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  • Blavatsky questions Eliphas Levi interpretation of the Astral Light and Lucifer

    The Astral Light and Lucifer What is called energy and force in Science is the very soul of the world, and light is according to the Occult Philosophy of the Alchemists, a spiritual secretion. The knowledge of the real nature of Light will, we are told, leads to knowledge of what is called the correlation…

  • Carl Orff: Tempus es Iocundum and Dulcissime

    Dulcissime Dulcissime, Sweetest one! Ah! totam tibi subdo me! I give myself to you totally! tempus est iocundum This is a joyful time Tempus es iocundum, This is the joyful time, o virgines, O maidens, modo congaudete rejoice with them, vos iuvenes. young men!    (Baritone) Oh, oh, oh, Oh! Oh! Oh! totus floreo, I am…

  • Carl Orff: Lucia Popp: “In Trutina”

    Lucia Popp sings “In Trutina” (Between Chastity and Love) in Carl Orff’s Carmina Baruna.

  • Popular Occulture in Scotland and Scottish Theosophy: Michael Shaw on “The Theosophical Press in Scotland”

    Presented at the “Periodical Occulture and the Occult Public Sphere.” 14th July 2017. Synopsis “This paper discusses the Theosophical periodical press in Scotland c.1880-1920, and it argues that these periodicals reveal a particular Theosophical culture in Scotland. Focusing on two titles that were unique to Scotland, Theosophy in Scotland and Occult, Scientific and Literary Papers Read…

  • Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom

    The National Socialists tried to subvert German Theosophists to support the Reich. “There’s a general trend toward a post-traditional spiritualism or transcendentalism in France and Britain (and there are many good books that look at those movements in parallel to Germany). The difference I think is that it was more privatized and apolitical. The kind…

  • Witnesses of Morya, the Identity of Koot Hoomi and Connections to Tibet and the Panchen Lama

    (Heavily revised, 3-16-2026) This article provides some insights about the involvement of this clandestine esoteric network underlying the Theosophical Movement and operations of the Society in its early periods, and theories about them. The main purpose is to demonstrate how unsatisfactory the search for the actual identities of these individuals has been for many researchers,…

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti repudiates the Convergence of Theosophy and his Teaching

    The most comprehensive collection of Krishnamurti’s true thoughts on Theosophy. Gathered by the Rishi Valley Study Centre (Working Paper #4, May 1995, Revised October 1996 by Hans and Radhika Herzberger). Jiddu Krishnamurti utterly rejected the convergence of his thought and Theosophy, and his wishes should be respected. Contemporary Theosophists have to let go of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and trying to…

  • Baptized with Fire: Proclus and Simonian Theosophy on the Symbolism of Fire and Water

    “I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)” LUKE 3:16 Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The Meaning of Fire in Baptism Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai…

  • Helena Blavatsky predicts Europe Catastrophe, World War and Adolf Hitler

    HELENA BLAVATSKY SPEAKING ON FREDERICK III OF PRUSSIA PREDICTS CATASTROPHE FOR EUROPE BEFORE DEATH, FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR “In the prognostication of such future events, at any, all foretold on the authority of cyclic recurrences, there is no psychic phenomenon involved. It is neither prevision, nor prophecy; no more than is the signaling of…

  • The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism

    The architects of the death of tradition, morality, and Western society? VertigoPolitix studies notes on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxist philosophy which he claims now controls Western intellectualism, politics, and culture, remarking, “it was by design; it was created by an internationalist intelligentsia to eradicate Western values, social systems, and European racial groups in a…

  • Roger Scruton: Moral Relativism Will Be the Death Knell of Western Civilization

    Moral relativism is considered by conservatives to be one of postmodern society’s greatest threats and may now be a relic of the past. Roger Scruton’s discussion actually gets into what I challenge and discuss about classical liberalism in Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality. There is a moral system already set, not coming into…

  • The Mystery of Comte de Saint-Germain

    “Anyone who admits one of the practical truths of the Occult Sciences taught by the Cabala, tacitly admits them all. It must be Hamlet’s “to be or not to be…” A FEW QUESTIONS TO HIRAF The noble courtier, Comte de Saint-Germain — not to be confused with Frenchmen Claude Louis de Saint-Germain (1707-1778) — was…