Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil INTRODUCTION In the beautiful summer of 2015, International Theosophy Conferences held its annual meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The theme was:” Helena Petrovna Blavatsky through different eyes with ONE Heart”. Representatives of a number of theosophical organizations were invited…
Ananya Sri Ram – USA The author On March 20, 1928, a little boy was born into a wealthy family. The little boy’s father was the president of a very successful business in the town where they lived. The little boy’s mother was the daughter of the man who owned the successful business. She originally wanted to study medicine,…
April Hejka-Ekins – USA Photo © David Grossman. Let's begin with a story about Mullah Nasr Eddin: Mullah went to a bazaar to buy cloth. Finding all the booths full of customers bidding and driving up the prices, he stationed himself near the opposite end of the bazaar and began shouting at the top of this lungs about the bargains…
Tim Boyd - India, USA The author, always observant, this time in black and white Rather than speak in a theoretical manner, I prefer to address the Next Steps from the point of view of my own experience and that of my co-workers at Adyar. Let me give you two quotes that might season our conversation. The first is from the Mahatma…
Pablo Sender – USA Pablo Sender; this photo was taken in Italy, July-2025 From time to time, it is important to pause in our daily activities and pose certain probing questions to ourselves—questions that, while perhaps uncomfortable, can illuminate the nature of our commitments and motivations. One such question that…
Boris de Zirkoff – USA Unique photo of the author while visiting the Cathedral (Il Duome) of Milan-Italy, accompanied by Axel von Fielitz-Coniar, a former General Secretary of the Adyar TS in Germany. Photo taken on May 26, 1959. (special thanks to Kenneth Small) [Note from the editor. Theosophy Forward regularly publishes articles…
Wesley Amerman – USA 'Theosophists,' either individually or as members of the various Theosophical Societies, have a long history to live down. No one living today, of course, had anything to do with the problems of the early twentieth century, when our predecessors chased after 'Ascended Masters' and made gurus out of brilliant…
MIT scientists have uncovered chemical traces of the original "proto Earth” remnants from before the cataclysmic impact that created our modern planet [The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States] Researchers from MIT…
Deepa Padhi – India Author Deepa Padhi is international Vice-President of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, India, and President of the Theosophical Order of Service (TOS), Odisha Region, India Embracing spiritual wholeness is both an ancient and modern state of mind. In Mabel Collins’s The Idyll of the White…
[note from the editor: Jon, a formidable friend and deep student sadly passed away, much too early, in July 2023] 1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My label and my story? My name is Jon Knebel and I currently live in the western suburbs of Chicago. I have been…
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