“The problems of a country like India, where the variety of languages, customs and other differences, being deeply rooted, cannot be dealt with, as they should be, except by a wise understanding and distribution of political power. It must be distributed among such persons – how to discover these is the real question –… Read More
Categoria: Esoteric Philosophy: its Importance
Plato’s Main Idea, Matching Functions with Capabilities, Cannot Be Ignored With Impunity
“What Plato said remains as an interesting study. But the main idea of matching function with capacity and qualifications is so unquestionably right that it cannot be ignored with impunity.” (N. Sri Ram. On the Watch Tower, p. 94)
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (4): The Motto of the Theosophical Society
IV – THE MOTTO OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (Chapter IV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 29 – “The principle which gives life dwells in us and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.” (M. Collins,… Read More
New Ideas Confuses the Average Man, Makes Big Difference How We Get in Touch with Their Minds
“The sudden impact of a new set of ideas confuses the average man and he feels automatically repelled from those ideas however true, reasonable or beneficial they might be.” (…) But there are a large number of people (…) who can be made to appreciate the truths of the Ancient Wisdom [NA: the Perennial Philosophy]… Read More
Underlying Unity of All Nature in a Quotation by Dr. Taimni
This basic and narrow interconnection of all things in nature seems to be the limit that we can reach with the help of science, with regard to the recognition of an essential unity underlying humanity and, in fact, all things in the known universe. As we can read in F. Capra’s work, it derives very… Read More
Basic Principles of the Perennial Philosophy
A first very simple outline of these basic principles was already given when we presented the “three truths which are absolute” mentioned in The Idyll of the White Lotus. This is a synthesis of what they tell us: (1)The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (3): Theosophy and the Name of the Theosophical Society
III – THEOSOPHY AND THE NAME OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (Chapter III of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 9 – “For real Theosophy is ALTRUISM, and we cannot repeat it too often. It is brotherly love, mutual help, unswerving devotion to Truth.” (HPB, CW, Vol. XI, p. 202) Having introduced the question… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (2): The Foundation of the Theosophical Society and the Influence of the Mahatmas
II – THE FOUNDATION OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE MAHATMAS (Chapter II of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 4 – “The members of the Theosophical Society at large are free to profess whatever religion or philosophy they like, or none if they so prefer, provided they are in… Read More
Dominant “Gods” in the Elite of Our Time: Sinister Powers of Might, Greed and Luck
“(…) as any one can perceive, your social as your private life is not based upon a common moral solidarity but only on constant mutual counteraction and purely mechanical equilibrium of individual powers and interests… If you would be a Theosophist [NA: which means “Altruist”], you must not do as those around you who call… Read More
Why Was the Christian Church Initially Called Catholic?
“Drawing its life-blood directly from the pagan faith of the old Occidental world, Christianity more nearly resembles its immediate father and mother than its remote ancestors, and will, therefore, be better expounded by reference to Greek and Roman sources than to their Brahminical and Vedic parallels. The Christian Church is Catholic, or it is nothing… Read More