Theosophy

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 comments on Jon Meacham’s lead article. “ The End of Christian America ” received over 5,000 comments, blogger Kurt Soller reported, “making the site wobbly .” (See Colleen Raezler’s column For the media, it’s un-Holy Week if you want all the bloody details.) It is true ... Read Full Story

Nicholas Roerich, "Attainment" - 1938 By the close of the 19th Century, Theosophy had laid the ground plan for the “new age” we recognize today. It was an unimpeachable call to altruism and the regeneration of mankind— exhorting both entrenched science and religion to end their combative ways — in a cooperation towards a higher synthesis. Atheism was to be tutored by the Gnostic, Religion by Reason, Physics by Metaphysics. It was a time that tested the soul of things. When H. P. Blavatsky wrote “Modern science believes not in the ’soul of things, and will reject the whole system of ancient cosmogony,” she ... Read Full Story

This post is not a review of Gunter Grass’ WWII novelistic memoir of the same title. It is about a much different struggle — of rescuing “consciousness” from the camp of reductionist science, where it had degraded and starved for decades. This was the outspoken agenda of The Secret Doctrine : “The aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not ‘a fortuitous concurrence of atoms ,’ and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to ... Read Full Story

“DESCARTES held the living animal as being simply an automaton,” H. P. Blavatsky comments: “A ‘well wound up clock-work,’ according to Malebranche .” She adds with cutting 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.” “But if the animal is an ‘automaton,’ Blavatsky argues , “ why not Man? “ “Exact science—anatomy, physiology, etc.,—finds not the smallest difference between the bodies of the two. … St. Thomas says that ‘all the souls—even those of plants, have the substantial form of their bodies,’ and if this is true ... Read Full Story

The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 at a time when the West was just becoming seriously aware of the existence of religions and people elsewhere. Intelligent people could no longer classify Islam as devilish for instance, or Hinduism as barbaric. But what then? The serious study of religion was started at universities - the first professor of comparative religion got his post in 1875. Read Full Story