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| H.P. Blavatsky |
Deze cursus is voor iedereen toegankelijk die zich wil verdiepen in de Theosofie. Deelname aan de Geheime Leer Cursus Deel 1 is hierbij geen voorwaarde. Iedereen die belangstelling heeft, is van harte welkom.
Op basis van een vernieuwd spiritueel vergelijkend onderzoek zullen de volgende stromingen aan bod komen: Kabbalah en Tibetaanse Boeddhisme, Christelijke mystiek van Meister Eckhart, Kashmir Shaivisme van Abhinavagupta, Hermetische traditie van Hermes Trismegistus en de fenomenologie van Edmund Husserl en Martin Heidegger.
What is yourself, the individual you? I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a particular culture, particular society, particular religion. The human being is not a local entity. He is everywhere. If the individual merely acts in a particular corner of the vast field of life, then his action is totally unrelated to the whole. So one has to bear in mind that we are talking of the whole not the part, because in the greater the lesser is, but in the lesser the greater is not. The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.
We human beings are what we have been for millions of years - colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace. There has been outward progress from the bullock cart to the jet plane but psychologically the individual has not changed at all, and the structure of society throughout the world has been created by individuals. The outward social structure is the result of the inward psychological structure of our human relationships, for the individual is the result of the total experience, knowledge and conduct of man. Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves.
