Purification Is But The Cleaning Of The

For Centuries The Leaders Of Christian Thought Spoke Of Women As A Necessary Evil, And The Greatest Saints Of The Church Are Those Who Despise Women The Most.

After Death We Live For Some Time In The Astral World In The Astral Body Used During Our Life On Earth, And The More We Learn To Control And Use It Wisely Now The Better For Us After Death.

Theosophy Tries To Bridge The Gulf Between Buddhism And Christianity By Pointing To The Fundamental Spiritual Truths On Which Both Religions Are Built, And By Winning People To Regard The Buddha And The Christ As Fellow-laborers, And Not As Rivals.

At The Solemn Moment Of Death, Every Man, Even When Death Is Sudden, Sees The Whole Of His Past Life Marshalled Before Him, In Its Minutest Details. For One Short Instant The Personal Becomes One With The Individual And All-knowing Ego. But This Instant Is Enough To Show To Him The Whole Chain Of Causes Which Have Been At Work During His Life.

In A Deep Metaphysical Sense, All That Is Conditioned Is Illusory. All Phenomena Are Literally 'appearances,' The Outer Masks In Which The One Reality Shows Itself Forth In Our Changing Universe. The More 'material' And Solid The Appearance, The Further Is It From Reality, And Therefore The More Illusory It Is.