Theosophy

[metal68]

I always find Theosophy mentioned in almost any paranormal/afterlife book I come across nowadays. Rudolph Steiner is mentioned a lot. Trouble is these people tend to get readily dismissed as crackpots, lumped in with all the fake ectoplasm tricks and even worse linked in with the Thule society, Neonazis and Vril technology.

[metal68]

Originally Posted by Skull

For 2015 - On May 8, 1891 the brilliant, noble soul Helena Blavatsky left her body. The 8th of May has ever since been called White Lotus Day to honor her purity of devotion to the bodhisattva Cause seeking to help mankind become more selfless.

"Many who have never heard of the Society are Theosophists without knowing it themselves; for the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy."

HPB's letter to the 1888 American Convention

Question?? Has her spirit ever made contact via a credible medium and has the message been, as much as is possible, fully validated??

[Skull]

Originally Posted by metal68

Question?? Has her spirit ever made contact via a credible medium and has the message been, as much as is possible, fully validated??

No. As a matter of record Blavatsky wrote this promise to never visit mediums after her death:

While it is yet time, both the founders [Olcott & HPB] of the Theosophical Society place upon record their solemn promise that they will let trance mediums severely alone after they get to “the other side.” If after this, any of the talking fraternity take their names in vain, they hope that at least their theosophical confrères will unearth this paragraph and warn the trespassers off their astral premises.

[metal68]

Did anyone ever claim this contact though? I guess, they would have proven themselves as fraudulent?

Strange though that she wouldn't want to make contact? Was that the same with Steiner??

[Skull]

This universe is regarded by many modern astronomers as dead, except for a
little patch of life on this and possibly a few other planets. But according to the view
I am putting forward, which is also the ancient view, it is a universe of life. Life is
everywhere—even in the smallest speck—though manifested in different degrees,
matter being its vehicle or medium. Since you cannot ask for a material proof of a
non-material reality, any more than you can ask for proofs of the so-called geometry
of space, you have to regard this view—the essential independence of life—as a
hypothesis, which, the more you consider it in relation to facts of our experience,
confirms itself all the more.
If life is not a mere patch on matter, bound to consume itself like a brush-fire, and
if life is in every particle, then it is a universe of evolution. We know that life in any
form has this extraordinary quality, which not only grows, reproduces, and adapts,
but also brings out of a seemingly inexhaustible store new species, new capacities,
new ways and methods of action. In other words, it ascends.
Life means consciousness—the capacity to respond, to register, to be aware—and
consciousness gives rise to intelligence. Although we see this intelligence in the
activities of Nature, we see its unfettered action in man who constitutes at present,
at least in his own estimation, the summit of evolutionary progress. But is this the
summit or are there higher heights to be reached? The future will show.

From "Our Place in the Universe"

[Skull]

This morning, Pacific time, the Summer Solstice of 2015 occurred. Here is a little of G. de Purucker's teachings on this Great Renunciation, from his The Four Sacred Seasons booklet:

Summer Solstice

We now celebrate the third of the great spiritual and psychical events of the esoteric year, the initiation cycle centering in the Summer Solstice; we celebrate in teaching and by spiritual and intellectual suggestion the actual events of the initiations which take place at this time elsewhere on the surface of the globe.

It is a most suggestive thought, and one that we should carry with us always — each one of us as his or her most prized ideal — that anyone belonging to the outer ring of the mystic Body can, if he or she so will, some day pass from the outer ring to an inner ring, and from that inner ring to one still nearer the center; and so on, until finally, if the disciple prevail in the conquest of self and in the enlargement of consciousness, he shall one day reach the center, and thence by his own will and act be swept into the initiatory life-currents which will bear him on the mystic pilgrimage, on the esoteric round of experience, and return a willing and self-conscious renouncer of what he knows he can get, but which he refuses in order to remain and to help the world as one of the stones in the Guardian Wall surrounding humanity.

[Skull]

The power to know does not come from book-study nor from mere philosophy, but mostly from the actual practice of altruism in deed, word, and thought; for that practice purifies the covers of the soul and permits that light to shine down into the brain-mind. As the brain-mind is the receiver in the waking state, it has to be purified from sense-perccption, and the truest way to do this is by combining philosophy with the highest outward and inward virtue.

HPB in Collected Writings IX:400-G - "Conversations on Occultism"

[Skull]

There are no dark places in the chambers
of the Soul: it is wholly an abode of living light
and knowledge. We need not look outside ourselves
for the grandeur and the aid our hearts
are craving. The secret and key to all situations
is in the heart. All truth is within. It has been
on those inner planes for ages, and still lies sleeping
in the Spirit of Man.

No one can tell it in words; no one can
convey it in speech or writing; none can reveal
to you the Secret of Life. Keys and hints may
be given; enthusiasms may be awakened; hearts
may be aroused and minds stimulated to thought;
but the Reality is a thing each one must find
for himself.

Greater than all the books that ever were
written; greater than all the wisdom the Teachers
of old brought to mankind, are the Books of
Revelation a man may read in within himself.

Move out into the fields of thought where
Reality is, and you will have left your volumes
of theology behind; and you will have ceased to
do injustice to your own Soul. Your personal
god will have died a natural death in your mind;
he will be sitting no longer aloof in space nursing
his moods of love or revenge, or cutting you off
after a single lifetime from all opportunity to
gain experience or do service and shutting out
the splendor of infinite and eternal existence from
you: all that fantastic creation of human brainminds
will have vanished away.

Katherine Tingley The Gods Await

[Skull]

Remembering the word of Masters: 'He who does what he can and all that he can, and all that he knows how to do, does enough for us.' This task includes that of divesting yourself of all personality through interior effort, because that work, if done in the right spirit, is even more important to the race than any outward work we can do.

W.Q. Judge, from letter 14 in Letters That Have Helped Me

[Skull]

A newish blog on theosophic topics:

https://circleofasia.wordpress.com