Author: Dominique Johnson
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Time’s Circle in Zurvanite Philosophy and Theosophy: Monism beyond Dualism
INTRODUCTION Alireza Assary, an independent researcher of ancient Iranian mythology, David Reigle and Henry Corbin is an influence for my approach and dialogue here. Assary explains in Zurvan and the Philosophy of Time: On the Necessity of Reinterpretation, that modern reinterpretations view Zurvan as a philosophical framework for TIME, where infinite time flows cyclically, arguing…
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Bruno Leipold on Influence of Republicanism on Marx in Citizen Marx: Section I and II
SECTION I An analysis of Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought and important differences from The American Minervan on Republicanism. Citizen Marx: The Relationship Between Karl Marx and Republicanism was the PhD Thesis of Bruno Leipold adapted into a book. I value and commend the work…
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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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Ormazd and Ahriman in Mazdan Philosophy: Blavatsky on Human Conflict, Evil and Modernity
Blavatsky here in her article from her Lucifer magazine, explains the philosophy of the dual principles of Good and Evil of Mazdaism and brilliantly critiques modernity through it, and I specifically extracted these lines. INTRODUCTION First things first, I am not a scholar of pre-Islamic Iranian religions and do not fully understand the extent and…
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The Heretical School of Zurvanism and its connection to Theosophy
OR ZURVANISM AND THEOSOPHY: EXAMINING THE UNMEASURED CONSEQUENCES WHEN PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS GO EXTINCT Central to this article is my argument in favor of Theosophy in its claims on the antiquity of Iranian mythology, the philosophical truth of positions and cosmological notions considered heretical in Zoroastrianism, and its contrast (elimination of anthropomorphism) and difference from ZURVANISM…
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Everything about Satan: Theosophy’s Systematic Refutation of Popular and Christian Hysteria against Occult Philosophy
Behind popular culture’s misguided and manipulated hysteria, the topics, doctrines and nature of teachings fundamental to Theosophy or Occult Philosophy have been defined and judged according to its adherence or non-alignment to Christian theology and beliefs. Theosophy and Occultism have stood falsely accused of representing, teaching and even practicing Satanism, Devil-Worship, or Luciferianism. Wisdom in…
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Open Letter: Every Citizen is the Salvation of the Republic
The sharpest critics of American white supremacy fluently spoke the civic-republican language, whether we bring to mind David Walker critique of our once “slaveholding republic” that betrayed republican principles; Frederick Douglass’s speeches on “composite nationality” and the Roman-republican ideal of civic membership; Martin Delany’s neo-Roman republicanism; the Haitian Revolution’s liberty against domination; or even twentieth-century…
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Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding
INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…
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Flames of Illumination: Dialogue on Zoroastrian Martialism, Weishaupt’s Pedagogy, and Suhrawardi’s Ishraq
The Meaning OF Illuminati and WEISHAUPT’S IdeaS ON ENLIGHTENMENT REASON AND MORAL ORDER There are solely two relations or meanings to the term ILLUMINATI we permit as authentic: Although, it can be said, that the Illuminati got their name from European sources, and not directly from Zoroastrianism or Manichean dualism, this is a surface-level understanding…
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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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Giuseppi Mazzini’s Political Theology on the Origin of Revolution
A rejection of the Marxist or materialist view that economic conditions drive history has been one of the most consistent aspects in my writings and views shared among colleagues who adopt the materialist view for many years. Revolutions indeed have their origin in the human mind and its guiding principles. A true revolution is not…
The American Minervan 