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…
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated…
“My devotee who is free from enmity, welldisposed towards all creatures, merciful, wholly exempt from pride and selfishness, the same in pain and pleasure, patient of wrongs, contented, constantly devout, self-governed, firm in resolves, and whose mind and heart are…
That is to say, Lower Manas operating through the brain is at once altered into the shape and other characteristics of any object, mental or otherwise. This causes it to have four peculiarities. First, to naturally fly off from any point, object, or…
The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Purânas. But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts…
Deep Peace of the Running Wave to you, Deep Peace of the Flowing Air to you, Deep Peace of the Shining Stars…
I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew was gone that made his blade so keen Before I came to view the levelled scene. I looked for him…
Q. How is it that “Behind will, stands desire” ? It seems as though it should be reversed. A. We do not act until there is desire or intention to do so; Will is the force of consciousness in action.…
Try to imagine a “Spirit,” a celestial Being, whether we call it by one name or another, divine in its essential nature, yet not pure enough to be one with the All, and having, in order to achieve this, to so purify…
Serene, I fold my hands and wait,Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;I rave no more ‘gainst time or fate,For, lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays,For what avails this eager pace?I…
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet;…
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep…