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Pythagoras
”It is said that he advised his disciples that every time they went into their own house say the following: 'Where did I trespass? What did I achieve? And what duties did I leave unfulfilled?'”
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Dodecahedron
'In geometry, the only regular polyhedra are called "the Platonic solids". They are five in number: the tetrahedron (which has four exactly equal faces), the cube (six faces), the octahedron (eight faces), the dodecahedron (twelve faces) and the icosahedron (twenty faces). Rightly they should be called "the Pythagorean solids", since Plato had learned about them in Pythagoras' school. If you add to these five the point as the beginning and the globe as the end, you get the number seven. The order is then: (1) the point, (2) the tetrahedron, (3) the cube, (4) the octahedron, (5) the dodecahedron, (6) the icosahedron and (7) the globe. The point stands for the one in each series of seven or the beginning of the manifestation, the globe for the seven or the completion of the manifestation; in our solar system the point represent the manifest world (world 43), the globe represent the physical world (world 49).'
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE DODECAHEDRON?
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What Pythagoras Taught about the Meaning of Life
– Part 1
We need a new world view and life view
Superphysical Phenomena Widen Our World View
The Pythagorean School
The Hylozoic Mental System
The Three Aspects of Reality
Everything Is Alive
The Evolution of Consciousness
The Monads
The Unity of Everything
SYSTEM
‘is thought’s way of orienting itself. Facts are largely useless until reason can fit them into their correct relationships (historical, logical, psychological, or causal ones).’
K 1.1.34
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– Part 2
Everything is governed by laws
Laws of nature and laws of life
The Seven Basic Laws of life
The Law of Freedom
The Law of Unity
The Law of Development
The Law of Self
The Law of Destiny
The Law of Sowing and Reaping or The Law of Reaping
The Law of Activation
LAWS OF LIFE
‘ Laws of nature concern matter and motion, and laws of life concern the consciousness aspect.‘ ‘The laws of life most important to mankind are the laws of freedom, unity, development, self (self-realization), destiny, reaping, and activation.‘ ‘Those most important for the individual are: the laws of freedom, unity, self, and activation - especially the first two.‘ ‘The laws of life make possible the greatest possible freedom and unerring justice for all. Freedom, or power, is the individual’s divine, inalienable right. It is acquired through knowledge of the Law and through unfailing application of the laws. Freedom (power) and law are the conditions of each other. Development implies purposefully applied activity in accordance with the Law. Otherwise the cosmos would degenerate into chaos.’
KOV 1.41.15f
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– Part 3
The Superphysical Reality
A Multiplicity of Worlds
Where does it all come from?
Primordial atoms (The Monads)
Cosmos
The Manifestation
Subjective and objective consciousness
The Self and Its Envelopes
The Three Aspects of Consciousness Expressions
Experience and memory
Waking Consciousness and Unconsciousness
The Will
Passive and Active Consciousness
Monad and Envelope in Co-Operation
Self-Activation as the Meaning of Life
Concluding remarks
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The Knowledge of Life – From Secret to Public
1. Introduction
2. The Genesis of the Esoteric Knowledge Orders
3.What the Knowledge Orders Taught
4. Why the Knowledge Orders Were Secret
5. The Greek Mysteries
6. The secret gnostic order of knowledge
7. The Great World Teachers Buddha och Christos
8. The Rosicrucians
9. The Closing of the Knowledge Orders and the Publication of Esoterics
10.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
11. The Theosophical Movement
12 .Alice A. Bailey
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Henry T. Laurency and His Works
Henry T. Laurency
Laurency about Himself
The Purpose of the Works of Laurency
The Works of Laurency
For Whom Laurency Writes
Laurency Fights Dogmatic Thinking
Laurency’s Criticism
MENTAL SELF
Monad having its most important kind of self-consciousness in molecular world 47:4-7 within the solar system. Mental selves belonging to the human kingdom are at the stage of humanity.
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Esoteric Terminology and Symbolism
1. Esoteric Terminology
2. Esoteric Symbolism
3. Hylozoics – an easy-to-understand terminology without symbolism
Terms for matter and the worlds of the solar system (43–49)
Terms for man (first self)
Terms for the vicarious second self (Augoeides) and third self (Protogonos)
“Soul”
“Spirit”
“God”
Terms for Collective Beings
Additional terms
Trinity, three triads, three aspects
Spirit, soul, body
The Symbolic Import of the Gospels
The cross and the symbol of the crucifixion
The Symbol “Christos”
The Symbolism of Jeshu’s Life
The Rich Young Man
The Symbolic Meaning of the Christian Festivals
“Kingdom of God”
”Sin”
Judgement Day, the Devil, the Sacrifice of Atonement, the Sword
“Resist Not Evil”
The “Word,” Symbolic Numbers
The Triangle and the Square
Twin souls
Symbols for Worlds
”Cosmic”
Additional symbols
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Advice to Esoteric Students
Introduction
Examine It Yourself!
