Theosophy News Worldwide 4th Quarter 2015 - Articles from Theosophical sites

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FOTA

Newsletter of the Friends of the Theosophical Archives (Fota)

The featured article in this issue is the *Last Will of Annie Besant *commented by John Patrick Deveney. The article *HPB’s Memorabilia* discusses a photograph of HPB’s room; Kevin Tingay talks about *Theosophy and the Education of Children*; David and Nancy Reigle write about *Boris de...
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Daves's Theosophy News Board


Daves's Theosophy News Board

Tim Boyd Won’t Investigate

Allegations of sexual abuse of young girls by an Adyar Theosophical Society Official But despite the evidence, International President, Tim Boyd Won’t Investigate
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A KICK IN THE TEETH for the Adyar Workers While Tim Boyd looks on

Below is a draft copy of a letter of October 5th 2015 sent by former Adyar Theosophical Society member and official, Mr S Ramu to the current International President, Tim Boyd outlining the disgraceful treatment of workers on the Adyar Estate, and urging him to take action.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

CAMP BOYD

Treatment of workers on the Adyar Estate has always been notoriously poor but things have clearly got much worse since Tim Boyd took over as International President.
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CAMP BOYD CONDITIONS

Oppressive employment terms and conditions at the Adyar Theosophical Labour Camp
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK


Blavatsky Theosophy UK

The Greatest Doctrine of Esoteric Philosophy: Nirmanakaya - The Bodhisattvic Body

Nirmanakayas, FROM THE WRITINGS OF H.P. BLAVATSKY
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Is Theosophy a Religion?

EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE BY H.P. BLAVATSKY
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Friends or Enemies in the Future?

FROM THE ARTICLE “FRIENDS OR ENEMIES IN THE FUTURE” By William Q. Judge
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Is Theosophy Racist about Africans?

Is Theosophy racist? Do the writings of H.P. Blavatsky truly contain racially prejudiced and insulting statements about Africans and other black people?
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Understanding The Importance of Mr. Judge

It would require a greater knowledge and more skill than the writer possesses, to portray truly the nature of the one who lived among us under the name of William Q. Judge.
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

“Satan is the only God” – Did Blavatsky really say that?

The fundamentalist Christian website www.jesus-is-savior.com contains a particularly misleading, fallacious, and deliberately dishonest critique of H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy, and the Theosophical Movement.
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Study, Thinking and Using the Mind

It is increasingly popular amongst today’s spiritual seekers to attempt to demonise the very fact and act of thought and thinking
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

From Theosophical Society to Bizarre Quasi-Catholic Anti-Blavatsky Cult?

The title of this article is certainly strongly worded and graphic. Those who will attentively read through to the end, however, will see that it is entirely warranted and necessarily honestly descriptive of the utter tragedy and disgraceful travesty that occurred within the Theosophical Movement in the first several decades of the 20th century.
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

Answers, Ideas, Suggestions

The following are from a number of answers and replies sent to visitors to this website who had various questions and comments relating to Theosophy and the Theosophical perspective on different subjects.
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Blavatsky Theosophy UK

The Esoteric Explanation of Fossils

We have all seen fossils. Some of us have found them for ourselves and it is not particularly uncommon to do so.
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Theosophy Watch


Theosophy Watch

A New Year’s Lesson: How the Ancients Achieved their Gnosis, or True Spiritual Insights

ONE of the best ways to describe what Theosophy is, as arts reporter Ali Snow said recently on a Utah Public Radio show, “is to think of it as a kind of fusion of religion and science.
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Theosophy Watch

Sacred Symbols of Initiation, and the Solstice

MANY witnesses believe that crop circle formations are a modern spiritual mythology, embedding symbol-encoded occult messages.
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Theosophy Watch

Season of the Sun: Our Cosmic Mother

WHAT is the winter solstice, and why do so many people around the world bother to celebrate it, as they do every year at this time?
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Theosophy Watch

“Our Birth is But a Sleep and a Forgetting”

WHEN our thick brains get all heated up worrying about life’s complexities, that’s often the best time to kick off our shoes, and give it a rest.
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Theosophy Watch

A Child’s Past Life Recall: Evidence of Reincarnation

REINCARNATION is “one of the most important issues faced by philosophy, religion and science that have very significant implications to the understanding of human life,” says the website Reincarnation-Research.
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Theosophy Watch

