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'''Principles''' is a technical term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality"<ref>*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle#Principle] at Wiktionary</ref>. The English word "principle" comes from the Latin ''principium'', meaning "beginning, foundation".
'''Principles''' is a technical term used in [[Theosophy]] to refer to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality"<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle#Principle] at Wiktionary</ref>. The English word "principle" comes from the Latin ''principium'', meaning "beginning, foundation".


[[H. P. Blavatsky]] define them as follows:
[[H. P. Blavatsky]] define them as follows:

Revision as of 16:20, 19 March 2012

Principles is a technical term used in Theosophy to refer to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality"[1]. The English word "principle" comes from the Latin principium, meaning "beginning, foundation".

H. P. Blavatsky define them as follows:

Principles. The Elements or original essences, the basic differentiations upon and of which all things are built up. We use the term to denote the seven individual and fundamental aspects of the One Universal Reality in Kosmos and in man. Hence also the seven aspects in the manifestation in the human being—divine, spiritual, psychic, astral, physiological and simply physical.[2]


Notes

  1. [1] at Wiktionary
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary (???????), 262-263