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  • Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom

    The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India penned a letter defending the existence of the Sadhus, of great initiates is a testament of the truth regarding the full ramifications of this elusive history of the mysteries. That people have held personal converse…

  • Carl Orff: In Taberna Quando Sumus – Kurt Eichhorn

    “Here no-one fears death,but they throw the dice in the name of Bacchus…May those who slander us be cursedand may their names not be written in the book of the righteous.” Precisely my sentiment. When we’re in the tavern In taberna quando sumusnon curamus quid sit humus,sed ad ludum properamus,cui semper insudamus.Quid agatur in tabernaubi…

  • Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization

    History of Civilization H.T. Buckle (English Historian, 1821-1862) “There appear from time to time great thinkers, who, devoting their lives to a single purpose, are able to anticipate the progress of mankind, and to produce a religion or a philosophy by which important effects are eventually brought about. But if we look into history we shall…

  • Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race

    SUMMARY Most importantly, without recognizing the Theosophy of 19th century as a system and as it was being explained, thereby respecting the teachers and school it was being explained from versus modified, simplified or distorted systems derived from it, rather than the defenses of so-called orthodox ‘Blavatskyian Theosophists’, demarcating the difference between Theosophy and Fascism,…

  • Summer | Tighten Up

    I know the year has been hard, but we persevered, so let us continue to learn to come together, and believe in one another. Tighten Up – Purdie/Rainey/Walker,/Phillips/Bivens/Jones/Morales/Donaldson & Mr. Alligator Boogaloo. Original song from Original Atlantic Records recording by Archie Bell & The Drells (1968).

  • A Fauns’ Delicacy

    Like a faun that plays between the wild forests and the labyrinth. Though, not in sorrow, nor in joy, but in rhythm. The faun can always hear the sweet melodies in the distance that run deeper than through those tall ears. This faun has not forsaken the dirt and the leaves, and the smell of…

  • Age of the Rule of Faith: Valerie Tarico on the Christian Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagans and Eastern Religions

    VALERIE TARICO IN THE CHRISTIAN DELUSION: WHY FAITH FAILS (PG 47-50) ON CHRISTIAN EXCLUSIVE TRUTH CLAIMS AND EMPHASIS ON RIGHT BELIEF This is related to Jan Assmann on monotheism as a cross-cultural impediment (The Construction of Monotheism) and is a diagnosis of the real consequences and limitations Christianity produced and imposed. As we have demonstrated…

  • Age of the Rule of Faith: Crusade against Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans

    Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The true Christians died with the last of the Gnostics, and the Christians of our day are but the usurpers…

  • Age of the Rule of Faith: Irenaeus dispute with Gnostic Narcissus

    Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The Church of Rome was Gnostic – just as much as the Marcionites were – until the beginning and even…

  • Aleister Crowley and Thelema critiques of Theosophists

    A COMMON MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THEOSOPHISTS Many Theosophists early-on and still today belonged to and represented their particular tradition, or religion to its highest, being specialized and trained within them in their deeper meanings, and tied to some actual superior, or superiors (priests, gurus) of the group, or religion they belonged to. A Theosophist was hence…

  • Everything About Lucifer in Ancient Mythology

    INTRODUCTION The term Lucifer (Septuagint translation of Helel ben Shaḥar) is used in the Torah in reference to the King of Babylon. The myth of the King of Babylon is derived from a Babylonian or Hebrew sidereal or star-myth (similar to the Greek myth of Helio’s son, Phaethon). Stars were regarded by some as celestial beings, and…

  • John Tavener: Hymns Of Paradise