In the days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to ...

Long before the Manson gang, Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and the suicidal San Diego-based Heaven’s Gate gave a deadly name to religious millenarian groups, utopian communities were drawn to California.

She was a massive mountain of a woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which ...

Madame Blavatsky, as she was often called, was a co-founder of Theosophy, an esoteric late nineteenth-century movement that combined aspects of mystical and magical beliefs with bits and pieces of ...

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THERE are here four lectures—on theosophy and the problem of heredity; history in the light of reincarnation; the basis of art expression; and the search for reality. Dealing with heredity, the author ...

In a world still partly dominated by bigotry and by ritualistic religions, it is only natural that the theosophical movement – being rather a non-violent extinguisher of illusions – should be attacked ...

Jerome Michel discusses ways to find a deeper understanding of the vast ideas that make up the essentials of theosophy. He shows how theosophy is different for everyone because it defines itself ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jiddu Krishnamurti was one of the most galvanising spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Hailed ...

On the evening of November 17, 1875, in Mott Memorial Hall, New York, a group of seekers convened to explore life’s profound mysteries. At the centre was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian ...