Karma and Forgiveness

KARMA AND FORGIVENESS In respect to man, karma has no existence without two or more persons being considered. You act, another person is affected, karma follows. It follows on the thought of each and not on the act, for the other person is moved to thought by your act. Here are two sorts of karma, […]

Practical Theosophy: Universal Brotherhood

PRACTICAL THEOSOPHY: UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD IN THOUGHT AND DEED The ethics of life propounded by Jesus are not different from those found in theosophy, but the latter holds in its doctrines a compelling power which is absent from Christianity and from those systems which require a man to be good for virtue’s sake alone. It is […]

Four Golden Links

FOUR GOLDEN LINK ENQUIRER. How, then, should Theosophical principles be applied so that social co-operation may be promoted and true efforts for social amelioration be carried on? THEOSOPHIST. Let me briefly remind you what these principles are — universal Unity and Causation; Human Solidarity; the Law of Karma; Re-incarnation. These are the four links of […]

Recognition of Law

Before beginning, and without an end, As space eternal and as surety sure, Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure . . . SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, The Light of Asia THE RECOGNITION OF LAW We have to assume either that this is a universe of law or a universe […]

Interdependence

INTERDEPENDENCE As mankind is essentially of one and the same essence, and that essence is one—infinite, uncreate, and eternal, whether we call it God or Nature—nothing, therefore, can affect one nation or one man without affecting all other nations and all other men. H. P. BLAVATSKY,The Key to Theosophy It is an occult law, moreover, […]

Mental Purification

MENTAL PURIFICATION Let a man guard himself against mental irritations, let him be well restrained in mind.  Having relinquished mental misconduct, let him practise purity of thought. BUDDHA, The Dhammapada In the same Sub-Category Share on email Email

Thoughts As Living Messengers

THOUGHTS AS LIVING MESSENGERS A thought, on its departure from the mind, . . . is attracted wherever there is a similar vibration, or, let us say, suitable soil . . . It is a solemn thought, this, of our responsibility for the impulse of another. WILLIAM Q. JUDGE, Letters That Have Helped Me In […]

Duty and Wisdom

DUTY AND WISDOM He who seeks “the small old path” has many duties to perform. His duty to mankind, his family – nature – himself and his creator, but duty here means something very different from that which is conveyed by the time and lip-worn word, Duty. Our comprehension of the term is generally based upon society’s […]

A Great Lens

A GREAT LENS It is possible to focus that light of universal wisdom, continual contemplation and eternal ideation within a matrix created by the love, unity and joint heroic efforts of a nucleus of human beings formed over a period of time. Thus, it is possible to bring down onto the plane of mundane human […]

Parapolitics – Bringing Imagination into Political Relations from Within-Without

PARAPOLITICS – BRINGING IMAGINATION INTO POLITICAL RELATIONS FROM WITHIN-WITHOUT Parapolitics is an imperfect means to a transcendental end, the repeated channeling of energies for the enlightenment of the entire race of mankind.  — HERMES “Given . . . the decline of institutionalized authority and the weakening of formal modes of securing allegiance, the recovery of […]

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