The Blavatsky Trust: Home Page

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Geoffrey Farthing (1909-2004), a co-founder of the Blavatsky Trust, has been one of the foremost exponents of Blavatsky-Theosophy in recent times. This web site contains a comprehensive collection of Geoffrey's writings and these aim to present Theosophy in a clearly written way for today's reader. Geoffrey Farthing was awarded the International Theosophical Society's highest award 'The Subba Row Medal' in 1996 for his outstanding contribution to theosophical literature. Geoffrey Farthing publications and writings Who are we? About the Trust Trust's Founders Theosophy The Theosophical Society The Message HPB's Writings Centenary Edition, Deity, Cosmos Man, by Geoffrey Farthing One of H.P.B.'s last gift's to us, The Voice of the Silence is a devotional classic of great spiritual significance. Muriel Daw's Companion renders the 'Voice' accessible to a modern audience - not as a substitute for the deep mysticism of the original, but as a tool for understanding. Foreword and The Companion Our web site contains information about Theosophy, the ageless Wisdom, as presented by the Mahatmas (also called adepts or Masters) and contained in the writings of Theosophical Society co-founder Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891). Theosophy is a recent recapitulation of the ancient wisdom tradition that has been disseminated by the founders of the modern Theosophical Movement. The teachings are explanatory of Universal Laws; Laws that establish the principle of Unity inherent in Nature and which are the basis of Universal Brotherhood. (Theosophy, as a term, can also used to refer to the universal Ancient Wisdom underlying all religions.) H.P. Blavatsky was a remarkable woman; one of the most gifted and fascinating of modern times. Destined for a solitary path, she left husband and homeland to travel the world in search of occult knowledge, a quest which ultimately took her to the great Mahatmas and the Ancient wisdom of the East. Her odyssey was to bring her enlightenment and enemies, fame and notoriety; devotion and denouncement ... but it also resulted in some of the greatest occult classics ever written, and the founding, in 1875, of the modern Theosophical Society. H. P. Blavatsky A Spritual Floodlight Dr Edi Bilimoria. It seems to be virtually axiomatic that the amount of calumny and abuse heaped by unregenerate portions of humankind upon a person stand in direct proportion to his nobility and desire to elevate the common human lot. Ironically, a noble and spiritual life in no way automatically implies that personal circumstances will be free from powerful strains. Such was the case with those redeemers of mankind whose unswerving mission, born out of their selfless love of humanity, was to lead men out of the mire of his limited existence towards eternal peace and brotherhood; the likes of Zarathushtra, Jesus, Giordano Bruno and Mohammed. Alas! This most certainly applied to Blavatsky as well. Read more ... Geoffrey Farthing was concerned that the original point and purpose of the Theosophical Society had been lost in the years that followed the death of H.P. Blavatsky, and that a significant part of the substance and detail of the teachings, as given out by Blavatsky and others, has become distorted. Geoffrey Farthing's writings primarily aim to accurately present Blavatsky's work in a form suited to the modern reader, and in addition, a significant number of articles and letters take a critical, and sometimes controversial, look at the Society itself. In 1969 Geoffrey wrote 'What is the Theosophical Society?' (go to text) and followed this by an analysis of Theosophy itself (go to text). For more information on the Theosophical Mahatmas see the article Mahatmas versus Ascended Masters (go to article on Theosophical Society in America website). The Blavatsky Trust was founded on the 15th November 1974 by Geoffrey Farthing, Christmas Humphreys and Graham Nicholas with the following principal object:"to advance education in and promote or further the study of or research into religion, philosophy and science, and to disseminate the results of such study and research to the public". One of the main activities of the Trust is 'to let it be known that such a thing as theosophy exists' and to this end the Trust has funded the publishing of a number of books, a series of four video films and this Web site. The Trust helps support the study of Western Esotericism at the University of Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism. Previously, we supported a successful MA course in Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter in the UK. Additionally, the Trust assists in the funding of The European School of Theosophy and a number of theosophical Lectures, Seminars and Events in England. In the matter of initiatives to propagate the message, the importance of the very high nature of Theosophy has always to be borne in mind. Any attempt to popularize it must be judiciously done to ensure that the image of Theosophy itself is not impaired. In furtherance of the Object is the undertaking and promotion of "study and research in the field of the laws of nature and the powers latent in man," and "to disseminate the results of this research and the writings of H.P. Blavatsky and 'The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett' and other literature consonant with them". The Trust aims to accomplish this by promoting a knowledge of the essential nature of man and the Cosmos in which he lives and of which he forms a part. There is a tradition in many countries of an Ancient Wisdom or Wisdom Religion known to men of superior development and power who represent the advance guard of humanity (this Ancient Wisdom has latterly been referred to as Theosophy). This Wisdom is relevant to ordinary man as it treats, against a background of knowledge of Nature's inner laws, of man's proper place in the scheme of things, his ultimate potentialities and of his responsibility for his individual and collective state. It also treats of the way to his inner growth of faculty and the unfolding of his essential spiritual nature, in line with the universal evolutionary trend. It tells also of the service a man inevitably renders his fellows in truly progressing along the path of self-development.Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism Offers a distinct opportunity for students and scholars alike to focus on influential, yet still vastly overlooked, aspects of European and global intellectual, religious and social history often categorized as 'Western esotericism'. Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism

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