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The most basic fact of our existence is our awareness of self. We know we are alive but we see that people around us shift and change. Some are born; others die.
Does death annihilate our consciousness, as well as destroy our body? Is there some kind of life after death? And if there is a life beyond death, what happens to us in the afterlife?
But why were we born in the first place? And having been born, why do we live? Why do so many people suffer? Many of us are asking, "What's it all about? Is it just for the moment we live?"
Who Am I? What's It All About?...Where Am I Going?....
And So The Planet Spins in the Great Void
Where Are The Dead Now?
Yet in our modern world, reliable answers to such important questions are hard to discover. Many of us cannot find really satisfying answers from materialistic science, academic philosophy, or orthodox religion (Christian or otherwise).
There is also a great proliferation of occult, metaphysical, Eastern and New Age groups offering their own "answers" to these perplexing questions.
For the seeker with a genuine hunger for truth, the task of choosing among these conflicting authorities and contradictory answers can be difficult and confusing.
"But surely somewhere," our minds cry out, "there must be available satisfying answers to these questions. Surely somewhere there must be preserved a true universal knowledge concerning humanity and the world in which we live. Surely somewhere there is such a source of wisdom."
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During the late 19th century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) pointed to that Source of Wisdom. She called it the Ancient Wisdom and gave to it the Greek name of Theosophia or Theosophy ("Divine Wisdom" or "the wisdom of the gods").
H.P. Blavatsky stated that there is a school of Adepts or Masters who know directly, inwardly and truly this Divine Wisdom. Madame Blavatsky said that she was taught Theosophy by some of these Adepts.
In order to present these Theosophical teachings to the world, Madame Blavatsky wrote Isis Unveiled (1877), The Secret Doctrine (1888), The Key to Theosophy (1889), The Voice of the Silence (1889) and other books plus hundreds of artcles.
If you want to know more about this Russian lady....Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ....and would like to learn more about her teachings on Theosophy, then you're in luck!
This webpage provides introductory material (the ABC's) to get you up to speed.
Just scroll down this page for recommended articles and webpages. See also Recommended Books.
Hopefully this material can also help you....in your own search and quest to answer questions on the meaning of life....At least you'll find much food for thought & discussion....
Brief Overview of
H.P. Blavatsky & Theosophy
• Introduction to
H.P. Blavatsky and Theosophy
• Who Is H.P. Blavatsky?: Her Life and Work for Theosophy
by Boris de Zirkoff
• An Outline of the Ancient Wisdom
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• H.P.B. Speaks
• From Long-Sealed Ancient
Fountains: The Origin of Modern Theosophy
• Great Adepts & Trained Seers
• The Fountain Source of Modern Theosophy
H.P. Blavatsky's Life
& Work
• Who Is H.P. Blavatsky?: Her Life and Work for Theosophy
by Boris de Zirkoff
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
by Dara Eklund
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
by Theosophy Wiki
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 1831-1891
by Dallas Tenbroeck
• "Bear
Witness!": Who Was the Real H.P.B.?
See also these Recommended Books on Mme. Blavatsky's life
Introduction to Theosophy
• An Outline of the Ancient Wisdom
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• A Brief Overview of Theosophy
by James A. Santucci
• What is
Theosophy?: Some Fundamental Concepts
by John Algeo
• Basic Ideas of Theosophy
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• Foundations
of
Esoteric Philosophy
arranged with a Foreword and Notes by Ianthe H. Hoskins
• An Epitome of Theosophy
by William Q. Judge
• Does Theosophy Have
Core Teachings?
by Daniel H. Caldwell
• Key Concepts of Theosophy
by Theosophical Library
See also these Recommended Books on Mme. Blavatsky's teachings.
