


The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’
Posted updated 2/22/2021 Recommended Reading Alumbrado, Encyclopaedia Britannica, online. Camisard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, online. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1914).

Blavatsky questions Eliphas Levi interpretation of the Astral Light and Lucifer
Blavatsky questions Eliphas Levi interpretation of the Astral Light and Lucifer The Christian Lucifer is a mythical fiction, and a cunning weapon of this religion used against many religions, sects, […]

Timeline of Templars-Enlightenment (1075-1875) and Modern Theosophists (1875-1935)
Notable Western Influences (1075-1875) 1075-1275 The period of the Templars, Crusades during the time of Frankish Knight Godfroi de Bouillon, Rashi (1040-1105) heads an esoteric rabbinical kabbalist school in Troyes, Champaign; Comte […]

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 […]