April 20 2020 London England — The co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, was plagued by poor health during much of her life and at one point, in 1875, she was due to suffer amputation of a leg. The incident is mentioned in an article entitled, HPB’S LEG INJURY, which was sent to […]
THE Comte de St. Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries.– Helena Blavatsky, Articles Vol. II. No. 8 May 1881 ONE of the most mysterious characters in modern history is Saint-Germain, described by his friend Prince Karl von Hesse as “one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived, the […]
The Cowardly Lion thinks he needs courage; but he is the one who acts bravely to save the company whenever they are threatened by danger. Dorothy’s companions, like Dorothy herself, have within themselves the qualities they are seeking. We each have everything we need; we lack only the intuition of Glinda the Good to tell […]
March is Women in History Month. Let us toast to the Grande Dames of Theosophy, the women who shaped our world and changed the course of history. They fought for our rights, struggled to be free of discrimination and stereotypes, and refused to be locked into roles set forth by society. They raised babies, but […]
“Our Society had never certainly any idea of rising superior to the brotherliness and ethics preached by Christ, but only to those of the sham Christianity of the Churches…” ~ HPB Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (August 12 1831 – May 8 1891) gave the western world The Ageless Wisdom. Everything we know about the Masters of […]
MEDIA ALERT For Release: Immediately Contact: Nancy Bragin for Theosophical Society Abraxas Lodge Email: nbragin@mac.com Wednesday June 3rd 7:00 PM in Southampton PA – Ed Abdill Debuts Acclaimed New Book Masters of Wisdom Southampton PA May 31st 2015 — In the late nineteenth century, Russian noblewoman and occult philosopher Madame H.P. Blavatsky enthralled the world […]
Painting by Nicole Roggeman This is the last Will and Testament of me Helena Petrovna Blavatsky of Adyar, Madras, India. I desire my body to be burned in the Compound of the Theosophical Society’s Headquarters at Adyar, Madras, and the ashes to be buried in the said Compound and that none who are not Theosophists […]
Step inside the slender turn-of-the century castle at 1917 Walnut Street, built for John Wanamaker’s brother William, and you enter a world of ornate plasterwork and wood paneling. Sound is muffled here–the place has the hushed air of a library, or perhaps a monastery. This fervid Rittenhouse Square spring might be a thousand miles, a […]
One could be confined in a prison and yet be a worker for the cause. So I pray you to remove from your mind any distaste for present circumstances. If you can succeed in looking at it all as just what you (higher Self) in fact desired then it will act not only as strengthener of […]
The highest manifestation of wisdom is kindness. 