Thoughts on the Metaphysics of Theosophy Volume 1-2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... When there is not the faith, or at least illusion and the desire of eternity, sexual love is a glutting of animality or a fantasy of debauch. Lechery is a desecration of love that nature punishes and wounded love avenges. Sooner or later Don Juan must meet the terrible statue of the commander. But can we always preserve ourselves from this ill-omened love? Can we irrevocably devote the heart to love the free and the legitimate? We can, by knowledge and by will; when we know what we ought to will, then we love what we ought to love. araddX IV.--Knowledge Is The Ignorance Or NEGATION OF EVIL. Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, said Christ, in praying for his executioners. Thus speaking he was pleading the cause of all Humanity. All men deceive themselves because they know not, and no man knows what he does wheu he does evil. How could a rational being with a perfect discernment do evil? Does any one voluntarily take poisons for perfumes, gall for honey, hemlock for parsley, or arsenic for salt? Ignorance is the cause of all errors, of all crimes and of all the evils that torment the Human Race. It was ignorance that invented capricious and angry Gods; it was this that foisted on God the worst passions of man; it was this that constructed out of the intelligent principle of things a personality, distinct, defined and infinite, thus confounding together the They may be rare, but occultism knows and the world feels the malice of such unhappy beings.--Trans, most contradictory conceptions; for the moment a personality becomes defined and distinct, it ceases to bo possible to conceive it as infinite. It is through Ignorance that men have insisted on constraining each other now to submit to a Faith without Reason, now to lean upon Reason wi...