Author: Dominique Johnson
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Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”
Sam Harris mentions Helena P. Blavatsky in the first chapter of Waking Up: Guide on Spirituality without Religion (2014), and he committed a poor mistake, with a very inaccurate, and incompetent account. It is rare for such an author to even mention Blavatsky, but it is unfortunate again, as always, that it is a slight,…
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Anagarika Dharmapala and Gandhi Distrusted Charles Leadbeater and Besant
Anagarika Dharmapala was a Buddhist revivalist from Sri Lanka, who founded the Maha Bodhi Society May, 31, 1891. He was also an active member of the Theosophical Society. Dharmapala provides his insight into the controversies in the history of the organization known as the Theosophical Society. Upon reading about the Masters from Alfred P. Sinnet’s…
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Did Helena Blavatsky Study with the Druze of Lebanon?
“The religion of the Druses is said to be a compound of Judaism, Mahomedanism and Christianity, strongly tinged with Gnosticism and the Magian system of Persia. Were people to call things by their right names, sacrificing all self-conceit to truth, they might confess things otherwise. They could say, for instance, that Mahomedanism being a compound…
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The Mission of Ammonius Saccas and the New Platonists of Alexandria
The aim of the Hellenist philosopher Ammonious Saccas from Alexandria, founder of the New Platonic Eclectic School, was to reconcile the plethora of sects in Egypt and Palestine at the time. The central object was faith in one immutable, nameless, inexorable Divine Principle and eternal law by which the Universe was governed. It was by…
The American Minervan 