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 ...

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Theosophy emerged from this search. Founded by Helena Blavatsky in 1875, it proposed that all religions shared a single ancient wisdom tradition.

H. P. Blavatsky made enlightening commentaries on a Tibetan sect which presents itself as Buddhist. The ideas and methods of this sect are relatively fashionable nowadays, due in part to the influence ...

If Theosophy is to survive, it must first change itself. It must learn that mental rectitude to which it is now a stranger and improve its moral basis. It must become clear, straightforward, rigidly ...

Apologies in advance for the length of this article. While it is important to highlight this topic, it is not important enough to warrant two articles. In recent discussions on the relative happiness ...

The passing away of Radha Burnier has created a deep void in the field of theosophy. She served the Theosophical Society in various capacities from her childhood, most notably as its president for 33 ...