Beauty as Philosophic Truth

 
True Knowledge Requires the
Fulfillment of Certain Soul Needs
 
John Garrigues

When Plato spoke of “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful”, he named the three foci of Reality known to mankind. These are not three “deities”. They are names given to ideals men seek. In the endeavor to come to terms with life, to live in harmony with the wide universe, Morality, Philosophy and Esthetics grow ever closer together in the mind, supporting and interblending with each other as a wider range of perception unfolds. For the wise man they become a single object of allegiance and devotion.

Tragedy has travelled hand in hand with attempts to define and describe one of these three without recognizing its area of interpenetration with the others. Moralists have erected forbidding edifices, categories of good and evil, which neglect philosophy, science and the arts. Philosophers and scientists have forgotten morality and the other sources of real beauty that are man’s inherited intuitions.  Devotees of the arts have often become narrow-minded sensualists, failing to integrate morality or an all-inclusive philosophy with that which is emotionally pleasing. Thus we have philosophers dry and dusty, scientists a-moral, artists and esthetes emotionally uncontrolled. This unfortunate trifurcation has a long history in the Western world, and follows the same patterns that characterized previous ages of unenlightenment.

Religion dictated an artificial moral code by relying on fear and ignorance, and succeeded for a time in stultifying the growth of analytical thought and the refinement of instincts and intuitions. The rebellion resulting from ecclesiastical tyranny was poorly ordered. Men driven by a passion for scientific investigation lifted themselves by that passion, but failed to seek truth as a “whole”. Similarly did the majority of those who sought freedom in the quest for beauty or philosophic truth. Few there have been who knew that true beauty is goodness -wisdom in action, based on truth, proportion and harmony - for it has not been the Karma of the majority to live in the light of the ideas called Theosophical. Alone a few sages preserved the knowledge which could not be shared at once by all men, and it is not difficult to distinguish their synthesizing view from the countless religions, philosophies and concepts of the beautiful that characterize the various epochs of Western civilization. Fundamentally, they teach the way to think in terms of purpose.

“Good” is an almost meaningless term today, since churches and academicians have rendered it philosophically useless. “Truth” has suffered a like fate at the same hands. What of “beauty”? Here is a word or concept that has defied such persistent meddling. You cannot persuade a man that the life of another, or some personal experience, is a thing of beauty unless his intuition agrees. Truth, you may convince him, is any manner of things not true. On the question of what is right and wrong, or good and evil, you may easily deceive him. But in things of beauty he retains the right to judge for himself. He feels for himself and his intuitions are unique and intangible. The average man is seeking happiness, life in a world in which his ideals may have their place. Often he cannot be reached by counsels of self-denial for a formula or for a God, as reformers, ecclesiastical and secular, have found to their dismay. But he may be open to the suggestion that his ideal is a rare thing and must be sacrificed for, that it is the companion of those only who refine and elevate themselves.

W. MacNeile Dixon, whose Gifford lectures presented in The Human Situation have brought to the modern world Theosophical ideas in terms of a philosophy of idealism, indicates pointedly his desire to draw away from the realm of intellectual abstractions. “I must confess”, he says, “I am more enamoured of beauty than of truth. Beauty I think I know when I see it. Of truth I am never so sure.” He deprecates academic philosophizing, and explains that he finds greater value in deep-rooted and persistent intuitions. He therefore undertakes to use the term “beauty” for all the real values of the word “truth”. Dixon believes that the intellect should work in harmony with the heart and not be regarded as the infallible key to reality, which some modern professional philosophers have claimed it to be. “We have enthroned the measuring, reasoning faculties of man at the expense of the heart”, Dixon declares. “Who told you that nature has such a preference? We should aim at a conclusion which the intellect can accept and the heart approve.”

The importance of this suggestion is its relation to our age of materialism in philosophy. Our materialists try to explain away the basic human yearning for a philosophy of purpose in terms of human immortality as “mass psychological delusions”. For Dixon, genuine and deep beauty is truth, which all strive for, whether or no they can quote Aristotle or Spinoza.

To find beauty in living is to know meaning in living. A philosophy of the senses has no enduring meaning, will not provide the faith necessary for constant quest. Purpose in living is not merely a matter of sensations, for sensations are static; they cannot grow in worth as sensations. True and beautiful living is growth in the ability to build in fitting proportions, and this the soul alone can do, for the soul has a sense of “its secret share in the inexhaustible spring of eternity” and creates constantly for the future out of a long past.

