The Path of Initiation by Gordon, J.S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Prologue Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Consciousness and the Evolutionary Instinct

Chapter 1: On Spirit, Soul, and Consciousness in General

NEW AGE AND SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS OF SUBTLE STRUCTURES SPIRITUALITY AND EVOLUTION ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY AND OCCULT SCIENCE SO WHAT EXACTLY IS MATTER? SO WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? MIND, INTELLIGENCE, SPIRIT, AND SOUL THE SOUL PRINCIPLE PLANES AND SUBPLANES OF EXPERIENCE AND FACULTY THE DIFFERENTIATION OF HIGHER AND LOWER MIND THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF THE SOUL AURA THE TRUE NATURE OF MIND SOME ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCES THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF “DIVIDE AND RULE” PLATO’S CAVE THE APPEARANCE OF SELF MYSTICISM AND THE FACULTY OF SIGHT THE PHENOMENON OF LIGHT CONCERNING ANGELS AND DEVAS

Chapter 2: Human Consciousness

THE TWIN SOULS OF THE HUMAN BEING INTUITION AND THE BRIDGING PRINCIPLE THE NATURE OF THE DEVA AND WHAT HUMANKIND CALLS “GOD” HUMAN PSYCHIC CONSTITUTION THE TERRESTRIAL SOUL AND ITS ORGANIZATION THE CHAKRAS AND THEIR EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION THE THREE SOULS OF THE HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION THE CONTROL OF THE LOWER NATURE BY THE HIGHER THE IMPORTANCE OF CYCLES EVOLUTION AND THE SPIRITUAL PATH PLANES AND STATES OF BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS GLAMOUR AND ILLUSION POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THE INNER VOICE OF THE SILENCE THE GREATER PERSPECTIVE LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

Chapter 3: The Unseen Kingdoms of Nature and Their Roles

INVOLUTIONARY AND EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESSION CENTRIPETAL AND CENTRIFUGAL SOUL FUNCTION AND FACULTY GODS, DEVAS, AND HUMANS SEVENFOLD HIERARCHIES DEVA NATURE AND PLANES OF BEING “INHABITANTS” OF THE UPPER SPIRITUAL WORLD THE UNDERWORLD INDIVIDUALIZATION AND THE CAUSAL SOUL KOSMIC, SOLAR, AND PLANETARY STATES THE FIVE AND SEVEN SENSES DEVA/ANGELIC FUNCTIONS INTERACTION BETWEEN DEVAS AND HUMANKIND APPEARANCES OF THE SUBTLER KINGDOMS OF NATURE ELEMENTALS AND NATURE SPIRITS THE ILLUSION OF FORM THE CONJUNCTION OF DEVA AND MAN

Chapter 4: On Karma and Reincarnation

THE NATURE OF KARMA THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION INVOLVING KABBALISTIC CORRELATIONS THE COMPOSITION OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY THE REINCARNATING SKANDHAS THE MACROCOSMIC PARALLEL THE REASON FOR REINCARNATION AND ITS PROCESS WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH THE CAUSAL SOUL BODY THE PERMANENT ATOMS KOSMIC INFLUENCES GOOD AND EVIL NEW AGE VIEWS ON GOOD AND EVIL KARMIC RETRIBUTION ACTS OF GOD THE PERIODIC DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

Chapter 5: Evolution and Initiation in Nature

THE DOCTRINE OF PLANETARY ROUNDS, CHAINS, AND GLOBES THE VARYING QUALITY OF MATTER THE IMPACT OF THE GREATER CYCLES ON HUMANITY THE CYCLIC RETURN OF THE “GODS” THE FIELD OF PLATONIC DUALITY THE RECURRENCE OF THE SENSORY FACULTIES THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF FACULTY THE ILLUSION OF FORM EVOLUTIONARY “MISSING LINKS” EVOLUTION IN THE LOWEST KINGDOMS OF NATURE HUMAN EVOLUTION THE HIGHEST HUMAN FACULTIES THE LOWEST SPIRITUAL FACULTIES THE ATMIC STATE CONCLUSION TO CHAPTERS ONE TO FIVE

