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Theosophy: The Path of The Mystic - Katherine Tingley
Theosophy: The Path of The Mystic - Katherine Tingley
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Katherine Tingley
PREFACE
sources from which the following citations
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have been taken are (1) stenographic reports
of Katherine Tingley's public addresses (many not
heretofore published) and of Katherine Tingley's
talks to her students; (2) Bulletins issued by
Katherine Tingley to students of the School of
Antiquity; and (3) (by special permission) her pri-
vate letters and private instructions to her more
advanced students.
These citations are what the title-page indicates,
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links for your own forging,' their office not to do your
WHAT is THEOSOPHY?
The Wisdom-Religion of the Ages 3
The Mission of Theosophy 8
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 13
SECTION II
SECTION III
SECTION V
THE HEART-CRY OF THE WORLD
The Vortex of Human Life 87
The Day of Achievement is Here 94
Foreshadowings 99
The Cry of the Nations for Peace 103
To My Brother in Prison 107
Keynotes and Epigrams 116
SECTION VI
SECTION VII
lightener.
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No philosophy in the world can meet the great
human 'question and answer' as does Theosophy.
This I know, for it includes the best in all others.
THE WISDOM-RELIGION OF THE AGES
thought of self.
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In such endeavor the student finds the sacredness
of the hour and the day. There is no time for com-
promise or for delay. The lazy, the indifferent, the
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HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
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THE DUALITY OF MAN S NATURE
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MAN S TWO COMPANIONS
animal nature of man, and that to
this belongs to the
the spiritual. The power
to do this is the power that
we need, arousing us from the dead, so to speak, and
bringing to us light and illumination.
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MAN S TWO COMPANIONS
involve all the rest on that side of the stores of our
nature and the universe. If this is true, it follows
that to give our conscious volitional encouragement
and backing to any fault or any failing, is an im-
mensely pregnant move downward.
(From private instructions)
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Reconstruction and Duty
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hour even, if you will hear what is said with ears
that understand.
Arise then, fear nothing, and taking that which
is your own and all men's, abide with it in peace
for evermore!
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RECONSTRUCTION AND DUTY
purpose is
pure. The
godlike qualities of his higher
nature are disciplining him, because he has said,
// shall be so.
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The mentality of man will never be fully de-
veloped until he has made his own the enlightenment
that comes from soul-knowledge. And yet each
holds this rare possession within his heart of hearts.
It belongs to all men; they have but to claim
their own.
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SELF-STUDY AND SELF-CONTROL
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THE HIGHER AND LOWER PSYCHOLOGY
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THE HIGHER AND LOWER PSYCHOLOGY
to destructive ends.
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So that with all my soul I urge you to look within.
Even to the man who has lost faith in humanity and
even to the pessimist who dares not think
in himself,
a week ahead in hope to such as these I say,
Look into the chambers of your soul, for truly you
are a soul. Rediscover the energy and strength of
your manhood. Take time to think, not in the ordi-
nary way, but deeply, and the laws that govern life
will be revealed.
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narily manifest.
WILLIAM QUAN JUDGE
The Light of the Divine
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where. But he who is willing to follow the road that
leads to the Light, the road that enables man, con-
scious of his Divinity, to think correctly, to live in
the Light, and to follow his ideals regardless of the
opinions of men he is one in ten millions, one
in ten millions. . . .
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THE LIGHT OF THE DIVINE
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THE LIGHT OF THE DIVINE
I do not believe in miracles, but I hold that the
imagination has a wonderful and creative power.
I hold that if we let it soar in the world of spiritual
lous things.
Yet the imagination, like all things, is dual.
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The Open Doors of Silence
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THE OPEN DOORS OF SILENCE
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I echo the words of my predecessor, William
Quan Judge: "There is no idleness for the mystic.
He finds his daily life among the roughest and
hardest of the labors and trials of the world, per-
haps, but goes on his way with smiling face and
joyful heart, nor grows too sensitive for association
with his fellows, nor so extremely spiritual as to
forget that some other body is perhaps hungering
for food."