Never Accept Anything without a Sufficient Ground!
Belief in Authority
Mistakes Made by Beginners
Make No Propaganda for Esoterics!
Knowledge Entails Responsibility
Risks to Esoteric Studies
On Studying Esoterics
Reading Esoteric Literature
ESOTERICIAN
‘The esoterician has once and for all left the world of illusions and fictions, which mankind prefers living in, to enter into the world of reality.’
K 1.43.6 ‘The mystic thinks that man’s reason cannot explain existence, which, it is true, it cannot. The esoterician knows this, but then is not content with the ability of human reason to ascertain superphysical facts, but seeks that higher reason which can achieve contact with the Platonic world of ideas. Until then, he will accept no other superphysical facts than those from the planetary hierarchy. Proof that ‘facts’ really are facts he gets from their having their given places in the Pythagorean hylozoic mental system, and their being the simplest and most general explanations of previously inexplicable realities.’
K 3.6.5
‘On the whole it can be said that in the conditions prevailing at the present time, true esotericians do not join any societies, but are to be found outside all kinds of organizations. They can be recognized by their understanding of all things human, and they strive after truly human relations between all irrespectively of race, nationality, sex, religion, politics, and all other things that separate man from man.’
K 3.7.12
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The Basic Esoteric Dictionary
Search in ‘The Basic Esoteric Dictionary’
ESOTERICS, BASIC AXIOM OF:
‘There are laws in everything and everything is expressive of law.’
(K 4.11.7)
THREE ASPECTS OF EXISTENCE:
‘Existence is a trinity of three equivalent aspects: matter, motion, and consciousness. None of these three can exist without the other two. All matter has motion and consciousness.’
K 1.4.4, 4.1.2
DYNAMIS
’The original cause of motion, the source of all power, the one primordial force, the universe’s total energy, is the dynamic energy of primordial matter, which Pythagoras called dynamis. It is eternally active, inexhaustible, unconscious, absolute omnipotence.
’Dynamis acts in every primordial atom, and only in the primordial atoms, which penetrate all matter.
’Dynamis is the fundamental cause of the perpetuum mobile of the universe.’
KOV 1.25.1ff
The Swedish edition of The Basic Esoteric Dictionary
MONAD, THE; THE SAME AS PRIMORDIAL ATOM,
‘is the smallest possible part of primordial matter and the smallest firm point for individual consciousness.‘ K 1.4.5, 1.12.1
‘The monads are the sole content of the cosmos.‘ ‘All forms of matter existing in the cosmos consist of monads at different stages of development. All these compositions of monads are being formed, changed, dissolved, and re-formed in innumerable variations, but the monads’ matter aspect remains eternally the same.‘ K 1.12.1f
'By "monad" is meant the individual as a primordial atom and by ‘self’ the individual’s consciousness aspect.' K 1.15.3
'The primordial atom’s memory is indestructible though latent. In order to remember anew it is necessary to renew the contact with previously experienced reality. Causal selves and higher selves are able to do so in the planetary and cosmic globe memories.' K 1.23.4
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The Esoteric World View
Brief Presentation
The Trinity of Existence
The Cosmos
Involution
The Forms of Life
Evolution
The Process of Manifestation
Consciousness
The Natural Kingdoms
The Envelopes and Worlds of Man
The Consciousness of Man
Man’s Stages of Development, etc.
COSMOS
A cosmos is a globe in primordial matter, which consists of primordial atoms.
‘Its original dimensions are small, but, being supplied with primordial atoms from the inexhaustible store of primordial matter, it grows incessantly until it has reached the requisite size.’
‘A fully built-out cosmos, such as ours, consists of a continuous series of material worlds of different degrees of density, the higher penetrating all lower. The highest world thus penetrates everything in the cosmos.
‘The worlds are built out from the highest world, each higher world supplying material for the next lower world, which is formed in and out of the higher ones.
