John L. Crow
Reflections on the 2014 International Theosophical History Conference
This weekend (September 20-21, 2014) was the International Theosophical History Conference, hosted by The Theosophical Society in England, London. The program can be seen here. Overall I thought the conference was a success.
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Theosophie Forward
A lot of interesting good news
collected by Jan Nicolaas Kind...
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The Blavatsky Trust
H.P. Blavatsky on Nature
H.P. Blavatsky on Nature' A posthumous article by the late Geoffrey Farthing. An extensive study of Nature as the basis of true religion based upon writings of H.P.Blavatsky.
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DailyTheosophy.net
Theosophy
Theosophy is the majestic wisdom-religion of the archaic ages and is as old as thinking man.
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TOS - Theosophical Order of Service
From the President's Desk, July 2014
Congratulations! to Tim Boyd the new International President of the Theosophical Society headquartered at Adyar, Chennai, India.
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Sons of Fire
What's wrong with the Theosophical Movement?
During a couple of occasions I called already attention to a big deficit of todays Theosophical Movement.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
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Did Blavatsky originally deny Reincarnation?
No-one will argue or attempt to deny that it was through H.P. Blavatsky andHelena Petrovna Blavatsky the Theosophical Movement that the concept and teaching of reincarnation was introduced to the Western world in modern times.
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Blavatsky on Karma
"Every action, good or bad, is a prolific parent, saith the Wisdom of the Ages.” ~ H.P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy, p. 141
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blavatskytheosophy.com
A Comparison between New Thought and Theosophy
People quite often refer to H.P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Movement in 1875, as being the “Mother” or “Grandmother” of the New Age Movement.
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Theosophy and the Brotherhood of Religions
The text of this article is from p. 1-4, 6-7, 163-166, of “The Brotherhood of Religions” by Sophia Wadia. The latest edition was published in 1996 by Theosophy Company (India) and Asian Book Trust on behalf of the United Lodge of Theosophists.
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The Theosophy of the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is an important and precious book for Theosophists, just as it is for Hindus.
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The Task & Responsibility of Theosophists - Some Serious Warnings
If Theosophy prevailing in the struggle, its all-embracing philosophy strikes deepMadame Blavatsky root into the minds and hearts of men, if its doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma, in other words, of Hope and Responsibility...
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The Seven Yugas
It is quite well known that Hinduism teaches the existence of four Yugas or Ages which together comprise the Maha-Yuga or “Great Age,” which is itself but an extremely miniscule and fleeting part of the entire Maha-Manvantara, the life cycle of the manifested Universe.
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Ramalingam Pillai and the Theosophical Movement
When, in answer to a direct challenge, the author of The Occult World [Note: this was A.P. Sinnett.] wrote to the Bombay Gazette (April 4, 1882), he began his letter with the following profession of faith
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Definite Words for Definite Things
The terms and even the concepts of the “Higher Self” and the “Higher Ego” areSpiritual Artwork sometimes confused and mixed up by students of Theosophy.
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blavatskytheosophy.com
Conversation between a Christian and a Theosophist
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.
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blavatskytheosophy.com
Col. Olcott's Disloyalty to H.P. Blavatsky
The Theosophical Movement was founded in New York in 1875 with three main founders – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge.
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Christos - The Christ Principle
According to original and genuine Theosophy – i.e. the writings and teachings of the Masters of the Wisdom and the one they called their “Direct Agent” and their Messenger, H.P. Blavatsky – Christ is not a being or an entity of any kind.
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TheosophyWatch.com
TheosophyWatch.com
Is it Possible to See Music, or Hear a Painting?
ONE of the best ways to describe what Theosophy is, arts reporter Ali Snow said recently on Utah Public Radio, “is to think of it as a kind of fusion of religion and science.”
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TheosophyWatch.com
Primary Perception: The ESP of Plants and Cells
“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote, “is endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”
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TheosophyWatch.com
Temples of Initiation
Long before the digital age, before computers, smart phones and social media were vogue, ancients sages had wirelessly transmitted secrets to their disciples.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Dreams Solve Problems the Conscious Mind Cannot
When our thick brains get all heated up worrying about life’s complexities, that’s often the best time to kick off our shoes, and give it a rest.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Land of Mystery: Roerich’s Shambhala
Celebtrating nearly seven enlightening years of research and writing for Theosophy Watch, we gratefully republish the article Roerich’s Shambhala, one of the most popular posts.
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Getting Unstuck: The Monkey Trap
More than five-thousand years ago, Chinese doctors described hundreds of invisible energy meridians throughout the human body.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Yucca and Pronuba, Modern Evolution’s Kiss of Death
Modern evolution is one of the most elaborate scientific frauds of all time. The fraud consists in a conscious refusal to accept any kind of design in Nature.
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From God Who is Our Home
Krishna assures an uncertain Arjuna that he has in fact lived many lives on Earth.
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Imagine One Wisdom Religion
There was, during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion.
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Near-Death Experience: How to Live Without Fear
The new age movement heralded by Theosophy in the late 19th century, is at last bearing meaningful fruit here in the 21st.
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Awakening to the Cosmic Heart
There are no isolated islands in an electric universe, from the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation
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Seeing Into the Future: Humans May do it Naturally
Electric and magnetic affinities are generated, occult teachers say, whenever there is physical touch, the sound of a voice, or even looking.