Since every form of living intelligence has its share in this “inexhaustible spring of eternity”, all beings must be recognized as brothers - a part of the great harmony that is the universe. Our sense of proportion is faulty, our own house of life imperfect, unless we strive constantly to include the whole. Thus it can be seen that we grow primarily in terms of wider range of perception. Nature, or Life, always was, is and will be in proportion, because built on the constancy of that Law which is proportion in action.

Some levels of beauty we can share with another of like nature. Others can only be shared indirectly, through the effect of the experience of beauty upon thought, action and judgment. The appreciation of beauty is a psychic rather than a “spiritual” experience, but in the highest aspects of the psychic principle, where the soul of man perceives its oneness with the great soul of nature, are the most spiritual, as the most beautiful, of man’s “feelings”.

Man longs to stand alone, perhaps because he knows that aloneness is the secret of his dimly-felt strength as a man-God. The child loves his parents, but does not wish to be absorbed by that love. If the parent desires the love to be all-absorbing, it may be for the reason that he himself is no longer searching as eagerly for the spiritual self as he once did. The sense of complete self-identity felt in childhood is not the egotistical self-sufficiency that sometimes takes its place in later years. Every man, at some period in his life, has stood on a lonely crag and felt surges of strength within that promised the power to withstand all trials, to remain calm, serene, and inwardly protected. But few are the fountains of the beautiful in the modern world at which this inborn power can be renewed. Fewer still are those with the discrimination to perceive them under the over-hanging foliage of sensualism.

Yet even thoughtful followers of Epicurus are driven back to a consideration of eternal proportions and to that source of strength which, independent of sensations, is allied solely to our highest intuitions. A remarkable passage occurs, for instance, in a book which undertakes the defense of “sensualism”:

“We all have to pay toll to the race for what we take from it. But whatever system is established - capitalistic, communistic, or otherwise - in the land where we live, our devotion to efficiency, to justice, to the proletariat, or to our family cannot occupy the whole margin of our days or satisfy the whole craving of our nature. Underlying all our practical activity, there flows, deep and strong and clear, the subterranean river of our real happiness... ‘rich’ or ‘poor’, it is alone we deal with life, and alone we deal with the First Cause.”

“In its loneliness the self within us thinks of itself as suspended in a great void.... In fact, all the ecstasy we get from the most magical moments of our life were best associated with this feeling of being alone in the void.”

This offers the beginning of an understanding of beauty as philosophic truth. The next step is in realizing that while each “self” indeed stands alone, true knowledge requires the fulfillment of certain soul needs, and is the result of “ever-growing perception”. Then, and finally, the needs of one must be seen to be the needs of all, for no man can bring true meaning or proportion to his own inner life without seeking to bring it to all others.

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The article “Beauty as Philosophic Truth” was published on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 29 April 2025.  It is reproduced from “Theosophy” magazine, Los Angeles, January 1943, pp. 127-130.

On the criteria to identify J. Garrigues as the author of the present text, see “Life and Writings of John Garrigues”.  

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Read more:

* Other writings by John Garrigues.

* Experiencing the Yoga Aphorisms.

* Good Sense in Approaching Raja Yoga.

* From Ritualism to Raja Yoga (by a Master of the Wisdom).

* The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali (by Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi).

* Raja Yoga or Mental Development (by Yogi Ramacharaka).

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The Aquarian Theosophist, April 2025

 

The April edition of The Aquarian presents on page one the note “From The Mahatma Letters: The Daily Practice That One Needs, in Order to Attain Wisdom”.

This brief and ground-breaking passage of the Letters is easy enough to understand on a superficial and verbal level. Living up to it, however, constitutes an enduring commitment, for those who take it seriously.  

On page two, we have the article “Thought Power Changes Destiny”, by Swami Sivananda.  The most important kind of Karma is the Karma that you sow, not that you reap.

Page four presents “Neptune Is Now in Aries: a New Historical Cycle Begins”.  On page six, “The Individual Structure: One’s Character as a Spiritual Fortress”.

Other topics: 

* Theodoro D’Almeida and the Goodwill Among Nations.  

* Swami Sivananda: Your Thoughts May Cause Health Problems, or Heal Them.

* Thoughts Along the Road - How to Send Peace and Vitality to Every Cell of Your Physical Body.

