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December 17, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Tsong Kha Pa

The pleasure of being useful is his only recompense. — CAGLIOSTRO

All actions become significant. — TSONG-KHA-PA

December 15, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Tsong Kha Pa

To reach Nirvana’s bliss, but to renounce it, is the
supreme, the final step — the highest on Renunciation’s
Path. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

December 14, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

December 13, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

He who is perfected in devotion findeth spiritual knowledge springing up
spontaneously in himself in the progress of time. — SHRI KRISHNA

December 12, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect. — AVERROES

December 11, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

Pure divine love is not merely the blossom of a human heart,
but has its roots in eternity. — H. P. BLAVATSKY

December 10, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

Look on the love of mankind as the foundation of thy piety. — PORPHYRY

December 9, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

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

December 8, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Guru Bhakti

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

December 7, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space

Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing
art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body.
— APOLLONIUS

December 6, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space

Magnetic action is exerted at a distance, without the aid
of an intermediate body. — FRANZ ANTON MESMER

December 5, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Space

No atom of this turbulence fulfils
A vague or unnecessitated task
Or acts but as it must and ought to act.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The Law of Correspondences
From a Talk by Robert Crosbie

Theosophy, October, 1920

“Law of Correspondences” is a greater subject than people are liable to suspect; yet we all know something of correspondences in the simple facts of nature—the seven colors of the spectrum, the seven notes of the scale. Each color of each octave corresponds to th…[Read more]

December 4, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Space

Worship is transcendent wonder. — THOMAS CARLYLE

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in
us, long before it happens. — RAINER MARIA RILKE

December 1, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Space

Self is within, Self without, Self before and Self behind, Self on the right
hand, Self on the left, Self above, Self below. — SHANKARACHARYA

November 30, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Rising Tide

They are never alone that are accompanied with
noble thoughts. — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — MARK TWAIN

SD i 279-280

Whatever may be the destiny of these actual writings in a remote future, we hope to have proven so far the following facts:

(1) The Secret Doctrine teaches no Atheism, except in the Hindu sense of the word nastika, or the rejection of idols, including every anthropomorphic god. In this sense every Occultist is a Nastika.…[Read more]

The personal life, finding delight in outward objects through the external senses, rejoicing in garlands, sandalwood and women, through the perceptive power of the Self, finds its activity in waking consciousness in the body.

This gross body, through which the spirit of man engages in all outward life, know that it is but the house of the…[Read more]

How to Study the Secret Doctrine: Part II
If, as has been claimed, the three fundamental propositions constitute a key to the study of the Secret Doctrine, the student should endeavor to apply these not merely to the philosophy as a whole, but to each and every department and special topic and to the linking of these together. Only by so doing can…[Read more]