Rachel Weisz as Hypatia
THE fourth century was the turning point in the history of the Western world, the period in which Christianity took the form of a strong political organization.
Throttling the old religions, sciences and philosophies, “the Church” arose as a temporal power upon their remains.
At the same time, admiring crowds began gathering at the door of the academy where the learned and unfortunate Hypatia taught.
Hypatia, expounding the doctrines of the divine Plato and Plotinus, thereby impeded the progress of Christian proselytism.
She successfully dissipated the mists of the religious “mysteries” invented by the Christian Fathers, and was therefore considered dangerous.
H. P. Blavatsky writes in Isis Unveiled:
“This alone would have been sufficient to imperil both herself and her followers.”
The city of Alexandria is interesting to the Theosophical student, for there, just fifteen hundred years ago, existed the last great Theosophical School in history — the School which was begun by Ammonius Saccas, (called theodidaktos, or “god-taught”), and ended with the death of Hypatia. Continue reading →
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THEOSOPHICAL teachings describe various types of eyes or gazes – the healing eyes of soul, the Siva eye or “third eye,” and the “evil eye.”
The power of the “evil eye” Blavatsky describes in detail in her articles on occultism. The evil eye carries “a great plastic power of thought,” she says, that impregnates a current of energy “with every kind of misfortune and accident.”
The Shiva eye, in the Mahabharata, is depicted as “the standard of invincibility, might, and terror”, as well as a figure of honor, delight, and brilliance.
Shiva is also an auspicious god. As the third person of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimûrti), Blavatsky explains, “He is a god of the first order —
“… and in his character of Destroyer higher than Vishnu, the Preserver, as he destroys only to regenerate on a higher plane.”
“He is born as Rudra, the Kumâra, and is the patron of all the Yogis, being called, as such, Mahâdeva the great ascetic.”
There is also an example of a living Yogi, the selfless healer “Braco” (see The Look that Heals) — his simple gaze can affect an entire audience for good. Many people in Braco’s audience report seeing and feeling a powerful white light from his gaze, and they feel a “special kind of warmth and deep love.” Continue reading →
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EVOLUTION is spiral, Theosophy maintains, “and the path of spirituality turns, corkscrew-like, within and around physical, semi-physical, and supra-physical.”
Man’s immortality and the existence of God, are the two doctrines that H. P. Blavatsky sets out to prove in the Preface to Isis Unveiled, her first Theosophical opus.
Raising the bar to the highest possible level in the key question, she asks:
“Who ever saw the Immortal Spirit of man, so as to be able to assure himself of man’s immortality?”
Often it is the clear-eyed children, unfettered by dogmas, who are the ones able to see their immortal spirit, not their parents or other adults.
In their attempt to answer these monumental questions Mme. Blavatsky reveals, while traveling in the East, they had encountered certain very wise sages:
“… we came into contact with certain men, endowed with such mysterious powers and such profound knowledge … that to their instructions,” she said, “we lent a ready ear.” Continue reading →
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BUDDHA’S teachings, after more than 2500 years, are still a formidable match for modern psychology and neuroscience.
Western psychology is just now beginning to understand the problems of pain and happiness that Buddha solved many centuries ago.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, Buddha said, and the flame will not be diminished. “Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“Respect life as those do who desire it,” counsels also the spiritual psychology of Light on the Path — adding the challenging paradox:
“Be happy as those are who live for happiness.”
The Buddha, master soul psychologist, founded his practical teaching on two simple verses — describing attitudes that have been found to have powerful biochemical effects on the human body. Continue reading →
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IN THE mountains of ancient China, Chan Master Dao Lin lived in a tall pine tree. The locals called him the “Bird’s Nest Monk.”
Hearing about his wisdom and reputation, Minister Bo made the trek to the Qin Wang Mountains to see Master Dao.
Calling up to him, Bo said, “It’s very dangerous where you are sitting, Chan [Zen] Master.”
Master Dao replied:
“My danger may be very great, Minister, but yours is even greater.”
“I am the commander of Qian Tang,” Bo said, “What danger is there?”
The Master responded:
“Fuel and fire are joined, consciousness and identity do not stay: How can you not be in danger?” Continue reading →
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“THAT which men call death is but a change of location for the soul, a mere transformation, a forsaking for a time of the mortal frame, a short period of rest before one reassumes another human frame in the world of mortals.
“The Lord of this body is nameless — dwelling in numerous tenements of clay, it appears to come and go.
“But neither death nor time can claim it, for it is deathless, unchangeable, and pure, beyond Time itself, and not to be measured.
“So our old friend and fellow-worker has merely passed for a short time out of sight, but has not given up the work begun so many years ago — the uplifting of humanity, the destruction of the shackles that enslave the human mind.
“I met H.P.B. in 1875 in the city of New York where she was living in Irving Place.”
-William Quan Judge
In her will, HPB suggested that her friends might gather together on the anniversary of her passing (May 8, 1891) and read from Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia, and from The Bhagavad-Gita.
Lotuses grew in unusual profusion in India on that day. Hence, May 8th became known as White Lotus Day. Continue reading →
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WE don’t have to ‘go’ anywhere to be physical. If you are reading this you are probably living in a ‘physical’ body, and using the senses that came with it.