* The Power of Thinking - the poem by Walter D. Wintle; and

* Sources of Victory: The Practice of Fasting, by Swami Sankardevananda Saraswati.

With 21 pages, the April edition includes the List of New Items on our websites.  

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“The Aquarian” for April 2025

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Our Oneness With Infinite Life

 
In Spite of Our Failures and Blunders,
The Nations Are Coming Closer Together
 
O. S. Marden
  

He lives best and most who gives God his greatest opportunity in him. If we only knew how to live and move and have our being in Him, to be conscious of this every instant, we should then know what true living means. We should be satisfied, for we should then awake in His likeness.

“Deep within every heart that has not dulled the sense of its inner vision is the belief that we are one with some great unknown, unseen power; and that we are somehow inseparably connected with the Infinite Consciousness.”

         

It is a mental law that thoughts and convictions can only attract their kind. A hatred thought is a hatred magnet and the longer we harbor it, the more steadily we contemplate it, focus our minds upon it, the larger and more powerful the hatred magnet becomes.

In the early days of the great European war a Jewish soldier, in the first line of a Russian battalion, engaged in a man to man fight with an Austrian in the opposing battalion. In their desperate encounter the Russian Jew drove his bayonet through the breast of his opponent. As the latter, an Austrian Jew, fell mortally wounded, with his dying breath he gasped the Hebrew prayer, which begins, “Hear, O Israel”. The Russian, realizing that he had killed a brother Jew, overcome with horror, fell fainting on the battlefield. When he regained consciousness he was a raving lunatic.

When will men realize that we are all brothers; that we are all members of the same great human family, children of the same great Father-Mother-God. When will we see that though oceans and continents divide us, though we may speak different tongues, may differ in race, color and creed, yet we are so closely related in thought and motive that our deepest, most vital interests are identical.

Time and again despite all outward differences has that invisible bond of union which binds mankind into one great family manifested itself even on the battlefield. There men who have sabered or shot at and wounded each other have become fast friends and learned to feel their brotherhood. Many and many a time has it happened that soldiers who had been bitter enemies in battle and had tried in every way to kill each other, have found while convalescing side by side that they were really one in sympathy and feeling, brothers at heart and did not know it. If these men had known and seen into one another’s soul before the battle as they had afterwards in the hospital they never could have been induced to fire at or to try to injure one another.

In spite of our failures, our blunders, our crimes, the nations are coming closer and closer together. Scientific discoveries, marvelous inventions, the extended use of steam and electricity, the conquest of the air, all these are fast welding the interests of mankind and bringing into close and intimate relation the most distant countries of the globe. The Occident and the Orient are no longer at the ends of the earth. They are beginning to know and to respect each other, and to learn each from the other. They are beginning to realize in its largest sense the truth of Kipling’s utterance:

“But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth.”

Scientists are piling up proof after proof of the unity, not only of mankind, but of everything in the universe, of the oneness of all life. They are demonstrating that there is but one substance, one eternal force or essence in the universe, and that all we see is but a varying expression of it. Everything about us is merely a modification, a change of form of this universal substance, just as electricity is a manifestation of force in various forms - in its unchained power in rending giant trees and destroying huge buildings, and as harnessed by man in moving trains, in lighting our homes, in furnishing heat for cooking and in many other domestic and industrial devices.

The lesson of lessons for us to learn from this is our inseparable union with the Creator of life, that everlasting, eternal unity of spirit, that oneness with the Father which Christ came to teach.

“I and the Father are one.” “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” We are as closely united one to the other, and all to the Father as are the branches to the parent stem. When we are conscious of our union, of our co-partnership with the Infinite, we feel an added power, just as the branch feels the force of the life currents flowing into it from the vine. Severed from the parent stem the same branch would not feel so confident. It would soon find that of itself it could do nothing; and in a short time it would wither and die.

The moment we pluck a flower from its stem it begins to wilt and fade because it is separated from the source of its life. Cut off from the great chemical laboratory of Nature, from the creative, miracle-working energy of the sun, the soil, and the atmosphere, it dies within a few hours.

The moment we are cut off from our Divine Source we begin to wither, shrivel and die. As long as we remain separate nothing can stop this fatal blighting process. When we are not fed from our Source we are like the branch severed from the parent vine, like the flower plucked from its mother stem.

