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  • Blavatsky on Masonry, Myths of Political Conspiracy, Socialism and her Social Teachings, Part II

    PART II: Blavatsky Buries BARRUEL’S ANTI-REVOLUTIONARY CONSPIRACY – Jesuit INSTIGATIONS, Illuminati Panic, KABBALISM and the Eastern Secret Doctrine The 1790s panic (Barruel’s Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme, 1797) claimed the French Revolution was the work of a Templar-Illuminati-Masonic conspiracy. Blavatsky traces the very idea of a Templar-Masonic connection back to Barruel himself who…

  • Young Nation, No More: Iranian and Chinese Leadership on Incompetency of American Leadership

    A “young nation,” out of excuses, examining attitudes about Americans and the U.S., Carl Zha on Chinese leadership perception of the competency and authority of American leadership over the decade, and experiences with Chinese international students in the U.S. and their civilizational mentality. “I think the biggest shock to Chinese leadership over the last 10…

  • Reining in the Religious Psychotic Political Right and Netanyahu’s Armageddon

    Lets give a rundown of the news since this early month about the joint U.S.-Israel war with Iran: March 3–Over 110 complaints were filed by U.S. troops claiming commanders said the war is biblically sanctioned and meant to bring about “Armageddon.” Officers framed the conflict as biblical end‑times prophecy, suggesting a widespread perception among service…

  • Rule of Secrecy, and the Formation of Federations of Adepts in the Nineteenth-Century and After: Kayvan, Theosophy and Ilme Kṣnum

    HELENA BLAVATSKY IS CERTAIN THAT A GREAT BODY OR FEDERATION OF “spiritual Illuminati” does exist in her time, but their locations will never be known. What was being formed and taking place in that time between all these networks is a question K. Paul Johnson put forth, and it made me think of the history…

  • Post-Black History Month Reflections

    I have sought to introduce to you the importance of the heritage and roots of civic republicanism, a tradition emphasizing liberty as non-domination, civic virtue, and resistance to arbitrary power, and by also providing ancient sources like Cicero extending through known historical revolutions. Within this framework, which I myself continue to educate myself about, Black…

  • Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

    INCLUDING COSMOLOGICAL NOTES ON CHRIST AND LOGOS Theosophy’s view of Jesus is different from both Christian orthodoxy and modern New Age reinterpretations. Theosophy repositions Jesus as human, allowing reconciliation with Judaism, pre‑Christian mystery schools, ancient Greek and Indian philosophy rejecting the exclusivism and uniqueness of the Christian doctrine. It is demonstrated, that within the history…

  • Early Muslim critique of Western Imperialism: A Turkish Effendi on Mammon, Christendom and Islam

    A theosophist in 1880 provides an early critique of Western imperialism and materialism that connects religious perversion directly to economic and technological exploitation, and calls for a regeneration of altruistic ethics. A NATION OUT OF EXCUSES If Americans have learned anything about our political circumstances, it is that when John Adams wrote, that “the American…

  • Ruler of Nations, Cycles and the Struggle of Life – Questions on Political Theology and Collective Delusion

    This reproduces a section from my article Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan that explains the misquote used in Christian conspiracy tactics against Theosophy and H.P. Blavatsky by deliberately misquoting, misattributing and parsing Anna Kingsford’s Hermetic interpretation of Satan. Kingsford’s work turns out to be a very interesting study into…

  • The Lies in Jiang Xueqin’s Illuminati Theory on Breaking Points

    Jiang Xueqin’s Illuminati theory on Breaking Points engages in a dangerous pattern of mythologizing the oligarchy, financiers and various other governed institutional powers that need to be rejected and reexamined as he has become popular. His lectures seem normal, until you examine further the appropriation of the history of the Gnostics and the mysteries to…

  • Countering the Hyper-War: Dugin’s Tactic, Global Anti-American Narratives and other Foreign Disinformation

    INDEPENDENT DIPLOMACY AND GRASROOTS CITIZEN-LED COUNTER OPERATIONS TO IDENTIFY, COMBAT AND DISMANTLE FOREIGN DISINFORMATION AND GLOBAL ANTI-AMERICAN NARRATIVES Amid war, I reflect as a Black American with no status or recognition equivalent to our political representatives that make decisions on our behalf, “Who speaks for me, an ordinary American citizen to the nations of the…

  • Explaining Modern Theosophy: Hyponoia, Analogy and Eclecticism in Classical Philosophical Rigor

    An analysis of the intellectual and philosophical lineage of Modern Theosophy through an explanation of the classical methods and practices that underlie Theosophy, religion and theology, and the implications of Theosophy’s roots in a primordial tradition of ancient Persia and Central Asia and the peoples and cultures of South Asia. No one term ever fits…

  • Misjudging Theosophy

    The myth of Lucifer and Iblis are iterations of older ideas, and Abrahamic traditions inherited and reinterpreted older regional mythic themes. Every new iteration serves a purpose in the literature of those who have constructed it. The understanding we provide might confuse you if you interpret it from the perspective of the accepted dominant theological…