Theosophy

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Spirituality is on its ascending arc, and the animal or physical impedes it from steadily progressing on the path of its evolution only when the selfishness of the personality has so strongly infected the real inner man with its lethal virus, that the upward attraction has lost all its power on the thinking reasonable man.
In sober truth, vice and wickedness are an abnormal, unnatural manifestation, at this period of our human evolution — at least they ought to be so. The fact that mankind was never more selfish and vicious than it is now, civilized nations having succeeded in making of the first an ethical characteristic, of the second an art, is an additional proof of the exceptional nature of the phenomenon.

H.P. Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine II:110

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On the 8th of May in 1891, the noble Helena Blavatsky died. In grateful remembrance of her life given for the mind and life of humanity.

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-perception, and the truest way to do this is by combining philosophy with the highest outward and inward virtue.

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This August the ITC conference will be in Philadelphia. Here are readings on the main subjects: Universal Brotherhood, Nucleus and Healing.

http://www.theosophyconferences.org/index.php/readings/

Typos and highlighting abound.

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We have opportunities continuously of
making every day an Easter-festival, a day
of the resurrection or the evoking of the spiritual
side of our natures; for every man is a
Christ in degree. But we and our ancestors
before us have been moving along under the
psychology of the ages, half-blinded with the
teaching that Jesus alone was the special son
of God, and that the rest of humanity were
miserable sinners whose only salvation lay
in something outside themselves. Such a
conception deprives humanity of its rightful
spiritual heritage.

Katherine Tingley

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An overview of Theosophy, that is also available in print:

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/..._theosophy.pdf

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We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea, which ebbs and flows, which surges and washes hither and thither, carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force, creating nature, visiting whom it will and withdrawing from whom it will, making day where it comes and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel. It is as the light, public and entire to each, and on the same terms.

R.W. Emerson, "Natural History of Intellect"

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The theosophical movement is far older than the presentation that Blavatsky gave.

Here is a theosophist, yet not a member of any group inspired by Blavatsky:

The central aim of Vedanta is to bring all to one unifying understanding, yet to let each one follow his own particular form of faith. When we try to force sameness of thought, it bars spiritual progress; but when we admit the possibility of perfect unity in variety, then each one is able to advance in his own way.

Vedanta realizes that as long as there are such differences in human temperament and mind, we cannot expect all to worship in the same manner. To destroy diversity in life would be to destroy much of its beauty and sublimity. Therefore Vedanta includes in its scope all forms of thought.

From Emerson and Vedanta by Swami Paramananda

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Latest issue of 2017 Lucifer magazine:

http://www.blavatskyhouse.org/pdf/Lu...ugust_2017.pdf

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Theosophical Search, a recent site, it may turn out to be useful across all sorts of sites and writings:

http://www.joehasiewicz.com/tws/web/

[Kate Matthews]

Thank you.