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Jul 1, 2018, 7:39 PM

The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes

For more than one century, Sherlock Holmes has not gotten old. Tall, thin, with an eagle’s nose, he first appeared in the streets of London in 1887 and has lived in human imagination since then, constantly protecting innocents, defeating...

Jun 1, 2018, 4:08 PM

The Arab Wisdom in Israel

A significant number of Arab citizens are getting tired of hatred and violence. They would like to see their communities recovering from the disease of anti-Semitism. Some of them have a feeling that peace will be better attained in...

Apr 14, 2018, 6:00 PM

Eisenhower Denounces Military-Industrial Complex

The 21st century transition towards a civilization of world peace needs a stern vigilance regarding the political lobby of arms’ industries. The problem is not new. On 17 January 1961, the 34th President of the United States - Dwight Eisenhower - made...

Mar 1, 2018, 7:45 PM

Is It Possible to Teach Honesty?

The issue whether Ethics and virtue can be taught constitutes an open question in classic philosophy. Plato and Plutarch are among those who discussed the topic. We certainly can teach words, ideas and a system of thought. It is possible...

Jan 30, 2018, 7:17 PM

Awakening from the Opium Wars

There is in our century a psychoactive war being made against the lucidity and good sense of human mind. It unfolds as a karmic boomerang, seemingly returning from the Opium Wars of the 19th century, when England, then the main...

Dec 31, 2017, 2:34 PM

Meditation on the Awakening of Mankind

The following visualization is an instrument to develop higher potentialities of human mind. It destroys old vicious circles of negative emotions, and makes room for a cultural regeneration. Being a practical exercise, it helps citizens to become conscious of the...

Dec 28, 2017, 11:08 PM

Our Duties to the Planet

Helena P. Blavatsky taught that at each step along the path to wisdom one must confront new individual and collective levels of organized ignorance. Instinctive resistance to wisdom cunningly searches for weak points in the psychic constitution of the pilgrim,...

Dec 6, 2017, 9:31 PM

Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel

Centuries before Christianity or Islam existed, Jerusalem was a Jewish community already, and sacred to Judaism. Although the city is an intercultural and interreligious place, it makes no sense to deny the simple fact that it is the capital...

Nov 27, 2017, 2:49 PM

A Lever to Move the World

It is always easy and nice in the short term to focus our minds in that which we think is wrong about the others, and about the world. Discussing whatever is not right around ourselves provides us with a sense...

Oct 26, 2017, 8:05 PM

The Karma of Literature and the Media

After several millennia of constant social change and countless attempts to “reform the world” and “make revolutions”, it is nigh time for us to see that there is no real change for the better in society, unless it comes...

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About Me

Born in Brazil in 1952, Carlos Cardoso Aveline is a journalist by profession and author of the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”. He has other works published on esoteric philosophy and ecology. The editor of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, Cardoso Aveline thinks Judaism, Jewish philosophy and Israel have important roles to play in the ethical rebirth the world needs in the present century. He lives in Portugal and directs the Library and Research Center of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists, whose associated websites include www.TheosophyOnline.com and www.HelenaBlavatsky.Org .