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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The above words are familiar to most men, and to most men have but little meaning. Centuries of dogmatic theology with the subsequent admixture of an equally dogmatic materialism, have befogged [...]

Dr. David Gardner While doing some historical research, I came across some references to H.P.B, the Rosicrucian’s and the writing of “ Isis Unveiled” and “The Secret Doctrine” that seems to [...]

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 [...]

 By Saint Hildegard of Bingen In her hymn, O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti, the great Saint Hildegard of Bingen exclaimed Oh fire of the Holy Spirit Life of life of every creature, Holy are you in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]