Category: Theosophy
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The Swastika and the Star of David: A Combined Theosophical Emblem
THE SWASTIKA AND HEXAGRAM DO NOT ORIGINATE with the Nazis and the Jews. These two symbols are part of a symbolic language, established upon natural and pure transcendental and metaphysical realities in connection to life and the cosmos. The four-armed wheel (or cross) and the double-interlaced triangle have hitherto become the symbols of two political…
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Blavatsky questions Eliphas Levi interpretation of the Astral Light and Lucifer
The Astral Light and Lucifer What is called energy and force in Science is the very soul of the world, and light is according to the Occult Philosophy of the Alchemists, a spiritual secretion. The knowledge of the real nature of Light will, we are told, leads to knowledge of what is called the correlation…
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Carl Orff: Tempus es Iocundum and Dulcissime
Dulcissime Dulcissime, Sweetest one! Ah! totam tibi subdo me! I give myself to you totally! tempus est iocundum This is a joyful time Tempus es iocundum, This is the joyful time, o virgines, O maidens, modo congaudete rejoice with them, vos iuvenes. young men! (Baritone) Oh, oh, oh, Oh! Oh! Oh! totus floreo, I am…
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Popular Occulture in Scotland and Scottish Theosophy: Michael Shaw on “The Theosophical Press in Scotland”
Presented at the “Periodical Occulture and the Occult Public Sphere.” 14th July 2017. Synopsis “This paper discusses the Theosophical periodical press in Scotland c.1880-1920, and it argues that these periodicals reveal a particular Theosophical culture in Scotland. Focusing on two titles that were unique to Scotland, Theosophy in Scotland and Occult, Scientific and Literary Papers Read…
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Jiddu Krishnamurti repudiates the Convergence of Theosophy and his Teaching
The most comprehensive collection of Krishnamurti’s true thoughts on Theosophy. Gathered by the Rishi Valley Study Centre (Working Paper #4, May 1995, Revised October 1996 by Hans and Radhika Herzberger). Jiddu Krishnamurti utterly rejected the convergence of his thought and Theosophy, and his wishes should be respected. Contemporary Theosophists have to let go of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and trying to…
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Baptized with Fire: Proclus and Simonian Theosophy on the Symbolism of Fire and Water
“I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)” LUKE 3:16 Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The Meaning of Fire in Baptism Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai…
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Helena Blavatsky predicts Europe Catastrophe, World War and Adolf Hitler
HELENA BLAVATSKY SPEAKING ON FREDERICK III OF PRUSSIA PREDICTS CATASTROPHE FOR EUROPE BEFORE DEATH, FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR “In the prognostication of such future events, at any, all foretold on the authority of cyclic recurrences, there is no psychic phenomenon involved. It is neither prevision, nor prophecy; no more than is the signaling of…
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The Mystery of Comte de Saint-Germain
“Anyone who admits one of the practical truths of the Occult Sciences taught by the Cabala, tacitly admits them all. It must be Hamlet’s “to be or not to be…” A FEW QUESTIONS TO HIRAF The noble courtier, Comte de Saint-Germain — not to be confused with Frenchmen Claude Louis de Saint-Germain (1707-1778) — was…
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The Young Indiana Jones meets Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society in “Journey of Radiance”
THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES MEETS YOUNG JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, CHARLES LEADBEATER AND ANNIE BESANT Created by George Lucas, this is the first part of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 5. In January, 1910, the Jones family attends a meeting of the Theosophical movement in Benares, India. There young Indy befriends the young Jiddu Krishnamurti, and meets Charles…
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The Queen of Humbugs: Edmund Russell, an Account of an Interview of HPB
Account of an American artist, Edmund Russell on H.P.B. “All felt her penetration and her power. Each fell to the charm of her universality. She lifted people to the expression of their best at once. It gave men new force to feel they had met one who could look right through to their real selves,…
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Georges Méautis: “Theosophy and Theosophism” Dissects Rene Guenon’s Critique, 1922
Swiss scholar, Georges Méautis (professor at the University of Neuchâtel and president of the “Société Suisse de Théosophie”) in 1922 wrote a response to Rene Guenon’s critique of Modern Theosophy in Theosophy and Theosophism: Response to a Criticism of Theosophy by René Guénon. In the Friends of the Theosophical Archives (FOTA), Joscelyn Godwin graced us with an…
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Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism
Rasgusan physicist Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787) is mentioned in Helena Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine” written in 1888. Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine in his paper, Boscovich in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine (July 21, 2014). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to…
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