Category: The Key To Theosophy

"Mr. B. Keightley:  The second section is on "Self-sacrifice." (Reads)   Mr. Old:  That section is very beautiful.   A Lady:  I don't think there is anything to be added to it.   Mme. Blavatsky:  Did I make it comprehensive enough?   A Lady:  Perfectly clear.   Mr. Johnson:  I thought the attack on the [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  What Old is after is the purely general statement here: that the goal of peace is only to be attained by life experience.   Mr. Old:  Might I have another try? I think it might be done on the ad absurdum principle, by proving that happiness cannot be attained elsewhere.   For [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  Would you say you have found amongst the Buddhists, people who would say they were perfectly happy?   Mme. Blavatsky:  Perfectly, they die with as great serenity as they get up in the morning.   Mr. B. Keightley:  But are they happy?   Mme. Blavatsky:  I never saw happier people than in [...]

"Mr. Williams:  It would be a good thing to give examples of lives that have not shown any experience.   Mme. Blavatsky:  I do not think I have ever met a truly happy man. To everyone life is a burden, there is something they cannot find - any interior satisfaction, or peace of mind. I [...]

"Mr. Old:  There is a statement that the attainment of freedom of individual progress and eventual happiness can only be attained by life experience. Might this not be logically proven without going very far into words?   Mme. Blavatsky:  How would you do it?   Mr. Old:  You need a logical necessity. It is a [...]

"Mr. B. Keightley:  This is an attempt to put forth in plain and simple language the principle ideas of Theosophy, what we believe in and what we don't believe in, in the form of question and answer between a Mystic and an Enquirer. It is just divided into sections - fourteen sections - each of [...]