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…

A celebration of Theosophists celebrated May 8, anniversary of the passing of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky  founder of the theosophical society.

White Lotus Day is a celebration that encourages meditation about the metaphor of the lotus plant. The lotus is born under mud and grows through muck and water to surface for air and sun. This growth is identified with man's life, born…

HOW THEOSOPHY CAME TO ME:

A. P. Sinnett Tells How He Met Madame Blavatsky and How His Correspondence with the Mahatmas Began

See:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/sinnett_how_theosophy_came_to_me2.htm

Daniel

Blavatsky Study Center / Blavatsky Archives

http://blavatskyarchives.com



Blavatsky Study Center can be easily…

We have created a special webpage listing all of Madame Blavatsky's

books and magazines in the original editions published 1877-1907 and

now available in pdf format.



See this list at:



http://blavatskyarchives.com/blavatsky_works_in_pdf_in_19th_century22.htm



This page is also listed (in red) in the 2nd column of links on our

homepage at:…

Dear friends,

We must learn with the good and less good things that occur in our daily life. Sometimes we think that our cross is heavier that we can load but what we get is what we really need, to remove the veils of illusion and ignorance of our hearts.

Robert Crosbie said,

“This is a school and everything that comes for us to do contains a lesson for us. ‘We should not forget that, ever. What comes at any…

Dear friends,

As we approach the celebration of the “Victory in Europe Day” on 8^th May, which marks the victory of the Allies over the Nazis and the end of Second World War in Europe,  we have just published at our website www.Esoteric-Philosophy.com an important testimony by Sieglinde Plocki, a German theosophist of the Point Loma TS, about the Nazi persecution of the theosophists in Germany during the Second World…

Dear friends,

As we approach to the celebration of the end of Second World War, at May 8 of 1945, we continue our investigation on the theosophical movement during those dark years.

We have just published a new text in our website about the moving testimony of a Greek theosophist during the Nazi occupation.

The text follows below.

Best regards, Joaquim

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Dear friends,

Today, President Obama confirmed that Osama Bin Laden has been killed.

We know that HPB wrote about “secret societies created in the Peshawar region, where now Mr. Osama Bin Laden and the taliban have their strongholds in Afghanistan. Those lands include the border region with Pakistan.”

We have in our websites a most interesting article entitled:

Occult Roots of the Afghan…