This basic and narrow interconnection of all things in nature seems to be the limit that we can reach with the help of science, with regard to the recognition of an essential unity underlying humanity and, in fact, all things in the known universe. As we can read in F. Capra’s work, it derives very… Read More
Categoria: Science: its Problems and its Importance
Basic Principles of the Perennial Philosophy
A first very simple outline of these basic principles was already given when we presented the “three truths which are absolute” mentioned in The Idyll of the White Lotus. This is a synthesis of what they tell us: (1)The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (3): Theosophy and the Name of the Theosophical Society
III – THEOSOPHY AND THE NAME OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (Chapter III of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 9 – “For real Theosophy is ALTRUISM, and we cannot repeat it too often. It is brotherly love, mutual help, unswerving devotion to Truth.” (HPB, CW, Vol. XI, p. 202) Having introduced the question… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (2): The Foundation of the Theosophical Society and the Influence of the Mahatmas
II – THE FOUNDATION OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE MAHATMAS (Chapter II of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 4 – “The members of the Theosophical Society at large are free to profess whatever religion or philosophy they like, or none if they so prefer, provided they are in… Read More
Dominant “Gods” in the Elite of Our Time: Sinister Powers of Might, Greed and Luck
“(…) as any one can perceive, your social as your private life is not based upon a common moral solidarity but only on constant mutual counteraction and purely mechanical equilibrium of individual powers and interests… If you would be a Theosophist [NA: which means “Altruist”], you must not do as those around you who call… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (1): Work Contents, Summary of Quotations and Introduction
Buy the publication, eBook, in the Roda e Cruz Collection (Amazon) Copyright – 2025: Arnaldo Sisson Filho – All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of… Read More
Why Was the Christian Church Initially Called Catholic?
“Drawing its life-blood directly from the pagan faith of the old Occidental world, Christianity more nearly resembles its immediate father and mother than its remote ancestors, and will, therefore, be better expounded by reference to Greek and Roman sources than to their Brahminical and Vedic parallels. The Christian Church is Catholic, or it is nothing… Read More
Ex Oriente Lux: Although Derived from the East, Christianity Is Modeled in Greco-Roman Mythology
“THE Christian Faith is the direct heir of the old Roman faith. Rome was the heir of Greece, and Greece of Egypt, whence the Mosaic dispensation and Hebrew ritual sprang. Egypt was but the focus of a light whose true fountain and centre was the Orient in general – Ex Oriente Lux. For the East,… Read More
Synthesis of the Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy
Even though we have a website specifically dedicated to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, and even though we know that today there are many texts that can be considered as introductions to Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy, we chose here, as a synthetic introduction to this very important philosophy, the text Perennial Philosophy: General Aspects and Its… Read More
Synthesis of the Universal Brotherhood As a Law and Its Importance
Although we now have a website dedicated to present the Universal Brotherhood As a Law, we have chosen here some chapters of the book Theosophy and Universal Brotherhood as a synthesis of this subject of the greatest importance to the well being of humanity, which is the fact that the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity is… Read More