Deities, like humans, have different characteristics.  The energy/shakti of some deities is very ‘yang’, powerful, while others are gentle, their energy permeates through your bodies like a gentle wave that washes over you, cooling you, as you lie on the sand in shallow water.  When a relationship has developed between the disciple and their 'Ishtadevata' the personal deity, occult obedience is the first rule that must, at all costs, be understood.  For instance, during some…

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Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius) by Richard Ihle

"There's a man in the funny papers we all know. . . ."

Some people started to call me "Captain Theosophy.". . .

Initially, this was almost certainly because it was the title of an article I had written for the old THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST magazine. In those days I guess I did sometimes seem sort of like a cartoonish superhero—not only because of my…

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"God cannot speak in a particular language."—General Theosophy

"Making further progress may sometimes be hampered by having too many admirers of where you are presently—and most certainly if you are among them."—General Theosophy

"The drawback of disciples is that they may flatter the psychological feature of yourself which is least deserving of disciples. . . ."—General Theosophy

Theosophy: Repainting the Rainbow

                                                                              Richard Ihle

Kurt Leyland's "The Rainbow Body" in Spring 2017 edition of QUEST MAGAZINE was excellent. I can certainly agree that a "Western Chakra System" has now become "recognized, schematized, and adopted" in just the…

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Well, I had decided to Google this subject today because, well I was just curious. I mean everything I know about imagination is that to have it you need to have lots of angles to pull from in which to create your own ideas. There was a scientific article that had described something more on the lines of how the brain works all on its own using whatever images it needs in which to create a "fantasy" or something in our…

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I know that Egyptologists, academics and other intelligent people looking at the Egyptian culture and religious beliefs have a complete misunderstanding of what they are looking at.  I am an esoterist; therefore, I look at problems esoterically as well as exoterically.

My expertise lies in the study of the first chapter of Genesis esoterically: what this means is that every…

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The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett is one of the books that is central

to theosophical literature. I read, and reread it a lot, in the early

years of my being involved with the Theosophical Society and it's one of

the books I based my first online project on 'The Esoteric Studies

Guide'.



Joy Mills is famous in the Theosophical Society Adyar for her in depth

study of these letters. She's… Continue

THE Cherokee say that “our first teacher is our own heart,” but unfortunately our western science has rewarded that teacher with very few apples.



Mainstream medicine still looks at the heart as only a mechanical pump.



That view is beginning to change. The Medical Community is being challenged to expand its thinking about human biology, health, and wellness.



Leading-edge research in holistic medicine, biophysics, bioenergetics, and frontier biology all… Continue