Basic TheosophyBasic Theosophy. The Living Wisdom by Hodson, Geoffrey Today there is a growing dissatisfaction with the sterile mechanical framework that has come to dominate our lives. In this book, Geoffrey Hodson returns to us what we unconsciously gave up when we chose to purchase a culture of material production! The philosophy is not a dreamy world negating doctrine but rather affirms the divinity of the universe, the immortality of the soul of man and the