From Krotona, Theosophy and Krishnamurti, 1927-1931:

The author feels that it may be important to examine what is meant by the word religion in the statement, “the Theosophical Society is to be a cornerstone of a new religion.” Is religion a matter of churches, temples, rituals and beliefs? Or is it the moment-to- moment discovery of Life’s movement? A movement which may have any name, or no name at…

www.krotonaarchives.com. Some parts still under construction; information on my Theosophical Society histories, especially the new release of Krotona, Theosophy and Krishnamurti, 1927-1931. 

What would you like to see…

From the Amazon listing of the book:

The author, Joseph Ross has just joined our community and we all should welcome him. He is the well known author of several books on Krotona, Theosophy, Krishnamurti etc.

I am looking forward to reading the recent book on Krotona, Theosophy and Krishnamurti.

Specifically I am looking forward to its availability in a non-proprietary format such as pdf, so that it can be read on any computer device without the need to buy devices such as Kindle. This approach…

I found this rather wonderful quote from the Indian spiritual giant, Sri Aurobindo, a few days ago...

"The very spirit of Yoga is this, to make the exceptional normal, and to turn that which is above us and greater than our normal selves into our own constant consciousness."

Hi, i still feel miserable because my breakup with my boyfriend. He was pretty much younger than me (college guy/me, in my 30....dhdhadhs) but i still miss him. A LOT.

Remembering that Theosophy tells much about unattachement, and i'm trying to learn that phase on life, of the unnatachement...still with the idea of believieng that probably in 'a future' we could be together...but really, i DON'T KNOW if i can manage to stand these phase in life. My life feels pretty dull. I…

Andrei Znamenski

Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

(Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2011, 257pp.)

         Red Shambhala is a lively historical account of Soviet geopolitics in Central Asia in the first decade of the Communist government.  Znamenski tells the story through portraits of key protagonists, drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and new Russian publications. Znamenski, who now teaches in the USA,…

Sir John Woodroffe (aka Arthur Avalon) was an early 20th century writer who explained and defended tantra as a respectable system of mysticism. The following excerpt is from the review by

Colin Robinson of a book about Woodroffe (Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal); an interesting paralell is made between the cases of Woodroffe and HPB. I have added highlighting to a few sections of the quote.

"The most thought-provoking topic of the…

The origin of this post is in a question that I posed to our brilliant host of the World Wide Wisdom Radio talkshow - Peter O'Lalor. In the context of apprehensions about the emerging technologies, Nano and Bio, my question was "Can Humans Control the Evolution of Technology?"

Let us look at the four discoveries in the Human history that had the greatest of impacts. Someone, without planning perhaps discovered Fire. Surely the elders and the wise of the society of that time,…

After a slight effervescence because of a Joaquim Soares post (by the way he is gone, I hope he was not banned, that would mean that this network does not know how to deal with different opinions) and although we were informed of a "shift of focus" I bring here a passage of Barborka's "Secret Doctrine, Questions and Answers" (p.3). I hope it can be useful, at least it can help to think twice before saying: "Hey, I found an error!"

"Question: In your opinion, what should be a…

This essay is posted on the website of the US Theosophical Order of Service (www.theoservice.org). While it does not say anything not known to regular readers, I thought it could be shared with non-Theosophists as a reminder of the need for cultural and intellectual renewal then, and now.

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You contribute to the mosaic of life.

Do you make beautiful patterns?

John Ross, who has written several books on the history of Krotona has 

a website at <krotonaarchives.com>.  



He has also released Vol V in the Krotona Series titled - Krotona, 

Theosophy and Krishnamurti and is listed for $30.00. 



The site says the following about the book:  



The period of 1927-1931 was a significant time for Theosophy; 

through the lens of rare source material, author Joseph Ross takes us back 

to Krotona in Ojai, a…

We are happy to announce that we have put online

the following Theosophical periodical:

The O.E. Library Critic

Edited by Dr. H. N. Stokes

See:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/stokesoelc/stokes_list.htm

Dr. James Santucci, editor of "Theosophical History" wrote

the following about Dr. Stokes and his magazine:

"...Dr. Stokes was, perhaps more than any other member of the…

Dear friends,

I share with you some of the precepts on Daily Life by Benjamin Franklin.

1)*How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them! (p. 7)



2)*He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. (p.8)



3)*The worst wheel of the…

Dear friends,

There is a most interesting text by HPB that explains exactly what a Mahatma is.

The text is entitled “MAHATMAS AND CHELAS”.

We have published in our websites, with the subtitle “A Short Text Clarifying Fundamental Questions”.

Here is an excerpt:

“A MAHATMA is a personage, who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained…