Tag: Christian Mysticism
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How Wes Huff Misled Audiences in debate with Billy Carson – Dr. Joshua Bowen and Gnostic Informant
BIBLICAL DEBATE: DID WES HUFF GET IT WRONG WHILE BILLY CARSON WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG – MYTHVISION PODCAST Wes Huff, a young student linguist and apologist cut and ran into the bushes of his busy life and schedule after the big debate against Billy Carson. Due to the emotional breakdown recently of Billy Carson, many…
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12 Radical Teachings of Jesus That American Christians Have Abandoned
KRISTI BURKE ON 12 RADICAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS THAT AMERICAN CHRISTIAN HAVE ABANDONED Kristi Burke presents a very great case against Christian nationalist thinking in the U.S. and its very damaging and dangerous rhetoric. She speaks also about the cleric and Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, who recently defended immigrants and LGBTQ+ children during…
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The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism
VARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT WEISHAUPT’S PHILOSOPHY RANGED FROM anarchist to secular utopian, republican, and philanthropist (see Buzz Feed Unsolved: The Secret Society of the Illuminati). The fact however is — Adam Weishaupt is a Protestant thinker, and his beliefs or system can be studied within the context of Idealism, personally engaged in a blend of rational mysticism and morality…
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Celsus discourse Against the Christian Cult
Celsus was a second-century eclectic of Platonism. In Contra Celsum, Origen reveals in his attempt to reproduce and refute him in his eight-volume work and the mysteries of Mithra, that Celsus adopts a septenary system. The obscure treatise of Celsus was written around 177 CE titled Logos Alēthēs or True Doctrine (Ἀληθὴς Λόγος), but like…
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Did a Federation of Adepts form in the Nineteenth-Century?
HELENA BLAVATSKY IS CERTAIN THAT A GREAT BODY OR FEDERATION OF “spiritual Illuminati” does exist in her time; but their locations will never be known. Firstly, until the masses had greatly sought to get rid of its ignorance and aspired to learn of the body of knowledge associated with those institutions and schools, such individuals…
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The Sensualist and the Sexless Heaven
The sensualist is treated as depraved and materialistic, which I disagree with. If hypocrisy is an indomitable vice (THE PLATONIST, 1881, p. 2) of the sensualist, so is the blindness and double hypocrisy of the thinker and authority, who though mortal and flowing with the same nervous system as other mortals, pretends to be above…
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Nicholas Roerich asks Lama about the Kalachakra and the Kuthumpas
Nicholas Roerich asks a Lama: “. . . Lama, have you met Azaras (i.e., Sk. ācāryas) and Kuthumpas? (…)” “(…) Many of our people during their lives have encountered the Azaras and Kuthumpas and the snow people who serve them. Only recently have the Azaras ceased to be seen in cities. They are all gathered…
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Magic Life in the Oracles on the Mount
The inner life, or psychic experiences are to only be spoken to those who will understand, not the “hoi polloi,” the incredulous, the plundering wolves, and false seers. The neophyte comes as a dead one, a prisoner to the physical body, of Earth-substance, and resuscitated, is raised in and through [the states of matter of]…
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The Syncretic Combinations of the Monotheistic Religions
“To connect the Mosaic Religion with the Mysteries is to wrest from the Church its position, and to show that the Old Testament is the result of human effort…” (Samuel F. Dunlap. 1860. Sōd: The Mysteries of Adonai, pg. iii) “The work of the Old Testament is the first offshoot from the Mysteries; the New Testament…
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Blavatsky encourages Buddhists to prepare spreading Buddhism
THE DECLINE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST AND THE FUTURE INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM It is safe to say, we’ve not seen this “new propaganda of Buddhism” yet, but I believe it is most needed. In reality, the work of developing a new brotherhood or federation of individuals of a theosophic inclination, cannot in our time, nor…
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Julian Strube on Public Fascination with “Nazi Occultism”
note i The public does not take any serious interest and competent research on early National Socialism and esotericism, though are yet often easily accepting of arguments in sensationalist articles or media about the topic. Both left-wing and right-wing Christian conspiracists in this case are ignorant of the consequences of their approach. Recent studies still…
The American Minervan 