‘There are seven series of seven cosmic material worlds, making 49 in all (1–7, 8–14, 15–21, 22–28, 29–35, 36–42, 43–49), in accordance with the constant division into seven departments. These atomic worlds occupy the same space in the cosmos. All the higher worlds embrace and penetrate the lower worlds.’
‘All the 49 worlds differ from each other as to dimension, duration, material composition, motion, and consciousness; due to differences in density of primordial atoms.
‘The seven lowest cosmic worlds (43-49) contain billions of solar systems. The lowest world (49) is the physical world.
‘Our cosmos is a perfect organization.’
KofR 1.6.l ff
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Medium-Long Presentation
– The Material Aspect
The Matter Aspect
Introduction
Primordial Matter
The Cosmos
Atomic Matter
Solar Systems
Molecular Matter
The Monads
The Monads’ Envelopes
Man’s Five Envelopes
MATERIEASPEKTEN
‘Det finns ingen medvetenhet utan materia. Varje slag av medvetenhet motsvaras av sitt slag av materia. Det finns lika många slag av medvetenhet som det finns materieslag. Den fysiska människans sinnesförnimmelser, känslor och tankar äro tre olika slags medvetenhet och motsvaras av fysisk, emotional och mental materia. Utan fysisk hölje har människan inga sinnesförnimmelser i vanlig mening, utan emotionalhölje inga känslor, utan mentalhölje inga tankar.’
DVS 2.24.3
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– The Consciousness Aspect
The Consciousness Aspect
The Monad Consciousness
Different Kinds of Consciousness
Subjective and Objective Consciousness
Physical Consciousness
Emotional Consciousness
Mental-Causal Consciousness
Higher Kinds of Consciousness
CONSCIOUSNESS
'One of the three aspects of existence. Consciousness in the primordial atoms is from the beginning potential (unconscious), is gradually awakened in the process of manifestation to actualized passive consciousness subsequently to become ever more active in the ever higher worlds of ever higher natural kingdoms.
'The most important insight about the nature of consciousness is that all consciousness is simultaneously collective consciousness.
(K 1.16.3) 'There is only one consciousness is the cosmos, the cosmic total consciousness, of which every monad has an inalienable part. This consciousness is an amalgamation of the consciousness of all monads in the cosmos.'
K 2.4.1
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– The Motion Aspect
The Motion Aspect
Motion Defined
Dynamis
Material Energy
Will
Different Kinds of Energy and Will
MOTION
'One of three aspects of existence. "The original cause of motion is the dynamic energy of primordial matter.'
K 1.4.6
'To the motion aspect belong all occurrences, all processes of nature and life, all changes. Everything is in motion and all that moves is matter.'
'Motion has of old been given manifold designations: force, energy, activity, vibration, etc. As motion should also be considered: sound, light, and colour.'
'In hylozoics three main causes of motion are distinguished, each one specifically different: dynamis, material energy, will.'
K 1.24
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– Meaning and Purpose of Existence
The Meaning and Goal of Existence
The “rebirth” of Everything
MEANING AND GOAL OF EXISTENCE
'The meaning of existence (a problem unsolvable to theologians, philosophers, and scientists) is the consciousness development of the primordial atoms, to awaken to consciousness primordial atoms which are unconscious in primordial matter, and thereupon to teach them in ever higher kingdoms to acquire consciousness of, understanding of life in all its relationships.
'The goal of existence is the omniscience and omnipotence of all in the whole cosmos.
'The process implies development: in respect of knowledge from ignorance to omniscience, in respect of will from impotence to omnipotence, in respect of freedom from bondage to that power which the application of the laws afford, in respect of life from isolation to unity with all life.'
