The Sankhya and Yoga Philosophy1 A Lecture read by the Secretary before the Convention of the Theosophical Society, December 1887. The quotations from and references to Sanskrit works have b... Read more
Theosophy as a Guide in Life A Theosophical Tract, Published in 1887 This is a practical age, and every system or theory is challenged to give proofs of what it may accomplish in action. How... Read more
Practical Theosophy The Path, July, 1890 The ethics of life propounded by Jesus are not different from those found in theosophy, but the latter holds in its doctrines a compelling power whic... Read more
Much Reading, Little Thought The Path, June, 1890 The wise man sagely said that of making books there is no end. If true in his day, it is the same now. Among members of the Theosophical Soc... Read more
To Theosophists Willing to Work The Path, November, 1889 For some 18 months past, private zeal has carried out a system by which a single copy of one of the tracts expounding popularly some... Read more
Contemplation Theosophist, February, 1884 A general misunderstanding of this term seems to prevail. The popular idea appears to be to confine oneself for half an hour—or at the utmost two ho... Read more
Occult Study The practical bearing of occult teaching on ordinary life is very variously interpreted by different students of the subject. For many Western readers of recent books on the eso... Read more
Morality and Pantheism Questions have been raised in several quarters as to the inefficiency of Pantheism (which term is intended to include Esoteric Buddhism, Adwaitee Vedantism, and other... Read more
Is the Desire to “Live” Selfish? The passage “to live, to live, to live must be the unswerving resolve,” occurring in the article on the Elixir of Life, is often quoted by superficial and un... Read more
Dialogues Between the Two Editors On Astral Bodies, or Doppelgangers Lucifer, December, 1888 M. C. Great confusion exists in the minds of people about the various kinds of apparitions, wrait... Read more