The Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave Those having Lamps will pass them on to others. – PLATO In The Secret Doctrine we are told that Plato was not merely the greatest philosopher of Greece but also an... Read more
The Philosophy and Science of Vedantic Raja Yoga1 Theosophist, March, 1884 I feel really obliged to my friend and brother, Babu Siris Chandra Vasu, B. A., for the presentation of a copy of a... Read more
Can Females Become Adepts?
Can Females Become Adepts? Theosophist, October, 1883. Will you kindly let me know whether females can attain to adeptship, and whether female adepts exist at all? “An Inquirer.”... Read more
On “The Good” and “The One” of Plato
On “The Good” and “The One” of Plato by Thomas Taylor, from an extensive note in his translation of The Republic The good, which is here celebrated by Socrates as that which reigns in the in... Read more
Poetical Occultism
Poetical Occultism Some Rough Studies of the Occult Leanings of the Poets. The Path, November, 1886 Perhaps no passage in Light on the Path is more forcible than that which warns the discipl... Read more
Growth Through Self-Effort
Studies in the Secret Doctrine: Growth Through Self-Effort Life is substantial as Spirit or as Matter, as the noumenal principle or as the phenomenal personality, as monads or as atoms. In p... Read more
Free Your Mind: Part 2
Free Your Mind Part 2 Why Philosophy is Important? We know the word philosophy was coined by Pythagoras in pre-Socratic days in Greece. Philo=Love and Sophia=Wisdom. But the idea of philos... Read more
“Free Your Mind” Part 1
“Free Your Mind” Part 1 Why Philosophy is Important? “The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger ci... Read more
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND WRITINGS OF PLATO BY THOMAS TAYLOR [p. iii] “Philosophy,” says Hierocles,1 “is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purificati... Read more
The “Elixir of Life”
The “Elixir of Life” From a Chela’s1 Diary. by G—— M——,* F.T.S. Theosophist, March-April, 1882 Re-printed in Five Years of Theosophy (1885) And Enoch walked with the Elohim, and the Elohim t... Read more