Old Diary Leaves: 1878-83Theosophical Pub. Society, 1900 |
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Adept ADYAR Allahabad ancient Arya Samaj Aryan asked audience Babu Babula Badrinath Benares body Bombay Brahmin Branch brought Buddhist bungalow Calcutta called carriage Ceylon chief Christian colleagues Colombo Colonel Olcott course crowd cure Damodar Diary European eyes face fact feet flowers friends Galle gave gentleman Girgaum give Government Hall hand head healings held Hindu Hinduism hour incident India interest leave lecture letter look Madame Blavatsky Madras Maharajah meeting Megittuwatte mesmeric Missionaries monks Mooljee morning never night occult officers Olcott Palace Pandit Parsi party passed patient person phenomena platform present President priests religion religious rupees Samaj Sanskrit seemed sent shouted Simla Sinhalese Sinnett spiritual station story Sumangala Swami temple Theosophical Society Theosophist things tion told took tour town turned verandah visitors Western whole Wimbridge Yoga Yogi
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186 ページ - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
217 ページ - A. With as much ease as a man can, if he chooses, put on himself the dress of a woman, so he can put over his own Atm& her physical form. Externally, he would then be in every physical aspect and relation a woman; internally himself. " Q. I have met two such ; that is to say, two persons who appeared women, but who were entirely masculine in everything but the body. One of them, you remember, we visited together at Benares, in a temple on the bank of the Ganges. "A. Yes,'Majji.
295 ページ - Ali ( whose spirit may God sanctify ! ) expresses himself to this purport : — " Every form and image, which seems at present effaced, Is securely stored up in the treasury of time — When the same position of the heavens again recurs, The Almighty reproduces each from behind the mysterious veil.
157 ページ - Some of the more meditative monks habitually drop their eyes when conversing with one, but he looked you square in the face, as befitted the most brilliant polemic orator of the island, the terror of the Missionaries.
168 ページ - When we had finished the last of the Silas, and offered flowers in the customary way, there came a mighty shout to make one's nerves tingle, and the people could not settle themselves down to silence for some minutes to hear the brief discourse which, at the Chief Priest's request, I delivered.
20 ページ - Samaj, had got no further than his hand, and a precious clamour arose among his Samajist colleagues. I shall never forget the scene when HPB, at a meeting of the A'rya Samaj, let loose at him the bolts of her scorn, and forced him to promise restitution. The money was returned, but our dealings with the man came to a sudden stop. We set to work to find a house for ourselves, and got one for less than half the rent he was charging us for his own — for he had constituted himself our landlord. We...
158 ページ - A white cloth was spread for us from the jetty steps to the road where carriages were ready, and a thousand flags were frantically waved in welcome. The multitude hemmed in our carriages, and the procession set out for our appointed residence, the house of Mrs.
168 ページ - But to be a regular Buddhist is one thing, and to be a debased modern Buddhist sectarian quite another. Speaking for her as well as for myself, I can say that if Buddhism contained a single dogma that we were compelled to accept, we would not have taken the pansil nor remained Buddhists ten minutes.
215 ページ - Not only can the man of to-day learn to do aJl the things described by the ancient writers, but he himself, the Swami, could teach the methods to anyone who might sincerely wish to take up that course of life. Many had come to him professing their desire and asserting their ability to command success; he had tried three but all failed. One was a resident of Agra. They began well, but soon grew impatient of having to confine themselves to what they regarded as trivial efforts, and, to their surprise,...
218 ページ - Hatha in their previous birth. " Q. Explain, if you please, how we may distinguish between real and false phenomena when produced by one supposed to be a Yogi. A. Phenomena and phenomenal appearances are of three kinds : the lowest are produced by sleight-of-hand or dexterity ; the second, by chemical or mechanical aids or appliances ; the third and highest, by the occult powers of man. Whenever anything of a startling nature is exhibited by either of the first two means, and it is falsely represented...