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- [Contemplation, Part II](https://canadiantheosophist.com/contempation-part-ii/) - Meditation and contemplation are not mental states or things that a person can do when he or she has nothing else to do. The preparation for meditation or contemplation is an intellectual labor. It requires training of the will, and conscious effort to control and direct one’s feelings and affections toward that, which is highest,
- [Contemplation](https://canadiantheosophist.com/contemplation/) - By Rodman R. Clayson Grand Master’s Message from 1959 The contemplative attitude involves the practice of meditation. The most comprehensive definition of contemplation is that it is a process of orderly reflection upon what we have done, what we propose to do, and what it all means in the larger framework of our highest values
- [Poetry – Thanks](https://canadiantheosophist.com/poetry-thanks/) - By Bohdan Let us face the East So we may greet the day As the sun comes up to lift our spirits Our hearts and soul rejoice Once more we can thank our Loving God Who has given us another day To enjoy all of his creation Oh what joy, our world might bring And
- [Respecting Reincarnation](https://canadiantheosophist.com/respecting-reincarnation/) - Objections frequently raised against “Reincarnation,” and that appear to those who make them to be strong, are some growing out of the emotional part of our nature. They say, we do not wish to be some one else in another life; how can we recognize our friends and loved ones if they and we thus
- [The Nameless – Tao Te Ching](https://canadiantheosophist.com/the-nameless-tao-te-ching/) - Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reached, and it can’t be grasped. Above, it isn’t bright. Below, it isn’t dark. Seamless, unnamable, It returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, Image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning;
- [Upanishads On R-Birth](https://canadiantheosophist.com/upanishads-on-r-birth/) - Hence one whose fire is burned out is reborn through the tendencies in mind; according to his thoughts he enters life. But linked by the fire with the self, this life leads to a world of recompense. –Prashna Upanishad Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return. –Genesis The above quotation from Prashna Upanishad
- [The Gift of Music](https://canadiantheosophist.com/the-gift-of-music/) - By Lois J. Brisbois Years ago, when I was teaching a group of students who required special intervention to reach their learning potential, a twelve year old student asked me one morning, “Do you know that when the planets move around the sun they make a most beautiful music? “ I replied that the music
- [Book Review – A Guide to the Coming Changes in Human Consciousness](https://canadiantheosophist.com/book-review-a-guide-to-the-coming-changes-in-human-consciousness/) - By P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., review by Lois J. Brisbois In all of my adult life, my work has been with children, in Public, Catholic and Private Schools and most recently, in Centres for children diagnosed with learning disabilities. This has afforded me many unique opportunities to observe how children have changed over the past fifty years.
- [Hypocrisy Or Ignorance](https://canadiantheosophist.com/hypocrisy-or-ignorance/) - By Eusebio Urban There are some members of the Theosophical Society who expose themselves to the charge of indulging in hypocrisy or being ignorant about their own failings and shortcomings. They are those who, having studied the literature of the movement and accepted most of its doctrines, then talk either to fellow- members or to
- [Found: Toronto Theosophical Society Bronze Plaque](https://canadiantheosophist.com/found-toronto-theosophical-society-bronze-plaque/) - By S.Treloar The bronze nameplate “Toronto Theosophical Society” that once adorned the entrance of the T.T.S.’s old headquarters at 52 Isabella St., has been found. About a year ago I was attending a regular meeting of the district York Rite Masonic Lodge in Perry Sound, Ontario. In some discussion I mentioned Mme. H.P.Blavatsky’s name. After
- [Notes From The Desk](https://canadiantheosophist.com/notes-from-the-desk/) - The Theosophical Society in Canada has now fulfilled its plan to dedicate a row of seats at The Royal Conservatory of Music (Koerner Hall), in memory of Dr. David Gardner, our past President. Last Spring, Board members and David’s brother and sister were invited to a special event at Koerner Hall, at which time we
- [Nine Faces of Christ](https://canadiantheosophist.com/nine-faces-of-christ/) - By Lois J. Brisbois Over the past 15 years, I was fortunate to find and have as a teacher and mentor, Dr. Eugene E. Whitworth of San Francisco. He was the founder, in 1957, of Great Western University and its counterpart, Great Western Brotherhood School of Sacred Studies. The goal of the University was to
- [Poetry – The Seeker of the Light](https://canadiantheosophist.com/poetry-the-seeker-of-the-light/) - By Bohdan The wind has brought dark clouds From across the mountains To settle in the valley Where mankind did dwell The fires alone could not lighten The darkness that dwelled in man’s ignorance For man had groped through a forest so thick That sunlight could not penetrate In his despair man awoke to his
- [Will and Desire](https://canadiantheosophist.com/will-and-desire/) - H. P. Blavatsky Will is the exclusive possession of man on this our plane of consciousness. It divides him or her from the brute in whom instinctive desire only is active. Desire, in its wildest application, is the one creative force in the Universe. In this sense it is indistinguishable from Will; but we never
- [Our Gnostic Heritage](https://canadiantheosophist.com/our-gnostic-heritage/) - The religious and philosophical ideas we experience today have a long history. One tradition very important to us originated in a number of groups that we now call the Gnostics. Our knowledge of what they taught formerly came to us through the distorted lenses of their enemies, but since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library,
- [In Memoriam](https://canadiantheosophist.com/in-memoriam/) - DR. DAVID GARDNER, MARCH 22, 1941 – APRIL 2, 2013 On April 2, 2013, Dr. David Garner, President of the Theosophical Society in Canada, made his transition. He had just turned 72 on March 22. David had been at The Grace Hospital Hospice in Toronto for eight days. His brother was there with him when
- [Basic Theosophy](https://canadiantheosophist.com/basic-theosophy/) - BY DR. DAVID GARDNER Theosophy differs from religion in many important respects – it proposes no fixed dogma. This poses an interested question – if there is no dogma , how may one tell what is Theosophy and what is not? A comparative study of the writings of theosophical authors does reveal contradictions . This
- [The Theosophical Movement](https://canadiantheosophist.com/the-theosophical-movement/) - Following is a brief excerpt from an article by William Q.Judge, first published in August, 1895. He died in April, 1896 at the age of 44. His comments are pertinent even to this day. Judge was co- founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875, with H. P. Blavatsky and H. S. Olcott. There is a
- [The Fly and the Fool on the Hill](https://canadiantheosophist.com/the-fly-and-the-fool-on-the-hill/) - BY CARL LA FLAMME There it stands, looming before me, it’s white crown poking the clear blue heavens-Mount Shasta-a mighty fortress, rising proudly, majestically, from the lowly valley. It is the birthplace of legends, home to the mystical Lemurians, the world’s oldest and wisest civilization , and keepers of the paranormal, the supernatural, the transcendental,
- [A Right Understanding of Karma](https://canadiantheosophist.com/hello-world/) - COURTESY OF blavatskytheosophy.com It is hard to believe, but true nevertheless, that no-one in the Western world had heard of Karma, or knew the slightest thing about it, until only 130 years ago when Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement introduced the concept of Karma – along with other distinctly Eastern teachings such as reincarnation and

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