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An Outline of Theosophy

By

Charles Webster Leadbeater

 

 

Charles Webster Leadbeater

1858? - 1934

 

 

 

The Method Of Observation

 

 

The detail of this development would take up more space than can be devoted to it in a preliminary manual such as this. The whole scheme will be found fully explained in other Theosophical works; for the moment let it suffice to say that it is entirely a question of vibration. All information which reaches a man from the world without, reaches him by means of vibration of some sort, whether it be

through the senses of sight, hearing or touch. Consequently, if a man is able to make himself sensitive to additional vibrations he will acquire additional information; he will become what is commonly called “clairvoyant”.

 

This word, as commonly used, means nothing more than a slight extension of normal vision; but it is possible for a man to become more and more sensitive to the subtler vibrations, until his consciousness, acting through many developed

faculties, functions freely in new and higher ways.

He will then find new worlds of subtler matter opening up before him, though in reality they are only new portions of the world he already knows.

 

He learns in this way that a vast unseen universe exists round him during his whole life, and that it is constantly affecting him in many ways, even though he remains blindly unconscious of it.  But when he develops faculties whereby he can sense these other worlds, it becomes possible for him to observe them scientifically, to repeat his observations many times, to compare them with

those of others, to tabulate them, and draw deductions from them.

 

All this has been done – not once, but thousands of times. The Adepts of whom I spoke have done this to the fullest possible extent, but many efforts along the same line have been made by our own Theosophical students. The result of our

investigations has been not only to verify much of the information given to us at the outset by those Adepts, but also to explain and amplify it very

considerably.

 

The sight of this usually unseen portion of our world at once brings to our knowledge a vast body of entirely new facts which are of the very deepest

interest. It gradually solves for us many of the most difficult problems of life; it clears up for us many mysteries so that we now see them to have been

mysteries to us for so long, only because heretofore we saw so small a part of the facts, because we were looking at the various matters from below, and as isolated and unconnected fragments, instead of rising above them to a standpoint whence they are comprehensible as parts of a mighty whole.

It settles in a moment many questions which have been much disputed – such, for example, as that of the continued existence of man after death.

 

It affords us the true explanation of all the wildly impossible statements made by the churches about heaven, hell and purgatory; it dispels our ignorance and removes our fear of the unknown by supplying us with a rational and orderly scheme. What this scheme is I will now endeavour to explain.

 

 

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Tekels Park

Camberley, Surrey, England GU15 – 2LF

 

Tekels Park to be Sold to a Developer

Concerns are raised about the fate of the wildlife as

The Spiritual Retreat, Tekels Park in Camberley,

Surrey, England is to be sold to a developer

 

Many feel that the sale of a sanctuary for 

wildlife to a developer can only mean disaster

 for the park’s animals

 

Confusion as the Theoversity moves out of 

Tekels Park to Southampton, Glastonbury & 

Chorley in Lancashire while the leadership claim

that the Theosophical Society will carry on using 

Tekels Park despite its sale to a developer

 

Theosophy talks of a compassionate attitude

to animals and the sale of the Tekels Park

sanctuary for wildlife to a developer has

dismayed many Theosophists

 

 

Future of Tekels Park Badgers in Doubt

Badgers have been resident

in Tekels Park for Centuries

 

Tekels Park & the Loch Ness Monster

A Satirical view of the sale of Tekels Park

in Camberley, Surrey to a developer

 

 

The Toff’s Guide to the Sale of Tekels Park

What the men in top hats have to say about the

sale of Tekels Park to a developer. It doesn’t

require a Diploma in Finance or indeed a

Diploma in Anything to realize that this is a

bad time economically to sell Tekels Park

 

Party On! Tekels Park Theosophy NOT

 

St Francis Church at Tekels Park

 

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Classic Introductory Theosophy Text

A Text Book of Theosophy By C W Leadbeater

 

What Theosophy Is  From the Absolute to Man

 

The Formation of a Solar System  The Evolution of Life

 

The Constitution of Man  After Death  Reincarnation

 

The Purpose of Life  The Planetary Chains

 

The Result of Theosophical Study

 

 

Elementary Theosophy

An Outstanding Introduction to Theosophy

By a student of Katherine Tingley

 

Elementary Theosophy Who is the Man?  Body and Soul   

 

Body, Soul and Spirit  Reincarnation  Karma

 

The Seven in Man and Nature

 

The Meaning of Death

 

 

The Occult World

By Alfred Percy Sinnett

 

Preface to the American Edition    Introduction

 

Occultism and its Adepts    The Theosophical Society

 

First Occult Experiences   Teachings of Occult Philosophy

 

Later Occult Phenomena    Appendix

 

 

The Ocean of Theosophy

William Quan Judge

 

Preface    Theosophy and the Masters    General Principles

 

The Earth Chain    Body and Astral Body    Kama – Desire

 

Manas    Of Reincarnation    Reincarnation Continued

 

Karma    Kama Loka    Devachan    Cycles

 

Septenary Constitution Of Man

 

Arguments Supporting Reincarnation

 

Differentiation Of Species Missing Links

 

Psychic Laws, Forces, and Phenomena

 

Psychic Phenomena and Spiritualism

 

 

A Study in Karma

Annie Besant

 

Karma  Fundamental Principles  Laws: Natural and Man-Made  The Law of Laws 

 

The Eternal Now  Succession  Causation The Laws of Nature  A Lesson of The Law

 

  Karma Does Not Crush  Apply This Law  Man in The Three Worlds  Understand The Truth

 

Man and His Surroundings  The Three Fates  The Pair of Triplets  Thought, The Builder

 

  Practical Meditation  Will and Desire  The Mastery of Desire  Two Other Points

 

  The Third Thread  Perfect Justice  Our Environment  Our Kith and Kin  Our Nation

 

The Light for a Good Man  Knowledge of Law  The Opposing Schools

 

The More Modern View  Self-Examination  Out of the Past

 

Old Friendships  We Grow By Giving  Collective Karma  Family Karma

 

National Karma  India’s Karma  National Disasters

 

 

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Theosophical Society in England

withdraws from the European Federation

Does it affect Cardiff?

