Tag: Cultural History
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 2 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER II H.P. Blavatsky calls the attitudes between the English and Indians, that of two blind men. “In India, wherever two Englishmen meet, complaints about the “fiendish ingratitude of the black devils” are soon heard and wherever two natives encounter each other, complaints about the “dark intentions of the white oppressors” will…
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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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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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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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“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…



