Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00103)

Hi Katinka

Thank you for the help, I īll try to get some additional info on that site.
Regards

Krishtar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Katinka Hesselink 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:00 AM
Subject: Theos-World Re: AP Sinnetīs bio


Hi,

There is an autobiography, if memory serves me correctly. You can
probably find it at your nearest (large) theosophical library. Or you
can buy it at the publishers: the Theosophical History Centre, I
think. [I was right, see: http://www.theohistory.org/occas.html ]

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> wrote:
> Hi Friends
> Can anybody help me with the following?
> Is there any biography of A. P. Sinnet?I have googled a lot but the
things are too mixed up and I īd appreciate that you could give a
light on the best sources.
> Has he got still any descendants, and if yes, if they have any link
with the Theosophy or was he just the only in the family that had
developed special interests in It?
> I gess he didnīt have a very close relationship with HPB, or at
least, not as close as Mr. Judge.
> I find his ( Judgeīs) works very transparent and honest and it is
vey good because he seemed to carry on the ideals that poured from the
movement.
> 
> Thanks
> Krishtar
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Dallas TenBroeck 
> To: study@b... 
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:19 AM
> Subject: Theos-World RE: [bn-study] RE: brief conclusion on Karma
CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS Part I
> 
> 
> June 17 2040
> 
> Dear Mary:
> 
> Judge's articles are available through BLAVATSKY.NET and
> www.ult-la.org 
> 
> It might be a good idea if you like his style and clarity to look at
> the titles there. I have considered him my friend for many years. He
> and H P B go together closely.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Dallas
> 
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>    
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary W
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:48 AM
> To: study@b...
> Subject: [bn-study] RE: brief conclusion on Karma CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS
> Part I
> 
> Dallas: Thanks again for this material from Judge. I appreciate his
> gift
> for clarity in addressing both the human psyche and the diverse
> aspects of
> esoteric teachings. One line is particularly timely in view of recent
> headlines:
> 
> "...there is no doubt cyclic law prevails in regard to nations, that
> they
> have come back apparently the same, only slightly improved or
> degraded, for
> there is also a downward cycle included within those that rise.
> (Buckle)"
> 
> Your idea of the "Karma of a whole past manifestation being carried
> forward
> in all detail..." certainly rings true. The complexities of our
> current
> level of globalization and our use of technology make me wonder what
> vast
> details of karma are at play.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dallas TenBroeck [mailto:dalval14@e...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:11 PM
> To: study@b...
> Subject: [bn-study] RE: brief conclusion on Karma CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS
> Part I
> 
> 
> 
> PART I -- RE: brief conclusion on KARMA:
> 
> CYCLIC IMPRESSIONS
> 
> May 15 2004
> 
> Dear Friends and M W:
> 
> This too is an interesting aspect of Karma.
> 
> It has also occurred to me that every Manvantara ( after the vast
> sleep of a Maha Pralaya even ) is evidence of the Karma of a whole
> past manifestation being carried forward in all detail -- just as we
> daily wake up from our sleep and resume our duties.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> CYCLIC IMPRESSION AND RETURN AND OUR EVOLUTION
> 
> Lecture, April 25, 1892, before the convention
> By William Q. Judge
> 
> 
> Mr. Chairman, Fellow Theosophists, Ladies and Gentlemen:
> 
> The title of what I am about to say to you is CYCLIC IMPRESSION AND
> RETURN AND OUR EVOLUTION.
> 
> Now what is a cycle? It has nothing to do with the word psychic, and I
> am sorry to have to say that, because I heard some people this morning
> repeat the title as "psychic" instead of "cyclic," seeming to think
> perhaps that that was the same thing, or had some relation to it. The
> word cyclic is derived from the Greek word Kuklos, or a ring. It has
> been turned in the English language into the word cycle, by the
> process of saying Kykle, and then cycle. The corresponding word in the
> Sanscrit is Kalpa, which has in fact a wider and a deeper meaning;
> because cycle in English is a word which covers, is used for, and thus
> somewhat confuses, many cycles. It is used for the small cycles, and
> the larger cycles, the intermediate cycles and the great ones, whereas
> the word Kalpa means and implies only one cycle of a large size, and
> the smaller cycles within that are designated by other words.
> 
> What is a cycle? It is a circle, a ring. But not properly a ring like
> a wedding ring, which runs into itself, but more properly like a screw
> thread, which takes the form of a spiral, and thus beginning at the
> bottom, turns on itself, and goes up. It is something like the great
> Horseshoe Curve in the Pennsylvania Railroad. There you go around the
> curve at the lower end; you go down into the horseshoe, and as you
> turn the grade rises, so that when you arrive at the opposite side you
> have gotten no further than the beginning, but you have risen just the
> distance between the two ends of the grade.
> 
> But what do we mean by a cycle in Theosophy, in our own investigations
> of nature, or man, or civilization, or our own development, our own
> origin, our own destiny? We mean by cycles, just what the Egyptians,
> the Hindoos and the philosophers of the Middle Ages meant by it; that
> is, that there is a periodical return or cycling back, circling back
> of something from some place once more. That is why it is called
> cycle, inasmuch as it returns upon itself, seemingly; but in the
> Theosophical doctrine, and in the ancient doctrines, it is always a
> little higher in the sense of perfection or progress. That is to say,
> as the Egyptians held, cycles prevail everywhere, things come back
> again, events return, history comes back, and so in this century we
> have the saying: "History repeats itself."
> 
> But where do Theosophists say that cyclic law prevails? We say that it
> prevails everywhere. It prevails in every kingdom of nature, in the
> animal kingdom, the mineral world, the human world; in history, in the
> sky, on the earth. We say that not only do cycles pertain, and
> appertain, and obtain in and to the earth and its inhabitants, but
> also in what the Hindoos call the three kingdoms of the universe, the
> three worlds; that is, that below us, ourselves, and that above.
> 
> CUT
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