Dr. Hartmann sends me the following, for which I gladly make room: It is a fact universally recognized by the medical profession, that in all cases where no vital organ is destroyed, there is no certain sign that a person is dead, except the beginning of an advanced state of putrefaction, and that whenever this […]
As you have invited an expression of opinion in regard to Mr. C. Johnston’s proposal to do away with the questionable practice among the members of the T.S. of calling each other ostentatiously “brothers,” permit me to say, that no measure which could possibly be taken for the improvement of our Society would meet my […]
[Bedingungen für den Fortschritt oder Regeln für diejenigen, welche wirkliche Theosophen und der höheren Erleuchtung teilhaftig werden wollen.[1]] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl.[2] [3] Are you willing to observe the following precepts and thereby remove all wrongs in your nature, not only to attain complete tranquility of mind but also to perfect yourself? […]
[Über die esoterische Bedeutung einiger Stellen aus Goethes Faust.] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] Six-part Series [Part 1] “Everyone sees what is in his heart.” — Goethe. “I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a new heart and a new spirit.”—Ezek. XI, 19. The word “esoteric,” […]
[Über den Unterschied zwischen Unsterblichkeit, und “Leben im jenseits.”] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl.[1] At all times philosophers have been concerned with the question of whether there is a continuation of human life after the death of his visible body, and this is also inconceivable otherwise, for if everything should end with this death, […]
[Über die “Geheimlehre” von H. P. Blavatsky und ihre Quelle] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl.[1] H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, in two volumes of over 700 and 800 pages each, can rightly be called the greatest work that has appeared since the beginning of the Christian era, and it is to be […]
[Über den Fortschritt im Geistigen oder der wahre Weg zur Initiation] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] “The truth is within us! — In all of us, there is a center in the innermost being where the truth dwells in its fullness, and its knowledge consists rather in opening a way for it through […]
[Über die Führung im Geistigen] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl.[1] One who wishes to become a disciple (chelā) and find his master usually seeks someone whom he considers wiser than himself and places himself under his intellectual guidance. This would be quite true if it were intellectual knowledge, the imparting of theories, or, […]
Note[1] His figure was youthful and strong, his face expressed knowledge and happiness, his eyes seemed to penetrate into the innermost depths of my soul. I had suffered all day from a severe neuralgic pain in my face, he touched the place with his. finger and the pain was gone, and did not return either […]
Note[1] A NUMBER of psychical researchers, thirsting after occult knowledge, went into a wilderness to seek for the serpent of wisdom. The day was very hot and they became very hungry, so that they would have eaten almost any kind of food, however repulsive, to keep themselves from starvation. At last they espied a serpent […]