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Annie Besant

Geburtstag: 1. Oktober 1847
Todesdatum: 20. September 1933

Annie Besant war eine britische Theosophin, Frauenrechtlerin, Autorin und Politikerin.

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„Es ist für jemanden, der das Leben und den Charakter des großen Propheten Arabiens studiert, der seine Lehren kennt und weiß wie er gelebt hat, unmöglich, etwas anderes für diesen mächtigen Propheten, einen der großen erhabenen Gesandten, zu empfinden, als Ehrerbietung.“

— Annie Besant

The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras ,1932
Original engl.: "It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme."

„Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.“

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Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893) https://books.google.com/books?id=uBA3AQAAMAAJ, p. 357; 3rd edition (1908) https://books.google.com/books?id=5zNPAQAAMAAJ&pg, p. 357

„(On H. P. B. (H. P. Blavatsky))And we, who lived around her, who in closest intimacy watched her day after day, we bear witness to the unselfish beauty of her life, the nobility of her character, and we lay at her feet our most reverent gratitude for knowledge gained, lives purified, strength developed.“

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— Annie Besant

Annie Besant, An Autobiography Chapter XIV

„That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.“

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The immediate future: Lectures delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=VGNbAAAAMAAJ, p. 32

„The Ageless Wisdom Teachings“

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The Seven Principles of Man http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tgEM1XiI74kC&printsec=frontcover, p. 6

„In this way the Soul deliberately labours for growth; deliberately it works at itself, purifying always the lower nature with unceasing effort and with untiring demand; for ever it is comparing itself not with those who are below it but with Those who are above it, ever it is raising its eyes towards Those who have achieved, and not looking downwards towards those who are still only climbing upwards towards the Outer Court.“

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Quelle: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court, 1895, p. 34

„A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.“

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Annie Besant the Life and Teachings of Muhammad (the Prophet of Islam) http://www.scribd.com/doc/178209678/Annie-Besant-the-Life-and-Teachings-of-Muhammad-the-Prophet-of-Islam

„No one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig?… Dare we call ourselves refined if we purchase our refinement by the brutalization of others, and demand that some should be brutal in order that we may eat the results of their brutality? We are not free from the brutalizing results of that trade simply because we take no direct part in it.“

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A speech given at Manchester UK (18 October 1897)

„Yoga is a matter of the Spirit and not of the intellect. For just as water will find its way through every obstruction, in order to rise to the level of its source, so does the spirit in man strive upwards ever towards the source whence it came.“

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Yoga: The Hatha Yoga and the Raja Yoga http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2sDu6Xmkh2cC&printsec=frontcover, p. backcover

„The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.“

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Essays on Indian Freedom Movement http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3kP5AgYYV5AC&pg=PA97, p. 97

„Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.“

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Quelle: Theosophical Review, Volume 17 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=nv8LAAAAIAAJ, p. 139
Quelle: https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebooks/karma-annie-besant Karma

„Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.“

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The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n7ZMF8Mjh2oC, p. 85

„Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.“

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Annie Besant: An Autobiography http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ey9hPV9brxoC&pg=PA89, p. 89

„India demands Home Rule for two reasons, one essential and vital, the other less important but necessary: Firstly, because Freedom is the birthright of every Nation; secondly, because her most important interests are now made subservient to the interests of the British Empire without her consent, and her resources are not utilised for her greatest needs.“

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The Case for India: The Presidential Address http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qpoxAQAAMAAJ, p. 33