Tag: Cultural History
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U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society
Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of…
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NYT calls H.P. Blavatsky an Anti-Semitic influence on Nazis
The New York Times profiles Tony Hovater, a white nationalist, and uses a poor source accusing H.P. Blavatsky of being an Anti-Semitic influence on the National Socialists. In this last month’s New York Times profile article “I Interviewed a White Nationalist and Fascist, What Was I Left With?” its journalist, Richard Fausset claimed that Helena Blavatsky was…
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Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom
The National Socialists tried to subvert German Theosophists to support the Reich. “There’s a general trend toward a post-traditional spiritualism or transcendentalism in France and Britain (and there are many good books that look at those movements in parallel to Germany). The difference I think is that it was more privatized and apolitical. The kind…
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Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages on the Truth about the Bavarian Illuminati
Josef Wäges is making breakthroughs in historical research about the Bavarian Illuminati and Johann Adam Weishaupt. Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages a 32° degree Freemason, and also a best selling author of the book ‘The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Ritual and Doctrines of the Illuminati.’
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Georges Méautis: “Theosophy and Theosophism” Dissects Rene Guenon’s Critique, 1922
Swiss scholar, Georges Méautis (professor at the University of Neuchâtel and president of the “Société Suisse de Théosophie”) in 1922 wrote a response to Rene Guenon’s critique of Modern Theosophy in Theosophy and Theosophism: Response to a Criticism of Theosophy by René Guénon. In the Friends of the Theosophical Archives (FOTA), Joscelyn Godwin graced us with an…
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Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages
Josef Wäges gives the death-blow to Illuminati conspiracies as strings of repeated hearsay devoid of historical fact. He goes into the references made by George Washington, a Freemason, who equated the Illuminati with the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. “Wishaupt seems to be an enthusiastic Philanthropist. He is among those (…) who believe in the indefinite…
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Julius Evola: Christianity converted Western man only superficially
“For all practical purposes, Christianity “converted” Western man only superficially (…) In theory, the Western world accepted Christianity but for all practical purposes it remained pagan; the fact that Europe was able to incorporate so many motifs that were connected with the Jewish and Levantine view of life has always been a source of surprise…
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The Theosophical Movement: A ‘Hijacked Organization’ | Michael Tsarion
While I cannot endorse all of Michael Tsarion’s opinions, like secret ‘Illuminati’-Draconian bloodlines, this talk explains what happened to the Theosophical Movement. As of today, we actually have sufficient information to understand what led to the demise of the Theosophical Society.
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Oswald Mosley’s Ideal of Fascism
IDEALS OF FASCISM VERSUS REALITIES OF FASCIST RULE Oswald Mosley, a British Fascist, contributor to Third Positionism, and once seen to be a future leader of the Conservative and Labour parties, advocated a completely integrated pan-European State. This State would combine, in his vision, all of the European genius, he orates, which would be able…
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“Time destroys the speculations of man” – William James, 1907
“I fully expect to see the pragmatist view of truth run through the classic stages of a theory’s career. First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves…
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American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
A number of the American founders were classicists, and were trained in the classics in their colonial education, and American Romanità demonstrates how Classicism was integral to education in the U.S., and not simply an “elite education.” It should also be kept in mind, that the first U.S. president, George Washington was honored on Masonic…
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Theosophists on the Society of Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church
There’s a collation of H.P.B.’s writings on Jesuitry and Masonry in The Christian Scheme: Jesuitry and Masonry in Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI (via web archive). H.P.B. defends in her writings the ethics and morality in systems ancient, misunderstood, and demonized arguing, that as one theosophist stated — “The Occultists . . . believe the time has come to…
The American Minervan 