Swabhāva
In short, Swabhāva can be described as the essential individuality of and Monad, which, by developing and evolving out of its own inner urge, expresses its own characteristics, properties and type.
- Gottfried the Purucker, Occult Glossary
#theosofia#Occult_Glossary
Someone said:
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarity.
I think that our thoughts are the transmitters of the content and even more the bridge between the two. That one we can control if we want.
#humans#think#read#thoughts
We are connected to all people—yes, to all living beings—through countless bonds—bonds of sympathy and antipathy. We always have the choice to decide which bonds we want to strengthen.
"Am I a part of the solution or the cause of the problem?"
- Barend Voorham in the lecture "How to deal with grief", from the lecture series "The secret of happiness".
#TSPL#theosophia#secret#happiness
Tao
'The Tao of heaven is like the bending of a bow: It brings down what is high and increases what is low. The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too muchAnd give to those who have too little'.
- Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
#Lao_Tzu#Tao#Tao_Te_Ching#theosofia#peace
Katherine Tingley when she speaks about the unnameable:
“Thinking toward the unthinkable is a wonderful, spiritualizing force; one cannot think toward it without a disposition to either think more or feel more, without opening up the inner consciousness of man.”
#theosophy#peace
The universal division in three can be found in all the great wisdom-religion systems:
1. Spirit - the imperishable part
2 Soul - the learning part
3. Body - the perishable part
"Joy unto ye, O men of Myalba. A Pilgrim hath turned back “from the other shore”! A new Arhan is born. Peace to all beings and blessings on all that lives"!
- H.P. Blavatsky, Voice of Silence
#theosophy#compassion#brotherhood
The Wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. Never was I not, yet thou, nor these princes of the earth; nor will any of us ever hereafter cease to be.
- Bhagvad-Gita Chapter 2, verses 11-12
“Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance. And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers.”
- H. P. Blavatsky The Voice of the Silence, I.66-67
If you want to understand the way the Lodge of Wisdom works and the role Blavatsky plays in this, you have to study and practice the teachings of the Theosophia, test them and be critical.
Book "Celebrating the Heart of Theosophy (1875-2025)"
In 2025 ITC celebrated 150 years of Theosophy with the conference "Celebrating the Heart of Theosophy". We are happy to present this new book based on that conference.
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