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Foundational Reading List — Ten-Part Progressive Study Curriculum

Contents — 2 chapters
  1. Core initiatory foundations (Document 1)
  2. Community organization and democratic governance (Document 5)

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The roots of this work — where its teaching comes from
Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
The Bhagavadgita, with Sanatsugatiya & Anugita (SBE Vol. 8)Hindu / Vedanta (Smriti) · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1882grounded in · high confidence
“Your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.”
— Bhagavadgîtâ, Ch. II.47 — trans. Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, SBE Vol. 8
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Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounded in · high confidence
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”
— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)
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