Theosophy News Worldwide 2nd Quarter 2014 - Articles from Theosophical sites

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Sons of Fire

Liar, Racist, Antisemite, Satanist, Theosophist and Nazi!

Have I heard correctly? Theosophists are Liars, Racists, Satanists, Antisemites and Nazis? Yes, you have, but that's not all!
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Book of Dzyan Research (David Reigle)


Book of Dzyan Research

Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript digital

The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript book in digital or electronic format can now be downloaded free of charge from the Eastern Tradition Research Institute website
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Book of Dzyan Research

Creation Stories: The Cosmogony Account from the Vaiśeṣika System

The Vaiśeṣika system, one of the six Hindu darśanas (worldviews or schools of philosophy), is not known for its cosmogony. It is known as an ancient Indian system of atomism.
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Book of Dzyan Research

Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript

The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript has now been published. It includes H. P. Blavatsky’s first translations of stanzas from the Book of Dzyan with her unrevised commentaries on them.
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Erica Georgiades


Erica Georgiades

The Leaders of the Theosophical Society and the Idea of Universal Brotherhood

This is an excerpt of the ‘Blavatsky Lecture’ I delivered in 2012. The Title of the lecture was ‘The Olympian Ideal of Universal Brotherhood’.
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Erica Georgiades

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: the woman and the myth

HPB was perhaps one of the most misunderstood women of the 19th century. I make this claim based on the biographies written about her.
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Erica Georgiades

An interview with Chaganti V.K. Maithreya by Erica Georgiades

Could you tell me how and when your great-grand-father met HPB and Olcott; and how did he help them to find and buy the Adyar state?
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Erica Georgiades

The Perennial Philosophy: Georgius Gemistos Plethon and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The perennial philosophy is a concept that refers to the idea that all religions and esoteric traditions, regardless their background, express the same fundamental everlasting truths because their core points out to a primal unity.
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Blavatsky News


Blavatsky News

Blavatsky in Dublin

Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery announces the opening of a new exhibition influenced by Blavatsky. Titled A Modern Panarion - Glimpses of Occultism in Dublin.
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Blavatsky News

Mondrian and Blavatsky

The online edition of London’s Financial Times for June 15 reviews the exhibition “Mondrian and his Studios” at the Tate Liverpool.
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Blavatsky News

Blavatsky News on June, 12th

The Jamaica Gleaner of Kingston, Jamaica, carries an extended look at the subject of reincarnation.
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Blavatsky News

Blavatsky and Point Loma, California

The San Diego Reader of April 2 looks at the San Diego response to the establishment of Katherine Tingley’s Theosophical community at Point Loma, California.
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Blavatsky News

Blavatsky and Australian Art

The name of Christian Waller may not be a well-known one outside Australia, but, with her husband, Napier Waller, the couple made an impressive contribution to Australian art history.
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Blavatsky News

Two New Blavatsky Books

David and Nancy Reigle announce the publication of an early surviving draft of Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine. The Theosophy Company of Los Angeles has announced the publication of The Secret Doctrine Dialogues, “taken from the same stenographic notes as The Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge.”
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Blavatsky News

Blavatsky in Hollywood

The Los Angeles Neighborhoods and Real Estate guide, Curbed LA, looks at “The Creation of Beachwood Canyon’s Theosophist ‘Dreamland’” that lasted from 1912 to 1924 when the community moved to Ojai, California, where they still reside.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK


Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

12 Things Theosophy Teaches

“Theosophy is no new candidate for the world’s attention, but only the restatement of principles which have been recognised from the very infancy of mankind.”
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

Did Blavatsky originally deny Reincarnation?

