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Biology & sex – who are we meant to be?

H.P. Blavatsky had quite an original (partly based on Plato I think) view of the origin and future of humanity. She envisioned a past in which we were hermaphrodite. And before that sex didn’t even come into it. The sexes split yet in the future, in a more enlightened age (a long time into the [...]

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Karma and learning from life

One of the harder parts of Blavatsky’s explanation of karma and reincarnation is that she insisted that only the best in people goes on to form part of the divine Ego. That is: a person without a shred of goodness in them will be lost to the higher self. They will have lost the opportunity [...]

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Karma and Harmony

Group Karma is but the specific working out of a more general aspect of karma that gets ignored or forgotten too easily. In the words of H.P. Blavatsky: Nor would the ways of Karma be inscrutable were men to work in union and harmony, instead of disunion and strife. and

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Caring for beginners… a mistake?

My post about My disillusionment with Jiddu Krishnamurti has gotten quite a lot of comments. ‘Rinzai’ said the other day: Whether beginners are practicing virtues or not is their problem not yours. Believe in no teachers, trust your own logic, your own experiences, make your own mistakes, learn and grow. Have a courageous attitude and [...]

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Cycles: ancient or modern thought?

I was told in university that one of the differences between western civilization and all other cultures is that in Western civilization cyclical thought is replaced by linear thought. This transition, so the experts say, was started by the Jews who invented the idea of an end time, a messiah, who would change things.

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Time – linear or psychological – in relation to spiritual growth

I had a busy day yesterday. The General Council of the Theosophical Society stands to make some decisions which, if accepted, will change it into an autocratic organisation I no longer want to be a member of. But since those decisions haven’t been made yet, now is action time.

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Belief in Magic? The theosophy of H.P. Blavatsky

Since the word ‘magic’ is often associated with the word ‘miracle‘ or with parlor tricks, I think it’s useful to quote H.P. Blavatsky on this: Our Society believes in no miracle, divine, diabolical or human, nor in anything which eludes the grasp of either philosophical and logical induction, or the syllogistic method of deduction. But [...]

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Going beyond spiritualism – Blavatsky's first occult shot

H.P. Blavatsky had already written a few articles in spiritualist magazines when she came out with ‘A Few Questions for Hiraf‘. She called this article her ‘first occult shot’ in the diary she kept with Olcott. This article was a response to a strange joke a few fellows had made who had concocted out of [...]

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John Algeo about the TS, Blavatsky and more: an interview

John Algeo is vice president of the Theosophical Society. He recently ran for president but only got a third of the votes. I really liked the program he ran on, and since we correspond regularly, I thought it would be nice to interview him here. 1. Who’s your favorite spiritual teacher (theosophical or otherwise) of [...]

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To my Buddhist (and semi-Buddhist) readers

I feel blessed to already have so many readers and comments that I have to explain my basic attitude to blogging and spirituality not just to theosophists, but to (Western) Buddhists as well. First off: my basic concern is the pursuit of wisdom, not knowledge. This is what I also tried to say in my [...]

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