Top 35 Quotes About Theosophy
#1. The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.
George Orwell
#2. Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
Annie Besant
#3. I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
Joseph Joubert
#7. The subject, a widely known architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young Wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell.
H.P. Lovecraft
#8. Adam's mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would surely be killed by the wild and barbarous rebels, and she prepared herself to get in touch with him in what she called the beyond.
John Steinbeck
#9. Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
Annie Besant
#10. Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.
George Pendle
#11. THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.
Weyes Blood
#13. 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 one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.
Annie Besant
#14. Somewhere there is mystery. It impels one to theosophy: to the worship of a space-god, or a god of light." "Theory dissolves the mystery, though it lays bare a cryptic new stratum. Quite likely there is an endless set of these layers, mystery below mystery.
Jack Vance
#15. Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
H. P. Blavatsky
#16. She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness.
John Steinbeck
#17. harmonialism" - a belief that spiritual, physical, and even economic well-being flow from a person's connection with metaphysical forces of the cosmos - manifested itself in such new forms of thought as Spiritualism, Christian Science, New Thought, and Theosophy.
George Pendle
#18. 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 corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.
Annie Besant
#19. The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.
Chuck Palahniuk
#20. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.
Edward Fahey
#21. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones.
Emery Lord
#22. Perhaps a human simply falls back into himself upon the disintegration of his physical body, and continues to take form within the self of himself, simply returning from whence he came.
C. JoyBell C.
#23. Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we're looking out at the stars, we're looking into ourselves.
Edward Fahey
#24. A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#25. Sometimes I wish I could feel more pain
so I could touch that much more beauty.
Edward Fahey
#26. Broken hearts show us we've grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next.
We're forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.
Edward Fahey
#27. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.
L. Adams Beck
#28. Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
William H Gass
#29. If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.
William Blake
#30. The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
The Holy Twelve dance with us,
All things join in the dance!
Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.
Gustav Holst
#31. William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
Adrian Desmond
#32. I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
Guy Clark
#33. Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
Thomas Sowell
#34. That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?
Peter Washington
