Category: Christianity
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Everything about Satan in Theosophy, Three Article Series.
𓄂𓆃 In the dark crevice of popular culture’s misguided hysteria, Theosophy and Occult Philosophy has stood falsely accused of teaching and even practicing Satanism, Devil-Worship, or Luciferianism. Wisdom is inverted and defined by its lower aspects through a grueling inductive reasoning. These poor charges born from ignorance and Christian belief conflate profound esoteric symbolism with…
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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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Third Republic Civic Republicanism, Esoteric Movements and Protestantism in France Belle Epoque Era
INTRODUCTION Historical figures involved in French Third Republic (1870–1940) politics were generally opposed to the monarchy, aligning with the prevailing republican and anti-clerical sentiments of the era, though there are nuances in this time within esoteric currents. The Theosophical Society in France, officially established as a section in 1899, attracted and propelled several notable figures who were…
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Logos and Divine Providence in George Washington’s Faith
An equivalent of the “divine spark” in ancient Stoic philosophy is the logos spermatikos, which was transmitted through Roman Republicanism, Christianity, and Enlightenment thinkers. While George Washington’s writings and speeches do not explicitly use the term, his quiet Christian faith relies heavily on Christian divine providence, natural rights endowed by a Creator, and the moral…
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Athena, Virgin Guardian of Aries: Courage and Noetic Enlightenment in Hellenic Esotericism
INTRODUCTION TO ZODIACAL SYMBOLISM AND SALVATION IN PRYSE’S INTERPRETATION We adventure once more into The Restored New Testament (1914) of Theosophist James Morgan Pryse to understand the significance of Athena in Hellenic religion. Pryse’s work reinterprets the New Testament as a Hellenic mystery drama infused with esoteric symbolism, blending Greek mythology, zodiacal astrology, and theosophical…
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Crusades to Late Renaissance Occultism to Enlightenment Timeline (1075-1680)
HISTORY ABOUT THE TIMELINE This timeline focuses on significant events and personages specifically from the Crusades to the Late Renaissance, which leads into the Enlightenment. It is a record of Europe’s most riveting historical developments in the study of Religion and War in Europe, and the history of the Catholic Church and Occult Philosophy from…
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The “Divine Spark” in White Racist Biopolitics
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…
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Lovers of the Ancients, or Christian Dogmatic claims to Truth
We are who we are, because we are “lovers of the ancients.” I would not be writing without my influences from Greek, Indian and Islamic Philosophy; and Blavatsky, Suhrawardi and Henry Corbin. I traced the styles of Blavatsky’s references, going to sources of doctrines in the Chaldean Oracles and the works of the eclectic orientalist…
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Christian Truth, or the eclectic Theosophical System
Every effort to help the West has failed and faced trials, each falling into the same patterns of individual and organizational turmoil, blame and mythologizing an adversary. So, what is this effort that the modern Theosophical Movement represents to “the West”? It is important to challenge our notions of “the West” as I explained in…
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Theosophy in Italy before Blavatsky: Bl. Antonio Rosmini-Serbati and the Rosminians
HELENA P. BLAVATSKY frequently visited Italy in namely Bologna, Bari, Trieste, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Many of her acquaintances in Italy became members of the Theosophical Society. In 1851, H.P.B. met Giuseppe Mazzini, and at the “Battle of Mentana” (Rome) in 1867 she participated with volunteers alongside the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Both were Italian patriots during…
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They Lied About the First 100 Years of Christianity | Gnostic Informant
Neal Sendlak (Gnostic Informant) documentary provides one the most detailed study and history of the early schools of Christianity, before the schism with Gnosticism.
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Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini
Introduction In the visions of nationhood and association professed by Italian revolutionary, Guiseppi Mazzini, I find inspiration, and freedom from limitations in the U.S. American perspective within the larger historical contexts of Republicanism. After the failures of the Carbonari, Mazzini founds Young Italy in his hopes for Italy’s unification. Mazzini saw the American Republic as…
The American Minervan 