“Truth is a book with nothing specific written in it; Theosophers are those who continue to turn the pages anyway.”—General Theosophy

“Be not so confident about Spiritual progress until you are at a loss for words.”—General Theosophy

Greetings and good wishes, Sergo.  I always enjoy your interesting posts.

In a private message to me you asked me something like "what aspect of theosophy [sic. Theosophy] interests you most?"  Previously, you had also mentioned that you were a Russian-English language translator.  The thought came to me, "Why not try to 'kill two birds with one stone' [a good-old folksy English idiom] and not only begin to answer [the shortest version would be 'Psychological…

“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

In that blog I give a definition the term of ‘Subtle body’. According various occult, esoteric, mystic doctrines, subtle body is one of the psychospiriitual components of a living being, which is a interagent between a being’s physical body and his soul. There are several types of subtle bodies (astral, etheric, causal etc.). Each of them exist into corresponding plane of being (astral, etheric etc.). Subtle body doctrine is integral part of esoteric systems of the Orient…

I would like to get out my message on a subtle bodies to members of that sites. I would like to point out a subtle-body doctrine isn't myths or superstition of ancient people as modern materialists try to show. Ancient people got knowledge from divine revelation and a comprehension of Self and own internal intuition therefore our forefathers couldn't mistake because gods what's nothing but manifestation of latent power of human psychic are one of the surest evidence of the High Truth. One…

“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

"Not much of a trick is needed to keep busy with petty things; much more of a trick is required to keep un-busy with Undifferentiated Everything."—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

“Doing Absolutely Nothing is the only way to do Absolutely Everything.”—General Theosophy

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

I have considered consciousness from many different perspectives. The perspective I am currently exploring is that there is only one consciousness.

For the sake of this description lets call it universal consciousness, and lets call the consciousness that could be seen as my consciousness, individual consciousness. They are both the same consciousness, but individual consciousness is only part (or a subset) of universal consciousness.

Now so far there is nothing physical in…