Esoteric Teachings Vol. 07 – The Doctrine of the Spheres

The Sun and the Sacred Planets * The Moon * Life-Waves and the Inner Rounds * The Doctrine of the Sishtas

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

It is with great pleasure on the one hand, but with a deep sense of responsibility on the other, that we publish in a new edition this series of twelve Esoteric Instructions by Gottfried de Purucker …

H. P. Blavatsky founded The Theosophical Society in 1875, with the inner mandate to ‘break the moulds of mind’ that had enveloped the world and especially the West at that time. The motto of the Theosophical Society ‘Satyan Nasti Paro Dharma’, ‘There is No Religion Higher than Truth’, became the keynote of the Theosophic impulse and opened the door to new ideas and sources of wisdom: higher consciousness, the ethics of karma, the nature of human consciousness, compassion in action, a living universe, cosmogenesis etc., and people received teachings that had not been communicated for millenia …

G. de Purucker distinguishes himself by the clarity with which he explains theosophical teachings to his students and the accuracy with which he preserves their purity. These teachings were given at Point Loma, California in the early 1930’s to the esoteric group assembled there, in his capacity as Leader of The Theosophical Society and Outer Head of the Esoteric Section of The Theosophical Society, which positions he held from 1929 until his death in 1942. De Purucker unfolds and elaborates Blavatsky’s core presentation of Theosophy with a deep cohesiveness and the pervasive foundation: “…to teach men their essential Oneness with the Boundless All”

Contents:

Introduction
Pledge of Probationers
Foreword

Part 1: Introduction

The Doctrine of the Spheres
The Mysteries of the Twelvefold Sun
The Heart of the Sun – a Divinity
The Invisible Sun and its ‘Reflexions’

Sun-Spots and the Circulations of the Solar System
Terrestrial Magnetism
The Triadic Life of Father-Sun

Part 2: The Twelve Sacred Planets
The Mystical ‘Parent’ of the Earth
Nature and Characteristics of the Planets. Twofold

Meaning of Evolutionary Advancement
Asteroids, Meteors, and Cosmic Dust
The Moon
The Planet of Death

Part 3: Life-Waves and the Inner Rounds
The Building of a Planetary Chain
Inter-Planetary and Inter-Global Nirvāṇa
The Doctrine of the Śishṭas
Root-Manus and Seed-Manus

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index
Bibliography