An Opinion In Regard To What It Ought To Be. [by a member.][1] I am often asked by strangers who have heard some accounts of the doings of the Theosophists: What is the Theosophical Society, and what is its purpose? Some believe it to be a sect, in which no opinion is suffered to exist […]
Note[1] “Christianity” is a religion; but the word “religion” has evidently three distinct meanings: In the first place it signifies the practice of a certain kind of spiritual training, by which the higher principles in the constitution of man are developed and reunited (bound back) to the divine source to which they belong. In […]
Dr. Hartmann’s response in reply to N. G., F. T. S.][1] WHAT SYSTEM OF MEDICINE IS THE BEST? You are perhaps aware that I am by profession a medical practitioner besides being the teacher of Medicine in the local Medical School. It is therefore of the greatest importance that I should know the true laws […]
Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.” Sir R. L’Estrange. After the last number of the “Lotusblüten” was already in print, we received the news of the death of William Q. Judge, who after the death of H. P. Blavatsky, was the real soul of the Theosophical movement […]
.Note: [i] The Daily Telegraph of March 7 contains the following announcement: TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT. Berlin, Tuesday. A trial for witchcraft, which has just been held in the Upper Palatinate, is attracting wide attention as a forcible illustration of the depths of ignorance and superstition in which large districts of Southern Germany are still sunk. […]
Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ prachodayāt.” (Rig Veda, III [62, 10].) Om! (Everything!) Earth, Middle Region, Heaven (Infinite Space, Eternity, God)! Let us raise our souls and immerse our consciousness in the adorable light of that divine sun of life […]
[Physik, Metaphysik und Theosophie] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] Now I guess I can see what the wise man is speaking: “The spirit world is not closed; Your mind is closed, your heart is dead! On! Swim, pupil, undaunted The earthly breast in the dawn.” The mystic distinguishes at least three kingdoms […]
[Phrenologische Untersuchung des im Grabmonumente von Theophrastus Paracelsus] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl.[1] Even if we have not the slightest reason to doubt that the skull found in the above-mentioned tomb monument is really that of Theophrastus Paracelsus, this assumption is still only an opinion based on certain assumptions, but is by no […]
Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] If one wants to clarify something, it is useful, to avoid mistakes, to call the thing by its real name. The word “Theosophy” (from “theos” God and “sophia” = wisdom) means the supreme wisdom or the wisdom of God in the universe, which is above all human intellectual […]
[Philosophie und Theosophie!] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[i] Since there is much talk of “theosophy” these days, many demand to know what it means. To give a definition of “theosophy” which can be understood by the limited earthly mind is just as impossible as an “explanation” of “god” “infinity” or other things […]