The American Minervan

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  • Voltaire on The First Philosophers

    Voltaire on The First Philosophers

    “How precise and true is Plato’s expression, how profound and philosophical his remark on the (human) soul or Ego, when he defined it as “a compound of the same and the other.” And yet how little this hint has been understood, since the world took it to mean that the soul was the breath of…

  • 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.…