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The certainty of truth

Many people believe in old myths that contradict other beliefs and scientific evidence, and this causes division. Religious dogmas and myths were created before people had the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how life works, and religion attempts to subjectively find a way to live in harmony with life, so they both have [...]

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KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink

Yes, that’s tongue in cheek headline. For those not ‘in the know’, Koot Hoomi was one of Blavatsky’s Masters. With his friend Morya he wrote a lot of letters that form some of the earliest theosophical literature. The Masters, or Mahatmas as they are often called, often abbreviated their names. This has become something of [...]

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Black magic versus white magic – it's all about motive…

Blavatsky was rather fond of the concept of ‘black magic’ and I’ve had this on my list of topics to write about ever since I started this blog. But it’s a difficult topic, a messy one. For one thing – I’m not too happy about labeling people, especially into such (literally) black and white categories. [...]

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Moral lessons from the economic crisis & some political critique

I don’t usually start my blogposts with video, but William K. Black seems to me right on the money about a number of issues: capitalism, regulation, the economy and how the world should move forward. The reason I’m posting it here is mostly because of the end of it. He talks there about what can [...]

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Good and Evil – useful categories?

The comments on my post about the question whether the universe is morally neutral have come full circle: they mostly center about another question: are people morally neutral? Is humanity morally neutral? This is a good question. For a long time the sciences said that humans are in fact usually selfish – even the most [...]

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Some words on daily life – a theosophical classic

Today I want to share with you all one of the classics of theosophy, a letter published as ‘written by a master of wisdom’. It’s called ‘Some words on daily life‘ and starts out: It is divine philosophy alone, the spiritual and psychic blending of man with nature, which, by revealing the fundamental truths that [...]

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On being our best self – letting in the Higher Self

As I learned about the Enneagram on Monday, I found that in that system there is one piece of terminology that is shared with theosophy: that of the Higher Self. The Higher Self is one of those hard to express things that get experienced, but are hard to put into words. When words are found [...]

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