Tag: Alchemists
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The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’
Definition The Iluminados, Perfectibilists and TheosophiCAL REFERENCES Illuminati. the past participle of illuminare, meaning to “light up,” or “illuminate.” The plural term, “Illuminati” (Lat. illuminatus; Ital. Illuminato) was originally applied to a 16 c. Spanish mystic sect, called the Alumbrados (Spanish. “Enlightened”), or Aluminados, led by Sister María de Santo Domingo, or La Beata de Piedrahita (a…
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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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Limitations of Christian Cabalists 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 Bible, the final authority, even in the area of esoteric study. “And now it has come to this: The student interested in the Secret Sciences…
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