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  • Rachel Weisz’s Hypatia in Agora: “Question your Beliefs”

  • The “real Path” to esoteric knowledge is very difficult

    “There are several ways of acquiring knowledge: (a) by accepting blindly the dicta of the church or modern science;(b) by rejecting both and starting to find the truth for oneself. The first method is easy and leads to social respectability and the praise of men; the other is difficult and requires more than ordinary devotion…

  • Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries

    Modified Version 3-16-2026 INTRODUCTION “Over all this region Adonis (Saturn) was adored under various names by the fire-worshippers; for they called Dionysus Adon (Adonis) in the Lebanon, Adoni and Adonai in Jerusalem…” (Samuel Fales Dunlap, Ghebers of Hebron, p. 2) This article will be adapted into a series of articles and commentary that goes into…

  • Dalai Lama: ‘More Evil in the World than expected by Lamas of Tibet’

    Dalai Lama Interview in 1961 with theosophist Ragavhan Iyer to take into account: “We must not expect things to happen exactly in the order that we might formulate in our own minds. He stressed that we were really at the beginning of a process that was going to take quite some time, that there was now…

  • Theosophists on the Society of Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church

    There’s a collation of H.P.B.’s writings on Jesuitry and Masonry in The Christian Scheme: Jesuitry and Masonry in Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI (via web archive). H.P.B. defends in her writings the ethics and morality in systems ancient, misunderstood, and demonized arguing, that as one theosophist stated — “The Occultists . . . believe the time has come to…

  • Kathryn Olmsted on the Secret Society of the Illuminati

    THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ILLUMINATI Great points by Professor of History at UC Davis, Kathryn Olmsted.

  • The Emanation Theory in Theosophy and its Three Aspects of Evolution

    Darwinism only a One-Sided Theory of Evolution This view is taught to be complementary to evolution; but asserts that Darwinian Evolution theory holds to a “one-sided physical evolution.” It teaches, that Man is the product of a triple scheme of evolution: (1) spiritual (monadic);(2) intellectual or psychic;(3) physical. Emanationism and Evolution The Theosophical Glossary describes the…

  • The Practical Basis of Spiritual Illumination

    “To fully define Theosophy, we must consider it under all its aspects. The interior world has not been hidden from all by impenetrable darkness. By that higher intuition acquired by Theosophia — or God-knowledge, which carried the mind from the world of form into that of formless spirit, man has been sometimes enabled in every age…

  • Shénzhìlún, or Zhèngdàoxué: Theosophy in China and How to Translate it in Mandarin?

    What would be the translation of Theosophy in Mandarin and what is Xīn Yin? The closest term phonetically to Dzyan is in Ancient (Middle) Chinese dʑjen, the ʑ sounding like zya, but it is also merely from the Sanskrit jñāna. The pronunciation of dʑjen is where we get the word Zen 禪, and Zen comes from Chan 禅, originating…

  • B.P. Wadia on “Theosophy” as a Definite System and Science

    What should be made of B.P. Wadia’s statement about Theosophy and in light of other clear statements made in The Mahatma Letters on Theosophy as a definite system, and its modern expression deriving from a real lineage and school; or the fact that, an expositor of the ideas from this school, is responsible with not defiling…

  • Interpretations of Serpents and Dragons in Theosophy and Ancient Mythology

    Part I. ON “Human Serpents” and Immortal Sages: ANCIENT INITIATES CALLED SERPENTS MEANING “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew x: xvi) ⊕ “(…) the “Serpent” and “Dragon” were the names given to the “Wise Ones,” the initiated adepts…

  • Edith Starr Miller’s “Occult Theocrasy” on Theosophy and the Illuminati

    Known as Lady Queensborough, her real name was Edith Starr Miller (1887-1933). Edith Starr Miller, an active member of Fascist leagues, sought it her utmost duty as an anti-Mormon Christian to find every religion other than her Christianity conduits in a ‘Satanic and Luciferian plot’ to overthrow “Judeo-Christian civilization.” Like the conspiracists of today, various groups…