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THE OPEN DOORS OF SILENCE
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an uplifting, a clarifying process, for the conscience
isat work. It is a confession, really, to the Higher
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THE OPEN DOORS OF SILENCE
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But none can enter alone, each must bring with him
the sad and sorrowing. None can cross the threshold
alone, but must help to bear the burdens of the over-
burdened, must aid the feeble steps of those who are
discouraged, must support those who are bowed
down with sin and despair; and as he sends out the
radiation of that joy and strength which he receives
from his own aspirations and devotion to the Higher
Self, joy and strength and power shall enter into the
lives of these others, and together they shall pass
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THE OPEN DOORS OF SILENCE
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Nature, the Mystic Mother
bless. When
the pressure of cares and trials is almost
too great to be borne and I feel the need of help in
finding a larger patience, I go to Nature, and there
I find it again and again. She is the mystic mother
of us all.
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NATURE, THE MYSTIC MOTHER
she has attained to something which humanity lacks.
And yet when the human touch is given there is a
response: the flower that is nurtured by man's
hand becomes a more beautiful flower, because there
isa spiritual unity in the efforts of man and Nature,
working together. One whose heart is touched with
the love of these things is growing spiritually and
someday will find the great, the profounder, meaning
of life.
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to
the mind, lifts the whole being to the heights
of Light. From this point can be discerned,
a degree, the sacredness of the moment and
the day.
To attain, to attain. . . .
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THE BEAMING THOUGHT
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We
cannot bring great ideals into concrete ex-
pression until we are the living expression of those
ideals. We
cannot set right the affairs of the world
in a waythat shall build spiritually for the future,
until our lives are based absolutely right. The na-
tions are wandering today, and their statesmen ad-
mit as much, but no one can help them in a lasting
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tones and awake the spiritual vision. . The
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YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH
weakness and a warning against future failure.
So fear nothing for yourself; you are behind the
shield of your reborn endeavor, though you have
failed a hundred times. Try slowly to make it your
motive for fidelity that others may be faithful. Fear
only to fail in your duty to others, and even then let
your fear be for them, not yourself. Not for thousands
of years have the opposing forces been so accen-
tuated. Not one of you can remain neutral; if you
think you can, and seek to do so, in reality you are
adding your powers to those of darkness and lending
your strength to the forces of evil. The cry has gone
out to each, and each must choose. This is
. . .
your opportunity.
Will you have it recorded that your vow was of
the lips or of the heart? You have studied and
thought, many of you long and faithfully; bring
forth the fruit of these now as action, for the hour
has struck. Humanity calls for aid. Who of you
has the strength ? The will to go forward ? To them
I call, and upon them already is the flush and the
Light of the Victory beyond conception.
(From private instructions)
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YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH
I do not propose to cater to your whims, your
notions, your personality, your selfishness not at
all. What I propose to do, and what I am doing, is
to give you a supreme, a royal opportunity to round
out your lives and certainly to keep you from
destroying your best chances in life. My aim is to
help you find your spiritual strength.
in the universe.
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As to vigilance: how attentive we are to the
material part of our lives in the sense of being
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YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH
The
loyal and true-hearted are always on the
alert;they are ever ready. For them the gods are
not a procession of phantoms, but living realities.
They know how to profit by each new opportunity,
and each day seesthem at their post, ready for their
allotted work. For them the granite and clay are
luminous creations, resplendent with color, rich with
enchantment. Unclouded by doubt or suspicion,
they falter not nor fail.
Do
not worry; do not fear; do not think about
results. Set plans come from the brain-mind, and
in creative work that cannot be allowed to rule.
There is a method of fashioning the life so that this
will not be; then the brain-mind will keep its place
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YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH
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Karma is lifting the veil, and we can, if we will,
look to the future with that certainty that is born
only of pure motive.
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SECTION V
of tfje Worfo
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plained Theosophically.
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THE VORTEX OF HUMAN LIFE
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To
reach the truth there must be in the aspiring
mind a certain quality of resolution, determination;
and yet the truth is all about us, sweeping as on
invisible currents into the very atmosphere in which
we live. It is as though brooding over the world in
itssorrow were a great urge, a great soulful power,
standing between Deity and man's endeavor to rise
and go unto his own. It is the real intermediator,
and one feels presence when in one's highest mood.
its
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THE DAY OF ACHIEVEMENT IS HERE
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for on the material plane, and in physical science
and invention; more marvelous still will be the un-
folding of the nature of man on spiritual and mental
lines. The possibilities that lie before us in these
directions would, if presented today, meet only with
incredulity and condemnation, for in this material
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power that alone can lift the burdens from the people.
Something more than material wealth is needed,
something more than intellectual accumulation.
