Author: George S. Arundale
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 776
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817059412X
Description
In his, preface to this great study in symbolic yoga, Dr. G. S. Arundale says that that " I am very conscious of the fact that its only value lies in the extent to which it is able to suggest to the adventurous thinker and student of life heretofore uncharted fields for fruitful exploration. The book consists of notes taken at the time of his own personal exploration in the field of symbology, 'explorations which were fortunate enough to have the guidance of One whose discoveries in innumerable fields have constituted Him a Master of the Wisdom of Life. But even this guidance gives the notes no special authority, for both the guidance and the explorations are individual to myself'.
Dr. Arundale further says:
'One night one of the Great Beings, who is a Messenger of the Lord Siva, disclosed to me, one after another, certain Symbols in their cosmic significance
Contents
FRONTISPIECE
A YOGA OF REMEMBRANCE
THE FOUR SOURCES OF WISDOM
PREFACE
PROEM
TO MY LORD THE SUN
SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN
BOOK ONE THE VIGIL OF PURIFICATION CHAPTER
Synopsis of Book One
Prologue
1. The Yoga of Acceleration
2. Yugas and Yoga
3. Yoga Real and Unreal
4. The Yoga and Individual
5. The Ultimates of Life
6. Withdrawal or Gathering In?
7. The Science of Fulfilment
8. The Yoga of Marriage
9. Enemies within the Gates
10. A Flash from Far-off Ultimates
11. A Lord of Yoga
12. The Altar of Sublimation
13. "I Will Lift up Mine Eyes unto the Hills" 113
The Star (C. Jinarajadasa)
BOOK TWO SYMBOLS LIVING AND RADIANT
Synopsis of Book Two
1. The Point as Seed of Evolution
2. The Universality of the Point
3. The Potentiality of the Point
4. The Essence - Point
5. Harvesting the Fields of Consciousness
6. Cosmic Conceptions of the Point
7. Adventures into the infinite Point
8. The Point - Our Unfolded Self
9. The Web That is The Womb
10. The Line Flashes Forth
11. The Spindle Line
12. The Line Gives a New Conception on Man - Woman
13. Sex: A Sacrament of Consecration
14. The All-embracing Line
15. The Circle-Globe: the Ring-Pass-Not
16. The Sea of Men in the Circle
17. Life External Self-fulfilled
18. The Triangularities
19. The 47th Proposition of Euclid
20. Squaring the Circle
21. Three Life-Streams of the One God
22. The Functions of the Circle
23. The Cross-with in the Circle
24. The Svastika or the Whirling Cross
25. The Myriad-petalled Lotus
26. Sound, Colour and Form Rays of the Lotus
27. The Silent Watchers
28. Super-cosmic Symbols
29. Each Symbol Involves Creation
30. The Point and Its Daughter - Symbols
31. The Laboratory of Identification
32. The Yoga of Infinitudes
33. A Physical Posture
34. A Great Act of Yoga
A warning
BOOK THREE SYMBOLS RELEASED AND DYNAMIC
Synopsis of Book Three
1. The Lotus Fire
2. Yoga for Man in the World
3. The Yoga of Enfoldment
4. The Yoga of Receptivity
5. The Yoga of Art
6. Colour - Ideas and Jewel - Ideas of the Symbols
7. Colour - Tone in Daily Yoga
8. The Colour - Raga of an Alphabet
9. Aum: The Formula of the All-One
10. A Yoga in Sound
11. A Master - Channel of Music
12. The Cosmic Drums
13. The Rhythms of Man
BOOK FOUR FROM THE SYMBOLS TO NO-SYMBOL
Chapter Synopsis of Book Four
1. Yoga as Bridge from Weakness to Strength
2. The Machinery of Yoga
3. Sunlit Food
4. The Science of Sleep
5. The Symbols in Centre - Radiances
6. Awakenings into Yoga Consciousness
7. The Symbols as a Zodiac
8. Scientific Ultimates
9. Some Notes on Space and Time
10. The Wings of Divine Discontent
11. The Gates of Heaven
12. Initiations on the Path of Fulfilment
13. The Symbol - Octave of Manifestation
14. The Unity of Life
15. The Lords of the Symbols
16. The Three Great Purpose of Yoga
17. Fulfilling the Symbols in Yoga
18. THAT: the Symbols - less
19. Yoga without End
20. The Symbols as Bulwarks against Barbarism
21. The Endless Glory
22. The Life Magnificent
My Adoration of Shri Nataraja
BOOK FIVE SYMBOLS AT WORK
The Author Questions the Reader
Corroborative and Supplementary Articles and
Notes in Glossary Form The Call of the Arhat
The Master Ascended
Index