My experience has shown that people who, from different causes, feel cut off from connection with the Divine Source of things suffer intensely from fear. They are filled with a vague, but overmastering terror which presses upon them with greater force because it is unseen, unknown. They dimly feel that like meteors in the sky which have passed beyond the controlling gravity governing the other heavenly bodies, they are separate, unrelated human atoms without assurance that they are under a protective, guiding, sustaining power.

Victims of extreme nervous diseases are often overwhelmed with a sense of utter isolation, of being cut off from every sustaining force, and they are terror stricken, just as a child who has lost its way, and knows not where to turn. Temporarily, and in a lesser degree, people who are terrified in a thunder storm and rush to a cellar, anywhere to hide themselves from threatened danger, suffer from this feeling of separation, of aloneness.

All who are affected in this way would be greatly benefited by dwelling on such Biblical passages as, “In Him we live and move and have our being”, “The Father in me and I in the Father.” These are strictly scientific truths. We could not live or move or have any being apart from the Power that made us, that sustains and supports us, and the consciousness of this gives a steadying, buttressing sense of security and safety that nothing else can.

Our individual strength comes from our conscious oneness with Omnipotence, just as our national or corporate strength is derived from union with one another. Each human being is like a drop of water in the ocean. He is not independent. He cannot work alone. Consciously or unconsciously he is a part of the masses all around him. He is touched by other water drops on every side, and his existence, his success is largely dependent upon his union with the others. Even if a drop of the ocean could separate itself from the mass and should try to live its own life in its own way it would soon cease to exist as a drop. A man cannot accomplish much alone. His success depends on his union with other men. His dignity and strength are reinforced by the organization or association of which he is a unit, as a cable is reinforced by the sum of the strength of its separate wires.

“Nature”, says Humboldt, “is Unity in diversity of manifestation, one stupendous whole, animated by the breath of life.” When we come into conscious realization of the truth that we are a part, the most important part, of the stupendous whole created by God, and that we are working in cooperation with Him, we will come into possession of a power and dignity which will make our lives sublime.

The greatest minds of all ages have drawn their strength from the invisible Source, from their vital connection with the Power which creates, and works through every one of us. They have also believed in the great mission of the race; believed in a divine plan running through the universe which works for righteousness, and shapes the destiny of the race. This faith in the Godward movement of the great human current has characterized even those who did not openly profess any religious faith. Their belief in the divinity of humanity has been a strong factor in their character, and the root source of their power.

This same faith, this unquestioned confidence in the divine cosmic Intelligence, has given more comfort, has brought more peace of mind, and happiness to vast multitudes of human beings than any other thing. Indeed it is the only thing that can bring us true peace, enduring happiness.

There is something besides brain force needed to make a man a real constructive power in the world, and that is his divine connection, his being in the current which runs Godward.

Without this essential, notwithstanding all that the mind and the body can do for us, we feel a void in our being, a great lack, a longing, a yearning for something, we know not what. Without this, even though we have the most complete physical and mental equipment, we are like a new electric car, ready for service, thoroughly equipped in every detail, except the trolley pole, which makes the connection with the electric current. Completion, satisfaction, divine energy can only come from attuning ourselves to something beyond the physical and the mental plane. We must put up our trolley pole and tap the infinite Source of Power or else we are, so far as true progress is concerned, in the position of the car that is not connected with the motor force that alone gives it power to move forward. We must tap the divine current running Godward through contemplation, through prayer, through noble deeds, unselfish service, honest endeavor to live up to our best. We cannot make connection with Divine Power through any selfish cause, any greedy deed.

It is a strange thing that human beings will take the chances of cutting themselves off from this mighty current which runs truthward, justiceward, and Godward, and try to make a substitute of their own puny strength.

Yet every time we consciously do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a mean, contemptible thing, we separate ourselves from this current and lessen the omnipotent grip upon us. We break our connection and become a prey to all sorts of fears and doubts.

Someone has truly said that “when a man has committed an evil act he has attached himself to sorrow.” Because of the unity of all life, he has established relationship between himself and the whole human current of vicious influences; he has made connection with all the forces in the universe that conspire to drag him down, to draw him still further away from the Creator and Inspirer of all good.

The converse is equally true. Let a man do a good deed, commit himself to a noble work, and all the creative, uplifting forces will rush to his aid. He will be reinforced by the added power of all others working in the same spirit, on the same plane.

