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  • Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas

    Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas

    Main Grahn-Wilder of the ORT-project interviews Prof. Mika Ojakangas of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in a talk about the origins of State Racism. It serves the same purpose as Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander. “In episode 3, Professor Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä) discusses his book On…

  • Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations

    Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations

    K.H., The Mahatma Letters, Letter no. 85, December 7, 1883 “(…) As the lady has rightly observed, the Western public should understand the Theosophical Society to be “a Philosophical School constituted on the ancient Hermetic basis” — that public having never heard of the Tibetan, and entertaining very perverted notions of the Esoteric Buddhist System.…