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The scheme of evolution of which our Earth forms a
part is not the only one in our solar system, for ten separate chains of globes
exist in that system which are all of them theatres of somewhat similar
progress. Each of these schemes of evolution is taking place upon a chain of
globes, and in the course of each scheme its chain of globes goes through seven
incarnations. The plan, alike of each scheme as a whole and of the successive
incarnations of its chain of globes, is to dip step by step more deeply into
matter, and then to rise step by step out of it again.
Each chain consists of seven globes, and both globes
and chains observe the rule of descending into matter and then rising out of it
again. In order to make this comprehensible let us take as an example the chain
to which our Earth belongs.
At the present time it is in its fourth or most
material incarnation, and therefore three of its globes belong to the physical
world, two to the astral world and two to the lower part of the mental world.
The wave of Divine Life passes in succession from globe to globe of this chain,
beginning with one of the highest, descending gradually to the lowest and then
climbing again to the same level as that at which it began.
Let us for convenience of reference label the seven
globes by the earlier letters of the alphabet, and number the incarnations in order.
Thus, as this is the fourth incarnation of our chain, the first globe in this
incarnation will be 4A, the second 4B, the third 4C, the fourth (which is our
Earth) 4D, and so on.
These globes are not all composed of physical matter.
4A contains no matter lower than that of the mental world; it has its
counterpart in all the worlds higher than that, but nothing below it. 4B exists
in the astral world; but 4C is a physical globe, visible to our telescope, and
is in fact the planet which we know as Mars. Globe 4D is our own Earth, on
which the life-wave of the chain is at present in action. Globe 4E is the
planet which we call Mercury also in the physical
world. Globe 4F is in the astral world, corresponding
on the ascending arc to globe 4B in the descent; while globe 4G corresponds to
globe 4A in having its lowest manifestation in the lower part of the mental
world. Thus it will be seen that we have a scheme of globes starting in the
lower mental world, dipping through the astral into the physical and then
rising into the lower mental through the astral again.
Just as the succession of the globes in a chain
constitutes a descent into matter and an ascent from it again, so do the
successive incarnations of a chain. We have described the condition of affairs
in the fourth incarnation; looking back at the third, we find that that
commences not on the lower level of the mental world but on the higher. Globes
3A and 3G, then, are both of higher mental matter, while globes (Page123) 3B
and 3F are at the lower mental level. Globes 3C and 3E belong to the astral
world, and only globe 3D is visible in the physical world. Although this third
incarnation of our chain is long past, the corpse of this physical globe 3D is
still visible to us in the shape of that dead planet the Moon, whence that
third incarnation is usually called the lunar chain.
The fifth incarnation of our chain, which still lies
very far in the future, will correspond to the third. In that, globes 5A and 5G
will be built of higher mental matter, globes 5B and 5F of lower mental matter,
globes 5C and 5E of astral matter, and only globe 5D will be in the physical
world. This planet 5D is of course not yet in existence.
The other incarnations of the chain follow the same
general rule of gradually decreasing materiality; 2A, 2G, 6A and 6G are all in
the intuitional world; 2B, 2F, 6B and 6F are all in the higher part of the
mental world; 2C, 2E, 6C and 6E are in the lower part of the mental world; 2D
and 6D are in the astral world. In the same way 1A, 1G, 7A and 7G belong to the
spiritual world; 1B, 1F, 7B and 7F are in the intuitional world; 1C, 1E, 7C and
7E are in the higher part of the mental world; 1D and 7D are in the lower part
of the mental world.
Thus it will be seen that not only does the life-wave
in passing through one chain of globes dip down into matter and rise out of it
again, but the chain itself in its successive incarnations does exactly the
same thing.
There are ten schemes of evolution at present existing
in our solar system, but only seven of them are at the stage where they have
planets in the physical world.
