The Pilgrim Self: Traveling the Path from Life to Life - Softcover

Robert S. Ellwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0835607399 ISBN 13: 9780835607391

Publisher: Quest Books,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

In quiet moments of reflection, we have all been moved to ask: Why was I born in this time and not another? Why in this country, to this family, with this body? For Theosophy, as for Hinduism and Buddhism, answers to these questions can be found in the concept of infinite life. These teachings tell us that we all live countless lives, and that we are propelled from one to the next by karma, or cause and effect. Theosophist Helena Blavatsky called the individual self a Pilgrim, who journeys from life to life, learning, growing, and evolving toward the state of infinite purity from which we come and which is our true home. In this inspiring book, Robert Ellwood guides the Pilgrim who is each of us along the path of life, pointing out its essential signposts and suggesting answers to basic philosophical questions.

About this title

From the Author:

The spiritual path in life's stages
Are you young, middle aged, or elderly? As a spiritually-minded person, have you ever wondered if there are special ways of being spiritual in each of the ages of men and women, and how spiritual growth correlates with age? If so, I think you might find this little book of interest. In simple but evocative and sometimes poetic style, it talks about the spiritual lives of children, adolescents, young adults, the middle aged, and the eldrely, telling what to develop and what to look out for in each. These different ages are set alongside the overall stages of spiritual life: awakening, preparation, illumination, the dark night of the soul, and the unitive state. Finally, the book presents the great initiation of death and rebirth to another life -- for it sees the pilgrimage of each individual life as but one segment of a far greater pilgrimage upon which we have embarked through many ages and worlds, before return to the halls of Light which are our ultimate home.

If ideas like this interest you, I would like to invite you to read this book and discuss it with me. May the blessings of all illuminated beings in all of time and space be with you.

Robert Ellwood

About the Author:

Robert S. Ellwood is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of more than a dozen books on comparative religion, including "Introducing Religion: From Inside and Outside"; Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind"; and "The History and Future of Faith: Religion Past, Present, and to Come".

About this edition

• Publisher: Quest Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0835607399
• ISBN 13: 9780835607391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174