The Eastern occult philosophy is the great block of solid truth from which the quaint, exoteric mysticism of the outer world has been casually thrown off from time to time, in veiled and symbolical shapes.  These hints and suggestions of mystic philosophy may be likened to the grains of gold in rivers,  which early explorers used to think betokened somewhere in the mountains from which the rivers sprang vas ...

Divine Wisdom cannot be a subject for study, but it may be an object of search.  With the love for this same wisdom uppermost in our hearts, we ask you if you would not be wiser to lay aside the study of so-called Theosophy and study yourself.  Knowing yourself  you know all men, the worlds seen and occult, and find Theo-Sophia. One cannot absorb Theosophy as a sponge does water, to be expelled at the sligh ...

Jesus saw little ones being fed. He addressed his Disciples: These babies being nursed Are like those entering the Kingdom. They asked: "Shall we enter the Kingdom? They are small." He said: When you make two into one And what is within like what is without, And what is without like what is within. And what is above like what is below, And when you unite male and female in one So that the male is no longer ...

Above all things, respect thyself. In the next place, observe Justice in thy actions and in thy words; and accustom not thyself in anything without rule and without reason. Always make this reflection, that it is ordained by Destiny for all men to die; and that the goods of fortune are uncertain. As they may be acquired, they may likewise be lost. Concerning all the calamities that men suffer by Divine Fort ...

The action of the Centripetal Force is strong and it keeps up together the particles of Ice. It requires the action of Centrifugal Force, which is done by the supply of heat. It that piece of Ice be left in a cold place it will remain so until by accident Sun's rays might penetrate there or in some such way heat might be supplied.  Just so then with man. The action of the Centripetal Force keeps us to our g ...

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good - wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought word and deed; but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of it is a positive pleasure to me.  Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next. -Mohandas K. Gandhi ...

What is well planted cannot be uprooted. What is held firmly cannot fall away, Thus the sacrifices of peers will be preserved unceasingly. Use the Tao within yourself And Virtue will be without dross. Use the Tao within the family And Virtue will abound. Use the Tao within the community And Virtue will multiply. Use the Tao within the country And Virtue will be abundant. Use the Tao within the world And Vir ...

The great Tao flows everywhere, To the left and the right; The Ten Thousand Things rely upon it, And it never turns away from them. It does its work quietly And claims no credit. It clothes and feeds the Ten Thousand Things, Yet does not claim to be their lord. Ever desireless, it may be called the The Small. The Ten Thousand Things return to it. Yet it does not claim to be their lord. It maybe called the G ...

Yield and remain whole; Bend and remain straight. Be empty and remain full. Be worn and remain anew. Own little and be replete. Own much and be restless. Therefore the Sage embraces the One And sets an example for the whole world. He does not display himself, And so he shines; He does not display himself, And so he shines; He does not defend himself, And so he is distinguished; He does not swagger, And so h ...

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome with drowsiness, they would have performed something. The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred mi ...