Plutarch on the twists and turns of worldly versus divine love.: The noble lover, pure and hallowed, stands on the threshold of divinity. The passionate lover, inflamed by the fires of desire, enters the women’s chambers.

Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause

In the early days of the Theosophical Movement occult phenomena were taken as miracles: Wonders no longer aroused veneration and awe, but curiosity.

Envy is the worst of all maladies.: Envy begins with jealousy and ends up as hate, the hate of malice.

Blavatsky on the knighted Oxford Sanskritist who could speak no Sanskrit

Plutarch’s Protreptics to Moral Virtue

Infinite is the Creative Potency of Feminine Logos: On the genealogy and gender of Logos and Its Light.

Merits of the Rude Lacedaemonian Wit: A collection of aphorisms and speeches

Bhagavan Das on the Triune Nature of Emotions: Analysis and definitions from his Science of the Emotions.

Garland of Graeco-Roman Witty Utterances: A rich collection of 92 apophthegms

Buddhism in action is unconditional compassion, wise and merciful

Low buffoonery and mocking laughs reverted him to a baboon.: Even the flowers fainted at his cruel sneer.

Plutarch on boasted wisdom, fortitude, magnanimity, and temperance

True prayer is mental utterance in secret.: Supplications are fruitless, unless to potential words we add potent acts.

Plutarch praises the calm tranquillity of the mind

Western religion alone is to blame for the cruelty to animals

Plutarch comforts Apollonius

Nous Augoeides of the Neoplatonists: Augoeides is Atman, the luminous radiation of the Higher Self when freed from the flesh.

Pygmalion-Galatea is an allegory of early man's semi-divine soul: Of the late Lemurian womb-born race of men and women

Plutarch on whether water or land animals are the most crafty