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vedas

Writings related to the Vedas. See also: Vedic India.

The Mother of the Vedas (Gayatri)

Translation/ by Charles Johnston, Oriental Department Papers, May, 1895

The Gâyatri, the most sacred Indian verse, the Mother of the Vedas, is taken from the third of the ten cycles of hymns, the cycle… Read More »The Mother of the Vedas (Gayatri)

The Hymn of the Spirit

Translation/ by Charles Johnston, Oriental Department Papers, March, 1895

Thousand-headed is Spirit, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed; he wrapping the world altogether, overpassed it by a space of ten fingers. Spirit verily is all this, what has… Read More »The Hymn of the Spirit

Esoteric Teaching (Rig Veda, i. 164, 45)

Commentary/Translation/ by Charles Johnston, Oriental Department Papers, May, 1894

The most ancient declaration of Esoteric Teaching in the Sacred Books of India is probably this verse from the earliest and oldest of the ten… Read More »Esoteric Teaching (Rig Veda, i. 164, 45)

Rig-Veda on Gambling

Article/ by W. Q. Judge, The Path, July, 1893

The following excellent remarks are probably the oldest in the world upon the vice of gambling. They are found in Rig Veda, x, 34. It… Read More »Rig-Veda on Gambling

Antiquity of the Vedas

Article/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, October, 1879

A journal interested like the THEOSOPHIST in the explorations of archæology and archaic religions, as well as the study of the occult in nature, has… Read More »Antiquity of the Vedas

Magic

Article/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Deccan Star, March, 1879

In The Indian Tribune of March 15th appears a letter upon the relations of the Theosophical Society with the Ârya Samâj. The writer seems neither… Read More »Magic