Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Over-Soul
American Transcendentalist and Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson discusses the nature of the over-soul “The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of […]
The Performance of Occultism: ‘Adept’ and ‘Initiate’
Adeptus means in Latin, “one who has obtained,” and thus referring to the person as an Adept indicates one who is an Initiate. Initiates are disciples or aspirants of an […]
Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Secret of Gnosis and the Dignity of Man
Pico della Mirandola on the secret of Gnosis
G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses
Peter D. Ouspensky, a Russian philosopher and student of Armenian mystic, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff around 1870 recounts a conversation he had with him in his book, In Search of the […]
Limitations Of Kabbalah And Bible Challenge Authority Of Western Esotericism
Does the limitations of Kabbalah and the Christian Bible in the Studies of Esotericism blind Western Philosophers? Helena P. Blavatsky challenged the esotericists of her time, who saw in the […]
Goetia and Witchcraft: Origin of the “Witch” and Magic
The term “Witch” in old Anglo-Saxon glossaries is tied to wicce, meaning “pythoness, divinatricem.” As in this, and in early forms, it referred to specific kinds of magical craft. In the Laws of […]
The American Minervan 