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  • Everything about Satan: Theosophy’s Systematic Refutation of Popular and Christian Hysteria against Occult Philosophy

    Behind popular culture’s misguided and manipulated hysteria, the topics, doctrines and nature of teachings fundamental to Theosophy or Occult Philosophy have been defined and judged according to its adherence or non-alignment to Christian theology and beliefs. Theosophy and Occultism have stood falsely accused of representing, teaching and even practicing Satanism, Devil-Worship, or Luciferianism. Wisdom in…

  • Open Letter: Every Citizen is the Salvation of the Republic

    The sharpest critics of American white supremacy fluently spoke the civic-republican language, whether we bring to mind David Walker critique of our once “slaveholding republic” that betrayed republican principles; Frederick Douglass’s speeches on “composite nationality” and the Roman-republican ideal of civic membership; Martin Delany’s neo-Roman republicanism; the Haitian Revolution’s liberty against domination; or even twentieth-century…

  • Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding

    INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…

  • Flames of Illumination: Dialogue on Zoroastrian Martialism, Weishaupt’s Pedagogy, and Suhrawardi’s Ishraq

    The Meaning OF Illuminati and WEISHAUPT’S IdeaS ON ENLIGHTENMENT REASON AND MORAL ORDER There are solely two relations or meanings to the term ILLUMINATI we permit as authentic: Although, it can be said, that the Illuminati got their name from European sources, and not directly from Zoroastrianism or Manichean dualism, this is a surface-level understanding…

  • Jesus as Martyred Adept in the History of Adepts and the Origins of Christos

    It is a key thesis of Theosophy to the present time, that early Christianity stole “Christos” through syncretism, the very word its polemicists use to devalue the arguments of those that challenge its truth-claims. Early Christianity blended Jewish messianism with Greek and Mesopotamian elements to appeal to gentiles. The New Testament writers including Paul (the…

  • Giuseppi Mazzini’s Political Theology on the Origin of Revolution

    A rejection of the Marxist or materialist view that economic conditions drive history has been one of the most consistent aspects in my writings and views shared among colleagues who adopt the materialist view for many years. Revolutions indeed have their origin in the human mind and its guiding principles. A true revolution is not…

  • Threat to the Humanities, the Right’s Identity and the Limits of American Civilization

    MODERN CRITICISMS OF THE HUMANITIES THREATEN REPUBLICAN TRADITION Americans often have ideas of how our society should be structured without really understanding the roots of the ideas that our thinking brings out. Political slogans and speeches are often in memorialized moments using the terminology every American citizen kind of understands without having to think too…

  • Perfect Political Systems as a Trap in Republics

    I had recently edited and added points to a piece I think strongly explains my views in Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality: Here, it helps to not think of Democracy as a God, or perfect system. Be careful. “Perfect systems” belong to the autocrat, divine monarch, technocrat and utopian. Why do we want…

  • Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)

    Reflections tying classical worlds to Black American history and Douglass’s rhetorical strategy in engaging with classical antiquity and critiquing aspects of Catholic ceremonial from a republican, Protestant perspective. In the waning days of September 1886, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and statesman set sail from New York aboard the steamer City of Rome, beginning an extended…

  • The Contributions of Black American Classicists against Racism

    Beyond the well-known figures like Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass mentioned in the Introduction to Five Early Figures, a generation of Black American classicists emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often born into slavery or its immediate aftermath. These scholars mastered Greek and Latin to refute racial inferiority claims and assert our…

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  • Generation Execute – Lard