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General Theosophy #224

"Better just the fluff of a Theosophical 'Inkling' which one can never quite get rid of . . . than a skyscraping cathedral built from stacked Domino-dogmas which one can never dare bump into. . . ."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on February 27, 2021 at 12:00pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #223

"I fear death less than I fear the fear of death."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on February 25, 2021 at 4:31pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #222

"Become more mystical and then perhaps you can simply and instantly 'Undifferentiate' your more annoying detractors back into the One instead of needing to argue with them."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on February 25, 2021 at 4:00pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #221

"As one gets older, life should primarily become an ever-more interesting psychological adventure . . . rather than merely a series of masochistically self-enrolled crash-courses about age-related physical problems."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on February 17, 2021 at 12:26pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #220

"Masters, teach your disciples how to be Masters, not merely forever more perfect disciples."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on January 4, 2021 at 3:30pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #219

"Do not use the fictional words is, are, will, or must when you are still at the factual level of might, may, perhaps, or possibly."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on January 4, 2021 at 3:30pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #218

"A lazy cat may teach you to pity yourself and all the other poor creatures who must keep busy in order to keep happy."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on December 11, 2020 at 1:00pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #217

"The Hermetic 'As Above, so below' is an 'inverse-seeming' analogy which can remind you when you wake up each morning, hopefully at least a little improved and corrected by the lessons you learned yesterday, that you have also just experienced a type of 'rebirth' (the'below')—and one which is far easier to have a direct impact upon than the gloomy-doomy, countless past-lifetimes-clogged-up metaphysical Doctrine of…

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Added by Richard Ihle on December 10, 2020 at 1:00pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #216

"Prize especially the reliable friend who does not need a friend."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on November 21, 2020 at 7:09pm — No Comments

General Theosohy #215

"Those who reside in the Land of Basic Kindness and Unkindness are not really 'Beyond Good and Evil'; they generally just do not need any debatable abstract concepts to complicate their behavioral decisions."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on November 1, 2020 at 1:30pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #214

"If a person wishes to receive any insights and blessings from either 'natural' or 'Preternatural' Intuition . . . he or she will almost certainly need to get rid of some abstruses and curses from his or her always-ONLY-thinkings. . . ."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on October 29, 2020 at 12:00pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #213

"Adeptship is exactly like dancing one's way through life . . . provided that one has also learned how to Absolutely pause, if needed, even when the music keeps going. . . ."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on October 11, 2020 at 4:30pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #212

"In daily life, doing something is generally far less important than not-doing something."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on June 3, 2020 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Insights into the Ishtadevata - alignment with Deity

Deities, like humans, have different characteristics.  The energy/shakti of some deities is very ‘yang’, powerful, while others are gentle, their energy permeates through your bodies like a gentle wave that washes over you, cooling you, as you lie on the sand in shallow water.  When a relationship has developed between the disciple and their 'Ishtadevata' the personal deity, occult obedience is the first rule that must, at all costs, be understood.  For instance, during some…

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Added by Cyrus Ryan on November 22, 2019 at 5:43pm — 2 Comments

General Theosophy #211

"It is probably best not to bother discussing death with anyone too scientific to even entertain a doubt about its finality."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on October 26, 2019 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Berg's "essential Zohar

Reading Berg’s “Essential Zohar”

This isn't Berg's fault, really, as he tries to explain all the issues and problems with the underlying religious texts, so my review isn't against his work per se but the underlying problems with the belief structure itself.

I’ve explored a lot of esoteric literature both in reading and in practice.  I was looking forward to the Zohar, which is often referred to as Judaic esotericism. I came away disappointed. For the most part, I would sum up…

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Added by Jeffrey Soule on September 4, 2019 at 6:55pm — 4 Comments

Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius)

Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius) by Richard Ihle

"There's a man in the funny papers we all know. . . ."

Some people started to call me "Captain Theosophy.". . .

Initially, this was almost certainly because it was the title of an article I had written for the old THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST magazine. In those days I guess I did sometimes seem sort of like a cartoonish superhero—not only because of my…

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Added by Richard Ihle on July 29, 2019 at 2:02pm — No Comments

General Theosophy #210

"Avoid becoming a missionary before becoming your own mission field."—General Theosophy

Added by Richard Ihle on May 1, 2019 at 11:30am — No Comments

German Orientalism, Zionism and Iron Wall

It has always been a robust discussion at https://seifertforgovernor.comwhen it comes to explaining the details about the Zionism or the Arab cause. Several authors have always taken the wide range of history to give their different stances using the historical standpoints. This explains why the author of The Iron Wall, Shlaim Avi resonates with the fact that the Isreali- Arab conflict has…

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Added by Rose Munoz on April 25, 2019 at 10:40am — No Comments

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