Annie Besant
Annie Besant
Annie Besantwas a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth1 October 1847
teaching expression blood
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.
children real childhood
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
christianity claims hostile
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
england india village
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
body alive units
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
arbitrary birth supreme
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
knowing definitions sin
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
mixtures weakness strength-and-weakness
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
fashion art kings
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.
thinking islam world
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
death building-up destruction
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
world body earth
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.
yoga drifting applied-science
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
law needed
Where love rules, laws are not needed.