The Eye of Self-Existence Part 1 The Secret Doctrine establishes three fundamental propositions: An omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable PRINCIPLE on which all speculation is i... Read more
The Philosophy and Science of Vedantic Raja Yoga1 Theosophist, March, 1884 I feel really obliged to my friend and brother, Babu Siris Chandra Vasu, B. A., for the presentation of a copy of a... Read more
Can Females Become Adepts? Theosophist, October, 1883. Will you kindly let me know whether females can attain to adeptship, and whether female adepts exist at all? “An Inquirer.”... Read more
The Allegory of the Cave Part 1 Those having Lamps will pass them on to others. – PLATO In The Secret Doctrine we are told that Plato was not merely the greatest philosopher of Greece b... Read more
On “The Good” and “The One” of Plato by Thomas Taylor, from an extensive note in his translation of The Republic The good, which is here celebrated by Socrates as that which reigns in the in... Read more
Studies in the Secret Doctrine: Growth Through Self-Effort Life is substantial as Spirit or as Matter, as the noumenal principle or as the phenomenal personality, as monads or as atoms. In p... Read more
Free Your Mind Part 2 Why Philosophy is Important? We know the word philosophy was coined by Pythagoras in pre-Socratic days in Greece. Philo=Love and Sophia=Wisdom. But the idea of philos... Read more
“Free Your Mind” Part 1 Why Philosophy is Important? “The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larg... Read more
Can The Mahatmas Be Selfish? Theosophist, August, 1884 In various writings on occult subjects, it has been stated that unselfishness is a sine qua non for success in occultism. Or a more cor... Read more
