“(…) I wish to advance one supremely important idea concerning man. I speak not only of man as Thinker, but man in his real Essence, the mysterious Dweller in the Innermost, the Logos of the Soul, the Spark of the Divine Flame, the Scintilla of the Spiritual Sun. That supremely important idea is that there… Read More
Categoria: Esoteric Philosophy: its Importance
In Memorian Anna Kingsford
HART, Samuel Hopgood. In Memorian Anna Kingsford. The Leeds Vegetarian Society, Leeds (U.K.), 1947. Information: Booklet containing the full text, with some additions by the author, of a Lecture given to the Leeds Vegetarian Society on September 15th, 1946, to commemorate the Centenary of the birth of Dr. Anna Kingsford. Text published in the Anna… Read More
Ecclesiasticism Is Intolerant of All Other Faiths and Religious Systems; This Attitude Towards Buddhism Is Suicidal to Christianity
“Now one of the most deplorable features of Ecclesiasticism is its habitual intolerance of all other faiths and religious systems, despite their antiquity, authenticity, fundamental similarity, and standing. It regards them not as friends, but as rivals and foes; not to be understood, appreciated, and – in part at least – assimilated, but to be… Read More
Buddha’s Doctrine: Complete Regeneration of Mind and Indispensable Precursor of the Doctrine of Christ
“For the fact is that the doctrine of the Buddha, with its Four Great Truths and its Noble Eightfold Path, its boundless compassion towards all sentient life, its reasonable ethical teaching of development through self-conquest and self-culture, its simple yet profound analysis of suffering and sorrow with the method of escape therefrom (…), its entire… Read More
Buddhism and Christianity Are Parts of the Same Gospel
“In brief, they are not two gospels but two aspects, the without and the within, of one Gospel. For Buddhism finds its translation and completion in Christianity, and Christianity its inception and foundation in Buddhism.” (Bertram McCrie. The Living Truth in Christianity, pp. 26-27; emphasis added)
To Justify Absolutism, Hobbes Starts From the “Homo Homini Lupus”
Liberalism appears as a reaction to the Absolutist order, and one of the last great theorists of Absolutism was Thomas Hobbes, author of the famous work The Leviathan (1651), who conceived the human being as naturally selfish, if not violent, as we can read in quote that follows: “In order to justify absolute government, Hobbes… Read More
John Locke Departs from Hobbes, But Reaches Opposite Conclusions
“John Locke was born in 1632 and died in 1704; he personified the liberal tendencies against the absolutist ideas of Hobbes. His Essay on Civil Government was published in 1690, less than two years after the second British revolution of 1688. It is understandable that, writing soon after an event of such importance, a political… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (16): The Importance of Comparative Study
XVI – THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPARATIVE STUDY: The Second Object of the Theosophical Society (Chapter XVI of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 176 – “It is only by studying the various great religions and philosophers of humanity, by comparing them dispassionately and with an unbiassed mind, that men can hope to arrive… Read More
Until Philosophers Are Kings, Or Genuine and Capable Philosophers Are Sovereigns, There Will Be No Truce From Evils
“I think, I said, that there might be a reform of the State if only one change were made, which is not a slight or easy though still a possible one. What is it? he said. Now then, I said, I go to meet that which I liken to the greatest of the waves; yet… Read More
My Principal Preoccupation at Present Is with Learning from Buddhism
“As for myself, my principal preoccupation at present is with learning from Buddhism. I can’t help feeling that Western Christianity (like Western everything else) is badly in need of a blood transfusion. Somehow or other we have become effete (…) and we need new perspectives. Just as a whole new era opened up for Christianity… Read More