Category: Quotes
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Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal
MASONIC DUTIES “Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of STRENGTH a man has in him, will lie written in the WORK he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict…
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Siddhartha Gautama in Kalama Sutta: ‘Do not believe on faith…’
Believe nothing on faith alone, or on authority. “Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities…
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Carl Jung on the Greatest Creations of Mythology
“Only the greatest creations of mythology proper could hope to make clear to modern man that here he is face to face with a phenomenon which “in profundity, permanence, and universality is comparable only with Nature herself (F.W.J. von Schelling: Philosophie der Mythologie, Collected Works, II:136).” If we want to promote a real knowledge of…
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What are the Principles of a Theosophical Group?
The principles of a group called Theosophical would be: [1] “Brotherhood [camaraderie] of man, without distinction of race, color, religion, or social position. [2] The serious study of the ancient world-religions for purposes of comparison and the selection therefrom of universal ethics; [3] the study and development of the latent divine powers in man (…)” —Theosophical…
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Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations
K.H., The Mahatma Letters, Letter no. 85, December 7, 1883 “(…) As the lady has rightly observed, the Western public should understand the Theosophical Society to be “a Philosophical School constituted on the ancient Hermetic basis” — that public having never heard of the Tibetan, and entertaining very perverted notions of the Esoteric Buddhist System.…
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Manly P. Hall, ‘Philosophical Reflections on the Use and Abuse of Money’
“Philosophical Reflections on the Use and Abuse of Money” Canadian philosopher and mystic speaks on the Use and Abuses of Money in a great and enlightening talk.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Over-Soul
American Transcendentalist and Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson discusses the nature of the over-soul “The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity,…
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Alan Watts on American Spiritual Settler Movements: ‘Why America is a Republic and not a Monarchy’
“So, the point is that the ruach is the divine, in the creature, by virtue of which you are sons of, (or of) the nature of God (manifestations of the divine). This discovery is the Gospel, is the good news; but this has been perpetually repressed throughout the history of Western religion; because all Western…
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Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions
Limited Knowledge of Religion in Antiquity The term Pagan, or paganus originally meant, an inhabitant of the village, or a peasant, but came to refer to perverted heretical and heterodox beliefs outside of the theology of the Catholic Church. Therefore, what is considered perverted must come from the devil, hence, idolatrous and pagan. The Jews, Christians,…
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“Use the Eyes of the Spiritual Intelligence” | H.P. Blavatsky
“First let the student clearly realize that he cannot see things spiritual with the eyes of the flesh, and that in studying, he must use the eyes of the Spiritual Intelligence, else will he fail and his study will be fruitless.” HELENA BLAVATSKY, COLLECTED WRITINGS, VOL. 12, P. 691
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“The Religion of the Future”
‘No human-born doctrine, no creed, however sanctified by custom and antiquity, can compare in sacredness with the religion of Nature.’ (Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, pg. 797) The Religion of the Future [Helena Blavatsky, The Theosophist, Vol. IV., No. 8, May, 1883.] “Occultism teaches us that ideas based upon fundamental truths move…
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Survival of Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries
“Thus it is not Judaism and Christianity that remodelled the ancient Pagan Wisdom, but rather the latter that put its heathen curb, quietly and insensibly, on the new faith; and this, moreover, was still further influenced by the Eclectic Theosophical system, the direct emanation of the Wisdom-Religion. All that is grand and noble in Christian…
The American Minervan 