The 135th International Convention at Adyar will commence tomorrow. A

visit to the Adyar website gave me a surprise. Daily Bulletins in pdf 



format for each day is indicated. So you can visit each day and see the

bulletin and know the highlights of the day. This is a small step in 

providing info on the happenings on a daily basis. I hope, next year,

Adyar resorts to live streaming of the programs, which will bring 



membership in closer contact…

Traditionally, in print media, an index is compiled and put at the end of the publication. Modern digitization technology has enabled every word in the pdf file to be indexed. This enables one to search for a word or words in the entire file, which is very powerful and handy for the reader.

All the Theosophist and Lucifer files in this site are searchable pdf files. The credit goes to Marc who took care of the processing after scanned file was available.

Use…

Have a look at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45833485/Six-Theosophical-Points-and-Mysterium-Pansophicum

Enjoy!

Martin Euser

"Those completely in Hell no longer need to fear Hell; those completely in Heaven no longer need to believe in Heaven."—General Theosophy

Theosophical disconnect



Frequently one finds a disconnect between what theosophists talk about and act. This is all the more so when you deal with ‘organizational’ theosophists.



The scanning and uploading of early issues of Theosophist on this site is an  invaluable resource…

I've been neglecting you all. I'm sorry - the last months of the year are the busiest, for my online publishing work (which pays my bills). Here's what I've written about the present and future of the Theosophical Society:

“Using only personal willpower to accomplish something is often like performing a long, laborious magic trick which has little or no entertainment value for you or anyone else.”—General Theosophy

The volumes scanned and made available due to the labors of dedicated theosophists contain very valuable information which many will find it interesting and useful. But for Internet, it would have been almost inaccessible for ordinary readers. Now the task is for the masses to get to know about it. Most of us use search engines to find information and hence I expect most readers will come to the site from searches. In the meanwhile, let each one of us spread the word.

“The first Transcendental thing one tries to put into words is the first Transcendental thing one starts to erase.”—General Theosophy

As usual, the International Convention will start on December 26, 2010 in

Adyar. Here is the tentative program I found on Adyar Website. What is

significant is that the General Council Meeting schedule is also included.



Program Link



If anyone with a computer is attending the Convention, it would be very

informative if a daily - one…

"ADEPTSHIP may be less a matter of having an extraordinary knack for doing extraordinary things in extraordinary ways . . . and more a matter of having at least an ordinary knack for not overdoing the ordinary things which only lead to more ordinariness in life."—General Theosophy

“Doing one's duty is the reason one does not need a reason."—General Theosophy

Katinka, in her blog, brought attention to the two theosophical books published in 2010; one by Joy Mills on ML and the other SD Commentaries.



It is a pity that neither is cheap and especially the Commentaries are very pricey and out of reach of most middle class theosophists especially in the third world.



The decision makers could have simply made an electronic edition available on Internet. All books, these days are first created in electronic media and then only it is…

2010 has proven itself an interesting year when it comes to new literature for the classic theosophy theosophist - aka the Blavatsky and Mahatmas fan.

First we had Reflections on an Ageless Wisdom, by Joy Mills - which is an excellent commentary on the Chronological Mahatma letters.

And now we have…

G. de P. --Sometimes It is striking. And you can see the outline of a human face in the Moon. It is the pictures in the Astral Light which Nature reproduces in her physical handiwork. Our very bodies are shaped after the pictures implanted in the as astral by the thoughts of past ages. nature is a conscious entity. She is not dead. She is a living entity, a vast conglomerate of substances and forces, working according to karmic impulses. The delicate tracery that we saw on the screen…

“It is far less important to have had a lot of motivation in your youth than to still have a little leftover momentum in your old age."—General Theosophy