K 1.30.1ff
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– The Kingdoms of Nature
The Kingdoms of Nature
The Natural Kingdoms
The Lowest Three Natural Kingdoms
The Fourth Natural Kingdom (The Human Kingdom)
The Fifth Natural Kingdom
The Sixth Natural Kingdom, or The First Divine Kingdom
The Cosmic Kingdoms
The Planetary Hierarchy
The Planetary Government
The Solar Systemic Government
NATURAL KINGDOMS
The most comprehensive successive stages in the monads’ evolution and expansion are called natural kingdoms. There are twelve natural kingdoms: six in the solar system (worlds 43–49) and six in the cosmic worlds (1–42). The five lower natural kingdoms are natural kingdoms in a more restricted sense; the seven higher ones are called divine kingdoms. The six kingdoms belonging to the solar system are:
the mineral kingdom 49:5-7
the vegetable kingdom 49:7-48:7
the animal kingdom 49:7-47:7
the essential kingdom 49:7-45:4
the manifestal kingdom, first or lowest divine kingdom 49:7-43
(K 1.32.1)
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Longer Presentation
1 School of Pythagoras
2 The Hylozoic Mental System
3 The Three Aspects of Existence
4 Everything is Alive
5 Evolution of Consciousness
6 The Monads
7 The Unity of Everything
8 Superphysical Reality
9 A Multiplicity of worlds
10 Primordial Matter
11 Dynamis
12 Primordial atoms (Monads) Defined
13 Cosmos
14 Composition of Matter
15 Worlds in The Cosmos
16 Solar System
17 Molecular Matter
18 Some Facts About the Motion Aspect
19 Space and Time
20 The Meaning and Purpose of Life
21 Manifestation
22 Involvement and Evolution
23 Involution
24 Evolution and Expansion
25 Subjective and Objective Consciousness
26 The Self and Its Envelopes
27 Three Aspects of The Expressions of Consciousness
28 Experience and Memory
29 Day-Conscious and Unconscious
30 The Will
31 Passive and Active Consciousness
32 Monad and Envelope in Interaction
33 Self-Activation as a Life Meaning
34 Monad and Envelope in Interaction
35 Collective Being
36 The Human Path to Unity
37 The Natural Kingdoms and Activation
38 The Law of Transformation and the Law of Form
39 The Three Lowest Natural Kingdoms
40 The Group Souls and Transmigration
41 The Human Kingdom
42 Knowledge of The Stages of Development
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Diagram
The Septenary
Evolution in the Solar System
An Overview of Hylozoic Terms
The Chain of Triads
The Structure of a Seven-Globe
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ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW:
‘The esoteric world view can never, of course, be anything else for mankind but a working hypothesis. But the further mankind develops, the more evident the incomparable superiority of this hypothesis will become. The causal self is able to ascertain its accordance with facts in the five worlds of man.’
K 4.11.8
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Esoteric Life View
Introduction
Introduction to the Esoteric Life View
LIFE VIEW
'The life view concerns the consciousness aspect of existence and is the sum total of man's attitude to life, to its meaning and goal, and his view of mankind and man’s ways.'
'It is from his life view that man derives the bases of his valuations, his viewpoints for judgement, motives for action. The life view includes the conception of right and what is contained in the concept of culture.' P 3.1.1f
The esoteric life view presented in P 'is termed esoteric since it is based on the esoteric world view and on esoteric facts about the goal of life. There is no such life view that suits all on all levels of development. What in common to them all is the knowledge of the laws of life, which everybody applies according to his understanding of life.' P 3.1.5
'All who have reached the stages of culture and humanity, have emphasized that in one’s attitude to all people, universal good will and right human relations are the essential thing. We must learn to discard all pretexts for friction, not only tolerate but rejoice in the individual (and independent!) conceptions of all as proof of their own judgement at their level.' K 5.44.2
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General About Laws of Life
Knowledge of the Law
Laws of Life
LAWS OF LIFE
'Laws of nature concern matter and motion, and laws of life concern the consciousness aspect.
'The laws of life most important to mankind are the laws of freedom, unity, development, self (self-realization), destiny, reaping, and activation.'
'Those most important for the individual are: the laws of freedom, unity, self, and activation - especially the first two.'
'The laws of life make possible the greatest possible freedom and unerring justice for all. Freedom, or power, is the individual’s divine, inalienable right. It is acquired through knowledge of the Law and through unfailing application of the laws. Freedom (power) and law are the conditions of each other. Development implies purposefully applied activity in accordance with the Law. Otherwise the cosmos would degenerate into chaos.' K 1.41.15f
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The Law of Freedom
Introduction
Freedom Is Law
Freedom Must Be Conquered
The Limits to Freedom
Freedom and Responsibility
Equality
Social Freedom
FREEDOM, LAW OF
'The law of freedom says that every monad is its own freedom and its own law, that freedom is to be gained by law, that freedom is the right to individual character and activity within the limits of the equal right of all.'
K1.41.8
'Unconscious and, to a still higher degree, conscious encroachment upon the monads' inalienable, inviolable divine freedom, limited by the equal right of all living beings, results in the struggle for existence and the cruelty of life.'
