[Bruchstücke aus den Mysterien.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl, with the thirteen articles assembled as a single document.[1] Introduction[2] “I am the truth!” (John XIV. 6.) There is scarcelyanything in the world which has caused so much calamity as the difference of opinion as to the person of the founder of Christendom. Trapped […]
[Der persische Feuerkultus] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl.[1] From time immemorial the Persians’ “worship of fire” has given offense to the ignorant. But through more recent research in the occult field we are now able to understand how the worship of the holy fire — which also played a role in the cult […]
[Die Religion der Zukunft] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “The old is dying and new life is blooming from the ruins.” (Schiller.) There are many complaints today about the decline of religion. In France, denominational education is banned from the public schools because clerical rule is an obstacle to the prosperity of republican […]
(Founder of the Order of Jesuits) [1] The study of comparative religion being one of the objects of the Theosophical Society, it may be of some interest to compare the yoga-practices of the Roman Catholic Church with those described in the Oriental writings. We will then find that they are to a certain extent identical, […]
[Bruchstücke aus den Mysterien.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl, with the thirteen articles assembled as a single document.[1] Introduction[2] “I am the truth!” (John XIV. 6.) There is scarcely anything in the world which has caused so much calamity as the difference of opinion as to the person of the founder of Christendom. […]
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 […]
.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 […]