Category: Theosophy
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Laura Holloway & Blavatsky: Against Mediumship and Spiritualist Practices
H.P. Blavatsky found in the growing adversaries of Spiritualist proponents to Theosophy sufficient need to declare it would have nothing to do with it. She goes on with the enquirer, noting a pattern in the fates of mediums mental states and bodies. The letter which follows after in the latter part of August 1884 to…
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The Influence of Theosophy on Russian Culture in the Russian Silver Age
Maria Carlson and other Collected Writings In September 1990, the Soviet Union officially ended its policy of state-sponsored atheism, approving a tolerant law on freedom of conscience as people were entering the Church in record numbers. The fall of Communism in Russia in 1991 also led to the end of long years of a ban and suppression…
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Adepts in America in 1776: William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory
ADEPTS IN AMERICA IN 1776 CONTROVERSY William Q. Judge article in the Theosophist (1883) was his own theories. A respondent puts forth the claims of Adepts in America in 1776 to Helena Blavatsky who explains the European and American Revolution was an independent effort, though not from the men she is associated with. First Published…
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James M. Pryse’s Hellenic Restoration of the Gospels
THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS HELLENIC AND PRIMITIVE FORM James Morgan Pryse was an author, theosophist and his brother John founded the Gnostic Society in 1928. In The Apocalypse Unsealed (1910) Pryse published the secret key to decoding esoteric meaning of the Book of Revelation. In 1914, The Restored New Testament (The Hellenic Fragments Freed From The…
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Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…
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The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky and Others
Prof. William G. Dever (Archaeologist, Anthropologist,University of Arizona) says the Torah is a “Minority Report” “To understand Paul, we have to realize that in antiquity, all monotheists were polytheists by our modern definition. Everyone (…) acknowledged the existence of everybody else’s gods. Back then, not only were you born into cultic obligations to the gods of…
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The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea
The Connection of the Theosophy of the Trans-Himalayan Adepts to Tibetan Buddhism, Kabbalism, Ancient Iran and Chaldea “No comparison between our real Brahmanical and the Tibetan esoteric doctrines will be possible unless one ascertains the teachings of that so-called “Aryan doctrine,” . . . and fully comprehends the whole range of the ancient Aryan philosophy.” — T.…
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Theosophy on Sex and Sex Magic: Suffering, Desire, and Liberation
Originally “Sex in Occult Philosophy,” I wanted to reflect upon and grapple with sex in relation to my life, relationships, and suffering. Rather, this will be mostly about Theosophy and a little reflection on sex in relation to suffering, desire, and spiritual liberation. This is not written as a rule for the general public, but…
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The Hodgson-Coulomb Case and Other Charges Against Helena Blavatsky
Helena Blavatsky, THE Hodgson-Coulomb Case & OTHER CHARGES: MIRACLES, Plagiarism and Inventing the Adepts What was the Hodgson Report The Obituary: the “Hodgson Report” on Madame Blavatsky 1885-1960 was published in 1963 by Walter A. Carrithers, Jr., which contained numerous documents from the Cambridge-based Society for Psychical Research Library in London. Within the documents, there…
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The Irony of Apoliticism in the Theosophical Movement
INTRODUCTION: APOLITICISM AND MODERN STATE OF MONARCHISM With the reintroduction of theosophical research in the mainstream comes opportunity to combat misconceptions about the relation between the Theosophical Movement and Politics as explained in Herman de Tollenaere on Influence of Theosophy on Indonesian and South Asian Nationalisms. I am not of the belief, that Theosophists had…
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G. de Purucker’s Introduction to the Esoteric Tradition: The Word “Dogma”
G. de Purucker in his introduction of the Esoteric Tradition (1940) explains the meaning of Theosophy being non-dogmatic. DOGMA IN THE ESOTERIC TRADITION BY G. DE PURUCKER “The word dogma comes from the Greek verb dokein, “to seem to be,” “to appear to be.” A dogma, therefore, was something which appeared to be a truth: an…
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Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven Principles of the Human Constitution
The concept of the Septenary Constitution describes two distinct beings in man: (1) The spiritual (or monadic); and (2) the physical (or somatic), i.e.— “The man who thinks and the man who records as much of these thoughts as it is able to assimilate.” †In Theosophy, the spiritual constitution is termed the “imperishable triad.” It…
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