Jewels of Wisdom

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove; Oh no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and… Marriage of True Minds

At the present time one of the most urgent needs is for a simplification of Theosophical teachings. Theosophy is simple enough; it is the fault of its exponents if it is made complicated, abstruse or vague. Yet inquiring people are… Passing the Torch

And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and… Compensations and Calamity

Well considered, the distinctive mark Of consummate tapas comes to this: The steady, unbroken current of awareness That this bewildering, variegated crowd Of world-appearances is all Self-made, Concealing and revealing bu the Self. True tapas which establishes One in the… Tapas

Close your eyes, and from your own consciousness of perception try and think outward to the extremest limits in every direction. You will find that equal lines or rays of perception extend out evenly in all directions, so that the… A Great Circle

Having taken as a bow the great weapon of the Secret Teaching, One should fix in it the arrow sharpened by constant Meditation. Drawing it with a mind filled with That (Brahman) Penetrate, O bright youth, that Immutable Mark. The… Pranava

Learn from these facets of Nature; though trampled on by all, be firm in your adversity like the earth itself ; from these mountains which hold their mineral and other resources for the welfare of the world, learn that you… The Luster of Wisdom

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the… The Chambered Nautilus

Much sorrow of man comes from his efforts, in imperfect understanding of his own nature, to crowd his universal life into his personal experience, to grasp and realize with the function of the finite the suggestions of the infinite.  He… The Infinite and the Finite

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.   With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a  more simple and… Comforts of Life

It is only when I turn to the literature of vision and intuition, to the sacred books and to half sacred tradition, to the poets and seers, that I find a grandiose conception of nature in which every spiritual experience… The Memory of the Spirit