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Master mystic and philosopher Manly P. Hall dedicated his life to uncovering ancient truths. Explore his legendary books, lectures, and timeless legacy.
…Ghost, or Holy Spirit, affirms that nearly all other have major religious theories. In India, we have the trinity components of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva. And in these Buddhist concepts, we have the trinity consisting of Buddha and then the two total…
…space, represents, strangely, the total nature of life. At some time in the Hindu mythology, now this total life, this Brahma, this eternal Vishnu, this Lord Siva, entered into the illusion of creation, becoming the great mendicant, adorning itself with…
…of the intermotions of its own nature or substance this concept almost certainly was involved in the tri-mute or the three-headed Brahma of India and probably in the three persons of the triad in Christianity. They did represent in the Father, Son, and…
…into non-manifestation is called a night or a period of sleep. These together are referred to as the days and nights of Brahma. Now in this particular pattern, of course, we are referring only to a deity. And it makes no difference whether this deity…
…serpent of eternity when the time comes for this to happen the consciousness of this being in the Hindu might be likened to Brahma or in the Kabbalah would be likened to Ayn the Boundless or in the Gnostic theory might be considered Lord of the Aeons…
…which is the obsession oppressed theologians for thousands of years and that is the Trinity or the triad of creating powers in India Brahma Vishnu Shiva in this particular symbolism of course as we know the supreme power goes to sleep as far as its unity…
…as the processes of nature decline, then the disintegrating power breaks up the compounds. The creating power, of course, is Brahma, and in India the preserving, protecting, and perpetuating power is Vishnu, and the power which breaks up crystallization by…
…Nadi rescues the soul, which it draws with it upward into the great mystery temple of initiation, where Sarasperil, representing the Brahma power in the brain receives these two and unites them in an eternal hermetic marriage. Thus the human body and its…
…gods dwelling in the ancient ventricular and convolutional orifices, So the world is said to have its brain upon Nero. And here Brahma and his deities administer the universal plan. In the Buddhist it is of course Shambhala, the great city of the north.…
…in Asia he feels so because to him it is the perfect explanation of the peculiar situation in which the Hindu deity Brahma has become involved in the course of time namely that while still recognized with certain definite veneration it is also true that…
…he is the sufferer who is redeemed by his own son Vishnu and it is only through the will and love of Vishnu that Brahma is again born and is reborn of course upon the lotus blossom while Vishnu sleeps upon the serpent of eternity and Pike has…
…reality as the wholeness These together create a triangle or trinity which emerges later for our contemplation in the Brahma, Vishnu, Siva concept of creation, preservation and reconstruction. Always the symbolism remains and wherever we have a holy trinity…
…to depict that being. Zeus in nature certainly did not resemble the statue by Phidias. Nor could we say that the true Brahma is identical with the great stone face the caves of elephanta in the harbor of bombay these are representations mnemonic symbols…
…having a group of pagans and heathens, we have divided from each other only by word for name, that the person who worships Brahma is the same person who worships some other deity under another name, but it is actually the same God. And the realization…
…principle may justly and truthfully be named the One and the Good. Whether men call this universal divinity, God, or Allah, or Brahma, or Tao, is of no great concern, for such terms and titles reveal differences of language, but not divergence of ideas.…
…work along with these things in a constructive manner. So we think that the basic problem is a little bit like the famous three-headed Brahma in the great cave temple of Elephanta in the harbor of Bombay in India. Three faces of one God. In some of the…
…that there are twelve convolutions of the brain in the ancient mountain on the top of the great hill, that the mysterious world of Brahma is on the shoulders. In the tabernacle of the dew, it is laid out and set rising, it retires into the depths. Here…
…the radiance of eternal light. This mysterious being is the heaven one, the one great God, represented as the Hindus did, their Brahma seated or standing in an egg. This deity has never been explained, Everyone who has tried to study this philosophy and…
…Dedicated to God the Father. The fertility of deity sort of disappeared in Christian worship. It disappeared also in Hinduism. where Brahma began to lose prominence and Siva or Vishnu became the principal deity of the pantheon this is probably due to a…
…great point of the complete and total obedience to law. In this he broke from Brahmanism. the worship of the Indic divinities Brahma appears in Buddhism but in a subsidiary capacity Brahma as deity and as consciousness in space in Buddhism is subject to…
…law. In this he broke from Brahmanism. the worship of the Indic divinities Brahma appears in Buddhism but in a subsidiary capacity Brahma as deity and as consciousness in space in Buddhism is subject to law which of course is an interesting phase of…
…one of the great problems of Omar Khayyam, deity is always everywhere. The Hindus gradually developed the concept in relation to Brahma, who ceased to be a three- or four-headed deity seated on a lotus. and became the symbol of the all-pervading presence…
…attributes. So the deity becomes being, life, light, and love. And this mysterious power of love is the mysterious hidden forehead of Brahma. The power that is not to be seen in the beginning of things, but ripens out of the fullness of the mystery.…
