Tag: Cultural History

  • Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 2 of 3

    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…

  • U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    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…

  • NYT calls H.P. Blavatsky an Anti-Semitic influence on Nazis

    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…

  • Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom

    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…

  • Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages on the Truth about the Bavarian Illuminati

    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.’

  • Georges Méautis: “Theosophy and Theosophism” Dissects Rene Guenon’s Critique, 1922

    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…

  • Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages

    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. Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom “THERE are lives that Theosophists and all others…

  • Julius Evola: Christianity converted Western man only superficially

    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…

  • The Theosophical Movement: A ‘Hijacked Organization’ | Michael Tsarion

    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.

  • Oswald Mosley’s Ideal of Fascism

    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…

  • “Time destroys the speculations of man” – William James, 1907

    “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…

  • American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome

    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…