Theosophical Society in England & Wales

28/09/2026

Mabel Collins and Light on the Path
Sunday 4th October – 6pm UK Time a zoom talk by
Sabine Van Osta

In this talk Sabine will talk about the life of the Author of the Theosophical Classic “Light on the Path” and proceed to give details of the Philosophical gems contained within.

Sabine Van Osta (° 1968) is an active member of the TS since 2001. She became lodge president in 2008, board member of the Belgian Section from 2004 till 2008 as Secretary and back in 2012. At the end of 2013, she was designated President of the Section.

She gives lectures and animates study groups on core theosophical themes in Dutch, French and English, translates texts on theosophical and religious themes. She regularly attended congresses of other national Sections. In 2022, she was elected Chair of the European Federation of Theosophical Societies (EFTS). In daily life, Sabine works since 1998 full time as a corporate paralegal in charge of Board and shareholder matters. She lives in Antwerp, Belgium with her husband, in close relation with her family.

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24/09/2026

24/09/2026

The sevenfold nature of all life

1. Ātman, the divine principle: the cosmic that we are essentially
2. Buddhi, the spiritual principle or enlightenment principle
3. Manas, the mind, personal and unpersonal
4. Kāma, desire power, neutral force
5. Prāna, the vital principle, driving force
6. Linga Śarīra, the feeling, the astral
7. Sthūla Śarīra, the physical, ever-changing

24/09/2026

The seven Paramita’s, seven stages of initiation.

These Portals lead the aspirant across the waters on “ to the other shore.” Each Portal hath a golden key that openeth its gate; and these keys are:

I. DANA, the key of charity and love immortal.
2. SiLA, the key of Harmony in word and act, the key that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for Karmic action.
3. KsHANTI, patience sweet, that nought can ruffle.
4. VIRAGA, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived.
5. ViRYA, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal TRUTH, out of the mire of lies terrestrial.
6. DHYANA, whose golden gate once opened leads the Naljor toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation.
7. PRAJNA, the key to which makes of a man a god, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhyanis. Such to the Portals are the golden keys.

The Voice of the Silence (“ The Seven Portals”). Fragments from The Book of the Golden Precepts, selected and annotated by H.P. Blavatsky

24/09/2026

24/09/2026

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD

Translation by Radhakrishnan:

1. Aum this syllable is all this. An explanation of that (is the following). All that is the past, the present and the future, all this is only the syllable aum. And whatever else there is beyond the threefold time, that too is only the syllable aum.

2. All this is, verily, Brahman. This self is Brahman. This same self has four quarters.

3. The first quarter is Vaisvanara, whose sphere (of activity) is the waking state, who cognises external objects, who has seven limbs and nineteen mouths and who enjoys (experiences) gross (material) objects.

4. The second quarter is taijasa, whose sphere (of activity) is the dream state, who cognises internal objects, who has seven limbs and nineteen mouths, and who enjoys (experiences) the subtle objects.

5. Where one, being fast asleep, does not desire any desire whatsoever and does not see any dream whatsoever, that is deep sleep. The third quarter is prajna, whose sphere (of activity) is the state of deep sleep, who has become one, who is verily, a mass of cognition, who is full of bliss and who enjoys (experiences) bliss, whose face is thought.

6. This is the lord of all, this is the knower of all, this is the inner controller; this is the source of all; this is the beginning and the end of beings.

7. (Turiya is) not that which cognises the internal (objects), not that which cognises the external (objects), not what cognises both of them, not a mass of cognition, not cognitive, not non-cognitive. (It is) unseen, incapable of being spoken of, ungraspable, without any distinctive marks, unthinkable, -unnameable, the essence of the knowledge of the one self, that into which the world is resolved, the peaceful, the benign, the non-dual, such, they think, is the fourth quarter. He is the self; He is to be known.

8. This is the self, which is of the nature of the syllable aum, in regard to its elements. The quarters are the elements, the elements are the quarters, namely the letter, a, the letter u and the letter m.

9. Vaisvanara, whose sphere (of activity) is the waking state, is the letter a, the first element, either from the root ap to obtain or from being the first. He who knows this, obtains, verily, all desires, also, he becomes first.

10. Taijasa, whose sphere (of activity) is the dream state, is the letter u, the second element, from exaltation or intermediateness. He who knows this exalts, verily, the continuity of knowledge and he becomes equal; in his family is born no one who does not know Brahman.

11. Prajna, whose sphere (of activity) is the state of deep sleep is the letter m, the third element, either from the root mi, to measure or because of merging. He who knows this measures (knows) all this and merges also (all this in himself).

12. The fourth is that which has no elements, which cannot be spoken of, into which the world is resolved, benign, non-dual. Thus the syllable aum is the very self. He who knows it thus enters the self with his self.