All good things vibrate in unison; they belong to the same family. So all bad things vibrate in unison, and belong to one family. Attract one of them and you attract all the others because they are on the same plane.

A discouraged, despondent mood, for example, makes connection with the whole discouraged and despondent family, the whole failure army, and when we make this connection our entire being is adjusted to the gloomy, discouraged vibration. If we harbor the poverty thought, the fear of coming to want we unite ourselves with all the poverty vibrations in the universe, and whatever has an affinity with poverty rushes toward us through the current we have established.

On the same principle, let one think cheerful, optimistic thoughts, let him make connections with the current of opulence, of the generous, overflowing abundance supply of the Creator and he allies himself with all the helpful, productive, creative forces in existence.

At one time it was thought that we could get no knowledge or impressions excepting through the five senses, but we know now that there are many other avenues by which we communicate with one another. There is a mental, a spiritual communication which is more intimate, more real than any we can make by physical contact or expression. We can sit beside those who are in sympathy with us for hours without touching them, without a word being spoken, without a look, and yet enjoy the sweetest and most delightful converse. We are conscious that our minds are intercommunicating in a deeper, more subtle, satisfying manner than is possible by means of physical contact or through the senses.

In fact, there are many occasions in life so sacred that we feel mere words would profane, distress, disturb rather than help or comfort. We are aware that they are too coarse to convey the finest sentiments, that they are too bungling, too awkward to carry the expressions of sympathy, of love back and forth from soul to soul that are in tune with each other.

The message of love teaches that the “love of life is a single heart beating through God, and you and me.” “One life runs through all creation’s veins.”

The mind sees beauties which the physical eye never beholds. The mental ear hears harmonies, melodies which the auditory nerve is too gross to perceive. The soul through its closer union with God receives perceptions which even the mind cannot comprehend.

By means of this divine connection through the Great Within of ourselves we can accumulate power that will revolutionize our lives. Right here in our own being we can loose streams of energy infinitely more potent than any physical power.

We know that the great cosmic ether everywhere about us is filled with divine vibrations, charged with spiritual force, and omniscient intelligence which are always waiting to flood our minds when we make the right connections and are ready to receive them.

This cosmic ether or universal substance is the source of all supply, as well as of that divine power, which most people shut out of their lives because they do not know how to unite themselves with it. They resolutely shut their minds to the divine inflow by refusing to believe in anything that is not demonstrable through the senses.

Most of us are very skeptical of the reality of the unseen. We are doubting Thomases, who can be convinced only by the material, by that which we can see or feel.

If children could only be trained in a different atmosphere; if they could be made at the start to reach out mentally into the unseen realities and utilize them for their own purposes, just as we mold and fashion material things, there would be comparatively few failures in life.

It was intended that man should live in perpetual contact with the Power that created him, that would keep him in tune with all that is healthful and good and pure and true, but, unfortunately, we are constantly losing our connection and thus making ourselves impotent, weak, when we might be potent, strong, creative. To live in wireless communication with the divine current that runs through all creation is to be in touch with Divinity indeed, is to be divinely successful.

No power outside of ourselves can cut us off from communication with this current. Even the worst criminals, those who have been cut off from human society may still be one with their Source if they choose. The Creator has not cut them off, has not discarded them. They have broken the connection themselves. The Creator would not blast with a thunderbolt, would not crush with his wrath the most profane wretch that ever lived, even though he should curse Him for creating him. The great love of the Father would still sustain him, keep him alive, feed him, permit the same beautiful sun to shine upon him as upon the greatest saint. All the blessings of nature would still be there for his enjoyment, would be given as freely to him as to the most devoted worshiper.

If we could only grasp this superb truth, our oneness with the great creative principle of the universe it would transform the race. It would banish fear. It would bring peace and harmony into our lives. It would give us a sense of security and satisfaction and happiness such as we never before knew. Until we realize our unity with God and one another we can never grow to our full stature; we can never utilize the manifold powers at our command.

Nor shall we ever reach that glorified manhood which matches the Creator’s pattern of the possible man until it is ingrained into every child’s nature that he was not only created by his Father-Mother-God, but that he is forever after vitally connected with Him, that He is nearer to him than his own hands and feet, closer than his own heartbeat. This oneness of the child with his Maker is the principle which must ultimately mold the race into perfect beings.

