“In Theosophy, Mystery is almost always a more faithful companion than an explanation.”—General Theosophy

“If you start suspecting that you may have too many specific and complex details about karma, reincarnation, and other Theosophical subjects, consider the possibility that you could have strayed from the extraordinary Mountain Path of Intuitive Intimation and fallen into the ordinary Ditch of Wishful Academics.”—General Theosophy

“If agnosticism can be considered the sophisticated territory between disbelief and belief, perhaps Theosophy can be considered the even more sophisticated territory between agnosticism and belief.”—General Theososophy

“If you have anything beyond a very, very strong Theosophical Inkling regarding the validity of reincarnation, translifetime Karma, etc., there is a chance that you may have actually slipped from the path leading to the Truth about these things and perhaps even fallen into the Common Ditch of Immobilizing Wishful Certainties.”—General Theosophy

“We sleep in our strengths, but our weaknesses toss and turn us toward Awakening.”—General Theosophy

“Acute thinking needs to be perfected; chronic thinking needs to be cured.”—General Theosophy

“You probably don’t actually believe in reincarnation until you find yourself worrying about it.”—General Theosophy

Guarding the Temple of Truth there are two fierce figures named Paradox and Confusion.

Certain things might, at least temporarily and/or playfully, be called “Real Magic” when there are no immediate rational explanations for them. Nevertheless, there may be some other, “Theosophically inspired,” life-manipulating techniques which can be called “semi-Real Magic”—not because they don’t always work—they do, at least in my experience—; but rather, simply because one can perhaps think of…

“THEOSOPHY: No Science Can Back It Up; No Science Can Back It Down.”—General Theosophy

“If you are looking for a Master to guide you in Theosophy, perhaps you should start by eliminating everybody who had to do the same thing.”—General Theosophy

“A thing even Theosophers may not fully understand about Real Magic, as contrasted with the fairy-tale-grade magic of literature and movies, is that it may not actually be possible to willfully produce predictable, specific results; however, it may indeed be possible to meditatively create, in advance, general or at least “less differentiated” psychological states or “flavors” which,…

“There is no orthodoxy in Theosophy . . . with the possible exception of silence. . . .”—General Theosophy

“Theosophy is intuitive knowledge or wisdom associated with improved realization of one’s own Transcendent (‘Divine’) Nature; therefore, if a person only studies the writings or teachings of others, he or she may actually be a thee-osophist, not a Theosophist.”—General Theosophy

“You are old when you think that youth is an inch away; you are young when you think that that old age is a mile away.”—General Theosophy

“A person without a library can more easily forget what he or she has forgotten.”—General Theosophy

“The real secret behind good writing, of course, is the unrelenting need to appear smarter than one draft ago.”—General Theosophy

“May you have quick success in worldly affairs . . . so that you may quickly turn your back on them. . . .”—General Theosophy

“Very, very strictly speaking, the only reason to read someone else’s Theosophical writing is to grade it.”—General Theosophy

“Theosophy, as ‘personal religion,’ begins with the realization that no one, past or present, can know more about fundamentally unknowable subjects than you yourself.”—General Theosophy

“You can almost never learn more about yourself than by watching yourself wasting time.”—General Theosophy