


Why the Academic Study of Western Esotericism is not as Popular as Critical Theory and Women’s History?
Thoughts on Wouter J. Hanegraaff about “Rejected Knowledge” in Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism (page 149-151). This is not a commentary about the full chapter, but is related […]

Concerning the Practice of Concealing Esoteric Truths from The Masses | Esotericism Ancient and Modern
Thoughts on the persecution and exclusion of the marginalized ‘esotericist’ in Western Culture and the difference between Ancient and Modern Esotericism in an illuminating paper from Michael L. Frazer’s “Esotericism […]

Four Kinds of Esoteric Sciences in Hindu Philosophy | Helena Blavatsky
Anton Levey once stupidly defined occultism as a “Do it yourself God-kit,” lacking any understanding of an ethic or morality. This is not what occultism is once we explore it. […]

Hilarion Smerdis, Serapis Bey and the Legend of the “Brotherhood of Light” and Luxor
THE FRATRES LUCIS AND THE EGYPTIAN BROTHERHOOD OF LUXOR INVOLVING HILARION SMERDIS AND SERAPIS BEY

Getting Technical about “The First Cause”: Why the Term “God” is Generic?
God is generic for a plethora of beings and a multitude under a unity, and not a singular entity. The “First Cause” is a philosophical conception, that is in-fact, not […]

Readings from Isis Unveiled: Man’s Yearning for the Proofs of Immortality
The narration explains some theosophical ideas of H.P. Blavatsky from her early major work, Isis Unveiled on the source and possibility of thaumaturgical powers in man. MEDITATION ON READINGS FROM […]

Deist, Protestant and Masonic American Founders — Yea, So What?
If you cannot understand or sympathize with ancient theosophy in some capacity, one cannot be helped or made to immediately even understand the American founders who admired antiquity and were […]

The Meaning of Pistis and the Science of Gnosis
THE MEANING OF PISTIS AND GNOSIS IN NOTES TO H.P.B.’S COMMENTARY ON THE PISTIS SOPHIA “A helpful definition of the title’s meaning has been supplied by P.A. Malpas. ‘Title: Pistis-Sophia […]

Good and Bad Adepts | The Force and its Sides in Star Wars and Theosophical Literature
THE TWO PATHS II — (ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY) Originally published 2016. SEE The Force and its Sides in Star Wars and Theosophical Literature FOR CONTEXT. Despite all that we elucidate upon, […]

German Aryanism and the Magical Blood of the Teuton: Gobineau, Chamberlain, Guido von List and Liebenfels
The Aryan racial view that entered Fascism does not derives from the Ariosophy of Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. It is also a concept in fact, not […]

Blood, the Universal Proteus: Significance of Blood in Ancient Magic and Religion
“…it was then that I understood for the first time a little of that message proclaimed by my ancestors on the banks of the Ganges thirty centuries ago–‘They who see but One in all the changing […]