Tag: Christology
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Where does Jesus fit in a Theosophical Framework of the History of Adepts
JESUS THE MARTYRED ADEPT AND THE LARGER HISTORY OF ADEPTS Our position should be to question and respect Jesus, as nothing more than a man, rabbi (master or teacher to his disciples), initiate and martyred adept. In Theosophy, the men behind the Theosophical Movement considered Jesus as a martyred adept (one of the greatest among…
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Lovers of the Ancients, or Christian Dogmatic claims to Truth
We are who we are, because we are “lovers of the ancients.” I would not be writing without my influences from Greek, Indian and Islamic Philosophy; and Blavatsky, Suhrawardi and Henry Corbin. I traced the styles of Blavatsky’s references, going to sources of doctrines in the Chaldean Oracles and the works of the eclectic orientalist…
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Alice Bailey’s Alleged Tibetan Buddhist Source and Political Idealism
INTRODUCTION: THE LERNAEAN HYDRA OF RELIGIOUS POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES Christians that use Alice A. Bailey (born Alice La Trobe-Bateman) to attack Theosophy prove to believe in the ideas of Alice Bailey far more than we Theosophists do. If they did not, then Christians would help Theosophists demarcate the great differences — and who are engaged in…
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Blavatsky and Christianity: Her Fundamental Christological Disputes and Her Defense of the Theosophical Position
“There are several ways of acquiring knowledge: (a) by accepting blindly the dicta of the church or modern science; (b) by rejecting both and starting to find the truth for oneself. The first method is easy and leads to social respectability and the praise of men; the other is difficult and requires more than ordinary…
The American Minervan 