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General Theosophy #229

"Every childhood is extraordinary in a Psycho-Spiritual sense. The problem to overcome is not that 'Life sucks and then you die'; rather, it is that 'Life becomes ordinary and then you die.'"—General Theosophy

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General Theosophy #228

"MILLIONAIRE and BILLIONAIRE—strictly psychologically speaking—are NOT really good descriptions of any individuals who must ceaselessly bankrupt nearly all of their own free time just in order to purchase and retain such labels."—General Theosophy

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General Theosophy #227

"If you must keep telling yourself you are great, it is likely not the Greater Part of yourself which needs to do this telling."—General Theosophy

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General Theosophy #226

"Correct your yesterday with your today and leave a hint for your tomorrow.—General Theosophy

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General Theosophy #225

"If you feel a crucial need to go on a religious pilgrimage of some sort, first prepare yourself by locating the fish which must jump out of one pond and into another in order to get a drink."—General Theosophy

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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

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General Theosophy #223

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

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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

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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

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General Theosophy #220

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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