XXVII – THE REALIZATION OF THE INNER TRUTH (DECISIVE, YET RESTRICTED): The Third Object of the Theosophical Society (Chapter XVII of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 193 – “With the understanding of the outer, then the inner movement begins, not in opposition or in contradiction. (…) Then only the inner movement has… Read More
Categoria: Philosophy: its Problems and its Importance
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
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (15): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – The First Object as an Example of Consistent Solution
XV – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: The First Object as an Example of a Consistent Solution (Chapter XV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 161 – “The truths and mysteries of occultism constitute, indeed, a body of the highest spiritual importance, at once profound and practical for the… Read More
Even a Small Group Can Start an Entirely Different Society
“Why is it that in the home, in the classroom and in the hostel you are always being told what you must do and what you must not do? Surely, it is because your parents and teachers, like the rest of society, have not perceived that man exists for only one purpose, which is to… Read More
Only Small Minority Is Egoically Matured
In his long post on this site Present Evolutionary Stage of Humanity, C.W. Leadbeater informs us that the vast majority of the Higher Selves are still undeveloped in our current evolutionary stage. In this way, only a relatively small minority is capable of transmitting to the personality clear norms of truthfulness, justice and altruism, as… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (14): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – Present Political Models and the Creation of Destitution
XIV – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: Present-Day Political Models and the Creation of Destitution (Chapter XIV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 153 – “There is no intellectual, not even a liberal intellectual, who will be able to deny the evidence that it is possible to put an… Read More
Democracy in Its Present Form Is Irrational and Leads to Endless Confusion
“Clairvoyance enables us to examine a much longer section of the earth’s past history than can be reached along ordinary lines; and this fuller study of the past makes it possible to some extent to forecast by analogy some of the steps in the more immediate future. From such a study of the records it… Read More
Organizational Model (Political etc.) Requires Coherence with Human Capabilities, or Not Worthy of Defense
Professor C.B. Macpherson of the University of Toronto in Canada – in his well-known work The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy – refers as follows to the importance of these assumptions about human beings when considering political systems: “To show that a model of a political system or society, existing or not yet existing,… Read More