…of the intermotions of its own nature or substance This concept almost certainly was involved in the tri-mutial of the three headed Brahma in India and probably in the three persons of the triad in Christianity. They did represent in the Father, Son and…
…space, represents, strangely, the total nature of life. At some time in the Hindu mythology, now this total life, this Brahma, this eternal Vishnu, this Lord Shiva, entered into the illusion of creation, becoming the great mendicant, adorning itself with…
…We know Nandi, the bull, is the steed upon which the god Shiva rides, particularly in his rising. For in India the tributy, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, represents the sun at dawn, the sun at noon, and the sun at sunset. And Parvati, the wife of Shiva,…
…left branch of the vagus, or pneumogastric nerve, to the brain and finally departs from the body through what is called the gate of Brahma, or the thousand subtle lotus at the crown of the head. If we can assume an analogy here, I think it is a very…
…of these has exactly the same teaching. They call it something else. They don't call God, God. They call God Allah or Brahma. But they're talking about precisely the same thing. They're talking about it to the degree that this God, under another name,…
…last two or three thousand years therefore we say that if you worship Allah you really have to go on a holy war against Brahma or if you believe in Moses you have to go into a holy war against Zoroaster All of these names become frightfully important.…
…good word but Allah is the name of a heathen divinity it is perfectly all right to believe in Jehovah but not to believe in Brahma and if we believe in Brahma we must be saved by those who believe in Jehovah and those who believe in Jehovah must be…
…of a heathen divinity it is perfectly all right to believe in Jehovah but not to believe in Brahma and if we believe in Brahma we must be saved by those who believe in Jehovah and those who believe in Jehovah must be saved by those who believe in…
…must be saved by those who believe in Jehovah and those who believe in Jehovah must be saved by those who believe in Brahma it has never occurred to these people apparently that these are words not gods and that from the beginning we have given…
…existence that creates bodies, that makes new forms for everyone that fades away. In Indian philosophy, this is called the Rosary of Brahma. It is many, many beads strung on a single cord. And this single cord is life. And these beads are the embodiments…
…supreme being always took upon itself male and female aspects in the generation of any kind of creation. Thus the great deity Brahma, becoming the male and female creature, as in the case, for instance, of the horse and the mare, took upon himself these…
…sovereign intelligence knows what it is doing. In the Hindu thinking, of course, this sovereign intelligence fills all space as Brahma. It extends to the ultimate duration of time and eternity. The infinite absolute, which contains the entire galaxy of all…
…it. that if the individual gets up and claims that he is going to be a good Christian or a good Buddhist or a good Brahma or a good Jew the affirmation does it this is not true the individual is never any better than his own conduct he is never…
…of life therefore are said to extend through what is called a day of manifestation in other words the days and nights of Brahma are really great divisions of time millions of years in which the earth comes forth itself from the divine egg manifests its…
…than to go to sleep oneself at night but a great suspension of life occurs periodically to constitute the days and nights of Brahma the period of the great Maha Mantara actually when this happens the kingdoms then change it is when the great night of…
…the period of the great Maha Mantara actually when this happens the kingdoms then change it is when the great night of Brahma settles the transition from one kingdom to another takes place the evolution of life is therefore that the mineral life passes to…
…own beings. And we also find the story, as we've said to you in many of the ancient pardons, of the deities Brahma and Indra seated at the feet of Buddha, receiving instruction. Why? Not because the historical Buddha instructed them, but because like all…
…mythology involved. When the child was born, at the moment of birth, it was caught in a cloth held by the gods Indra and Brahma. And at the same time, the skies opened and the dragons of space anointed the child. Then, as only a few minutes old, the…
…in the appearance and disappearance of creations. And this ebbing and flowing, which was the inhaling and exhaling of Brahma, Corresponded in the meditation school To the internalization and externalization of consciousness Thus the supreme being Meditating upon…
…of itself, remained there for a time, and then flowed back again in what the ancient Indians called the days and nights of Brahma. And in the night of Brahma, the universe, space, cosmos flipped. And in the day of Brahma, it came forth again into…
…time, and then flowed back again in what the ancient Indians called the days and nights of Brahma. And in the night of Brahma, the universe, space, cosmos flipped. And in the day of Brahma, it came forth again into manifestation and when it first came…
…the days and nights of Brahma. And in the night of Brahma, the universe, space, cosmos flipped. And in the day of Brahma, it came forth again into manifestation and when it first came into manifestation it burst forth as a radiant or glorious energy…
…We know Nandi, the bull, is the steed upon which the god Shiva rides, particularly in his rising. For in India, the tributy, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, represents the sun at dawn, the sun at noon, and the sun at sunset. And Pavati, the wife of Shiva,…