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  • Gustav Holst: Neptune, the Mystic

  • Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment Republicanism against Illuminati Panic: Letter on Weishaupt’s Perfectibilist Ideal

    An analysis and historical context surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s private correspondence to Bishop James Madison (president of the College of William & Mary and cousin of future President James Madison) in defense of Adam Weishaupt’s ideals written from Philadelphia on 31 January 1800 against Abbé Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism. Occurring during the height…

  • Indo-Iranian Roots: Why is Theosophy called “Pre‑Vedic Buddhism”?

    I wanted to re-articulate some points in a different way from the approach of providing a barrage of quotations in The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea, because this is not a light subject. I am not approaching it in the way Reigle does, to identify the origins of the Theosophical Positions, but in…

  • Six Short Articles on God in Theosophy, Cultural Barriers in Modernity, Prayer and Theological Limits

    Six Short Articles CONTENTS SETTING NO LIMITATIONS BEGINS WITH CONCEPTS OF CULTURE, GOD AND NATURE SPACE, DURATION, MATTER, MOTION — a tetractys of interconnected aspects of the timeless Absolute in Theosophy differs from what is called “God,” and it is the understanding of these interlocked four that elevates Theosophy. This is not what the theists…

  • The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven

    In the spirit of the ancient Ionian and Eleatic thinkers, who sought the archē, the fundamental principle of all things through reason and observation of physis or dynamic generative nature as a self-unfolding process of emergence. INTRODUCTION The key to Theosophy can also be found in the Hellenic cosmology of the early Greek natural philosophers…

  • The Lark Ascending – Vaughan Williams

  • 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 are influences 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 that…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…