Category: Cultural Reflections
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Sun Shines For Me — Bob Andy
“I am rich ’cause the sun shines for meI never cry ’cause I know that the rain falls for meI feel like a king, though the salary I earn is thin, thinI realise money’s not all, there are other things”
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Natural Facts — Cornell Campbell
“My heart beats on a solid foundationSo I always love my country’s fellow manI’m proud to know I’m black‘Cause it’s a natural factWhether you are white or blackTo me it’s just the sameLord knows I’m not ashamedOf loving my fellow man.”
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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Reconciling Black Identity and Western Civilization: A Philosophical View
A Black American explores reconciling identity with Western civilization rejecting alienation, false myths, and apathy for full leadership and belonging in America’s future.
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Civilizational Limitations: Ethnic Chauvinism and Religious Rigidity
The persistent emergence of overly-performed ethnic chauvinism, racial arrogance and habits of religious dogmatic or rigid orientation is a combination that will degenerate our civilization far faster than any wave of migrant ever could. As those who immigrate to Western countries have to look up to essentially no men or people no more better, nobler…
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Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism
THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…
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The “Racial Karma” of the White Conquerors
Helena Blavatsky and her teachers (defending India’s civilization and history) wrote about the “racial karma” of “the White conquerors” (after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire), i.e., colonialism, and her teachers explained that “civilization is an inheritance.” There were very important things stated in the letter with that statement. Sometimes, it was stated that no degree of patriotism or nationalism can stem the tide of…
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Kalergi’s Vision of Europe and the Conspiracy against Him
INTRODUCTION TO THE KALERGI CONSPIRACY The Kalergi conspiracy has its roots in 1930s German National Socialist vilification of Kalergi for his pro-unity, anti-war views, and directly in the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels portrayed Kalergi’s vision of European federation as a Eurasian-Negroid dystopia ruled by Jews. Austrian Holocaust denier Gerd Honsik revived it and reformulated…
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Lovers of the Ancients, or Christian Dogmatic claims to Truth
We are who we are, because we are “lovers of the ancients.” I would not be writing without my influences from Greek, Indian and Islamic Philosophy; and Blavatsky, Suhrawardi and Henry Corbin. I traced the styles of Blavatsky’s references, going to sources of doctrines in the Chaldean Oracles and the works of the eclectic orientalist…


