“Enquirer: Is Theosophy a religion? Theosophist: It is not. Theosophy is Divine Knowledge or Science. Enq: What is the real meaning of the term? Theo: ‘Divine Wisdom,’ Theosophia or Wisdom of the gods, as Theogonia, genealogy of the gods. The word Theos means a god in Greek, one of the divine beings, certainly not ‘God’… Read More
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Theosophy is ALTRUISM, It Is Brotherly Love, Mutual Help, Unswerving Devotion to Truth
“For real Theosophy is ALTRUISM, and we cannot repeat it too often. It is brotherly love, mutual help, unswerving devotion to Truth.” (Helena Blavatsky. Collected Writings, Vol. XI, p. 202)
True Occultism or Theosophy Is the ‘Great Renunciation of SELF,’ It Is ALTRUISM
“Let them know at once and remember always that true Occultism or Theosophy is the ‘Great Renunciation of SELF,’ unconditionally and absolutely, in thought as in action. It is ALTRUISM (…).” (Helena Blavatsky. Practical Occultism, p. 43; emphasis added)
Theosophia Is the Wisdom “Full of Mercy and Good Fruits”
“THE WISDOM, Theosophia – is the Wisdom ‘full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy’. (James, 3:17)”. (Helena Blavatsky. Colletected Writings, Vol. XII, p. 320; emphasis added)
That which Is False or Pernicious Cannot Be Wise
“Wisdom and Truth are synonymous terms, and that which is false or pernicious cannot be wise.” (Helena Blavatsky. Collected Writings, Vol. XII, p. 316; emphasis added)
Without Truth and Justice There Can Be No Wisdom
“Without truth and justice there can be no Wisdom.” (Helena Blavatsky. Collected Writings, Vol. XII, p. 310)
Wisdom Is with the Ancient (Man’s Higher Ego), Understanding Is in the Length of Days (Number of Reincarnations)
“Esoterically then, Job’s statement (28:12 and 12:12) must read: ‘With the Ancient (man’s Higher Ego) is Wisdom, and in the length of days (or the number of its reincarnations) is understanding.’ No man can learn true and final Wisdom in one birth; and every new rebirth, whether we be reincarnated for weal or for woe,… Read More
Love, Wisdom and Bliss Are Names of the Different Aspects of the Same State of Consciousness: of Perception of the Whole, of Unity
“Love, Wisdom and Bliss are names of the different aspects of the same state of Consciousness in which the individual is aware of the Whole. The perception of the Whole in which everything is seen in its proper perspective and true nature is Wisdom. The attitude towards the Whole and its different parts which results… Read More
Influence and Responsibility of the Leaders of Thought
“(…) this our generation seems to evince but a very rudimentary spiritual grasp while apparently developed in intellect to the utmost extent possible. It is, indeed, a hard, materialistic age: a fragment of sparkling quartz is its appropriate symbol. And yet of what ‘age’ and ‘generation’ do we speak? Not of that of the masses,… Read More
(At) Some Distant Day It Will Become a Religion of Great Nations
“I know that at some distant day, now, indeed, perhaps very remote, the message we preach in a corner will become a religion of great nations.” (Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism, p. 1; emphasis added)