Category: Theosophy
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Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Humanum Genus on Freemasonry
Pope Leo XIII on Freemasonry and the Sacred Congregation on Catholics becoming Masons. Concerning their attitude toward the Freemasons, we may turn to a summation in Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical on Freemasonry (Humanum Genus). Below is the 1981 document on the Status of Catholics becoming Freemasons in the Church from the Office of the Sacred…
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Edward Heneage Dering’s “Esoteric Buddhism: The New Gospel of Atheism”
Edward Heneage Dering’s 29 page critique of theosophist A.P. Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism, The Occult World, and the Letters in The New Gospel of Atheism” (1887). This work can be compared to Per Faxneld’s Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy and its Implications in its method of quoting, but still manages to misrepresent his opponent. However, what…
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Russian Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov and Charles J. Ryan: ‘H.P.B. did not invent the Tibetan Brotherhood and Chelas’
RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER Vladimir Solovyov and THEOSOPHIST Charles J. Ryan say ‘H.P.B. did not invent the Tibetan Brotherhood and Disciples’ Besides Dr. Wernekke of Germany, the casebook of encounters with the theosophical mahatmas, and Ramalingam Pillai’s insight, Charles J. Ryan defends the existence of Blavatsky’s chiefs, associates, and the brotherhood. One of the greatest Russian philosophers,…
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Chatterji and Holloway on the true implications of Occultism
The Theosophical Movement as it was to be, stands in contrast to the zeitgeist. One of the key figures in the history of the Theos. Soc. was co-founder William Q. Judge believed, “It may be possible to usher in a new era of western occultism devoid of folly. We should all be ready for that,…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 3 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER III Having described the English and the characteristics they have developed here, let us look at the natives and see how far they have deserved their harsh fate. Let me here express a thought which may seem paradoxical, though it is supported by irrefutable facts. The Hindus lack and are incapable of…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 2 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER II H.P. Blavatsky calls the attitudes between the English and Indians, that of two blind men. “In India, wherever two Englishmen meet, complaints about the “fiendish ingratitude of the black devils” are soon heard and wherever two natives encounter each other, complaints about the “dark intentions of the white oppressors” will…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 1 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER I H.P. Blavatsky gives her humane view of the realities of colonial India in The Durbar in Lahore. In Blavatsky’s Eloquent Anti Racist Colonialism Editorial 1/3, it says this editorial is from Chapter 3 of The Durbar in Lahore, which is planned for publication in the second volume of Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings by…
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U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society
Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of…
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Popularizing Genuine Theosophy in our Age
The success of an attempt of such a kind as the one you propose, must be calculated and based upon a thorough knowledge of the people around you. It depends entirely upon the social and moral conditions of the people in their bearing on these deepest and most mysterious questions which can stir the human…
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NYT calls H.P. Blavatsky an Anti-Semitic influence on Nazis
The New York Times profiles Tony Hovater, a white nationalist, and uses a poor source accusing H.P. Blavatsky of being an Anti-Semitic influence on the National Socialists. In this last month’s New York Times profile article “I Interviewed a White Nationalist and Fascist, What Was I Left With?” its journalist, Richard Fausset claimed that Helena Blavatsky was…
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The Philosophical Wisdom of the Pre-Christian World Survives and Lives On
The philosophical wisdom of the pre-Christian World survives, and lives on, and with us, will advance, and shape the coming eras with the help of earnest, dedicated students, which must be genuine and honest. This honesty includes dismantling the lies about antiquity, that has shielded our theologians for centuries. “Let it not be imagined that…
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Quotes on the Scientific Aristocracy and Vanity of Modern Philosophers
QUOTES “France, why do you misunderstand us? European and American Journalists, why don’t you study genuine Theosophy before criticizing it? Because scientific aristocracy is full of vanity and struts on stilts of its own fabrication; because modern philosophy is materialistic to the roots of its hair; because both, in their pride, forget that in order to…
The American Minervan 