These are:
(1) that of an unrecognized planet Vulcan, very near
the sun, about which we have very little definite information. It was seen by
the astronomer Hersche, but is now said to have disappeared. We at
firstunderstood that it was in its third incarnation; but it is now regarded as
possible that it has recently passed from its fifth to its sixth chain, which
would account for its alleged disappearance;
(2) that of Venus, which is in its fifth incarnation,
and also therefore has only one visible globe;
(3) that of the Earth, Mars and Mercury, which has
three visible planets because it is in its fourth incarnation;
(4) that of Jupiter,
(5) that of Saturn,
(6) that of Uranus, all in their third incarnations;
and
(7) that of
In each incarnation of a chain (commonly called a
chain-period) the wave of Divine Life moves seven times round the chain of
seven planets, and each such movement is spoken of as a round. The time that
the life-wave stays upon each planet, is known as a world-period, and in the
course of a world-period there are seven great root-races. As has been
previously explained, these are subdivided into sub-races, and those again into
branch races. For convenience of reference we may state this in tabular form:
7 Branch-Races 1- Sub-Race
7 Sub-Races 1-Root-Race
7 Root-Races1-World-Period
7 World-Periods 1-Round
7 Rounds1-Chain-Period
7 Chain-Periods 1-Scheme of Evolution
10 Schemes of EvolutionOur System Evolution
It is clear that the fourth root-race of the fourth
globe of the fourth round of a fourth chain-period would be the central point
of a whole scheme of evolution, and we find ourselves at the present moment
only a little past the point. The Aryan race, to which we belong, is the fifth
root-race of the fourth globe, so that the actual middle point fell in the time
of the last great root-race, the Atlantean. Consequently the human race as a
whole is very little more than
halfway through its evolution, and those few souls who
are already nearing Adeptship, which is the end and crown of this evolution,
are very far in advance of their fellows.
How do they come to be so far in advance? Partly and
in some cases because they have worked harder, but usually because they are
older egos because they were individualized out of the animal kingdom at an
earlier date, and so have had
more time for the human part of their evolution.
Any given wave of life sent forth from the Deity
usually spends a chain-period in each of the great kingdoms of nature. That
which in our first chain was ensouling the first elemental kingdom must have
ensouled in the second of those kingdoms in the second chain, the third of them
in the Moon-chain, and is now in the mineral kingdom in the fourth chain. In
the future fifth chain it will ensoul the vegetable kingdom, in the sixth the
animal, and in the seventh it will attain humanity.
From this it follows that we ourselves represented the
mineral kingdom on the first chain, the vegetable on the second, and the animal
on the lunar chain. There some of us attained our individualization, and so we
were enabled to enter this Earth-chain as men. Others who were a little more
backward did not succeed in attaining it, and so had to be born into this chain
as animals for a while before they could reach humanity.
Not all of mankind, however, entered this chain
together. When the lunar chain came to its end the humanity upon it stood at
various levels. Not Adeptship, but what is now for us the fourth step on the
Path, was the goal appointed for that chain. Those who had attained it
(commonly called in theosophical literature the Lords of the Moon) had, as is
usual, seven choices before them as to the way in which they would serve. Only
one of those choices brought them, or rather a few of them, over into this
Earth-chain, to act as guides and teachers to the earlier races. A considerable
proportion a vast proportion, indeed of the Moon-men had not attained that
level, and consequently had to appear in this Earth-chain as humanity. Besides
this, a great mass of the animal kingdom of the Moon-chain was surging up to
the level of individualization, and some of its members had already reached it,
while many others had not. These latter needed further animal incarnations upon
the Earth-chain, and for the moment may be put aside.
There were many classes even among humanity, and the
manner in which these distributed themselves over the Earth-chain needs some
explanation. It is the general rule that those who have attained the highest
possible in any chain, on any globe, in any root-race, are not born into the
beginning of the next chain, globe or race, respectively. The earlier stages
are always for the backwardentities, and only when they have already passed
through a good deal of evolution and are beginning to approach the level of
those others who had done better, do the latter descend into incarnation and
join them once more. That is to say, almost the earlier half of any period of
evolution, whether it be a race, a globe or a chain, seems to be devoted to
bringing the backward people up to nearly the level of those who have got on
better; then these latter also (who, in the meantime, have been resting in
great enjoyment in the mental world) descend into incarnation along with the
others, and they press on together until the end of the period.
Thus the first of the egos from the Moon who entered
the Earth-chain were by no means the most advanced. Indeed they may be
described as the least advanced of those who had succeeded in attaining
humanity the animal-men. Coming as they did into a chain of new globes,
freshly aggregated, they had to establish the forms in all the different
kingdoms of Nature. This needs to be done at the beginning of the first round
in a new chain, but never after that; for though the life-wave is centered only
upon one of the seven globes of a chain at any given time, yet life has not
entirely departed from the other globes. At the
present moment, for example, the life-wave of our chain
is centered in this Earth, but on the other two physical globes of our chain,
Mars and Mercury, life still exists. There is still a population, human, animal
and vegetable, andconsequently when the life-wave goes round again to either of
those planets there will be no necessity for the creation of new forms. The old
types are already there, and all that will happen will be a sudden marvellous fecundity, so
that the various kingdoms will quickly increase and multiply, and make a
rapidly increasing population instead of a stationary one.
