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THE SNAKE AND THE ROPE
Welcome to the fifth e-newsletter of The
Foundation for Theosophical Studies, which lists our
events this week at the London headquarters of the
Theosophical Society in England.
This week we feature a well-known member of the
Theosophical Society, Dr Edi Bilimoria, who is
giving both a seminar and the
Sunday lecture. Both of these will be very much in the
spirit of the Society's second object: 'To encourage the
study of comparative religion, philosophy and
science.'
Thank you for all your comments so far about the
newsletter and the sign up process. Please let us
have more! Don't forget to forward this
newsletter to your friends and fellow TS members
and encourage them to sign up! And if you can't get
to 50 Gloucester Place, remember that you can buy
CDs or tapes of many of
our lectures.
Very best wishes,
Colyn Boyce
Publicity and Administrator
The Foundation is an educational charity which
uses theosophical principles to promote knowledge
and the study of religion, philosophy and science;
which also researches the laws of nature and the
powers latent in man; and which promulgates the
unity of all people
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WEDNESDAY 14 February
2007
7 – 9 pm: TAROT - A MAP TO A DESTINATION:
THE PENTACLES – THE PATH OF THE PRISTINE
MIND
Malcolm Stewart
The Tarot’s real potential is way beyond its familiar
uses – either that of gleaning intuitive snapshots from
haphazard readings, or as an esoteric catch-all
glamourised with imported non-essentials. Most
effectively used, it illuminates our entire vital, physical,
emotional, mental and spiritual experience as one
interwoven process. It provides an intimate route-map
towards the state of freedom, understanding,
happiness and transcendence known as "the
blessing of the four aces", and further yet to the "grace
of the world-soul".
Malcolm Stewart is an educator in sacred symbol
systems. Pamela Colman-Smith’s Rider-
Waite deck will be used.
£8 (£6 concessions + TS members)
SUNDAY 18 February
2007
2 - 4.30 pm BEYOND THE BIG BANG
Dr Edi Bilimoria
Is Big Bang merely a flimsy bubble of
scientific
conjecture, soon to burst within a few years or can it
be supported by facts and evidence? We commence
by presenting the basis of modern cosmology, its
assumptions and findings. We shall then examine
the (occult) doctrine of Cosmogenesis and
demonstrate the case for importing the perennial
wisdom of Occult Science as a complement
and
major adjunct to the scientific and cosmological
models if the latter are to make any sense at all. This
seminar discusses the whole basis of our cosmic
origins and highlights the differences between the
scientific and occult methods of investigating nature.
Edi Bilimoria is a consultant engineer working
in the
civil and petroleum industries. He is author of the
Mirages in Western Science Resolved by
Occult
Science now updated and amplified as
The Snake
and the Rope. Arranged by The Theosophical
Society
in England.
£10, £7 concessions, £5 TS
members
4.45 – 5.45 pm: THEOSOPHY: Way to Self-
Discovery
Leader: Colin Price, National President of
The Theosophical Society in England
An informal on-going class in which the basic
teachings of Theosophy (Greek for Divine Wisdom)
are explored and discussed. In this class we will
consider the sevenfold nature of humanity and the
cosmos and how karma and reincarnation are
involved. The book Deity, Cosmos and Man
will be used as the main source text for the
meetings.
Free admission
6 pm: THE SNAKE AND THE ROPE: Book
Launch  Dr. Edi Bilimoria
Science claims to be objective and to deal only with
proven facts, but the innumerable conflicting theories
that science propounds remain unresolved. In his
book, briefly outlined tonight, the author, an engineer
and musician, argues with ample supporting
evidence that since time immemorial, the
universal
secret wisdom of the Adepts has held answers to
all
unresolved problems and explains mysteries
concerning Divinity, Space and Time,
Energy and
Matter, and the role of Sound and
Light in manifesting
the Cosmos. He also makes predictions about
the
future course of science and suggests how science
and occult science may be harmonized.
£7(£5 concessions + TS members)
TUESDAY 30 January 2007
7– 8.30 pm: THE SECRET DOCTRINE
Leader:
Victor Hangya
In the midst of today’s materialism and ruins of old
religions you are invited to join the excavation of the
perennial wisdom! The tool used in our exploration is
The Secret Doctrine, which
claims ‘logical
coherence and consistency’ and expects to be
treated as a ‘working hypothesis’, so freely accepted
by modern science. The SD sheds light on some of
the greatest mysteries concerning Man, God and the
Universe. Victor Hangya has been exploring the
Ageless Wisdom for more than 20 years.
Free admission
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In the Western mind, not only did numerology become
split off from mathematics centuries ago during
the ‘Age of Reason’, but other great human studies of
the natural world became utterly divided. Astrology
was separated from astronomy, alchemy from
chemistry, metaphysics from physics, and so on. The
pursuit of practical benefits in the mundane world
caused orthodox scientists in the west, using only the
evidence of their five senses, to jettison these
consciousness-laden counterparts of their
disciplines.
This was the scientists’ kama-manas (or
desire-mind) in action, for which motive and
spirituality is irrelevant or non-existent, and
consciousness an enigma. Modern-day science is
indeed the apotheosis of kama-manas or
material brain functioning: the brain has become
God.
But Theosophy states that kama-
manas is only one lowly mortal part of the human
being; it is ‘the slayer of the Real’ and not
worthy of glorification. The greatest scientists,
rediscovering the old Truths, always knew this. They
viewed themselves and the natural world with humility
and never split their disciplines in two.
The greatest physicists were also metaphysicians.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) had H. P.
Blavatsky’s great work, The Secret
Doctrine, always on his desk and Sir
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) wrote more on
alchemy than he did on physics. The best scientists –
the true seekers after Knowledge - will always be
those who can rise above the greatly limited vision of
their own kama-manas to the soul levels and
beyond. For with the higher levels of perception
comes the greater vision: of the Cosmos of living
matter and also of Beings immeasurably small and
inconceivably vast, all pervaded by
consciousness.
Orthodox western science has wilfully despised and
excluded its consciousness-laden sister-subjects
from study for centuries. If it wants properly to
understand consciousness and the Cosmos, these
will have to be re-integrated into its world-
view.
Sources:
The Inner Group Teachings of H. P. Blavatsky, edited
by H. J. Spierenburg
The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett
The Voice of the Silence, H. P. Blavatsky
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