A Strange Sense of Doubleness
With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. We…
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Jewels of Wisdom
True Impersonality
Impersonality isn’t talking; it isn’t silence; it isn’t insinuation; it isn’t repulsion; it isn’t negation. Above all, it isn’t a diplomacy which masks ambition. Impersonality means freedom from personality, but none of us are going to attain that, right away;…
Unfolding the Rose
It is only a tiny rosebud, A flower of God’s design; But I cannot unfold the petals With these clumsy hands of mine. The secret of unfolding flowers Is not known to such as I. GOD opens this flower so…
Divinity and Learning
There is no Divinity, save it has evolved as such from the One Spirit. Every Divine being is an evolution. Where ever divinity is spoken of it means an evolution of a being. All intelligence is based in the Power…
Wisdom Explains
If we take Their philosophy as given to us in Theosophy, if we take it as a theory to be examined on its merits, we shall find that it explains. It explains why there are so many different kinds of people;…
Elder Brothers
These Elder Brothers of the human family are not spirits in the ordinary sense of the word, nor are they hazy beings, “gods” or “angels They are men, Mahatmas (Great Souls), who are perfected beings physically, mentally, morally, psychically, spiritually—who stand…
A Lover of the Meadows
A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains; and of all that we behold…
Autumnal Tints
It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mould!–painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the…
Aphorisms on Karma
The following, among others not yet used, were given to me by Teachers, among them being H.P. Blavatsky. Some were written, others communicated in other ways. To me they were declared to be from manuscripts not now accessible to the…
What is Man?
Man is a little world—a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fœtus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral…
A Pledge of Identity
There is a conscious solidarity of the universe towards the intuition of which we must struggle, that it may become to us, not a logical abstraction, but a felt and living fact. As individuals we shall never be complete. The…
The Duality of Good and Evil
Our last study dealt with the mother virtue of Brotherhood, which harmonizes thedifferent units of the human kingdom and produces unity. In our efforts to practisebrotherliness towards all men and women each one of us finds numerous obstacles.Theosophy traces the…