Category: Cultural Reflections
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Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case
STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH HELENA BLAVATSKY AFFECTS ADEPT CONNECTIONS TO THEOS. SOC. During a period that The Secret Doctrine was being written, Olcott’s relationship with H.P.B. had become more strained, and it is said K.H. materialized a letter on Olcott’s table saying of H.P.B., that the Adepts have no favorites. K.H. adds, despite H.P.B.’s personality and…
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Olcott meets His Master in Lahore: K. Paul Johnson versus Olcott’s Testimony
OLCOTT MEETS K.H. IN LAHORE IN THE FLESH: CASEBOOK OF ENCOUNTERS CONTINUES In his Old Diary Leaves (Vol. III), Col. Olcott also gave an account of his meeting with K.H. November 19th 1883 on the outskirts of Lahore, India: “I was sleeping in my tent, the night of the 19th, when I rushed back towards…
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Thakur Singh Connection and Damodar meets the Mahatmas
DAMODAR MEETING WITH K.H. IN LAHORE REFUTES K.H. IS SARDAR THAKUR SINGH THEORY In one testimony of theosophist and disciple, Damodar K. Mavalankar, he tells us his meeting with K.H. in Lahore, and three nights consecutively for about three hours in Jammu: “…I was visited by him in body, for three nights consecutively for about…
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Political Operations in Cairo and Cyprus: Meeting Hilarion and Ooton Liatto
POLITICS AND WAR TREATY IN CYPRUS AND THE MYSTERY “GREEK GENTLEMAN” IN CHARGE Here comes in Hilarion Smerdis, K. Paul Johnson tries to tie him to the underground culture and operations of Jamal al-Din, stating that Hilarion’s travels between Egypt and Cyprus are politically suggestive. After Egypt and Cyprus become British protectorates, Hilarion leaves his…
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Ranbir Singh in the Flesh: Was Morya the Maharajah Ranbir Singh?
RANBIR SINGH IN THE FLESH: WAS MORYA THE MAHARAJAH RANBIR SINGH? As to Sahib Morya, K. Paul Johnson made two confusing suggestions that K.H. and M. was the Hindu Rajput Ranbir Singh (1830-1885), who was the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (from 1856-1885). The prince Ranbir Singh was a Vedantist, fond of speaking Pashto; and…
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Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy
YOGI RAMALINGAM PILLAI PROPHECY Daleep Singh and Thakur Singh had a prophecy related to Russia and the West, but so did a well-known swami in Southern India, Vallalār, also known as Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal. This important figure in Tamil history is mentioned as Chidambaram Ramalingam Pillai Avergal (also called Arulprakasa Vallalare) in Theosophy, and this yogi…
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Speculations about Thakur Singh Sandhawalia: Were the Theosophical Masters Sikh?
K Paul Johnson claimed to provide a “suggestion” and “persuasive case” of his findings. Beginning with K.H. (Koot Hoomi or Kuthumi). K. Paul Johnson suggests K.H. was Sardar Thakur Singh Sandhawalia, the chief and founder of the Sikh Singh Sabha Movement in India who was involved in patriotic efforts in the freedom movement from the…
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Calling-out Racist Occultists and Esotericists? This is What I think about Philosophers like Evola
In Reactions to Julius Evola on Buddhism, Jean Varenne had written in her introduction to his book The Doctrine of Awakening, that a man like Julius Evola was particularly suitable to dispel misconceptions of Buddhism and Siddhartha spread by Western perspectives of his teachings as docile, feminized, etc. In “Negrified America,” I gave Julius Evola’s…
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Herman de Tollenaere on Influence of Theosophy on Indonesian and South Asian Nationalisms
Herman de Tollenaere on Theosophical History and Politics As Theosophy and Freemasonry: Esoteric Schools within the Theosophical Society shows, there is more to the history of the Theosophical Society than is thought, despite the fact researchers have provided a great detail of Theosophical history. This article is about Herman A.O. de Tollenaere’s diligent research: The Politics of Divine…
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Witnesses of Morya, the Identity of Koot Hoomi and Connections to Tibet and the Panchen Lama
THE MULTIPLE WITNESSES OF MORYA AND WHY MORYA WASN’T THE MAHARAJAH RANBIR SINGH The master known as Morya had visited the Theosophical Society Headquarters at Bombay, and a joint statement of seven Theosophists (including Olcott) was given as quoted in Hints on Esoteric Theosophy (No. 1, 1882, pp. 75-76): “We were sitting together in the…
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The Different Aspects of Zeus in Greek Mythology: Is Zeus the Highest God?
“These fairy tales are not senseless stories written for the amusement of the idle; they embody the profound religion of our forefathers(…)” (W.S.W. Anson, Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions of our Northern Ancestors) “For a myth, in Greek [[mythos]], means oral tradition, passed from mouth to mouth from one generation to the other; and…
The American Minervan 