“The true theosophist is the Philanthropist who — ‘not for himself, but for the world he lives.’…” reads a message from a Master of The Wisdom.  Service without spirituality is like a mechanical form without a soul, while spirituality divorced from service is like a soul still seeking a form to express itself. Spirituality and […]

   Profound pranaams to my teacher, the Bus. It is very sad that the widespread car-culture has stopped many people in the world  benefiting from the deep lessons that can be learned in bus travel. A bus, like many other situations in life, can become a veritable theosophical classroom. Whether we speak of urban or regional

A retired Professor of Technology at Benares Hindu University in Varanasi, Dr. C.V. Agarwal is undoubtedly one of the TOS’s most devoted animal rights activists in India. Through the Beauty Without Cruelty movement, which has centres located in the Theosophical Society campuses at Varanasi and Adyar, Dr. Agarwal and his team have organised a great

I’ve always thought of myself as an accomplished firewood gatherer. I have gone camping all my life—as I write this I am sitting beside the campfire—and cooking, as is my custom, on a small open fire. On arriving in camp, a first task is always to gather fuel. (I have childhood memories of tying a

by Rekha L. Nahar, TOS Philippines Every time I ask myself what a Theosophist’s role is in providing tangible solutions to the problems of the world, my answer seems to be: let us put up more schools.  For 18 years, I have been working as a social worker in many communities in both Bangladesh and

 An article by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama– from his website: http://www.dalailama.com/Solving Human problems through transforming Human attitudeCompassion as a pillar of world peaceWorld religion for world peaceIndividual power to shape Institutes When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime,

If you had to list some great concerns you have for the planet today, what would they be? The chances are that you would mention the lack of global peace amongst them.  Yet most often we feel powerless to do anything about it, don’t we? So is there anything we can do to help build

Theosophists have nothing less than an outstanding record in the area of animal welfare work, starting right back with the pioneers of the theosophical movement.  How does that care translate into personal action, however? TOS members from India, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Argentina chose to face this question at a TOS Conference held in