Jewels in the Lotus

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of… Read More »Infinite Expectation of the Dawn

NATURE, all parent, ancient, and divine, O Much-mechanic mother, art is thine; Heav’nly, abundant, venerable queen, In ev’ry part of… Read More »Hymn to Nature

To make our body of senses and limbs the stately mansion which puts forth the majesty and tenderness of Mother… Read More »The Nachiketas Fire

Man is to the Real as the pupil is to the eye, through which the act of seeing takes place.… Read More »The Act of Seeing

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the… Read More »The Crowned Knot of Fire

All consciousness is a kind of attention.  It begins the moment we awake from sleep, though it is partially present… Read More »Mindfulness

GREAT MAGNET! Thy hidden power Draws us ever onward to spaces anew. Secret in the earth They life-forces waken Stirrings… Read More »Great Magnet

How shall we apply Theosophy in daily life?  First, to think what we are in reality, on arising; to endeavour… Read More »Theosophy in Daily Life

Thou canst not travel on the Path before thou hast become that Path itself. Let thy soul lend its ear… Read More »Let Thy Soul Lend It’s Ear

Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir’st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A… Read More »Descent of Spirit

“Lift thy head, oh Lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky?” “I… Read More »Lift Thy Head Oh Lanoo

There is a vale which none hath seen, Where foot of man has never been, Such as here lives with… Read More »Rumours from and Aeolian Harp

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what… Read More »Judge Not, Lest Thee Be Judged

I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!) . . . Not I, not any one else can travel that… Read More »A Perpetual Journey

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.… Read More »The Thought-Factor in Achievement

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding… Read More »Faith, Hope and Love

The Creation of the whole Creation is nothing else but a Manifestatin of the all-essential, unsearchable God;  all whatever he… Read More »Divine Manifestation

Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for… Read More »Another’s Woe

Divine Wisdom cannot be a subject for study, but it may be an object of search.  With the love for… Read More »Divine Wisdom and the Self

To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the… Read More »Eternity in an Hour

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good—wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought word and… Read More »A Yearning Soul

1. Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body… Read More »Aquarian Axioms

It is only when I turn to the literature of vision and intuition, to the sacred books and to half… Read More »The Memory of the Spirit

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of… Read More »Becoming Awake

When ye are assembled in Council, fail not to light in your midst the Fire which is the symbol of… Read More »The Sacred Pipe

The Sage: “The Present is the Child of the Past; the Future, the begotten of the Present. And yet, O… Read More »O Present Moment

It is but the Occultist, the Eastern Adept, who stands a Free Man, omnipotent through his own Divine Spirit as… Read More »True Adeptship

Wholly one in the intelligible world, pre-existent from all time, and it combines all things together in the one. Again… Read More »Helios

My horse has a hoof like striped agate; His fetlock is like a fine eagle plume; His legs are like… Read More »The Black Horse

And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever,… Read More »Compensations and Calamity

Every one of us possesses the faculty, the interior sense, that is known by the name intuition, but how rare… Read More »Intuition and Instinct

I PAUSED beside the cabin door and saw the King of Kings at play,Tumbled upon the grass I spied the… Read More »The King of Kings

Above all things, respect thyself. In the next place, observe Justice in thy actions and in thy words; and accustom… Read More »Arm Thyself with Patience

Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you’ve collected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have… Read More »Recollect Thrice

There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings, far aloft, In the clear golden prime… Read More »Fiery Martyrdom

And now my grief I see Was but the ancient shadow part of me, Not yet attuned to good, Still… Read More »The Christ Soul

“Sit evenly, erect, at ease, with palms folded on the lap, with eyes fixed on the nose, cleanse your lungs… Read More »All Beings as Myself

ॐ भूर् भुवः सुवः । तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो॑ देवस्यधीमहि । धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ Om bhur bhuvah svah tat-savitur varenyam… Read More »The Gayatri Mantram

He knows no change who knows the true, And on it keeps his eye, Who always still the unseen doth… Read More »He Knows No Change

I died as a mineral and became a plant; I died as a plant and rose to animal; I died… Read More »Rebirth

He is all in all Himself, devoid of material conditions. Whosoever serves Him is honorable, Nanak, let us, therefore, sing… Read More »The Word of the Guru

Thou canst not buy true goodness in the market: Nor canst thou win it unto thee by distant pilgrimage: It… Read More »The Priceless Prize

As the lost jewel may be recovered from the very depths of the tank’s mud, so can the most abandoned… Read More »Whisperings of Buddhi

Much sorrow of man comes from his efforts, in imperfect understanding of his own nature, to crowd his universal life… Read More »Infinitude and Incompletion

One who was suffering tumult in his soul Yet failed to seek the sure relief of prayer, Went forth—his course… Read More »Tranquility

If a man feels that what, without any fault of his own, he suffers in this life can only be… Read More »Nothing Can Be Lost

You, free thinker, imagine only man Thinks in this world where life bursts from all things? The powers within prescribe… Read More »Love’s Mystery

Act thou for them “today,” and they will act for thee “tomorrow.” ’Tis from the bud of Renunciation of the… Read More »Renunciation