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  • Helena Blavatsky Critique of the French Revolution of 1789, Material Progress and the Rich

    Helena Blavatsky Critique of the French Revolution of 1789, Material Progress and the Rich

    In an excerpt from this Parisian paper, Le Lotus (Paris, Vol. I, No. 6, Sep 1887), Helena P. Blavatsky speaks about the falsity of fraternity in the French Revolution of 1789, rails against material (industrial) developments, and the conditions of the poor. The poor and child factory workers labor and are sacrificed for progress. Theosophists…

  • Kong Zi (Confucius) Film Scene – True Act of Brotherhood and Sacrifice

    Kong Zi (Confucius) Film Scene – True Act of Brotherhood and Sacrifice

    This was one of the most moving scenes in the film. It exemplifies, not only Chinese culture and understanding of the State, or the ethics of the master portrayed — we will use the scene to also exemplify the republican philosophy and its idea of Fraternitas.

  • Gerald Massey: “There’s No Dearth in Kindness”

    There’s no dearth of kindness In this world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers; Outward we are spurning, Trampling one another; While we are inly yearning With the name of “brother!” —Gerald Massey, excerpt from There’s No Dearth of Kindness.