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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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Group Karma and Barack Obama

Yes, I’m talking about a black president being elected, the economic downturn and even the war in Iraq. Karma is usually explained from an individual perspective. It’s mainly about personal responsibility. Karma is both a message of: make sure you act right! and a call for justice in general. From the passive perspective karma is [...]

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Easier for a sinner to go into heaven…

My understanding of karma comes back to habits. Habits of the mind, habits of the heart, habits of the word and habits of action. We know that all thought strengthens certain pathways in the brain. From a theosophical, Buddhist and Hindu perspective these thoughts aren’t just strengthened in the brain, but in a more lasting [...]

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Karmic debt – what I owe the theosophical movement

As many of my theosophical readers know, I was the student of Henk J. Spierenburg. I owe him a debt he hoped I would be able to repay by teaching him theosophy in a next life. He in turn started his theosophical career in the ULT where he admired the smart students that turned up [...]

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The Law of Attraction explained for newbies

What’s now known as ‘the secret’ or ‘the law of attraction’ is a way of dealing with life that I’ve been familiar with for years now. That’s because we get all sorts of spiritual people within the Theosophical Society and among some of them this ‘secret’ has been practice for decades at least.

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What I Believe

Let’s start with the comfortable fact that as a Theosophist – what I believe is totally free. There are no dogmas theosophists have to subscribe to. Nothing is mandatory. No trinitarian God, no ‘Mohammad is the Messenger’, no mandatory belief of any kind. We even have atheists among us. Still – I do believe in [...]

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