It was, then, the animal-men, the lowest class of
human beings of the Moon-chain, who established the forms in the first round of
the Earth-chain. Pressing closely after them were the highest of the lunar
animal kingdom, who were soon ready to occupy the forms which had just been
made. In the second journey round the seven globes of the Earth-chain, the
animal-men who had been the most backward of the lunar humanity were leaders of
this terrene humanity, the highest of the moon-animals making its less
developed grades. The same thing went on in the third round of the Earth-chain,
more and more of the lunar animals attaining individualization and joining the
human ranks, until in the middle of that round on this very globe D which we
call the Earth, a higher class of human beings the Second Order of moon-men
descended into incarnation and at once took the lead.
When we come to the fourth, our present round, we find
the First Order of the moon-men pouring in upon us all the highest and the
best of the lunar humanity who had only just fallen short of success. Some of
those who had already, even on the Moon, entered upon the Path soon attained
its end, became Adepts and passed away from the Earth. Some few others who had
not been quite so far advanced have attained Adeptship only comparatively
recently that is, within the last few thousand years, and these are the
Adepts of the present day.
We, who find ourselves in the higher races of humanity
now, were several stages behind Them, but the opportunity lies before us of
following in Their steps if we will.
The evolution of which we have been speaking is that
of the ego himself, of what might be called the soul of man; but at the same
time there has been also an evolution of the body. The forms built in the first
round were very different from any of which we know anything now. Properly
speaking, those which were made on our physical earth can scarcely be called
forms at all, for they were constructed of etheric matter only, and resembled
vague, drifting and almost shapeless clouds. In the second round they were
definitely physical, but still shapeless and light enough to float about in
currents of wind.
Only in the third round did they begin to bear any
kind of resemblance to man as we know him today. The very methods of
reproduction of those primitive forms differed from those of humanity today,
and far more resembled those which we now find only in very much lower types of
life. Man in those early days was androgynous, and a definite separation into
the sexes took place only about the middle of the third round. From that time
onward until now the shape of man has been steadily evolving along definitely
human lines, becoming smaller and more compact than it was, learning to stand
upright instead of stooping and crawling, and generally differentiating itself
from the animal forms out of which it had been evolved.
One curious break in the regularity of this evolution
deserves mention. On this globe, in this fourth round, there was a departure
from the straightforward scheme of evolution. This being the middle globe of a
middle round, the midmost point of evolution upon it marked the last movement
at which it was possible for members of what had been the lunar animal kingdom
to attain individualization.
Consequently a sort of strong effort was made a
special scheme was arranged to give a final chance to as many as possible. The
conditions of the first and second rounds were specially reproduced in place of
the first and second races conditions of which in the earlier rounds these
backward egos had not been able fully to take advantage. Now, with the
additional evolution which they had undergone during the third round, some of
them were able to take suchadvantage, and so they rushed in at the very last
moment before the door was shut, and became just human. Naturally they will not
reach any high level of human development, but at least when they try again in
some future chain it will be some advantage to them to have had even this
slight experience of human life.
Our terrestrial evolution received a most valuable
stimulus from the assistance given to us by our sister globe, Venus. Venus is
at present in the fifth incarnation of its chain, and in the seventh round of
that incarnation, so that its inhabitants are a whole chain and a half in front
of us in evolution.
Since, therefore, its people are so much more
developed than ours, it was thought desirable that certain Adepts from the
Venus evolution should be transferred to our Earth in order to assist in the
specially busy time just before the closing of the door, in the middle of the
fourth root-race.
These august Beings have been called the Lords of the
Flame and the Children of the Fire-mist, and They have produced a wonderful
effect upon ourevolution. The intellect of which we are so proud is almost
entirely due to Their presence, for in the natural course of events the next
round, the fifth, should be that of intellectual advancement, and in this our
present fourth round we should be devoting ourselves chiefly to the cultivation
of the emotions. We are therefore in reality a long way in advance of the
program marked out for us; and such advance is entirely due to the assistance
given by these great Lords of the Flame. Most of Them stayed with us only
through that critical period of our history; a few still remain to hold the
highest offices of the Great White Brotherhood until the time when men of our
own evolution shall have risen to such a height as to be capable of relieving
their august Visitors.
