Essays on some Controverted Questions, p. 36.

302

S. Luke xxii. 41, 43.

303

S. John i. 11.

304

Rev. iii. 20.

305

H. P. Blavatsky. Key to Theosophy, p. 10.

306

Is. xxxiii. 17.

307

On the Mysteries, sec. v. ch. 26.

308

Ps. xl. 7, 8, Prayer Book version.

309

S. Luke, v. 18-26.

310

Ibid. vii. 47.

311

G. R. S. Mead, translated. Loc. cit., bk. ii., §§ 260, 261.

312

Ibid. §§ 299, 300.

313

S. Matt. xii. 36.

314

Ibid. ix. 2.

315

Loc. cit. iii. 9.

316

Ibid. vi. 43.

317

Ibid. ix. 30.

318

See ante, Chap. VIII.

319

This is the cause of the sweetness and patience often noticed in the sick who are of very pure nature. They have learned the lesson of suffering, and they do not make fresh evil karma by impatience under the result of past bad karma, then exhausting itself.

320

S. Luke, vii. 48, 50.

321

Loc. cit., ix. 31.

322

S. Matt. vii. 1.

323

Loc. cit., bk. ii. § 305.

324

Rev. iii. 20.

325

G. Bruno, trans. by L. Williams. The Heroic Enthusiasts, vol. i., p. 133.

326

Ibid., vol. ii., pp. 27, 28.

327

Ibid., pp. 102, 103.

328

Rev. iv. 5.

329

The phrase "force and matter" is used as it is so well-known in science. But force is one of the properties of matter, the one mentioned as Motion. See Ante, p. 264.

330

Job xxxviii. 7.

331

See on forms created by musical notes any scientific book on Sound, and also Mrs. Watts-Hughes' illustrated book on Voice Figures.

332

See ante, p. 138 and p. 302.

333

In the Sacrament of Penance the ashes are now usually omitted, except on special occasions, but none the less they form part of the rite.

334

See ante p. 329.

335

Christian Records, p. 129.

336

The Great Law, pp. 161-166.

337

See ante, p. 151.

338

Diegesis, p. 219.

339

1 Pet. iii. 4.

340

2 Kings vi. 17.

341

1 Cor. x. 16.

342

Jer. xliv.

343

Gen. xiv. 18, 19.

344

The Great Law, pp. 177-181, 185.

345

Lev. xvii. 11.

346

Rom. xii. 1.

347

Isaiah liv. 5; lxii. 5.

348

Eph. v. 23-32.

349

Athanasian Creed.

350

2 Pet. i. 20.

351

1 See ante, p. 102.

352

2 Cor. iii. 6.

353

1 Cor. ii. 11, 13.

354

Is. vi. 6, 7.

355

S. John v. 4.