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About Killing Animals

Article/ by W. Q. Judge, The Path, March, 1892

A correspondent asks: “Will you kindly explain why, if you think it wrong to kill a water bug, that you should consider it right to… Read More »About Killing Animals

Theosophic Diet

Article/ by W. Q. Judge, The Path, December, 1888

The question “whether to eat meat or not to eat it” is one which is uppermost in the minds of many theosophists today. Some will… Read More »Theosophic Diet

The Beans of Pythagoras

Article/ by Helen L. Sumner, The Path, February, 1888

In a recent number of the Theosophist is a paragraph in reply to an enquirer as to “why Pythagoras banned the bean,” which seems to… Read More »The Beans of Pythagoras

Have Animals Souls?

Article/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, January-March, 1886 [Serialized]

“Continually soaked with blood, the whole earth is but an immense altar upon which all that lives has to be immolated—endlessly, incessantly.” . . .—Comte… Read More »Have Animals Souls?

The Best Food for Man

Note(s)/ by Damodar K. Mavalankar, The Theosophist, April, 1884

Article by Purmeshri Dass | Note by D.K.M. The use of flesh-meat is forbidden on the ground that it is animal food and the reasons… Read More »The Best Food for Man

[On Vegetarianism and the Murder of Innocent Animals]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, January, 1883

Selection from the Article “Indian Agricultural Reform” by J. J. Meyrick | Note by H.P.B. . . . A great loss of valuable food would be avoided if… Read More »[On Vegetarianism and the Murder of Innocent Animals]

The Rationale of Fasts

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, January, 1883

Letter from H. Hardy | Reply by H.P.B. Knowing the interest you take in Oriental philosophy, will you kindly allow me to ask you or… Read More »The Rationale of Fasts

The “Elixir of Life”

Article/ by Godolphin Mitford, The Theosophist, March-April, 1882 [Serialized]

And Enoch walked with the Elohim, and the Elohim took him.”—GENESIS. The curious information—for whatsoever else the world may think of it, it will doubtless… Read More »The “Elixir of Life”

Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food

Translation/ by Thomas Taylor, 1823

Book One 1. Hearing from some of our acquaintance, O Firmus,1 that you, having rejected a fleshless diet, have again returned to animal food, at… Read More »Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food