 

In response to a number of enquiries, we wish to clarify

Cardiff Theosophical Society's position regarding a recent

 change in the structure of the Adyar based Theosophical Society.

 

Cardiff Theosophical Society in Wales is not affiliated to

either the Adyar (India) Based Theosophical Society or the

Theosophical Society in England and is therefore unaffected

by the decision last year of the Theosophical Society in England

 to withdraw from the European Federation of the

Adyar Based Theosophical Society.

 

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WALES

Pages about Wales

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Bangor University

 

 

The hut circles of the ancient settlement in Porthdafarch,

 which is believed to date back 4000 years

Porth Dafarch is on the coast road between Treaddur Bay and Holyhead.

Holyhead is on Holy Island off the north west of the Island of Anglesey 

which is off the North Wales Coast

 

South Stack Lighthouse

Off Holy Island about 3 miles from Holyhead

 

 

 

Sunrise over Puffin Island  (Ynys Seiriol)

Sunrise over Puffin Island viewed from Penmon Point on Anglesey (Ynys Mon).

Black Point (Trwyn Du) Lighthouse is to the left in the foreground.

 

 

Wales is a Principality within the United Kingdom

and has an eastern border with England. The land

area is just over 8,000 square miles. Snowdon in

North Wales is the highest mountain at 3,650 feet.

The coastline is almost 750 miles long. The population

of Wales as at the 2001 census is 2,946,200.

 

 

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Theosophy is not a religion

Let’s get that one straight

 

What about God ?

 

Sanskrit

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Ascended Masters

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The Universe is all one thing

(Not put together)

 

How the Universe Works

(Universal Law)

 

Manvantara & Pralaya

(The universe exists for a while and then sort of doesn’t)

 

Constructing a Universe

Outline of the Creation Process

 

Evolution

(Everything evolves)

 

There is no Dead Matter in the Universe

Everything has Life

 

The Monad

The Divine Spark in Everything

 

The Kingdoms of Nature

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The Sevenfold Constitution of Man

Yes, we all operate at 7 levels

 

Why Man is not an Animal

 

What Happens After You Die

(Actually it’s not that bad)

(or shouldn’t be)

 

Reincarnation

(You do take some things with you but sadly not your money)

 

The Reincarnating Ego

The Link from Life to Life

 

Karma

 

Fohat

(The Energy Driving the Universe)

 

Prana

The Breath of Life

 

Earth’s Planetary Chain

Our Companion Globes

 

Root Races

We haven’t always looked like this

 

The Big Names of Theosophy

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Cardiff Theosophical Society in Wales

Theosophy House

206 Newport Road

Cardiff, Wales, UK. CF24 – 1DL

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Cardiff Castle

 

 

 

Queen Street

 

 

 

The Norwegian Church at Cardiff Bay

 

 

 

Victoria Park

 

 

 

Bute Park

 

 

 

The Ruins of the Bishops’ Palace Llandaff

 

 

 

 

Clifton Street

 

 

 

The Rubicon Arts Centre

 

 

 

 

Cardiff Royal Infirmary

 

 

 

St Denys Church, Lisvane

 

 

 

The Scott Memorial

Roath Lake Lighthouse

 

 

 

Preserved Crane at the East Bute Dock

 

 

 

Street Theatre outside the Customs House

at Cardiff Bay

 

 

 

Street Entertainers at Cadiff Bay

 

 

 

St Peter’s Church Church at Peterstone on the the Wentloog Levels. This is now private residence.

 

 

Cardiff Carnival

 

 

 

 

Cardiff City Hall

 

 

 

A remnant of the Clamorgan Canal on the Taff Trail north of Whitchurch

 

 

Entrance to the Royal Arcade on Queen Street

 

 

 

Radyr Weir seen from the Taff Trail

 

 

 

Cardiff Theosophical Society in Wales

Theosophy House

206 Newport Road

Cardiff, Wales, UK. CF24 – 1DL

theosophycardiff@uwclub.net

 

 

 

Castle Arcade

 

 

 

Cathays Library

 

 

 

Clare Road Railway Bridge

 

 

 

The Claude Hotel

 

 

 

Castell Coch

 

 

 

 

Cardiff Winter Market

 

 

 

 

Llandaff Cathedral

 

 

 

Llandaff Cathedral Green

 

 

 

Entrance to Cardiff Market

 

 

 

The Morgan Arcade

 

 

 

 

Roath Library

 

 

 

Newly Painted Splott Btidge

 

 

 

Splott Road

 

 

 

St Mary Street

 

 

 

The Cyncoed Water Tower

 

 

 

The Wild Wood at the top end of Roath Park

 

 

 

The Wyndham Arcade

 

 

Cardiff Theosophical Society in Wales

Theosophy House

206 Newport Road

Cardiff, Wales, UK. CF24 – 1DL

theosophycardiff@uwclub.net