First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”
A SCHOOL OF HUMANITY I am highly satisfied with my copy of “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals […]
Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century
“Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and […]
The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’
Definition The Iluminados, Perfectibilists and TheosophiCAL REFERENCES Illuminati. the past participle of illuminare, meaning to “light up,” or “illuminate.” The plural term, […]
Carl Orff: Day, Night, and Everything (Dies, Nox et Omnia)
DIES, NOX ET OMNIADies, nox et omniamichi sunt contraria,virginum colloquiame fay planszer,oy suvenz suspirer,plu me fay temer.O sodales, ludite,vos qui […]
Cosmological Notes in Theosophy on “God” and Substance
mahatma letters. fundamental position on God and Substance There have existed philosophical schools that have a spiritual ideal of nature, […]
Jnana Yoga and the Disdain for Armchair Occultists and Intellect
The Theosophical system is essentially a “Jñāna yoga,” as explained in How to Study Theosophy, “Theosophy is for those who […]
Gustav Holst: Saturn, Bringer Of The Old Age
Come forth DREAMER, MIGHT of elder father, so that you may rise again; Dream as you would when in longing, […]
Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom
The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India […]
Carl Orff: In Taberna Quando Sumus – Kurt Eichhorn
“Here no-one fears death,but they throw the dice in the name of Bacchus…May those who slander us be cursedand may […]
Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization
Those of our interests believed, that occultism and spirituality is in truth scientific. In the 19th century after Henry Thomas […]
Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race
SUMMARY Most importantly, without recognizing the Theosophy of 19th century as a system and as it was being explained, and […]
Summer | Tighten Up
I know the year has been hard, but we persevered, so let us continue to learn to come together, and […]
Age of the Rule of Faith: Valerie Tarico on the Christian Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagans and Eastern Religions
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian […]
Age of the Rule of Faith: Crusade against Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian […]
Age of the Rule of Faith: Irenaeus dispute with Gnostic Narcissus
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian […]
The American Minervan 
Witnesses of Morya, the Identity of Koot Hoomi and Connections to Tibet and the Panchen Lama
THE MULTIPLE WITNESSES OF MORYA AND WHY MORYA WASN’T THE MAHARAJAH RANBIR SINGH The master known as Morya had visited […]
Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”
Sam Harris mentions Helena P. Blavatsky in the first chapter of Waking Up: Guide on Spirituality without Religion (2014), and […]
Blavatsky and Christianity: Her Fundamental Christological Disputes and Her Defense of the Theosophical Position
“There are several ways of acquiring knowledge: (a) by accepting blindly the dicta of the church or modern science; (b) […]
Theosophy on Sex and Sex Magic: Suffering, Desire, and Liberation
Trials of Love and Life Originally “Sex in Occult Philosophy,” I wanted to reflect upon and grapple with sex in […]
Talbot Mundy’s “The Nine Unknown” Men of Ashoka, the Maurya Clan, and its Connection to Theosophy
Talbot Mundy’s “The Nine Unknown” Secret Society of King Asoka In 1923, Talbot Mundy, of the British police wrote a fiction novel […]
Alice Bailey on the ‘Executives of the New Age’ and Politics
REVIEW OF ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY (1936) AND ALICE BAILEY’S POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEAL OF THE NEW AGE, OR WHAT SHE TERMED THE “NEW […]
Herman de Tollenaere on Influence of Theosophy on Indonesian and South Asian Nationalisms
Herman de Tollenaere on Theosophical History and Politics As Theosophy and Freemasonry: Esoteric Schools within the Theosophical Society shows, there is more […]
The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’
Definition The Iluminados, Perfectibilists and TheosophiCAL REFERENCES Illuminati. the past participle of illuminare, meaning to “light up,” or “illuminate.” The plural term, […]
The Irony of Apoliticism in the Theosophical Movement
With the reintroduction of theosophical research in the mainstream comes opportunity to combat misconceptions about the relation between the Theosophical […]