The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
