Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

⮎ What Is Theosophy

The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him.
H.P. BLAVATSKY

Spiritual Evolution

SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION The universe is even as a great temple.Claude de St. Martin The central tenets of Theosophia are not derived from any ancient or modern sect but represent the accumulated wisdom

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The Word Theosophy

THE WORD “THEOSOPHY” Enquirer:  Theosophy and its doctrines are often referred to a new-fangled religion.  Is it a religion? Theosophist:  It is not.  Theosophy is Divine Knowledge or Science. Enq: 

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Cycles

CYCLES LADIES and gentlemen: This is our last meeting; it is the last impulse of the Cycle which we began when we opened our sessions at this Parliament. All the

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Bhagavad Gita

THE BHAGAVAD GITA Like everything else that a Great Teacher does, it is meant to release in Arjuna authentic representations of an archetypal stance.  Whatever part he chose or course

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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

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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

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Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

⮎ Theosophy As a Living Power

A man may seek the Golden Thread that binds all religions, sciences and philosophies, and yet never be wholly successful unless he becomes a universal man, a Renaissance man, a man of all cultures.
RAGHAVAN N. IYER, Hermes, November 1976

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Inmost Sanctuary

THE INMOST SANCTUARY For the neophyte, the initial step is to become a true pragmatist by putting to use the idealism which is within the soul and which is consubstantial with the plane of Mahatmic ideation in the cosmos. It will then become possible to

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The Aquarian Tide

THE AQUARIAN TIDE Let us prepare, and let us study Truth in all its aspects, trying not to ignore any of them, if we do not wish, when the hour will have struck, to fall into the abyss of the unknown. It is useless to

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Aquarian Tonality

AQUARIAN TONALITY In 1888, H. P. Blavatsky wrote of the Sun’s upcoming position in the Zodiacal cycle: “When it enters, in a few years, the sign of Aquarius, psychologists will have some extra work to do, and the psychic idiosyncrasies of humanity will enter on

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Drawing the Larger Circle

DRAWING THE LARGER CIRCLE “Great Sifter” is the name of the “Heart Doctrine”, O Disciple. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour.

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Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

⮎ Spiritual Inspiration

“When people come together, truly forgetting themselves and united by the magnetic attraction of the good, they emulate and serve in some small measure the Teachers of Humanity, the great galaxy of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.”
From Hermes, “The Zero Principle”
by Raghavan Iyer
Published by permission of theosophytrust.org.

Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

⮎ Practical Theosophy

He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of good-will; and the converse of this is true also, – he who preaches the gospel of good-will, teaches Theosophy.
H.P. BLAVATSKY, Five Messages

Theosophy as Divine Wisdom

⮎ Searching for Truth

There is no religion higher than truth.
MAHARAJA OF BENARES and MOTTO OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

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