Note[1] Mr. J. D. B. Gribble has just issued a “Report of an Examination into the Blavatsky Correspondence.” Mr. Gribble claims to be an expert, and I cannot follow him through all his dexterous and intricate vermiculations by which he tries to convince himself that the alleged letters have been written by Madame Blavatsky. I […]
Note[1] SOMEBODY of old has said:— “Give ye not that which is sacred to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before the swine, for the swine will tread them under their feet and the dogs will turn and rend you.” It is therefore with a great deal of hesitation and reluctance that I make […]
[Naturwissenschaft und Theosophie] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] One hears the expression so often: We live in the age of natural science. But it may be objected that it still has a strong influence on the lower stratum of the educated today, while the upper stratum has begun to turn to a […]
† [Dr. Franz Hartmann, der Gründer der Intern. Theosophischen Verbrüderung. Sein Leben und Wirken. Von Hermann Rudolph.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl [1] [2] We live in a momentous time when the Spirit of Truth is making tremendous efforts, as always happens at the turn of two ages, to remove from the minds […]
Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “Learn to distinguish between the permanent and the ephemeral.” (Shankaracharya) [Śaṅkarācarya] One of the most difficult problems for the aspiring “occultist” is grasping the meaning of the word “Lucifer.” “Lucifer” is the opposite of “Christ,” he is its counterpart. (Diabolus est deus inversus.) [The devil is God inverted.] […]
Source:[1] In the night of December 31st, 1888, Mr. and Mrs. Rose (the names, in this story are pseudonyms, but the facts are true) went to bed as poor people and on the morning of January 1st, 1889, they woke up, finding themselves rich. An uncle to whom they owed their poverty because he kept […]
His Life. If one were among the twenty-two-some Masters of Wisdom on the planet, who are in charge of serving humanity, one may be asked to search for future candidates to help launch the budding Theosophical Society off the ground. One would then be observing how a certain Bavarian-born, future Doctor of Medicine, Franz Hartmann […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl [1] [2] Dr Franz Hartmann is closely connected with the theosophical movement; he was part of the small circle that, around H. P. Blavatsky, was called upon to proclaim the theosophical worldview during the heyday of materialism in the second half of the last century and to restore the lost […]
Neue Lotusblüten 1, no. 7-8 (July-August 1908), 225-238
Note[1] The following occurrence has been told to the writer by one of his friends, for whose reliability he is responsible. It is now more than thirty years since the following event took place, and the reason why I have never said much about it is that I am not a believer in the […]