Tag: Pre-Socratic Philosophers
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The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven
In the spirit of the ancient Ionian and Eleatic thinkers, who sought the archē, the fundamental principle of all things through reason and observation of physis or dynamic generative nature as a self-unfolding process of emergence. INTRODUCTION The key to Theosophy can also be found in the Hellenic cosmology of the early Greek natural philosophers…
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Critique of Arnaud Bertrand’s “The Civilization that Never needed God”
Bertrand’s narrative attributes Europe’s secular turn largely to a linear transmission from Zhou dynasty ideas through Jesuits to Voltaire, framing it as the “single decision that most shaped China’s destiny” and by extension, the world’s. However, republicanism’s origins lie in a grand eclectic tradition, including Pre-Socratic sages, Stoicism, Cicero’s republic, and Petrarch’s revival of letters,…
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Jesus as Martyred Adept in the History of Adepts and the Origins of Christos
It is a key thesis of Theosophy to the present time, that early Christianity stole “Christos” through syncretism, the very word its polemicists use to devalue the arguments of those that challenge its truth-claims. Early Christianity blended Jewish messianism with Greek and Mesopotamian elements to appeal to gentiles. The New Testament writers including Paul (the…
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Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages
THE TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF GREECE AND THEIR FAMOUS MAXIMS Peter Kingsley portrays these pre-Socratic philosophers not as rationalists but as sages in a sacred, shamanic tradition and lineage originating from eastern influences e.g., Phocaea, an ancient Ionian Greek city of Anatolia, transplanted to southern Italy. The schools of these eminent sages emphasized incubation, divine…
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Theosophy, Pre-Socratic Monism and Cosmology in relation to Abrahamic Monotheistic Claims
Within the Theosophical framework, as articulated by H.P. Blavatsky and in David Reigle’s analyses of an ancient, pre-Vedic Wisdom Tradition, the Pre-Socratic sages such as Thales, Anaximander, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras (often included in this group) are regarded as pivotal figures who birthed Western civilization and philosophy by drawing from a primordial, universal esoteric…
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