Category: The Key To Theosophy

"Mr. Burrows:  Is there such a thing as unmerited suffering?   Mme. Blavatsky:  If you suffer from causes you produce, it is merited; but very often you have sufferings through causes generated by other persons, of which you are not guilty at all.   Mrs. Besant:  For instance, national Karma.   Mme. Blavatsky:  Very often [...]

"Mr. Kingsland:  There is a question which might be put with reference to very wicked people who don't go into Devachan.   Mme. Blavatsky:  They are born almost immediately after a kind of sleep in which they won't have very nice dreams.   Mr. Kingsland:  That is what I wanted to say.   Mme. Blavatsky:  [...]

"Mr. Sneyd:  Don't you think ignorance is the cause of bad Karma?   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is.   Mr. Sneyd:  And that knowledge is the cause of all good Karma?  Supposing you did a thing and it increased your happiness; would not it be the reason of that would most likely be that you had [...]

"Mr Kingsland:  Karma is, so to speak, the absolute equilibrium; and however we act we disturb that equilibrium one way or another, and Karma adjusts.   Mr. B. Keightley:  The analogy that dwells in my mind is this - it almost presents itself to me under this form: If we conceive ourselves as being absolutely [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  But you cannot conceive of a law which does not act.   Mme. Blavatsky:  Well, I say it does not act; in my conception, it does not act. Well, Karma does not act any more than water drowns you.   Mr. B. Keightley:  But water does drown you.   Mme. Blavatsky:  Water [...]

"Mr. Old:  These are questions such as would come from a person beginning to search out Theosophical truth, and I thought myself that it would be a leader to the issue of this new book, The Key to Theosophy. I thought a consideration of some of the elementary questions would not only fill up a [...]

"Mr. Cross:  Let us have books on astrology, by all means. Let us have books on Occultism, but begin at the ABC.   Mr. Kingsland:  There are ABC theosophical books. We are sending out books which are both ABC and the most metaphysical books.   Countess Wachtmeister:  There are so very different minds.   Mr. [...]

"Mr. Cross:  But why do you bring out these books together? Now, I got of a book called The Higher Science; that did me a great deal of good. Another time I had a book called The Black Art, and it was something I knew about.   Mme. Blavatsky:  If you know about the light [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  "Q" and "A" as an alternative would be good.   Mr. Cross:  I suppose there is an objection to using "Theosophist"?   Countess Wachtmeister:  Explain what Theosophist is, HPB.   Mme. Blavatsky:  It is very arrogant, because "Theosophist" we call men who are really holy, saintly men, whoever they be, whatever nation [...]

"A Lady:  What do colour-blind people feel, a psychic influence?   Mme. Blavatsky:  No. It happens to be a colour which is of a planet which is perfectly contrary to theirs.   Mr. Old:  They would feel it on a psychic plane.   Mr. B. Keightley:  All that colour-blind means is that there is something [...]