The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strength….

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were….

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the thin….

If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward ….

What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corolla….

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain whic….

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature..

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it w….

When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the l….

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolv….

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in it….

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures….

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining..

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an unc….

Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men….

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - ….

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism..

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most….

'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them….

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's a….

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future..