Author: Dominique Johnson
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Owl Symbolism in the Illuminati’s Minerval Assemblies
AS WITH MANY SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS, I TOO ADOPTED THE PALLAS ATHENA OR MINERVA as a symbolic “patron of knowledge and the arts.” It reminds me of what we all stand for and helps me hold myself accountable. However, we sometimes also find Minerva accompanied by an owl, and this symbolism enters the Illuminati Order. Owl…
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Historical Sources of the American Founders
“The American Founders drew on an astonishingly wide range of historical sources. They invoked the Greek city-states, the Carolingian Dynasty [Empire of the Romans and Franks], and the Ottoman Empire in the Constitution’s defense. And they assumed that the new nation’s citizens would themselves be versed in history and political philosophy. Ignorance of the intellectual…
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The Sensualist and the Sexless Heaven
The sensualist is treated as depraved and materialistic, which I disagree with. If hypocrisy is an indomitable vice (THE PLATONIST, 1881, p. 2) of the sensualist, so is the blindness and double hypocrisy of the thinker and authority, who though mortal and flowing with the same nervous system as other mortals, pretends to be above…
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Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor Op. 13 – Allegro con fuoco
Symphony No.1 in D minor Op. 13, fourth movement, allegro con fuoco. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy & Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: III. Lento, Cantabile Semplice
So even now though you feel without power, and in shame the world cries, come out from under the rubble and grab hold of it. Though it be unbearable to see the pain, provide the little ones shelter, when the rain comes. Be as Spring to the shadows.
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Thomas Moore Johnson on Platonism in American Life, and the Limits of Politicians
Thomas Moore Johnson, a key player in early developments of American esotericism on political quarrels, speaking the truth and the necessity for the Platonic Philosophy from introduction to The Platonist: An Exponent of the Philosophic Truth, Vol. I, No. I, St. Louis, Feb. 1881, pp 1-3: One of the gentlemen to whom was sent a…
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Nicholas Roerich asks Lama about the Kalachakra and the Kuthumpas
Nicholas Roerich asks a Lama: “. . . Lama, have you met Azaras (i.e., Sk. ācāryas) and Kuthumpas? (…)” “(…) Many of our people during their lives have encountered the Azaras and Kuthumpas and the snow people who serve them. Only recently have the Azaras ceased to be seen in cities. They are all gathered…
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Future Friend – Larkin Grimm
I find this such a beautiful song and have listened to it every day for some time and it speaks to me deeply. Hope it speaks to someone else. LYRICS (we’re going to build a fire) we’re going to build a fire(it’s killing me)(need kindness, i need kindness)will you just sit with me?we’re going to…
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Magic Life in the Oracles on the Mount
The inner life, or psychic experiences are to only be spoken to those who will understand, not the “hoi polloi,” the incredulous, the plundering wolves, and false seers. The neophyte comes as a dead one, a prisoner to the physical body, of Earth-substance, and resuscitated, is raised in and through [the states of matter of]…
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The Syncretic Combinations of the Monotheistic Religions
“To connect the Mosaic Religion with the Mysteries is to wrest from the Church its position, and to show that the Old Testament is the result of human effort…” (Samuel F. Dunlap. 1860. Sōd: The Mysteries of Adonai, pg. iii) “The work of the Old Testament is the first offshoot from the Mysteries; the New Testament…
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Morya on Yahweh as a Mamo in the Prayag Letter
The term Prayāg (or Prayaga) is an ancient term for the city of Allāhābād. In January 1, 1881, an early branch of the parent or original Theosophical Society was formed in Allahabad. G.N. Chakravarti was a notable member of this lodge, who represented Brahmanism at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. So, the Prayag Letter is…
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Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters
What do the Letters of Blavatsky teach us about the Masters Morya or K.H. had been suspected of being Thakur Singh, because of proximity to the Maharaja of Lahore (a region now in modern-day Pakistan). Morya appears to have been associated with Prince Duleep Singh, when H.P.B. writes, that he was “in the house of…
The American Minervan 