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The article “Our Oneness With Infinite Life” was published on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 10 April 2025.  It is also part of the March 2024 edition of The Aquarian Theosophist, pp. 06 to 11. It reproduces chapter 16 of the book “The Victorious Attitude”, by O.S. Marden. The volume was published in 1916 in the U.S.A. by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 

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Read more:

 

* The Fraud in the Adyar Esoteric School.

* From Ritualism to Raja Yoga.

* Berdyaev and the Search for Truth.

* Experiencing the Yoga Aphorisms.

* Good Sense in Approaching Raja Yoga.

* Why I Do Not Return to India (by H. P. Blavatsky).

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Helena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these words: “Deserve, then desire”.

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Thoughts Along the Road - 83

 

Getting in Tune With the Universal Law
 
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
  

* All forms of Yoga and theosophy point in the same direction. Self-control means going against the blind tendencies of habit and desire.

* “Yoga is the cessation of modifications of the mind”, say the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In other words: yoga is the interruption of actions based on blind desire, habit, and impulses of attraction and rejection.

* The voluntary stoppage of instinctive reactions on the emotional and mental planes produces free magnetic force. Likewise, the dam that interrupts the flow of water in a river generates a subtler and more flexible energy - electricity - which afterwards can be used in many useful ways.

* As one gradually obtains self-knowledge, lower levels of life must be adapted to serve the higher and wiser ones.

Combining Dream and Realism

* The purpose of studying philosophical and spiritual topics is not simply to accumulate information. Far from it. The goal is to strengthen one’s inner awakening.

* By getting in tune with the universal law, the pilgrim’s conscience rises through study as an instance of life that is at the same time self-responsible and brotherly.

* The student of esoteric philosophy is often described by Eastern and Western sages as a warrior, because he must fight illusions. The delusions fought by him are mainly those which he himself has accumulated in the past; secondarily, he fights the common mistakes of the social groups around him.

* Along the way, the pilgrim must maintain a realistic balance between what he knows verbally, and what he can accomplish in practice. Observing the distance between dream and reality in his life is one of the main weapons for defending himself. A noble ideal and a realistic view of things must go together, step by step. They correspond to two different areas of the brain, which work simultaneously and are equally necessary.

As Materialistic Illusions Implode

* Whenever there seems to be chaos in the history of the world, we are seeing a period of accelerated alchemy. Then the temperature of human karma may get to a boiling point and lead the very fabric of materialistic delusions to a process of melting and transcendence.

* In difficult times, the presence of the spiritual soul in daily life causes the transformation of the heavy Lead of Ignorance into the luminous Gold of Ethics and Commitment to Life. Every pioneer of the future stages in human evolution is thus strengthened and his efficiency expands.

* Whether we like it or not, obstacles and challenges are a central part of human learning. They constitute a preparatory process for the victory of the soul to become visible. Such is the victory of Wisdom - the triumph of the Law of Equilibrium.

* Om, shanti.

Time to Stop Using Fake

Masters as Tools to Delude People

* John Garrigues wrote:

* “After the death of H. P. Blavatsky, psychics and mediums began to publish messages, contacts, visions, given to them as special privileges by H. P. B. herself in her astral form. A theosophical writer of that time exclaimed with humor, ‘There’s a wonderful amount of masquerading in the post-mortem realms nowadays’.”

* “Today a similar masquerading is going on, with Saint-Germain as the one dressed up by the psychic’s imagination. According to the ‘experiences’ of the present hour, the ‘Ascended Master’ Saint-Germain, frequently descends, to ‘instruct’ his obedient pupils. In fact, this “Master” has gone into business with these psychics and the firm is carrying on a lucrative commerce.” [1]

* Our friends of the false Masonry of the Adyar Theosophical Society would do themselves a favour by stopping to abuse the true Initiate who once used the name Saint Germain (among others). By having a little more respect for truth, they will finally start benefitting themselves in that department.

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[1] From the article “The Masquerade Around Saint-Germain”.

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The article “Thoughts Along the Road - 83” was published on the websites of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists on 09 April 2025.  An initial version of it is part of the June 2022 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 09-10.        

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Read more:

* The Right View of Life.

* A Prayer for Those Who Heal. 

* Theosophy in the Sign of Pisces.

* Krishnamurti on Besantian Delusions.

* In 2011, a Crisis in the Egyptian Rite.

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