Robert Crosbie

Occult Knowledge means knowledge which is “hidden,” but it also means knowledge which is known. If it is knowledge that is known, there must be… Read More »Occult Knowledge

The power of suggestion means many different things to many minds. It is coupled with the idea of hypnosis, where the operator is able to… Read More »The Power of Suggestion

Christian theology states that evil came into the world through the sin of the first man’s eating of the tree of forbidden fruit. All men… Read More »The Origin of Evil

Now that the most frightful and destructive war known to the annals of history is over, the questions that arise in every thinker’s mind are:… Read More »A League of Humanity

All have doubtless made New Year”s resolutions, and all, no doubt, have failed to keep them. There must be a reason for our failures, as… Read More »New Year’s Resolutions

Concentration, or the use of the attention in the direction of anything that we wish to do, consistently and persistently, has long been recognized as… Read More »Culture of Concentration

Every human being has faith—faith in something, some ideal, some conception, some religion, some formula—but while the faiths of different people have one or another… Read More »Three Kinds of Faith

It would be a grave mistake to think that by not acting one frees himself from the consequences of action. Such would be a totally… Read More »Renunciation of Action

To most people the word “religion” signifies something separate from human existence, and presents the idea of preparation for some unknown future existence. Some religions… Read More »The Foundation of Religion

We are never free from pain, sorrow, and suffering in the world. Pleasures come and go very lightly, but always the sorrow and suffering of… Read More »The Cause of Sorrow

Mental healing, metaphysical healing, mind cure, spiritual healing and Christian Science all come under the same head; there is no difference between them in the… Read More »Mental Healing and Hypnosis

The word Nature used in its widest sense, as when we speak of Great Nature, or Mother Nature, means the whole of the outside—all that… Read More »The Occult Side of Nature

Many people think that religion means a preparation for death or the states of the future. Religion really means a preparation for and a knowledge… Read More »Theosophy in Daily Life

Instinct is a direct perception of what is right, within its own realm. Intuition is a direct cognition of the truth in all things. Reason… Read More »Instinct and Intuition

Since the forties of last century Spiritualists have affirmed the answer to this question, claiming sufficient evidence for the survival of intelligence after the state… Read More »Can the Dead Communicate?

The philosophy of Theosophy covers all things in manifestation and points out the relations of each thing to every other. Our personal purview extends over… Read More »Planetary Influences

The “kingly mystery” is Life itself. We all have Life. We all are Life. Every being everywhere is Life—expresses Life. To know what is Life… Read More »The Kingly Mystery

As a people we speak of “our God,” imagining that we all have the same idea, that we all mean the same thing by the… Read More »Our God and Other Gods

Day after day we are constantly confronted by the fact that we are all subject to death. No matter how we may live, whether our… Read More »What Survives After Death?

Since the Theosophical Movement took outward expression in 1875, the term clairvoyance (clear seeing) has become familiar to many people. In the latter part of… Read More »True Clairvoyance

True morality is not a thing of words or phrases or modes of action of any kind, nor is its basis to be found in… Read More »True Morality

“There are two kinds of beings in the world, the one divisible, and the other indivisible: the divisible is all things and the creatures, the… Read More »Man, Visible and Invisible

What reincarnates is a mystery to many minds because they find a difficulty in understanding such a permanency as must stand behind repeated incarnations. They… Read More »What Reincarnates?

The general idea with regard to memory is that it depends entirely on the orderly functioning of the physical brain, and that where derangement of… Read More »Real Memory

When we consider the idea of thought we must remember that there cannot be thought without a thinker. There are no thoughts that arise of… Read More »The Storehouse of Thought

There is something in each of us which enters the state called dreams, the state called sleep, and the state called death. No understanding whatever… Read More »Sleep and Dreams

The Soul is pictured in the ancient teachings as the real Self man. There are many different conceptions of what man is and what the… Read More »The Language of the Soul

There is no possible way of understanding or explaining the nature of any being whatever except through Evolution, which is always an unfolding from within… Read More »The Creative Will

We have to assume either that this is a universe of law or a universe of chaos, chance, accident. In fact, we know perfectly well… Read More »The Recognition of Law