The Human Journey: Quest for Self-Transformation is a lecture given by Joy Mills at the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society in England, 27 May 1978. The following article is a lightly edited version of the booklet that was produced from this lecture.
I have a particular animal at home, a little grey cat. If I wished for reincarnation I would wish to be the grey cat in my house. And why? Because she has got it sussed!
And I heard these myths, (about Rangi and Papa) and I heard the traditions of my Dad telling me of the violent times 200 years ago, before the Europeans arrived.
Kia ora tatou te iwi. Kia ora hoki koutou i raro i te tahuhu o tenei whare, me ki te whare o Te Atua. No reira, nga mihi atu ki a koutou. Me nga mihi ano hoki ki nga mate kua hinga atu i nga marae maha. Me ki, tukuna ratou kia haere.
Theosophical wisdom points to realities exceeding the power of human words and concepts. Yet it employs words, for it indicates that the answer to the problems of human existence do lie, so to speak, in certain directions.[i]
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky said: “It is the knowledge of Self that is Wisdom itself.” Also from Alex A. Wilder: “Wisdom is the evolved knowledge of potencies of man's interior being.”
Victor Peñaranda, a theosophical leader in the Philippines and internationally, will be the lead speaker at the TSNZ Convention in Albany in January. Victor’s experience in Adyar, the international centre for Theosophy, influenced him powerfully.
