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January 19, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical
creation of Beauty. — EDGAR ALLAN POE

A word to the wise is enough, and many words
won’t fill a bushel. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

January 18, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word

The Sower soweth the word. — ST. MARK

Not and act which is not a development and extension of the vivifying
power of the WORD. — CLAUDE de SAINT-MARTIN

January 17, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity

That which makes for evil can be turned into that which makes for good;
that which makes for destructiveness can be turned into that which makes for constructiveness; that which makes for separation and selfishness can be turned into that which makes for unity and…[Read more]

January 16, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
In time Unity will perfect the spaces,
And in Unity each one will attain himself.
— EVANGELIUM VERITATIS

And all real unity commences
In consciousness of differences
That have wants to satisfy
And each a power to supply.
— W.H. AUDEN

January 15, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
Harmony does not come through likeness. harmony comes from a balancing of diversities, and discord from any effort to make harmony by force. — W.Q. JUDGE

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet
physical force with soul force. — MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“. . . the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to o…[Read more]

January 14, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity

When we look outside of that on which we depend, we ignore our unity;
looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is the one head.
— PLOTINUS

To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and
to exalt the will to live. — ALBERT SCHWEITZER

“The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Puranas. But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set d…[Read more]

January 12, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens
our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — EDMUND BURKE

Polarity is universal, but the polariser lies in
our own consciousness. — H.P. BLAVATSKY

The harmony of nature consists in symphonious
discord. — D.K. MAVALANKAR

January 11, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity

By the pure mind alone the Atman is to be seen. There is
no duality in it. — BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervour with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — WILLIAM JAMES

January 3, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Promethean Resolve

Let us resolve one thing; resolve to know; think
right, and do right. — ROBERT CROSBIE

Good resolutions are mind-painted pictures of good
deeds: fancies, day-dreams, whisperings of the Buddhi
to the Manas. — MAHATMA K. H.

January 9, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Promethean Resolve
Wherever a grass grows,
Or a leaf buds, The Eternal Man is seen, is heard, is felt,
And all his sorrows, till he reassumes his ancient bliss.
— WILLIAM BLAKE

January 8, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Promethean Resolve
This will I do, who have a realm to lose,
Because I love my realm, because my heart
Beats with each throb of all the hearts that ache,
Known and unknown, these that are mine and those
Which shall be mine, a thousand million more
Saved by this sacrifice I offer now.
— SIR EDWIN ARNOLD

January 6, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Nanak

Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All of us stand on the breach today. We are stationed at the
frontier. The frontier is everywhere. — CHARLES PÉGUY

January 5, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Nanak
AUM. Lead me from the unreal to the Real.
Lead me from darkness to Light.
Lead me from death to Immortality.
— BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

In longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and
that longing is in all of you. — KAHLIL GIBRAN

January 3, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Promethean Resolve

Through faith in the Guru, the True Self is known. — GURU NANAK

You cannot invoke the Divine Witness with impunity. — H.P. BLAVATSKY

January 4 , 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Promethean Resolve

We will take our plan
From the new world of man,
And our work shall be called the
Promethean.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

If I have done the public any
service, it is due to patient thought.
— ISAAC NEWTON

January 3, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Guru Nanak

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods
than in doing good to their fellow men. — CICERO

If we look into the future, is it not a heritage that we have to leave to
posterity, that all the different races commingle and produce a civilization that perhaps the world has not yet s…[Read more]