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Katherine
Tingley
1847
– 1929
Founder
& President of the
Point
Loma Theosophical Society 1896 -1929
She
and her students produced a series of informative
Theosophical
works in the early years of the 20th century
ELEMENTARY
By
A Student of Katherine Tingley
Chapter 1
Elementary Theosophy
Every one
knows that the great religions of the world differ from each other; and also
that in respect to the path of life in which they tell men to walk, they
resemble each other. They present also many other resemblances and identities.
It has not yet occurred to our scholars that there may be one great religion of
which all these are parts.
Nations
have always differed in their characteristics, the difference being sometimes
due to the region in which they dwelt, sometimes to other causes. One people
would be imaginative, another philosophical, another simple; one pastoral,
another nomadic; one peaceful, another active and warlike. One dwells amid
smiling plains, another by the rock-ribbed sea.
If we were
to tell some story of science, say about atoms and molecules, to the classes of
a school, we should not use the same language to the little children as to the
elders.
To every
class we should tell the story differently. If we were wise we should
illustrate it from the games and stories that the children already knew. To the
very little ones we might make the atoms talk and play, and so we might teach
chemistry in the guise of a fairy tale.
To the
children that were older we might picture the atoms as marbles and balls; to artistic
children we might dwell most on the colors and sounds resulting from the
movements and groupings of atoms and molecules. And to the higher classes we
should begin to introduce some of the abstruse mathematics which are concerned
in these questions.
We might
put the case so differently to the highest and lowest classes that anyone who
heard us talking to both might not guess that we were talking about the same
things. Yet we should be.
And if the
children, on going home, tried to tell their parents in their own words what
they had heard, the unlikeness would become still greater, for they would be
adding and leaving out.
The word
theosophy is a blend of two Greek words. Together they mean "divine
wisdom," and also wisdom concerning divine things. There is a similar
Sanskrit compound, Brahmavidya, properly meaning the
same things.
Theosophy
itself is that complete story of the world and man, of which a part has been
told to every people, a part suited to their needs and development and peculiarities,
and told in language appropriate to their understanding.
But
however simply it had to be told, there were always some among every people
whose comprehension ran beyond that of their fellows, and who had prepared
themselves to follow the path of life more steadfastly. To such, more was told.
And so we
find everywhere this fact of two doctrines, one for the multitude and one for
the few -- that latter, for certain reasons mentioned elsewhere, always told
under pledge of secrecy. Jesus Christ, for example, said that to the multitude
he spoke in simple parables like the fairy stories of our illustration; but
that to the elect he spoke fully the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven like
the abstruse mathematics of our illustration.
Sometime
in the near future, scholars will be compelled by the force of their own facts
to recognize the common container and source of the world's religions.
Their
researches would immediately be easier and more fruitful if they would but take
its existence as a hypothesis only. Prosecuting their studies in its light they
would soon be rewarded by seeing emerge from the confusion the majestic
outlines of the religion-philosophy now known as theosophy. But those who wish
to understand it need not wait till then, nor need they proceed by that method.
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The Result of Theosophical Study
Preface to the American Edition Introduction
Occultism and its Adepts The Theosophical Society
First Occult Experiences Teachings of Occult Philosophy
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