K 4.11.4
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The Law of Unity
All Life Is a Unity
The Will to Unity
Attraction
Service
Love
Marriage
Individualism and Collectivism
UNITY, LAW OF
'The law of unity says that all monads make up a unity and that every monad for superindividual consciousness expansion must realize its unity with all life.'
K 1.41.9
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The Law of Development
Introduction
Development of Consciousness and Self-Realization
The Stage of Barbarism
The Stage of Civilization
The Stage of Culture
The Stage of Humanity
The Stage of Ideality
DEVELOPMENT, LAW OF
'The law of development says that all monads develop their consciousness, that there are forces acting in different ways towards the final goal of life.'
K 1.41.10
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The Law of Self
Self-realization
Trust in Life, Trust in Self, Trust in Law
Obstacles to Self-Realization
Self-Determination
Invulnerability
Mistakes and missed opportunities
The Art of Living
SELF OR SELF-REALIZATION, LAW OF
'The law of self says that every monad must itself acquire all the qualities and abilities requisite for omniscience and omnipotence, from the human kingdom and onwards: understanding of law and the responsibility following upon this.'
K 1.41.11
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The Law of Destiny
The Law of Destiny
Guidance
Predestination
Knowledge and Responsibility
DESTINY, LAW OF
'The law of destiny indicates what forces influence the individual in consideration of necessary experiences.'
K 1.41.12
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The Law of Reaping
The Law of Reaping Is Absolutely Valid
The Law of Sowing and Reaping
The Law of Reaping and Suffering
Collective Sowing and Reaping
Good Sowing
Good Reaping
Bad Sowing
Bad Reaping
Atonement
REAPING, THE LAW OF
'The law of reaping says that all the good and evil we have initiated in thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds are returned to us with the same effect. Every consciousness manifestation has an effect in manifold ways and entails either good or bad sowing which will ripen and be reaped some time.' K 1.41.13
'If man lives in accordance with the laws of life, his development will progress as rapidly as possibly, without friction, harmoniously, with the greatest possible degree of happiness. But every mistake as to the laws of life (known or unknown ones) entails consequences calculated eventually (the number of incarnations is up to him) to teach the individual to discover the laws and apply them correctly. If he has caused suffering to other beings, he is himself to experience the same measure of suffering. This is the law of uncompromising justice which no arbitrary grace can free him from.
'It is part of man’s dharma that he must do all he can to reduce the suffering in the world, for all beings and in all circumstances. Those who refuse to help when they can, are guilty of an omission that has consequences and by no means the least ones.
'The Brahmins’ conception of karma as being inevitable destiny, that one ‘stands in the way of karma’ by trying to relieve suffering and distress, is evidence of fatal ignorance of life. Nobody can ‘stand in the way’ of a law. If anyone is to suffer, no power in the world can prevent that. The suffering we have caused to others can be made good through voluntary ‘sacrifice’ in future lives.' K 7.8.4ff
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The Law of Activation
The Activation of Consciousness
Control of Consciousness
Results of Deficient Control of Consciousness
Positive Life Attitude
Serving and Activation
The Method of Activation
ACTIVATION, LAW OF
'The law of activation says that individual development is possible only through self-initiated consciousness activity.'
K 1.41.14
'All development is the result of work and toil.'
P 3.23.2
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– Meditation
Introduction to Meditation
The Purposes of Meditation
Meditation is Production of Energy
The Activation of Mental Consciousness
Subjects of Meditation
Risks of Meditation
MEDITATION
'By meditating daily on desirable qualities man can acquire these in any percentage whatever. He will free himself of undesirable qualities by not attending to them and by meditating on their opposites. He will attain higher levels by meditating on the qualities of these higher levels. Without meditation, development is so slow that even after a hundred incarnations there is scarcely any noticeable progress.'
K 7.23.2
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The Twelve Essential Qualities
1. Trust in Life
2. Trust in Self
3. Obedience to Law
4. Uprightness
5. Impersonality
6. Will to Sacrifice
7. Faithfulness
8. Reticence
9. Joy in Life
10. Purposefulness
11. Wisdom
12. Unity
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Good Thinkers
Pythagoras (ca 700 fvt)
Aristoteles (ca 384–322 fvt)
Marcus Aurelius (121–180)
Konfucius (551–479 fvt)
Mencius (ca 372–ca 289 fvt)
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
Sokrates (ca 470–399 fvt)
Cicero (106–43 fvt)
Leibniz (1646–1716)
Platon (ca 427-347 fvt)
Seneca (4 fvt–65)
Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
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