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Foreshadowings
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THE CRY OF THE NATIONS FOR PEACE
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But," some judicial mind may say, how can we
hold the nations of the world at peace when differ-
ences exist, seemingly irreconcilable differences?"
My reply must be: What holds together a family
when differences arise? Kinship, the basic love of
brother for brother, that is teeming within its life.
That will suffice to hold it together always if it has
grown and evolved in the spirit of justice. Why
not, then, the larger family of the world?
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THE CRY OF THE NATIONS FOR PEACE
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To My Brother in Prison
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If the hopeless, discouraged men in our prisons
could be made to realize the potential strength of
their higher natures, the latent spiritual force that
lies within them waiting for the call, they would
have the key to the problems of life.
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psychologized by it.
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TO MY BROTHER IN PRISON
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TO MY BROTHER IN PRISON
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Keynotes and Epigrams
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KEYNOTES AND EPIGRAMS
directed effort.
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SECTION VI
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TO THE AWAKENING WOMAN
woman to awaken
to a realization of her divine po-
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TO THE AWAKENING WOMAN
It may not be written openly in history, but it is
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TO THE AWAKENING WOMAN
in human life have often proved to be its blessings.
pass away.
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TO THE AWAKENING WOMAN
lates itself into action almost without the aid of
human speech.
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TO THE AWAKENING WOMAN
between women and men, a better understanding of
each other's natures, and a new line of higher living
for both. This must come about if the dream of
world-reconstruction is to be made a living fact.
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BUILD SPIRITUAL ALTARS IN THE HOME
to spring.
things of life.
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BUILD SPIRITUAL ALTARS IN THE HOME
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I hold that within twenty-five years there will be
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BUILD SPIRITUAL ALTARS IN THE HOME
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BUILD SPIRITUAL ALTARS IN THE HOME
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BUILD SPIRITUAL ALTARS IN THE HOME
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Child and Mother
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CHILD AND MOTHER
find the real cause for his crime in the little uncor-
rected mistakes of childhood, in seemingly unim-
portant habits, which grew and grew until they
became a part of the very life.
The ultimate cause might even be found, could
we go back to it, in an indifferent or careless thought
on the part of the mother during the prenatal period
of her child's life. The sins and crimes of the
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tops have seen the glow in the eastern sky and the
rays of golden light in the heavens; and with the
suddenness of the break of day in the tropics, in the
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THE CYCLE OF THE CHILDREN
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THE CYCLE OF THE CHILDREN
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THE CYCLE OF THE CHILDREN
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Education and the Heart-Life of the Child
We
must remember that early childhood oppor-
tunities are precious; that the character is more
susceptible to the influence of thoughts and actions
than in mature life; that the child's growth and
happiness depend upon its yesterdays its baby-
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Our work
is distinctively international and this
both young and old, from all parts of the world, and
each is encouraged to be, in the deeper sense, a
national expression, standing for all that is best
totally backhanded. We
dealt then, as most people
deal now, with effects rather than with causes.
After the damage is done, we attempt to repair.
WhatI wanted to do was to -prevent to prevent
the damage being done. The world was already fair-
ly well equipped with havens for the beaten and the
fallen. I wanted to evolve an institution that would
take humanity in hand before it was worsted in
the struggle of life.
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MUSIC IS THE SONG OF THE SOUL
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itopens out and broaden our comprehension of what
lifereally means, we could tear down the veil that
divides the seen from the unseen, the seeming from
the real; we could look at life as it really is, at our-
selves as we really are.
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TRUE DRAMA, THE SOUL S INTERPRETER
generate.
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There is no Religion Higher than Truth
Established jor the benefit of the people of the earth and all creatures
OBJECTS
THIS BROTHERHOOD is part of a great and universal
movement which has been active in all ages.
This Organization declares that Brotherhood is a fact in
Nature. Its principal purpose is to teach Brotherhood, demon-
strate that it is a fact in Nature and make it a living power in
the life of humanity.
Its subsidiary purpose is to study ancient and modern re-
ligions, science, philosophy and art; to investigate the laws
of Nature and the divine powers in man.
6. To
bring about a better understanding between so-called
savage and civilized races, by promoting a closer and more sym-
pathetic relationship between them.
7. To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine,
war, and other calamities; and, generally, to extend aid, help,
and comfort to suffering humanity throughout the world.
KATHERINE TINGLEY
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