Although we have a website dedicated to the social philosophy of Humanitarianism, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of Humanitarianism. Humanitarianism is based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. Besides this synthetic presentation, we have… Read More
Categoria: Religion: its Problems and its Importance
Synthesis of the Democracy of the Future
Although we have a website dedicated to the Democracy of the Future, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of the Democracy of the Future. Humanitarianism is a social-political philosophy based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity.… Read More
Out of these Differences Grows Up All the Possibilities of an Ordered Society
“That great principle (or Law) of Reincarnation must ever go hand in hand with the principle (or Law) of Brotherhood if Brotherhood is to be applied, if it is to be made a working principle of ordinary life. For it is out of these differences of age that grows up all the possibilities of an ordered… Read More
Science Demands Being Guided by a Right Reason and True Religion
“If the debasement of arts and sciences to purposes of wickedness, luxury, and the like, be made a ground of objection, let no one be moved thereby. For the same may be said of all earthly goods: of wit, courage, strength, beauty, wealth, light itself, and the rest. Only let the human race recover that… Read More
Phenomena of Intellectuality, Philosophy and Logic
“It is not physical phenomena that will ever bring conviction to the hearts of the unbelievers in the “Brotherhood” but rather phenomena of intellectuality, philosophy and logic, if I may so express it.” (K.H. In T. Baker, editor. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, letter n. 35; emphasis added)
(The) Golden String (William Blake Quoted in Bede Griffiths’ Autobiography)
“In one of the “Notebooks” of the great English Romantic poet William Blake, there’s a beautiful stanza which ultimately ended as the epigraph of “To the Christians” plate of his prophetic poem “Jerusalem”: I give you the end of a golden string; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at… Read More
No Wisdom But in Submission to the Gods
“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)
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