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Patriarch Bartholomew Feels "Crucified" - 60 Minutes - CBS News Surely the European community should be outraged at this.

Dear Companions, I was checking out which of my threads (from a couple of years ago) had had the most views; and the winner by a long shot was one on reincarnation: http://www.interfaith.org/forum/christians-are-free-to-accept-8052.html With 10,107 views, this must be something that people...

For those interested in the 134 year old history of the theosophical movement, there is no better resource than this website Theosophical History The Theosophical History magazine is in its 23rd year and is now headed by Dr. James Santucci who is ably assisted by a brilliant team of academics...

Rudolf Steiner's indications cast the Bible in an entirely new light, one which can stir the soul with indescribable joy and lift it to a new level of understanding and eventually to a higher consciousness. Reading of the Bible in its common understanding, as...

Raymond Franz was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 1971 until May 22, 1980, and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Franz has written and edited two detailed books which relate his personal experiences with the Watch...

Dear Friends, We are coming up to Three Kings day (Jan 6th). Can we flesh out the story a bit more? What was behind the coming of the Magi? I have posted before about the stories in the Book of the Bee: http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/zarathustra-in-the-book-of-7820.html Here is...

There is none. If you want to cease to be a Muslim and convert to Christianity, then leave. This has been the experience of of Lina Joy: But apostasy is forbidden in Islam: Michael Kirby on religious freedom and the law -Br.Bruce

Dear Friends, Count Carl Grasshoff (a Dane), a student of Dr. Steiner's, collected the typescripts of some his lectures before they had been published and took them to America. There he added some of his own touches and published the lot under the title of "The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception"...

Dear Intrepidlover, The link you posted to has a description of the Sevenfold nature of man as told by G.de P. This is not exactly the same as HPB's system as far as I can see. (Some theosophical authors were known for their "blinds".) Sevenfold constitution of nature and man Where does it...

Watch a "Cymatics" video on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/v/6sonpvUxGL8 "…swiss scientist and anthroposophist Hans Jenny (1904-1972), studied the phenomena and named the field `Cymatics'. Using crystal oscillators (which allow...

Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim, teacher of Paracelsus, taught on the subject of the Archangels and their ruling periods. He also described the date of 1879 as being the start of Michael's regency. Rudolf Steiner was in line with Trithemius, describing that Michael is the Archangel of this age...

Dear Friends, Thomas Harris studied Swedenborg - from a young age I believe. I was first turned on to the Oliphant story when I heard a lecture by Paul M. Allen many years ago. Oliphant appears in the Karmic Relationships lectures, and you can see that Swedenborg is discussed just prior to...

Hi Friends, It has always been a goal of the Theosophical movement to instigate the forming of a universal Brotherhood. Spiritual beings who are the direct followers of the Archangels wanted to spread uniformity over the whole of mankind. If this were given free rein mankind would have been one...

Hi All, We are living in an age where we need to develop the Consciousness Soul. What does living "in the Consciousness Soul" mean? You could start by reading chapter one of "Theosophy" part four. You still might be in the dark, though. Chapter I: 4. Body, Soul and Spirit There is another...

Dear Friends, Some folk have had the opinion that Anthroposophy is "too intellectual", but this is a result of a misunderstanding. In 1911 and 1912, Dr. Steiner gave the lecture series "World of the Senses and World of the Spirit". There he says the basis of good thinking is grounded in : (a)...

Dear Companions, What is in a word?...everything and nothing! I read once that Dr. Steiner wouldn't have minded if the name of the society change every week or two. The name is not so important- it's the substance behind that name. Now there has been quite a bit of argument over whether...

My Dear Friends, One thing's for sure, it's not a person who says "I believe everything Rudolf Steiner said". That is the kind of Guru complex he wanted to avoid. His desire would be that students think for themselves. If one follows the above statment one would have to define anthroposophy...

Dear All, How could Solovyov have known of the rise of China as we see it today? A tale we shouldn't forget: From "Three Conversations" by Vladimir Solovyov. Pan-Mongolism! The name is wild, Yet it pleases my ear greatly, As if it were full of forebodings Of the glorious providence of God...

Hello All, Who or what are theosophists? "Theosophy" is a book by Rudolf Steiner. The word means "Divine Wisdom" or the "wisdom of God". It is not specifically Eastern, Western, Northern or Southern. Some of the famous theosophists of history are Paracelsus, Oetinger and Jacob Boehme; all of...

Hello Friends, Dr. Felkin, an original member of the Golden Dawn - later to form the Stella Matutina offshoot - was a student of Dr. Steiner. He worked in a different way from Steiner, but some of his students became anthroposophists. Steiner had given written instuctions to Felkin regarding his...