Theosophy for Beginners

"Theosophia: Wisdom-religion, or 'Divine Wisdom'. The substratum and basis of all the world-religions and philosophies, taught and practised since man became a thinking being. In its practical bearing, Theosophy is purely divine ethics." - from The...

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from The Passion According to G.H.

[daweyt]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘In The Ruin’", published c. 2017.

[ambatya]

[kocalls]

[papayajuan2019]

the world's first kiss happened at some point

[eyepool]

“She saw everything and everyone in a light of gold. She saw correspondences and analogies and echoes and resemblances, so that nothing existed without a thousand connections to the world, and I saw them with her. For her the world was rich with meaning and alive with delight. Then little by little this way of seeing left her, so I set off to find it and bring it back.”

—Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust: The Rose Field

[hungwy]

I don't want to escape the cycle of death and rebirth. I love it here. I'll be anything at all

[64mpg]

unironically when i’m sick i just chant this shit in my head until it’s over

[apoemaday]

To Be Alive

by Gregory Orr

To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but… If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

[s-n]

[radical-revolution]

[cryptotheism]

Going to the buddhist monastery to find my self

And DEFEAT it

[dk-thrive]

I was intrigued by how a small life, when sympathetically examined, could burst, effloresce: its simplicity opening into a complex and astonishing tale. I believe this; I believe it completely. I inhabit the world believing this, and I’m rewarded by it, because every encounter feels freighted with enormous, exhilarating possibility, the promise that I might learn something amazing, that I might meet someone who will tell me something I didn’t know.

— Susan Orlean, Joyride: A Memoir (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, October 14, 2025)

[anthropoetics]

kinder than man, althea davis

[alientitty]

[asmallorthodoxblog]

[theparadigmshifts]

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

[theparadigmshifts]

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???