Initiation, Human And Solar
Sub-sections:
- FOREWORD
- Chart — The Seven Planes of Our Solar System, The Constitution of Man
- CHAPTER I - Introductory Remarks
- CHAPTER II - Initiation Defined
- CHAPTER III - THE WORK OF THE HIERARCHY
- CHAPTER IV - THE FOUNDING OF THE HIERARCHY
- CHAPTER V - THE THREE DEPARTMENTS OF THE HIERARCHY
- CHART:— Solar and Planetary Hierarchies
- CHAPTER VI - THE LODGE OF MASTERS
- CHAPTER VII - THE PROBATIONARY PATH
- CHAPTER VIII - DISCIPLESHIP
- CHAPTER IX - THE PATH OF INITIATION
- CHAPTER X - THE UNIVERSALITY OF INITIATION
- CHAPTER XI - THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE MYSTERIES
- CHAPTER XII - THE TWO REVELATIONS
- CHAPTER XIII - THE RODS OF INITIATION
- CHAPTER XIV - THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH
- CHAPTER XV - THE GIVING OF THE WORD
- CHAPTER XVl - THE IMPARTING OF THE SECRETS
- CHAPTER XVII - DIVERSITIES OF INITIATIONS
- CHAPTER XVIII - THE SEVEN PATHS
- CHAPTER XIX - RULES FOR APPLICANTS - Part 1
- CHAPTER XIX - RULES FOR APPLICANTS - Part 2
BY
ALICE A. BAILEY
COPYRIGHT © 1951 BY LUCIS TRUST
COPYRIGHT © RENEWED 1979 BY LUCIS TRUST
Dedicated with reverence and gratitude to the Master K. H.
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THE LORD BUDDHA HAS SAID
that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them: nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a Deva (that is, in presumed spiritual inspiration); nor from inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption we may have made; nor because of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere authority of our teachers or masters. But we are to believe when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consciousness. "For this," says he in concluding, "I taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly."
(Secret Doctrine, Vol. III, page 401.)
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