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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gustav Holst: Neptune, the Mystic
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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…