“Let me turn finally to the question of how a participatory democracy might be run if we did achieve the prerequisites. How participatory could it be, given that at any level beyond the neighbourhood it would have to be an indirect or representative system rather than face-do-face direct democracy? If one looks at the question… Read More
Categoria: Religion: its Problems and its Importance
Principle of the Democracy of the Future in One of the Oldest Books: the I CHING
A worldview that contemplates an essential unity in relation to the deep nature of human beings’ consciences and, at the same time, a great diversity of capabilities, is certainly not something new. Millennia ago this same general notion, about the decisive importance of a clear perception, as well as a fair equation and a harmonization… Read More
How to Find the Best Is the Problem: To Solve It You Must Realise the Hopelessness of the Present Line of Ruling
“Brotherhood applied to Government claims for the wise and not for the ignorant (…) how to find the best? The Ideal is that the best should rule; but how to find them, that is the problem. Every one of us who studies must try to solve this problem, and the suggestions I am here making… Read More
Above All Things Teach the Doctrine of the Spiritual Grades or Levels, Which Have No Relation to the Outward Condition of Life
“Above all things teach the doctrine of the Spiritual Grades or Levels. The Christians made a serious mistake in requiring the same rule of all persons. Castes are as ladders whereby to ascend from the lower to the higher. They are properly spiritual grades, and have no relation to the outward condition of life. Like… Read More
(The) Banquet of the Gods
“I saw in my sleep a great table spread upon a beautiful mountain, the distant peaks of which were covered with snow, and brilliant with a bright light. Around the table reclined, twelve persons, six male, six female, some of whom I recognised at once, the others afterwards. Those whom I recognised at once were… Read More
Vegetarianism: What Great Men Said (*)
– “The more man simplifies his eating and moves away from the carnivorous regime, the wiser his mind.” (George Bernard Shaw) – “I am a fervent follower of the vegetarian regime. More than anything for moral and aesthetic reasons. I believe that a vegetarian life order, by its physical effects, will influence the temperament of… Read More
Vegetarian Movement: Redeemer of the World
“I consider the vegetarian movement to be the most important movement of our age. I believe this because I see in it the beginning of true civilization. My opinion is that up to the present moment we do not know what civilization means. When we look at the dead bodies of animals, whether entire or… Read More
(The) Late Mrs. Anna Kingsford, M.D. – Obtuary
THE LATE MRS. ANNA KINGSFORD, M.D. — OBTUARY “We have this month to record with the deepest regret the passing away from this physical world of one who, more than any other, has been instrumental in demonstrating to her fellow-creatures the great fact of the conscious existence – hence of the immortality – of the… Read More
Purpose We Have All at Heart: Dissemination of TRUTH Conveyed by Whatever Religious Channel
“This is not the desire alone of either of us two, known to Mr. Sinnett, or of both, but the express wish of the Chohan Himself. Mrs. Kingsford’s (Dr Anna Kingsford) election is not a matter of personal feeling between ourselves and that lady but rests entirely on the advisability of having at the head… Read More
There Is Only One Movement in Life, the Outer and the Inner. With the Understanding of the Outer, Then the Inner Movement Begins. Then Only the Inner Movement Has Validity and Significance
“There is only one movement in life, the outer and the inner; this movement is indivisible, though it is divided. Being divided, most follow the outer movement of knowledge, ideas, authority, security, prosperity and so on. In reaction to this, one follows the so-called inner life, with its visions, aspirations, secrecies, conflicts, despairs. As this… Read More