The Devachanic Plane, Or, The Heaven World: Its Characteristics and Inhabitants |
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able activity Adept affection arûpa aspirations astral body astral plane atomic matter beautiful bliss buddhic plane called causal body celestial characteristic clairvoyant colour condition coruscations course death definite describe Deva Devachan developed earth earth-life elemental essence elemental kingdoms endeavour ensouled entirely entities evolution existence experience expression fact feeling flashing force full consciousness globes grander heaven heaven-life higher heaven-world higher levels higher planes highest human idea incarnation infinite influence inhabitants intense light living lower heaven-world lower planes Madame Blavatsky manifestation manual Masters of Wisdom memory of nature mental body mental plane mighty mind mind-body monadic essence nature ordinary original energy passed person physical body physical plane possible pours pupils qualities reality realize result rûpa levels sciousness second sub-plane seen selfish seven rows soul spiritual stage student surroundings takes Theosophical thought thought-form tion true truth undeveloped unselfish vehicle vibrations
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Page 71 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 71 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour, The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky. Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it by and by.
Page 2 - Do not complain and cry and pray, but open your eyes and see. The light is all about you, if you would only cast the bandage from your eyes and look.
Page 81 - This is thy present wheel, said the flame to the spark. Thou art myself, my image, and my shadow. I have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vahan to the day, "be with us," when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me.
Page 85 - Compassion, and their initiated pupils. Of the beauty of form and colour and sound here no words can speak, for mortal language has no terms in which those radiant splendours may find expression. Enough that they are, and that some of our race are wearing them, the earnest of what others shall be, the fruition of which the seed was sown on lowlier planes. These have accomplished the...
Page 96 - They may, in fact, be regarded as a kingdom lying next above humanity, in the same way as humanity in turn lies next above the animal kingdom, but with this important difference, that while for an animal there is no possibility of evolution...
Page 2 - ... in which we are living now, as well as in the periods intervening between physical incarnations. It is only our lack of development, only the limitation imposed upon us by this robe of flesh, that pre"vents us from fully realizing that all the glory of the highest heaven is about us here and now, and that influences flowing from that world are ever playing upon us, if we will only understand and receive them. Impossible as this may seem to the man of the world, it is the plainest of realities...
Page 18 - ... through all our world, and then draws back in its tremendous tide to That from which it came. In one long undulating curve it comes, and the sound of it is like the murmur of the sea ; and yet in it and through it. all the while there echoes a mighty ringing chant of triumph — the very music of the spheres. The man who once has heard that glorious song of nature never quite loses it again ; even here on this dreary physical plane of illusion he hears it always as a kind of undertone, keeping...
Page 65 - Uevas, through whom on this plane the majestic cyclic movement of the mighty stellar influences seems to express itself in ever-changing coruscations of all-penetrating living light He was lost in contemplation of a vast panorama of whirling nebulae and gradually-forming systems and worlds, and he appeared to be groping after some dim idea as to the shape of the universe, which he imagined as some vast animal. His thoughts surrounded him as elemental forms shaped as stars, and one especial source...
Page 18 - These are evidently universal, and no shell which human power can make will check or turn them aside. They cause no change of colour, no assumption of form, but flow with resistless regularity through all the matter of the plane, outwards and in again, like the exhalations and inhalations of some great breath beyond our ken. There are several sets of these, clearly distinguishable from one another by volume...