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The Spiritual Home of Urban Theosophy
Promoting Theosophy
Relevant to the Urban Context

Tooting
Broadway London
Underground Tube Station
Opened
1926, Now part of the Northern Line.

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Citizen
Smith’s Local Tube Station

Wolfie Smith (Robert Lindsay) gives
a “Power
to the People” salute outside
Tooting Broadway Underground Station.
(He would have to lose the cigarette now)
The
entrance to Tooting Broadway Underground Station
appeared in the
opening sequence of the cult 70s BBC
comedy series
Citizen Smith
starring Robert Lindsay.
The
series ran for 30 episodes 1977-80
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And Now
The Theosophy
This Website Focuses on
3 Aspects of Theosophy
1 The
Human Entity, our constitution and powers
2 Our
environment i.e. the world and its objects and events
3 The
relationship between the two above. i.e. The effect of
our environment on us and our effect on our surroundings
Urban Theosophy
Links
Theosophy
for Everyday Life
All material on this
site is drawn from
recognized mainstream
Theosophical writings
Our
desire principle is one of our
greatest assets
if we understand it
Our Great Cathedrals.
Ruins. Modern Cities. Public Buildings.
Cemeteries. Universities and Schools. Libraries,
Museums and Galleries. The Stock-yards of
Special Places. Sacred Mountains. Sacred Rivers
How we
are influenced by our environment and
how a positive or
negative heritage can be
handed down
thro’ the ages
Every great body of ethical teaching
has stood or fallen
according to its
effect on men
as they form organised states.
Since a man is a unit of a social organisation,
the value which any
ethical teaching may
have for the individual is
inseparable from its
application to the
community of which he is a part.
Is there
a Power
and mysterious law which
governs the world, and
which we
should rather study and closely watch,
trying to
adapt ourselves to it, than blindly deny,
and break our heads
against the rock of destiny?
A scheme
made for us by somebody else
would destroy
our freedom
No
circumstances can ever make or mar
the unfolding of the
spiritual life in man.
Spirituality
does not depend upon the
environment; it
depends upon the
attitude of the
man towards life
We consider it as the Ultimate Law of the Universe,
the source, origin, and
fount of all other laws which
exist
throughout Nature. Karma is the unerring law
which adjusts
effect to cause, on the physical, mental,
and spiritual planes of
being. As no cause remains
withoutits due effect from greatest to least, from
a cosmicdisturbance
down to the movement of
your hand,and
as like produces like,Karma is that
unseen andunknown law which adjusts wisely,
intelligently, and
equitably each effect to its
cause,
tracing the latter back to its producer.
Though itself unknowable, its
action is perceivable.
Every day in life we see people overtaken by
circumstances either
good or bad and coming
in blocks all at once or
scattered over long
periods of
time. Some are for a whole life
in a miserable
condition, and others for many
years the
very reverse; while still others are
miserable or
happy by snatches.
A 31 point guide to
the Law of Karma
Or have
we chosen to learn what we
need to learn this time
round
He lives
through what we call his life, gaining
certain
qualities as the result of its experiences;
and at its end, when the
physical body is worn out,
he reverses the process
of descent and lays aside
one by one the temporary
vehicles which
he has assumed.
An
Extract from the
Good
thoughts produce vibrations of the finer
matter of the
body, which by its specific gravity
tends to
float in the upper part of the ovoid;
whereas bad thoughts,
such as selfishness and
avarice, are
always oscillations of the grosser matter
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Every
thought builds a form; if the thought be
directed to
another person it travels to him; if it be
distinctly selfish
it remains in the immediate
neighbourhood of the thinker; if it belongs to
neither of
these categories it floats for awhile
in space and then slowly
disintegrates.
The mind
is the result of past thinking, and is
constantly being
modified by present thinking;
it is a thing, precise
and definite, with certain
powers and
incapacities, strength and weakness,
which are the
outcome of activities in previous lives.
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The influence of the mind as a medium by
which the
Knower views the external world is
very similar to the
influence of the coloured
glass on the
colours of objects seen through it.
Experience does not give us evolution.
It is the use of our powers - our thought,
will and love upon any
experience
which
produces evolution.
It seems
there are clairvoyants and
people who
think they are clairvoyants.
Judge
examines and explains the pitfalls
A Boring Job, Yoga and the Occult
Ernest Wood describes finding relief from
a boring job and social
conformity in the
opportunities offered
by inner work.
Ernest Wood describes Psychic
Experiments carried out by members
of the
The Theosophical Society circa 1905
(From the End User’s Point of View)
Until we have entirely rid ourselves of this
extraordinary
delusion that the body is the man,
it is quite impossible
that we should at all
appreciate the
real facts of the case.
A little investigation immediately shows us
that the body is only a
vehicle by means of which
the man manifests himself
in connection with
this particular type of
gross matter out of
which our
visible world is built.
study simple
forms of mantramic quality, for the
purpose of thus
reaching the hidden mind of all
the people who need
spiritual help. You will find
now and then some
expression that has resounded
in the brain, at last
producing such a result that
he who heard it turns
his mind to spiritual things.
Karma is but too often a crippling fetter instead
of being, as it ought to
be, a strength, a guide,
a force, enabling us to
act wisely and well.
Like all other laws in nature, it binds the ignorant
and gives power to the
wise.
There are only four answers to the question
which each
should put to himself -
What do you want?
(1) Some want sensations:
(2) some
want possessions;
(3) some
want friends;
(4) some
few want capacity for a fuller life.
We need not study the detailed psychology of
these four
classes of people - and there are no
others – but
it is well that we should observe
what they are, for if our
Theosophy is something
to be used it will be
our object to leave the first
three classes
immediately and so take, quite
instantaneously, a
great step forward in evolution.
There is no necessity for the existence of starvation
and poverty, of overwork
and absence of leisure,
of lack of comfort and
the means of enjoyment.
Human brains are quite clever enough to plan
out a social system in
which every citizen should
have enough for a happy
life; the only obstacles
are selfishness and want
of will.
The Law of Action and Reaction
Karma is a Law of Nature; it compels the ignorant,
but it gives freedom to thewise. The three subsidiary
expressions of it
that bear most on our destiny are:
“Thought builds character”;
“Desire attracts its object, and creates
opportunity for
grasping it”;
“Action causes a favourable or unfavourable
environment
according as it has brought happiness
or unhappiness to
others”.
[1] We have already
seen the first, in dealing with thought-power; anyone who chooses to spend five
minutes regularly every morning in steady thought on any virtue which he does
not possess will find that virtue – after a time the length of which depends on
the steadiness and strength of his thought – showing itself forth in his
character.
[2] a
strong and firm wish brings about its own accomplishment; this is very often
seen within the limits of a single life; a review of several successive lives
places the existence of the law beyond doubt.
[3] Those who make
others happy, reap happiness for themselves ; happiness is found by not seeking it, and
ever eludes those who grasp at it most passionately. Most strongly does this,
again, come out in reviewing a succession of lives; the man who has caused
widespread happiness is born into prosperous circumstances, while the man who
has caused unhappiness appears in an unfortunate environment.
But so exactly does the law work
“Thought builds Character”
that is he has caused the happiness
from a selfish
motive his
selfishness will result in a nature which
is itself miserable,
even when surrounded by all
that should make life
pleasant:
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