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JULY/AUGUST 2004
CONTENTS:
I Build a Lighted House and Therein Dwell – Editorial
The keynote for Cancer, I build a lighted house and therin dwell, helps the disciple to "take the Light" by relinquishing his cherished isolation, his need for "protective cover", and becoming, in a sense, transparent. Transparency is a word we hear frequently these days, yet it is an ancient requirement of the spiritual Path.
The Centres and the Personality--Djwhal Khul
The Protector of Humanity–Part I--Mark Braham
In the domain of the spiritual life, where there is often a desperate search for leadership, guidance, or revelation, the idea of hierarchy sometimes leads to the other extreme of awe, if not slavish devotion. Yet, the literature of the spirit calls not for submissiveness or dependence, but for the forthrightness and competence that can collaborate in the healing and transformation of the planet.
Esoteric Healing in the 21st Century–Part II -- Judy Jacka
The conditioning karma of the individual will determine what part of the body is affected including the type of physical problem. In summary of this law it can be said that at this stage of our planetary evolution there is disharmony between spirit and matter, life and form, or soul and body and that all kingdoms in nature have this potential problem. In other words, separateness lies behind all disease. We can see why integration is presented to us as so essential for health including integration or alignment with the soul.
Consciousness and Electricity: The Relationship -- Brian Arrowsmith
The Ageless Wisdom defines electricity as the manifested energy of the "fire of mind", and it goes on to state that manas is electricity. Manas is intelligence, the mental faculty of logical deduction, reasoning and of rational activity; it is the human mind, that which distinguishes man from animal. The manasic principle is the individualising principle – that which enables man to recognise that he exists, feels and knows. The teachings contend that manas is the discriminative faculty that animates all substances, and which is also the electrical fire of the system showing forth as attraction and repulsion.
Plato: A Forerunner -- John Nash
Plato considered the soul (psyche) to be the Form that overshadows the physical body, the source of intelligence, harmony, beauty and meaning. In "Timaeus", we read that God "put intelligence in soul, and soul in body, that he might be the creator of a work which was by nature fairest and best". Also, the soul "partakes of reason and harmony and being made by the best of intellectual and everlasting natures, is the best of things created".
Elements of New Age Spirituality in the Harry Potter Novels
of J.K. Rowling Part II -- Temple Richmond
As is the pattern with all the Potter books, this one [The Prisoner of Azkaban] opens as another year begins at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts students are issued reading lists for their year of studies ahead. On the third year student’s list appears the title "Unfogging the Future," a fictional work on the predictive arts, attributed to one Cassandra Vablatsky. It is hard to miss the screaming similarity of this imaginary author’s last name to the real last name of H.P. Blavatsky, late 19th century author of the influential and groundbreaking "Isis Unveiled" and "The Secret Doctrine," founder of the Theosophical Society, and the individual to the works and followers of whom Gordon Melton attributes the single greatest impact upon the formation of the New Age movement.
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