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Blavatsky News
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Blavatsky and Finland
The name of Pekka Ervast (1875-1934) may not be well-known outside Finland but at one time he was regarded as the Rudolf Steiner of Scandinavia.
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Short News Overview I
The site Honor and Magic reprints an October 1874 letter from Blavatsky that starts her Collected Writings in English.
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Illustrating Blavatsky’s Cosmogenesis
The site HIEROPHAGE carries an appreciation on September 3 of Ron Regé, Jr.’s new project: illustrating the stanzas of Dzyan from Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine.
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Blavatsky and Yoga
H.P. Blavatsky gets a short chapter in the latest addition to Princeton University Press’s Lives of Great Religious Books series: The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography by David Gordon White.
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Short News Overview II
Marc Demarest has discovered the earliest reference so far to Mme. Blavatsky in the American press.
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Short News Overview III
The weblog at the New Criterion looks at the exhibition on Kandinsky at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which opened June 27, 2014, and will be on view until the Spring of 2015.
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Blavatsky and Alexandra David-Néel
In their “Persons of Interest” series, the site The Thinker’s Garden—“a place to uncover Knowledge, marvel at strange Sights, and approach the Mysterious.
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Book of Dzyan Research
Book of Dzyan Research
Critical Editions of the Purāṇas
In the post dated May 5, 2012, attention was called to the critical edition of the Viṣṇu-purāṇa, edited by M. M. Pathak, and published in two volumes, 1997 and 1999 (Vadodara: Oriental Institute).
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Book of Dzyan Research
Prehistoric Svabhāvavāda, part 3
The previous two parts of “Prehistoric Svabhāvavāda,” posted Feb. 26 and 27, 2012, discussed the little-known kind of svabhāvavāda seen in Gauḍapāda’s Māṇḍūkya-kārikā, in Gārgyāyaṇa’s Praṇava-vāda, and in the Book of Dzyan.
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Erica Georgiades
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The Category of Religion
Yesterday, I’ve read a very interesting paper written by Brent Nongbri (2008). The paper focuses on the scholar use of the concept embedded religion (to read the paper see the link below).
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The Socratic Method
“Socrates, Socrates, Socrates! Yes, we may well call your name three times: it would not be too much to call it ten times, if it would be of any help. Popular opinion maintains that the world needs a republic,...
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Lectures for the Theosophical Society in Scotland
I’ve been invited to give some lectures for the Theosophical Society in Scotland. I am glad that I will be visiting Edinburgh again and will have the opportunity to re-encounter so many wonderful friends I’ve met the last time I was there in 2007.
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H.P. Blavatsky and the Wreck of the S.S. Eunomia
Yesterday, I was informed that my paper about HPB and the Wreck of the SS Eunomia was released, and is the featured article in the new issue of the peer-reviewed journal Theosophical History Vol. XVII.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The power of the small
The tests and trials of discipleship unveil faults and weaknesses in the nature of the student.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Freedom From Attachment to Pain
The first mechanism of escape from freedom I am going to deal with is the tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside of oneself in order to acquire the strength which the individual self is lacking.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Problem of Ethics
It is impossible to understand man and his emotional and mental disturbances without understanding the nature of value and moral conflicts.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Jacob Boehme in Russia
A poor and humble man from the point of view of social classes, Jacob Boehme is among the “theosophers” who lived before Russian thinker Helena P. Blavatsky and prepared her work.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Theosophy and the Middle East
The Land of Israel is a magnetic center of fundamental importance to human karma in its present phase.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Imitation of Christ
Theosophy has its own particular ways to identify the eternal wisdom present in Christian teachings and to rescue it from the dead letter of ritualism and blind belief.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Ethos of Global Citizenship
“Ethos”, says the Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, is the fundamental character and spirit of a culture, or society.
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Paracelsus and the Book of Nature
A continuous attempt to help mankind entitles one’s soul karmically to receive help from the Wise Ones who guide and protect Nature. The project goes far beyond any short term efforts.
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A Few Words on Uranus
The mysterious planet Uranus is a “bridge-builder” between our solar system and the Milky Way. Like his companions Neptune and Pluto, this rather distant “wanderer” is considered an ambassador from the galaxy.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Precepts and Axioms From the East by HPB
The heart which follows the rambling senses leads away his judgment as the wind leads a boat astray upon the waters.
part 1, part 2
Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Nourishing the Gods
It seems hopeless to try to elucidate much concerning the real and true meaning of sacrifice in a civilization so little ready to concede that sacrifice is one of the fundamental principles of Life itself.
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The Art of Living: Finding Balance
Karma is the undeviating universal law of Nature that restores harmony, balance and equilibrium.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Seven Clauses of a Pledge
An article was published by H. P. Blavatsky in 1888 which reveals the contents of the pledge taken by the members of the Esoteric School of theosophy founded that year in London.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Theosophy of Barack Obama
U.S.A. President Tries to Follow Principles Taught by Universal Wisdom.
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BlavatskyArchives.com
blavatskyarchives.com
Parapsychology, Spiritualism, & Life After Death
Books on the Theosophical view on these above subjects
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Exploring the Great Beyond
Our Inner Constitution, Psychism, Life After Death & Reincarnation
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