Healing the Beast

Posted on March 6, 2010 by theosophywatch

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 [...]

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Love and Fury

Posted on February 9, 2010 by theosophywatch

“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 [...]

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Nothing to Lose

Posted on January 19, 2010 by theosophywatch

THE classic struggle between hero and villain, the “good guys vs the bad guys,” is a staple of our entertainment and literary culture.
Without this persistent duality, there would never have been Hercules, Batman, Spiderman or Superman — or the Lone Ranger on his white horse Silver.
Nor would we be enjoying productions of Macbeth or Hamlet, or [...]

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The Mystic Power

Posted on December 15, 2009 by theosophywatch

THE oral teachings of Buddha were transcribed forming The Dhammapada, which means “the path of Dharma,” or Duty. Not meant to be a new religion, these were practical teachings anyone could understand and follow. In his first commentary Buddha emphasized that our thoughts have real creative power:
“ALL that we are is the result of what [...]

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Never Ending Life

Posted on December 10, 2009 by theosophywatch

THE Founders of the modern Theosophical Society and Masters behind the wider Movement, labored tirelessly during the late 19th Century to document and publicize the lost teachings concerning man, nature and the universe.
The restoration of this ancient Wisdom came at a critical juncture — the rise of materialistic science was threatening to deliver a [...]

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Visions or Illusions

Posted on August 30, 2009 by theosophywatch

THE true student of The Secret Doctrine is a Jnana Yogi, and this Path of Yoga is the True Path for the Western student, Blavatsky said. “It is to provide him with sign posts on that Path that The Secret Doctrine has been written.”
This mode of thinking, she explained, is what the Indians call Jnana [...]

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Neti Neti

Posted on August 1, 2009 by otownley

THE idea that things can cease to exist and still be, is a fundamental one in Eastern psychology. Under this apparent contradiction in terms, there rests a fact of Nature to realize is the important thing.
A familiar instance of a similar paradox is afforded by chemical combination. The question whether Hydrogen and Oxygen cease to [...]

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Fields of Dream

Posted on June 30, 2009 by otownley

WHEN our rational brains are all heated up, arguing life’s complexities, that’s usually the best time to kick off our shoes and give it a rest.
“Ever drifting down the stream, lingering in the golden gleam,” Lewis Carroll wondered, “Life, what is it but a dream?”

Yet, at times when we are faced with a [...]

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New Swirled Order

Posted on May 18, 2009 by otownley

“I produce myself among creatures whenever there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world; and thus I incarnate from age to age for the preservation of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of righteousness.”
-Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita IV:31
The power of consciousness itself, is working [...]

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The Real Jesus

Posted on April 10, 2009 by otownley

EASTER week is Christianity’s “Jesus week,” and now the secular media-mob have been waging an unprecedented, virulent assault on Christian beliefs. We decided to enter the fray as peace-makers instead.
The cover of NEWSWEEK (April 4th) is emblazoned “The Decline and Fall of Christian America.”
As a result, that runner-up news magazine was forced to disable [...]

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Center Is Everywhere

Posted on March 11, 2009 by otownley

THE SECRET SITS

“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
– Robert Frost
One of my recurring childhood memories is attending Sunday morning Theosophy School in New York City.
We began our morning in the basement woodworking shop, practicing our “readings” for the Assembly program. What I remember [...]

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That Which Ye Sow

Posted on December 31, 2008 by theosophywatch

NEW YEAR’S Resolutions are easily made. Mix in some “will power” and suddenly we’ve made a life change, right? Nice try, but not really. We know better.
Statistically, despite good intentions, resolutions are broken within a few days or weeks. Why is this?
Recidivism is rampant among us mortals. Habits are powerful. We can replace [...]

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Following The Wheel of The Good Law

Posted on November 25, 2008 by ashravaka

Compassion is no attribute. It is the LAW of laws – eternal Harmony…
The Voice of the Silence
Dharma Wheel (Dharmachakra, Wheel of Law)

So much “original” writing is done today, so much “self-expression” is indulged in that, in the glamour that is raised, the chants of the Gods remain unheard. One of our tasks is to bring [...]

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Sacred Tribe of Heroes

Posted on November 17, 2008 by otownley

SYNESIUS (c. 373 – c. 414), a Greek bishop of Ptolemais, quoted in the article “Cycles,” by William Q. Judge:

“Yet you must not think that the gods are without employment, or that their descent to this earth is perpetual. For they descend according to orderly periods of time, for [...]

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The Secret of Intention

Posted on October 2, 2008 by otownley

Lynne McTaggart, author of the Field, talks about her vocation, the basis of happiness and the power of intention.

For it is the motive, and the motive alone, which makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white, beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ spiritual forces if there is [...]

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