The evolution lying before us in both of the life and
of the form; for in future rounds, while the egos will be steadily growing in
power, wisdom and love, the physical forms also will be more beautiful and more
perfect than they have ever yet been. We have in this world at the present time
men at widely differing stages of evolution, and it is clear that there are
vast hosts of savages who are far behind the great civilized races of the world
so far behind that it is quite impossible that they can overtake them. Later
on in the course of our evolution a point will be reached at which it is no
longer possible for those undeveloped souls to advance side by side with the
others, so that it will be necessary that a division should be made.
The proceeding is exactly analogous to the sorting out
by a schoolmaster of the boys in his class. During the school year he has to
prepare his boys for a certain examination, and by perhaps the middle of that
school year he knows quite well which of them will pass it. If he should have
in his class some who are hopelessly behind the rest, he might reasonably say
to them when the middle period was reached:
It is quite useless for you to continue with your
fellows, for the more difficult lessons which I shall now have to give will be
entirely unintelligible to you. It is impossible that you can learn enough in
the time to pass the examination, so that the effort would only be a useless
strain for you, and meantime you would be a hindrance to the rest of the class.
It is therefore far better for you to give upstriving after the impossible, and
to take up again the work of the lower class which you did not do perfectly,
and then to offer yourselves for this examination along with next years class,
for what is now impossible for you will then be
easy.
This is in effect exactly what is said at a certain
stage in our future evolution, to the most backward egos. They drop out of this
years class and come along with the next one. This is the aeonian
condemnation to which reference was made a little while ago. It is computed
that about two fifths of humanity will drop out of the class in this way,
leaving the remaining three fifths to go on with far greater rapidity to the glorious
destinies which lie before them.
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Nature is infinite in space and time -- boundless and eternal,
unfathomable and ineffable. The all-pervading essence of infinite nature can be
called space, consciousness, life, substance, force, energy, divinity -- all of
which are fundamentally one.
2) The finite and the infinite
Nature is a unity in diversity, one in essence, manifold in form. The
infinite whole is composed of an infinite number of finite wholes -- the
relatively stable and autonomous things (natural systems or artefacts) that we
observe around us. Every natural system is not only a conscious, living,
substantial entity, but is consciousness-life-substance, of a particular range
of density and form. Infinite nature is an abstraction, not an entity; it
therefore does not act or change and has no attributes. The finite, concrete
systems of which it is composed, on the other hand, move and change, act and
interact, and possess attributes. They are composite, inhomogeneous, and
ultimately transient.
3) Vibration/worlds within worlds
The one essence manifests not only in infinitely varied forms, and on
infinitely varied scales, but also in infinitely varying degrees of spirituality
and substantiality, comprising an infinite spectrum of vibration or density.
There is therefore an endless series of interpenetrating, interacting worlds
within worlds, systems within systems.
The energy-substances of higher planes or subplanes (a plane being a
particular range of vibration) are relatively more homogeneous and less
differentiated than those of lower planes or subplanes.
Just as boundless space is comprised of endless finite units of space,
so eternal duration is comprised of endless finite units of time. Space is the
infinite totality of worlds within worlds, but appears predominantly empty
because only a tiny fraction of the energy-substances composing it are
perceptible and tangible to an entity at any particular moment. Time is a
concept we use to quantify the rate at which events occur; it is a function of
change and motion, and presupposes a succession of cause and effect.
Every entity is extended in space and changes 'in time'.
All change (of position, substance, or form) is the result of causes;
there is no such thing as absolute chance. Nothing can happen for no reason at
all for nothing exists in isolation; everything is part of an intricate web of
causal interconnections and interactions. The keynote of nature is harmony:
every action is automatically followed by an equal and opposite reaction, which
sooner or later rebounds upon the originator of the initial act. Thus, all our
thoughts and deeds will eventually bring us 'fortune' or 'misfortune' according
to the degree to which they were harmonious or disharmonious. In the long term,
perfect justice prevails in nature.
Because nature is fundamentally one, and the same basic habits and
structural, geometric, and evolutionary principles apply throughout, there are
correspondences between microcosm and macrocosm. The principle of analogy -- as
above, so below -- is a vital tool in our efforts to understand reality.
All finite systems and their attributes are relative. For any entity,
energy-substances vibrating within the same range of frequencies as its outer
body are 'physical' matter, and finer grades of substance are what we call
energy, force, thought, desire, mind, spirit, consciousness, but these are just
as material to entities on the corresponding planes as our physical world is to
us. Distance and time units are also relative: an atom is a solar system on its
own scale, reembodying perhaps millions of times in what for us is one second,
and our whole galaxy may be a molecule in some supercosmic entity, for which a
million of our years is just a second. The range of scale is infinite:
matter-consciousness is both infinitely divisible and infinitely aggregative.
