(a) Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of Consciousness grouped under Thought, Will, and Feeling. During deep sleep, ideation ceases on the physical plane, and memory is in abeyance; thus for the time-being “Mind is…
Never do anything which thou dost not understand; but learn all thou oughtest to know, and by that means thou wilt lead a very pleasant life. In no wise neglect the health of thy body; but give it food and…
In my opinion non-violence is not passivity in any shape or form. Nonviolence, as I understand it, is the most active force in the world…..Non-violence is the supreme law. During my half a century of experience I have not yet…
Do you not feel the fruit of your spring and summer begin to ripen, to harden its seed within you? Do not your thoughts begin to acquire consistency as well as flavor and ripeness? How can we expect a harvest…
An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. It is “beyond the range of speech and thought”—in the words of Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad,…
(1.) 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…
The spiritual Ego of man moves in Eternity like a pendulum between the hours of life and death. But if these hours marking the periods of terrestrial and spiritual life are limited in their duration, and if the very number…
Exalt not excellence and people will not contend. Prize not possessions and people will not steal. Display not the desirable and people will not be disturbed. Thus the Sage rules By emptying hearts and filling stomachs; Weakening ambitions and toughening…
To be brief, it is January the 4th which ought to be selected by the Theosophists —the Esotericists especially — as their New Year. January is under the sign of Capricornus, the mysterious Makara of the Hindu mystics — the…
There are amongst men several sorts of reasonings, good and bad. Admire them not too easily and reject them not either, but if any falsehoods be advanced, give way with mildness and arm thyself with patience. Observe well, on every…
Basically we give what we are: ‘The thoughts you think,” wrote Maeterlinck, ” will irradiate you though you are a transparent vase.” The gifts of things are never as precious as the gifts of thought. Emerson said it well: “Rings…
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep.” The…