Bearers of Truth Across the Ages: Theosophy and The Masters

THE most intelligent being in the universe, man, has never been without a friend, (wrote W. Q. Judge), “but has a line of elder brothers who continually watch over the progress of the less progressed.”
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Theosophy Watch

The Monkey Trap: Voidness of the Seeming Full

MORE than five-thousand years ago, Chinese doctors described hundreds of invisible energy meridians throughout the human body.
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Theosophy Watch

Synesthesia and Layers of the Brain

THIS is the incredible story of Daniel Tammet. A thirty-something with extraordinary mental abili
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Theosophy Watch

Instant Karma and the Revolutionary Case of Bridey Murphy

THEOSOPHY students of a certain agebridey_murphy_moviemight remember the famous and mysterious 1950’s reincarnation case of “Bridey Murphy.”
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Theosophy Watch

Buddha: I Laugh and am Glad, for there is Liberty

BUDDHA never had any intention of establishing a religion 2500 years ago, at least not our sectarian kind.
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Theosophy Watch

Astral Senses: How a Blind Man Sees

MANY of us are so preoccupied with future expectations, things like New Year’s resolutions, we often fail to see what’s right in front of us
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Forgiveness, and the Freedom of Letting Go

BUDDHA said: All that ox_cart_riding1we are is the result of what we have thought: all that we are is founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts.
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Theosophy Watch

Fohat: Electric Plasma Currents Pervade Space

FOHAT is a term and concept which appears throughout “The Secret Doctrine” by H.P. Blavatsky – and especially in the first volume titled “Cosmogenesis.”
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Theosophy Forward


Theosophy Forward

Editorial: The Elephants are Here!

This issue of Theosophy Forward is stacked with many articles of interest and especially the category GOOD NEWS has a great number of entries this time, go there and have a look around.
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Theosophy Forward

Mini-Interviews

Michiel Haas, Colyn Boyce, Raphael Langerhorst , Linda Watts, Nano Leguay, Nathanya Wouden, Jan Maarten Braak,

 

 

 


Theosophy Forward

The Way Forward For Humanity

The term “brotherhood’ is often tripped off the tongue by Theosophists. “Brotherhood” is easy to talk about but – easy to say and so very hard to put into practice.
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Theosophy Forward

The Courage of Commitment

Custom and habit may lead us into patterns of thought and action which, by their very repetition, seem to be lacking in freshness and spontaneity.
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Theosophy Forward

Einar Adalsteinsson – A Tribute

We remember Einar Adalsteinsson, June 19, 1941 – July 9, 1998
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Theosophy Forward

Articles of Einar Adalsteinsson

Loving Kindness in Practice, Mystic Unification of Mind and Action, The Mystical Approach

 

 

 


Theosophy Forward

Theosophy and Architecture: K. P. C. de Bazel’s Dutch Trading Company Building in Amsterdam (Reprint from January 2011)

The building of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (Dutch Trade Company) (1919-1926) is a long-time favourite of mine. When I started my PhD research on Theosophy and Art in the Netherlands in 1987, I came across this building in the literature on Karel de Bazel (1869-1923, a Theosophical architect and designer whose most famous work is the subject of this article)
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Theosophy Forward

Theosophy and the Arts, Texts and Contexts of Modern Enchantment

It is well known among students of Theosophy that renowned visual artists, poets, writers, composers, creative people of all sorts have made no secret of their interest in Theosophy.
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Theosophy Forward

Good News

from Adyar, 2014 – 2015 Accomplishments, from the School of the Wisdom, from the TS-Point Loma – Blavatskyhouse, from the International Theosophical Centre in Naarden, the Netherlands 1 , from the International Theosophical Centre in Naarden, the Netherlands 2 , from Brazil , Good News from International Theosophy Conferences Inc., from England , from New Zealand , from Reincarnation Research , from the TOS-Golden Link College , from Krotona , from Olcott in Wheaton , about an extraordinary Webinar, from Adyar cows and bulls

 


Book of Dzyan Research


The Book of Dzyan

Anthropogenesis in the Stanzas of Dzyan Webinar

An online webinar on the anthropogenesis stanzas from the Book of Dzyan found in The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, will be starting on Jan. 11, 2016...
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The Book of Dzyan

Boris de Zirkoff’s edition of The Voice of the Silence

The Voice of the Silence is said by H. P. Blavatsky to be chosen fragments translated by her from the “Book of the Golden Precepts.”...
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