All natural systems consist of smaller systems and form part of larger
systems. Hierarchies extend both 'horizontally' (on the same plane) and
'vertically' or inwardly (to higher and lower planes). On the horizontal level,
subatomic particles form atoms, which combine into molecules, which arrange
themselves into cells, which form tissues and organs, which form part of
organisms, which form part of ecosystems, which form part of planets, solar
systems, galaxies, etc. The constitution of worlds and of the organisms that
inhabit them form 'vertical' hierarchies, and can be divided into several
interpenetrating layers or elements, from physical-astral to psychomental to
spiritual-divine, each of which can be further divided.
The human constitution can be divided up in several different ways: e.g.
into a trinity of body, soul, and spirit; or into 7 'principles' -- a lower
quaternary consisting of physical body, astral model-body, life-energy, and
lower thoughts and desires, and an upper triad consisting of higher mind
(reincarnating ego), spiritual intuition, and inner god. A planet or star can
be regarded as a 'chain' of 12 globes, existing on 7 planes, each globe comprising
several subplanes.
The highest part of every multilevelled organism or hierarchy is its
spiritual summit or 'absolute', meaning a collective entity or 'deity' which is
relatively perfected in relation to the hierarchy in question. But the most
'spiritual' pole of one hierarchy is the most 'material' pole of the next,
superior hierarchy, just as the lowest pole of one hierarchy is the highest
pole of the one below.
Each level of a hierarchical system exercises a formative and organizing
influence on the lower levels (through the patterns and prototypes stored up
from past cycles of activity), while the lower levels in turn react upon the
higher. A system is therefore formed and organized mainly from within outwards,
from the inner levels of its constitution, which are relatively more enduring
and developed than the outer levels. This inner guidance is sometimes active
and selfconscious, as in our acts of free will (constrained, however, by karmic
tendencies from the past), and sometimes it is automatic and passive, giving
rise to our own automatic bodily functions and habitual and instinctual
behavior, and to the orderly, lawlike operations of nature in general. The
'laws' of nature are therefore the habits of the various grades of conscious
entities that compose reality, ranging from higher intelligences (collectively forming the universal mind) to
elemental nature-forces.
10) Consciousness and its vehicles
The core of every entity -- whether atom, human, planet, or star -- is a
monad, a unit of consciousness-life-substance, which acts through a series of
more material vehicles or bodies. The monad or self in which the consciousness
of a particular organism is focused is animated by higher monads and expresses
itself through a series of lesser monads, each of which is the nucleus of one
of the lower vehicles of the entity in question. The following monads can be
distinguished: the divine or galactic monad, the spiritual or solar monad, the
higher human or planetary-chain monad, the lower human or globe monad, and the
animal, vital-astral, and physical monads. At our present stage of evolution,
we are essentially the lower human monad, and our task is to raise our
consciousness from the animal-human to the spiritual-human level of it.
Evolution means the unfolding, the bringing into active manifestation,
of latent powers and faculties 'involved' in a previous cycle of evolution. It
is the building of ever fitter vehicles for the expression of the mental and
spiritual powers of the monad. The more sophisticated the lower vehicles of an
entity, the greater their ability to express the powers locked up in the higher
levels of its constitution. Thus all things are alive and conscious, but the
degree of manifest life and consciousness is extremely varied.
Evolution results from the interplay of inner impulses and environmental
stimuli. Ever building on and modifying the patterns of the past, nature is
infinitely creative.
12) Cyclic evolution/re-embodiment
Cyclic evolution is a fundamental habit of nature. A period of
evolutionary activity is followed by a period of rest. All natural systems
evolve through re-embodiment. Entities are born from a seed or nucleus
remaining from the previous evolutionary cycle of the monad, develop to
maturity, grow old, and pass away, only to re-embody in a new form after a
period of rest. Each new embodiment is the product of past karma and present
choices.
Nothing comes from nothing: matter and energy can be neither created nor
destroyed, but only transformed. Everything evolves from preexisting material.
The growth of the body of an organism is initiated on inner planes, and
involves the transformation of higher energy-substances into lower, more
material ones, together with the attraction of matter from the environment.