We don’t have to go anywhere special to be ‘spiritual’ either — we are old souls having a physical experience right now — our spirit is using these physical senses.
The virtual ‘paper’ this blog is written on, does not appear to be ‘physical’ like paper made from trees. And it doesn’t have the same look, or ‘feel.’
Yet this website paper really exists, and it is made of matter — albeit an invisible, electronic-photonic sort of matter — like our souls.
Understanding that both the tree and the website are simply manifestations of an energy, then they are not very different at all. They are really the same in essence.
And this invisible energy canvas serves a real purpose — with the added benefit of saving trees — and is making a kinder impact on the planet.
So forms can be made of many differing states of energy, which like our minds and souls are full of life and consciousness. We cannot see them, or say what “life” or “consciousness” is — but we know they exist. Continue reading →
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GALAXIES form groups from few to a few dozen, to large clusters up to several thousands.
These vast star systems are called “Local Groups,” and all the galaxies they hold, like cells, are in mutual attraction and interaction with each other.
On a lesser scale our solar system, the home of our Earth the other planets, calls the Milky Way Galaxy its home.
Correspondingly, just as the Earth is home to us humans, so our human bodies are habitats and landscapes to billions of microbes — all interconnected with a common mission in the vastness of inner space.
View from Outer Space
At the request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft — having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system — to turn its camera around and take a photograph of Earth from outer space. Continue reading →
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THEOSOPHY was the first to teach the existence of an “astral” substance, an electromagnetic field interpenetrating the visible, material world.
But without ‘hard evidence,’ students would have to rely on logic, intuition, and faith in their teacher.
Scientific proof appeared on the horizon when Russian technician Semyon Kirlian discovered he could photograph this energy field.
Known as “Kirlian Photography,” everything from minerals and tree leaves, to the human body, were shown as being entwined in this matrix.
It can now be demonstrated that our bodies emit energy fields — which vary, depending on our state of health, feelings and thoughts.
Researchers are studying these emissions using the photos as a diagnostic tool. Continue reading →
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CONSCIOUSNESS is at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.
Knowing nothing of its spiritual essence, we reduce consciousness to its various ‘states’ — waking, sleeping, intuitive, meditating, angry, depressed, happy or sad.
We experience perhaps hundreds of such random cognitive and emotional states every day.
But because nature is only judged by science “through her appearance,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote, “that appearance is always deceitful on the physical plane.”
She adds that Science “refuses to blend physics with metaphysics, the body with its informing soul and spirit, which they prefer ignoring.”
Nevertheless, physics and metaphysics were once deeply entwined, resulting in the natural philosophy of the Greeks — now given the cold shoulder by a science that defers to computer simulations, and giant machines.
Esoteric science, on the other hand, reconciles the body-mind being with its substrate spiritual root — Be-ness:
“… it checks the discoveries of modern exact science, and shows some of them to be necessarily correct, since they are found corroborated in the ancient records.”
The ancients recognized that all life is suffused with ‘god-particles’ due to the ubiquity of a metaphysical One Absolute BE-NESS — “the first fundamental axiom of the Secret Doctrine.”
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THE COSMOS in the form of an egg was the most widely diffused belief of antiquity.
The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, and was revered both on account of its form and its inner mystery.
The gradual development of the invisible germ within the closed shell, the inward working, without any apparent outward interference of force, symbolized the origin and secret of Being.
From a latent “nothing” was produced an active something, needing only heat. Gradually evolving and breaking its own shell, the creature appeared to be a self-generated, and a self-created being.
This must have been a standing miracle from the beginning! Continue reading →
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John William Waterhouse, "The Crystal Ball"
IF you saw yourself as nothing but physical matter, how would that affect the way you live right now?
In the emerging science of neuroplasticity we’ve come full circle, back to Buddha, who maintained it is our thoughts that reign supreme over the physical brain and body.
Likewise, if we were convinced that Nature is more than just a “fortuitous concurrence of atoms,” could such a belief change how we managed our natural resources?
What if we believed that “everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious,” as Theosophy asserts?
That everything is “endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception?”
British astronomer, Sir Arthur Eddington, epitomized the ongoing scientific controversy, when commenting on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, in 1927, he remarked: Continue reading →
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THE complex mental and emotional activity evidenced in the kingdoms of nature — from microbes to man’s best friend — was largely unappreciated by science until recent years.
Perhaps we were too lost in our large physical brains to notice our interconnectedness with nature.
Intellect develops in man at the expense of instinct, according to Theosophy. And what remains is a “flickering reminiscence of a once divine spiritual omniscience.”
“Reason — the badge of sovereignty of physical man over all other organisms in nature — is often put to shame by the instinct of an animal,” Blavatsky wrote in Isis Unveiled.
A human’s brain is larger and more complex than that of any other creature, and his intellect is therefore more pronounced. But, intellect alone “serves humans only for material concerns” she says.
Mentality is incapable of leading us to any useful appreciation of either the innate order, or the spiritual intelligence displayed by nature. Continue reading →
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KNOWING oneself necessitates consciousness and self-awareness, both mysterious and elusive correlates of mind.
