Carl Orff: Ecce Gratum (“Behold, the Pleasant”)
“Behold, the Pleasant” “They gloryand rejoicein honeyed sweetnesswho striveto make use ofCupid’s prize;at Venus’ command…” ECCE GRATUM Ecce gratumet optatumver reducit gaudia,purpuratumfloret pratum,Sol serenat omnia.Iam am cedant tristia!Estas redit,nunc receditHyemis […]
The Septenary Principles of Man: Zurvanite Zoroastrian and Theosophical Classification
R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan. A Zoroastrian Dilemma, Oxford, 1955, pp. 323, 334) demonstrates, that the Zurvanite Zoroastrian (a now extinct school of thought) classification (referring to levels of being or existence) […]
Himmler’s Witches Library and Eric Kurlander talks Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Last year’s Hallows’ Eve special program, “Hitler’s Monsters” explored occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by Nazi Germany in the service of power. “The Nazi fascination with the occult […]
The Initiates’ Tower of Babel and Jargon: Mystery-Language of Symbolism and Allegory
Helena P. Blavatsky asserts (not argues) there existed in antiquity ‘one knowledge and one language,’ but became limited to a few, and this knowledge was denied to subsequent generations (see […]
The Oracular Gnosis of Christianity: Christian Syncretism, Revelations, and the Mysteries of John | James M. Pryse’s Writings
I. CHRISTIANITY RESTORED TO ITS HELLENIC AND PRIMITIVE FORM? James Morgan Pryse was an author, theosophist and his brother John founded the Gnostic Society in 1928. In The Apocalypse Unsealed (1910) Pryse […]
Guanshiyin the Mother Buddha in The Secret Doctrine
“The valley spirit, undying Is called the Mystic Female The gate of the Mystic Female Is called the root of Heaven and Earth It flows continuously, barely perceptible Utilize it; […]
“Time destroys the speculations of man”
“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 […]
Manly P. Hall On Great Value And Context Of H.P. Blavatsky’s “The Secret Doctrine”
Manly P. Hall on the effects of H.P.B.’s writings— “We have not yet reached that point in international thinking, in which we could be fair about the opinions, beliefs, and convictions […]
The “real Path” to esoteric knowledge is very difficult
“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. […]
Buzz Feed Unsolved: The Secret Society of the Illuminati
The Secret History of the Illuminati Great points by Professor of History at UC Davis, Kathryn Olmsted. Thanks to BuzzFeedBlue, and their humor. Articles on MINVRA about the Illuminati The Practical […]
Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries
Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods figured by Samuel F. Dunlap, demonstrates that the ancient systems, considered pagan, with the ancient Hebrew system, contained a conception of the Hidden God, that […]
James M. Pryse On The Delphian Key-Note of Esotericism: Plato’s Four Degrees of Knowledge
Theosophist, James Morgan Pryse describes the true meaning of the Delphian axiom, “Man, Known Thyself,” in his highly interesting work, Apocalypse Unsealed: Being an Esoteric Interpretation of Initiation (1910). Pryse argued, […]
Limitations Of Kabbalah And Bible Challenge Authority Of Western Esotericism
Does the limitations of Kabbalah and the Christian Bible in the Studies of Esotericism blind Western Philosophers? Helena P. Blavatsky challenged the esotericists of her time, who saw in the […]
Goetia and Witchcraft: Origin of the “Witch” and Magic
Long, Long ago, when people still believed in witches….. The term “Witch” in old Anglo-Saxon glossaries is tied to wicce, meaning “pythoness, divinatricem.” As in this, and in early forms, it […]
Gottfried De Purucker defines Religion in “Occult Glossary”
What does it mean, when we use the broad term religion? Gottfried de Purucker† (1874-1942), who was head of the Pasadena Theosophical Society from 1929-1942, had a good definition in […]
The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet
The Secret Doctrine defends the doctrine on the Seven Numerations of Man and Nature, held by the Trans-Himalayan Occultists’ School taught in the Theosophical system. Helena Blavatsky did not invent Theosophy, […]
