Category: Theosophy
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Tracing the Ancient Wisdom-Religion in Theosophy and Samkhya
TRACING THE ANCIENT WISDOM-RELIGION: NOTE ON THE NATURE OF MATTER IN THEOSOPHY AND THE Sāṃkhya SYSTEM “What we desire to prove is, that underlying every ancient popular religion was the same ancient wisdom-doctrine, one and identical, professed and practised by the initiates of every country, who alone were aware of its existence and importance. To…
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Blavatsky and Theosophy: Prebunking Jim Stewartson and other Hacks
unedited. cunningly false descriptions of Theosophy It is generally accepted that Helena P. Blavatsky was proven to be a fraud, when an original report of Richard Hodgson by the Society for Psychical Research was published in London, December 1885. However, in April 1986, that case was examined by Dr. Vernon Harrison and published by the…
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Lies about Theosophy: The Protocols, Yuliana Glinka and the Vatican’s Position
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a notorious antisemitic forgery first published in Russia in 1903, which served as a key ideological justification for the persecution of various groups by Nazi and Fascist regimes in Germany, Austria, and Italy. This included Theosophists, who were targeted despite no genuine connection to the document’s alleged…
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Is Church Universal and Triumphant based on Theosophy?
Theosophy is not defined by its slanderers. A recent ‘X’ post of technologist and anti-Q-Anon activist, Jim Stewartson is an unfortunate example of a perpetual cycle of misinformation and ignorantly unapologetic slander before many readers about Theosophy and Blavatsky — this time under the guise of “anti-disinformation.” “The Church Universal and Triumphant” is not Theosophy,…
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God versus Svabhava and its Importance | Cosmological Notes in Theosophy
mahatma letters. fundamental position on the nature and existence of God versus the Doctrine of Svabhāva THERE HAVE EXISTED philosophical schools that have a spiritual ideal of nature, without a God. The debates between the domineering forces of theology, proponents of physicalism and atheism give us very little space to debate between them. The Theosophical position…
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The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study
THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) are pivotal to Theosophy and was the basis of the approach of the Theosophical Movement teaching to “The West.” In nineteenth-century developments between interactions of ‘Western Philosophy’ and ‘Eastern Philosophy,’ the Theosophists at the helm were discouraging the psycho-somatic and psychic breath forms of Yoga…
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Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom
The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India penned a letter defending the existence of the Sadhus, of great initiates is a testament of the truth regarding the full ramifications of this elusive history of the mysteries. That people have held personal converse…
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Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race
SUMMARY Most importantly, without recognizing the Theosophy of 19th century as a system and as it was being explained, thereby respecting the teachers and school it was being explained from versus modified, simplified or distorted systems derived from it, rather than the defenses of so-called orthodox ‘Blavatskyian Theosophists’, demarcating the difference between Theosophy and Fascism,…
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Age of the Rule of Faith: Irenaeus dispute with Gnostic Narcissus
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The Church of Rome was Gnostic – just as much as the Marcionites were – until the beginning and even…
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Aleister Crowley and Thelema critiques of Theosophists
A COMMON MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THEOSOPHISTS Many Theosophists early-on and still today belonged to and represented their particular tradition, or religion to its highest, being specialized and trained within them in their deeper meanings, and tied to some actual superior, or superiors (priests, gurus) of the group, or religion they belonged to. A Theosophist was hence…
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Everything About Lucifer in Ancient Mythology
INTRODUCTION The term Lucifer (Septuagint translation of Helel ben Shaḥar) is used in the Torah in reference to the King of Babylon. The myth of the King of Babylon is derived from a Babylonian or Hebrew sidereal or star-myth (similar to the Greek myth of Helio’s son, Phaethon). Stars were regarded by some as celestial beings, and…
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The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy
INTRODUCTION Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Great Liberator or Failed Messiah,” asks Luis S. R. Vas in his highly insightful book about the relations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society. This story is about a young boy that became an important philosophical teacher throughout the 20th century. Groomed by theosophists, Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater to…
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