Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 12th, 2008
THE DIVINE TWINS – GEMINI, DIOSCURI, KABIRI by Amanda F. Rooke
This article is about the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux, who are also called the Polydukes, the Dioscuri or the Kabiri. I will mostly be referring to them as the Kabiri.I was inspired to explore the myth of the Gemini twins from the angle of their divine and human parentage and also because of the […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
THE CASE FOR REINCARNATION by Bernard Parsons
When building up the case for reincarnation it is well to consider first the case for reimbodiment. The former applies to human and animal life. Reimbodiment is the general feature applying to all beings.
There are three approaches scholars use to ultimate questions that are dealt with in philosophy. The first is the concept of duality, […]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
FLOOD LEGENDS – the Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Persia, from the Australian Aborigines, the Hopi Indians from America, the Kuomboka ceremony of the Malozi people of Zambia, and from Theosophy by Sam Duband
Because deluge legends and mythology are so intimately interwoven, I will start the lecture with brief descriptions of the meanings of these three words. A DELUGE is a great overwhelming of water, an inundation. It is also a theme found in ancient religions, describing primordial destruction of Man, and the world, by universal deluge.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
SOME THOUGHTS ON PRESENTING THEOSOPHY by Frank Walter
We contact Theosophy. We feel benefits from it. We join the Theosophical Society. We want to spread our benefits. That is the first object in our Constitution – “To diffuse among men a knowledge of the laws inherent in the Universe”. The second object is - “To promulgate the knowledge of the essential unity of […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
SACRED BIRDS by Amanda F. Rooke
SACRED BIRDS by Amanda Rooke [numbers spread throughout the text refer to references from books cited at the end of the article] By way of introduction I’d like to stress that all birds are sacred, all life-forms are. However some birds seem to be “more sacred than others”, in human estimation, some birds having oracular and […]