Consciousness is a hard nut to crack, because it comes down to the mind doing “metacognition” — i.e., thinking about thinking — equivalent to mentally lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps.
The special organ of consciousness is of course the brain, acknowledges H. P. Blavatsky. Nonetheless, she asserts:
“What consciousness is can never be defined psychologically.”
“We can analyse and classify its work and effects,” she says, but science cannot define it directly. That would require they “postulate an Ego distinct from the body.”
But the mainstream cognitive sciences, eschewing Eastern psychology, still strongly resist the idea that mind can have an independent reality. Continue reading →
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GAIA the Greek Goddess of the Earth, was mother to all the Gods according to the ancient Greeks. In the beginning there was only Chaos, out of which there appeared Gaia they taught, who gave birth to more than fifty symbolic deities.
In Gaia’s role as mother to the Gods, and employing many fathers, she gave birth to numerous entities, for example Python, Antaeus, Ceto, Charybdis, Echidna, Creusa, Erichthonius, Eurybia, Typhon — who may have represented the titanic formative and creative forces of Earth’s early history.
The ancients were fond of personifying the natural forces in nature and man, and for good reason.
Nature was conscious, as Theosophy teaches, and is “in reality an aggregate of forces manipulated by semi-intelligent beings guided by High Planetary Spirits.”
“‘Entity’ may be thought a strange term to use in the case of a globe,” wrote H. P. Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine. “But the ancient philosophers, who saw in the earth a huge ‘animal,’ were wiser in their generation than our modern geologists are in theirs.” Continue reading →
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WHEN acting through human brains and bodies, our minds reveal a complex dual nature — a pivotal tenet of Theosophical psychology.
Mind’s higher aspect gravitates toward spirit, while the natural tendency of its physical reflection is attraction to form and desire.
Broadly considered, what is called higher mind is a soul faculty, our intuitional power source according to Theosophy — it is the “god” in man.
The alter-ego, our personal self, epitomized by the gut and brain consciousness, seems to be a conflicted mix of god and demagogue.
This enigma is dramatized by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor in her New York Times bestseller “My Stroke of Insight.” As a brain researcher Dr. Taylor’s focus is of course anatomical, the left and right hemispheres. (See Love and Fury) Continue reading →
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BREAKING 
up is hard to do. Even after our worldviews have betrayed us, they still cling like burrs to our psyche, despite all reason.
Recall the insistent flat earth and geocentric crowd, and creationist belief that the Earth is only ten-thousand years old. The list is long.
Ideas of new age healers and psychics, too, can be wildly exaggerated, and even the bibles of modern science are littered with the remains of failed sacred cows.
Until recently, for example, it was asserted that the brain cannot grow new cells — when they’re gone, they’re gone!
The cliché that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks may be obsolete because now, science confirms, adult brain cells keep growing after all! Continue reading →
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ANIMALS are only instinctual machines, reductionist thinkers believe. Yet, as pet owners and animals activists attest, there’s a lot more spiritual substance to the kingdoms of nature than we recognize.
Science is slowly acknowledging this fact. But the 17th Century, René Descartes, dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy,” started us thinking the wrong way round.
“Descartes held the living animal as being simply an automaton,” H. P. Blavatsky notes — “A ‘well wound up clock-work,’ according to Malebranche“ — adding, with obvious sarcasm:
“One, therefore, who adopts the Cartesian theory about the animal, would do as well to accept at once the views of the modern materialists.” Continue reading →
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GREEN is a multipurpose color, and lately it is the universal icon for a healthy Earth.
The concern we raise in this post is whether we have the collective will and conscience to change our destructive consumerist habits. Maybe we are not really capable of rising to the challenge of healing our planet.
Save the Earth strategies don’t really address the driver, our economic materialism — when the economy is bad, we must buy more stuff! Just be sure to recycle.
Professions of concern that skirt issues like planned obsolescence, are disingenuous as plastic grass. But no worries. Today we’re all about red ribbons and promises of rose gardens — yep, it’s Valentine’s Day! ♥
Foolishly idealistic it might be, but we ask: shouldn’t the world’s human lovers be paying equal homage to Mother Nature — she who designed and grew those Valentine roses? And not only on these special occasions, but every day?
Many diverse cultures makeup Earth’s great family, and many are suffering. Should not the upscale élite, those few well fed and living comfortable lives — the consumers of flowers and chocolates — assist their less fortunate brothers and sisters? Or, in such difficult times as these, should the prudent watchword be: “every person for himself?” Continue reading →
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“NO physiologist, not even the cleverest, will ever be able to solve the mystery of the human mind, in its highest spiritual manifestation,” wrote H. P. Blavatsky.
“Or in its dual aspect of the psychic and the noetic — or even to comprehend the intricacies of the former on the purely material plane — unless he knows something of, and is prepared to admit the presence of this dual element.”
“This means that he would have to admit a lower (animal), and a higher (or divine) mind in man, or what is known in Occultism as the ‘personal’ and the ‘impersonal’ Egos.” Continue reading →
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