The Dhammapada
THE DHAMMAPADA The Dhammapada is the laser-like quintessence of Buddha’s luminous message to all humanity. Bridging eternity and time, the unmanifest and the manifest, thought and action, theoria and praxis, it is a highly potent therapeia, a catalytic agent of self-transformation, rooted in the realization of that essential unity which enshrines the meaning of events and relations in an ever-changing cosmos. Although the […]
Fundamental Unity
FUNDAMENTAL UNITY [I believe in] “. . . the essential unity of god and man and for that matter of all that lives. . . if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.” M. K. GANDHI, Young India,December 1924 […]
The Changeless
THE CHANGELESS I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. M.K. GANDHI In the same Sub-Category Share on email Email
Eye and Heart Doctrines
REGENERATING THE INSPIRATIONAL MIND:HPB ON THE EYE AND HEART DOCTRINES Every thoughtful human being knows firsthand the difficulty of coordinating and integrating the head and the heart. Whether described as a battle or a debate, a truce or an estrangement, we all recognize this essential difficulty. Many stories portray a hero who hearkens to the […]
A Theosophical Discipline
A THEOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE Initiation into Theosophical metaphysics is more than an intellectual or moral enterprise; it is a continuous spiritual exercise in the development of intuitive and cognitive capacities that are the highest available to men, a process that includes from the first a blending of the head and the heart through the interaction of […]
Union and Harmony
UNION and HARMONY It is a law of occult dynamics that “a given amount of energy expanded on the spiritual or astral plane is productive of far greater results than the same amount expended on the physical objective plane of existence.” This state will last till man’s spiritual intuitions are fully opened, which will not […]
Theosophical Terms: Principles of Human Nature
WHO AM I? PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN NATURE The Sevenfold Nature of Man Infused by Spirit, the One Life “Every aspiration higher brightens up the road connecting the Higher and lower self.” W. Q. Judge “The bridge that lies within man’s nature can be exercised in all circumstances of life to build a self-conscious link between […]
Higher Compass
A HIGHER COMPASS The ordinary man has for his horizon his street; his insight is surface- deep and the points of his magnetic compass draw him to his appetites. He lives in his sense-created state, which looks to him like a real world but which is not any of the seven Worlds of Rest Eternal. […]
Archetypes
ARCHETYPES Archetypal forms are like flashes of light. We may represent them by external coatings or by geometrical figures, but that is to imply that they are fixed, whereas in fact they are in a ceaseless, fluid interconnection. A constant transformation is taking place in the Divine Mind from one into another appearance of a […]
The Dodecahedron
THE DODECAHEDRON From man or angel the great ArchitectDid wisely to conceal and not divulgeHis secrets to be scann’d by them who oughtRather admire; or, if they list not to tryConjecture, he his fabric of the heavensHath left to their disputes, perhaps to moveHis laughter at their quaint opinions wideHereafter; when they come to model […]