Stepping out my back door of my little 1950's house

onto the old peeling deck

It's been hung with home-made green glass lanterns

made from old florists vases I've hung with twine and sewn beads on…

Dear friends,

I reproduce below an important fragment of one text of HPB.

This fragment is entitled “The Tree of Universal Brotherhood” and was published in our website www.TheosophyOnline.com .

Best regards, Joaquim

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Dear friends

“For all men one rule holds good - live the purest and most unselfish life you possibly can - cultivate alike your mind and heart - detach your mind as far as possible from worldly pleasures, worldly desires, worldly objects, and set your heart as undividedly as your strength permits on doing good to all living things.”…

Anyone that knows anything about esotericism knows that he cannot just make an educated guess as to the meaning of ancient symbols: charisma, rhetoric and hyperbole not good enough no matter how intelligent a person is or thinks he…

Dear friends,

Discussions about the nature of the universe are essential to Theosophy.



The meditative reading of “The Secret Doctrine” led us to forget our illusory nature and reconcile us with the eternal. In the realm of Unity there is no separateness.

I would like to invite you all to a meeting with H.P.B. and some of her students, where she clarifies some misconceptions about aspects of the occult doctrine.

Having the…

Mercuralia falls on the Ides of May, which means the middle of the month or the 15th of May. This is a festival to honour the Roman God Mercury who became known as Hermes in the Greek Tradition to follow.

This festival of Mercury was predominantly…

Dear friends,

At a time when xenophobic sentiments and religious intolerance are on the rise again in many countries, all initiatives that could help to put an end to hatred, intolerance and violence must be known and supported.

In Europe, Jews and Muslims join forces against intolerance, and in a genuine aspiration to brotherhood.

In an inspiring initiative that could open new front of interfaith relationships, Jewish and Muslim Leaders Join…

Dear friends,

It was only too weeks ago that deadly storms ravaged several areas of the United States, in one of the largest tornado outbreak in history record.

Now is flooding.

According to the Huffington Post:

“In one of the worst cases of flooding since the Great Depression, the bulging, swollen Mississippi River is overflowing in record proportions, blanketing thousands of square miles across Arkansas, Tennessee and…

Dear friends,

Is procrastination wise?

In an excellent article called "Thief of Time", we read the following:

 …

The Psychological Key to Theosophy may suggest reversing some common proverbs:

He/She who DOES NOT hesitate is lost.

The Devil finds work for BUSY hands.…

Beliefs around the origins of Friday the 13th vary, depending who you consult.

Essentially it's a combination of two different threads of superstition coming together. Firstly that Fridays are unlucky and secondly that…

Dear friends,

This excerpt from B. P. Wadia is very interesting.

 What are our real necessities?

"The Law of Necessity is another name for Karma. Nature never works unnecessarily. That which is not necessary should be avoided. Nature is bountiful, profusely so, but her economy is marvelously profound. The great Mother…

Robert Epstein

The Quotable Krishnamurti

(Wheaton, IL : Quest Books, 2011, 176pp.)

         There is the true story of the Westerner who goes to India and is asked to give a short talk at a conference. “How long?” he asks. “Not more than two hours” was the reply.  Thus J. Krishnamurti’s short talks were nearly all two hours in length. I used to attend them at Saanen in the Swiss mountains.  Usually one got the point that was to be made in the first 15…

Dear friends,

During the first decades of the 20^th century the Nazi regime distorted and made criminal use of ancient symbols of eastern philosophies.

For example, the sacred symbol of the swastika has become so widely associated with Nazi Germany that it is why it has a negative connotation in the minds of so many people.

There is a new article published at the theosophical website …

Dear friends,

Today all the theosophical movement is celebrating the White Lotus Day, which this year marks the 120th anniversary of the passing of H.P.Blavatsky on May 8, 1891.

This same day also marks the Allied and democracy victory in World War II, on May 8, 1945.

I would like to share an interesting article about theosophy and the Second World War.

Best regards,…

Dear friends,

As we read in chapter XIII of the Bhagavad-Gita,

"True wisdom of a spiritual kind is freedom from self-esteem, hypocrisy, and injury to…