Esoteric BuddhismHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 330 sider Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred Percy Sinnett, first published in 1893, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Side 127 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Side 156 - The most important element of the Buddhist reform has always been its social and moral code, not its metaphysical theories. That moral code, taken by itself, is one of the most perfect which the world has ever known.
Side 100 - Devachan, a gloomy fate is theirs. Unhappy shades, if sinful and sensual they wander about (not shells, for their connection with their two higher principles is not quite broken ) until their death-hour comes. Cut off in the full flush of earthly passions which bind them to familiar scenes, they are enticed by the opportunities which mediums afford, to gratify them vicariously. They are the...
Side 55 - ... and far older continents whose strata have never been geologically explored ; and that they may some day upset entirely their present theories. Why not admit that our present continents have, like Lemuria and Atlantis...
Side 7 - Holiness, holiness (arahatta), so they say," &c. The answer is word for word similar to the preceding (" Samy. Nik." ii, fiam). being lie can do so, but the majority stand fast until nature has reached her goal : of such may those words be said which are put in the mouth of the most prominent of Buddha's disciples : " I long not for death, I long not for life ; I wait till mine hour come, like a servant who awaiteth his reward. I long not for death, I long not for life ; I wait till mine hour come,...
Side 57 - What would you say, then, to our affirmation that the Chinese, — I now speak of the inland, the true Chinaman, not of the hybrid mixture between the fourth and fifth races now occupying the throne, — the aborigines who belong in their unallied nationality wholly to the highest and last branch of the fourth race, reached their highest civilization when the fifth had hardly appeared in Asia?
Side 154 - The regular system of the Lamaic incarnations of "Sang-gyas" (or Buddha) began with Tsong-kha-pa. This reformer is not the incarnation of one of the five celestial Dhyans, or heavenly Buddhas, as is generally supposed, said to have been created by Sakya Muni after he had risen to Nirvana, but that of "Amita," one of the Chinese names for Buddha.
Side 205 - Teacher to existence (viz. taivha, thirst) is cut off; but his body still remains. While his body shall remain he will be seen by gods and men, but after the termination of life, upon the dissolution of the body, neither gods nor men will see him..
Side 199 - When Malunka asked the Buddha whether the existence of the world is eternal or not eternal, he made him no reply ; but the reason of this was, that it was considered by the teacher as an inquiry that tended to no profit.