"Your 'Guardian Angel' might not only work better if you give it honest truths about your current weaknesses and sufferings rather than only ‘positively affirmed' lies about your wonderful strengths and successes, . . . but it may also work better once you realize it is probably just a naturally evolved and/or further developed psychological component within your own genetic assemblage and not some hardly approachable…

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Always be KINDER than your ARSENAL really needs to be.”—General Theosophy

"A SMILE is by far the most powerful YOGA POSE for developing REMARKABLE FLEXIBILITY . . . in others. . . ."—General Theosophy

"Do not keep looking elsewhere for better Spiritual opportunities: a fish rarely needs to jump out of one pond and into another just in order to swim."—General Theosophy

"Follow the honest example of the medieval mapmakers; that is, simply draw obvious little stand-in squiggly lines for your yet unexplored religious coastlines."—General Theosophy

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.” —Emerson

I would have to say that trickery has been a major way that I have played the fool.



Not trying to trick other people. Not even trying to trick myself. The kind of trickery I am referring to is the attempt to cultivate "magical powers" or Siddhis. These are things like traveling anywhere at the speed of thought, controlling all bodily processes,… Continue

Richard Ihle

What Is Your Rank?







“What is your rank?”



“S-R6.x(PC7),”I answered.







Of all the ideas I have ever had--whether eventually jettisoned, promulgated for the purpose of semi-Self-aggrandizement, or hoarded like a Rosicrucian before there were web sites with PayPal donations--few notions seem as intuitionally (therefore “Theosophically”) true to me as the existence of a hidden Psycho-Spiritual Hierarchy.



I suppose…

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Richard Ihle







When the Spirit Doesn't Move You





“Incidentally,” said old J.W. von Goethe, “I despise everything which merely instructs me without increasing or immediately enlivening my activity.”







And now, of course, the only thing which is likely to enliven Theosophy, its organizations and individuals, may be a radical shift toward Theosophical psychology. Like old Goethe, many modern people may have little time and/or… Continue

Richard Ihle/Captain/General Theosophy



General Theosophy



“The Strange Reincarnation of Captain Theosophy” might be a more apt title, I suppose. . . .

The original “Captain Theosophy” has been dead for thirty years, of course. He was a fictional character who appeared a few times in the pages of the American Theosophist. However, perhaps he was only fictional in the sense of one of General Theosophy’s aphorisms: “Let us pity those who are unable to even fictionalize… Continue