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'''Principle''' (from the Latin ''principium'', meaning "beginning, foundation") is a technical term used in [[Theosophy]], which refers to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality"<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle Principle] at Wiktionary</ref>.
'''Principle''' (from the Latin ''principium'', meaning "beginning, foundation") is a technical term used in [[Theosophy]], which refers to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality."<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle Principle] at Wiktionary</ref>


In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical view]], both the universe as human beings are constituted by '''seven principles'''. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined them as follows:
In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical view]], both the universe as human beings are constituted by '''seven principles'''. [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined them as follows:

Revision as of 16:24, 19 March 2012

Principle (from the Latin principium, meaning "beginning, foundation") is a technical term used in Theosophy, which refers to "a fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality."[1]

In the Theosophical view, both the universe as human beings are constituted by seven principles. H. P. Blavatsky defined 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. Principle at Wiktionary
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary (???????), 262-263