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  • Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky on the True Meaning of Satan

    𓄂𓆃 INTRODUCTION “LET US THEN FATHOM THIS CREATION OF THE PATRISTIC FANCY STILL DEEPER.” Helena Blavatsky Satan יְהֹוָה in its original conception means adversary and differs from the later Dantian and Christian conception of popular imagination. According to H.P. Blavatsky, SATAN, a concept held by other ancient nationalities, “is one of the most profoundly philosophical…

  • Kalachakra and Theosophy: The Sources of the Book of Dzyan and Kiu-te in The Secret Doctrine and Tantras

    The Secret Doctrine Connection to the Kalachakra, ANCIENT RELIGION, ORIGINS OF KABBALAH and the Mystery-Language OF THE INITIATES “These facts take us well beyond the realm of probability. Blavatsky indeed had esoteric northern Buddhist sources” (David Reigle) INTRODUCTION On the authorship of The Secret Doctrine: a facsimile of a letter from K.H. to William Quan Judge…

  • “Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public”

    “Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public” “IT is nineteen centuries since, as we are told, the night of Heathenism and Paganism was first dispelled by the divine light of Christianity; and two-and-a-half centuries since the bright lamp of Modern Science began to shine on the darkness of…

  • Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)

    Before Sono Tornato and Vincere A few months ago, I ordered from Amazon the film Il Giovane Mussolini (1993), renamed “Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini.” I wanted to see what difference the film was to the later more psychological interpretation of Mussolini’s mind in Vincere (2010). In The Young Mussolini, Benito Mussolini is…

  • “Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis

    ATLANTIS THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE TO THE MYTH OF ATLANTIS One vital classical source for the Atlantis legendand its remembrance, is from two dialogues writtenby Plato, in Timaeus and Critias.It is described as an island in the Atlantic Ocean.In Timaeus and Critias, Solon, an Athenian andprominent statesman c. 6th c. BCE, described theisland as a country bigger…

  • Laura Holloway & Blavatsky: Against Mediumship and Spiritualist Practices

    H.P. Blavatsky found in the growing adversaries of Spiritualist proponents to Theosophy sufficient need to declare it would have nothing to do with it. She goes on with the enquirer, noting a pattern in the fates of mediums mental states and bodies. The letter which follows after in the latter part of August 1884 to…

  • Noam Chomsky on Populism and ‘Off The Spectrum’ Republican Party

    Living outside of the Republican social media bubble? Take a look back at philosopher, historian and activist Noam Chomsky’s accurate warning of the success a crooked “charismatic figure,” appealing to particular sectors of society would have, while promising to cure society’s ills. Chomsky’s analysis of the Republican Party, before Mr. Trump even decided to run for…

  • Donald Trump’s Nashville Rally Lies and Ignorance about Black People, Republican History, and Voting Rights

    May 30, 2018. President Trump, Nashville, Tennessee Rally: “Remember when I’d make a speech, and I’d talk about African-Americans, and I’d say, ‘highest crime-rate, bad education,’ I go like ten-points, and they’re always voting; African-Americans vote for Democrats, for the most part. Y’know, vast majority. They’ve been doing it for over a hundred-years!” In the…

  • The Influence of Theosophy on Russian Culture in the Russian Silver Age

    Maria Carlson and other Collected Writings In September 1990, the Soviet Union officially ended its policy of state-sponsored atheism, approving a tolerant law on freedom of conscience as people were entering the Church in record numbers. The fall of Communism in Russia in 1991 also led to the end of long years of a ban and suppression…

  • Lesley Stahl: President Trump’s admitted tactic to “discredit” Press » And Cenk Uygur defends True Journalism

    CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl revealed a remark made to her by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 to a group of fellow journalists at the Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York City earlier this week. It is in regards to Mr. Trump’s attitude and tactic toward the press, which in his understanding are lügenpresse…

  • Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century

    “Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and duty, and its vision of society. Republicanism as a set of values and a form of life was much too pervasive, comprehensive, and involved with being liberal and enlightened to be seen as subversive or…

  • Adolf Hitler’s Religion and Ideological Influences in National Socialism

    National Socialism in Germany arose partially out of a folk movement in Germany connected to Romanticism and politically existed nearly two decades prior to Hitler. In its manifestation as a matured aesthetic and political force under Hitler, we find that by 1934, economists reported that the Germans look on Hitlerism as a Religion with “no…