Note:[1] My dear Judge: Having just read the February number of Lucifer containing the statements of Mr. Mead, Bert. Keightly, and others, I am impressed to write to you the following. If Theosophy (divine wisdom or spiritual self-knowledge) were a system of creeds, and the “Theosophical Society” with its officers something like a […]
Dr. Hartmann Reads the “Postscript.”[1] “My dear Judge:—What is the matter? Has the world become struck with blindness, and does the President of the T.S. not know what Theosophy is? Have all the lectures of Mrs. Besant been after all nothing but eloquence mixed with gush? Do our own Theosophical writers only repeat parrot-like […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] The reason for the current noise and discord among the “theosophical societies” is that these societies are theosophical only in name, not in reality. “Theosophy” is knowledge of God, and knowledge of God is divine (selfless) love. Therefore, the basis of every true theosophical society is not know-it-alls, quarreling, […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] If we look back at the course of world history to date, we find, even in the relatively short period of time for which we have reasonably reliable information, a constant oscillation of the spirit of the times, a constant advance and regression in the development of humanity. Just […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] The purpose of the Theosophical Society is the search for truth. A master said:[2] If a person has decided to follow the path to truth, but is dependent on himself and is weak, he can easily fall back into his old mistakes. Therefore, stand together; help one another […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] One hears so much about “opponents of theosophy,” and yet there can be no reasonable person who is an opponent of theosophy; for “theosophy” is the higher self-knowledge, and no person is conceivable who is an opponent of the fact that he himself comprehends, understands and recognizes something. It […]
Extracted by Robert Hutwohl[1] Mr. Albert E. S. Smythe: Dear Sir and Colleague! I want to express to you my thanks for sending me The Lamp, and to say that I have been very much delighted with the contents of that number (8). I sent you a copy of my Lotusbluthen, but do not […]
Culled by Robert Hutwohl[1] WITH the advent of the theosophical movement inaugurated by H. P. Blavatsky, an era of self-thought began. The Theosophical Society was intended to be free from any enforced belief in any opinion, creed, or dogma whatever; being based upon no other fundamental principle than the unity of the One from whom […]
From the Editor of Borderland:[1] There is no subject in the whole range of occult science more mysterious than that which the ancients described in their treatises of the Incubus and the Succuba. Defoe, in his treatise on the Natural History of the Devil, accepted the mediaeval doctrine as substantially correct, fastening all the phenomena […]
[Die “Echtheit” der ‘Theosophischen Gesellschaft in Deutschland.’] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “If envy was like fire, So the wood would not be half as expensive, But if there were still so much envy That’s how what God wants, happens.” (Old German proverb.) Only a few years have passed since the death of […]