On using words with Care
Thursday, 16 May 2024
  William Quan Judge, one of the three principle founders of the Theosophical Society,  advised us to use words with care, and this advice is very necessary if we would leave no room for “avoidable” misconceptions. The unavoidable misconceptions are due to the limitations of the readers or of the listeners, their preconceived notions... Read More...

A note from Joma Sipe in Portugal (May 2024)
Monday, 06 May 2024
Joima at work  Last year I created a custom piece that I have not shared yet, it is called “Message from the Land of Silence”. This is a panel made with the six pointed star, symbolizing inspiration and the dove representing the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, at the bottom the symbolism of the Triad, inserted in a form of three swirling... Read More...

Can animals count?
Sunday, 05 May 2024
  Neuroscientists resolve long-standing debate Some monkeys have shown the ability to count objects  (Image credit: Michael Woodruff/Shutterstock) Research co-led by neuroscientists Professor Yung Wing-ho from City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and Professor Ke Ya from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine... Read More...

The Fourth Pillar of Practice
Saturday, 04 May 2024
Tim Boyd – India, USA The author, profound, observant, creative and all-embracing One of the somewhat paradoxical goals of spiritual practice is to become less self-centered. The results of practice might be described as becoming “unselfed”. Expressed in simple terms spiritual practice focuses on diminishing the limiting influence of the... Read More...

Nuestras responsabilidades con los animales
Friday, 03 May 2024
Andrew Rooke – Australia Cuando los indios de las llanuras americanas partieron a cazar bisontes hace más de 200 años, primero dijeron una oración de disculpa a sus "hermanos menores", los animales que estaban a punto de matar sólo para alimentar a sus familias. En el pasado, tales actitudes de humildad e identidad con el Reino de la vida... Read More...

Los animales, nuestros hermanos menores
Friday, 03 May 2024
Andrew Rooke – Australia Que belleza.. (Lemur, originario de Madagascar) Si alguna vez ha tenido una querida mascota en su hogar, seguramente se habría preguntado: ¿cómo es posible que los animales puedan tener un impacto tan grande en los humanos con solo "estar ahí"? ¿Quiénes son los seres que llamamos 'Animales' y cómo se relacionan... Read More...

For the Love of Humanity
Wednesday, 01 May 2024
Cary Gardner – USA   What do we really know about the human family and the pilgrimage of mankind? The Voice of the Silence makes this firm statement.   “To live to benefit mankind is the first step.” How do we benefit mankind?  What do we really know about mankind as a whole?   Our personal life, our family... Read More...

Our responsibilities to the Animals
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Andrew Rooke – Australia When the American Plains Indians rode forth to hunt bison 200 years ago, they first said a prayer of apology to their ‘younger brothers’ the animals which they were about to kill only to feed their  families. Such attitudes of humility and identity with the kingdom of life below us humans has, in the past, been... Read More...

Animals, our Younger Brothers
Monday, 29 April 2024
Andrew Rooke – Australia What a beauty ..  (Lemur, native to Madagascar) If you have ever had a beloved pet in your household, you would certainly have wondered, how is it that animals can have such a major impact on us humans by just ‘being there’? Who are the beings we call the ‘Animals’ and how do they relate to the human... Read More...

Great News from Helma Kuit and Michiel Haas
Saturday, 27 April 2024
\ Dear Helma smiling, all in Orange, with her proud decoration Helma Kuit, Michiel Haas’s  wife, on April 27, was decorated by the Mayor of “Gooise Meren”, on behalf of Dutch  King Willem Alexander. She became a member of the Order of Oranje Nassau.   The Order of Orange-Nassau has existed since April 4, 1892. Persons who have... Read More...

Scientific Research on Children’s Reincarnation Memories
Saturday, 27 April 2024
  Antti Savinainen – Finland Children’s Reincarnation Memories Reincarnation is among the most central teachings of Theosophy and Anthroposophy, which portray it as an opportunity to evolve as a human being from one life to the next. Our understanding of reincarnation has been shaped by the teachings of Eastern religions and spiritual... Read More...

TO DEBATE OR NOT TO DEBATE
Saturday, 27 April 2024
Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil Just imagine two debaters ... One of them, number 1, a sociopath. is operating influenced by egotism, narcissism and voracity thus representing a threatening dark force, acting like a mob boss, fully determined to obliterate everything his opponent is and stands for.   The other one, number 2, who like all of us... Read More...

The Dark Side of Light
Friday, 26 April 2024
John Algeo – USA John Algeo at his best: lecturing at Olcott in Wheaton An old kabbalistic motto holds that Demon est Deus inversus, "The devil is God upside down," or "The devil is God's complement." The Irish poet William Butler Yeats took, as his mystical name in the kabbalistic Order of the Golden Dawn, the initials of that Latin motto,... Read More...

The Three Pillars of Practice
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Tim Boyd – USA, India Tim Boyd at the beautiful International Theosophical Centre in Naarden, the Netherlanda IN all traditions that aim at self-transformation, or human regeneration, there is a necessary emphasis on the need for practice. Some people might resist the discipline and time required to develop and persist in a practice, thinking of... Read More...

Newly found genetic variant defends against Alzheimer's disease
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Columbia researchers have discovered a genetic variant that reduces the odds of developing Alzheimer's disease by up to 70% and may be protecting thousands of people in the United States from the disease. The discovery of the protective variant, which appears to allow toxic forms of amyloid out of the brain and through the blood-brain barrier,... Read More...

