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  • The Universal Hybrid Symbolic System of the Initiates: Ignored History

    IMPLICATIONS OF THE NON-THEISTIC ESOTERIC SUBSTRATE FOR WORLD HISTORY, AND WHAT IS THE WISDOM-RELIGION AND MYSTERY-LANGUAGE OF THE INITIATES OF EVERY OLD COUNTRY One of the main subjects of Theosophy is the MYSTERIES, and one of the aims of Theosophists were to recover this system. Theosophy does not claim that all religions are “fragments of…

  • The Executive Chief: Unified Role of the Presidential Office in U.S. Government

    “Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.” ALEXANDER HAMILTON, FEDERALIST NO. 70, THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT FURTHER CONSIDERED, 15 MARCH 1788 MONIST PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS IN MODERN REPUBLICANISM AND THE BASIS OF JUDGEMENT OF THE CHARACTER OF A WORTHY PRESIDENT The ideal ruler to me is similar to the faqih…

  • Muhammad in the Spirit-History of Man: Noetic Illumination, Gabriel and Historical Contexts

    INTRODUCTION The common narrative and claims of the three Abrahamic religions are becoming increasingly problematic in our world today, and the religious within Judaism, Christianity and Islam respectively try to mitigate this through various interpretations of the relation of these religions to each other. Then, you have more claims of a continued chain of prophecy…

  • Bringers of the Messianic Age: Questioning Maimonides on Christianity and Islam in the Mishneh Torah

    Maimonides saw the spread of Christianity and Islam as part of divine providence. These two religions flooded the world with monotheistic concepts (Messiah, Torah, mitzvot, one God), eradicated overt paganism and idolatry on a global scale, and thereby straightened the way and prepared the entire world for the eventual universal pure monotheism of the “Messianic…

  • Context of Christian Masonic influences on Blavatsky, and Eclectic Freemasonry in U.S. Origins

    THE CONNECTION AND INFLUENCE OF EARLY EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY CHRISTIAN-MASONIC HISTORIANS TO BLAVATSKY, CHRISTIAN-ZIONISM REVISION, ERASURE OF ECLECTIC FREEMASONRY AND MASONIC REPUBLICANISM IN U.S. ORIGINS, AND THE INVENTION OF CHRISTIAN ANTI-GNOSTIC NARRATIVES Dissecting the Christian tactic of scapegoating esoteric movements, the contributions of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Masonic-Christian writers on Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy,…

  • Early Hellenic Philosophers on the Stellar-Fiery Origins of Intelligence

    INTRODUCTION Theosophy is a system of mythic metaphysics, like Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, representing a different intellectual project from that of the Pre-Socratic and Stoic philosophers. Blavatsky critiqued Aristotle, blaming his approach and philosophy as leading to scientific materialism. Her critiques emerge in the nineteenth-century, when science was aggressively materialistic, and she frames science as unconsciously…

  • Prophetic Pluralism and Oracular Enlightenment in Pre-Socratic Philosophy

    REFUTATION OF MODERN ATHEISTIC READINGS OF EARLY GREEK NATURALIST PHILOSOPHY IN THE REVISION OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE DURING THE SECULAR ENLIGHTENMENT The Presocratics were not “proto-secular” rationalists, but expositors of prophetic, divine wisdom that directly challenges both modern secular-atheist narratives and traditional Abrahamic critiques of “Gentile” and “Pagan” thought. The Presocratic philosophers, particularly those…

  • Why the Statue of Liberty isn’t Lucifer: Death of a Stupid Conspiracy

    STUPID CONSPIRACIES AND THE ANTI-REPUBLICANISM OF RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACISM The eighteenth-century Illuminati and Anti-Masonic panic first initiated by Barruel had successfully spread conservative, monarchist, anti-revolutionary propaganda in this country to attack and curb democratic reform and spread hatred of the principles associated with republican forms of government. The “MYSTERIES of the kingdom of heaven” describe two…

  • 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…