"Isis Unveiled": H.P.B.'s First Book
• Isis Unveiled: The Extrordinary Story of its Writing
by Geoffrey Farthing
• Isis
Unveiled: An Overview
by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• Isis Unveiled: H.P. Blavatsky's First Book
• A Ten Point Summary from Isis Unveiled
• Studies in Isis Unveiled
• H.P. Blavatsky's Books & the Mahatmas Letters: An Introduction
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• H.P. Blavatsky's Writings Online
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
The Mahatmas: H.P.B.'s Adept-Teachers
• The Mahatmas and Their Letters
by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• Masters of Wisdom
by Theosophy Wiki
• Portraits of Mahatmas Koot Hoomi & Morya
• A.P. Sinnett Meets Mme. Blavatsky & Corresponds with Her Adept Teachers
• Colonel Henry S. Olcott's Testimony
about His Meetings with the Master Morya
compiled and edited by Daniel H. Caldwell
• Henry S. Olcott's Testimony:
Nine Accounts of Meeting Masters and Adepts
compiled and edited by Daniel H. Caldwell
• The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett
by Theosophy Wiki
• Mahatma Letters Portal
by Theosophy Wiki
"The Secret Doctrine": H.P.B.'s Magnum Opus
• Secret Doctrine: A Birdeye's View
by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• The Secret Doctrine: The Great Sacrifice
by Geoffrey Farthing
• Mr. Bertram Keightley's Account
of the Writing of "The Secret Doctrine"
• The Six Fundamental Propositions of The Secret Doctrine
by John P. van Mater
• "The Secret Doctrine": The Three Fundamental Propositions of "The Secret Doctrine"
by H.P. Blavatsky
• "The Secret Doctrine": Summing up - Six Numbered Items
by H.P. Blavatsky
• An Early Version of the Three Fundamental Propositions in H.P.B.'s Handwriting
• Cosmic Evolution: In Seven Stanzas
Translated from the Book of Dzyan
• H.P. Blavatsky's Summary
of the Seven Stanzas on Cosmic Evolution
• "Space is the One Unity throughout its infinitude...."
• The Most Graphic Allegory Ever Made: The Universe Evolving From The POINT
• The Origins of Mankind on Earth
by Geoffrey Farthing
• Stanzas of Dzyan
by Theosophy Wiki
• The Secret Doctrine
by Theosophy Wiki
• Study Course on "The Secret Doctrine"
by Pablo Sender & Juliana Cesano
• H.P. Blavatsky's Books & the Mahatmas Letters: An Introduction
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• H.P. Blavatsky's Writings Online
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
"The Voice of the Silence": H.P.B's Mystical Gem
• The Voice of the Silence: Selected Extracts
• Reflections on "The Voice of the Silence"
by Ingrid Van Mater
• Concentrate on the idea of the Higher Self...."
• The Voice of the Silence:
Bringing the Heart Doctrine to the West
by Nancy Reigle
• Studies in The Voice of The Silence
by B. P. Wadia
• H.P. Blavatsky's Books & the Mahatmas Letters: An Introduction
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• H.P. Blavatsky's Writings Online
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
The 7-fold Constitution of a Human Being, Life After Death, Reincarnation, & Psychic Visions
• Man's Complex Nature
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• Diagram of the Seven Principles of Man
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• Seven Principles in Human Beings
by Theosophy Wiki
• Diagram of the Seven Principles of Man
by Theosophy-ult.org.uk
• The
Sevenfold Constitution of a Human Being
• H.P. Blavatsky on Atman
• The Monad is Like a Seed....Hidden Potentiality to be Manifested through Cycles of Time
• On the Monad
• Death & Rebirth
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• At the Solemn Moment of
Death
• Diagram of the After Death States & Processes
by Geoffrey A, Farthing
• The Psyche (Soul or Personality) and Its Stages of Develpment After Death
• Life after Death
by Theosophy Wiki
• On the Kama-Loka and Devachan
by H.P. Blavatsky
• On the Mysteries of Re-Incarnation
by H.P. Blavatsky
• Reincarnation and
Karma
by H.P. Blavatsky
• Psychic Visions versus Adept Visions
Other Recommended Webpages
• H.P. Blavatsky's Books & the Mahatmas Letters: An Introduction
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• H.P. Blavatsky's Writings Online
Compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• Theosophical
Terms
• Theosophical Concepts
• Collation of Theosophical Glossaries
Recommended Books on H.P.B.'s Life
• The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky: Reminiscences and Impressions by Those Who Knew Her
compiled by Daniel Caldwell
• When Daylight Comes: A Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
by Howard Murphet
• H.P.B.: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky
by Sylvia Cranston
Recommended Books on H.P.B.'s Teachings
• Deity, Cosmos and Man
by Geoffrey A. Farthing
• Theosophy: Divine Wisdom from Long-Sealed Ancient Fountains
compiled bt Daniel Caldwell
• An Introduction to Esoteric Principles
by Doss McDavidt
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