“As for human nature in general, it is the same now as it was a million of years ago: Prejudice based upon selfishness; a general unwillingness to give up an established order of things for new modes of life and thought — and occult study requires all that and much more — pride and stubborn… Read More
Categoria: Metaphysics: its Importance
What Is Wrong with Politcs? (1): Index of Chapters and Introduction
WHAT IS WRONG WITH POLITICS? BASES FOR A TRUE DEMOCRACY Note for the current version (for the Internet): At the moment, this is the fundational work on Humanitarianism. In its chapters, the bases of the social philosophy called Humanitarianism are exposed, albeit synthetically. What Is Wrong with Politics? Bases for a True Democracy Arnaldo Sisson… Read More
Esoteric Doctrines Must Be Spread Step by Step, Not Suddenly
“In common with many, you blame us for our great secrecy. Yet we know something of human nature for the experience of long centuries — aye, ages — has taught us. And, we know, that so long as science has anything to learn, and a shadow of religious dogmatism lingers in the hearts of the… Read More
Esoteric Doctrines Must Be Cautiously Spread
“We cannot consent to over-flood the world at the risk of drowning them, with a doctrine that has to be cautiously given out, and bit by bit like a too powerful tonic which can kill as well as cure.” (K.H. In T. Baker, editor. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, L. 34, p. 245; emphasis… Read More
Principle that Will Guide the State Will Be the Law of Universal Brotherhood
In several posts on this site, as well as on other sites and works, we bring a set of information that allow us to clearly understand how the Diversity of levels of psycho-spiritual development is one of the fundamental aspects of the Law of Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. This aspect of Diversity is just as… Read More
The Universal Brotherhood of Humanity Is Very Similar to Relationships in a Family
“But this Brotherhood of all souls is like the relation of brotherhood within a family; brothers are not all of the same age, though they are of the same parents.” (C. Jinarajadasa. Practical Theosophy, p. 63; emphasis added)
The Man Who Reaches His Essence Finds the Ultimate Truth: Unity
“The man who successfully probes his own inner nature and existence back to its Centre and Core, finds one single source of all men, all beings, all existence. Unity then emerges as the supreme verity, the everlasting truth.” (Geoffrey Hodson. Basic Theosophy, p. 81; emphasis added)
There Is Only One Spiritual Essence, One Spiritual Being: That Is the Great Truth, the True Source of Power
“(…) 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
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