Theosophy: Repainting the Rainbow

                                                                              Richard Ihle

Kurt Leyland's "The Rainbow Body" in Spring 2017 edition of QUEST MAGAZINE was excellent. I can certainly agree that a "Western Chakra System" has…

“Theosophy, as ‘personal religion,’ begins with the realization that no one, past or present, can know more about fundamentally unknowable subjects than you yourself.”—General Theosophy

"Seek the sage who knows life well enough not to bother signing his or her name to whatever he or she knows."—General Theosophy

"Modern science might convince you that you are a biochemical machine; Theosophy, that you are in the machine."—General Theosophy

“It is often easier to weather the storm than the storm warning.”—General Theosophy

“An accident is often just a lower state of mindfulness trying to wake up a higher one.”—General Theosophy

“Youth is the search for your own exceptional attributes; old age is the search for your own possible exceptions to the rule.”—General Theosophy

“Old age can only exist if you blame it for something.”—General Theosophy

“If you have detailed beliefs rather than just intuitive inklings about transcendental subjects like karma and reincarnation, you may have traded religion for philosophy.”—General Theosophy

“The first step in meditation is to stop taking steps.”—General Theosophy

“A Theosopher is a philosopher who has lost interest in other philosophers.”—General Theosophy

“An Adept does not need anything from the world in order to produce the same consciousness as having it.”—General Theosophy

“Adolescence in Psycho-Spiritual life may be the middle developmental period between rejoicing about the possibility of reincarnation and worrying about the actual possibility of it.”—General Theosophy

“Old age for some is finally being able to buy almost everything they can no longer use or enjoy.”—General Theosophy

“The Self is a proper noun nibbled away by bingeing physical, emotional, and mental pronouns.”—General Theosophy

“Work without supervision is almost play.”—General Theosophy

“Some religions teach how to avoid or extract poison arrows; others, how and where to shoot them.”—General Theosophy

“Don’t worry about making mistakes; just worry about not Mindfully watching yourself as you make them.”—General Theosophy

“Good health is normally much less educational than poor.”—General Theosophy

“The difference between a theosophist and a Theosopher: the former is possibly just a person who is at least willing to consider as epistemologically valid someone else’s intuitive knowledge or wisdom resulting from personal experience of Transcendental (‘Divine’) Nature; the latter is possibly the someone else.”—General Theosophy