Part 2: Historical Background to the Mysteries and Path of Initiation

Chapter 6: Sacred Metaphor and Allegory in Relation to the Ancient Mystery Traditions and Associated Initiation

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MYSTERY SCHOOL THE ANCIENT ASSYRIAN AND CHALDEO-BABYLONIAN MYSTERY TRADITION THE ANCIENT INDO-PERSIAN MYSTERY TRADITION THE ANCIENT VEDIC MYSTERY TRADITION THE ANCIENT GREEK MYSTERY TRADITIONS BUDDHISM THE JAIN TRADITION THE HEBREW/JUDAIC TRADITION PYTHAGOREAN TRADITION THE SUFI TRADITION THE PLATONIC TRADITION THE HERMETIC TRADITION THE TRADITION OF THE CHALDEAN ORACLES THE “GNOSTIC” TRADITION THE SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION THE EARLY CHRISTIAN TRADITION MANICHAEISM ISLAM OTHER SACRED TRADITIONS

Chapter 7: The “Dark Ages” and the Rise of Western Esotericism

A FRESH APPROACH THE TIME OF REORIENTATION THE SUBCYCLE OF NECESSARY DISINTEGRATION THE EFFECTS AND THEIR DISTORTED REPORTAGE ST. PAUL AND THE NEO-PLATONISTS THE EFFECTS ON NEO-PLATONISM, NEO-PYTHAGOREANISM, AND GNOSTICISM THE POST-SEVENTH-CENTURY ERA THE MEDIEVAL ERA MODERN OVERSHADOWING INFLUENCE OF THE ADEPT BROTHERHOOD ORIENTAL INFLUENCES AND THE SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE THE MODERN ENLIGHTENMENT NINETEENTH-AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY OCCULT MOVEMENTS THE FUTURE PRESENT DAY POLITICO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

Part 3: The Stages of the Initiatory Path

Chapter 8: Modern Spiritual Probation and Discipleship

REQUIREMENTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL THE NATURE OF DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS REQUIREMENTS SELF-DISCIPLINE AND THE CONDITIONING RAYS EASTERN AND WESTERN APPROACHES THE DEVELOPMENT OF POWERS THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND JOURNALISM THE RESPONSE OF HUMANITY IN THE MASS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW WORLD RELIGION UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS FUTURE INTENTIONS CRISES OF DECISION MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL TENSION DIETARY CONSIDERATIONS THE ISSUE OF FAITH

Chapter 9: Initiations of the Threshold

THE SEVEN RAY INFLUENCES THE DIFFICULTIES OF SELF-CONTROL TECHNIQUES OF SELF-DISCIPLINE THE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS CONCERNED THE FIRST INITIATION THE SECOND INITIATION LOWER MIND CHARACTERISTICS ACHIEVING COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE ASTRAL NATURE RAY GROUP CONSIDERATIONS SOME EFFECTS OF THE SECOND INITIATION PROBLEMS CAUSED BY OVERINTENSITY THE “DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD” THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHIC POWERS SPIRITUAL TRAINING

Chapter 10: The Great Transition

THE ISSUE OF INNER REORIENTATION WAR BETWEEN THE “DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD” AND THE SPIRITUAL EGO THE AFTERMATH OF THE INNER BATTLE THE NEED FOR SUBJECTIVE COMPARTMENTALIZATION THE PRELUDE TO THE FOURTH INITIATION INITIATORY PREPARATION THE FOURTH INITIATION AND ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH THE RAY ASSOCIATION THE “LEAP OF FAITH” THE FACTOR OF SPIRITUAL MOMENTUM LEAVING BEHIND THE FOURTH KINGDOM IN NATURE ASCETICISM AND PAIN THE DERIVATION OF HIGHER KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 11: The Various Stages of Adeptship

