Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00460)

Friends, 

I invite you to read the opening of an article in the ULT-India  magazine "The Theosophical Movement", on "The Tree of Universal Gnosis". 
Says the article:
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H.P.B. wrote in the article "Le Phare de l'Inconnu" (The Theosophist, July, August, September and October 1889; reprinted in She Being Dead Yet Speaketh):
Theosophy is a descendant in direct line of the great tree of universal GNOSIS, a tree the luxuriant branches of which, spreading over the whole earth like a great canopy, gave shelter at one epoch—which biblical chronology is pleased to call "antediluvian"—to all the temples and to all the nations of the earth. That gnosis represents the aggregate of all the sciences, the accumulated wisdom (savoir) of all the gods and demi-gods incarnated in former times upon earth.
She further stated that "Theosophy is synonymous with Gnana-Vidya and with the Brahma-Vidya of the Hindus, and again with the Dzyan of the trans-Himalayan adepts, the science of the true Raj-Yogis, who are much more accessible than one thinks." She reminds us that there are many schools of this science in the East and the off-shoots of it are numerous. These offshoots have ended by separating from the parent stem, the "true Archaic Wisdom," and vary in form (...)  

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To see more on this stimulating topic,  click at 

http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7503gnosis.html

Best regards,   Carlos.  


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