Outlook Perennial Philosophy: XII – The Dual Aspect of Wisdom

12. The Dual Aspect of Wisdom Helena P. Blavatsky [Lucifer, Vol. VII, No. 37, September 1890, pp. 1-9. Collected Writings, Volume XII-1890] [The original of this document, handwritten by H.P.B., is held in the Archives of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.] Editor’s Note: The following is a collection of quotations drawn from the article… Read More

Outlook Perennial Philosophy: XI – The Existence of the Perennial Philosophy

  ADDITIONAL TEXTS: 11. THE EXISTENCE OF THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY Arnaldo Sisson Filho   The notion of the existence of a Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy can be presented, very briefly, from the well-known phrase of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “Everything that rises converges”. In other words, if it is possible for human consciousness to “rise”,… Read More

Outlook Perennial Philosophy: IX – Man’s Past and Future

9. MAN’S PAST AND FUTURE   When we have once grasped the fact that man has reached his present position through a long and varied series of lives, a question naturally arises in our minds as to how far we can obtain any information about this earlier evolution, which would obviously be of absorbing interest… Read More

Outlook Perennial Philosophy: V – The Constitution of Man

5. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN   The astounding practical materialism to which we have been reduced in this country can hardly be more clearly shown than it is by the expressions that we employ in common life. We speak quite ordinarily of man as having a soul, of “saving” our souls, and so on, evidently… Read More

Outline Perennial Philosophy: I – Editor’s Preface and Introduction

  An Outline of the Perennial Philosophy C. W. Leadbeater Adaptation, preface and edition: Arnaldo Sisson Filho Adaptation based on the work by C.W. Leadbeater: An Outline of Theosophy Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai, India. First printing: 1902. Second to eighth printings: 1905-1977. Nineth printing: 1987.   INITIAL QUOTATIONS   Theosophy Is the ‘Great Renunciation… Read More

Synthesis of Humanitarianism

Although we have a website dedicated to the social philosophy of Humanitarianism, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of Humanitarianism. Humanitarianism is based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. Besides this synthetic presentation, we have… Read More

Synthesis of the Democracy of the Future

Although we have a website dedicated to the Democracy of the Future, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of the Democracy of the Future. Humanitarianism is a social-political philosophy based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity.… Read More

Synthesis of Universal Brotherhood As a Law and Its Importance

Although we now have a website dedicated to present the Universal Brotherhood As a Law, we have chosen here some chapters of the book Theosophy and Universal Brotherhood as a synthesis of this subject of the greatest importance to the well being of humanity, which is the fact that the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity is… Read More

Synthesis of the Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy

Even though we have a website specifically dedicated to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, and even though we know that today there are many texts that can be considered as introductions to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, we chose here, as a synthetic introduction to this very important philosophy, the text Perennial Philosophy: General Aspects and Its… Read More

Synthesis of the Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy

Even though we have a website specifically dedicated to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, and even though we know that today there are many texts that can be considered as introductions to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, we chose here, as a synthetic introduction to this very important philosophy, the text Perennial Philosophy: General Aspects and Its… Read More