Author: Dominique Johnson
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Cosmological Notes on Pythagorean Number Theory, the Vedas and Kabbalah
COSMOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE MATRIX AND THE FIGURE OF THE DECADE The Rig Veda teaches that the one animating principle of all the gods and man is a UNITY. IT is the eternally self-existent one, that lies behind Hiraṇyagarbha (the Womb) and brings forth a Universe. It is from Hiraṇyagarbha that the drama of creation, the first…
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The Ancient Religion of the Sacred Fire: Sun-Gods and their Progeny
THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF FIRE-WORSHIP AND SUN-GODS THE ANCIENTS OF THE EAST ERECTED HIGHPLACES, from the pyramids of Giza through Ramah, Philistine, Shiloh, Beth Shemesh, Moab and to Babylon, sacred to Baal, Adon, Iao, or El, the Sun (a High-God). What is the mystery of the “Sun-God” worshiped by those who held fire as sacred?…
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A Small Glossary of Terms to Study
“THERE are persons whose minds would be incapable of appreciating the intellectual grandeur of the ancients, even in physical science, were they to receive the most complete demonstration of their profound learning and achievements.” (ISIS UNVEILED, 1877, Vol. 1, pg. 461.) “Lo, warrior! now the cross of RedPoints to the grave of the mighty dead;Within it…
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Talbot Mundy’s “The Nine Unknown” Men of Ashoka, the Maurya Clan, and its Connection to Theosophy
Talbot Mundy’s “The Nine Unknown” Secret Society of King Asoka In 1923, Talbot Mundy, of the British police wrote a fiction novel called The Nine Unknown, about a secret society founded by Mauryan Emperor Asoka (c. 268 to 232 BCE) after his conversion to Buddhism. The secret society preserved the ancient science of India. Koot Hoomi and Morya…
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Guanshiyin the Mother Buddha in The Secret Doctrine
“The valley spirit, undying Is called the Mystic Female The gate of the Mystic Female Is called the root of Heaven and Earth It flows continuously, barely perceptible Utilize it; it is never exhausted.” (Tao te Ching, Chapter 6) “The Secret Doctrine” notes that no exoteric religious system have indeed ever adopted a female Demiurge,…
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Before the Conversion: Helena Blavatsky on Shakyamuni Buddha and Buddhism
The nineteenth-century saw its first public Western converts to Buddhism, or this is how it is usually defined in books. Although Helena P. Blavatsky cannot be described as a “Western convert,” H.P.B. and Henry S. Olcott, an American lawyer who worked on U.S. President Lincoln’s assassination case, were the two leading movers of the Theosophical…
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On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) | Mantovani and Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand sings Alan Jay Lerner’s On a Clear Day…
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“The Forlorn Hope” Letter, 1882.
“The Forlorn Hope,”‡. Received in Allahabad, Feb., 1882. “One or two of us hoped that the world had so far advanced intellectually, if not intuitionally, that the Occult doctrine might gain an intellectual acceptance, and the impulse given for a new cycle of occult research. Others – wiser as it would now seem – held…
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Two Key Subjects in Morya’s Cosmological Notes: Space and Essence
TWO KEYS SUBJECTS ON THE NATURE OF REALITY The key concepts in Morya’s Cosmological Notes are: “space” and “essence.” or — [1] The nature of space.[2] The nature of matter. By space what is being referred to? Is it ākāśa or śūnyatā? When the notes refer to the eternal space, or “the one element,” the Skt. term धातु…
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Dirty Three: Lullabye for Christie | The Young Pope
Dirty Three, “Lullabye for Christie,” in the The Young Pope (Mini-Series, 2016).
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John Tavener: Song for Athene | Westminster Cathedral Choir
Song for Athene “Alleluia, Alleluia. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. Alleluia, Alleluia. Remember me O Lord, when you come into your kingdom. Alleluia, Alleluia. Give rest O Lord to your handmaid, who has fallen asleep. Alleluia, Alleluia. The Choir of Saints have found the well-spring of life and door of paradise.…
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John Tavener: Fragments of a Prayer
John Tavener’s Fragments of a Prayer
The American Minervan 