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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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…

"Prize especially the reliable friend who does not need a friend."—General Theosophy

"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

"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

"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

"In daily life, doing something is generally far less important than not-doing something."—General Theosophy

"It is probably best not to bother discussing death with anyone too scientific to even entertain a doubt about its finality."—General Theosophy

Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius) by Richard Ihle

"There's a man in the funny papers we all know. . . ."

Some people started to call me "Captain Theosophy.". . .

Initially, this was almost certainly because it was the title of an article I had written for the old THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST magazine. In those days I guess I did sometimes seem sort of like a cartoonish superhero—not only because of my…

"Avoid becoming a missionary before becoming your own mission field."—General Theosophy

"A ready willingness to overcome one thing after another in life is a primary human virtue; a listless unwillingness to consider even one thing in life which might need overcoming is a primary vice."—General Theosophy

"The most sincere believers in reincarnation are probably those who actually begin to worry about the possibility."—General Theosophy