No-one will argue or attempt to deny that it was through H.P. Blavatsky andHelena Petrovna Blavatsky the Theosophical Movement that the concept and teaching of reincarnation was introduced to the Western world in modern times.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

The Welcome Influence of William Q. Judge

Many have found the teachings and writings of H.P. Blavatsky too complex or difficult to begin with and have wished for something simpler, clearer, and more comprehensible, as their introduction to Theosophy.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

Dharmapala on Besant and Leadbeater

The famous and highly revered Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) has been described as “the leading Buddhist missionary of our time” and “a towering figure in the work for the spiritual resurgence of Asia.”
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

The Man Who Rescued Theosophy

The name Robert Crosbie is entirely unknown to the vast majority of AdyarRobert Crosbie, Founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists Theosophists.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

True Materialism and True Spiritualism

Sometimes when we use different meanings and applications of certain words and terms, we come to forget their original and real meaning.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK

The Planetary Spirit of the Earth

Many mistaken conceptions exist in the minds of Theosophists and others regarding who or what is the “Planetary Spirit” of our Earth.
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TheosophyWatch.com


TheosophyWatch.com

Consciousness Rules: Extrasensory Powers in Nature

“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious,” H. P. Blavatsky writes, “is endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”
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TheosophyWatch.com

New Healing Discovery: Induced After Death Communication

The anxiety illness known as Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is believed, according to Wikipedia, to be “caused by the experience of a wide range of traumatic events.”
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TheosophyWatch.com

The Greater Good

Every child is a spark of God the higher mind. This knowledge put forward by Theosophy on early childhood education is in line with very ancient philosophies.
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TheosophyWatch.com

The Science Delusion

Western science is growing every year more intolerant, as H. P. Blavatsky once declared in the article Occult or Exact Science
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TheosophyWatch.com

The Overview Effect: Universal Unity Changes Everything

When the Theosophical Society was founded in 1875, the First and foremost of its Three Objects was Universal Brotherhood.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Beyond the Personal: Something Unknown

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s epiphany struck when he looked out the window of his spacecraft at the Earth, Moon and Sun, surrounded by an infinitely vast universe..
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TheosophyWatch.com

Dateline Atlantis: Are We Sinking Again?

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, and she gave birth to more than fifty symbolic deities.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Intentional Chocolate

Embarrassment is hard to hide and is even more embarrassing if it is noticed by others around you.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Living Spiritual Masters, Their Message and Their Messenger

“The most intelligent being in the universe, man, has never been without a friend, but has a line of elder brothers who continually watch over the progress of the less progressed.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Waking our Inner Dream God

“There is a kind of conscious telegraphic communication going on incessantly, day and night, between our physical brain and our ever-awake inner consciousness.
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TheosophyWatch.com

The Child-state We Have Lost

“Eleven years old and “willing to help” was how Olivia Bouler described herself to the Audubon Society when she contacted them about the infamous oil spill tragedy in the Gulf.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Goddess and the Christ Sun, the Real Story of Easter

“There would be no glorious bursting forth of nature at Easter-time without the cyclic journey of the Sun. The Sun-cycle ushers springtime into the world above the equator, and the ancients regarded this as the reincarnation season of the year.
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TheosophyWatch.com

Who is Malala?

“From earliest times, among all but modern western people, the teacher was accorded the greatest reverence.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com


Esoteric-Philosophy.com

The Mystery of all time

The inner light which guides men to greatness, and makes them noble, is a mystery through all time and must remain so while Time lasts for us;
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Jung Writes Against Theosophy

The German Thinker Did Not Believe in Ethics or Eastern Wisdom
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Thoughts alon the road

Observing the Sacredness of Daily Life
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Mahatma Gandhi’s View of Food

Eating With Discernment Helps Inner Purification by B. P. Wadia
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?

Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? by Albert Einstein
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

The Destiny of Man

Human Being Is the Key to the Mystery of Knowledge and of Existence
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Adyar or the irrelevance of Bureacracy

The Theosophical Movement After Radha Burnier
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

G. Farthing, the constant Theosophist

The Importance of Returning to a Proper Appreciation of Blavatsky-Masters Theosophy.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

The State of Faultless Vision

Attention Implies the Absence Of Any Distraction or Distortion
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Texts on Truth and Illusion

A List of Articles on Right Vision, Pseudo-Theosophy, and Discernment.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

An Exercise in Self-Examination

Understanding the Psychology of Illusion by Blaise Pascal
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Can Females become Adepts

The Eastern Tradition About Women Initiates by D. K. Mavalankar
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

Masonic Rites and Esoteric Frauds

A Letter Examines the Relation of the Theosophical Movement to Masonic Orders by Robert Crosbie
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com

The Pedagogy of Confidence

Positive Feelings and Actions Emerge From a Wider Notion of Space and Time
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Esoteric Philosophy

The State of Faultless Vision

We, human-beings, have “vision”. Eye is the sense organ. Vision has many meanings but is commonly understood as seeing. The total vision has broader and too wider connotations.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board


Daves's Theosophy News Board

Staff Bullying Allegations Ignored

Over a month has elapsed since former Adyar accountant Mr M Kannan made public his complaints about his suffering at the hands of Adyar Estate Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Raise the White Flag

Admit it General Council, being the governing body of the Adyar Theosophical Society is too difficult for you.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

The Inauguration That Never Was

Tim Boyd airbrushes his rushed inauguration from history.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Serious Concerns That Cannot be Ignored

Relating to the conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election, submitted to Chittaranjan Satapathy by South African
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

The Sundaram Nomination Sham

Indian General Secretary tells the Indian Section Council that he is nominating Tim Boyd – no discussion – no consultation
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

2014 Election Result?

The only option is to Go Back & Do It Again With proper safeguards this time
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Did you get an Invite?

D V Subramaniam’s Posthumous Letter of Complaint
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

D V Subramaniam’s Posthumous Letter of Complaint

Yet another source of information regarding staff bullying at Adyar.
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Tim Boyd ensures that Visiting Adyar will never be the same again.

Tim Boyd's failure to deal with serious allegations will mean that the fear of being banged up in police cells will henceforth haunt visitors to Adyar.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

CVK Maithreya For Vice-President

There's no way that a president, who couldn't even secure for himself a proper inauguration, can fight for the interests of the paying Theosophical Society members, that he is supposed to represent.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Police Action Threatened Over Someone Else’s Car

In October 2013, Adyar Accountant, Mr M Kannan was threatened with police action by Adyar Estate General Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan if he did not move a car that was parked outside his quarters on the Adyar Estate, even though the car wasn’t his.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

One Man One Vote

Tim Boyd nominates only one candidate for International Vice-President and expects the General Council members to vote for him.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Preethi’s Allegations

Allegations against Adyar Estate General Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan over staff bullying and threats of imprisonment are not new.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Is This The True Face of the Adyar Theosophical Society?

Below is a copy of a letter of May 15th 2014 sent to new International President, Tim Boyd by Mr M Kannan outlining his horrendous treatment, during his period of employment at the Adyar Theosophical Society, by General Manager of the Adyar Estate, Mr S Harihara Raghavan.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Adyar Allegations

Adyar Estate General Manager reports former Theosophical Society Accountant to the police, resulting in detention and two days of interrogation
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Daves's Theosophy News Board

Is Wheaton Set To Support Adyar?

A two job president will produce a massive conflict of interest that will divide the American Section
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Climate of Fear

Threats of influencing police to coerce people into submission are common
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Quick on getting himself inaugurated slow on dealing with problems

Serious allegations about a reign of terror at Adyar are lodged with the International President.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board

CVK Maithreya Deserved Better Treatment

The exclusion of Mr Maithreya from the rushed inauguration was an insult to him and his supporters.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board

Who Can Support The Leadership Now?

By its silence policy and failure to clear up doubts about the result of the 2014 presidential election, the leadership has declared itself unaccountable.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board

Silence As Usual By the Adyar Theosophical Society ruling elite

Anybody thinking that Adyar ruling elite’s policy of not telling the members anything would end after the presidential election, were massively over optimistic.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board

Pray Silence While the President Creeps into Office

Having dutifully done as he was told by the ruling elite by maintaining silence during the now disputed 2014 election, the new president is obliging his masters by silently creeping into office to avoid angry crowds.
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