Ideas Rule the World “Hear (…) the old, old axiom that ‘Ideas rule the world;’ and as men’s minds receive new ideas, laying aside the old and effete the world (will) advance; mighty revolutions (will) spring from them; institutions (aye, and even creeds and powers, they may add) — WILL crumble before their onward march crushed by… Read More
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The Relation Between Religion and Social Organization
The Relation Between Religion and Social Organization [Second part of the sixth chapter of the book A Roda e a Cruz: Uma Introdução ao Cristianismo Budista (The Wheel and the Cross: An Introduction to Buddhist Christianity). Except for this chapter, the complete work is still in the Portuguese language.] VIVIANE: What is the link between… Read More
The Credo of Christendom
The Credo of Christendom Exposition I (1) Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae (I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth). 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… Read More
Ecclesiasticism Is Intolerant of All Other Faiths and Religious Systems; This Attitude Towards Buddhism Is Suicidal to Christianity
“Now one of the most deplorable features of Ecclesiasticism is its habitual intolerance of all other faiths and religious systems, despite their antiquity, authenticity, fundamental similarity, and standing. It regards them not as friends, but as rivals and foes; not to be understood, appreciated, and – in part at least – assimilated, but to be… Read More
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
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
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (6): The Perennial Philosophy and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – The Essential Unity of All Humanity
VI – THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: The Essential Unity of All Humanity (Chapter VI of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 55 – “The man who successfully probes his own inner nature and existence back to its Centre and Core, finds one single source of all men,… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (5): Theosophy and the Law of Universal Brotherhood
V – THEOSOPHY AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD (Chapter V of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 37 – “Our fundamental object is Universal Brotherhood (…) a Brotherhood of all faiths and denominations, composed by Theists and Atheists, Christians and Gentiles throughout the world, might without anyone surrendering his particular opinion be… 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
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