If you have kept up, this has a relation to Theosophy in its global context, particularly when addressing the teachings of ancestral and ancient Native American and African philosophical religious traditions.
In the midst of researching the life and ideas of Scottish-Rite Freemason Albert Pike based on Manly P. Hall’s lecture, because his toppled statue — which papers falsely describe as “a confederate statue” — was restored, I thought more about the crux of religious conspiracy against Freemasonry, Kabbalah, Theosophy and OCCULTISM.
The simpleton view about all those four is that their philosophical tradition and concepts are rooted in Dajjalic innovations, Satanism, or Luciferianism. This babble comes from certain ignorant Christians and even Muslims who are bound to conspiracy, because of their views about the “End Days.”
The philosophical concept of the “divine spark” is not a Satanic concept rooted in the “narcissistic religiosity” of the “fallen angel,” a myth. Among the Jews, before Christianity, the concept of an inner divine principle is tied to the universal LOGOS and other symbols of GOD and WISDOM (e.g., tree, seed, etc). In Greek philosophy, e.g., it is NOUS (among other terms and god-names) and in the Brahmanical philosophy, it is Atman.
The ignorance is used to attack Freemasonry. Albert Pike saw Freemasonry as the modern heir and guardian of an ancient WISDOM TRADITION of the Indo-Iranians before Helena P. Blavatsky, although Pike (1809-1891) did live during the time Godfrey Higgins (1772-1833) was alive. Pike cannot be co-opted by White racists, because there is nothing, they can pull from his philosophical writings that supports their views. Although, he was (keyword) a Confederate General, he was not born a confederate, and he did not die or live out the rest of his days a Confederate. Pike is an interesting case study, that does not warrant a superficially copy-and-pasted analysis from some biased journalist.
As explained in The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea, Theosophy is seen as connected to Indo-Persian traditions or is a reconstruction of the secret doctrines of the ancient Aryan (Indo-Iranian) religion, “thought to be a religion before Hindus and Iranians separated. It is the Magi-brahmin’s religion from which Hinduism, Buddhism, Esoteric Zoroastrianism were born to propagate to Chaldea, Egypt, Greece and Rome.” (Masato Tojo, Theosophy: A Modern Revival of the Simorghian Culture, pg. 10).
Africa and Ancient American civilizations are always missing from that list when speaking about classical philosophy and “the secret doctrines of the ages.” The ideas in the African religious traditions are full of recognition of a shared universal well of knowledge and power in us all to shape and heal our world and unveil the bridges to the spiritual world.
BEYOND CHRISTIAN EXCLUSIVISM, BEYOND AMERICAN PLURALISM
I argue from the position, that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are not the unique and exclusivist traditions each construct as distinct from their particular views of “the Other” (e.g., the pagan, heathen, gentile, non-believer). I want us to move out of that world and the positions against other religious traditions, which ignorant general opinions on religions, people and immigrants are still based upon in our countries.
Someone like Pike, who remained Christian, but took a genuine interest in the esotericism of the Persian and Brahmanical systems is unique for his time and even still today. Take this in comparison to the modern White ethnonationalist who likes to make jokes about the Goddess Kali and other gods of the Hindu pantheon. The latter hold no candle to the legacy and efforts of the former in expanding his understanding as an American about the ancient countries and nations. He sought in the lessons of antiquity solutions for problems and gaps in our understanding of Religion and Philosophy in his time and ours.
Judging from what Pike taught and envisioned, it seems we are not advancing but sliding.
Like many other Europeans and Americans in this field of study and interest, the Avesta and the history of Central Asia and South Asia play an important role in attempts to challenge limitations about “Western Civilization,” as in the case with Albert Pike. If you have kept up, this has a relation to Theosophy in its global context, particularly when addressing the teachings of ancestral and ancient Native American and African philosophical religious traditions. This knowledge directly undermines the limited beliefs in Fascism, National Socialism, Nordicism, and all European and White American racist occultists.
It directly undermines and challenges the origins of their positions, which are tied to views about the lack of inherent qualities in Black people, which are claimed to be exhibited more higher in White Europeans. Whereas, in the older roots of these concepts, there is no partiality in beliefs about potential, intelligence and divinity in Black bodies, as exists in the biopolitical and pseudoscience racism meant to support means to control and manage us through ethnonationalist policies and solutions.
That concept of the divine spark is inherent to REPUBLICANISM through the philosophy of the ancient Stoics. This is not a legacy of “White Identity.” This is the legacy of PHILOSOPHY. The concept has a connection to myths about the origin of mind and wisdom, emancipation (freedom), liberty and liberality, to democracy and to INTELLIGENCE (a quality of the divine principle) upon which it depends. We have ample room to kick out from under us the habits of the American when embodied in the White nativists and racists. They are frauds, not exemplars, and I will lay out their little schemes.
