“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished.” (Sophocles. Last phrase of the play Antigone)
Categoria: Ethics: its Importance
Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created? (Longer Version)
Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created? (Longer Version) Arnaldo Sisson Filho (MSc) Arnaldo Sisson Filho is Economist and has a Master degree in Political Science (UFRGS). He is the creator of the “Anna Kingsford Site”, where are all the works by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Sisson translated and revised the translation into Portuguese… Read More
Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created? (Abridged Version).
Arnaldo Sisson Filho (MSc) Arnaldo Sisson Filho is Economist and has a Master degree in Political Science (UFRGS). He is the creator of the “Anna Kingsford Site”, where are all the works by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Sisson translated and revised the translation into Portuguese of some of those works. Author of Theosophy and… Read More
Philip Converse and the Decisive Role of the Elites
“The broad contours of elite decisions over time can depend in a vital way upon currents in what is loosely called “the history of ideas.” These decisions in turn have effects upon the mass of more common citizens. But, of any direct participation in this history of ideas and the behavior it shapes, the mass… Read More
(A) Society for the Propagation of the Idea of Brotherhood on Practical Instead of Theoretical Lines
“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 sympathy with, and ready to carry out one or more of the three Objects of the Association. The Society is a philanthropic and scientific body for the… Read More
(A) Society of All Faiths, of Theists ans Atheists, Christians and Gentiles
“Our fundamental object is Universal Brotherhood (…) a Brotherhood of all faiths and denominations, composed by Theists and Atheists, Christians and Gentiles throughout the world, might without anyone surrendering his particular opinion be united into one strong Society or Fraternity (…)” (Helena Blavatsky. Collected Writings, Vol. IV, p. 470; emphasis added)
(To) Labour is to Pray
“The command always is –“To labour is to pray”; “To ask is to receive”; “To knock is to have the door open.” “I have often said,” says my genius, “Think for yourself. When you think inwardly, pray intensely, and imagine centrally, then you converse with God”.” (Anna Kingsford. Clothed With the Sun, p. 37; emphasis… Read More
(The) Interpretation of Your Bibles
“That which you need on Earth is the interpretation of your Bibles, and of all the Scriptures which contain the hidden wisdom, the mystery of which St. Paul so often speaks as existing from the foundation of the world. [As in Romans 16:25]” (Edward Maitland, editor. A Message to Earth, p. 69. See Selected Texts,… Read More
Two Things About the Christian Religion
“At the present moment there are two things about the Christian religion which must be obvious to every percipient person; one, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” [Matthew Arnold, quoted in The Perfect Way p. 6 — see also in Selected Texts, Quotes and… Read More
(The) World in General, and Christendom Especially, As Well As Its Political and Social Systems, Has Now Proved a Failure
“The world in general, and Christendom especially, left for two thousand years to the regime of a personal God, as well as its political and social systems based on that idea, has now proved a failure. If the Theosophists say: ‘We have nothing to do with all this; the lower classes and the inferior races… Read More