Tag: Bhagavad-Gita

  • Thaumaturgic Sots, Hankering after Phenomena and Power

    Thaumaturgic Sots, Hankering after Phenomena and Power

    “Try to break thro’ that great maya (illusion) against which occult students, the world over, have always been warned by their teachers – the hankering after phenomena. Like the thirst for drink and opium, it grows with gratification. The Spiritualists are drunken with it; they are thaumaturgic sots. If you cannot be happy without phenomena…

  • Blavatsky and Christianity: Her Fundamental Christological Disputes and Her Defense of the Theosophical Position

    Blavatsky and Christianity: Her Fundamental Christological Disputes and Her Defense of the Theosophical Position

    “There are several ways of acquiring knowledge: (a) by accepting blindly the dicta of the church or modern science; (b) by rejecting both and starting to find the truth for oneself. The first method is easy and leads to social respectability and the praise of men; the other is difficult and requires more than ordinary…