SQUIRMY CHRISTIAN ETHNONATIONALISTS
We know that all these elements of Fascism, National Socialism, Nordicism and so on still survive after their nineteenth-century to twentieth-century emergence from early scientific theories on race and racial hierarchical constructs.
Some patterns have reemerged, particularly beginning a decade ago, and we must nip it in the bud, whether from an angle of scholarship, science, theology or esoteric philosophy.
We also find some White ethnonationalists and Christian nationalists pivoting in concerning ways when they become aware, that they’ve adopted contradictions between their politics and their Christian religion, or Catholicism. They begin to try to co-opt or bandwagon Traditionalism in the Orthodox Church or veer off into “Neo-Paganism” to avoid the fact their racism and ethnonationalist positions do severely contradict the essence of Christian teachings and ethical precepts of Jesus. Also, if they cannot succeed in turning Jesus into a militant Knight of the Apostolic Church as an equivalent to the military image of Muhammad and the Muslims, they begin to veer off into other rabbit-holes. When they find that they cannot succeed in this, they then drop their faith in Christianity and turn either to our subjects of interest, Evolian-esque traditionalists and the old and modern reformulated claims of scientific racism (via race realism).
Their concerns are with Western Civilization, which is tied to White birth-rates and Whiteness (or “White Identity,” i.e., aesthetic racism), which depending on the individual, they will adopt either a pseudo-scientific materialist position to bolster their argument, or a pseudo-spiritual biogenetic position.
This should bother you, in that people such as you and I appear to lack influence and representation in digital space and society, that we cannot combat prejudices and misinformation on the same scale as those spreading it. Many of us know our topics well and might struggle to convey it in ways people can understand well, but I think civilization hangs in the balance in our ability to do just that.
As Robert A. Heinlein once stated:
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” (Revolt in 2100/Methuselah’s Children)
Misinformation simply spreads more rapidly than the slower process of truth verification. This is unfortunately the challenge in the fight for religious truth in our day.
The race realists make the same claims about the lack of intelligence in people of African descent as certain occultists who adopted the stance, that all or a particular group of indigenous people, and specifically Black and African people lack an inherent divine spark. Although Albert Pike had a racist, controversial history, he never wrote such a position in his philosophical works and addresses humanity in universalist terms. The position of say, the racist spiritual aristocrat philosopher . . . is the exact same logical consequence from the belief, that people of African descent, non-White and other indigenous people are not “fully human.” This justified the enterprise of chattel slavery and denial of our civil rights.
We have seen this view return recently against Sri Lankans in a viral post on social media, because a pervert man in Sri Lanka had revealed his penis to a traveling White woman and masturbated on camera in front of her. It prompted the woman to ride off in utter traumatized disgust. Comments amounted to generalized scolding and dehumanizing terms about “Third World countries” and South Asian immigrants.
In Pan-Esotericism in Africa and Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece, I attempt to guide you to the fact that, the philosophical concept of the inner god that Christians term Satanic and Luciferian exist in their own tradition. It is pre-Hellenic and has very ancient roots; and moreover, the concept in its ancient esoteric roots, whether ancient Greek or African is not tied to a racist biopolitics (see Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy, Mika Ojakangas Interview). It affirms our humanity — the humanity of Black, African and Indigenous people and our connection to the interdependent and invisible world, divine nature and each other.
So, we have to rescue these ideas from being pulled and co-opted once again within these ethnonationalist spaces, because they are and will eventually run out of ideas to hide behind. The ideas of Renaissance (as e.g, expressed during the Carolingian rule of Charlemagne or developments in philosophy during the period of Andalus and Sefarad) can only come from the kind of understandings I have learned from the efforts of people like Suhrawardi, Blavatsky, Corbin, Kaivan, Pike, Hall and so many others.
This effort will not be controlled or driven by adult men generating hateful comments and meme-jokes about Black people or women graduating college on a daily and venting their corrosive insecurities as their way to cope with the complexities of reality. These are not serious people.
The machine of racism can be crushed and defeated, and the only way to do this is counter-narrative and counterarguments or promulgating our ideas. New ideas are not being merely stifled, because we live in a time of mediocrity, algorithmic repetition and stagnant creative output, but we have the keys, instructions and methods to turn the tables.
For this particular discussion and the next article, I have to continue my points from Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom; also, which I made in the introduction of Investigating Jamal al-Din’s influence on Noble Drew Ali and Black American New Religious Movement and Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity.
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