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Tag: Bantu

  • Pan-Esotericism in African Religious Tradition: Roots of the “Divine Spark”

    Pan-Esotericism in African Religious Tradition: Roots of the “Divine Spark”

    The “divine spark” refers to the inner divine principle that makes a being fully human and capable of ultimate spiritual realization. The claim made by certain European racist occultists (e.g., some 19th–20th century esoteric racists) that Black Africans or people of African descent lack the “divine spark” (the Logos, Atman, Nous, scintilla animae) is philosophically,…

  • Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom

    Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom

    The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India penned a letter defending the existence of the Sadhus, of great initiates is a testament of the truth regarding the full ramifications of this elusive history of the mysteries. That people have held personal converse…