Philip Gowins

Practical Sufism :A Guide to the Spiritual Path

(Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2010, 219pp).

Enough of phrases and conceits and metaphors !

I want burning, burning, become familiar with

that burning! Light up a fire of love in thy soul,

Burn all thought and expressions away.

                                   Jalal al-Din Rumi

           …

I ran into a very interesting blog which you can read and also view the
video of Young Indiana Jones. Strange are the ways in which Karma helps
Humans. Click here.

For me, the theosophical notion of multiple planes of existence is fascinating and thought provoking, but also very challenging to the rational mind. Perhaps "rational" is not the right term. It may be better to say that the notion of other planes of reality is challenging to a modern mentality overawed by the success and prestige of science. Accordingly, if the planes of theosophy are scientifically plausible, then the modern mentality is comfortable with them. However, if science deems…

 This article from Philip Sherrard really makes one think..

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. We will all become Borg. Or not..? That's the question.

http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/uploads/ArticlePDFs/253.pdf

Question: "What practical, day-to-day value does Theosophy offer?"

One Answer: “Using Theosophy to clean-up your house or apartment—‘magically’”



Most people do not need magic to do this, of course; however, some people might: “Bill Beresky,” for example.

This happened a long time ago. Since the Theosophical Society…

A pseudonymous author has in another Internet forum questioned certain dates in Jerry' intro. Theosophical circle is small and most of the active players know each other, at least on the Internet. Surely the man or woman who has been hiding under assumed name is someone we all know or even possibly is one of the members here.

If there are factual errors, why the writer did not choose to contact Jerry directly so that…

I attended the 135th International Convention in Adyar last week. Just a few comments:

1. The harmonious group in attendance was really wonderful. There were old and new faces that I got to meet and it was such a wonderful atmosphere of brotherhood. When people  live together in Theosophy, a magic occurs that is hard to define but there is a different conciousness that one does not find in the regular day to day world.

2. There were many good talks and excellent…

Videos of 10th International Theosophical Congress is now On-line.



By live streaming of the 10th International Conference, Italian Section made it for the first time that everyone around the world can see what is going on in the congress. Due to time zone difference and other reasons, many would have missed many of the sessions. Now, the video recordings of the sessions are on-line and can be viewed by anyone with an…

Greetings to everyone from Theosophy.Net

2010 was an exciting year and we have accomplished much.  Let's take a look at where we've been.

We have pursued a strategy of producing freely available core writings within the Theosophical tradition, including:

• The Theosophist - under HPB's Editorship
• Lucifer - by HP Blavatsky/Mabel Collins/Annie Besant
• A series of reference works in conjunction with the Stanzas of Dzyan research project.  Not only do…

The Bulletin for the 5th Day of the Adyar Convention is now on Adyar website.



For some reason, there was a delay in it being uploaded to the site.



The bulletin contain summaries of talks by:



Lakshmi Saripalli

Marcos Resende

Svitlana Gavrylenko

Abraham Oron



The talk by Saripalli is on Changing Environment which was delivered as the Theosophy Science lecture.



There is news about activities around the world and this keeps us informed of…

“In Theosophy the most successful digging into the past would be to meet someone who is successfully digging into the future.”—General Theosophy