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In [[The Theosophical Glossary (book)|''The Theosophical Glossary'']] [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defines the term as follows: | In [[The Theosophical Glossary (book)|''The Theosophical Glossary'']] [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defines the term as follows: | ||
<blockquote>'''Mahâtma'''. Lit., “great soul”. An adept of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower principles are thus living unimpeded by the “man of flesh”, and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 201.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>'''Mahâtma'''. Lit., “great soul”. An [[adept]] of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their [[lower principles]] are thus living unimpeded by the “man of flesh”, and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 201.</ref></blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>A Mahatma is a personage who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual knowledge which ordinary humanity will acquire after passing through numberless series of incarnations during the process of cosmic evolution, provided, of course, that they do not go, in the meanwhile, against the purposes of Nature. . .</blockquote> | <blockquote>A Mahatma is a personage who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual knowledge which ordinary humanity will acquire after passing through numberless series of incarnations during the process of cosmic evolution, provided, of course, that they do not go, in the meanwhile, against the purposes of Nature. . .</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>The occultist, when he has identified himself thoroughly with his [[Ātman|Atma]], acts upon the [[Buddhi]], for, according to the laws of Cosmic [[Evolution]], the [[Puruṣa|Purusha]] — the universal seventh principle––is perpetually acting upon and manifesting itself through | <blockquote>The occultist, when he has identified himself thoroughly with his [[Ātman|Atma]], acts upon the [[Buddhi]], for, according to the laws of Cosmic [[Evolution]], the [[Puruṣa|Purusha]] — the universal seventh principle––is perpetually acting upon and manifesting itself through [[Prakṛti|Prakriti]]—the universal [[sixth principle]]. Thus the MAHATMA, who has become one with his [[seventh principle]]—which is identical with Purusha, since there is no isolation in the spiritual [[monad]]—is practically a creator, for he has identified himself with the evoluting and the manifesting energy of nature.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. VI (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1989), 261-262.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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In The Theosophical Glossary H. P. Blavatsky defines the term as follows:
Mahâtma. Lit., “great soul”. An adept of the highest order. Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower principles are thus living unimpeded by the “man of flesh”, and are in possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and Arhats.[1]
A Mahatma is a personage who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual knowledge which ordinary humanity will acquire after passing through numberless series of incarnations during the process of cosmic evolution, provided, of course, that they do not go, in the meanwhile, against the purposes of Nature. . .
The occultist, when he has identified himself thoroughly with his Atma, acts upon the Buddhi, for, according to the laws of Cosmic Evolution, the Purusha — the universal seventh principle––is perpetually acting upon and manifesting itself through Prakriti—the universal sixth principle. Thus the MAHATMA, who has become one with his seventh principle—which is identical with Purusha, since there is no isolation in the spiritual monad—is practically a creator, for he has identified himself with the evoluting and the manifesting energy of nature.[2]
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- Mahātma at Theosopedia