Service as a Universal Path
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
 Douglas Keene – USA          Douglas Keene, National President of the Theosophical Society in America Service comes in many descriptions and circumstances. This can be as simple as a smile, lending a caring ear, or treating others with respect. Fulfilling our family obligations, work duties, and community... Read More...

Why? 
Monday, 15 April 2024
Barbara Hebert – USA Toddlers and young children frequently ask “why?”:  Why is the sky blue?  Why does it rain? Why is grass green? and so on. They are trying to learn about the world in which they find themselves. As seekers for truth, we also frequently ask the question “why?” We want to understand ourselves, the world into... Read More...

Gandhiji’s fasting – (In the Light of Theosophy)
Saturday, 13 April 2024
In the article, “My Fasts” Gandhiji says that his religion has taught him to fast and pray whenever there is distress which one is unable to remove. “What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.” Curiously, he mentions that these fasts undertaken by him are not undertaken for amusement or fame, but because “they are... Read More...

Boris de Zirkoff’s  talk on  INNER AWARENESS
Friday, 12 April 2024
Edited by Hector Tate [From the last issue of Theosophia a magazine that was published every three months, from May 1944 till June 1981.  It's objectives were: to uphold and promote the Original Principles of the modern Theosophical Movement, and to disseminate the teachings of the Esoteric Philosophy as set forth by H.P. Blavatsky and her... Read More...

Strolling along with Richard
Thursday, 11 April 2024
Strolling along with Richard Text and photos by Richard Dvořák Strolling through the orchard meadows of South West Germany today, the sun's warmth truly made its presence felt for the first time this year. It was a walk through a landscape in transition. Witnessing the gentle unfurling of buds and the subtle shades of green reclaiming the trees,... Read More...

Rudolf Steiner's Teachings in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Tuesday, 09 April 2024
Antti  Savinainen – Finland Rudolf Steiner Introduction Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) published a series of articles titled How to Know Higher Worlds? (in German Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?) in the journal Lucifer-Gnosis between 1904 and 1905. These articles were published as a book in 1909. Steiner reworked his text... Read More...

Understanding Universal Intelligence
Monday, 08 April 2024
Deepa Padhi – India Deepa Padhi, International Vice President and Tim Boyd, International President of the TS-Adyar The very concept of universal intelligence suggests that the universe is created by intelligent design. There is an intelligent principle working behind the universe and it exists for a purpose. The creation is teleological, not... Read More...

Notable Books 64
Saturday, 06 April 2024
  Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience, Paul Dennison. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE   For those having an interest in underlying neurological correlates of subjective stages of meditative withdrawal, this work will be found enlightening. It presents the idea that our overwhelming... Read More...

Théosophie – La Force dans l’Unité
Saturday, 06 April 2024
Barbara Hebert – Etats-Unis     L’auteur Lorsque nous pensons à la diversité ou aux différences que nous constatons dans notre monde, nous ne pensons généralement pas à la force. Pourtant, la diversité nous donne de la force. Les différences que nous constatons permettent à chacun de choisir son propre chemin... Read More...

Le Cycle de la Force, la Justice et l’Unité
Saturday, 06 April 2024
Douglas Keene – Etats-Unis     Douglas Keene, qui a succédé l'année dernière à Barbara Hébert à la présidence de la Société Théosophique d'Amérique Lorsque nous considérons la relation entre la force et l’unité, nous devons également considérer la justice, car la justice est le résultat de la force et mène à... Read More...

O Ciclo de Força, Justiça e Unidade
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Douglas Keene - Estados Unidos Douglas Keene, que no ano passado sucedeu Barbara Hebert como presidente  da Sociedade Teosófica na América Quando consideramos a relação entre força e unidade, devemos também considerar a justiça, pois a justiça é um resultado da força e conduz à unidade. Na verdade, cada qualidade pode ser... Read More...

A Força na Unidade
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Bárbara Hebert - Estados Unidos A autora Quando pensamos na diversidade ou nas diferenças que vemos no nosso mundo, normalmente não pensamos em força. No entanto, a diversidade nos dá força. As diferenças que vemos permitem que cada um de nós escolha o nosso próprio caminho espiritual, cresça à nossa maneira. Através de... Read More...

Obituary to Pisces
Monday, 18 March 2024
Tim Wyatt – England Tim petting some (Greek) cats As we reach the end of the first quarter of the first century of this still new-ish millennium, one of the few remaining certainties is that we live in a world riddled with total uncertainty. The only sure bet is that we’ll almost certainly continue to be hit between the eyes by major upheavals... Read More...

Universal Intelligence and the Human Condition
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Tim Boyd – USA, India Photo taken in Adyar a few years ago, MICHIEL HAAS and TIM BOYD  One of the wonders of the theosophical endeavor is that people find their way to it, their meaning in it, then expand on that according to their own understanding and needs. There are people for whom the Theosophical Society (TS) and its work are related... Read More...

Theosophical Meditation: A question from Dewald Bester for the Theosophical Society
Sunday, 10 March 2024
Nada Yoga With reactions-contemplations from David M. Grossman, Esther Pockrandt, Pablo Sender and Juliana Cesano +++++++ Dewald Bester, Cape Town – South Africa I am late to this topic, but I will, at least to my satisfaction, solve this problem. That, or some more drastic action will have to be taken - one that so many before me have taken.... Read More...