Author: Dominique Johnson
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Occultism in the Theosophical Society
Letter 65 The success of the operation of the Theosophical Movement depended upon those who compose the movement, but many delusions and misunderstandings about that operation existed among the members. The future civilizational development and trajectory of thought depended upon the success of the ideas the Movement sought to impress on the culture. These masters…
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Pink Martini: “Syracuse”
Syracuse The love of ancient and historic places. French Translation “J’aimerais tant voir Syracuse L’ile de Paques et Kairouan Et les grands oiseaux qui s’amusent A glisser l’aile sous le vent Voir les jardins de Babylone Et le palais do Grand Lama Rever des amants de Verone Au sommet do Fuji Yama Voir le…
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The Problem with the New Age “Ascended Master Jesus”
Importance of the issue with the concept of “Jesus the Ascended Master” in light of Theosophy. There are not many left true to the “original program”! (MORYA) “Ready to lay down our life any day for THEOSOPHY – that great cause of the Universal Brotherhood for which we live and breathe – and willing to…
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Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II Lento e largo, Tranquillissimo
Lento e largo, Tranquillissimo. Talya Lieberman, soprano.
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Kumari Jayawardena: “The White Woman’s Other Burden.” Blavatsky and Emancipation in South Asia
From the outset, Kumari Jayawardena’s “The White Woman’s Other Burden” (1995) demonstrates, theosophy emphasized the absence of any distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color in its theory and practice; and gender equality was therefore, one of its distinctive features. The 1995 work of Jayawardena details the roles and activities of foreign women in…
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Katie Engelhart of Vice News interview Dov Maimon on Israel: “Demography is the key to everything”
Katie Engelhart of Vice News interviewed Dov Maimon in 2016 about the decreasing immigration of Arabs in Israel in Europe’s Jewish Exodus. Many Jews in Europe are still immigrating, in high numbers to the Jewish-majority Israel; but what should be pointed to as worthy of notice is the logic Dov Maimon, the author of The Absorption…
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Sergei Prokofiev: “The Philosophers” | St. Petersburg Philharmonic Choir
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” KARL MARX CANTATA ON THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION, OP. 74: II. PHILOSOPHERS BY ST. PETERSBURG NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA AND ALEXANDER TITOV “The Philosophers” is the second movement of Op. 74 of the Cantata for the 20th…
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Al Pacino’s Speech about God in The Devil’s Advocate
“I’m peaking Kevin. It’s my time now.” The ferocity of the lower mind and egotism are peaking. It has always been peaking throughout time. That is our sad and mortal condition. Pacino says “I’ve nurtured every sensation man has been inspired to have!” ‘…Lucifer, or Satan is in us. It is our mind,Our tempter and redeemer…
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The Limitations of Csoma de Koros and Western Tibetan Buddhist Scholars
The limitations of Alexander Csoma de Koros (also see The Hungarian Bodhisattva) and scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth-century. To be complementary to a piece on the sources of the Book of Dzyan and Kiu-te. Does Dr. Alexander Berzin know of “A Few Misconceptions Corrected” — “One of the greatest, and, withal, the most serious objection…
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Eliphas Levi’s “Warning to the Impudent” on Occultism
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonso Louis Constant), 19th century French esotericist influenced by occult philosophy and thinkers like Joseph de Maistre, warns impudent students rushing into occult studies. [Translated by Arthur Edward Waite in Transcendental Magic, 1896] If there are two lessons to take from this, they are — “The Esotericists are therefore warned that unless they are prepared…
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Letter to Baron J. Spealieri (a Student of Eliphas Levi) on Western Kabbalism
When Helena Blavatsky wrote to a close student of Eliphas Levi on the state of the Western traditions, Kabbalism, and Christological influences. The letter highlights something to be taken into important account and not by-pass it as insignificant, or a trifling detail. She states, Eliphas Levi helps us so far, as it helps to compare Western…
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“Snowlanders, are you teaching them the Wisdom?”: Samlo Ae Tang Gangchenpa by Gepe
SAMLO AE TANG GANGCHENPA BY GEPE “Snowlanders, are you teaching them (the Wisdom)?” “Religious theory and practice, is like the inner jewel,Its great inner meaning for the world,Snowlanders, are you explaining it?” “In the book known as the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, in the section on ‘the Supreme Ātman–Self—as manifested in the character of the Arhats and…
The American Minervan 