THE “DIVINE SPARK” THE MASTER SOUL USE OF THE HIGHER AND LOWER SENSES THE RAY ASSOCIATION WITH THE FIFTH DEGREE THE REQUIREMENTS OF MASTERSHIP ASSOCIATION WITH THE STAR SIRIUS ASSOCIATION WITH THE PLEIADES AND URSA MAJOR UNDERSTANDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF LOGOIC PURPOSE THE CHOHAN OF THE SIXTH DEGREE THE INFLUENTIAL WORK OF THE CHOHANS THE RAY ASSOCIATION WITH THE SIXTH DEGREE THE SEVENTH INITIATION THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BUDDHAHOOD LIBERATED PLANETARY SPIRITS THE SEVENTH DEGREE RAY ASSOCIATION GNOSTIC ASSOCIATIONS THE EIGHTH AND NINTH INITIATORY DEGREES FURTHER GNOSTIC AND KABBALISTIC CORRELATIONS THE TRANSFER OF HIGHER POWERS MAN BECOMES PROGRESSIVELY DIVINE INITIATION AS A CELESTIAL FORCING PROCESS

Part 4: The Adept Brotherhood and the Mysteries

Chapter 12: The “Masters” of the Modern Theosophical Movement

THE “NEED TO KNOW” OF THE ADEPT HIERARCHY DISAGREEMENT OVER THE CHRIST MODERN THEOSOPHICAL TEACHING AS A MERE INTRODUCTION THE SEVEN RAY GROUPS OTHER ADEPTS THE BRANCHES OF THE HIERARCHY NIRMANAKAYA ADEPTS AND SHAMBALLA ADEPTS AND INITIATORY CEREMONIAL THE REORIENTATION OF THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY THE ADVANCEMENT TO ALL-KNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY THE NIRMANAKAYAS THE “CHARACTER” OF THE ADEPT BROTHERHOOD EXTERNALIZATION OF THE HIERARCHY

Chapter 13: The Jesus-as-Christ Mystery

THE BREAKUP OF THE GREEK MYSTERY SCHOOLS THE ESSENES AND THE EGYPTIAN RELIGION OF SERAPIS THE NAZARENES AND THE PHARISEES THE FORMATION OF THE EARLIEST CHURCH CROSS-CORRESPONDENCES CONCERNING THE CHRIST AVATAR BUT WHO WAS JESUS? THE GNOSTIC ALTERNATIVE OTHER ADEPT TEACHERS OF THE TIME MESSIANIC DISCIPLESHIP

Chapter 14: The Christ–Maitreya Buddha Mystery

MANUSHI BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS OF FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH ROUNDERS THE LORD MAITREYA THE ESOTERIC ROLES OF GAUTAMA AND MAITREYA THE LOVE-WISDOM PRINCIPLE THE SPIRITUAL ROLE OF HUMANKIND FOURTH AND FIFTH RACE BODHISATTVAS THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTHOOD PRESENTATION

Chapter 15: The Modern Restoration of the Mysteries

THE HIERARCHICAL “CRISIS” THE FURTHER EVOLUTION OF OUR HUMANITY CONSIDERING THE WIDER EFFECTS THE IMMEDIATE CRISIS FACING ORTHODOX RELIGION THE PROBLEM OF “GOD” WHAT FORMS WOULD THE FUTURE MYSTERIES TAKE? RACE DIFFERENTIATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE EFFECTS OF EXTERNALIZATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE HIERARCHY THE VITAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MASS EDUCATION ACTUAL REINTRODUCTION OF THE MYSTERIES

Epilogue Appendix A: Planetary Chains and Rounds

THE TRUE NATURE OF THE SUN

Appendix B: The Issue of Shamballa

THE KUMARAS THE PUZZLE CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EARTH AND ITS MOON

Appendix C: The Evolution of the Human Racial Type Appendix D: The Three Solar Systems and the Failure of the Moon Chain Appendix E: Spiritual Avatars Glossary Footnotes Endnotes Bibliography Index About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Books of Related Interest Copyright & Permissions

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