Author: Dominique Johnson
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Blavatsky and Mazzini’s Vision of Progress
Blavatsky and Mazzini adopted the same view towards communism and socialism. Both maintained a unique position in republicanism as a force for the progress of a moralistic and humanitarian syncretic religious vision, “universal brotherhood,” and ethical duty-driven virtue. This vision was divorced from socialism and communist revolutionaries, the emergent “new atheism” of that time (which…
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Giuseppe Mazzini’s Cosmopolitan Politics and Influence on Woodrow Wilson
MAZZINI’S “DEMOCRATIC WORLD REPUBLIC”: THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF NATIONS It was Mazzini’s conviction that under the historical circumstances of his time, only the nation-state could allow for genuine democratic participation and the civic education of individuals. To him, the nation was a necessary intermediary step in the progressive association of mankind, the means toward a future…
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My Soulful Love for Music, and why I’m Against Music Elitism
My first introduction to Classical Music came from developing interests through the annals of Black Music, and not in distinct contrast (or opposition) to it. This perspective is very different from the perspective of, for example a White music elitist. I am generally opposed to unrealistic elitist-racialist opinions about music genres fixated in this seeming…
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Notes on Theosophy, Ismaili Cosmology, and Jamal al-Din Connection
NOTES Theosophical Positions are rooted in pre-Islamic doctrines, and this is supported by the research from Eastern Tradition archive’s Book of Dzyan Research Reports series. This series methodically verifies Blavatsky’s sources as traceable in extant Buddhist scriptures, such as Tsongkhapa’s Gelugpa texts on the Wisdom Tradition. Be very careful in connecting the socio-political and Masonic…
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The Identity of Alice Bailey’s “Tibetan Source” Djwhal Khul
There is no animosity the writer has against the works of historian, K. Paul Johnson. It is perhaps true to state, that if it was not for K. Paul Johnson, I would have taken no interest as I have been able to replicate in the political and historical side of the history of American esotericism…
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How to Identify Bad Research about Theosophy in Academia and Social Media
TECHNICALITIES OF BAD RESEARCH ON THEOSOPHY, BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HISTORY When people write about Theosophy, they mix many fantasies into history, and they repeatedly use words like “Ascended Masters,” “the Great White Lodge,” the “Great White Brotherhood,” and “Mahatmas of Agartha.” The history of the Theosophical Movement is not one continuous or consistent flow…
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From Jerusalem to Philadelphia!
Stephen Miller’s recent speech, American Conservative tradition and Trumpism. I say that Republicanism is not about the supremacy of Conservatism or Liberalism, though it is the root of the American order. I also claim that Theosophy, eclecticism, Freemasonry and the history of occultists and esoteric Philosophy is a missing key to understanding these roots, which…
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Republicanism in the Radicalism of the American Revolution | Bradley J. Birzer
“For Wood, one of Bailyn’s former students, Republicanism was much more than a political philosophy; it was, rather, organic, a lifestyle and a way of thinking. Republicanism, a utopian movement striving for the full reconstruction of society, explains Wood in his Pulitzer-Prizing winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, represented a historical phase lodged…
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Limits of American Political Imagination: Bronze Age Pervert on Republics
The classical republics and democracies would be called “Nazi” by Americans in our day, especially with the loose manner people employ the terms against their political opponents of being Nazi and Fascist — a demonstrably failed tactic. This tactic has proven to be a failure for anti-right forces, statistically and observably. I am not sure…
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Alice Bailey’s Alleged Tibetan Buddhist Source and Political Idealism
INTRODUCTION: THE LERNAEAN HYDRA OF RELIGIOUS POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES Christians that use Alice A. Bailey (born Alice La Trobe-Bateman) to attack Theosophy prove to believe in the ideas of Alice Bailey far more than we Theosophists do. If they did not, then Christians would help Theosophists demarcate the great differences — and who are engaged in…
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Christian Truth, or the eclectic Theosophical System
Every effort to help the West has failed and faced trials, each falling into the same patterns of individual and organizational turmoil, blame and mythologizing an adversary. So, what is this effort that the modern Theosophical Movement represents to “the West”? It is important to challenge our notions of “the West” as I explained in…
The American Minervan 