“Perhaps the more sophisticated type of Theosophy patiently waits until a person has finished researching and calculating himself or herself into complete insignificance and meaninglessness.”—General Theosophy

“Increase what you do not know; decrease what you think you know.”—General Theosophy

"ADJUSTMENT is far more important in life than SUCCESS."—General Theosophy

"The real value of your money may only be how much volitional leisure time it is currently able to buy for you."—General Theosophy

“Theosophy is a Preternatural Intuition which may not be provable but remains convincing anyway; theology is a natural speculation which also may not be provable but remains convincing when your fingers are crossed.”—General Theosophy

“Religion is the shortcut to belief; Theosophy is the scenic route.”—General Theosophy

“The certainty about a Theosopher is that he or she is speaking from and for himself or herself; the chance about a Theosophist is that he or she might merely be quoting a librarian quoting a librarian quoting a librarian. . . .”—General Theosophy

“If you need to force yourself to meditate every day, perhaps you need to learn how to meditate.”—General Theosophy

“When the omniscient, omnipotent gods really watch over you, they probably do not let you from time to time mistake yourself for one of them.”—General Theosophy

“One underappreciated advantage for Psycho-Spiritual progress in OLD AGE is probably just the possession of a nearly incontestable excuse for shifting more and more temporal work onto younger people.”—General Theosophy

“One's secular journey begins with the first step taken; one's Psycho-Spiritual Grand Tour, with the first secular step NOT taken.”—General Theosophy

“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