When an organism has exhausted the store of vital energy with which it
is born, the coordinating force of the indwelling monad is withdrawn, and the
organism 'dies', i.e. falls apart as a unit, and its constituent components go
their separate ways. The lower vehicles decompose on their respective
subplanes, while, in the case of humans, the reincarnating ego enters a
dreamlike state of rest and assimilates the experiences of the previous
incarnation. When the time comes for the next embodiment, the reincarnating ego
clothes itself in many of the same atoms of different grades that it had used
previously, bearing the appropriate karmic impress. The same basic processes of
birth, death,
and rebirth apply to all entities, from atoms to humans to stars.
14) Evolution and involution of worlds
Worlds or spheres, such as planets and stars, are composed of, and
provide the field for the evolution of, 10 kingdoms -- 3 elemental kingdoms,
mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms, and 3 spiritual kingdoms. The
impulse for a new manifestation of a world issues from its spiritual summit or
hierarch, from which emanate a series of steadily denser globes or planes; the
One expands into the many. During the first half of the evolutionary cycle (the
arc of descent) the energy-substances of each plane materialize or condense,
while during the second half (the arc of ascent) the trend is towards
dematerialization or etherealization, as globes and entities are reabsorbed
into the spiritual hierarch for a period of nirvanic rest. The descending arc
is characterized by the evolution of matter and involution of spirit, while the
ascending arc is characterized by the evolution of spirit and involution of
matter.
In each grand cycle of evolution, comprising many planetary embodiments,
a monad begins as an unselfconsciousness god-spark, embodies in every kingdom
of nature for the purpose of gaining experience and unfolding its inherent
faculties, and ends the cycle as a self conscious god. Elementals ('baby
monads') have no free choice, but automatically act in harmony with one another
and the rest of nature. In each successive kingdom differentiation and
individuality increase, and reach their peak in the human kingdom with the
attainment of selfconsciousness and a large measure of free will.
In the human kingdom in particular, self-directed evolution comes into
its own. There is no superior power granting privileges or handing out favours;
we evolve according to our karmic merits and demerits. As we progress through
the spiritual kingdoms we become increasingly at one again with nature, and
willingly 'sacrifice' our circumscribed selfconscious freedoms (especially the
freedom to 'do our own thing') in order to work in peace and harmony with the
greater whole of which we form an integral part. The highest gods of one
hierarchy or world-system begin as elementals in the next. The matter of any
plane is composed of aggregated, crystallized monads in their nirvanic sleep,
and the spiritual and divine entities embodied as planets and stars are the electrons
and atomic nuclei -- the material building blocks -- of worlds on even larger
scales. Evolution is without beginning and without end, an endless adventure
through the fields of infinitude, in which there are always new worlds of
experience in which to become selfconscious masters of life.
There is no absolute separateness in nature. All things are made of the
same essence, have the same spiritual-divine potential, and are interlinked by
magnetic ties of sympathy. It is impossible to realize our full potential,
unless we recognize the spiritual unity of all living beings and make universal
brotherhood the keynote of our lives.
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Foundation of the
Original Theosophical Society 1875
The first Theosophical Society was founded
in New York on
November 17th 1875 by Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky,
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan
Judge and others.
The Theosophical Movement now consists of a
diverse range of
organizations which carry the Theosophical
Tradition forward.
Cardiff Theosophical Society has been
promoting Theosophy since 1908
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मूल थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1875 फाउंडेशन
पहले थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी को न्यूयॉर्क में स्थापित किया गया था
17 नवंबर Helena Petrovna Blavatsky द्वारा 1875,
कर्नल Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge और दूसरों.
थियोसोफिकल आंदोलन अब एक विविध रेंज के होते हैं
आगे थियोसोफिकल परंपरा ले जो संगठनों.
कार्डिफ थियोसोफिकल सोसायटी 1908 के बाद से ब्रह्मविद्या को बढ़ावा देने की गई है
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Mūla
thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī 1875
phā'uṇḍēśana
Pahalē thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī kō
n'yūyŏrka mēṁ sthāpita kiyā gayā thā
17 Navambara Helena Petrovna Blavatsky dvārā 1875,
Kamala Henry Steel Olcott, aura dūsarōṁ.
Thiyōsōphikala āndōlana aba ēka vividha
rēn̄ja kē hōtē haiṁ
Āgē thiyōsōphikala paramparā lē jō
saṅgaṭhanōṁ.
Kārḍipha thiyōsōphikala sōsāyaṭī 1908
kē bāda sē brahmavidyā
kō baṛhāvā
dēnē kī ga'ī hai
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