Category: Theosophy
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Racism, Freemasonry and fighting degeneration of American Politics
A situation I have absolutely no patience for is the condition esotericists everywhere find themselves in. What has been the main obstacle to simple propagation of Theosophy, without any elaborate spiritual explanation? This is gossip, instigation, inner conflict, mass paranoia (an intrinsic feature to American politics), pre-established religious conditioning, hoaxes and the flaws of human…
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Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom
INTRODUCTION When I come across modern alternative spiritual teachers constructing new terminology, I am reminded that this has become customary in twentieth-century to present-day. The first generation of Theosophists were not constructing an extensive array of new terminology to baffle people. They were using terminology from schools, traditions and languages directly and then interpretating them…
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‘The Greatest Curse to a Nation is a Form of Faith that Prevents Inquiry’
What is the greatest curse to a nation? Helena P. Blavatsky stated that the greatest curse to a nation is a form of Faith that prevents inquiry. She begins by explaining the initiatory system and institutions of the Mysteries and its purposes and approach to education, as opposed to the manner in which the dominating…
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California Fire Destroys Theosophical Archives and Building in Altadena
IN LOS ANGELOS — A LARGE COLLECTION OF MATERIALS ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY ESOTERICISM were claimed by the raging fires in California. Prof. Wouter Hanegraaff (professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam Netherlands) on Facebook this Thursday stated that “the entire property of the Theosophical Society in Altadena near Pasadena has been…
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Did a Federation of Adepts form in the Nineteenth-Century?
HELENA BLAVATSKY IS CERTAIN THAT A GREAT BODY OR FEDERATION OF “spiritual Illuminati” does exist in her time; but their locations will never be known. Firstly, until the masses had greatly sought to get rid of its ignorance and aspired to learn of the body of knowledge associated with those institutions and schools, such individuals…
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Nicholas Roerich asks Lama about the Kalachakra and the Kuthumpas
Nicholas Roerich asks a Lama: “. . . Lama, have you met Azaras (i.e., Sk. ācāryas) and Kuthumpas? (…)” “(…) Many of our people during their lives have encountered the Azaras and Kuthumpas and the snow people who serve them. Only recently have the Azaras ceased to be seen in cities. They are all gathered…
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The Syncretic Combinations of the Monotheistic Religions
“To connect the Mosaic Religion with the Mysteries is to wrest from the Church its position, and to show that the Old Testament is the result of human effort…” (Samuel F. Dunlap. 1860. Sōd: The Mysteries of Adonai, pg. iii) “The work of the Old Testament is the first offshoot from the Mysteries; the New Testament…
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Morya on Yahweh as a Mamo in the Prayag Letter
The term Prayāg (or Prayaga) is an ancient term for the city of Allāhābād. In January 1, 1881, an early branch of the parent or original Theosophical Society was formed in Allahabad. G.N. Chakravarti was a notable member of this lodge, who represented Brahmanism at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. So, the Prayag Letter is…
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Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters
What do the Letters of Blavatsky teach us about the Masters Morya or K.H. had been suspected of being Thakur Singh, because of proximity to the Maharaja of Lahore (a region now in modern-day Pakistan). Morya appears to have been associated with Prince Duleep Singh, when H.P.B. writes, that he was “in the house of…
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The Mahatma Letters on Plato, Revolution and Ideas ruling the World
“Koot Hoomi tells Sinnett first that the world must prepare itself for the manifestation of phenomenal elements in constantly augmenting volume and force. The age of miracles, he says, is not past; it really never was. Plato was right in asserting that ideas ruled the world; and as the human mind increases its receptivity to…
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Blavatsky encourages Buddhists to prepare spreading Buddhism
THE DECLINE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST AND THE FUTURE INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM It is safe to say, we’ve not seen this “new propaganda of Buddhism” yet, but I believe it is most needed. In reality, the work of developing a new brotherhood or federation of individuals of a theosophic inclination, cannot in our time, nor…
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Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus
NOTES ON MESSIANISM, APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE TOLEDOT YESHU AND SUBVERSIVE FIXATIONS WITH CHRISTIANIZING THEOSOPHY “I write in every letter that a divine Christ (or Christos) has never existed under a human form outside the imagination of blasphemers who have carnalized a universal and entirely impersonal principle.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Reply to the Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my…
The American Minervan 