Tag: American Revolution
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Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism
THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…
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A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood
Late to the party Wood’s body of work will remain preeminent for some time in the historiography of the American Founding. But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.” “Unlike today’s liberals who quote…
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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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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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Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages
Josef Wäges gives the death-blow to Illuminati conspiracies as strings of repeated hearsay devoid of historical fact. He goes into the references made by George Washington, a Freemason, who equated the Illuminati with the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom “THERE are lives that Theosophists and all others…
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Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal
MASONIC DUTIES “Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of STRENGTH a man has in him, will lie written in the WORK he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict…
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